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  1. The DREAM Project operates within the framework of the national health systems of several sub-Saharan African countries and aims to introduce the essential components of an integrated strategy for the preventi...

    Authors: Andrea Nucita, Giuseppe M Bernava, Michelangelo Bartolo, Fabio Di Pane Masi, Pietro Giglio, Marco Peroni, Giovanni Pizzimenti and Leonardo Palombi
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:42
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  2. Combining multiple databases with disjunctive or additional information on the same person is occurring increasingly throughout research. If unique identification numbers for these individuals are not availabl...

    Authors: Rainer Schnell, Tobias Bachteler and Jörg Reiher
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:41
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  3. People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) should use DMARDs (disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs) within the first three months of symptoms in order to prevent irreversible joint damage. However, recent studies...

    Authors: Linda C Li, Paul Adam, Anne F Townsend, Dawn Stacey, Diane Lacaille, Susan Cox, Jessie McGowan, Peter Tugwell, Gerri Sinclair, Kendall Ho and Catherine L Backman
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:40
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  4. Routine surveillance of disease notification data can enable the early detection of localised disease outbreaks. Although hidden Markov models (HMMs) have been recognised as an appropriate method to model dise...

    Authors: Rochelle E Watkins, Serryn Eagleson, Bert Veenendaal, Graeme Wright and Aileen J Plant
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:39
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. The use of electronic health records (EHRs) to support the organization and delivery of healthcare is evolving rapidly. However, little is known regarding potential variation in access to EHRs by provider type...

    Authors: Margo C Orchard, Mark J Dobrow, Lawrence Paszat, Hedy Jiang and Patrick Brown
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:38
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. The penetration rate of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems in health care is increasing. However, many different EHR-systems are used with varying ePrescription designs and functionalities. The aim of the ...

    Authors: Lina Hellström, Karolina Waern, Emelie Montelius, Bengt Åstrand, Tony Rydberg and Göran Petersson
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:37
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. The early identification of influenza outbreaks has became a priority in public health practice. A large variety of statistical algorithms for the automated monitoring of influenza surveillance have been propo...

    Authors: David Conesa, Antonio López-Quílez, Miguel Ángel Martínez-Beneito, María Teresa Miralles and Francisco Verdejo
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:36
    Content type: Software Published on:

  8. Health information technology (HIT) may improve health care quality and outcomes, in part by making information available in a timelier manner. However, there are few studies documenting the changes in timely ...

    Authors: Naomi S Bardach, Jie Huang, Richard Brand and John Hsu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:35
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. The first step in practising Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) has been described as translating clinical uncertainty into a structured and focused clinical question that can be used to search the literature to as...

    Authors: Keith Lloyd, Matteo Cella, Michael Tanenblatt and Anni Coden
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:34
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Exchange of Electronic Health Record (EHR) data between systems from different suppliers is a major challenge. EHR communication based on archetype methodology has been developed by openEHR and CEN/ISO. The ex...

    Authors: Rong Chen, Gunnar O Klein, Erik Sundvall, Daniel Karlsson and Hans Åhlfeldt
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:33
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. This paper presents the rationale for designing and implementing the next-generation of public health information systems using grid computing concepts and tools. Our attempt is to evaluate all grid types incl...

    Authors: Catherine J Staes, Wu Xu, Samuel D LeFevre, Ronald C Price, Scott P Narus, Adi Gundlapalli, Robert Rolfs, Barry Nangle, Matthew Samore and Julio C Facelli
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:32
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  12. Data protection is important for all information systems that deal with human-subjects data. Grid-based systems – such as the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) – seek to develop new mechanisms to faci...

    Authors: Frank J Manion, Robert J Robbins, William A Weems and Rebecca S Crowley
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:31
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. Currently ambulatory patients break one in four tablets before ingestion. Roughly 10% of them are not suitable for splitting because they lack score lines or because enteric or modified release coating is dest...

    Authors: Renate Quinzler, Simon PW Schmitt, Maria Pritsch, Jens Kaltschmidt and Walter E Haefeli
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:30
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Many hospital departments have implemented small clinical departmental systems (CDSs) to collect and use patient data for documentation as well as for other department-specific purposes. As hospitals are imple...

    Authors: Eivind Vedvik, Aksel H Tjora and Arild Faxvaag
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:29
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Clinical guidelines carry medical evidence to the point of practice. As evidence is not always available, many guidelines do not provide recommendations for all clinical situations encountered in practice. We ...

    Authors: Massoud Toussi, Jean-Baptiste Lamy, Philippe Le Toumelin and Alain Venot
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:28
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. The outcome of patients with bacteraemia is influenced by the initial selection of adequate antimicrobial therapy. The objective of our study was to clarify the influence of different crude data correction met...

