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  1. A small pre-test study was conducted to ascertain potential harm and anxiety associated with distributing information about possible cancer treatment options at the time of biopsy, prior to knowledge about a d...

    Authors: Steven B Zeliadt, Peggy A Hannon, Ranak B Trivedi, Laura M Bonner, Thuy T Vu, Carol Simons, Crystal A Kimmie, Elaine Y Hu, Chris Zipperer and Daniel W Lin
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:19
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Symptoms of an adverse reaction to contrast agents for computed tomography are diverse ranging, and sometimes serious. The goal of this study is to create a scoring rule to predict adverse reactions to contras...

    Authors: Daiki Kobayashi, Osamu Takahashi, Takuya Ueda, Gautam A Deshpande, Hiroko Arioka and Tsuguya Fukui
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:18
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. Developing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) supported health communication in PHC could contribute to increased health literacy and empowerment, which are foundations for enabling people to incre...

    Authors: Amina Jama Mahmud, Ewy Olander, Sara Eriksén and Bo JA Haglund
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:17
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Although information technology adequately supports clinical care in many intensive care units (ICUs), it provides much poorer support for the managerial information needed to coordinate multi-professional car...

    Authors: Heljä Lundgrén-Laine, Elina Kontio, Tommi Kauko, Heikki Korvenranta, Jari Forsström and Sanna Salanterä
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:15
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  6. Preconception counseling is effective in reducing the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes. The Internet is commonly used by women and health professionals to search for health information. We compared the consi...

    Authors: Eleonora Agricola, Francesco Gesualdo, Elisabetta Pandolfi, Michaela V Gonfiantini, Emanuela Carloni, Pierpaolo Mastroiacovo and Alberto E Tozzi
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:14
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. The public healthcare sector in developing countries faces many challenges including weak healthcare systems and under-resourced facilities that deliver poor outcomes relative to total healthcare expenditure. ...

    Authors: Gregory B Cline and John M Luiz
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:13
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. Detecting outbreaks is a crucial task for public health officials, yet gaps remain in the systematic evaluation of outbreak detection protocols. The authors’ objectives were to design, implement, and test a fl...

    Authors: Bryan Lewis, Stephen Eubank, Allyson M Abrams and Ken Kleinman
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:12
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  9. The dual model approach represents a promising solution for achieving semantically interoperable standardized electronic health record (EHR) exchange. Its acceptance, however, will depend on the effort require...

    Authors: Georg Duftschmid, Judith Chaloupka and Christoph Rinner
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:11
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. When a new drug is launched onto the market, information about the new manufactured product is contained in its monograph and evaluation report published by national drug agencies. Health professionals need to...

    Authors: Maia Iordatii, Alain Venot and Catherine Duclos
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:10
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. The Multiparameter Intelligent Monitoring in Intensive Care II (MIMIC-II) database is a free, public resource for intensive care research. The database was officially released in 2006, and has attracted a grow...

    Authors: Daniel J Scott, Joon Lee, Ikaro Silva, Shinhyuk Park, George B Moody, Leo A Celi and Roger G Mark
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:9
    Content type: Software Published on:

  12. The practice of evidence-based medicine requires efficient biomedical literature search such as PubMed/MEDLINE. Retrieval performance relies highly on the efficient use of search field tags. The purpose of thi...

    Authors: Abu Saleh Mohammad Mosa and Illhoi Yoo
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:8
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. In searches for clinical trials and systematic reviews, it is said that Google Scholar (GS) should never be used in isolation, but in addition to PubMed, Cochrane, and other trusted sources of information. We ...

    Authors: Jean-François Gehanno, Laetitia Rollin and Stefan Darmoni
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:7
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  15. The valuable clinical data, specimens, and assay results collected during a primary clinical trial or observational study can enable researchers to answer additional, pressing questions with relatively small i...

    Authors: Elizabeth K Nelson, Britt Piehler, Adam Rauch, Sarah Ramsay, Drienna Holman, Smita Asare, Adam Asare and Mark Igra
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:5
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  16. Since the beginning of 2007, the National Health Research Institutes has been promoting the dissemination of evidence-based medicine (EBM). The current study examined longitudinal trends of behaviors in how ho...

    Authors: Yi-Hao Weng, Ken N Kuo, Chun-Yuh Yang, Heng-Lien Lo, Ya-Hui Shih, Chiehfeng Chen and Ya-Wen Chiu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:4
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. Elective patient admission and assignment planning is an important task of the strategic and operational management of a hospital and early on became a central topic of clinical operations research. The manage...

    Authors: Robert Schmidt, Sandra Geisler and Cord Spreckelsen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:3
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  18. The rigorous elicitation of user needs is a crucial step for both medical device design and purchasing. However, user needs elicitation is often based on qualitative methods whose findings can be difficult to ...

    Authors: Leandro Pecchia, Jennifer L Martin, Angela Ragozzino, Carmela Vanzanella, Arturo Scognamiglio, Luciano Mirarchi and Stephen P Morgan
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:2
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  19. Results of epidemiological studies linking census with mortality records may be affected by unlinked deaths and changes in cause of death classification. We examined these issues in the Swiss National Cohort (...

