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  1. Diagnosis of neuromuscular diseases in primary care is often challenging. Rare diseases such as Pompe disease are easily overlooked by the general practitioner. We therefore aimed to develop a diagnostic suppo...

    Authors: Lorenz Grigull, Werner Lechner, Susanne Petri, Katja Kollewe, Reinhard Dengler, Sandra Mehmecke, Ulrike Schumacher, Thomas Lücke, Christiane Schneider-Gold, Cornelia Köhler, Anne-Katrin Güttsches, Xiaowei Kortum and Frank Klawonn
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:31
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. The accumulation of medical documents in China has rapidly increased in the past years. We focus on developing a method that automatically performs ICD-10 code assignment to Chinese diagnoses from the electron...

    Authors: Wenxin Ning, Ming Yu and Runtong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:30
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. The American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status classification (ASA PS) of surgical patients is a standard element of the preoperative assessment. In early 2013, the Department of Anesthesia was noti...

    Authors: Anil A. Marian, Emine O. Bayman, Anita Gillett, Brent Hadder and Michael M. Todd
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:29
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. Authors: Taichi Hatta, Keiichi Narita, Kazuhiro Yanagihara, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Toshinori Murayama and Masayuki Yokode
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:28
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:22

  5. Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are a well-recognized public health problem and a major cause of death and hospitalization in developed countries. The safety of a new drug cannot be established until it has been...

    Authors: Inês Ribeiro-Vaz, Ana-Marta Silva, Cristina Costa Santos and Ricardo Cruz-Correia
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:27
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Telemedicine may increase accessibility to pulmonary rehabilitation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), thus enhancing long-term exercise maintenance. We aimed to explore COPD patients’ adherence ...

    Authors: Hanne Hoaas, Hege Kristin Andreassen, Linda Aarøen Lien, Audhild Hjalmarsen and Paolo Zanaboni
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:26
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Implementation delays are common in health information technology (HIT) projects. In this paper, we sought to explore the reasons for delays in implementing major hospital-based HIT, through studying computeri...

    Authors: Hajar Mozaffar, Kathrin M. Cresswell, Lisa Lee, Robin Williams and Aziz Sheikh
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:25
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. To address challenges related to selecting a valid, reliable, and appropriate readiness assessment measure in practice, we developed an online decision support tool to aid frontline implementers in healthcare ...

    Authors: Caitlyn Timmings, Sobia Khan, Julia E. Moore, Christine Marquez, Kasha Pyka and Sharon E. Straus
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:24
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Developments in chemotherapy have led to changes in cancer care in Japan, with the government promoting a transition to outpatient chemotherapy. This requires patients and their families to participate more ac...

    Authors: Taichi Hatta, Keiichi Narita, Kazuhiro Yanagihara, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Toshinori Murayama and Masayuki Yokode
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:22
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:28

  13. An Early Warning Score is a clinical risk score based upon vital signs intended to aid recognition of patients in need of urgent medical attention. The use of an escalation of care policy based upon an Early W...

    Authors: Timothy Bonnici, Stephen Gerry, David Wong, Julia Knight and Peter Watkinson
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:19
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  14. Free-text medication prescriptions contain detailed instruction information that is key when preparing drug data for analysis. The objective of this study was to develop a novel model and automated text-mining...

    Authors: George Karystianis, Therese Sheppard, William G. Dixon and Goran Nenadic
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:18
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Poincaré delay maps are widely used in the analysis of cardiac interbeat interval (RR) dynamics. To facilitate visualization of the structure of these time series, we introduce multiscale Poincaré (MSP) plots.

    Authors: Teresa S. Henriques, Sara Mariani, Anton Burykin, Filipa Rodrigues, Tiago F. Silva and Ary L. Goldberger
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:17
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  16. Text messaging is an affordable, ubiquitous, and expanding mobile communication technology. However, safety net health systems in the United States that provide more care to uninsured and low-income patients m...

    Authors: Sachin K. Garg, Courtney R. Lyles, Sara Ackerman, Margaret A. Handley, Dean Schillinger, Gato Gourley, Veenu Aulakh and Urmimala Sarkar
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:16
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. Although MIMIC-II, a public intensive care database, has been recognized as an invaluable resource for many medical researchers worldwide, becoming a proficient MIMIC-II researcher requires knowledge of SQL pr...

