Publications

• 2020 November: Publication in a Swiss Public Health Journal "Schweizerische Ärztezeitung" (German)
• 2023 June: Poster presentation at SGP congress (Swiss board of paediatricians)

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PICTOMED APP vALIDATION STUDY (PIMAV)

We’ve developed a communication tool based on pictures that allows healthcare professionals (mostly doctors) to communicate with patients who do not share a common language or have limited language proficiency in the local language.
Objective of PIMAV phase I: validation of the tool regarding taking a patient's history.
Objective of PIMAV phase II: validation of an extended app version including diagnostical and therapeutic procedures.
Methods: After an encounter, the healthcare professional (user and study participant) should complete a survey about the experience with our tool. We’re interested to know in which encounters and for which patients our application is used. 
We do not collect patient data. But we would like to know the patient’s origin or native language, gender and age group. Also, we’d like to know which algorithm or which functions were used (e.g. abdominal pathway from body map).
Finally, we would like to have feedback: e.g. how helpful were the images? Were there any symptoms missing? Were other resources for language assistance used before or after? Was there a better interaction and communication? Were there any misunderstandings?
Results and Publication: The data should be analysed in order to primarily validate and improve our communication tool. Some of the information (encrypted and anonymous) may also be used for general publications about language barriers in healthcare to raise awareness.
Timeline: Each study participant should complete the surveys (ideally after each encounter and use of the application) for one year.
Benefit: Study participants earn a generous discount for their next subscription.

Research projects

• 2021: Language barriers in doctor-patient-communication: Interpreter-assignments to children  in Switzerland. 
• In the pipeline: Validation of MLP (Medical language proficiency)-Score.
• ​In the further future: Multicenter study to validate our communication tool (PIMAV)

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