摘要:
The psycho/physiological deception detection (PDDS) is a system and method employing PDDS tools to ensure patient truthfulness while conducting a patient interview to assess the severity of pain suffered by the patient and to assess the risk that the patient will divert controlled substances prescribed for the patient to an illicit use. The patient is monitored using the PDDS tool while making an oral response (either live or off-site) to each question in the interview, and a response and a measure of truthfulness of the patient generated from the PDDS monitoring is correlated with each question. Deceptive responses may be probed by asking refining questions to explore possible innocent explanation for a deceptive response. Based on the patient's responses and the indication of truthfulness for each response, a report is generated from which the patient's risk for diverting prescribed medication and the patient's severity of pain may be assessed.