Saliva Test Comment System for Consistent Dental Risk Evaluation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for creating examination result sheets for intraoral disease risk and hygiene state assessments struggle to provide unified comments when multiple examinations are conducted, leading to inconsistent evaluations despite similar results.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising an examination result sheet creation apparatus with a display unit, control unit, storage unit, and communication unit that allows for the selection or input of comments, storing these comments in a database, and accumulating usage frequency to generate a new comment database for unified feedback.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a single predetermined comment is displayed for each examination item, then the system is simple and easy to operate, but the comments cannot reflect results from multiple examinations and other evaluation aspects
Solution Approach 1:
The comment is divided into a predetermined base comment and an additional comment. The base comment provides the basic evaluation for each examination item, while the additional comment reflects results from multiple examinations and other evaluation aspects. This segmentation allows the system to maintain simplicity while incorporating comprehensive evaluation information.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple examinations are conducted with free descriptive comments, then comprehensive evaluation information is obtained, but unified comments cannot be provided resulting in dispersion of evaluation
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses predetermined comments as a feedback mechanism to ensure consistency. These standardized comments provide a unified evaluation framework that maintains reliability across multiple examinations, while still allowing comprehensive information to be captured through the structured comment fields.
3Adaptability or versatility
If free descriptive comments are allowed for each examination, then comprehensive and customized feedback is provided, but evaluation dispersion occurs across similar results
Solution Approach 1:
The comment structure is segmented into predetermined standardized portions and customizable additional portions. This segmentation enables both uniformity through the standardized base comments and customizability through the additional comment fields, resolving the contradiction between evaluation uniformity and adaptability.
4Reliability
If only predetermined comments are used, then evaluation consistency is maintained, but comments cannot incorporate results from other examinations and lifestyle factors
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges predetermined standardized comments with additional customizable comments. This combination allows the evaluation to maintain consistency through the standardized portion while incorporating results from multiple examinations and lifestyle factors through the additional comment portion, thereby achieving both reliability and versatility.
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AI summary
A test result sheet creation device is provided with: a display unit which displays a test result of a saliva test, and a plurality of comment candidates corresponding to the test result; an input unit which accepts an input of the result of selection from the plurality of comment candidates; and a control unit which associates and stores, in a storage unit, at least one test result and a comment selected from the comment candidates, and creates a test result sheet including the at least one test result and the comment selected from the comment candidates.