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  1. In spite of succesful adoption of electronic patient records (EPR) by Norwegian GPs, what constitutes the actual benefits and effects of the use of EPRs in the perspective of the GPs and patients has not been ...

    Authors: Tom Christensen and Anders Grimsmo
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:12
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  2. Low-cost handheld computers (PDA) potentially represent an efficient tool for collecting sensitive data in surveys. The goal of this study is to evaluate the quality of sexual behavior data collected with hand...

    Authors: Antonio Bernabe-Ortiz, Walter H Curioso, Marco A Gonzales, Wilfredo Evangelista, Jesus M Castagnetto, Cesar P Carcamo, James P Hughes, Patricia J Garcia, Geoffrey P Garnett and King K Holmes
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:11
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  3. An important question in the development of decision aids about colon cancer (CRC) screening is whether to include an explicit discussion of the option of not being screened. We examined the effect of includin...

    Authors: Jennifer M Griffith, Marlie Fichter, Floyd J Fowler, Carmen Lewis and Michael P Pignone
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:10
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  4. Correct diagnosis in psychiatry may be improved by novel diagnostic procedures. Computerized Decision Support Systems (CDSS) are suggested to be able to improve diagnostic procedures, but some studies indicate...

    Authors: Lars G Bergman and Uno GH Fors
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:9
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  5. The Internet is increasingly used by citizens as source of health information. Young, highly educated adults use the Internet frequently to search for health-related information. Our study explores whether rep...

    Authors: Johanna Castrén, Teppo Huttunen and Kristina Kunttu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:8
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  7. Decision analysis in hospital-based settings is becoming more common place. The application of modeling and simulation approaches has likewise become more prevalent in order to support decision analytics. With...

    Authors: Jeffrey S Barrett, John T Mondick, Mahesh Narayan, Kalpana Vijayakumar and Sundararajan Vijayakumar
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:6
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  8. The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a data-rich environment where information technology (IT) may enhance patient care. We surveyed ICUs in the province of Ontario, Canada, to determine the availability, implemen...

    Authors: Stephen E Lapinsky, David Holt, David Hallett, Mohamed Abdolell and Neill KJ Adhikari
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:5
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  9. Decision aids can improve decision making processes, but the amount and type of information that they should attempt to communicate is controversial. We sought to compare, in a pilot randomized trial, two colo...

    Authors: Jennifer M Griffith, Carmen L Lewis, Alison RT Brenner and Michael P Pignone
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:4
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  10. Personal digital assistants (PDA) offer putative advantages over paper for collecting research data. However, there are no data prospectively comparing PDA and paper in the emergency department. The aim of thi...

    Authors: Morris L Rivera, Jason Donnelly, Blair A Parry, Anthony Dinizio, Charles L Johnson, Jeffrey A Kline and Christopher Kabrhel
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:3
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  11. It has been shown that implementation of electronic medical records (EMR) and withdrawal of the paper-based medical record is feasible, but represents a drastic change in the information environment of hospita...

    Authors: Jan-Tore Lium, Aksel Tjora and Arild Faxvaag
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:2
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  12. Classification systems may be useful to direct more aggressive treatment to cancer patients with a relatively poor prognosis. The definition of 'poor prognosis' often lacks a formal basis. We propose a decisio...

    Authors: Merel R van Dijk, Ewout W Steyerberg and J Dik F Habbema
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:1
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  13. Targeting older clients for rehabilitation is a clinical challenge and a research priority. We investigate the potential of machine learning algorithms – Support Vector Machine (SVM) and K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN)...

    Authors: Mu Zhu, Zhanyang Zhang, John P Hirdes and Paul Stolee
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:41
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  14. Mathematical models can be used to predict individual growth responses to growth hormone (GH) therapy. The aim of this study was to construct and validate high-precision models to predict the growth response t...

    Authors: Jovanna Dahlgren, Berit Kriström, Aimon Niklasson, Andreas FM Nierop, Sten Rosberg and Kerstin Albertsson-Wikland
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:40
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  15. There is variation in the decisions made by telephone assessment nurses using computerised decision support software (CDSS). Variation in nurses' attitudes to risk has been identified as a possible explanatory...

    Authors: Alicia O'Cathain, James Munro, Iain Armstrong, Catherine O'Donnell and David Heaney
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:39
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  16. In chronic disease, health information technology promises but has yet to demonstrate improved outcomes and decreased costs. The main aim of the study was to determine the effects on mortality and cost of an e...

