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abstract：BACKGROUND:Research on the development and functioning of technology platforms specifically for health applications in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), is limited. The healthcare sector has also been resistant to platform adoption due to characteristics such as sensitive data and high cost of failure. A framework for the desi...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Herman H,Grobbelaar SS,Pistorius C

更新日期：2020-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A large body of work in the clinical guidelines field has identified requirements for guideline systems, but there are formidable challenges in translating such requirements into production-quality systems that can be used in routine patient care. Detailed analysis of requirements from an implementation pers...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Shah H,Allard RD,Enberg R,Krishnan G,Williams P,Nadkarni PM

更新日期：2012-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with a prolonged intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay account for a disproportionate amount of resource use. Early identification of patients at risk for a prolonged length of stay can lead to quality enhancements that reduce ICU stay. This study developed and validated a model that identifies p...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Kramer AA,Zimmerman JE

更新日期：2010-05-13 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:Compared with the increasingly widespread use of picture archiving and communication systems (PACSs), knowledge concerning users' acceptance of such systems is limited. Knowledge of acceptance is needed given the large (and growing) financial investment associated with the implementation of PACSs, and becaus...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Aldosari B

更新日期：2012-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Shared decision-making (SDM) is considered a key component of high quality cancer care and may be supported by patient decision aids (PtDAs). Many patients, however, face multiple social disadvantages that may influence their ability to fully participate in SDM or to use PtDAs; additionally, these social dis...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Enard KR,Dolan Mullen P,Kamath GR,Dixon NM,Volk RJ

更新日期：2016-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hospital electronic information management systems (HEIMS) are widely used in Ghana, and hence its performance must be carefully assessed. Nurses as clinical health personnel are the largest cluster of hospital staff and are the pillar of healthcare delivery. Therefore, they play a crucial role in the adopti...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Zhou LL,Owusu-Marfo J,Asante Antwi H,Antwi MO,Kachie ADT,Ampon-Wireko S

更新日期：2019-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prior studies have demonstrated that cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is a strong marker of cardiovascular health. Machine learning (ML) can enhance the prediction of outcomes through classification techniques that classify the data into predetermined categories. The aim of this study is to present an evaluat...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Sakr S,Elshawi R,Ahmed AM,Qureshi WT,Brawner CA,Keteyian SJ,Blaha MJ,Al-Mallah MH

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Information extraction techniques that get structured representations out of unstructured data make a large amount of clinically relevant information about patients accessible for semantic applications. These methods typically rely on standardized terminologies that guide this process. Many languages and cli...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Toepfer M,Corovic H,Fette G,Klügl P,Störk S,Puppe F

更新日期：2015-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Effective use of a patient decision aid (PtDA) can be affected by the user's health literacy and the PtDA's characteristics. Systematic reviews of the relevant literature can guide PtDA developers to attend to the health literacy needs of patients. The reviews reported here aimed to assess: METHODS:We revie...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： McCaffery KJ,Holmes-Rovner M,Smith SK,Rovner D,Nutbeam D,Clayman ML,Kelly-Blake K,Wolf MS,Sheridan SL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the complex domain of medical decision making, reasoning under uncertainty can benefit from supporting tools. Automated decision support tools often build upon mathematical models, such as Bayesian networks. These networks require probabilities which often have to be assessed by experts in the domain of a...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Witteman CL,Renooij S,Koele P

更新日期：2007-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Demographic change with its consequences of an aging society and an increase in the demand for care in the home environment has triggered intensive research activities in sensor devices and smart home technologies. While many advanced technologies are already available, there is still a lack of decision supp...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Marschollek M

更新日期：2012-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A pilot experimentation of a telemonitoring system for chronic care patients is conducted in the Bilbao Primary Care Health Region (Basque Country, Spain). It seems important to understand the factors related to healthcare professionals' acceptance of this new technology in order to inform its extension to t...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Asua J,Orruño E,Reviriego E,Gagnon MP

更新日期：2012-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Access to and use of digital technology are more common among people of more advantaged socioeconomic status. These differences might be due to lack of interest, not having physical access or having lower intentions to use this technology. By integrating the digital divide approach and the User Acceptance of...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Paccoud I,Baumann M,Le Bihan E,Pétré B,Breinbauer M,Böhme P,Chauvel L,Leist AK

