abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this project is to develop a catalogue of competency-based learning objectives "Medical Informatics" for undergraduate medical education (abbreviated NKLM-MI in German). METHODS:The development followed a multi-level annotation and consensus process. For each learning objective a reason why a phy...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Röhrig R,Stausberg J,Dugas M,GMDS project group „Medical Informatics Education in Medicine”.

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studying workflow is a critical step in designing, implementing and evaluating informatics interventions in complex sociotechnical settings, such as hospital emergency departments (EDs). Known approaches to studying workflow in clinical settings attend to the activities of individual clinicians, thus being i...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Ozkaynak M,Brennan P

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Until recently, genotype studies were limited to the investigation of single SNP effects due to the computational burden incurred when studying pairwise interactions of SNPs. However, some genetic effects as simple as coloring (in plants and animals) cannot be ascribed to a single locus but only understood w...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Pütz B,Kam-Thong T,Karbalai N,Altmann A,Müller-Myhsok B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The main objective of this study is to learn more on the image use and search requirements of radiologists. These requirements will then be taken into account to develop a new search system for images and associated meta data search in the Khresmoi project. METHODS:Observations of the radiology workflow, ca...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Markonis D,Holzer M,Dungs S,Vargas A,Langs G,Kriewel S,Müller H

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The information present in Hospital Information Systems (HIS) is heterogeneous and is used primarily by health practitioners to support and improve patient care. Conducting clinical research, data analyses or knowledge discovery projects using electronic patient data in secondary care centres relies on accur...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Bettencourt-Silva J,De La Iglesia B,Donell S,Rayward-Smith V

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multi-class molecular cancer classification has great potential clinical implications. Such applications require statistical methods to accurately classify cancer types with a small subset of genes from thousands of genes in the data. OBJECTIVES:This paper presents a new functional gradient descent boosting...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Wang Z

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the past decade, Medical Informatics (MI) and Bioinformatics (BI) have converged towards a new discipline, called Biomedical Informatics (BMI) bridging informatics methods across the spectrum from genomic research to personalized medicine and global healthcare. This convergence still raises challenging re...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Maojo V,García-Remesal M,Bielza C,Crespo J,Perez-Rey D,Kulikowski C

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cause-of-death register at the Southern Urals Biophysics Institute (SUBI), Ozyorsk, Russia, was established to document the number and causes of deaths in the Mayak workers cohort, which includes all persons (N = 22,377) employed at Mayak nuclear facility between 1948 and 1982. Most workers were occupati...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Azizova TV,Fedirko V,Tsareva Y,Tretyakov F,Lassen CF,Friis S,Schüz J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effectiveness of a lexico-syntactic pattern (LSP) matching method for ontology enrichment using clinical documents. METHODS:Two domains were separately studied using the same methodology. We used radiology documents to enrich RadLex and pathology documents to enrich National Cancer Institute ...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Liu K,Chapman WW,Savova G,Chute CG,Sioutos N,Crowley RS

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examine the potential of archetype patterns for upper-level ontology development in health information systems (HISs). METHODS:Archetype patterns, based on the integration of archetype concepts and design patterns, are conceptualized and developed for ontology in the HIS domain. The UML provides the unde...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Raghupathi W,Umar A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) has been available as a means of coding life functions but the coding process is cumbersome due to the large number of ICF codes. In the current study, we developed ICF code selection tools to support the coding of activity and part...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Manabe S,Miura Y,Takemura T,Ashida N,Nakagawa R,Mineno T,Matsumura Y

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Information systems integration is hard, especially when semantic and business process interoperability requirements need to be met. To succeed, a unified methodology, approaching different aspects of systems architecture such as business, information, computational, engineering and technology viewpoints, has...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： López DM,Blobel B

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explain the common conformance and interoperability testing requirements of eHealth applications through two case studies; one using a prominent eHealth messaging standard, namely HL7 v3 [1], and the other using Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) [2] Profiles and to describe how these testing requ...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Namli T,Dogac A

