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BACKGROUND:Diagnosis and management of dementia is a complex process and primary care physicians are under-equipped to deal with uncertainties in the provision of optimal care for the patient. OBJECTIVE:To develop a computer decision support system (CDSS) which could assist physicians with diagnosis and management and improve patient care. METHODS:A design group including general practitioners derived logic pathways for diagnosis and management of dementia and validated them with a multiprofessional expert group. Logic pathways were used to construct a comprehensive CDSS rendered as a series of expert consultations. The CDSS was inserted into commercially available GP systems and bench and field-tested. RESULTS:The complexity of dementia diagnosis and management can be captured in logic pathways which can be expressed as decision trees within existing electronic patient records. The resulting CDSS appears useable in routine practice. CONCLUSION:The impact of this CDSS will be evaluated in a randomised controlled trial of educational interventions in primary care.
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Methods Inf Medjournal_title
Methods of information in medicineauthors
Iliffe S,Austin T,Wilcock J,Bryans M,Turner S,Downs Mkeywords:
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Has Abstractpub_date
2002-01-01 00:00:00pages
98-104issue
2eissn
0026-1270issn
2511-705Xpii
02020098journal_volume
41pub_type
杂志文章abstract:OBJECTIVES:We examine the potential of archetype patterns for upper-level ontology development in health information systems (HISs). METHODS:Archetype patterns, based on the integration of archetype concepts and design patterns, are conceptualized and developed for ontology in the HIS domain. The UML provides the unde...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3414/ME0519
更新日期:2011-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Reliable record linkage is an essential component of the quality of population-based disease registration. Quality assessment of disease registries should, therefore, include quantitative approaches to describe the extent of record-linkage errors. The homonym and synonym rates have been proposed for this purpose. The ...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1996-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::A method is described to process and interpret multi-channel bioelectrical signals. The bioelectrical signals were recorded noninvasively over the body surface of human subjects at 120 sites. The body surface Laplacian maps were then constructed from the multi-channel bioelectrical potential measurement. The method wa...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1997-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:This article describes the development and evaluation of a distributed user interface (DUI) application to assess visuomotor organization ability. This application enables therapists to evaluate the acquired brain injury (ABI) on patients, and patients, to perform the assessment on a touch screen while thera...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1055/s-0040-1713086
更新日期:2020-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Data collected within the German nosocomial infection surveillance system KISS are recommended as reference data for judging nosocomial infection rates in German intensive care units (ICUs). It is unknown whether the KISS data tend to under- or overestimate the true infection incidence rates. In this article...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Record linkage may create powerful datasets with which investigators can conduct comparative effectiveness studies evaluating the impact of tests or interventions on health. All linkages of health care data files to date have used protected health information (PHI) in their linkage variables. A technique to l...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3414/ME14-01-0093
更新日期:2015-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::A huge amount of medical information is available on the Internet for both experts and laypersons. These resources are frequently used to answer current medical questions and are thus likely to influence the behavior of the users. Criteria for assessing the quality of medical Internet resources have been established b...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1999-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Both open- and closed-loop models of beat-to-beat cardiovascular control have been suggested. We tested whether the modelling yields different results with real data while assessing cardiopulmonary and baroreflex gains. METHODS:Two autoregressive models are described to resolve causal relationships between ...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2004-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:This paper aims to present an activity-theoretical method for studying the effects of user participation in IS development. METHODS:This method is developed through a case study of the process of designing a diabetes database. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS:The method consists of a historical analysis of the desi...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2003-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The use of electronic medical record (EMR) is anticipated to bring benefits for patients, physicians, and organizations. But limited physicians' acceptance of EMR presents a serious threat to its effective implementation. OBJECTIVES:The current study incorporates technology acceptance model (TAM) with two a...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1055/s-0039-1695718
更新日期:2019-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:To identify factors associated with hospital length of stay (LOS) and to model variations in LOS within Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs). METHODS:A proportional hazards frailty modelling approach is proposed that accounts for patient transfers and the inherent correlation of patients clustered within hospita...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2001-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:The objective of this work is to present the software tool ANTONIA, which has been developed to facilitate a quantitative analysis of perfusion-weighted MRI (PWI) datasets in general as well as the subsequent multi-parametric analysis of additional datasets for the specific purpose of acute ischemic stroke p...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3414/ME14-01-0007
更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:The European GEMSS Project is concerned with the creation of medical Grid service prototypes and their evaluation in a secure service-oriented infrastructure for distributed on demand/supercomputing. Key aspects of the GEMSS Grid middleware include negotiable QoS support for time-critical service provision, ...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Studying workflow is a critical step in designing, implementing and evaluating informatics interventions in complex sociotechnical settings, such as hospital emergency departments (EDs). Known approaches to studying workflow in clinical settings attend to the activities of individual clinicians, thus being i...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3414/ME12-01-0079