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early alarm of hypoglycemia, detection of asymptomatic hypoglycemia, and effective control of blood glucose fluctuation make a great contribution to diabetic treatment. In this study, we designed a multi-level hypoglycemia early alarm system to mine potential information in Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Yu X,Ma N,Yang T,Zhang Y,Miao Q,Tao J,Li H,Li Y,Yang Y

更新日期：2021-01-21 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:The Personal Patient Profile-Prostate (P3P) is a web-based decision support system for men newly diagnosed with localized prostate cancer that has demonstrated efficacy in reducing decisional conflict. Our objective was to estimate willingness-to-pay (WTP) for men's decisional preparation activities. METHOD...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Wilson LS,Blonquist TM,Hong F,Halpenny B,Wolpin S,Chang P,Filson CP,Master VA,Sanda MG,Chien GW,Jones RA,Krupski TL,Berry DL

更新日期：2019-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As the use of electronic health records (EHRs) becomes more widespread, so does the need to search and provide effective information discovery within them. Querying by keyword has emerged as one of the most effective paradigms for searching. Most work in this area is based on traditional Information Retrieva...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Hristidis V,Varadarajan RR,Biondich P,Weiner M

更新日期：2010-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:National authorities have to follow the evolution of diabetes to implement public health policies. An algorithm was developed to identify patients with treated type 2 diabetes and estimate its annual prevalence in Luxembourg using health insurance claims when no diagnosis code is available. METHODS:The DIAB...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Renard LM,Bocquet V,Vidal-Trecan G,Lair ML,Couffignal S,Blum-Boisgard C

更新日期：2011-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the most commonly performed treatment for coronary atherosclerosis. It is associated with a higher incidence of repeat revascularization procedures compared to coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. Recent results indicate that PCI is only cost-effective for a su...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Pölsterl S,Singh M,Katouzian A,Navab N,Kastrati A,Ladic L,Kamen A

更新日期：2015-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Geriatric patients frequently undergo emergency general surgery and accrue a greater risk of postoperative complications and fatal outcomes than the general population. It is highly relevant to develop the most appropriate care measures and to guide patient-centered decision-making around end-of-life care. P...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Cao Y,Bass GA,Ahl R,Pourlotfi A,Geijer H,Montgomery S,Mohseni S

更新日期：2020-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Collaboration among investigators has become critical to scientific research. This includes ad hoc collaboration established through personal contacts as well as formal consortia established by funding agencies. Continued growth in online resources for scientific research and communication has promoted the d...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Yu W,Yesupriya A,Wulf A,Qu J,Gwinn M,Khoury MJ

更新日期：2007-06-20 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:Clinical named entity recognition (CNER) is important for medical information mining and establishment of high-quality knowledge map. Due to the different text features from natural language and a large number of professional and uncommon clinical terms in Chinese electronic medical records (EMRs), there are...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Li L,Zhao J,Hou L,Zhai Y,Shi J,Cui F

更新日期：2019-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study implemented and evaluated a point-of-care, wireless Internet access using smart phones for information retrieval during daily clinical rounds and academic activities of internal medicine residents in a community hospital. We did the project to assess the feasibility of using smart phones as an alt...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： León SA,Fontelo P,Green L,Ackerman M,Liu F

更新日期：2007-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient decision aids (DAs) are support tools designed to provide patients with relevant information to help them make informed decisions about their healthcare. While DAs can be effective in improving patient knowledge and decision quality, it is unknown what types of information and evidence are used to po...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Clifford AM,Ryan J,Walsh C,McCurtin A

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Electronic medical records contain information of value for research, but contain identifiable and often highly sensitive confidential information. Patient-identifiable information cannot in general be shared outside clinical care teams without explicit consent, but anonymisation/de-identification allows res...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Cardinal RN

更新日期：2017-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With wide applications of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) and surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF MS), statistical comparison of serum peptide profiles and management of patients information play ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Cao Y,Wang N,Ying X,Li A,Wang H,Zhang X,Li W

更新日期：2009-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, inter-municipal cooperation in healthcare services has been an important measure implemented to meet future demographic changes in western countries. This entails an increased focus on communication and information sharing across organisational borders. Technology enables efficient and effec...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Holen-Rabbersvik E,Thygesen E,Eikebrokk TR,Fensli RW,Slettebø Å

更新日期：2018-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data mining can be utilized to automate analysis of substantial amounts of data produced in many organizations. However, data mining produces large numbers of rules and patterns, many of which are not useful. Existing methods for pruning uninteresting patterns have only begun to automate the knowledge acquis...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Siadaty MS,Knaus WA

更新日期：2006-03-07 00:00:00