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Identifying patients with certain clinical criteria based on manual chart review of doctors’ notes is a daunting task given the massive amounts of text notes in the electronic health records (EHR). This task c...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:126
Published on: 22 August 2017
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The objective of this research is to compare the relational and non-relational (NoSQL) database systems approaches in order to store, recover, query and persist standardized medical information in the form of ...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:123
Published on: 18 August 2017
Research article
Implementing patient decision aids in clinic workflow has proven to be a challenge for healthcare organizations and physicians. Our aim was to determine the organizational strategies, motivations, and facilita...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:124
Published on: 18 August 2017
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Intensive care clinicians use several sources of data in order to inform decision-making. We set out to evaluate a new interactive data integration platform called T3™ made available for pediatric intensive ca...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:122
Published on: 14 August 2017
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Standards and technical specifications have been developed to define how the information contained in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) should be structured, semantically described, and communicated. Current tr...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:120
Published on: 14 August 2017
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Data mining techniques such as support vector machines (SVMs) have been successfully used to predict outcomes for complex problems, including for human health. Much health data is imbalanced, with many more co...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:121
Published on: 14 August 2017
Research article
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) leads to serious health issues and remains the most common sexually transmitted infection. Despite availability of effective vaccines, HPV vaccination rates are suboptimal. Furthermo...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:119
Published on: 10 August 2017
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Shared decision making is essential to patient centered care, but can be difficult for busy clinicians to implement into practice. Tools have been developed to aid in shared decision making and embedded in ele...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:118
Published on: 10 August 2017
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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has become the leading cause of death in China, and most of the cases can be prevented by controlling risk factors. The goal of this study was to build a corpus of CVD risk factor ...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:117
Published on: 8 August 2017
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Using reliable information from routine health information systems over time is an important aid to improving health outcomes, tackling disparities, enhancing efficiency, and encouraging innovation. In Ethiopi...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:116
Published on: 7 August 2017
Research article
Feature selection (FS) process is essential in the medical area as it reduces the effort and time needed for physicians to measure unnecessary features. Choosing useful variables is a difficult task with the p...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:115
Published on: 3 August 2017
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The internet is an increasingly relevant source of health information. We aimed to assess the quality of German dentists’ websites on periodontitis, hypothesizing that it was significantly associated with a nu...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:114
Published on: 2 August 2017
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Genetic testing, especially in pharmacogenomics, can have a major impact on patient care. However, most physicians do not feel that they have sufficient knowledge to apply pharmacogenomics to patient care. Onl...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:113
Published on: 1 August 2017
Research article
A patient decision aid (PtDA) can support shared decision making (SDM) in preference-sensitive care, with more than one clinically applicable treatment option. The development of a PtDA is a complex process, i...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:112
Published on: 1 August 2017
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Predicting progression from a stage of Mild Cognitive Impairment to dementia is a major pursuit in current research. It is broadly accepted that cognition declines with a continuum between MCI and dementia. As...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:110
Published on: 19 July 2017
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The US Veterans Administration (VA) has developed a robust and mature computational infrastructure in support of its electronic health record (EHR). Web technology offers a powerful set of tools for structurin...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:111
Published on: 19 July 2017
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A Personal Health Record (PHR) is an online application that allows patients to access, manage, and share their health data. PHRs not only enhance shared decision making with healthcare providers, but also ena...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:109
Published on: 18 July 2017
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Due to the increasing availability of individual-level information across different electronic datasets, record linkage has become an efficient and important research tool. High quality linkage is essential fo...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:108
Published on: 17 July 2017
Research article
Although data from electronic health records (EHR) are often used for research purposes, systematic validation of these data prior to their use is not standard practice. Existing validation frameworks discuss ...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:107
Published on: 14 July 2017
Research Article
Publishing raw electronic health records (EHRs) may be considered as a breach of the privacy of individuals because they usually contain sensitive information. A common practice for the privacy-preserving data...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:104
Published on: 11 July 2017
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NHS England has mandated the use in hospital laboratories of an automated early warning algorithm to create a consistent method for the detection of acute kidney injury (AKI). It generates an ‘alert’ based on ...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:106
Published on: 11 July 2017
Research article
Advancements in technology are enabling patients to participate in their health care through self-monitoring and self-management of diet, exercise and chronic disease. Technologies allowing patients to partici...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:105
Published on: 11 July 2017
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We present a formalized medical knowledge system using a linguistic approach combined with a semantic net.
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:103
Published on: 10 July 2017
Research article
People with bipolar disorder often experience ill health and have considerably reduced life expectancies. Suboptimal treatment is common and includes a lack of effective medicines, overtreatment, and non-adher...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:102
Published on: 10 July 2017
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Mobile phone-based technology has been used in improving the delivery of healthcare services in many countries. However, data on the effects of this technology on improving primary healthcare services in resou...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:101
Published on: 6 July 2017