    Authors: Victor E Pollak and Jonathan A Lorch
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:38
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  17. Automatic word alignment of parallel texts with the same content in different languages is among other things used to generate dictionaries for new translations. The quality of the generated word alignment dep...

    Authors: Mikael Nyström, Magnus Merkel, Håkan Petersson and Hans Åhlfeldt
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:37
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  18. Popular predictive models for estimating morbidity probability after heart surgery are compared critically in a unitary framework. The study is divided into two parts. In the first part modelling techniques an...

    Authors: Gabriele Cevenini, Emanuela Barbini, Sabino Scolletta, Bonizella Biagioli, Pierpaolo Giomarelli and Paolo Barbini
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:36
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  19. Different methods have recently been proposed for predicting morbidity in intensive care units (ICU). The aim of the present study was to critically review a number of approaches for developing models capable ...

    Authors: Emanuela Barbini, Gabriele Cevenini, Sabino Scolletta, Bonizella Biagioli, Pierpaolo Giomarelli and Paolo Barbini
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:35
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  20. We propose a simple new method for estimating progression of a chronic disease with multi-state properties by unifying the prevalence pool concept with the Markov process model.

    Authors: Hui-Chuan Shih, Pesus Chou, Chi-Ming Liu and Tao-Hsin Tung
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:34
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  21. Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis patients in resource-poor settings experience large delays in starting appropriate treatment and may not be monitored appropriately due to an overburdened laboratory system, d...

    Authors: Joaquin A Blaya, Sonya S Shin, Martin JA Yagui, Gloria Yale, Carmen Z Suarez, Luis L Asencios, J Peter Cegielski and Hamish SF Fraser
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:33
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  23. When using a conventional relational database approach to collect and query data in the context of specific clinical studies, a study with a new data set usually requires the design of a new database and entry...

    Authors: Angeliek C Venema, Astrid M van Ginneken, Marcel de Wilde and Ad JJC Bogers
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:31
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  24. The measurement of processes and outcomes that reflect the complexity of the decision-making process within specific clinical encounters is an important area of research to pursue. A systematic review was cond...

    Authors: France Légaré, David Moher, Glyn Elwyn, Annie LeBlanc and Karine Gravel
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:30
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  25. Time series data are increasingly available in health care, especially for the purpose of disease surveillance. The analysis of such data has long used periodic regression models to detect outbreaks and estima...

    Authors: Camille Pelat, Pierre-Yves Boëlle, Benjamin J Cowling, Fabrice Carrat, Antoine Flahault, Séverine Ansart and Alain-Jacques Valleron
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:29
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  26. Time series methods are commonly used to detect disease outbreak signatures (e.g., signals due to influenza outbreaks and anthrax attacks) from varying respiratory-related diagnostic or syndromic data sources....

    Authors: Peter F Craigmile, Namhee Kim, Soledad A Fernandez and Bema K Bonsu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:28
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  27. Numerous methods for classifying brain tumours based on magnetic resonance spectra and imaging have been presented in the last 15 years. Generally, these methods use supervised machine learning to develop a cl...

    Authors: Greg M Reynolds, Andrew C Peet and Theodoros N Arvanitis
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:27
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  28. General Practitioners and community nurses rely on easily accessible, evidence-based online information to guide practice. To date, the methods that underpin the scoping of user-identified online information n...

    Authors: Annette F Street, Kathleen Swift, Merilyn Annells, Roger Woodruff, Terry Gliddon, Anne Oakley and Goetz Ottman
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:26
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  29. Personally controlled health records (PCHRs), a subset of personal health records (PHRs), enable a patient to assemble, maintain and manage a secure copy of his or her medical data. Indivo (formerly PING) is a...

    Authors: Kenneth D Mandl, William W Simons, William CR Crawford and Jonathan M Abbett
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:25
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  30. Internet tools, cell phones, and other information and communication technologies are being used by HIV-positive people on their own initiative. Little is known about the perceptions of HIV-positive people tow...

    Authors: Walter H Curioso and Ann E Kurth
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:24
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  31. Decision analysis techniques can be applied in complex situations involving uncertainty and the consideration of multiple objectives. Classical decision modeling techniques require elicitation of too many para...

    Authors: Haiwen Shi and James Lyons-Weiler
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:23
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  32. To identify individual differences in physicians' needs for the presentation of evidence resources and preferences for mobile devices.

    Authors: Danielle M Lottridge, Mark Chignell, Romana Danicic-Mizdrak, Nada J Pavlovic, Andre Kushniruk and Sharon E Straus
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:22
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  34. Decision aids are evidence based tools that assist patients in making informed values-based choices and supplement the patient-clinician interaction. While there is evidence to show that decision aids improve ...