    Authors: Ojan Assadian, Magda Diab-Elschahawi, Athanasios Makristathis, Alexander Blacky, Walter Koller and Klaus-Peter Adlassnig
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:27
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. Newborn screening, which identifies inherited disorders and sometimes carrier status, will increasingly involve health professionals in the provision of appropriate information and support to children and thei...

    Authors: Fiona Ulph, Ellen Townsend and Cris Glazebrook
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:26
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. Revised consensus sepsis definitions have been published in 2003. The present study was performed to compare the prevalence of different stages of sepsis and ICU mortality rates and find out the case mix withi...

    Authors: Manfred Weiss, Markus Huber-Lang, Michael Taenzer, Karl Traeger, Juergen Altherr, Martina Kron, Birgit Hay and Marion Schneider
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:25
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. Individuals claiming a disability benefit after long-term sickness absence, have to undergo medical disability assessments. These assessments, often carried out by specialized physicians, can be complicated by...

    Authors: David Samoocha, David J Bruinvels, Johannes R Anema, Romy Steenbeek and Allard J van der Beek
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:23
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  21. Chronic diseases affect millions of children worldwide leading to substantial disease burden to the children and their families as well as escalating health care costs. The increasing trend in the prevalence o...

    Authors: Fatemeh Moeinedin, Rahim Moineddin, Alejandro R Jadad, Jemila S Hamid, Teresa To and Joseph Beyene
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:22
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Public health surveillance is the monitoring of data to detect and quantify unusual health events. Monitoring pre-diagnostic data, such as emergency department (ED) patient chief complaints, enables rapid dete...

    Authors: Ryan P Hafen, David E Anderson, William S Cleveland, Ross Maciejewski, David S Ebert, Ahmad Abusalah, Mohamed Yakout, Mourad Ouzzani and Shaun J Grannis
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:21
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. This paper by John D. Keen and James E. Keen addresses a thorny subject. The numerical findings and commentaries in their paper will be disturbing to some readers and seem to defy logic and well established vi...

    Authors: Michael Retsky
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:20
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  25. We analyzed the claim "mammography saves lives" by calculating the life-saving absolute benefit of screening mammography in reducing breast cancer mortality in women ages 40 to 65.

    Authors: John D Keen and James E Keen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:18
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. In recent years, the completion of the Human Genome Project and other rapid advances in genomics have led to increasing anticipation of an era of genomic and personalized medicine, in which an individual's hea...

    Authors: Kensaku Kawamoto, David F Lobach, Huntington F Willard and Geoffrey S Ginsburg
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:17
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  27. A timely detection of outbreaks through surveillance is needed in order to prevent future pandemics. However, current surveillance systems may not be prepared to accomplish this goal, especially in resource li...

    Authors: Moises A Huaman, Roger V Araujo-Castillo, Giselle Soto, Joan M Neyra, Jose A Quispe, Miguel F Fernandez, Carmen C Mundaca and David L Blazes
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:16
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. Adoption of EHRs by U.S. ambulatory practices has been slow despite the perceived benefits of their use. Most evaluations of EHR implementations in the literature apply to large practice settings. While there ...

    Authors: Nancy M Lorenzi, Angelina Kouroubali, Don E Detmer and Meryl Bloomrosen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:15
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  29. The health impacts of heat waves are serious and have prompted the development of heat wave response plans. Even when they are efficient, these plans are developed to limit the health effects of heat waves. Th...

    Authors: Loïc Josseran, Nadège Caillère, Dominique Brun-Ney, Jean Rottner, Laurent Filleul, Gilles Brucker and Pascal Astagneau
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:14
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. With wide applications of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) and surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TO...

    Authors: Yuan Cao, Na Wang, Xiaomin Ying, Ailing Li, Hengsha Wang, Xuemin Zhang and Wuju Li
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:13
    Content type: Software Published on:

  32. Computerized decision support systems (CDSS) are believed to have the potential to improve the quality of health care delivery, although results from high quality studies have been mixed. We conducted a system...

    Authors: Brent Mollon, Jaron JR Chong, Anne M Holbrook, Melani Sung, Lehana Thabane and Gary Foster
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:11
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. The practice of evidence-based medicine (EBM) requires clinicians to integrate their expertise with the latest scientific research. But this is becoming increasingly difficult with the growing numbers of publi...

    Authors: Grace Y Chung
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:10
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. Investing in computer-based information systems is notoriously risky, since many systems fail to become routinely used as part of everyday working practices, yet there is clear evidence about the management pr...