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the effects of a CPOE system on inter-professional workflow in the medication process. METHODS:Twenty-three semi-structured interviews with physicians, nurses, and pharmacists were conducted in a Dutch academic hospital. In addition, the handwritten and system-generated documents used daily were c...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Niazkhani Z,Pirnejad H,van der Sijs H,de Bont A,Aarts J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Biomedical ontologies exist to serve integration of clinical and experimental data, and it is critical to their success that they be put to widespread use in the annotation of data. How, then, can ontologies achieve the sort of user-friendliness, reliability, cost-effectiveness, and breadth of coverage that ...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Smith B,Brochhausen M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A low rate of newly developed pressure ulcers is considered as an important quality indicator in nursing. However, the result of a hospital depends not only on the quality of care but on the risk profile of its patients as well. Therefore, based on multiple logistic regression models we describe a method for...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Kutschmann M,Renner D,Fischer B

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This paper describes a methodology for the monitoring of the fetal cardiac health status during pregnancy, through the effective and non-invasive monitoring of the abdominal ECG signals (abdECG) of the mother. METHODS:For this purpose, a three-stage methodology has been developed. In the first stage, the fe...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Karvounis EC,Tsipouras MG,Papaloukas C,Tsalikakis DG,Naka KK,Fotiadis DI

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In this work, a cellular automaton software package for simulating different infectious diseases, storing the simulation results in a data warehouse system and analyzing the obtained results to generate prediction models as well as contingency plans, is proposed. The Brisbane H3N2 flu virus, which has been s...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Pfeifer B,Wurz M,Hanser F,Seger M,Netzer M,Osl M,Modre-Osprian R,Schreier G,Baumgartner C

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aging of the population creates pressure on the healthcare systems in various ways. A massive increase of chronic disease conditions and age-related illness are predicted as the dominant forces driving the future health care. The objective of this paper is to present future research demands in pervasive ...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Arnrich B,Mayora O,Bardram J,Tröster G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study aims to demonstrate the usability of discourse analyses as a means of evaluating medical informatics systems by examining one particular computer-based data-to-text system for delivering neonatal health care information. METHODS:Six textual summaries of clinical information, three produced by hum...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： McKinlay A,McVittie C,Reiter E,Freer Y,Sykes C,Logie R

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ICD is used for coding medical diagnoses across the world, but there is no globally accepted coding system for health care procedures. The need for the introduction of a common international medical procedure classification has been addressed by the Australian NCCH, which proposed the International Classific...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Hanser S,Zaiss A,Schulz S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Today's socio-economic developments in the healthcare area require continued optimization of processes and cost structures at hospitals, often associated with process changes for different occupational groups in the hospital. Formal methods for managing change have been established in other industries. The g...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Suc J,Prokosch HU,Ganslandt T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The main objective is to show current topics and future trends in the field of medical signal processing which are derived from current research concepts. Signal processing as an integrative concept within the scope of medical informatics is demonstrated. METHODS:For all examples time-variant multivariate a...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Witte H,Ungureanu M,Ligges C,Hemmelmann D,Wüstenberg T,Reichenbach J,Astolfi L,Babiloni F,Leistritz L

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the impact of a CPOE system on medication-related communication of nurses and physicians. METHODS:In six internal medicine wards of an academic medical center, two questionnaires were used to evaluate nurses' attitudes toward the impact of a paper-based medication system and then a CPOE system on ...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Pirnejad H,Niazkhani Z,van der Sijs H,Berg M,Bal R

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Personal digital assistants (PDAs) are in widespread use by resident physicians in many countries, reaching as high as 95% in some reports. Uses are varied and include clinical decision support and support of evidence-based practice. Utilization by resident doctors in Japan has not been characterized. This s...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Jacobs JL,Takahashi O,Ohde S,Tokuda Y,Omata F,Fukui T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Delayed patient recruitment is a common problem in clinical trials. According to the literature, only about a third of medical research studies recruit their planned number of patients within the time originally specified. OBJECTIVES:To provide a method to estimate patient accrual rates in clinical trials b...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Dugas M,Amler S,Lange M,Gerss J,Breil B,Köpcke W

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of hybrid environments (i.e. where part of the patient record is paper-based and part of it is electronic) upon aspects of novice nurse information seeking (i.e. amount of information accessed, choice of key information sources, type of information and ...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Borycki EM,Lemieux-Charles L,Nagle L,Eysenbach G

