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  1. Effective implementation of a Primary Care Medical Home model of care (PCMH) requires integration of patients’ contextual information (physical, mental, social and financial status) into an easily retrievable ...

    Authors: Charlene R Weir, Nancy Staggers, Bryan Gibson, Kristina Doing-Harris, Robyn Barrus and Robert Dunlea

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:30

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  2. Manual eligibility screening (ES) for a clinical trial typically requires a labor-intensive review of patient records that utilizes many resources. Leveraging state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP)...

    Authors: Yizhao Ni, Jordan Wright, John Perentesis, Todd Lingren, Louise Deleger, Megan Kaiser, Isaac Kohane and Imre Solti

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:28

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  3. Despite the potential for electronic health records (EHRs) to improve patient safety and quality of care, the intended benefits of EHRs are not always realized because of implementation-related challenges. Enl...

    Authors: Christina T Yuan, Elizabeth H Bradley and Ingrid M Nembhard

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:26

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  4. In Australia, bowel cancer screening participation using faecal occult blood testing (FOBT) is low. Decision support tailored to psychological predictors of participation may increase screening. The study comp...

    Authors: Carlene J Wilson, Ingrid HK Flight, Deborah Turnbull, Tess Gregory, Stephen R Cole, Graeme P Young and Ian T Zajac

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:25

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  5. Patient empowerment is crucial in the successful self-management of people with chronic diseases. In this study, we investigated whether discussions about medicine use taking place on online message boards con...

    Authors: Jasper J van Berkel, Mattijs S Lambooij and Ingrid Hegger

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:24

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  6. Patients with no history of stroke but with stenosis of the carotid arteries can reduce the risk of future stroke with surgery or stenting. At present, a physicians’ ability to recommend optimal treatments bas...

    Authors: Adrienne E Faerber, Rebecca Horvath, Carey Stillman, Melissa L O’Connell, Amy L Hamilton, Karina A Newhall, Donald S Likosky and Philip P Goodney

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:20

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  7. Better understanding of clinical reasoning could reduce diagnostic error linked to 8% of adverse medical events and 30% of malpractice cases. To a greater extent than the evidence-based movement, the clinical ...

    Authors: Bastian M Seidel, Steven Campbell and Erica Bell

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:19

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  8. Decision boxes (DBoxes) are two-page evidence summaries to prepare clinicians for shared decision making (SDM). We sought to assess the feasibility of a clustered Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) to evaluate ...

    Authors: Anik MC Giguere, Michel Labrecque, France Légaré, Roland Grad, Michel Cauchon, Matthew Greenway, R Brian Haynes, Pierre Pluye, Iqra Syed, Debi Banerjee, Pierre-Hugues Carmichael and Mélanie Martin

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:13

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  9. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the most commonly performed treatment for coronary atherosclerosis. It is associated with a higher incidence of repeat revascularization procedures compared to coron...

    Authors: Sebastian Pölsterl, Maneesh Singh, Amin Katouzian, Nassir Navab, Adnan Kastrati, Lance Ladic and Ali Kamen

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:9

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  10. Warfarin is the most widely prescribed anticoagulant for the prevention and treatment of thromboembolic events. Although highly effective, the use of warfarin is limited by a narrow therapeutic range combined ...

    Authors: Anna-Karin Hamberg, Jacob Hellman, Jonny Dahlberg, E Niclas Jonsson and Mia Wadelius

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:7

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  11. Thrombolytic treatment for acute ischaemic stroke improves prognosis, although there is a risk of bleeding complications leading to early death/severe disability. Benefit from thrombolysis is time dependent an...

    Authors: Darren Flynn, Daniel J Nesbitt, Gary A Ford, Peter McMeekin, Helen Rodgers, Christopher Price, Christian Kray and Richard G Thomson

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:6

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  12. Although children can benefit from being included in health decisions, little is known about effective interventions to support their involvement. The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility an...

