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  1. Following publication of the original article [1], it was reported that the contents of Additional file 2 were a duplicate of the files for Additional file 1.

    Authors: Li Tang, Andy H. Lee, Colin W. Binns, Lian Duan, Yi Liu and Chunrong Li
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2021 21:46
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2020 20:300

  2. Authors: Elisa Puigdomenech, Anne Martin, Alexandra Lang, Fulvio Adorni, Santiago Felipe Gomez, Brian McKinstry, Federica Prinelli, Laura Condon, Rajeeb Rashid, Maurizio Caon, Sarah Atkinson, Claudio L. Lafortuna, Valentina Ciociola, Janet Hanley, Lucy McCloughan, Conxa Castell…
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2021 21:337
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2019 19:278

  3. Quality assessment and continuous quality feedback to the staff is crucial for safety and efficiency of teleconsultation and triage. This study evaluates whether it is feasible to use an already existing telephon...

    Authors: Gabrielle Marmier Staub, Jan von Overbeck and Eva Blozik
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:110
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. Deep learning has demonstrated significant advancements across various domains. However, its implementation in specialized areas, such as medical settings, remains approached with caution. In these high-stake env...

    Authors: Salmonn Talebi, Elizabeth Tong, Anna Li, Ghiam Yamin, Greg Zaharchuk and Mohammad R. K. Mofrad
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:40
    Content type: Research Published on:

  5. Immediate access to patients’ complete health records via electronic databases could improve healthcare and facilitate health research. However, the possible benefits of a national electronic health records (E...

    Authors: Serena Luchenski, Anjali Balasanthiran, Cicely Marston, Kaori Sasaki, Azeem Majeed, Derek Bell and Julie E Reed
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:40
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  6. Applying evidence is one of the most challenging steps of evidence-based clinical practice. Healthcare professionals have difficulty interpreting evidence and translating it to patients. Decision boxes are sum...

    Authors: Anik Giguere, France Legare, Roland Grad, Pierre Pluye, François Rousseau, R Brian Haynes, Michel Cauchon and Michel Labrecque
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2011 11:17
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  7. Exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life is the optimal way to feed infants. However, recent studies suggest that exclusive breastfeeding rates in China remain low and are well below the recommen...

    Authors: Li Tang, Andy H. Lee, Colin W. Binns, Lian Duan, Yi Liu and Chunrong Li
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2020 20:300
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2021 21:46

  9. Decision Boxes are summaries of the most important benefits and harms of health interventions provided to clinicians before they meet the patient, to prepare them to help patients make informed and value-based...

    Authors: Anik Giguere, Michel Labrecque, Roland Grad, Michel Cauchon, Matthew Greenway, France Légaré, Pierre Pluye, Stephane Turcotte, Lisa Dolovich and R Brian Haynes
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:85
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  10. Arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions are the leading cause of long-term work disability (WD), an outcome with a major impact on quality of life and a high cost to society. The importance of decreased at-wo...

    Authors: Erin C Carruthers, Pamela Rogers, Catherine L Backman, Charles H Goldsmith, Monique A Gignac, Carlo Marra, Judy Village, Linda C Li, John M Esdaile and Diane Lacaille
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:59
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  11. Implementation and use of electronic health records (EHRs) could lead to potential improvements in quality of care. However, the use of EHRs also introduces unique and often unexpected patient safety risks. Pr...

    Authors: Hardeep Singh, Joan S Ash and Dean F Sittig
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:46
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  12. With the help of digital tools patients’ medical histories can be collected quickly and transferred into their electronic medical records. This information can facilitate treatment planning, reduce documentati...

    Authors: Klara Albrink, Carla Joos, Dominik Schröder, Frank Müller, Eva Hummers and Eva Maria Noack
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2022 22:189
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  13. Poor adherence to the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) protocol reduces the potential impact on under-five ... of electronic technology on adherence to the IMCI protocols as compared to the curre...

    Authors: Marc Mitchell, Bethany L Hedt-Gauthier, Daniel Msellemu, Melania Nkaka and Neal Lesh
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:95
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Chronic low back pain is a common chronic condition whose treatment success can be improved by active involvement of patients. Patient involvement can be fostered by web-based applications combining health inf...

    Authors: Jörg Dirmaier, Martin Härter and Nina Weymann
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:66
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  15. Australia has a comparatively high incidence of colorectal (bowel) cancer; however, population screening uptake using faecal occult blood test (FOBT) remains low. This study will determine the impact on screen...

