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  1. For optimal health, the maternal, newborn, and child healthcare (MNCH) continuum necessitates that the mother/child receive the full package of antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care. In sub-Saharan Africa...

    Authors: Chenai Mlandu, Zvifadzo Matsena-Zingoni and Eustasius Musenge
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:191
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  3. The exponential growth of digital healthcare data is fueling the development of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). Extracting temporal relationships between medical events is essential to reveal hidden pa...

    Authors: Alicia Ageno, Neus Català and Marcel Pons
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:189
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  4. Data mining of electronic health records (EHRs) has a huge potential for improving clinical decision support and to help healthcare deliver precision medicine. Unfortunately, the rule-based and machine learnin...

    Authors: Geir Thore Berge, Ole-Christoffer Granmo, Tor Oddbjørn Tveit, Anna Linda Ruthjersen and Jivitesh Sharma
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:188
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  5. Mobile health is gradually revolutionizing the way medical care is delivered worldwide. In Mozambique, a country with a high human immunodeficiency virus prevalence, where antiretroviral treatment coverage is ...

    Authors: E. Karajeanes, D. Bila, M. Luis, M. Tovela, C. Anjos, N. Ramanlal, P. Vaz and L. V. Lapão
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:187
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  6. With the global spread of COVID-19, detecting high-risk countries/regions timely and dynamically is essential; therefore, we sought to develop automatic, quantitative and scalable analysis methods to observe a...

    Authors: Xiang Zhou, Xudong Ma, Sifa Gao, Yingying Ma, Jianwei Gao, Huizhen Jiang, Weiguo Zhu, Na Hong, Yun Long and Longxiang Su
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 21(Suppl 9):384
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 21 Supplement 9

  8. This study aimed to construct a mortality model for the risk stratification of intensive care unit (ICU) patients with sepsis by applying a machine learning algorithm.

    Authors: Jinhu Zhuang, Haofan Huang, Song Jiang, Jianwen Liang, Yong Liu and Xiaxia Yu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:185
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  10. Aggregate electronic data repositories and population-level cross-sectional surveys play a critical role in HIV programme monitoring and surveillance for data-driven decision-making. However, these data source...

    Authors: Margaret Ndisha, Amin S. Hassan, Faith Ngari, Evans Munene, Mary Gikura, Koske Kimutai, Kennedy Muthoka, Lisa Amai Murie, Herman Tolentino, Jacob Odhiambo, Pascal Mwele, Lydia Odero, Kate Mbaire, Gonza Omoro and Davies O. Kimanga
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:183
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  11. This prospective study aimed to compare telemedicine-assisted structured self-monitoring of blood glucose(SMBG) with a traditional blood glucose meter (BGM) in adults of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

    Authors: Chen-Yu Han, Jian Zhang, Xiao-Mei Ye, Jia-Ping Lu, Hai-Ying Jin, Wei-Wei Xu, Ping Wang and Min Zhang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:182
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  12. Prognostic models of hospital-induced delirium, that include potential predisposing and precipitating factors, may be used to identify vulnerable patients and inform the implementation of tailored preventive i...

    Authors: Urszula A. Snigurska, Sarah E. Ser, Laurence M. Solberg, Mattia Prosperi, Tanja Magoc, Zhaoyi Chen, Jiang Bian, Ragnhildur I. Bjarnadottir and Robert J. Lucero
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:181
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  13. Cirrhosis is associated with sarcopaenia and fat wasting, which drive decompensation and mortality. Currently, nutritional status, through body composition assessment, is not routinely monitored in outpatients...

    Authors: K. Gananandan, V. Thomas, W. L. Woo, R. Boddu, R. Kumar, M. Raja, A. Balaji, K. Kazankov and R. P. Mookerjee
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:180
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  14. Addressing the current complexities, costs, and adherence issues in the detection of forward head posture (FHP), our study conducted an exhaustive epidemiologic investigation, incorporating a comprehensive pos...

    Authors: Guang Yang, Shichun He, Deyu Meng, Meiqi Wei, Jianwei Cao, Hongzhi Guo, He Ren and Ziheng Wang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:179
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  15. Food frequency questionnaires (FFQs) are one of the most useful tools for studying and understanding diet-disease relationships. However, because FFQs are self-reported data, they are susceptible to response b...

