Comprehensive user requirements engineering methodology for secure and interoperable health data exchange.

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:Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are those RNA molecules that lack the poly (A) tails, which present the closed-loop structure. Recent studies emphasized that some circRNAs imply different functions from canonical transcripts, and further associated with complex diseases. Several computational methods have been deve...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Wang Y,Zhang X,Wang T,Xing J,Wu Z,Li W,Wang J

更新日期：2020-07-09 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:New Specific Application Domain (SAD) heuristics or design principles are being developed to guide the design and evaluation of mobile applications in a bid to improve on the usability of these applications. This is because the existing heuristics are rather generic and are often unable to reveal a large num...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Mugisha A,Nankabirwa V,Tylleskär T,Babic A

更新日期：2019-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We developed Supportive care Prioritization, Assessment and Recommendations for Kids (SPARK), a web-based application designed to facilitate symptom screening by children receiving cancer treatments and access to supportive care clinical practice guidelines primarily by healthcare providers. The objective wa...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Cook S,Vettese E,Soman D,Hyslop S,Kuczynski S,Spiegler B,Davis H,Duong N,Ou Wai S,Golabek R,Golabek P,Antoszek-Rallo A,Schechter T,Lee Dupuis L,Sung L

更新日期：2019-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whether early detection and treatment of prostate cancer (PCa) will reduce disease-related mortality remains uncertain. As a result, tools are needed to facilitate informed decision making. While there have been several decision aids (DAs) developed and tested, very few have included an exercise to help men ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Dorfman CS,Williams RM,Kassan EC,Red SN,Dawson DL,Tuong W,Parker ER,Ohene-Frempong J,Davis KM,Krist AH,Woolf SH,Schwartz MD,Fishman MB,Cole C,Taylor KL

更新日期：2010-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clear communication about the possible outcomes of proposed medical interventions is an integral part of medical care. Despite its importance, there have been few studies comparing different formats for presenting probabilistic information to patients, especially when small probabilities are involved. The pu...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Dolan JG,Iadarola S

更新日期：2008-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Automated reporting of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is a recent advance in laboratory information technology (IT) that generates a measure of kidney function with chemistry laboratory results to aid early detection of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Because accurate diagnosis of CKD is critical ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Hall RK,Wang V,Jackson GL,Hammill BG,Maciejewski ML,Yano EM,Svetkey LP,Patel UD

更新日期：2012-07-12 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:Patient stratification is a critical task in clinical decision making since it can allow physicians to choose treatments in a personalized way. Given the increasing availability of electronic medical records (EMRs) with longitudinal data, one crucial problem is how to efficiently cluster the patients based o...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Rama K,Canhão H,Carvalho AM,Vinga S

更新日期：2019-12-30 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: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：:To answer the need for the rigorous protection of biomedical data, we organized the Critical Assessment of Data Privacy and Protection initiative as a community effort to evaluate privacy-preserving dissemination techniques for biomedical data. We focused on the challenge of sharing aggregate human genomic data (e.g.,...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Jiang X,Zhao Y,Wang X,Malin B,Wang S,Ohno-Machado L,Tang H

更新日期：2014-01-01 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: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:A major problem patients encounter when reading about health related issues is document interpretation, which limits reading comprehension and therefore negatively impacts health care. Currently, searching for medical definitions from an external source is time consuming, distracting, and negatively impacts ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Gradie PR,Litster M,Thomas R,Vyas J,Schiller MR

更新日期：2011-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Women diagnosed with early breast cancer (stage I or II) can be offered the choice between mastectomy or breast conservation surgery with radiotherapy due to equivalence in survival rates. A wide variation in the surgical management of breast cancer and a lack of theoretically guided research on this issue h...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Sivell S,Elwyn G,Edwards A,Manstead AS,BresDex group.

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Robust, programmatically accessible biomedical information services that syntactically and semantically interoperate with other resources are challenging to construct. Such systems require the adoption of common information models, data representations and terminology standards as well as documented applicat...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Phillips J,Chilukuri R,Fragoso G,Warzel D,Covitz PA

更新日期：2006-01-06 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:Although a number of studies have evaluated the effectiveness of computerized decision-support systems (CDSS), there is lack of data on user perspectives, barriers, and facilitators to the implementation of CDSSs in real-life surroundings. The aim of this study was to assess individually perceived barriers, ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Koskela T,Sandström S,Mäkinen J,Liira H

更新日期：2016-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many suggest that shared decision-making (SDM) is the most effective approach to clinical counseling. It is unclear if this applies to surgical decision-making-especially regarding urgent, highly-morbid operations. In this scoping review, we identify articles that address patient and surgeon preferences towa...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Shinkunas LA,Klipowicz CJ,Carlisle EM

更新日期：2020-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prostate cancer (PCa) represents a significant healthcare problem. The critical clinical question is the need for a biopsy. Accurate risk stratification of patients before a biopsy can allow for individualised risk stratification thus improving clinical decision making. This study aims to build a risk calcul...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Jalali A,Foley RW,Maweni RM,Murphy K,Lundon DJ,Lynch T,Power R,O'Brien F,O'Malley KJ,Galvin DJ,Durkan GC,Murphy TB,Watson RW

更新日期：2020-07-03 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:Adopting mobile electronic medical record (MEMR) systems is expected to be one of the superior approaches for improving nurses' bedside and point of care services. However, nurses may use the functions for far fewer tasks than the MEMR supports. This may depend on their technological personality associated t...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Kuo KM,Liu CF,Ma CC

更新日期：2013-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The global age-adjusted mortality rate related to atrial fibrillation (AF) registered a rapid growth in the last four decades, i.e., from 0.8 to 1.6 and 0.9 to 1.7 per 100,000 for men and women during 1990-2010, respectively. In this context, this study uses convolutional neural networks for classifying (dia...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Lee KS,Jung S,Gil Y,Son HS

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since the beginning of 2007, the National Health Research Institutes has been promoting the dissemination of evidence-based medicine (EBM). The current study examined longitudinal trends of behaviors in how hospital-based physicians and nurses have searched for medical information during the spread of EBM. ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Weng YH,Kuo KN,Yang CY,Lo HL,Shih YH,Chen C,Chiu YW

更新日期：2013-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Automated machine-learning systems are able to de-identify electronic medical records, including free-text clinical notes. Use of such systems would greatly boost the amount of data available to researchers, yet their deployment has been limited due to uncertainty about their performance when applied to new ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Hartman T,Howell MD,Dean J,Hoory S,Slyper R,Laish I,Gilon O,Vainstein D,Corrado G,Chou K,Po MJ,Williams J,Ellis S,Bee G,Hassidim A,Amira R,Beryozkin G,Szpektor I,Matias Y

更新日期：2020-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many healthcare databases have been routinely collected over the past decades, to support clinical practice and administrative services. However, their secondary use for research is often hindered by restricted governance rules. Furthermore, health research studies typically involve many participants with co...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Almeida JR,Gini R,Roberto G,Rijnbeek P,Oliveira JL

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mobile phone technology has demonstrated the potential to improve health service delivery, but there is little guidance to inform decisions about acquiring and implementing mHealth technology at scale in health systems. Using the case of community-based health services (CBS) in South Africa, we apply a frame...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Leon N,Schneider H,Daviaud E

更新日期：2012-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Personal health records (PHRs) provide patients with access to personal health information (PHI) and targeted education. The use of PHRs has the potential to improve a wide range of outcomes, including empowering patients to be more active participants in their care. There are a number of widespread barriers...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Wiljer D,Leonard KJ,Urowitz S,Apatu E,Massey C,Quartey NK,Catton P

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00