    Authors: Carlene J Wilson, Ingrid HK Flight, Ian T Zajac, Deborah Turnbull, Graeme P Young, Stephen R Cole and Tess Gregory
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2010 10:50
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  16. Insomnia is common in breast cancer survivors (BCS), affecting an estimated 30–50% of the 3.8 million BCS in the US. Insomnia is associated with health consequences for cardiometabolic and immune systems, neurobe...

    Authors: Claire M. Starling, Daniel Greenberg, Eric Zhou, Daniel Lewin, Allison S. Morrow, Daniel Lieberman, Callen Shaw and Hannah Arem
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2022 22:163
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  17. Increasingly, evidence-based health information, in particular evidence from systematic reviews, is being made available to lay audiences, in addition to health professionals. Research efforts have focused on ...

    Authors: Sophie Hill, Graziella Filippini, Anneliese Synnot, Michael Summers, Deirdre Beecher, Cinzia Colombo, Paola Mosconi, Mario A Battaglia, Sue Shapland, Richard H Osborne and Melanie Hawkins
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:20
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  18. Health information exchange (HIE) is the electronic sharing of data and information between clinical care and public health entities. Previous research has shown that using HIE to electronically report laboratory...

    Authors: Brian E Dixon, Shaun J Grannis and Debra Revere
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:121
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  19. Online information retrieval systems have the potential to improve patient care but there are few comparative studies of the impact of online evidence on clinicians' decision-making behaviour in routine clinic...

    Authors: Enrico Coiera, Farah Magrabi, Johanna I Westbrook, Michael R Kidd and Richard O Day
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2006 6:33
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  20. The future risk of heart disease can be predicted with increasing precision. However, more research is needed into how this risk is conveyed and presented. The aim of this study is to compare the effects of pr...

    Authors: Cherry-Ann Waldron, John Gallacher, Trudy van der Weijden, Robert Newcombe and Glyn Elwyn
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2010 10:41
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  21. Type 2 diabetes is an increasingly common chronic condition whose prognosis can be improved by patient involvement and self-management. Patient involvement can be fostered by web-based Interactive Health Commu...

    Authors: Nina Weymann, Martin Härter and Jörg Dirmaier
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:24
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  22. Stroke is the main leading cause of long-term disabilities in the world. This protocol will be implemented for a study to...

    Authors: Hamidreza Tadayon, Mehrdad Farzandipour, Ehsan Nabovati, Hossein Akbari and Seyed Ali Masoud
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2022 22:292
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  23. Radiation Therapy (RT) is a common treatment after breast cancer surgery and a complex process using high energy X-rays to eradicate cancer cells, important in reducing the risk of local recurrence. The high-t...

    Authors: Sofi Fristedt, Frida Smith, Annika Grynne and Maria Browall
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2021 21:76
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  24. Inguinal hernia repair, gallbladder removal, and knee- and hip replacements are the most commonly performed surgical procedures, but all are subject to practice variation and variable patient-reported outcomes...

    Authors: Floris M. Thunnissen, Bernhard W. Schreurs, Carmen S. S. Latenstein, Marjan J. Meinders, Eddy M. Adang, Glyn Elwyn, Doeke Boersma, Bas Bosmans, Koop Bosscha, Bastiaan L. Ginsel, Eric J. Hazebroek, Jeroen J. Nieuwenhuis, Maarten Staarink, Dries Verhallen, Marc L. Wagener, Femke Atsma…
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2021 21:110
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  25. E-health is increasingly valued for supporting: 1) access to quality health care services for all citizens; 2) information flow and exchange; 3) integrated health care services and 4) interprofessional collabo...

    Authors: Marie-Pierre Gagnon, France Légaré, Jean-Paul Fortin, Lise Lamothe, Michel Labrecque and Julie Duplantie
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:17
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  26. Shared decision-making improves the quality of patient care. Unfortunately, shared decision-making is not yet common practice among vascular surgeons. Thus, decision support tools were developed to assist vasc...

    Authors: S. M. L. de Mik, F. E. Stubenrouch, D. A. Legemate, R. Balm and D. T. Ubbink
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2020 20:172
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  27. We developed a conceptual framework and protocol that combines evidence review with expert opinion ... 3 of the EHR Incentive program. The protocol uses a modified Delphi expert panel process ... is compatible wi...