    Authors: Anjolaoluwa Ayomide Popoola, Jennifer Koren Frediani, Terryl Johnson Hartman and Kamran Paynabar
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:178
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  16. Mobile apps facilitate patients’ access to portals and interaction with their healthcare providers. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated this trend globally, but little evidence exists on patient portal usage in ...

    Authors: Noha El Yaman, Jad Zeitoun, Rawan Diab, Mohamad Mdaihly, Razan Diab, Lynn Kobeissi, Salwa Abou Ljoud, Jumana Antoun and Marco Bardus
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:177
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  17. Health information technologies play a vital role in addressing diverse health needs among women, offering a wide array of services tailored to their specific requirements. Despite the potential benefits, the ...

    Authors: Khadijeh Moulaei, Reza Moulaei and Kambiz Bahaadinbeigy
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:176
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  18. Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is a rare anesthetic emergency with a high mortality rate in China. We developed a WeChat applet–based National Remote Emergency System for Malignant Hyperthermia (MH-NRES) to provi...

    Authors: Hong Yu, Lingcan Tan, Tao Zhu and Xiaoqian Deng
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:175
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  19. This retrospective study aims to validate the effectiveness of artificial intelligence (AI) to detect and classify non-mass breast lesions (NMLs) on ultrasound (US) images.

    Authors: Guoqiu Li, Hongtian Tian, Huaiyu Wu, Zhibin Huang, Keen Yang, Jian Li, Yuwei Luo, Siyuan Shi, Chen Cui, Jinfeng Xu and Fajin Dong
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:174
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  20. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a global public health concern. Therefore, to provide timely intervention for non-hospitalized high-risk patients and rationally allocate limited clinical resources is important...

    Authors: Yufei Lu, Yichun Ning, Yang Li, Bowen Zhu, Jian Zhang, Yan Yang, Weize Chen, Zhixin Yan, Annan Chen, Bo Shen, Yi Fang, Dong Wang, Nana Song and Xiaoqiang Ding
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:173
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  21. Evidence-based medicine (EBM) bridges research and clinical practice to enhance medical knowledge and improve patient care. However, clinical decisions in many African countries don’t base on the best availabl...

    Authors: Habtamu Setegn Ngusie, Mohammadjud Hasen Ahmed, Shegaw Anagaw Mengiste, Mihretu M. Kebede, Shuayib Shemsu, Shuma Gosha Kanfie, Sisay Yitayih Kassie, Mulugeta Hayelom Kalayou and Monika Knudsen Gullslett
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:172
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  22. Anti-thrombotic therapy is the basis of thrombosis prevention and treatment. Bleeding is the main adverse event of anti-thrombosis. Existing laboratory indicators cannot accurately reflect the real-time coagul...

    Authors: Daonan Chen, Rui Wang, Yihan Jiang, Zijian Xing, Qiuyang Sheng, Xiaoqing Liu, Ruilan Wang, Hui Xie and Lina Zhao
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:171
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  23. The risk of mortality in intensive care units (ICUs) is currently addressed by the implementation of scores using admission data. Their performances are satisfactory when complications occur early after admiss...

    Authors: Bertrand Bouvarel, Fabrice Carrat and Nathanael Lapidus
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:170
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  24. The COVID-19 patients in the convalescent stage noticeably have pulmonary diffusing capacity impairment (PDCI). The pulmonary diffusing capacity is a frequently-used indicator of the COVID-19 survivors’ progno...

    Authors: Fu-qiang Ma, Cong He, Hao-ran Yang, Zuo-wei Hu, He-rong Mao, Cun-yu Fan, Yu Qi, Ji-xian Zhang and Bo Xu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:169
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  25. Early identification of dementia is crucial for prompt intervention for high-risk individuals in the general population. External validation studies on prognostic models for dementia have highlighted the need ...

    Authors: Emma L. Twait, Constanza L. Andaur Navarro, Vilmunur Gudnason, Yi-Han Hu, Lenore J. Launer and Mirjam I. Geerlings
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:168
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  26. Functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs), as a group of syndromes with no identified structural or pathophysiological biomarkers, are currently classified by Rome criteria based on gastrointestinal sympto...

    Authors: Elahe Mousavi, Ammar Hasanzadeh Keshteli, Mohammadreza Sehhati, Ahmad Vaez and Peyman Adibi
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:167
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  27. Large-scale medical equipment, which is extensively implemented in medical services, is of vital importance for diagnosis but vulnerable to various anomalies and failures. Most hospitals that conduct regular m...