    Authors: Joon Lee, Evan Ribey and James R. Wallace
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:15
    Content type: Software Published on:

  18. The provision of additional information is often assumed to improve consumption decisions, allowing consumers to more accurately weigh the costs and benefits of alternatives. However, increasing the complexity...

    Authors: Jean Spinks and Duncan Mortimer
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:14
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. Although the factors that affect the end-user’s intention to use a new system and technology have been researched, the previous studies have been theoretical and do not verify the factors that affected the ado...

    Authors: Seok Kim, Kee-Hyuck Lee, Hee Hwang and Sooyoung Yoo
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:12
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. For many eServices, end-user trust is a crucial prerequisite for use. Within the context of Telemedicine, the role of trust has hardly ever been studied. In this study, we explored what determines trust in por...

    Authors: Lex Van Velsen, Sabine Wildevuur, Ina Flierman, Boris Van Schooten, Monique Tabak and Hermie Hermens
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:11
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. The majority of health IT adoption research focuses on the later stages of the IT adoption process: namely on the implementation phase. The first stage, however, which is defined as the knowledge-stage, remain...

    Authors: JD. Liebe, J. Hüsers and U. Hübner
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:10
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most prevalent type of lung cancer and the most difficult to predict. When there are no distant metastases, the optimal therapy depends mainly on whether there are mal...

    Authors: Manuel Luque, Francisco Javier Díez and Carlos Disdier
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:9
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  24. An interoperable electronic health record is a secure consolidated record of an individual’s health history and care, designed to facilitate authorized information sharing across the care continuum.  Each Cana...

    Authors: Bobby Gheorghiu and Simon Hagens
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:8
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  25. Nurses’ risk assessments of patients at risk of deterioration are sometimes suboptimal. Advances in clinical simulation mean higher quality information can be used as an alternative to traditional paper-based ...

    Authors: Huiqin Yang and Carl Thompson
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:7
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. Although a number of studies have evaluated the effectiveness of computerized decision-support systems (CDSS), there is lack of data on user perspectives, barriers, and facilitators to the implementation of CD...

    Authors: Tuomas Koskela, Saana Sandström, Joonas Mäkinen and Helena Liira
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:6
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. In radiology, a vast amount of diverse data is generated, and unstructured reporting is standard. Hence, much useful information is trapped in free-text form, and often lost in translation and transmission. On...

    Authors: Heiner Oberkampf, Sonja Zillner, James A. Overton, Bernhard Bauer, Alexander Cavallaro, Michael Uder and Matthias Hammon
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:5
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. With the widespread use of information communication technologies, computerized clinical practice guidelines are developed and considered as effective decision supporting tools in assisting the processes of cl...

    Authors: Ju-Ling Hsiao and Rai-Fu Chen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:3
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Although champions are commonly employed in health information technology (HIT) implementations, the state of empirical literature on HIT champions’ is unclear. The purpose of our review was to synthesize quan...

    Authors: Christopher Michael Shea and Charles M. Belden
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:2
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. An increasing number of clinical trials are conducted in primary care settings. Making better use of existing data in the electronic health records to identify eligible subjects can improve efficiency of such ...

    Authors: Mohammad B. Ateya, Brendan C. Delaney and Stuart M. Speedie
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:1
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. Follicular lymphoma (FL) is one of the most common lymphoid malignancies in the western world. FL cases are stratified into three histological grades based on the average centroblast count per high power field...

    Authors: Mohammad Faizal Ahmad Fauzi, Michael Pennell, Berkman Sahiner, Weijie Chen, Arwa Shana’ah, Jessica Hemminger, Alejandro Gru, Habibe Kurt, Michael Losos, Amy Joehlin-Price, Christina Kavran, Stephen M. Smith, Nicholas Nowacki, Sharmeen Mansor, Gerard Lozanski and Metin N. Gurcan
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:115
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. Individuals with spina bifida (SB) are vulnerable to chronic skin complications such as wounds on the buttocks and lower extremities. Most of these complications can be prevented with adherence to self-care ro...

    Authors: Bambang Parmanto, Gede Pramana, Daihua X. Yu, Andrea D. Fairman and Brad E. Dicianno
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:114
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. Epidemics of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) among children in East Asia have been a serious annual public health problem. Previous studies in China and island-type territories in East Asia showed that the...

