Barriers to exchanging healthcare information in inter-municipal healthcare services: a qualitative case study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little research has examined how physicians choose medical devices for treating individual patients to reveal if interventions are needed to support decision-making and reduce device-associated morbidity and mortality. This study explored factors that influence choice of implantable device from among availab...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Gagliardi AR,Ducey A,Lehoux P,Turgeon T,Kolbunik J,Ross S,Trbovich P,Easty A,Bell C,Urbach DR

更新日期：2017-12-22 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:Named entity recognition (NER) is an important task in clinical natural language processing (NLP) research. Machine learning (ML) based NER methods have shown good performance in recognizing entities in clinical text. Algorithms and features are two important factors that largely affect the performance of ML...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Tang B,Cao H,Wu Y,Jiang M,Xu H

更新日期：2013-01-01 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:Computer simulation studies of the emergency department (ED) are often patient driven and consider the physician as a human resource whose primary activity is interacting directly with the patient. In many EDs, physicians supervise delegates such as residents, physician assistants and nurse practitioners eac...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Lim ME,Worster A,Goeree R,Tarride JÉ

更新日期：2013-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Simulation applications on operations management in hospitals are frequently published and claim to support decision-making on operations management subjects. However, the reported implementation rates of recommendations are low and the actual impact of the changes recommended by the modeler has hardly been ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： van Lent WA,Vanberkel P,van Harten WH

更新日期：2012-03-14 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:We describe the results of cognitive interviews to refine the "Making Choices©" Decision Aid (DA) for shared decision-making (SDM) about stress testing in patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD). METHODS:We conducted a systematic development process to design a DA consistent with International Pa...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Kelly-Blake K,Clark S,Dontje K,Olomu A,Henry RC,Rovner DR,Rothert ML,Holmes-Rovner M

更新日期：2014-02-13 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: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: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:Cancer-related fatigue is a distressing symptom experienced by many after cancer treatment. An exploratory randomised controlled trial was conducted to test proof of concept of RESTORE: a web-based tool to enhance self-efficacy to manage cancer-related fatigue. This paper reports findings from a qualitative ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Myall M,May CR,Grimmett C,May CM,Calman L,Richardson A,Foster CL

更新日期：2015-11-14 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:A large proportion of patients with knee and/or hip osteoarthritis (OA) do not meet the recommended levels of physical activity (PA). Therefore, we developed a web-based intervention that provides a tailored PA program for patients with knee and/or hip OA, entitled Join2move. The intervention incorporates co...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Bossen D,Veenhof C,Dekker J,de Bakker D

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Routine Health Information Systems (RHIS) of low-income countries function below the globally expected standard, characterised by the production and use of poor-quality data, or the non-use of good quality data for informed decision making. This has negatively influenced the health service delivery and uptak...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Nguefack-Tsague G,Tamfon BB,Ngnie-Teta I,Ngoufack MN,Keugoung B,Bataliack SM,Bilounga Ndongo C

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Digital health interventions can fill gaps in mental healthcare provision. However, autonomous e-mental health (AEMH) systems also present challenges for effective risk management. To balance autonomy and safety, AEMH systems need to detect risk situations and act on these appropriately. One option is sendin...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Tielman ML,Neerincx MA,Pagliari C,Rizzo A,Brinkman WP

更新日期：2019-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Real-world data on the benefit/risk profile of medicines is needed, particularly in patients who are ineligible for randomised controlled trials conducted for registration purposes. This paper describes the methodology and source data verification which enables the conduct of pre-licensing clinical trials of...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Elkhenini HF,Davis KJ,Stein ND,New JP,Delderfield MR,Gibson M,Vestbo J,Woodcock A,Bakerly ND

更新日期：2015-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Schizophrenia is a kind of serious mental illness. Due to the lack of an objective physiological data supporting and a unified data analysis method, doctors can only rely on the subjective experience of the data to distinguish normal people and patients, which easily lead to misdiagnosis. In recent years, fu...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Song H,Chen L,Gao R,Bogdan IIM,Yang J,Wang S,Dong W,Quan W,Dang W,Yu X

更新日期：2017-12-20 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:To evaluate whether or not the utilization of Health Information Technologies (HITs) in Quality Improvement Methodologies (QIMs) has impacts on QIMs' efficiency, throughput and financial outcomes at healthcare organizations and physician practices in the United States. METHODS:This is a retrospective observ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： AlHazme RH,Haque SS,Wiggin H,Rana AM

更新日期：2016-12-05 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: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:Colorectal cancer incidence and mortality have been increasing in China and as one of the most important health problems facing the nation. Adequate dissemination of correct information about colorectal cancer could help in reducing cancer-related morbidity and mortality. This study aims to assess the comple...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Zhang S,Yang Y,Yan D,Yuan B,Jiang X,Song C

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When an Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) incident is reported to emergency services, the 911 agent dispatches Emergency Medical Services to the location and activates responder network system (RNS), if the option is available. The RNS notifies all the registered users in the vicinity of the cardiac arre...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Rao G,Choudhury S,Lingras P,Savage D,Mago V

更新日期：2020-12-30 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: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:Although fecal hemoglobin concentration (f-Hb) was highly associated with the risk of colorectal neoplasms, current studies on this subject are hampered by skewedness of the data and the ordinal property of f-Hb has not been well studied yet. Our aim was to develop a quantile-based method to estimate adjuste...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Peng SM,Chiu HM,Jen HH,Hsu CY,Chen SL,Chiu SY,Yen AM,Fann JC,Lee YC,Chen HH

更新日期：2019-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Even small variations of serum sodium concentration may be associated with mortality. Our objective was to confirm the impact of borderline dysnatremia for patients admitted to hospital on in-hospital mortality using real life care data from our electronic health record (EHR) and a phenome-wide association a...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Girardeau Y,Jannot AS,Chatellier G,Saint-Jean O

更新日期：2017-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drug therapy has become increasingly efficient, with more drugs available for treatment of an ever-growing number of conditions. Yet, drug use is reported to be sub optimal in several aspects, such as dosage, patient's adherence and outcome of therapy. The aim of the current study was to investigate the poss...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Wanger P,Martin L

更新日期：2004-07-20 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