Novel methodology to measure pre-procedure antimicrobial prophylaxis: integrating text searches with structured data from the Veterans Health Administration's electronic medical record.

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: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：: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

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: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:Systematic review (SR) of randomized controlled trials (RCT) is the gold standard for informing treatment choice. Decision analyses (DA) also play an important role in informing health care decisions. It is unknown how often the results of DA and matching SR of RCTs are in concordance. We assessed whether th...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Mhaskar RS,Wao H,Mahony H,Kumar A,Djulbegovic B

更新日期：2014-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Technological support using e-health mobile applications (m-health) is a promising strategy to improve the adherence to healthy lifestyles in breast cancer survivors (excess in energy intake or low physical activity are determinants of the risk of recurrence, second cancers and cancer mortality). Moreover, c...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Lozano-Lozano M,Martín-Martín L,Galiano-Castillo N,Álvarez-Salvago F,Cantarero-Villanueva I,Fernández-Lao C,Sánchez-Salado C,Arroyo-Morales M

更新日期：2016-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Collaboration among investigators has become critical to scientific research. This includes ad hoc collaboration established through personal contacts as well as formal consortia established by funding agencies. Continued growth in online resources for scientific research and communication has promoted the d...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Yu W,Yesupriya A,Wulf A,Qu J,Gwinn M,Khoury MJ

更新日期：2007-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Personal Patient Profile-Prostate (P3P), a web-based decision aid, was demonstrated to reduce decisional conflict in English-speaking men with localized prostate cancer early after initial diagnosis. The purpose of this study was to explore and enhance usability and cultural appropriateness of a Spanish ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Berry DL,Halpenny B,Bosco JLF,Bruyere J Jr,Sanda MG

更新日期：2015-07-24 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:Pathology reports are written in free-text form, which precludes efficient data gathering. We aimed to overcome this limitation and design an automated system for extracting biomarker profiles from accumulated pathology reports. METHODS:We designed a new data model for representing biomarker knowledge. The ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Lee J,Song HJ,Yoon E,Park SB,Park SH,Seo JW,Park P,Choi J

更新日期：2018-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plain language search tools for MEDLINE/PubMed are few. We wanted to develop a search tool that would allow anyone using a free-text, natural language query and without knowing specialized vocabularies that an expert searcher might use, to find relevant citations in MEDLINE/PubMed. This tool would translate ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Fontelo P,Liu F,Ackerman M

更新日期：2005-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Information and communication technologies have become a vital infrastructural asset for use in the retention of rural health workers. However, little is known about the potential influence of ICT use, perceptions of health workers on ICT in healthcare delivery, and contribution of ICT to health care provide...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Yagos WO,Tabo Olok G,Ovuga E

更新日期：2017-01-10 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: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: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: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:Shared decision-making (SDM) is considered a key component of high quality cancer care and may be supported by patient decision aids (PtDAs). Many patients, however, face multiple social disadvantages that may influence their ability to fully participate in SDM or to use PtDAs; additionally, these social dis...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Enard KR,Dolan Mullen P,Kamath GR,Dixon NM,Volk RJ

更新日期：2016-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Electronic patient portals are increasingly being implemented, also in (haemato) oncology. However, portal usage is low and depends on user and provider engagement. We explored wishes, expectations and thoughts of patients with a haematologic malignancy and their physicians with regard to the electronic pati...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Geerts PAF,van der Weijden T,Loeffen PGM,Janssen LEF,Almekinders C,Wienhold TA,Bos GMJ

更新日期：2019-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of measurement instruments has become a major issue in physical therapy, but their use in daily practice is rare. The aim of this paper is to describe adherence to standardized assessments by physical therapists using a complexity-based model for categorizing rehabilitation (CMCR) at the Clínica Alem...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Gutiérrez Panchana T,Hidalgo Cabalín V

更新日期：2018-03-12 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: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: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: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:Recently, claim-data-based comorbidity-adjusted methods such as the Charlson index and the Elixhauser comorbidity measures have been widely used among researchers. At the same time, there have been an increasing number of attempts to improve the predictability of comorbidity-adjusted models. We tried to impr...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Bang JH,Hwang SH,Lee EJ,Kim Y

更新日期：2013-11-20 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Applying evidence is one of the most challenging steps of evidence-based clinical practice. Healthcare professionals have difficulty interpreting evidence and translating it to patients. Decision boxes are summaries of the most important benefits and harms of diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive health in...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Giguere A,Legare F,Grad R,Pluye P,Rousseau F,Haynes RB,Cauchon M,Labrecque M

更新日期：2011-03-09 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: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:User satisfaction with PACS is considered as one of the important criteria for assessing success in using PACS. The objective of this study was to determine the level of user satisfaction with PACS and to compare its functional features with traditional film-based systems. METHODS:This study was conducted i...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Abbasi R,Sadeqi Jabali M,Khajouei R,Tadayon H

更新日期：2020-08-05 00:00:00