    Authors: Jia-Hong Tang, Ta-Chien Chan, Mika Shigematsu and Jing-Shiang Hwang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:113
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), developed by Saaty in the late 1970s, is one of the methods for multi-criteria decision making. The AHP disaggregates a complex decision problem into different hierarchica...

    Authors: Katharina Schmidt, Ines Aumann, Ines Hollander, Kathrin Damm and J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:112
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. Assessment and management of pain in patients with dementia is known to be challenging, due to patients’ cognitive and/or communication difficulties. In the UK, pain in hospital is managed through regular asse...

    Authors: Valentina Lichtner, Dawn Dowding and S. José Closs
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:111
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Patient-reported outcomes (PRO) provide a more comprehensive picture of patients’ quality of life than do mere physicians’ ratings. Electronic data collection of PRO offers several advantages and allows assess...

    Authors: L. M. Wintner, J. M. Giesinger, A. Zabernigg, G. Rumpold, M. Sztankay, A. S. Oberguggenberger, E. M. Gamper and B. Holzner
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:110
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. The Patient Activation Measure (PAM13) is an instrument that assesses patient knowledge, skills, and confidence for disease self-management. This cross-sectional study was aimed to validate a culturally-adapte...

    Authors: Guendalina Graffigna, Serena Barello, Andrea Bonanomi, Edoardo Lozza and Judith Hibbard
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:109
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Quantitative electroencephalogram (EEG) is one neuroimaging technique that has been shown to differentiate patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and non-depressed healthy volunteers (HV) at the group-l...

    Authors: Mahdi Mohammadi, Fadwa Al-Azab, Bijan Raahemi, Gregory Richards, Natalia Jaworska, Dylan Smith, Sara de la Salle, Pierre Blier and Verner Knott
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:108
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  41. Today, cancer documentation is still a tedious task involving many different information systems even within a single institution and it is rarely supported by appropriate documentation workflows.

    Authors: Stefan Wagner, Matthias W. Beckmann, Bernd Wullich, Christof Seggewies, Markus Ries, Thomas Bürkle and Hans-Ulrich Prokosch
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:107
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. The increasing availability of genome data motivates massive research studies in personalized treatment and precision medicine. Public cloud services provide a flexible way to mitigate the storage and computat...

    Authors: Yuchen Zhang, Wenrui Dai, Xiaoqian Jiang, Hongkai Xiong and Shuang Wang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15(Suppl 5):S5
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 5

  43. The rapid increase in the availability and volume of genomic data makes significant advances in biomedical research possible, but sharing of genomic data poses challenges due to the highly sensitive nature of ...

    Authors: Yihua Zhang, Marina Blanton and Ghada Almashaqbeh
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15(Suppl 5):S4
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 5

  44. The rapid development of genome sequencing technology allows researchers to access large genome datasets. However, outsourcing the data processing o the cloud poses high risks for personal privacy. The aim of ...

    Authors: Miran Kim and Kristin Lauter
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15(Suppl 5):S3
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 5

  45. The biomedical community benefits from the increasing availability of genomic data to support meaningful scientific research, e.g., Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS). However, high quality GWAS usually re...

    Authors: Scott D Constable, Yuzhe Tang, Shuang Wang, Xiaoqian Jiang and Steve Chapin
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15(Suppl 5):S2
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 5

  46. Developed sequencing techniques are yielding large-scale genomic data at low cost. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) targeting genetic variations that are significantly associated with a particular diseas...

    Authors: Wen-Jie Lu, Yoshiji Yamada and Jun Sakuma
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15(Suppl 5):S1
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 5

  47. Syndromic management of vaginal infections is known to have poor diagnostic accuracy. Logic regression is a machine-learning procedure which allows for the identification of combinations of variables to predic...

    Authors: Sujit D. Rathod, Tan Li, Jeffrey D. Klausner, Alan Hubbard, Arthur L. Reingold and Purnima Madhivanan
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:106
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. The use of intravenous thrombolysis for stroke is limited by contraindications that may be difficult to identify promptly and accurately. Evidence supports the use of information technology-based clinical deci...

    Authors: Mu-Chien Sun and Jo-Ann Chan
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:105
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Interoperable phenotyping algorithms, needed to identify patient cohorts meeting eligibility criteria for observational studies or clinical trials, require medical data in a consistent structured, coded format...

    Authors: Jeffrey G. Klann, Lori C. Phillips, Alexander Turchin, Sarah Weiler, Kenneth D. Mandl and Shawn N. Murphy
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:104
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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