Diagnostic Aid for Vertigo Patients

Evaluation of a Diagnostic Aid Tool for the Management of Vertigo Patients for General Practitioners : A Retrospective, Single-center Study at the Strasbourg University Hospital.

Consultations for vertigo in general practice are difficult, primarily due to practitioners' lack of experience. Patient referrals can be inaccurate, leading to missed opportunities or misuse of resources. The creation of a diagnostic aid flowchart that provides referrals will improve patient care and reassure general practitioners during consultations for vertigo.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Subject of legal age (≥18 years)
• Having received initial care from a medical student and whose consultation data, interview, clinical examination, and diagnosis according to our decision tree were present in the patient file.
• Patient for whom a definitive diagnosis was made by the on-call ENT physician during the same hospital visit.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Subject who expressed objection to the reuse of their data for scientific research.
• Known chronic vestibular pathology
• Incomplete patient medical file
• Patient examined outside the ENT department.