The effect of model selection on cost-effectiveness research: a comparison of kidney function-based microsimulation and disease grade-based microsimulation in chronic kidney disease modeling.

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: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: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:Identifying subtypes of complex diseases such as cancer is the very first step toward developing highly customized therapeutics on such diseases, as their origins significantly vary even with similar physiological characteristics. There have been many studies to recognize subtypes of various cancer based on ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Jung S

更新日期：2016-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The TISS standard is a set of mandatory forms and electronic messages for healthcare authorization and claim submissions among healthcare plans and providers in Brazil. It is not based on formal models as the new generation of health informatics standards suggests. The objective of this paper is to model the...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Dias RD,Cook TW,Freire SM

更新日期：2011-10-12 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:Mobile health has potential for promotion of self-management in patients with chronic diseases. This study was conducted to investigate smartphone usage in patients with type II diabetes and their intention to use it for self-management. METHODS:This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2018 with 176 pati...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Rangraz Jeddi F,Nabovati E,Hamidi R,Sharif R

更新日期：2020-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anesthesia side effects are almost inevitable in most situations. In order to optimize the anesthetic experience from the patient's viewpoint, it makes intuitive sense to attempt to avoid the side effects that the patient fears the most. METHODS:We obtained rankings and quantitative estimates of the relativ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Rashiq S,Bray P

更新日期：2003-02-13 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: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:Problems may arise during the approval process of treatment after a compensable work injury, which include excess paperwork, delays in approving services, disputes, and allegations of over-servicing. This is perceived as undesirable for injured people, health care professionals and claims managers, and costl...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Elbers NA,Chase R,Craig A,Guy L,Harris IA,Middleton JW,Nicholas MK,Rebbeck T,Walsh J,Willcock S,Lockwood K,Cameron ID

更新日期：2017-05-22 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: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: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: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:New algorithms for disease outbreak detection are being developed to take advantage of full electronic medical records (EMRs) that contain a wealth of patient information. However, due to privacy concerns, even anonymized EMRs cannot be shared among researchers, resulting in great difficulty in comparing the...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Buczak AL,Babin S,Moniz L

更新日期：2010-10-14 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:Clinical text classification is an fundamental problem in medical natural language processing. Existing studies have cocnventionally focused on rules or knowledge sources-based feature engineering, but only a limited number of studies have exploited effective representation learning capability of deep learni...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Yao L,Mao C,Luo Y

更新日期：2019-04-04 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: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:The widespread use of electronic health records (EHRs) has generated massive clinical data storage. Association rules mining is a feasible technique to convert this large amount of data into usable knowledge for clinical decision making, research or billing. We present a data driven method to create a knowle...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Séverac F,Sauleau EA,Meyer N,Lefèvre H,Nisand G,Jay N

更新日期：2015-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evaluation is a challenging but necessary part of the development cycle of clinical information systems like the electronic medical records (EMR) system. It is believed that such evaluations should include multiple perspectives, be comparative and employ both qualitative and quantitative methods. Self-admini...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Laerum H,Faxvaag A

更新日期：2004-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Large healthcare databases, with their ability to collect many variables from daily medical practice, greatly enable health services research. These longitudinal databases provide large cohorts and longitudinal time frames, allowing for highly pragmatic assessment of healthcare delivery. The purpose of this ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Rhon DI,Clewley D,Young JL,Sissel CD,Cook CE

更新日期：2018-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the United States (US). Better cardiovascular health (CVH) is associated with CVD prevention. Predicting future CVH levels may help providers better manage patients' CVH. We hypothesized that CVH measures can be predicted based on previous measure...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Guo A,Beheshti R,Khan YM,Langabeer JR 2nd,Foraker RE

更新日期：2021-01-06 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:High levels of adherence to medications for HIV infection are essential for optimal clinical outcomes and to reduce viral transmission, but many patients do not achieve required levels. Clinician-delivered interventions can improve patients' adherence, but usually require substantial effort by trained indivi...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Ownby RL,Waldrop-Valverde D,Jacobs RJ,Acevedo A,Caballero J

更新日期：2013-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Blood cultures are often performed to detect patients who has a serious illness without infections and patients with bloodstream infections. Early positive blood culture prediction is important, as bloodstream infections may cause inflammation of the body, even organ failure or death. However, existing work ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Cheng M,Zhao X,Ding X,Gao J,Xiong S,Ren Y

更新日期：2020-07-09 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:The purpose of this study was to identify recommended practices for computerized clinical decision support (CDS) development and implementation and for knowledge management (KM) processes in ambulatory clinics and community hospitals using commercial or locally developed systems in the U.S. METHODS:Guided b...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Ash JS,Sittig DF,Guappone KP,Dykstra RH,Richardson J,Wright A,Carpenter J,McMullen C,Shapiro M,Bunce A,Middleton B

更新日期：2012-02-14 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