    Authors: Kurt Schmidlin, Kerri M Clough-Gorr, Adrian Spoerri, Matthias Egger and Marcel Zwahlen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:1
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  20. The purpose of this study is to develop and test reliability, validity, and utility of the Goal-Setting Evaluation Tool for Diabetes (GET-D). The effectiveness of diabetes self-management is predicated on goal...

    Authors: Cayla R Teal, Paul Haidet, Ajay S Balasubramanyam, Elisa Rodriguez and Aanand D Naik
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:152
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Secondary use of large scale administrative data is increasingly popular in health services and clinical research, where a user-friendly tool for data management is in great demand. MapReduce technology such a...

    Authors: Hiromasa Horiguchi, Hideo Yasunaga, Hideki Hashimoto and Kazuhiko Ohe
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:151
    Content type: Software Published on:

  22. There are numerous applications for Health Information Systems (HIS) that support specific tasks in the clinical workflow. The Lean method has been used increasingly to optimize clinical workflows, by removing...

    Authors: Maryati Mohd Yusof, Soudabeh Khodambashi and Ariffin Marzuki Mokhtar
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:150
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Emerging eHealth tools could facilitate the delivery of comprehensive care in time-constrained clinical settings. One such tool is interactive computer-assisted health-risk assessments (HRA), which may improve...

    Authors: Farah Ahmad, Cameron Norman and Patricia O’Campo
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:149
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. For selection and evaluation of potential biomarkers, inclusion of already published information is of utmost importance. In spite of significant advancements in text- and data-mining techniques, the vast know...

    Authors: Erfan Younesi, Luca Toldo, Bernd Müller, Christoph M Friedrich, Natalia Novac, Alexander Scheer, Martin Hofmann-Apitius and Juliane Fluck
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:148
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  25. Several generic methods have been proposed to estimate transmission parameters during an outbreak, especially the reproduction number. However, as of today, no dedicated software exists that implements these m...

    Authors: Thomas Obadia, Romana Haneef and Pierre-Yves Boëlle
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:147
    Content type: Software Published on:

  26. Little is known about shared decision-making (SDM) with Métis, First Nations and Inuit women (“Aboriginal women”). SDM is a collaborative process that engages health care professional(s) and the client in maki...

    Authors: Janet Jull, Dawn Stacey, Audrey Giles and Yvonne Boyer
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:146
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  27. Although many studies have demonstrated the benefits of reminder/recall (RR) measures to address patient under-immunization and improve immunization coverage, they are not widely implemented by healthcare prov...

    Authors: Jennifer A Pereira, Susan Quach, Christine L Heidebrecht, Sherman D Quan, Faron Kolbe, Michael Finkelstein and Jeffrey C Kwong
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:145
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. The quantum increases in home Internet access and available online health information with limited control over information quality highlight the necessity of exploring decision making processes in accessing a...

    Authors: Anne M Walsh, Melissa K Hyde, Kyra Hamilton and Katherine M White
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:144
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. Hyperbilirubinemia is emerging as an increasingly common problem in newborns due to a decreasing hospital length of stay after birth. Jaundice is the most common disease of the newborn and although being benig...

    Authors: Duarte Ferreira, Abílio Oliveira and Alberto Freitas
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:143
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Computer-based clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are regarded as a key element to enhance decision-making in a healthcare environment to improve the quality of medical care delivery. The concern of havi...

    Authors: Murali Sambasivan, Pouyan Esmaeilzadeh, Naresh Kumar and Hossein Nezakati
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:142
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. Histopathological evaluation of prostatectomy specimens is crucial to decision-making and prediction of patient outcomes in prostate cancer (PCa). Topographical information regarding PCa extension and positive...

    Authors: Okyaz Eminaga, Mahmoud Abbas, Reemt Hinkelammert, Ulf Titze, Olaf Bettendorf, Elke Eltze, Enver Özgür and Axel Semjonow
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:141
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. Few educational resources have been developed to inform patients’ renal replacement therapy (RRT) selection decisions. Patients progressing toward end stage renal disease (ESRD) must decide among multiple trea...

    Authors: Jessica M Ameling, Priscilla Auguste, Patti L Ephraim, LaPricia Lewis-Boyer, Nicole DePasquale, Raquel C Greer, Deidra C Crews, Neil R Powe, Hamid Rabb and L Ebony Boulware
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:140
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. A pilot experimentation of a telemonitoring system for chronic care patients is conducted in the Bilbao Primary Care Health Region (Basque Country, Spain). It seems important to understand the factors related ...

    Authors: José Asua, Estibalitz Orruño, Eva Reviriego and Marie Pierre Gagnon
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:139
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. eHealth applications for out-of-hospital monitoring and treatment follow-up have been advocated for many years as a promising tool to improve treatment compliance, promote individualized care and obtain a pers...