    Authors: David Boddy, Gerry King, Julia S Clark, David Heaney and Frances Mair
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:9
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. The introduction of electronic transfer of prescriptions (ETP) or ePrescriptions in ambulatory health care has been suggested to have a positive impact on the prescribing and dispensing processes. Thereby, imp...

    Authors: Bengt Åstrand, Emelie Montelius, Göran Petersson and Anders Ekedahl
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:8
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. The purpose of this study is to identify publication output, and research areas, as well as descriptively and quantitatively characterize the field of medical informatics through publication trend analysis ove...

    Authors: Jonathan P DeShazo, Donna L LaVallie and Fredric M Wolf
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:7
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. Despite wide promotion, clinical practice guidelines have had limited effect in changing physician behavior. Effective implementation strategies to date have included: multifaceted interventions involving audi...

    Authors: Madhukar H Trivedi, Ella J Daly, Janet K Kern, Bruce D Grannemann, Prabha Sunderajan and Cynthia A Claassen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:6
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Timely and accurate information is important to guide the medical treatment process. We developed, implemented and assessed an order-entry system to support documentation of prostate histologies involving urol...

    Authors: Bernhard Breil, Axel Semjonow and Martin Dugas
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:5
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Vast amounts of data are collected about patients and service users in the course of health and social care service delivery. Electronic data systems for patient records have the potential to revolutionise ser...

    Authors: Ronan A Lyons, Kerina H Jones, Gareth John, Caroline J Brooks, Jean-Philippe Verplancke, David V Ford, Ginevra Brown and Ken Leake
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:3
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. This paper focuses on the creation of a predictive computer-assisted decision making system for traumatic injury using machine learning algorithms. Trauma experts must make several difficult decisions based on...

    Authors: Soo-Yeon Ji, Rebecca Smith, Toan Huynh and Kayvan Najarian
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:2
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Pretreatment auxological variables, such as birth size and parental heights, are important predictors of the growth response to GH treatment. For children with missing pretreatment data, published prediction m...

    Authors: Berit Kriström, Jovanna Dahlgren, Aimon Niklasson, Andreas FM Nierop and Kerstin Albertsson-Wikland
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:1
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. New legal regulations for the marketing of pharmaceutical products were introduced in 2002 in Switzerland. We investigated whether claims in drug advertisements citing published scientific studies were justifi...

    Authors: Macarena Gonzalez Santiago, Heiner C Bucher and Alain J Nordmann
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:61
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  44. Despite the pressing need for the creation of applications that facilitate the aggregation of clinical and molecular data, most current applications are proprietary and lack the necessary compliance with stand...

    Authors: Patrick McConnell, Rajesh C Dash, Ram Chilukuri, Ricardo Pietrobon, Kimberly Johnson, Robert Annechiarico and A Jamie Cuticchia
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:60
    Content type: Software Published on:

  45. While many factors can influence the way that cancer care is delivered, including the way that evidence is packaged and disseminated, little research has evaluated how health care professionals who manage canc...

    Authors: Anna R Gagliardi, Frances C Wright, Dave Davis, Robin S McLeod and David R Urbach
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:59
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. First generation Internet technologies such as mailing lists or newsgroups afforded unprecedented levels of information exchange within a variety of interest groups, including those who seek health information...

    Authors: Laura A O'Grady, Holly Witteman and C Nadine Wathen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:58
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  47. Common dental procedures induce bacteremia. To prevent infectious complications from bacteremia in patients with specific medical conditions, antibiotic prophylaxis is considered. Recommendations are often unc...

    Authors: Eva Ellervall, Berndt Brehmer and Kerstin Knutsson
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:57
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Several models for mortality prediction have been constructed for critically ill patients with haematological malignancies in recent years. These models have proven to be equally or more accurate in predicting...

    Authors: T Verplancke, S Van Looy, D Benoit, S Vansteelandt, P Depuydt, F De Turck and J Decruyenaere
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:56
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Diabetic type 1 patients are often advised to use dose adjustment guidelines to calculate their doses of insulin. Conventional methods of measuring patients' adherence are not applicable to these cases, becaus...

    Authors: Massoud Toussi, Carine Choleau, Gérard Reach, Michel Cahané, Avner Bar-Hen and Alain Venot
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:55
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Chronic disease management is a global health concern. By the time they reach adolescence, 10–15% of all children live with a chronic disease. The role of educational interventions in facilitating adaptation t...

    Authors: Toomas Timpka, Henrik Eriksson, Johnny Ludvigsson, Joakim Ekberg, Sam Nordfeldt and Lena Hanberger
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:54
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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