Natural language processing, lexicon and semantics.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explain the common conformance and interoperability testing requirements of eHealth applications through two case studies; one using a prominent eHealth messaging standard, namely HL7 v3 [1], and the other using Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) [2] Profiles and to describe how these testing requ...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Namli T,Dogac A

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To present a geometric ruler to determine predictive values of binary diagnostic test results from prevalence, sensitivity and specificity without calculation. METHODS:On logarithmic scale the relationships between pre-/post-test odds and the likelihood ratio as well as sensitivity, specificity and the likel...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Herich L,Lehmacher W,Hellmich M

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

authors： Bettencourt-Silva J,De La Iglesia B,Donell S,Rayward-Smith V

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We discuss supervised classification techniques applied to medical diagnosis based on gene expression profiles. Our focus lies on strategies of adaptive model selection to avoid overfitting in high-dimensional spaces. METHODS:We introduce likelihood-based methods, classification trees, support vector machin...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Markowetz F,Spang R

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Compiling individual records coming from different sources is necessary for multi-center studies. Legal aspects can be satisfied by implementing anonymization procedures. When using these procedures with a different key for each study it becomes almost impossible to link records from separate data collection...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Quantin C,Fassa M,Coatrieux G,Trouessin G,Allaert FA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The single leg squat (SLS) is a common lower limb rehabilitation exercise. It is also frequently used as an evaluative exercise to screen for an increased risk of lower limb injury. To date athlete / patient SLS technique has been assessed using expensive laboratory equipment or subjective clinical judgement...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Whelan DF,O'Reilly MA,Ward TE,Delahunt E,Caulfield B

更新日期：2017-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In our department, we have been using an Anesthesia Information Management System (AIMS) for five years. In this study, we tested to what extent data extracted from the AIMS could be suitable for the supervision and time-management of operating rooms. METHODS:From 1995 to 1999, all relevant data from 103,26...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Junger A,Benson M,Quinzio L,Michel A,Sciuk G,Brammen D,Marquardt K,Hempelmann G

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Clinical guidelines are special types of plans realized by collective agents. We provide an ontological theory of such plans that is designed to support the construction of a framework in which guideline-based information systems can be employed in the management of workflow in health care organizations. MET...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Kumar A,Smith B,Pisanelli DM,Gangemi A,Stefanelli M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Radiotherapy has serious side effects and thus requires prudent and cautious evaluation. However, obtaining protein expression profiles is expensive and timeconsuming, making it necessary to develop a theoretical and rational procedure for predicting the radiotherapy outcome for bladder cancer when working w...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Tsai TI,Zhang Y,Zhang Z,Chao GY,Tsai CC

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a tutorial introduction to the handling of uncertainty and decision-making in medical reasoning systems. It focuses on the central role of uncertainty in all of medicine and identifies the major themes that arise in research papers. It then reviews simple Bayesian formulations of the problem and pu...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Szolovits P

更新日期：1995-03-01 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

authors： Anglin CR

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Informatisation of drug prescription is an important topic in medical informatics. For several years now, computerized drug databases have been implemented. Usually only a small part of the prescriptions can be stored in prescription systems because of the format of the included information; prescriptions contain esse...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Riou C,Pouliquen B,Le Beux P

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The log-binomial model is recommended for calculating the prevalence ratio in cross-sectional studies with binary outcomes. However, convergence problems may occur as this model is numerically unstable. If this happens, the Poisson model should be used, but the Poisson model variance needs to be adjusted. He...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Wolkewitz M,Bruckner T,Schumacher M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This article is part of the Focus Theme of METHODS of Information in Medicine on "Managing Interoperability and Complexity in Health Systems". OBJECTIVES:In previous work, we have defined methods for the extraction of lexical patterns from labels as an initial step towards semi-automatic ontology enrichme...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Quesada-Martínez M,Fernández-Breis JT,Stevens R,Mikroyannidi E

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Bonhoeffer-van der Pol equation with a stable limit cycle is proposed as a model of the pacemaker in the sino-atrial node to explain heart rate regulation. Standard tools, such as the phase transition curve in nonlinear dynamic system theory, are used to analyze the model and results are compared with other studies ...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Sato S,Doi S,Nomura T

