NLP to Aid in the Evaluation and Diagnosis of FGIDs

Enrolling by invitation

Conditions studied: Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders

In brief

The study has two arms, where the same natural language processing (NLP) and probabilistic graphical modeling technology will be utilized on patients' report of symptoms in both arms. The clinical arm is focused on patients presenting for consultation with a gastroenterologist. The endoscopy arm is focused generally on patients presenting for a diagnostic endoscopy, with the goal of capturing Functional Gastrointestinal Disorder (FGID) patients prior to diagnosis.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05501028

Run by

Massachusetts General Hospital

People needed

700

Starts

2018-08-09

Expected to finish

2026-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-05-06

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Scheduled for consult in the Motility Clinic in the MGH Gastroenterology Unit or for diagnostic endoscopy in the MGH Gastroenterology Unit
• Patient must agree to have their interactions audio-recorded
• Informed consent form signed by the subjects

You may not qualify if…

• Non-native English speaker
• Patients unable to communicate their own symptoms

Where it is running

• Massachusetts General Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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