    Authors: Bryan Feenstra, Margaret L Lawson, Denise Harrison, Laura Boland and Dawn Stacey

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:5

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  13. Shared decision making (SDM) may narrow health equity gaps experienced by Aboriginal women. SDM tools such as patient decision aids can facilitate SDM between the client and health care providers; SDM tools fo...

    Authors: Janet Jull, Audrey Giles, Yvonne Boyer and Dawn Stacey

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:1

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  14. Need for cognitive closure (NFCC) has been shown to be a consistent and measurable trait. It has effects on decision making and has been associated with more rapid decision making, higher reliance on heuristic...

    Authors: Greta B Raglan, Maxim Babush, Victoria A Farrow, Arie W Kruglanski and Jay Schulkin

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:122

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  15. 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 ...

    Authors: Raluca Barac, Sherry Stein, Beth Bruce and Melanie Barwick

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:121

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  16. Statistical models developed using administrative databases are powerful and inexpensive tools for predicting survival. Conversely, data abstraction from chart review is time-consuming and costly. Our aim was ...

    Authors: David Margel, David R Urbach, Lorraine L Lipscombe, Chaim M Bell, Girish Kulkarni, Jack Baniel, Neil Fleshner and Peter C Austin

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:114

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  17. Over 100 trials show that patient decision aids effectively improve patients’ information comprehension and values-based decision making. However, gaps remain in our understanding of several fundamental and ap...

    Authors: Aubri S Hoffman, Hilary A Llewellyn-Thomas, Anna N A Tosteson, Annette M O’Connor, Robert J Volk, Ivan M Tomek, Steven B Andrews and Stephen J Bartels

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:112

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  18. Online cancer information can support patients in making treatment decisions. However, such information may not be adequately tailored to the patient’s perspective, particularly if healthcare professionals do ...

    Authors: Wendy Hopmans, Olga C Damman, Danielle RM Timmermans, Cornelis JA Haasbeek, Ben J Slotman and Suresh Senan

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:116

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  19. Practicing evidence-based medicine is an important aspect of providing good medical care. Accessing external information through literature searches on computer-based systems can effectively achieve integratio...

    Authors: Hendrik Friederichs, Bernhard Marschall and Anne Weissenstein

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:113

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  20. In a medical data set, data are commonly composed of a minority (positive or abnormal) group and a majority (negative or normal) group and the cost of misclassifying a minority sample as a majority sample is h...

    Authors: Xiang Wan, Jiming Liu, William K Cheung and Tiejun Tong

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:111

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  21. Breast cancer patients face several preference-sensitive treatment decisions. Feelings such as regret or having had inadequate information about these decisions can significantly alter patient perceptions of r...

    Authors: Ken Resnicow, Paul Abrahamse, Rachel S Tocco, Sarah Hawley, Jennifer Griggs, Nancy Janz, Angela Fagerlin, Adrienne Wilson, Kevin C Ward, Sheryl GA Gabram and Steven Katz

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:110

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  22. Cross-institutional cross-disciplinary collaboration has become a trend as researchers move toward building more productive and innovative teams for scientific research. Research collaboration is significantly...

    Authors: Jake Luo, Carolyn Apperson-Hansen, Clara M Pelfrey and Guo-Qiang Zhang

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:106

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  23. Changes in daily habits can provide important information regarding the overall health status of an individual. This research aimed to determine how meaningful information may be extracted from limited sensor ...

    Authors: Joost de Folter, Hulya Gokalp, Joanna Fursse, Urvashi Sharma and Malcolm Clarke

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:102

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  24. Shared decision-making in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) care is a priority among policy makers, clinicians and patients both nationally and internationally. Demands on patients to have basic knowledge of RA, treat...

    Authors: Jennifer L Barton, Christopher J Koenig, Gina Evans-Young, Laura Trupin, Jennie Anderson, Dana Ragouzeos, Maggie Breslin, Timothy Morse, Dean Schillinger, Victor M Montori and Edward H Yelin

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:104

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  26. Although research suggests that patients prefer a shared decision making (SDM) experience when making healthcare decisions, clinicians do not routinely implement SDM into their practice and training programs a...

