Medicine in words and numbers: a cross-sectional survey comparing probability assessment scales.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microcontact datasets gathered automatically by electronic devices have the potential augment the study of the spread of contagious disease by providing detailed representations of the study population's contact dynamics. However, the impact of data collection experimental design on the subsequent simulation...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Hashemian M,Qian W,Stanley KG,Osgood ND

更新日期：2012-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accumulating evidence has linked environmental exposure, such as ambient air pollution and meteorological factors, to the development and severity of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), resulting in increased healthcare demand. Effective prediction of demand for healthcare services, particularly those associated...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Qiu H,Luo L,Su Z,Zhou L,Wang L,Chen Y

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evaluation is a challenging but necessary part of the development cycle of clinical information systems like the electronic medical records (EMR) system. It is believed that such evaluations should include multiple perspectives, be comparative and employ both qualitative and quantitative methods. Self-admini...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Laerum H,Faxvaag A

更新日期：2004-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The TISS standard is a set of mandatory forms and electronic messages for healthcare authorization and claim submissions among healthcare plans and providers in Brazil. It is not based on formal models as the new generation of health informatics standards suggests. The objective of this paper is to model the...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Dias RD,Cook TW,Freire SM

更新日期：2011-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hand hygiene is one of the most effective attempts to control nosocomial infections, and it is an important measure to avoid the transmission of pathogens. However, the compliance of healthcare workers (HCWs) with hand washing is still poor worldwide. Herein, we aimed to determine the best hand hygiene prefe...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Suner A,Oruc OE,Buke C,Ozkaya HD,Kitapcioglu G

更新日期：2017-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To answer the need for the rigorous protection of biomedical data, we organized the Critical Assessment of Data Privacy and Protection initiative as a community effort to evaluate privacy-preserving dissemination techniques for biomedical data. We focused on the challenge of sharing aggregate human genomic data (e.g.,...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Jiang X,Zhao Y,Wang X,Malin B,Wang S,Ohno-Machado L,Tang H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Computerized ICUs rely on software services to convey the medical condition of their patients as well as assisting the staff in taking treatment decisions. Such services are useful for following clinical guidelines quickly and accurately. However, the development of services is often time-consuming and error...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Ongenae F,De Backere F,Steurbaut K,Colpaert K,Kerckhove W,Decruyenaere J,De Turck F

更新日期：2010-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most prevalent type of lung cancer and the most difficult to predict. When there are no distant metastases, the optimal therapy depends mainly on whether there are malignant lymph nodes in the mediastinum. Given the vigorous debate among specialists about which tests...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Luque M,Díez FJ,Disdier C

更新日期：2016-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A main element of patient-centred care, Patient Decision Aids (PtDAs) facilitate shared decision-making (SDM). A recent update of the International Patient Decision Aids Standards (IPDAS) emphasised patient involvement during PtDA development, but omitted a methodology for doing so. This article reports on t...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Nota I,Drossaert CHC,Melissant HC,Taal E,Vonkeman HE,Haagsma CJ,van de Laar MAFJ

更新日期：2017-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The storage and distribution of electrocardiogram data is based on different formats. There is a need to promote the development of standards for their exchange and analysis. Such models should be platform-/ system- and application-independent, flexible and open to every member of the scientific community. ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Wang H,Azuaje F,Jung B,Black N

更新日期：2003-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Women diagnosed with early breast cancer (stage I or II) can be offered the choice between mastectomy or breast conservation surgery with radiotherapy due to equivalence in survival rates. A wide variation in the surgical management of breast cancer and a lack of theoretically guided research on this issue h...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Sivell S,Elwyn G,Edwards A,Manstead AS,BresDex group.

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Following the completion of treatment and as they enter the follow-up phase, breast cancer patients (BCPs) often recount feeling 'lost in transition', and are left with many questions concerning how their ongoing care and monitoring for recurrence will be managed. Family physicians (FPs) also frequently repo...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Haq R,Heus L,Baker NA,Dastur D,Leung FH,Leung E,Li B,Vu K,Parsons JA

更新日期：2013-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health Information Organizations (HIOs) are third party organizations that facilitate electronic health information exchange (HIE) between providers in a geographic area. Despite benefits from HIE, HIOs have struggled to form and subsequently gain broad provider participation. We sought to assess whether mar...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Lin SC,Adler-Milstein J

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent telehealth studies have demonstrated minor impact on patients affected by long-term conditions. The use of technology does not guarantee the compliance required for sustained collection of high-quality symptom and physiological data. Remote monitoring alone is not sufficient for successful disease man...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Velardo C,Shah SA,Gibson O,Clifford G,Heneghan C,Rutter H,Farmer A,Tarassenko L,EDGE COPD Team.

