abstract：OBJECTIVES:This paper aims to present an activity-theoretical method for studying the effects of user participation in IS development. METHODS:This method is developed through a case study of the process of designing a diabetes database. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS:The method consists of a historical analysis of the desi...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Hyysalo S,Lehenkari J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we describe two important dimensions of patient care information systems (PCIS) evaluation: the domain of evaluation and the different phases of the PCIS implementation. Second, we claim that, though Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are often still seen as the stand...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Stoop AP,Berg M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In 1998, we reported a steady increase in the number of publications indexed in MedLine with the MeSH term 'Medical Records Systems, Computerized'. No signs indicating an increasing interest of high-impact medical journals to publish on the computer-based patient record could be determined. In this review we...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Moorman PW,van der Lei J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Several researchers have proposed the use of logical ontologies as 'reference terminologies'. However, there are a number of unresolved issues. This article describes the development of a logical ontology for nursing interventions and presents the results of evaluation. METHODS:Initially this study involved...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Hardiker NR

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The availability of large amounts of data in heterogeneous formats and the rapid progress in fields such as computer based drug design, medical imaging and medical simulations have lead to a growing demand for large computational power and easy accessibility to heterogeneous data sources. OBJECTIVES:The goa...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Breton V,Medina R,Montagnat J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To discuss the advantages and disadvantages of an interfaced approach to clinical information systems architecture. METHODS:After many years of internally building almost all components of a hospital clinical information system (HELP) at Intermountain Health Care, we changed our architectural approach as we...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Clayton PD,Narus SP,Huff SM,Pryor TA,Haug PJ,Larkin T,Matney S,Evans RS,Rocha BH,Bowes WA 3rd,Holston FT,Gundersen ML

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To provide a comprehensive bottom-up categorization of model-based segmentation techniques that allows to select, implement, and apply well-suited active contour models for segmentation of medical images, where major challenges are the high variability in shape and appearance of objects, noise, artifacts, pa...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Lehmann TM,Bredno J,Spitzer K

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) is an important XML-based standard for the representation of clinical documents. OBJECTIVES:The use of Markup Languages could satisfy the demands of involved healthcare staff as well as the needs of patients, to receive an overview of the patient's treatment duri...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Bludau HB,Wolff A,Hochlehnert AJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Due to the high complexity of structures and processes in health care, thorough systems analyses in health care run the risk of becoming very complex and difficult to handle. Therefore, we aimed to support systematic systems analysis in health care by developing a comprehensive framework that presents and de...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Ammenwerth E,Ehlers F,Eichstädter R,Haux R,Pohl U,Resch F

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diagnosis and management of dementia is a complex process and primary care physicians are under-equipped to deal with uncertainties in the provision of optimal care for the patient. OBJECTIVE:To develop a computer decision support system (CDSS) which could assist physicians with diagnosis and management and...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Iliffe S,Austin T,Wilcock J,Bryans M,Turner S,Downs M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:a) To present a regional health care communication system developed in the North Karelia Hospital District with the help of two EU funded information technology projects namely the TERVE project (1) which was implemented at the national level financed by the regional subsidy 6 of the ERDF and the CHIN projec...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Itkonen P

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:As millions of consumers perform health information retrieval online, the mismatch between their terminology and the terminologies of the information sources could become a major barrier to successful retrievals. To address this problem, we studied the characteristics of consumer terminology for health infor...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Zeng Q,Kogan S,Ash N,Greenes RA,Boxwala AA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To discuss the consequences for medical informatics in encouraging and advancing the development of information processing methodology (IPM) and information and communication technology (ICT) to contribute to high-quality and efficient health care. METHODS:Characterization of the current state of ICT, commen...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Haux R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In our department, we have been using an Anesthesia Information Management System (AIMS) for five years. In this study, we tested to what extent data extracted from the AIMS could be suitable for the supervision and time-management of operating rooms. METHODS:From 1995 to 1999, all relevant data from 103,26...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Junger A,Benson M,Quinzio L,Michel A,Sciuk G,Brammen D,Marquardt K,Hempelmann G

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To discuss application areas of information technology in medicine and health care on the occasion of the opening of the Private Universität für Medizinische Informatik und Technik Tirol/University for Health Informatics and Technology Tyrol (UMIT) at Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS:Impor...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Lindberg DA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human event-related potentials reflect cognitive processing, and are normally elicited by external events, such as acoustic sounds or visual stimuli. As such they provide an opportunity to study normal and abnormal brain function noninvasively, at sub-second resolution. Advances in multimedia technology permit special...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： McCullagh PJ,McAllister HG,Howard R,Neo LH

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A few years ago, a new method of survival analysis, denoted period analysis, has been developed to derive more up-to-date estimates of long-term survival rates of cancer patients, but this method has rarely been applied so far. Using empirical examples from the Saarland Cancer Registry, we illustrate how seriously tra...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Brenner H,Gefeller O,Stegmaier C,Ziegler H

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A tree-based method for estimating time-varying effects of baseline patient characteristics on survival is introduced. A Cox-type model for censored survival data is used in which the time-varying relative risks are modelled as piecewise constants. The tree method consists of three steps: 1. Growing the tree, in which...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Xu R,Adak S

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor documentation is an important task for both clinical research and patient care. Documentation systems for these purposes have to be planned systematically and should be goal oriented. We applied the method of a so-called 'standardized documentation protocol' for systematically planning two documentation systems ...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Knaup P,Harkener S,Ellsässer KH,Haux R,Wiedemann T

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgical fluid replacement is a critical issue in medicine as the fluid volume excess or deficit can both complicate the patient's condition. Currently, the administration of fluid volume is carried out primarily based on the experience and expertise of the anaesthetist as there is no analytical method available to es...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Chan W,Naghdy F