    Authors: Robert J Volk, Navkiran K Shokar, Viola B Leal, Robert J Bulik, Suzanne K Linder, Patricia Dolan Mullen, Richard M Wexler and Gurjeet S Shokar

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:95

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  27. Several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at different loci have been associated with breast cancer susceptibility, accounting for around 10% of the familial component. Recent studies have found direct as...

    Authors: Mattia CF Prosperi, Sarah L Ingham, Anthony Howell, Fiona Lalloo, Iain E Buchan and Dafydd Gareth Evans

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:87

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  28. Physicians frequently differ in their treatment recommendations. However, few studies have examined the reasons underlying these differences. The objective of this study was to examine whether physicians vary ...

    Authors: Raluca Cozmuta, Peter A Merkel, Elizabeth Wahl and Liana Fraenkel

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:86

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  29. Adverse drug reactions and adverse drug events (ADEs) are major public health issues. Many different prospective tools for the automated detection of ADEs in hospital databases have been developed and evaluate...

    Authors: Grégoire Ficheur, Emmanuel Chazard, Jean-Baptiste Beuscart, Béatrice Merlin, Michel Luyckx and Régis Beuscart

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:83

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  30. Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD), which can automate the detection process for ocular diseases, has attracted extensive attention from clinicians and researchers alike. It not only alleviates the burden on the c...

    Authors: Zhuo Zhang, Ruchir Srivastava, Huiying Liu, Xiangyu Chen, Lixin Duan, Damon Wing Kee Wong, Chee Keong Kwoh, Tien Yin Wong and Jiang Liu

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:80

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  31. Clinical practice guidelines are useful for physicians, and guidelines are available on the Internet from various websites such as Vidal Recos. However, these guidelines are long and difficult to read, especia...

    Authors: Suzanne Pereira, Sylvain Hassler, Saliha Hamek, César Boog, Nicolas Leroy, Marie-Catherine Beuscart-Zéphir, Madeleine Favre, Alain Venot, Catherine Duclos and Jean-Baptiste Lamy

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:77

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  32. Various types of framing can influence risk perceptions, which may have an impact on treatment decisions and adherence. One way of framing is the use of verbal terms in communicating the probabilities of treat...

    Authors: Roland Brian Büchter, Dennis Fechtelpeter, Marco Knelangen, Martina Ehrlich and Andreas Waltering

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:76

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  33. The key aim of triage in chest pain patients is to identify those with high risk of adverse cardiac events as they require intensive monitoring and early intervention. In this study, we aim to discover the mos...

    Authors: Nan Liu, Zhi Xiong Koh, Junyang Goh, Zhiping Lin, Benjamin Haaland, Boon Ping Ting and Marcus Eng Hock Ong

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:75

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  34. Women diagnosed with early stage (I or II) breast cancer face a highly challenging decision – whether or not to undergo adjuvant chemotherapy. We developed a decision quality instrument for chemotherapy for ea...

    Authors: Clara N Lee, Matthew H Wetschler, Yuchiao Chang, Jeffrey K Belkora, Beverly Moy, Ann Partridge and Karen R Sepucha

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:73

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  35. Guidelines for colorectal cancer screening recommend that patients be informed about options and be able to select preferred method of screening; however, there are no existing measures available to assess whe...

    Authors: Karen R Sepucha, Sandra Feibelmann, Carol Cosenza, Carrie A Levin and Michael Pignone

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:72

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  36. Shared Decision Making (SDM) is increasingly advocated as a model for medical decision making. However, there is still low use of SDM in clinical practice. High impact factor journals might represent an effici...

    Authors: Xavier Blanc, Tinh-Hai Collet, Reto Auer, Roland Fischer, Isabella Locatelli, Pablo Iriarte, Jan Krause, France Légaré and Jacques Cornuz

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:71

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  37. Errors in the decision-making process are probably the main threat to patient safety in the prehospital setting. The reason can be the change of focus in prehospital care from the traditional “scoop and run” p...