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Hospital information systems (HIS) are the hospital's nervous system. The HIS are mostly grown over several years, dedicated to specific needs and comprise individual workarounds. Changes to such complex systems may cause a variety of differ-ent negative side-effects. In order to understand the nature of inc...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Saboor S,Ammenwerth E

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The interpretation of endoscopic findings by gastroenterologists is still a difficult and highly subjective task. Despite important developments such as chromo-endoscopy, pit pattern analysis, fluorescence imaging as well as narrow band imaging it still requires lots of experience and training with a certain...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Münzenmayer C,Kage A,Wittenberg T,Mühldorfer S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This paper illustrates a high speed clinical data retrieving system, from 10 years of data of operating hospital information system for the purposes of research, evidence creation, patient safety, etc., even incorporating time sequence of causal relations. METHODS:Total of 73,709,298 records of 10 years at ...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Kimura M,Tani S,Watanabe H,Naito Y,Sakusabe T,Watanabe H,Nakaya J,Sasaki F,Numano T,Furuta T,Furuta T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This paper addresses the design of a platform for the management of medical decision data in the ICU. Whenever new medical data from laboratories or monitors is available or at fixed times, the appropriate medical support services are activated and generate a medical alert or suggestion to the bedside termin...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Van Hoecke S,Decruyenaere J,Danneels C,Taveirne K,Colpaert K,Hoste E,Dhoedt B,De Turck F

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Introducing the Special Topic of Methods of Information in Medicine on pervasive healthcare, with selected papers from the Pervasive Healthcare Conference at Tampere, Finland, January 30 to February 1, 2008. METHODS:Describing pervasive healthcare as field. Reporting about the content of the selected papers ...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Saranummi N,Wactlar H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study is to develop a solution to preserve security and privacy in a healthcare environment where health-sensitive information will be accessed by many parties and stored in various distributed databases. The solution should maintain anonymous medical records and it should be able to lin...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Weerasinghe D,Rajarajan M,Elmufti K,Rakocevic V

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Compiling individual records coming from different sources is necessary for multi-center studies. Legal aspects can be satisfied by implementing anonymization procedures. When using these procedures with a different key for each study it becomes almost impossible to link records from separate data collection...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Quantin C,Fassa M,Coatrieux G,Trouessin G,Allaert FA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In this study, we evaluated the internal validity of EPICON, an application for grouping ICPC-coded diagnoses from electronic medical records into episodes of care. These episodes are used to estimate morbidity rates in general practice. METHODS:Morbidity rates based on EPICON were compared to a gold standa...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Biermans MC,Verheij RA,de Bakker DH,Zielhuis GA,de Vries Robbé PF

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We have been developing a decision support system that uses electronic clinical data and provides alerts to clinicians. However, the inference rules for such a system are difficult to write in terms of representing domain concepts and temporal reasoning. To address this problem, we have developed an ontology-...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Kawazoe Y,Ohe K

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The authors' aim was to investigate the representations, wishes, and fears of family caregivers (FCs) regarding 14 innovative technologies (IT) for care aiding and burden alleviation, given the severe physical and psychological stress induced by dementia care, and the very slow uptake of these technologies i...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Rialle V,Ollivet C,Guigui C,Hervé C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Complex physiological systems, such as the cardiovascular system, controlled by the autonomic nervous system, and the gait and posture system, controlled by the sensomotor nervous system, incorporate several controllers acting at different time scales. We investigated the question, whether the information fl...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Hoyer D

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the nonlinear characteristics of visual evoked potentials (VEPs), and their correlation with the visual responses on parvocellular and magnocellular pathways. First and second-order kernels of the VEPs elicited by several checkerboard patterns were estimated, and their relations to the visual ...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Momose K

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Our objective is to investigate diabetes-related alteration of glucose control in diurnal fluctuations in normal daily life by detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA). METHODS:The fluctuations of glucose of 12 non-diabetic subjects and 15 diabetic patients were measured using a continuous glucose monitoring sy...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Ogata H,Tokuyama K,Nagasaka S,Ando A,Kusaka I,Sato N,Goto A,Ishibashi S,Kiyono K,Struzik ZR,Yamamoto Y

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00