    Authors: Changxi Wang, Qilin Liu, Haopeng Zhou, Tong Wu, Haowen Liu, Jin Huang, Yixuan Zhuo, Zhenlin Li and Kang Li
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:166
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  28. Heart failure (HF) is one of the common adverse cardiovascular events after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), but the predictive efficacy of numerous machine learning (ML) built models is unclear. This study ...

    Authors: Xuewen Li, Chengming Shang, Changyan Xu, Yiting Wang, Jiancheng Xu and Qi Zhou
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:165
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  29. Shared decision-making (SDM) is a collaborative process whereby patients and clinicians jointly deliberate on the best treatment option that takes into account patients’ preferences and values. In breast cance...

    Authors: Natalia Oprea, Vittoria Ardito and Oriana Ciani
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:164
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  30. Treatment with oral anticoagulants (OACs) could prevent stroke in atrial fibrillation (AF), but side effects developed due to OACs may cause patients anxiety during decision making. This study aimed to investi...

    Authors: Hsiao-Hui Chiu, Shih-Lin Chang, Hao-Min Cheng, Tze-Fan Chao, Yenn-Jiang Lin, Li-Wei Lo, Yu-Feng Hu, Fa-Po Chung, Jo-Nan Liao, Ta-Chuan Tuan, Chin-Yu Lin, Ting-Yung Chang, Ling Kuo, Chih-Min Liu, Yung-Nan Tsai, Yu-Ting Huang…
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:163
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  31. The utilization of dermoscopic analysis is becoming increasingly critical for diagnosing skin diseases by physicians and even artificial intelligence. With the expansion of dermoscopy, its vocabulary has proli...

    Authors: Xinyuan Zhang, Rebecca Z. Lin, Muhammad “Tuan” Amith, Cynthia Wang, Jeremy Light, John Strickley and Cui Tao
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23(Suppl 1):162
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 23 Supplement 1

  32. Previous studies have already shown that decision aids are a suitable tool for patient decision-making. The aim of this work is to conduct an online search for freely available, German-language patient decisio...

    Authors: Julia Möller, Lena Josfeld, Christian Keinki, Nathalie Zieglowski, Jens Büntzel and Jutta Hübner
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:161
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  33. Differentiating between Crohn’s disease (CD) and intestinal tuberculosis (ITB) with endoscopy is challenging. We aim to perform more accurate endoscopic diagnosis between CD and ITB by building a trustworthy A...

    Authors: Keming Lu, Yuanren Tong, Si Yu, Yucong Lin, Yingyun Yang, Hui Xu, Yue Li and Sheng Yu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:160
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  34. Current healthcare trends emphasize the use of shared decision-making (SDM) for renal replacement treatment (RRT) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). This is crucial to understand the relationship b...

    Authors: Shih-Ming Hsiao, Mei-Chuan Kuo, Pei-Ni Hsiao, Sin-Hua Moi, Yi-Wen Chiu, Shu-Li Wang, Tzu-Hui Chen, Lan-Fang Kung, Shang-Jyh Hwang and Chia-Lun Lee
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:159
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  35. In the era of electronic health records (EHR), the ability to share clinical data is a key facilitator of healthcare delivery. Since the introduction of EHRs, this aspect has been extensively studied from the ...

    Authors: Edmond Li, Olivia Lounsbury, Jonathan Clarke, Hutan Ashrafian, Ara Darzi and Ana Luisa Neves
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:158
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  36. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are more effective if accepted by clinicians. We developed an AI-based clinical decision support system (CDSS) to facilitate vancomycin dosing. This qualitative study assesse...

    Authors: Xinyan Liu, Erin F. Barreto, Yue Dong, Chang Liu, Xiaolan Gao, Mohammad Samie Tootooni, Xuan Song and Kianoush B. Kashani
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:157
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  37. Prediction tools for various intraoperative bleeding events remain scarce. We aim to develop machine learning-based models and identify the most important predictors by real-world data from electronic medical ...

    Authors: Ying Shi, Guangming Zhang, Chiye Ma, Jiading Xu, Kejia Xu, Wenyi Zhang, Jianren Wu and Liling Xu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:156
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  38. The purpose of this paper was to systematically evaluate the application value of artificial intelligence in predicting mortality among COVID-19 patients.