    Authors: Magnus Andersson Hagiwara, Björn-Ove Suserud, Boel Andersson-Gäre, Bengt- Arne Sjöqvist, Maria Henricson and Anders Jonsson

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:70

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  38. We aimed to evaluate the effect of a decision aid (DA) with information only compared to a DA with values clarification exercise (VCE), and to study the role of personality and information seeking style in DA-...

    Authors: Mirjam M Garvelink, Moniek M ter Kuile, Anne M Stiggelbout and Marieke de Vries

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:68

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  39. To estimate the amount of regret and weights of harm by omission and commission during therapeutic decisions for smear-negative pulmonary Tuberculosis.

    Authors: Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy, Mahbubur Rahman, HN Harsha Kumar, Mohsin Shah, Ahmed Manadir Hossain, Md Abu Sayem, Juan M Moreira and Jef Van den Ende

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:67

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  40. Virtual Patients are a well-known and widely used form of interactive software used to simulate aspects of patient care that students are increasingly less likely to encounter during their studies. However, to...

    Authors: Marcus D Bloice, Klaus-Martin Simonic and Andreas Holzinger

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:66

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  41. Readmissions after hospital discharge are a common occurrence and are costly for both hospitals and patients. Previous attempts to create universal risk prediction models for readmission have not met with succ...

    Authors: Courtney Hebert, Chaitanya Shivade, Randi Foraker, Jared Wasserman, Caryn Roth, Hagop Mekhjian, Stanley Lemeshow and Peter Embi

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:65

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  42. Finding quality consumer health information online can effectively bring important public health benefits to the general population. It can empower people with timely and current knowledge for managing their h...

    Authors: Licong Cui, Rong Xu, Zhihui Luo, Susan Wentz, Kyle Scarberry and Guo-Qiang Zhang

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:63

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  43. This paper presents the design, development and first evaluation of an algorithm, named Intelligent Therapy Assistant (ITA), which automatically selects, configures and schedules rehabilitation tasks for patie...

    Authors: Javier Solana, César Cáceres, Alberto García-Molina, Paloma Chausa, Eloy Opisso, Teresa Roig-Rovira, Ernestina Menasalvas, José M Tormos-Muñoz and Enrique J Gómez

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:58

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  44. A cloud-based clinical decision support system (CDSS) was implemented to remotely provide evidence-based guideline reminders in support of preventative health. Following implementation, we measured the agreeme...

    Authors: Brian Edward Dixon, Linas Simonaitis, Susan M Perkins, Adam Wright and Blackford Middleton

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:31

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  45. Identification of potentially preventable readmissions is typically accomplished through manual review or automated classification. Little is known about the concordance of these methods.

    Authors: Ana H Jackson, Emily Fireman, Paul Feigenbaum, Estee Neuwirth, Patricia Kipnis and Jim Bellows

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:28

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  47. Patients are increasingly expected and asked to be involved in health care decisions. In this decision-making process, preferences for participation are important. In this systematic review we aim to provide a...

    Authors: Linda Brom, Wendy Hopmans, H Roeline W Pasman, Danielle RM Timmermans, Guy AM Widdershoven and Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:25

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  48. Ensuring that all cancer patients have access to the appropriate treatment within an appropriate time is a strategic priority in many countries. There is in particular a need to describe and analyse cancer car...

    Authors: Gautier Defossez, Alexandre Rollet, Olivier Dameron and Pierre Ingrand

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:24

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  49. Clinical decision support (CDS) has been shown to be effective in improving medical safety and quality but there is little information on how telephone triage benefits from CDS. The aim of our study was to com...

    Authors: Frederick North, Debra D Richards, Kimberly A Bremseth, Mary R Lee, Debra L Cox, Prathibha Varkey and Robert J Stroebel

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:20

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  50. An increasing number of older adults drive automobiles. Given that the prevalence of dementia is rising, it is necessary to address the issue of driving retirement. The purpose of this study is to evaluate how...

    Authors: John Carmody, Jan Potter, Kate Lewis, Sanjay Bhargava, Victoria Traynor and Don Iverson

    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:19

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