    Authors: Anna Gund, Kaj Lindecrantz, Maria Schaufelberger, Harshida Patel and Bengt Arne Sjöqvist
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:138
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. Upon admission to a hospital patients’ medications are frequently switched to alternative drugs compiled in so called hospital drug formularies. This substitution process is a laborious and error-prone task wh...

    Authors: Markus G Pruszydlo, Stefanie U Walk-Fritz, Torsten Hoppe-Tichy, Jens Kaltschmidt and Walter E Haefeli
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:137
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  36. In this work, we propose a multilevel and multiparametric approach in order to model the growth and progression of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) after remission. OSCC constitutes the major neoplasm of th...

    Authors: Konstantinos P Exarchos, Yorgos Goletsis and Dimitrios I Fotiadis
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:136
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. No previous studies have addressed the integrated relationships among system quality, service quality, job satisfaction, and system performance; this study attempts to bridge such a gap with evidence-based pra...

    Authors: Ching-Sheng Chang, Su-Yueh Chen and Yi-Ting Lan
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:135
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Missing or incorrect Indigenous status in health records hinders monitoring of Indigenous health indicators. Linkage of administrative data has been used to improve the ascertainment of Indigenous status. Data...

    Authors: Sandra C Thompson, John A Woods and Judith M Katzenellenbogen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:133
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Microcontact datasets gathered automatically by electronic devices have the potential augment the study of the spread of contagious disease by providing detailed representations of the study population’s conta...

    Authors: Mohammad Hashemian, Weicheng Qian, Kevin G Stanley and Nathaniel D Osgood
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:132
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Appropriate postoperative pain management contributes to earlier mobilization, shorter hospitalization, and reduced cost. The under treatment of pain may impede short-term recovery and have a detrimental long-...

    Authors: Yuh-Jyh Hu, Tien-Hsiung Ku, Rong-Hong Jan, Kuochen Wang, Yu-Chee Tseng and Shu-Fen Yang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:131
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Professional societies recommend shared decision making (SDM) for prostate cancer screening, however, most efforts have promoted informed rather than shared decision making. The objective of this study is to 1...

    Authors: Stacey L Sheridan, Carol Golin, Audrina Bunton, John B Lykes, Bob Schwartz, Lauren McCormack, David Driscoll, Shrikant I Bangdiwala and Russell P Harris
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:130
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Immunological strategies that achieve the prevention of tumor growth are based on the presumption that the immune system, if triggered before tumor onset, could be able to defend from specific cancers. In supp...

    Authors: Cristiano Calonaci, Ferdinando Chiacchio and Francesco Pappalardo
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:129
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Efficient rule authoring tools are critical to allow clinical Knowledge Engineers (KEs), Software Engineers (SEs), and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to convert medical knowledge into machine executable clinica...

    Authors: Li Zhou, Neelima Karipineni, Janet Lewis, Saverio M Maviglia, Amanda Fairbanks, Tonya Hongsermeier, Blackford Middleton and Roberto A Rocha
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:128
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. The problem list is a key part of the electronic health record (EHR) that allows practitioners to see a patient’s diagnoses and health issues. Yet, as the content of the problem list largely represents the sub...

    Authors: Casey Holmes, Michael Brown, Daniel St Hilaire and Adam Wright
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:127
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Patient-reported Outcomes (PROs) capturing e.g., quality of life, fatigue, depression, medication side-effects or disease symptoms, have become important outcome parameters in medical research and daily clinic...

    Authors: Bernhard Holzner, Johannes M Giesinger, Jakob Pinggera, Stefan Zugal, Felix Schöpf, Anne S Oberguggenberger, Eva M Gamper, August Zabernigg, Barbara Weber and Gerhard Rumpold
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:126
    Content type: Software Published on:

  47. In 2006, we were funded by the US National Institutes of Health to implement a study of tuberculosis epidemiology in Peru. The study required a secure information system to manage data from a target goal of 16...

    Authors: Hamish SF Fraser, David Thomas, Juan Tomaylla, Nadia Garcia, Leonid Lecca, Megan Murray and Mercedes C Becerra
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:125
    Content type: Software Published on:

  48. Dengue is the most common arboviral disease of humans, with more than one third of the world’s population at risk. Accurate prediction of dengue outbreaks may lead to public health interventions that mitigate ...

    Authors: Anna L Buczak, Phillip T Koshute, Steven M Babin, Brian H Feighner and Sheryl H Lewis
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:124
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Mobile phone technology has demonstrated the potential to improve health service delivery, but there is little guidance to inform decisions about acquiring and implementing mHealth technology at scale in healt...

    Authors: Natalie Leon, Helen Schneider and Emmanuelle Daviaud
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:123
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. The importance of respecting women’s wishes to give birth close to their local community is supported by policy in many developed countries. However, persistent concerns about the quality and safety of materni...

    Authors: Helen Cheyne, Len Dalgleish, Janet Tucker, Fiona Kane, Ashalatha Shetty, Sarah McLeod and Catherine Niven
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:122
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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