BACKGROUND: The objective confirmation of subjective symptom of patient is important in the primary care consisted largely by functional disorders of which mechanisn could not explain the symptoms clearly. Definite diagnostic method is not established yet for the functional disorders desptie the fact that various investigations have been done. So, we tried to reveal the relationship between the value of indicator drop(ID) from electroacupunctrure point accordint to Voll and the clinical diagnosis and subjective symptom by using noninvasive electroacupuncture diagnosis according to Voll. METHODS: Among the patients of three university level hospital health care center from April to June 1997, consenting 203 persons were enrolled. Various laboratory finding and ID from EAV were measured by double blind test method. In parallel, Subjective symptom was classified by each organ. Validity was tested by the relationship between the gastrofiberscopy finding and the stomach control measurement point ID. RESULTS: There were statistically significant ID increases in the CMPs of endocrine, lung, circulation system, gastrointestinal system, kidney and bladder compared to alboratory findings or subjective symptom by the comparison between the variables of the assessed clinical or laboratory findings and organ specific CMP score. Especially, the ID increase of stomach shows 79.3%-90.9% positive predictive value to positve findings of gastrofiberscopy when gastofiberscopy is defined to confirmation test of gastritis, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer. CONCLUSION: Our results show that the noninvasive electrodiagnostic method result by measuring EAV of organ system is related statistically to subjective symptoms and laboratory findings. Also they show that it could be useful tool as a clinical diagnostic method. We suggest that further study is needed to reveal organ specific sensitivity, specificity, positivE and negative predictive value by using ccnfirmation method of organ specific disease.
Delivery of Health Care ; Diagnosis ; Duodenal Ulcer ; Electroacupuncture ; Gastritis ; Humans ; Kidney ; Lung ; Primary Health Care ; Sensitivity and Specificity ; Stomach ; Stomach Ulcer ; Urinary Bladder