Using an electronic medical record (EMR) to conduct clinical trials: Salford Lung Study feasibility.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Electronic medical records (EMRs) contain a variety of valuable medical concepts and relations. The ability to recognize relations between medical concepts described in EMRs enables the automatic processing of clinical texts, resulting in an improved quality of health-related data analysis. Driven by the 201...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Zhang Z,Zhou T,Zhang Y,Pang Y

更新日期：2019-04-09 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

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: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:The District Health Information Software-2 (DHIS2) is widely used by countries for national-level aggregate reporting of health-data. To best leverage DHIS2 data for decision-making, countries need to ensure that data within their systems are of the highest quality. Comprehensive, systematic, and transparent...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Gesicho MB,Were MC,Babic A

更新日期：2020-11-13 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: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: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:In 2006, we were funded by the US National Institutes of Health to implement a study of tuberculosis epidemiology in Peru. The study required a secure information system to manage data from a target goal of 16,000 subjects who needed to be followed for at least one year. With previous experience in the devel...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Fraser HS,Thomas D,Tomaylla J,Garcia N,Lecca L,Murray M,Becerra MC

更新日期：2012-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients undergoing heart surgery continue to be the largest demand on blood transfusions. The need for transfusion is based on the risk of complications due to poor cell oxygenation, however large transfusions are associated with increased morbidity and risk of mortality in heart surgery patients. The aim o...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Simeone F,Franchi F,Cevenini G,Marullo A,Fossombroni V,Scolletta S,Biagioli B,Giomarelli P,Barbini P

更新日期：2011-06-21 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: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:We present a method utilizing Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) dataset for predicting disease risk of individuals based on their medical diagnosis history. The presented methodology may be incorporated in a variety of applications such as risk management, tailored health communication and decis...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Khalilia M,Chakraborty S,Popescu M

更新日期：2011-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prior studies demonstrate the suitability of natural language processing (NLP) for identifying pneumonia in chest radiograph (CXR) reports, however, few evaluate this approach in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. METHODS:From a total of 194,615 ICU reports, we empirically developed a lexicon to categorize...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Liu V,Clark MP,Mendoza M,Saket R,Gardner MN,Turk BJ,Escobar GJ

更新日期：2013-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To determine patients' preferences for, and understanding of, FRAX® fracture risk conveyed through illustrations. METHODS:Drawing on examples from published studies, four illustrations of fracture risk were designed and tested for patient preference, ease of understanding, and perceived risk. We enrolled a ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Edmonds SW,Cram P,Lu X,Roblin DW,Wright NC,Saag KG,Solimeo SL,PAADRN Investigators.

更新日期：2014-11-25 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:Comparing outcomes between hospitals requires consideration of patient factors that could account for any observed differences. Adjusting for comorbid conditions is common when studying outcomes following cancer surgery, and a commonly used measure is the Charlson comorbidity index. Other measures of patient...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Dobbins TA,Badgery-Parker T,Currow DC,Young JM

更新日期：2015-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The maturity and usage of wireless technology has influenced health services, and this has raised expectations from users that healthcare services will become more affordable due to technology growth. There is increasing evidence to justify this expectation, as telehealth is becoming more and more prevalent ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Gururajan R,Hafeez-Baig A

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:While early diagnostic decision support systems were built around knowledge bases, more recent systems employ machine learning to consume large amounts of health data. We argue curated knowledge bases will remain an important component of future diagnostic decision support systems by providing ground truth...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Müller L,Gangadharaiah R,Klein SC,Perry J,Bernstein G,Nurkse D,Wailes D,Graham R,El-Kareh R,Mehta S,Vinterbo SA,Aronoff-Spencer E

更新日期：2019-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A pandemic affects healthcare delivery and consequently leads to socioeconomic complications. During a pandemic, a community where there lives an asymptomatic patient (AP) becomes a potential endemic zone. Assuming we want to monitor the travel and/or activity of an AP in a community where there is a pandemi...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Adu-Gyamfi D,Zhang F,Kwansah Ansah AK

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence-based information available at the point of care improves patient care outcomes. Online knowledge bases can increase the application of evidence-based medicine and influence patient outcome data which may be captured in quality registries. The aim of this study was to explore the effect of use of an...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Gerdesköld C,Toth-Pal E,Wårdh I,Nilsson GH,Nager A

更新日期：2020-11-16 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:Transient ischemic attack (TIA) is a brief episode of neurological dysfunction resulting from cerebral ischemia not associated with permanent cerebral infarction. TIA is associated with high diagnostic errors because of the subjective nature of findings and the lack of clinical and imaging biomarkers. The go...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Stanciu A,Banciu M,Sadighi A,Marshall KA,Holland NR,Abedi V,Zand R

更新日期：2020-06-18 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:The development and validation of automated electronic medical record (EMR) search strategies are important for establishing the timing of mechanical ventilation initiation in the intensive care unit (ICU).Thus, we sought to develop and validate an automated EMR search algorithm (strategy) for time zero, the...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Smischney NJ,Velagapudi VM,Onigkeit JA,Pickering BW,Herasevich V,Kashyap R

更新日期：2014-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Healthcare providers generate a huge amount of biomedical data stored in either legacy system (paper-based) format or electronic medical records (EMR) around the world, which are collectively referred to as big biomedical data (BBD). To realize the promise of BBD for clinical use and research, it is an essen...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Luo L,Li L,Hu J,Wang X,Hou B,Zhang T,Zhao LP

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Healthcare and social care environments are increasingly confronted with older persons with long-term care needs. Consequently, the need for integrated and coordinated assessment systems increases. In Belgium, feasibility studies have been conducted on the implementation and use of interRAI instruments offer...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Vanneste D,Vermeulen B,Declercq A

更新日期：2013-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mathematical models can be used to predict individual growth responses to growth hormone (GH) therapy. The aim of this study was to construct and validate high-precision models to predict the growth response to GH treatment of short children, independent of their GH status, birth size and gestational age. As...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Dahlgren J,Kriström B,Niklasson A,Nierop AF,Rosberg S,Albertsson-Wikland K

更新日期：2007-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Better understanding of clinical reasoning could reduce diagnostic error linked to 8% of adverse medical events and 30% of malpractice cases. To a greater extent than the evidence-based movement, the clinical reasoning literature asserts the importance of practitioner intuition—unconscious elements of diagno...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Seidel BM,Campbell S,Bell E

更新日期：2015-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In this editorial, we first summarize the 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2018) that was held on June 10-12, 2018 in Los Angeles, California, USA, and then briefly introduce the six research articles included in this supplement issue. At ICIBM 2018, a special theme of Medical I...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Zhang Y,Tao C,Gong Y,Wang K,Zhao Z

更新日期：2019-01-31 00:00:00