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pulmonary disorders are frequently characterized by the presence of adventitious sounds added to the breathing or base lung sound (BLS). The aim of this work was to assess the features of BLS in extrinsic allergic alveolitis (EAA) patients in comparison to healthy subjects, applying linear and nonlinear analy...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Charleston-Villalobos S,Albuerne-Sanchez L,Gonzalez-Camarena R,Mejia-Avila M,Carrillo-Rodriguez G,Aljama-Corrales T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:As millions of consumers perform health information retrieval online, the mismatch between their terminology and the terminologies of the information sources could become a major barrier to successful retrievals. To address this problem, we studied the characteristics of consumer terminology for health infor...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Zeng Q,Kogan S,Ash N,Greenes RA,Boxwala AA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart rate is known to increase under the influence of increased sympathetic stimulation rates during exertion or stress. Few data are available regarding the rate response to exercise near the fatigue limit, for normal women. The effects on heart rate were studied of fatigue limiting exercise in 87 asymptomatic, norm...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Bowyer AF,Thomas RA,Bowyer SR

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we attempted to discriminate the acceleration signal for horizontal level and stairway walking using wavelet-based fractal analysis method. The acceleration signal was measured close to the center of gravity of the body, while the subjects walked continuously in the corridor and up and down the stairs. ...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Sekine M,Tamura T,Akay M,Togawa T,Fukui Y

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In this study, we evaluated the internal validity of EPICON, an application for grouping ICPC-coded diagnoses from electronic medical records into episodes of care. These episodes are used to estimate morbidity rates in general practice. METHODS:Morbidity rates based on EPICON were compared to a gold standa...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Biermans MC,Verheij RA,de Bakker DH,Zielhuis GA,de Vries Robbé PF

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is part of a For-Discussion-Section of Methods of Information in Medicine about the paper "Computational Electrocardiography: Revisiting Holter ECG Monitoring" written by Thomas M. Deserno and Nikolaus Marx. It is introduced by an editorial. This article contains the combined commentaries invited to indep...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Baumgartner C,Caiani EG,Dickhaus H,Kulikowski CA,Schiecke K,van Bemmel JH,Witte H

更新日期：2016-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A polygon-based graphical representation of laboratory test results using nonlinear scaling is described. It is argued that the nonlinearity of the scale and the use of colors in the representation facilitates interpretation of the test result in its relationship to the standard reference range and critical clinical d...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Hoeke JO,Gelsema ES,Wulkan RW,Leijnse B

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This article is part of the Focus Theme of METHODs of Information in Medicine on "Managing Interoperability and Complexity in Health Systems". BACKGROUND:SALUS project aims at building an interoperability platform and a dedicated toolkit to enable secondary use of electronic health records (EHR) data for ...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Declerck G,Hussain S,Daniel C,Yuksel M,Laleci GB,Twagirumukiza M,Jaulent MC

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Due to the high complexity of structures and processes in health care, thorough systems analyses in health care run the risk of becoming very complex and difficult to handle. Therefore, we aimed to support systematic systems analysis in health care by developing a comprehensive framework that presents and de...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Ammenwerth E,Ehlers F,Eichstädter R,Haux R,Pohl U,Resch F

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Radiology reports are a permanent record of patient's health information often used in clinical practice and research. Reading radiology reports is common for clinicians and radiologists. However, it is laborious and time-consuming when the amount of reports to be read is large. Assisting clinicians to locat...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Xie Z,Yang Y,Wang M,Li M,Huang H,Zheng D,Shu R,Ling T

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increased use of computers is a response to the considerable growth in information in all fields of activities. Related to this, in the field of medicine a new component appeared about 40 years ago: Medical Informatics. Its goals are to assist health care professionals in the choice of data to manage and in the ch...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Salamon R,Leroy V,Maurice-Tison S,Le Blanc B

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Delayed patient recruitment is a common problem in clinical trials. According to the literature, only about a third of medical research studies recruit their planned number of patients within the time originally specified. OBJECTIVES:To provide a method to estimate patient accrual rates in clinical trials b...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Dugas M,Amler S,Lange M,Gerss J,Breil B,Köpcke W

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This article is part of the Focus Theme of METHODS of Information in Medicine on "Managing Interoperability and Complexity in Health Systems". BACKGROUND:Data sharing and integration between the clinical research data management system and the electronic health record system remains a challenging issue. T...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Jiang G,Evans J,Oniki TA,Coyle JF,Bain L,Huff SM,Kush RD,Chute CG

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study aimed at gaining comprehensive information on the current status of patient care and management applications used in German acute hospitals. Since the degree of ICT coverage in hospitals depends on the attitude of the key decision makers we also wanted to capture their plans and priorities and her...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Hübner U,Sellemann B

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To find discriminative combination of influential factors of Intracerebral hematoma (ICH) to cluster ICH patients with similar features to explore relationship among influential factors and 30-day mortality of ICH. METHODS:The data of ICH patients are collected. We use a decision tree to find discriminative...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Chiu HC,Chiu DY,Lee YH,Wang CC,Wang CS,Lee CC,Ying MH,Wu MY,Chang WC

更新日期：2016-10-17 00:00:00