The usability and preliminary effectiveness of a web-based physical activity intervention in patients with knee and/or hip osteoarthritis.

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:Electronic health records are now widely adopted in medical and behavioral health settings. While they have the potential to improve the quality of care, the research findings on their impact on clinical practice and outcomes have been mixed. This study explores how the electronic health record and its stage...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Stanhope V,Matthews EB

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

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:Applying evidence is one of the most challenging steps of evidence-based clinical practice. Healthcare professionals have difficulty interpreting evidence and translating it to patients. Decision boxes are summaries of the most important benefits and harms of diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive health in...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Giguere A,Legare F,Grad R,Pluye P,Rousseau F,Haynes RB,Cauchon M,Labrecque M

更新日期：2011-03-09 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:Approximately 20% of deaths in the US each year are attributable to smoking, yet current practices in the recording of this health risk in electronic health records (EHRs) have not led to discernable changes in health outcomes. Several groups have developed algorithms for extracting smoking behaviors from cl...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Palmer EL,Higgins J,Hassanpour S,Sargent J,Robinson CM,Doherty JA,Onega T

更新日期：2019-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diagnosis of neuromuscular diseases in primary care is often challenging. Rare diseases such as Pompe disease are easily overlooked by the general practitioner. We therefore aimed to develop a diagnostic support tool using patient-oriented questions and combined data mining algorithms recognizing answer patt...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Grigull L,Lechner W,Petri S,Kollewe K,Dengler R,Mehmecke S,Schumacher U,Lücke T,Schneider-Gold C,Köhler C,Güttsches AK,Kortum X,Klawonn F

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Longevity creates increasing care needs for healthcare providers and family caregivers. Increasingly, the burden of care falls to one primary caregiver, increasing stress and reducing health outcomes. Additionally, little has been published on adults', over the age of 75, preferences in the development of he...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Quintana Y,Crotty B,Fahy D,Lipsitz L,Davis RB,Safran C

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper by John D. Keen and James E. Keen addresses a thorny subject. The numerical findings and commentaries in their paper will be disturbing to some readers and seem to defy logic and well established viewpoints. It may well generate angry letters to the editor. However such numerical analysis and reporting incl...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Retsky M

更新日期：2009-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biofuels produced from biomass are considered to be promising sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels. The conversion of lignocellulose into fermentable sugars for biofuels production requires the use of enzyme cocktails that can efficiently and economically hydrolyze lignocellulosic biomass. As many fungi ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Meurs MJ,Murphy C,Morgenstern I,Butler G,Powlowski J,Tsang A,Witte R

更新日期：2012-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite advances in diagnosis and treatment of type 2 diabetes, suboptimal metabolic control persists. Patient education in diabetes has been proved to enhance self-efficacy and guideline-driven treatment, however many people with type 2 diabetes do not have access to or do not participate in self-management...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Odnoletkova I,Buysse H,Nobels F,Goderis G,Aertgeerts B,Annemans L,Ramaekers D

更新日期：2016-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ability to report complete, accurate and timely data by HIV care providers and other entities is a key aspect in monitoring trends in HIV prevention, treatment and care, hence contributing to its eradication. In many low-middle-income-countries (LMICs), aggregate HIV data reporting is done through the Di...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Gesicho MB,Were MC,Babic A

更新日期：2021-01-06 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:Significant resources are invested in the production of research knowledge with the ultimate objective of integrating research evidence into practice. Toolkits are becoming increasingly popular as a knowledge translation (KT) strategy for disseminating health information, to build awareness, inform, and chan...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Barac R,Stein S,Bruce B,Barwick M

更新日期：2014-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a worldwide critical problem, especially in developing countries. CKD patients usually begin their treatment in advanced stages, which requires dialysis and kidney transplantation, and consequently, affects mortality rates. This issue is faced by a mobile health (mHealth) ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Sobrinho A,da Silva LD,Perkusich A,Pinheiro ME,Cunha P

更新日期：2018-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiogenic stroke has increasing morbidity in China and brought economic burden to patient families. In cardiogenic stroke diagnosis, echocardiograph examination is one of the most important examinations. Sonographers will investigate patients' heart via echocardiograph, and describe them in the echocardiog...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Qin L,Xu X,Ding L,Li Z,Li J

更新日期：2020-07-09 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: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:Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the USA. Our objective was to assess the predictive value on critical illness and disposition of a sequential Bayesian Model that integrates Lactate and procalcitonin (PCT) for pneumonia. METHODS:Sensitivity and sp...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Baez AA,Cochon L,Nicolas JM

更新日期：2019-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preconception care may be an efficacious tool to reduce risk factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes that are associated with lifestyles and health status before pregnancy. We conducted a web-based cohort study in Italian women planning a pregnancy to assess whether a tailored web intervention may change know...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Agricola E,Pandolfi E,Gonfiantini MV,Gesualdo F,Romano M,Carloni E,Mastroiacovo P,Tozzi AE

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most hospitals keep and update their paper-based medical records after introducing an electronic medical record or a hospital information system (HIS). This case report describes a HIS in a hospital where the paper-based medical records are scanned and eliminated. To evaluate the HIS comprehensively, the per...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Laerum H,Karlsen TH,Faxvaag A

更新日期：2004-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, claim-data-based comorbidity-adjusted methods such as the Charlson index and the Elixhauser comorbidity measures have been widely used among researchers. At the same time, there have been an increasing number of attempts to improve the predictability of comorbidity-adjusted models. We tried to impr...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Bang JH,Hwang SH,Lee EJ,Kim Y

更新日期：2013-11-20 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:The use of measurement instruments has become a major issue in physical therapy, but their use in daily practice is rare. The aim of this paper is to describe adherence to standardized assessments by physical therapists using a complexity-based model for categorizing rehabilitation (CMCR) at the Clínica Alem...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Gutiérrez Panchana T,Hidalgo Cabalín V

更新日期：2018-03-12 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:Few researchers have examined the perceptions of physicians referring cases for angiography regarding the degree to which collaboration occurs during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) decision-making. We sought to determine perceptions of physicians concerning their involvement in PCI decisions in cas...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Rahilly-Tierney CR,Nash IS

更新日期：2008-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of telemonitoring is a promising approach to optimizing outcomes in the treatment of heart failure (HF) for patients living in the community. HF telemonitoring interventions, however, have not been tested for use with individuals residing in disparity communities. METHODS:The current study describes...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Pekmezaris R,Schwartz RM,Taylor TN,DiMarzio P,Nouryan CN,Murray L,McKenzie G,Ahern D,Castillo S,Pecinka K,Bauer L,Orona T,Makaryus AN

更新日期：2016-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Jurisdictional drug information systems are being implemented in many regions around the world. British Columbia, Canada has had a provincial medication dispensing record, PharmaNet, system since 1995. Little is known about how accurately PharmaNet reflects actual medication usage. METHODS:This prospective,...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Price M,Bowen M,Lau F,Kitson N,Bardal S

更新日期：2012-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with no history of stroke but with stenosis of the carotid arteries can reduce the risk of future stroke with surgery or stenting. At present, a physicians' ability to recommend optimal treatments based on an individual's risk profile requires estimating the likelihood that a patient will have a poo...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Faerber AE,Horvath R,Stillman C,O'Connell ML,Hamilton AL,Newhall KA,Likosky DS,Goodney PP

更新日期：2015-03-24 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