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:(1) Creation of an expressive language for specification of temporal patterns in clinical domains, (2) Development of a graphical knowledge-acquisition tool allowing expert physicians to define meaningful domain-specific patterns, (3) Implementation of an interpreter capable of detecting such patterns in cli...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Chakravarty S,Shahar Y

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To identify factors associated with hospital length of stay (LOS) and to model variations in LOS within Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs). METHODS:A proportional hazards frailty modelling approach is proposed that accounts for patient transfers and the inherent correlation of patients clustered within hospita...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Lee AH,Yau KK

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Main requirements for an Anesthesia Information Management System (AIMS) are the supply of additional information for the anesthesiologist at his workstation and complete documentation of the anesthetic procedure. With the implementation of an AIMS (NarkoData) and effective user support, the quality of documentation a...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Benson M,Junger A,Quinzio L,Michel A,Sciuk G,Fuchs C,Marquardt K,Hempelmann G

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Appropriateness and necessity research of various procedures in medicine may be the most complex field of innovation in healthcare and technology assessment. Nevertheless, the appropriateness of the indication of any medical intervention is probably more important than the outcome since even ideal quality components o...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Schilling J,Faisst K,Kapetanios E,Wyss P,Norrie MC,Gutzwiller F

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) microscopy is a powerful visualization tool used to study live biological cells. Its use, however, has been limited to qualitative observations. The inherent non-linear relation between the object properties and the image intensity makes quantitative analysis difficult. As a fi...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Kagalwala F,Lanni F,Kanade T

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an algorithm for reconstructing the bifurcation structure of a dynamical system from time series. The method consists in finding a parameterized predictor function whose bifurcation structure is similar to that of the given system. Nonlinear autoregressive (NAR) models with polynomial terms are employed as ...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Bagarinao E,Pakdaman K,Nomura T,Sato S

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we attempted to discriminate the acceleration signal for horizontal level and stairway walking using wavelet-based fractal analysis method. The acceleration signal was measured close to the center of gravity of the body, while the subjects walked continuously in the corridor and up and down the stairs. ...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Sekine M,Tamura T,Akay M,Togawa T,Fukui Y

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Template Definition Language (TDL) was developed to share knowledge of how to construct an electronic patient record (EPR) template. Based on the extensible markup language XML, TDL has been designed to be independent of EPR platforms or databases. Our research of TDL was conducted through evaluation of the descript...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Yamazaki S,Satomura Y

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are three grand challenges for medical informatics policy: (1) What is it? (2) What should it be? (3) How can we influence its development? To address these challenges requires: (1) an historical analysis of medical informatics policies in a representative sample of countries. This should include an account of m...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Power M

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper the design and implementation of a decision support system for diabetes care is examined from an ethical perspective. It is noted that the system creates potential for enhancing the realization of the principle of autonomy through improved information to patients and participation by patients. However, t...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Collste G,Shahsavar N,Gill H

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a pilot randomised trial of computerised templates for the management of asthma and diabetes in general practice in six general practices in North London. Uptake of the guidelines by general practitioners and practice nurses was assessed using qualitative (semi-structured interviews designed to assess the...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Tai SS,Nazareth I,Donegan C,Haines A

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A huge amount of medical information is available on the Internet for both experts and laypersons. These resources are frequently used to answer current medical questions and are thus likely to influence the behavior of the users. Criteria for assessing the quality of medical Internet resources have been established b...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Adelhard K,Obst O

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical informaticians are multidisciplinary professionals responsible for developing complex technical systems. The aim of this study was to investigate how a code of ethics can help medical informaticians in avoiding design failures. An exploratory case study was performed to identify factors related to failure duri...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Timpka T

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Informatisation of drug prescription is an important topic in medical informatics. For several years now, computerized drug databases have been implemented. Usually only a small part of the prescriptions can be stored in prescription systems because of the format of the included information; prescriptions contain esse...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Riou C,Pouliquen B,Le Beux P

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural language understanding systems have to exploit various kinds of knowledge in order to represent the meaning behind texts. Getting this knowledge in place is often such a huge enterprise that it is tempting to look for systems that can discover such knowledge automatically. We describe how the distinction betwe...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Ceusters W,Buekens F,De Moor G,Waagmeester A

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Read Thesaurus is a comprehensive user-led clinical vocabulary developed from earlier, and structurally simpler, versions of the Read Codes, with substantial input from United Kingdom health care professionals. A constituent template table underpins a range of functions, including semantic definition of concepts u...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Price C,O'Neil M,Bentley TE,Brown PJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid development of community health information networks raises the issue of semantic interoperability between distributed and heterogeneous systems. Indeed, operational health information systems originate from heterogeneous teams of independent developers and have to cooperate in order to exchange data and service...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Degoulet P,Sauquet D,Jaulent MC,Zapletal E,Lavril M

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are compared to standard statistical methods for outcome prediction in biomedical problems. A general method for using genetic algorithms to "evolve" ANN architecture (EANN) is presented. Accuracy of logistic regression, a fully interconnected ANN, and an EANN for predicting depressio...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Jefferson MF,Pendleton N,Lucas CP,Lucas SB,Horan MA

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The benefits for any health care provider of successfully introducing an Electronic Patient Record System (EPRS) into their organisation can be considerable. It has the potential to enhance both clinical care and managerial processes, as well as producing more cost-effective care and care programmes across clinical di...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Atkinson CJ,Peel VJ

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With rapid change in health care requiring greater emphasis on productivity and quality management, occupational health hazards in hospitals have been receiving increasing recognition, now not only focusing on controlling infection, but also on chemical, physical, mechanical as well as psychosocial hazards. Reducing c...

journal_title：Methods of information in medicine

authors： Yassi A

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00