Selected articles from the Third International Workshop on Semantics-Powered Data Analytics (SEPDA 2018).

abstract：BACKGROUND:Quantitative electroencephalogram (EEG) is one neuroimaging technique that has been shown to differentiate patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and non-depressed healthy volunteers (HV) at the group-level, but its diagnostic potential for detecting differences at the individual level has yet to be r...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Mohammadi M,Al-Azab F,Raahemi B,Richards G,Jaworska N,Smith D,de la Salle S,Blier P,Knott V

更新日期：2015-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hand hygiene is one of the most effective attempts to control nosocomial infections, and it is an important measure to avoid the transmission of pathogens. However, the compliance of healthcare workers (HCWs) with hand washing is still poor worldwide. Herein, we aimed to determine the best hand hygiene prefe...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Suner A,Oruc OE,Buke C,Ozkaya HD,Kitapcioglu G

更新日期：2017-08-31 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: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: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:The necessity to translate eligibility criteria from free text into decision rules that are compatible with data from the electronic health record (EHR) constitutes the main challenge when developing and deploying clinical trial recruitment support systems. Recruitment decisions based on case-based reasoning...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Köpcke F,Lubgan D,Fietkau R,Scholler A,Nau C,Stürzl M,Croner R,Prokosch HU,Toddenroth D

更新日期：2013-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:National authorities have to follow the evolution of diabetes to implement public health policies. An algorithm was developed to identify patients with treated type 2 diabetes and estimate its annual prevalence in Luxembourg using health insurance claims when no diagnosis code is available. METHODS:The DIAB...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Renard LM,Bocquet V,Vidal-Trecan G,Lair ML,Couffignal S,Blum-Boisgard C

更新日期：2011-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of routine hospital data for understanding patterns of adverse outcomes has been limited in the past by the fact that pre-existing and post-admission conditions have been indistinguishable. The use of a 'Present on Admission' (or POA) indicator to distinguish pre-existing or co-morbid conditions from...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Jackson TJ,Michel JL,Roberts R,Shepheard J,Cheng D,Rust J,Perry C

更新日期：2009-12-01 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: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:A main element of patient-centred care, Patient Decision Aids (PtDAs) facilitate shared decision-making (SDM). A recent update of the International Patient Decision Aids Standards (IPDAS) emphasised patient involvement during PtDA development, but omitted a methodology for doing so. This article reports on t...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Nota I,Drossaert CHC,Melissant HC,Taal E,Vonkeman HE,Haagsma CJ,van de Laar MAFJ

更新日期：2017-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Demographic change with its consequences of an aging society and an increase in the demand for care in the home environment has triggered intensive research activities in sensor devices and smart home technologies. While many advanced technologies are already available, there is still a lack of decision supp...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Marschollek M

更新日期：2012-05-28 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: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:During the last decade, there has been an increase in studies describing use of mHealth, using smartphones with apps, in the healthcare system by a variety of populations. Despite this, few interventions including apps are targeting older people receiving home care. Developing mobile technology to its full p...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Göransson C,Wengström Y,Hälleberg-Nyman M,Langius-Eklöf A,Ziegert K,Blomberg K

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Methods for linking real-world healthcare data often use a latent class model, where the latent, or unknown, class is the true match status of candidate record-pairs. This commonly used model assumes that agreement patterns among multiple fields within a latent class are independent. When this assumption is ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Daggy JK,Xu H,Hui SL,Gamache RE,Grannis SJ

更新日期：2013-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Machine-learning classifiers mostly offer good predictive performance and are increasingly used to support shared decision-making in clinical practice. Focusing on performance and practicability, this study evaluates prediction of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) by eight supervised classifiers including a l...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Huber M,Kurz C,Leidl R

更新日期：2019-01-08 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:Particularly in the context of severe diseases like cancer, many patients wish to include caregivers in the planning of treatment and care. Many caregivers like to be involved but feel insufficiently enabled. This study aimed at providing insight into patients' and caregivers' perspectives on caregivers' rol...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Weis A,Pohlmann S,Poss-Doering R,Strauss B,Ullrich C,Hofmann H,Ose D,Winkler EC,Szecsenyi J,Wensing M

更新日期：2020-07-13 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:Fever is one of the most common symptoms of pediatric consultations and its mismanagement is a health care burden. Guidelines on fever management are incoherent and data on fever management are still missing. This study protocol describes an app-based registry to evaluate the fever management of parents. OB...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Martin D,Wachtmeister J,Ludwigs K,Jenetzky E

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of this study was to ascertain the performance of syndromic algorithms for the early detection of patients in healthcare facilities who have potentially transmissible infectious diseases, using computerised emergency department (ED) data. METHODS:A retrospective cohort in an 810-bed University...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Gerbier-Colomban S,Gicquel Q,Millet AL,Riou C,Grando J,Darmoni S,Potinet-Pagliaroli V,Metzger MH

更新日期：2013-09-03 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: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:PubMed is the main access to medical literature on the Internet. In order to enhance the performance of its information retrieval tools, primarily non-indexed citations, the authors propose a method: expanding users' queries using Unified Medical Language System' (UMLS) synonyms i.e. all the terms gathered u...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Griffon N,Chebil W,Rollin L,Kerdelhue G,Thirion B,Gehanno JF,Darmoni SJ

更新日期：2012-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Decision aids have been overall successful in improving the quality of health decision making. However, it is unclear whether the impact of the results of using decision aids also apply to older people (aged 65+). We sought to systematically review randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and clinical controlled ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： van Weert JC,van Munster BC,Sanders R,Spijker R,Hooft L,Jansen J

更新日期：2016-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Publishing raw electronic health records (EHRs) may be considered as a breach of the privacy of individuals because they usually contain sensitive information. A common practice for the privacy-preserving data publishing is to anonymize the data before publishing, and thus satisfy privacy models such as k-an...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Lee H,Kim S,Kim JW,Chung YD

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A large body of work in the clinical guidelines field has identified requirements for guideline systems, but there are formidable challenges in translating such requirements into production-quality systems that can be used in routine patient care. Detailed analysis of requirements from an implementation pers...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Shah H,Allard RD,Enberg R,Krishnan G,Williams P,Nadkarni PM

更新日期：2012-03-09 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: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