更新日期:2013-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::This paper tries to compare six Health Informatics/Medical Informatics (HI/MI) programs by a number of attributes in standardized form. The different programs and their curricula were summarized at the 5th IMIA Working Conference on HI/MI Education at Heidelberg/Heilbronn. The presentation is condensed to a synoptical...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1994-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The cause-of-death register at the Southern Urals Biophysics Institute (SUBI), Ozyorsk, Russia, was established to document the number and causes of deaths in the Mayak workers cohort, which includes all persons (N = 22,377) employed at Mayak nuclear facility between 1948 and 1982. Most workers were occupati...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3414/ME11-01-0049
更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::We conducted a pilot randomised trial of computerised templates for the management of asthma and diabetes in general practice in six general practices in North London. Uptake of the guidelines by general practitioners and practice nurses was assessed using qualitative (semi-structured interviews designed to assess the...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:
更新日期:1999-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::This editorial is part of a For-Discussion-Section of Methods of Information in Medicine about the paper "Evidence-based Health informatics: How do we know what we know?", written by Elske Ammenwerth [1]. Health informatics uses and applications have crept up on health systems over half a century, starting as simple a...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 评论,社论
doi:10.3414/ME14-10-0139
更新日期:2015-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The information present in Hospital Information Systems (HIS) is heterogeneous and is used primarily by health practitioners to support and improve patient care. Conducting clinical research, data analyses or knowledge discovery projects using electronic patient data in secondary care centres relies on accur...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3414/ME10-01-0069
更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Hospital information systems (HIS) are the hospital's nervous system. The HIS are mostly grown over several years, dedicated to specific needs and comprise individual workarounds. Changes to such complex systems may cause a variety of differ-ent negative side-effects. In order to understand the nature of inc...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3414/ME9220
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::This article describes a system for the optimization of the prehospital assessment of emergency, in cases involving thoraco-abdominal complaints and consciousness problems. This assessment is performed by nurses on the basis of a telephone interview at ambulance dispatch centers. The system has a body of biomedical an...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1996-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Three ways are proposed to help the occupational physician in constructing a worker's job history or Curriculum Laboris (CL) with a PC. The quality and, therefore, the usefulness of any job history is greatly conditioned by the method and quality of data collection. The Curriculum Laboris method explained in a previou...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1990-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:a) To present a regional health care communication system developed in the North Karelia Hospital District with the help of two EU funded information technology projects namely the TERVE project (1) which was implemented at the national level financed by the regional subsidy 6 of the ERDF and the CHIN projec...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2002-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:The main objective is to show current topics and future trends in the field of medical signal processing which are derived from current research concepts. Signal processing as an integrative concept within the scope of medical informatics is demonstrated. METHODS:For all examples time-variant multivariate a...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:This article is part of a Focus Theme of METHODS of Information in Medicine on Health Record Banking. BACKGROUND:Poor communication of health care information between health care providers (HCP) is still a major problem. One recent approach is the concept of Health Record Banking. OBJECTIVES:With this re...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3414/ME13-02-0003
更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Electroencephalographic burst activity characteristic of burst-suppression pattern (BSP) in sedated patients and of burst-interburst pattern (BIP) in the quiet sleep of healthy neonates have similar linear and non-linear signal properties. Strong interrelations between a slow frequency component and rhythmic...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The graduates and students of the School of Health Information Science (HIS) at the University of Victoria (UVic) have pioneered the Canadian sphere in health informatics since 1982. After six years of growth this co-operative education program has matured and establishment of a research base and graduate school has b...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1989-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Pathfinder is an expert system that assists surgical pathologists with the diagnosis of lymph-node diseases. The program is one of a growing number of normative expert systems that use probability and decision theory to acquire, represent, manipulate, and explain uncertain medical knowledge. In this article, we descri...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1992-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Ventricular tachycardia (VT) provoking sudden cardiac death (SCD) are a major cause of mortality in the developed countries. The most efficient therapy for SCD prevention are implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD). In this study heart rate variability (HRV) measures were analyzed for short-term foreca...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2004-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To draw a parallel between the challenges by which a research department in biomedical informatics is confronted and those of a symphony orchestra; in both areas different disciplines and various groups of instruments can be discerned. METHOD:Retrospective, personal review of how to conduct biomedical resear...
journal_title:Methods of information in medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00