更新日期：2017-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:EURIS (European Resistance Intervention Study) was launched as a multinational study in September of 2000 to identify the multitude of complex risk factors that contribute to the high carriage rate of drug resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae strains in children attending Day Care Centers in several European c...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Silva S,Gouveia-Oliveira R,Maretzek A,Carriço J,Gudnason T,Kristinsson KG,Ekdahl K,Brito-Avô A,Tomasz A,Sanches IS,de Lencastre H,Almeida J

更新日期：2003-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical notes such as discharge summaries have a semi- or unstructured format. These documents contain information about diseases, treatments, drugs, etc. Extracting meaningful information from them becomes challenging due to their narrative format. In this context, we aimed to compare the automatic extract...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Reátegui R,Ratté S

更新日期：2018-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mandates abound to share publicly-funded research data for reuse, while data platforms continue to emerge to facilitate such reuse. Birth cohorts (BC) involve longitudinal designs, significant sample sizes and rich and deep datasets. Data sharing benefits include more analyses, greater research complexity, i...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Manhas KP,Dodd SX,Page S,Letourneau N,Adair CE,Cui X,Tough SC

更新日期：2018-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The usefulness of syndromic surveillance for early outbreak detection depends in part on effective statistical aberration detection. However, few published studies have compared different detection algorithms on identical data. In the largest simulation study conducted to date, we compared the performance of...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Jackson ML,Baer A,Painter I,Duchin J

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are those RNA molecules that lack the poly (A) tails, which present the closed-loop structure. Recent studies emphasized that some circRNAs imply different functions from canonical transcripts, and further associated with complex diseases. Several computational methods have been deve...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Wang Y,Zhang X,Wang T,Xing J,Wu Z,Li W,Wang J

更新日期：2020-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Named entity recognition (NER) is an important task in clinical natural language processing (NLP) research. Machine learning (ML) based NER methods have shown good performance in recognizing entities in clinical text. Algorithms and features are two important factors that largely affect the performance of ML...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Tang B,Cao H,Wu Y,Jiang M,Xu H

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Different from adult clinical stage I (CS1) testicular cancer, surveillance has been recommended for CS1 pediatric testicular cancer. However, among high-risk children, more than 50% suffer a relapse and progression during surveillance, and adjuvant chemotherapy needs to be administered. Risk-adapted treatme...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Ye YL,Chen ZF,Bian J,Liang HT,Qin ZK

更新日期：2020-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Timely and accurate information is important to guide the medical treatment process. We developed, implemented and assessed an order-entry system to support documentation of prostate histologies involving urologists, pathologists and physicians in private practice. METHODS:We designed electronic forms for h...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Breil B,Semjonow A,Dugas M

更新日期：2009-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health numeracy is an important factor in how well people make decisions based on medical risk information. However, in many countries, including Japan, numeracy studies have been limited. METHODS:To fill this gap, we evaluated health numeracy levels in a sample of Japanese adults by translating two well-kn...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Okamoto M,Kyutoku Y,Sawada M,Clowney L,Watanabe E,Dan I,Kawamoto K

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) has been proven to be useful for studying brain functions. However, due to the existence of noise and distortion, mapping between the fMRI signal and the actual neural activity is difficult. Because of the difficulty, differential pattern analysis of fMRI brain im...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Ji SY,Ward K,Najarian K

更新日期：2009-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Longitudinal, patient-centered care represents a challenge for general practitioners (GPs), and in this context, reminder systems can offer targeted support. This study aimed to identify details of such reminders: (1) contents of care addressed, (2) their mode of display in the electronic health record (EHR)...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Kersting C,Weltermann B

更新日期：2016-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, a significant change has taken place in the health care delivery systems due to the availability of smartphones and mobile software applications. The use of mobile technology can help to reduce a number of barriers for mental health care such as providers' workload, lack of qualified personn...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Pokhrel P,Karmacharya R,Taylor Salisbury T,Carswell K,Kohrt BA,Jordans MJD,Lempp H,Thornicroft G,Luitel NP

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Providers and policymakers are pursuing strategies to increase patient engagement in health care. Increasingly, online sections of medical records are viewable by patients though seldom are clinicians' visit notes included. We designed a one-year multi-site trial of online patient accessible office visit not...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Leveille SG,Walker J,Ralston JD,Ross SE,Elmore JG,Delbanco T

更新日期：2012-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identifying implausible clinical observations (e.g., laboratory test and vital sign values) in Electronic Health Record (EHR) data using rule-based procedures is challenging. Anomaly/outlier detection methods can be applied as an alternative algorithmic approach to flagging such implausible values in EHRs. ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Estiri H,Klann JG,Murphy SN

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adjuvant! Online ( http://www.adjuvantonline.com) is an Internet-based software program that allows clinicians to make predictions about the benefits of adjuvant therapy and 10-year survival probability for early-stage breast cancer patients. This model has been validated in Western countries such as the Uni...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Yao-Lung K,Dar-Ren C,Tsai-Wang C

更新日期：2012-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) is an open source clinical data analytics platform used at over 200 healthcare institutions for querying patient data. The i2b2 platform has several components with numerous dependencies and configuration parameters, which renders the task of install...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Wagholikar KB,Dessai P,Sanz J,Mendis ME,Bell DS,Murphy SN

更新日期：2018-07-16 00:00:00