    Authors: Yu Xin, Hongxu Li, Yuxin Zhou, Qing Yang, Wenjing Mu, Han Xiao, Zipeng Zhuo, Hongyu Liu, Hongying Wang, Xutong Qu, Changsong Wang, Haitao Liu and Kaijiang Yu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:155
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  39. Environmental toxins are particularly harmful to pregnant women and their fetuses due to the long-term effects of these toxins on children after birth. Environmental health behaviors can prevent and protect mo...

    Authors: Hyun Kyoung Kim
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:154
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  40. The recent advances in biotechnology and computer science have led to an ever-increasing availability of public biomedical data distributed in large databases worldwide. However, these data collections are far...

    Authors: Francesco Taglino, Fabio Cumbo, Giulia Antognoli, Ivan Arisi, Mara D’Onofrio, Federico Perazzoni, Roger Voyat, Giulia Fiscon, Federica Conte, Marco Canevelli, Giuseppe Bruno, Patrizia Mecocci and Paola Bertolazzi
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:153
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  41. The progressive ageing in developed countries entails an increase in multimorbidity. Population-wide predictive models for adverse health outcomes are crucial to address these growing healthcare needs. The mai...

    Authors: Alexander Olza, Eduardo Millán and María Xosé Rodríguez-Álvarez
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:152
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  42. In the United States, the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (NACC) and the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) are two major data sharing resources for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) research. ...

    Authors: Xubing Hao, Xiaojin Li, Guo-Qiang Zhang, Cui Tao, Paul E. Schulz and Licong Cui
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23(Suppl 1):151
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 23 Supplement 1

  43. About 2% of the German population are affected by psoriasis. A growing number of cost-intensive systemic treatments are available. Surveys have shown high proportions of patients with moderate to severe psoria...

    Authors: Lisa Graf, Falko Tesch, Felix Gräßer, Lorenz Harst, Doreen Siegels, Jochen Schmitt and Susanne Abraham
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:150
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  44. Prediction calculators can help set outcomes expectations following orthopaedic surgery, however effective implementation strategies for these tools are unknown. This study evaluated provider and patient persp...

    Authors: Trevor A. Lentz, Byron F. Stephens, Amir M. Abtahi, Jacob Schwarz, Andrew J. Schoenfeld, Bethany A. Rhoten, Shannon Block, Alex O’Brien and Kristin R. Archer
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:149
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  45. High-dose methotrexate (HD-MTX) is a potent chemotherapeutic agent used to treat pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). HD-MTX is known for cause delayed elimination and drug-related adverse events. The...

    Authors: Chang Jian, Siqi Chen, Zhuangcheng Wang, Yang Zhou, Yang Zhang, Ziyu Li, Jie Jian, Tingting Wang, Tianyu Xiang, Xiao Wang, Yuntao Jia, Huilai Wang and Jun Gong
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:148
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  46. This feasibility study has the primary aim of capturing and comparing participant expectations and experiences of using a formal consensus method (FCM) and to explore whether these views change following parti...

    Authors: V Roberts, Patrice Carter, P Barnett, MA Mugglestone and S Pilling
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:147
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  47. Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is a common complication of diabetes. Predicting the risk of developing DPN is important for clinical decision-making and designing clinical trials.

    Authors: Xiaoyang Lian, Juanzhi Qi, Mengqian Yuan, Xiaojie Li, Ming Wang, Gang Li, Tao Yang and Jingchen Zhong
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:146
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  48. Accurate and timely decision-making in lung transplantation (LTx) programs is critical. The main objective of this study was to develop a mobile-based evidence-based clinical decision support system (CDSS) to ...

    Authors: Hamidreza Abtahi, Leila Shahmoradi, Shahideh Amini and Marsa Gholamzadeh
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:145
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  49. As the first point of contact for patients with health issues, general practitioners (GPs) are frequently confronted with patients presenting with non-specific symptoms of unclear origin. This can result in de...

    Authors: Dania Schütze, Svea Holtz, Michaela C. Neff, Susanne M. Köhler, Jannik Schaaf, Lena S. Frischen, Brita Sedlmayr and Beate S. Müller
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:144
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  50. Diagnoses are crucial assets of clinical work and provide the foundation for treatment and follow up. They should be informative and customized to the patient’s problem. Common prefixes, morphemes, and suffixe...

    Authors: Carl-Fredrik Bassøe
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:143
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