Use of online knowledge base in primary health care and correlation to health care quality: an observational study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Significant resources are invested in the production of research knowledge with the ultimate objective of integrating research evidence into practice. Toolkits are becoming increasingly popular as a knowledge translation (KT) strategy for disseminating health information, to build awareness, inform, and chan...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Barac R,Stein S,Bruce B,Barwick M

更新日期：2014-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:After publication of this supplement article [1], it is requested the grant ID in the Funding section should be corrected from NSF grant IIS-7811367 to NSF grant IIS-1902617. ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Ning X,Zhang C,Wang K,Zhao Z,Mathé E

更新日期：2020-04-28 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:Patient stratification is a critical task in clinical decision making since it can allow physicians to choose treatments in a personalized way. Given the increasing availability of electronic medical records (EMRs) with longitudinal data, one crucial problem is how to efficiently cluster the patients based o...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Rama K,Canhão H,Carvalho AM,Vinga S

更新日期：2019-12-30 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:Different from adult clinical stage I (CS1) testicular cancer, surveillance has been recommended for CS1 pediatric testicular cancer. However, among high-risk children, more than 50% suffer a relapse and progression during surveillance, and adjuvant chemotherapy needs to be administered. Risk-adapted treatme...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Ye YL,Chen ZF,Bian J,Liang HT,Qin ZK

更新日期：2020-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health numeracy is an important factor in how well people make decisions based on medical risk information. However, in many countries, including Japan, numeracy studies have been limited. METHODS:To fill this gap, we evaluated health numeracy levels in a sample of Japanese adults by translating two well-kn...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Okamoto M,Kyutoku Y,Sawada M,Clowney L,Watanabe E,Dan I,Kawamoto K

更新日期：2012-09-11 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:Diagnostic accuracy might be improved by algorithms that searched patients' clinical notes in the electronic health record (EHR) for signs and symptoms of diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS). The focus this study was to determine if patients with MS could be identified from their clinical notes prior to...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Chase HS,Mitrani LR,Lu GG,Fulgieri DJ

更新日期：2017-02-28 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: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: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:In this study we implemented and developed state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies and built a computerized algorithm for medication reconciliation. Our specific aims are: (1) to develop a computerized algorithm for medication discrepancy detection between pa...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Li Q,Spooner SA,Kaiser M,Lingren N,Robbins J,Lingren T,Tang H,Solti I,Ni Y

更新日期：2015-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adopting mobile electronic medical record (MEMR) systems is expected to be one of the superior approaches for improving nurses' bedside and point of care services. However, nurses may use the functions for far fewer tasks than the MEMR supports. This may depend on their technological personality associated t...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Kuo KM,Liu CF,Ma CC

更新日期：2013-08-12 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:Large biomedical data sets have become increasingly important resources for medical researchers. Modern biomedical data sets are annotated with standard terms to describe the data and to support data linking between databases. The largest curated listing of biomedical terms is the the National Library of Med...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Berman JJ

更新日期：2003-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The maturity and usage of wireless technology has influenced health services, and this has raised expectations from users that healthcare services will become more affordable due to technology growth. There is increasing evidence to justify this expectation, as telehealth is becoming more and more prevalent ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Gururajan R,Hafeez-Baig A

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The storage and distribution of electrocardiogram data is based on different formats. There is a need to promote the development of standards for their exchange and analysis. Such models should be platform-/ system- and application-independent, flexible and open to every member of the scientific community. ...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Wang H,Azuaje F,Jung B,Black N

更新日期：2003-05-07 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: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: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:Personal health records (PHRs) provide patients with access to personal health information (PHI) and targeted education. The use of PHRs has the potential to improve a wide range of outcomes, including empowering patients to be more active participants in their care. There are a number of widespread barriers...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Wiljer D,Leonard KJ,Urowitz S,Apatu E,Massey C,Quartey NK,Catton P

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical vignettes are often used to elicit information about health conditions in research studies. This review summarizes the components of clinical vignettes describing Alzheimer's disease (AD) or other dementias. The purpose is to provide recommendations for the development of standardized vignettes that...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Randhawa H,Jiwa A,Oremus M

更新日期：2015-07-15 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 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: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: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: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:EURIS (European Resistance Intervention Study) was launched as a multinational study in September of 2000 to identify the multitude of complex risk factors that contribute to the high carriage rate of drug resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae strains in children attending Day Care Centers in several European c...

journal_title：BMC medical informatics and decision making

authors： Silva S,Gouveia-Oliveira R,Maretzek A,Carriço J,Gudnason T,Kristinsson KG,Ekdahl K,Brito-Avô A,Tomasz A,Sanches IS,de Lencastre H,Almeida J

更新日期：2003-07-08 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