The information imperative: to study the impact of informational discontinuity on clinical decision making among doctors.

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: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:Patients undergoing heart surgery continue to be the largest demand on blood transfusions. The need for transfusion is based on the risk of complications due to poor cell oxygenation, however large transfusions are associated with increased morbidity and risk of mortality in heart surgery patients. The aim o...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Simeone F,Franchi F,Cevenini G,Marullo A,Fossombroni V,Scolletta S,Biagioli B,Giomarelli P,Barbini P

更新日期：2011-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Machine learning is a branch of Artificial Intelligence that is concerned with the design and development of algorithms, and it enables today's computers to have the property of learning. Machine learning is gradually growing and becoming a critical approach in many domains such as health, education, and bus...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Alloghani M,Aljaaf A,Hussain A,Baker T,Mustafina J,Al-Jumeily D,Khalaf M

更新日期：2019-12-12 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：:This paper by John D. Keen and James E. Keen addresses a thorny subject. The numerical findings and commentaries in their paper will be disturbing to some readers and seem to defy logic and well established viewpoints. It may well generate angry letters to the editor. However such numerical analysis and reporting incl...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Retsky M

更新日期：2009-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health Information Organizations (HIOs) are third party organizations that facilitate electronic health information exchange (HIE) between providers in a geographic area. Despite benefits from HIE, HIOs have struggled to form and subsequently gain broad provider participation. We sought to assess whether mar...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Lin SC,Adler-Milstein J

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

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:Nowadays more and more clinical guidelines for health care professionals are being developed. However, this does not automatically mean that these guidelines are actually implemented. The aim of this meta-review is twofold: firstly, to gain a better understanding of which factors affect the implementation of...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Francke AL,Smit MC,de Veer AJ,Mistiaen P

更新日期：2008-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microcontact datasets gathered automatically by electronic devices have the potential augment the study of the spread of contagious disease by providing detailed representations of the study population's contact dynamics. However, the impact of data collection experimental design on the subsequent simulation...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Hashemian M,Qian W,Stanley KG,Osgood ND

更新日期：2012-11-15 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:The increasing use of common data elements (CDEs) in numerous research projects and clinical applications has made it imperative to create an effective classification scheme for the efficient management of these data elements. We applied high-level integrative modeling of entire clinical documents from real-...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Kim HH,Park YR,Lee KH,Song YS,Kim JH

更新日期：2019-08-20 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:The quantitative study of the publication output (bibliometrics) deeply influences how scientific work is perceived (bibliometric visibility). Recently, new bibliometric indices and databases have been established, which may change the visibility of disciplines, institutions and individuals. This study exami...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Spreckelsen C,Deserno TM,Spitzer K

更新日期：2011-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adverse drug events (ADEs) often occur as a result of drug-drug interactions (DDIs). The use of data mining for detecting effects of drug combinations on ADE has attracted growing attention and interest, however, most studies focused on analyzing pairwise DDIs. Recent efforts have been made to explore the di...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Yao X,Tsang T,Sun Q,Quinney S,Zhang P,Ning X,Li L,Shen L

更新日期：2020-03-18 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: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: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 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: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:The use of telemonitoring is a promising approach to optimizing outcomes in the treatment of heart failure (HF) for patients living in the community. HF telemonitoring interventions, however, have not been tested for use with individuals residing in disparity communities. METHODS:The current study describes...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Pekmezaris R,Schwartz RM,Taylor TN,DiMarzio P,Nouryan CN,Murray L,McKenzie G,Ahern D,Castillo S,Pecinka K,Bauer L,Orona T,Makaryus AN

更新日期：2016-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Following the completion of treatment and as they enter the follow-up phase, breast cancer patients (BCPs) often recount feeling 'lost in transition', and are left with many questions concerning how their ongoing care and monitoring for recurrence will be managed. Family physicians (FPs) also frequently repo...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Haq R,Heus L,Baker NA,Dastur D,Leung FH,Leung E,Li B,Vu K,Parsons JA

更新日期：2013-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical data synthesis aims at generating realistic data for healthcare research, system implementation and training. It protects patient confidentiality, deepens our understanding of the complexity in healthcare, and is a promising tool for situations where real world data is difficult to obtain or unneces...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Chen J,Chun D,Patel M,Chiang E,James J

更新日期：2019-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As the use of electronic health records (EHRs) becomes more widespread, so does the need to search and provide effective information discovery within them. Querying by keyword has emerged as one of the most effective paradigms for searching. Most work in this area is based on traditional Information Retrieva...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Hristidis V,Varadarajan RR,Biondich P,Weiner M

更新日期：2010-10-22 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: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: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：BACKGROUND:Electronic medical records contain information of value for research, but contain identifiable and often highly sensitive confidential information. Patient-identifiable information cannot in general be shared outside clinical care teams without explicit consent, but anonymisation/de-identification allows res...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Cardinal RN

更新日期：2017-04-26 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: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