    Authors: Ian D Graham, Jo Logan, Carol L Bennett, Justin Presseau, Annette M O'Connor, Susan L Mitchell, Jacqueline M Tetroe, Ann Cranney, Paul Hebert and Shawn D Aaron
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:20
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  35. The understanding of heterogeneities in disease transmission dynamics as far as malaria vectors are concerned is a big challenge. Many studies while tackling this problem don't find exact models to explain the...

    Authors: Guillaume Koum, Augustin Yekel, Bengyella Ndifon, Josiane Etang and Frédéric Simard
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:19
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  37. Collaboration among investigators has become critical to scientific research. This includes ad hoc collaboration established through personal contacts as well as formal consortia established by funding agencie...

    Authors: Wei Yu, Ajay Yesupriya, Anja Wulf, Junfeng Qu, Marta Gwinn and Muin J Khoury
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:17
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  38. Supporting 21st century health care and the practice of evidence-based medicine (EBM) requires ubiquitous access to clinical information and to knowledge-based resources to answer clinical questions. Many questio...

    Authors: Connie Schardt, Martha B Adams, Thomas Owens, Sheri Keitz and Paul Fontelo
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:16
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  39. For real time surveillance, detection of abnormal disease patterns is based on a difference between patterns observed, and those predicted by models of historical data. The usefulness of outbreak detection str...

    Authors: Shannon C Wieland, John S Brownstein, Bonnie Berger and Kenneth D Mandl
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:15
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  40. The integration of Information Systems (IS) is essential to support shared care and to provide consistent care to individuals – patient-centred care. This paper identifies, appraises and summarises studies exa...

    Authors: Ricardo J Cruz-Correia, Pedro M Vieira-Marques, Ana M Ferreira, Filipa C Almeida, Jeremy C Wyatt and Altamiro M Costa-Pereira
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:14
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  41. In the complex domain of medical decision making, reasoning under uncertainty can benefit from supporting tools. Automated decision support tools often build upon mathematical models, such as Bayesian networks...

    Authors: Cilia LM Witteman, Silja Renooij and Pieter Koele
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:13
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  42. Decision aids (DA) are tools designed to help patients make specific and deliberative choices among disease management options. DAs can improve the quality of decision-making and reduce decisional conflict. An...

    Authors: Elie A Akl, Brydon JB Grant, Gordon H Guyatt, Victor M Montori and Holger J Schünemann
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:12
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  43. Multiple sclerosis is a chronic disease of uncertain aetiology. Variations in its disease course make it difficult to impossible to accurately determine the prognosis of individual patients. The Sylvia Lawry C...

    Authors: M Daumer, A Neuhaus, C Lederer, M Scholz, JS Wolinsky and M Heiderhoff
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:11
    Content type: Software Published on:

  45. Terminologies and classifications are used for different purposes and have different structures and content. Linking or mapping terminologies and classifications has been pointed out as a possible way to achie...

    Authors: Anna Vikström, Ylva Skånér, Lars-Erik Strender and Gunnar H Nilsson
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:9
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  46. For shared decision making doctors need to communicate the effectiveness of therapies such that patients can understand it and discriminate between small and large effects. Previous research indicates that pat...

    Authors: Rasmus Dahl, Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen, Jørgen Nexøe and Jesper Bo Nielsen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:8
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  47. Online drug information databases are used to assist in enhancing clinical decision support. However, the choice of which online database to consult, purchase or subscribe to is likely made based on subjective...

    Authors: Kevin A Clauson, Wallace A Marsh, Hyla H Polen, Matthew J Seamon and Blanca I Ortiz
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:7
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  48. The usefulness of syndromic surveillance for early outbreak detection depends in part on effective statistical aberration detection. However, few published studies have compared different detection algorithms ...

    Authors: Michael L Jackson, Atar Baer, Ian Painter and Jeff Duchin
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:6
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  49. This study implemented and evaluated a point-of-care, wireless Internet access using smart phones for information retrieval during daily clinical rounds and academic activities of internal medicine residents i...

    Authors: Sergio A León, Paul Fontelo, Linda Green, Michael Ackerman and Fang Liu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:5
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  50. The ability to detect disease outbreaks in their early stages is a key component of efficient disease control and prevention. With the increased availability of electronic health-care data and spatio-temporal ...

    Authors: Rochelle E Watkins, Serryn Eagleson, Sam Beckett, Graeme Garner, Bert Veenendaal, Graeme Wright and Aileen J Plant
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:4
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