    Authors: Justin W Timbie, Cheryl L Damberg, Eric C Schneider and Douglas S Bell
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:93
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  28. Many children with asthma do not have sufficient asthma control, which leads to increased healthcare costs and productivity loss of parents. One of the causative factors are adherence problems. Effective inter...

    Authors: Erwin C Vasbinder, Hettie M Janssens, Maureen P M H Rutten-van Mölken, Liset van Dijk, Brenda C M de Winter, Ruben C A de Groot, Arnold G Vulto and Patricia M L A van den Bemt
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:38
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  29. The majority of GPs interviewed felt that eReferral substantially streamlined communication processes, with the immediate transfer of referral documents and the availability of an electronic audit trail perceived...

    Authors: Matt-Mouley Bouamrane and Frances S Mair
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:30
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Within-groups analysis of responses to semi-structured interviews. Interviews consisted of using prototypes in response to task-based scenarios. The prototypes were implemented on two different form factors: a ta...

    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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. Tumor necrosis factor α inhibitors (TNFi) is effective for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients who fail to conventional synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (csDMARDs). Because of high cost, the dis...

    Authors: Juan Zhao, Wei Zhou, Yangfeng Wu, Ping Ji, Li Yang, Xiaoyan Yan and Zhuoli Zhang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2021 21:83
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  32. Polypharmacy is common among older adults and it represents a public health concern, due to the negative health impacts potentially associated with the use of several medications. However, the large number of ...

    Authors: Caroline Sirois, Richard Khoury, Audrey Durand, Pierre-Luc Deziel, Olga Bukhtiyarova, Yohann Chiu, Denis Talbot, Alexandre Bureau, Philippe Després, Christian Gagné, François Laviolette, Anne-Marie Savard, Jacques Corbeil, Thierry Badard, Sonia Jean and Marc Simard
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2021 21:219
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  33. There is a continuing debate on the desirability of informing patients with cancer and thereby involving them in treatment decisions. On the one hand, information uptake may be hampered, and additional stress ...

    Authors: Linda JM Oostendorp, Petronella B Ottevanger, Winette TA van der Graaf and Peep FM Stalmeier
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2011 11:9
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  34. The manuscript provides a complete protocol for a study that will include qualitative...

    Authors: Sergio Cervera-Torres, Francisco José Núñez-Benjumea, Antonio de Arriba Muñoz, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli and Luis Fernández-Luque
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2022 22:215
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  35. Potassium disorders can cause major complications and must be avoided in critically ill patients. Regulation of potassium in the intensive care unit (ICU) requires potassium administration with frequent blood pot...

    Authors: Miriam Hoekstra, Mathijs Vogelzang, José T Drost, Marcel Janse, Bert G Loef, Iwan CC van der Horst, Felix Zijlstra and Maarten WN Nijsten
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2010 10:5
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. Overprescribing of antibiotics for acute respiratory infections (ARIs) remains a major issue in outpatient settings. Use of clinical prediction rules (CPRs) can reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing but ...

    Authors: Elizabeth R. Stevens, Ruth Agbakoba, Devin M. Mann, Rachel Hess, Safiya I. Richardson, Thomas McGinn, Paul D. Smith, Wendy Halm, Marlon P. Mundt, Katherine L. Dauber-Decker, Simon A. Jones, Dawn M. Feldthouse, Eun Ji Kim and David A. Feldstein
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23:260
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  37. 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:

  38. Given that patients provide the majority of their own diabetes care, patient self-management training has increasingly become recognized as an important strategy with which to improve quality of care. However,...

    Authors: Catherine H Yu, Janet Parsons, Muhammad Mamdani, Gerald Lebovic, Baiju R Shah, Onil Bhattacharyya, Andreas Laupacis and Sharon E Straus
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:57
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  39. Our study cohort comprised 2,549 eviQ registrants who were hospital-based medical doctors across all levels of training. 65% of the cohort used eviQ in 2012, with 25% of interns/residents, 61% of advanced oncolog...

    Authors: Julia M Langton, Bianca Blanch, Nicole Pesa, Jae Min Park and Sallie-Anne Pearson
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:82
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. It is encouraging to see a substantial increase in individuals surviving cancer. Even more so since most of them will have a positive effect on society by returning to work. However, many cancer survivors have...

    Authors: Izidor Mlakar, Simon Lin, Ilona Aleksandraviča, Krista Arcimoviča, Jānis Eglītis, Mārcis Leja, Ángel Salgado Barreira, Jesús G. Gómez, Mercedes Salgado, Jesús G. Mata, Doroteja Batorek, Matej Horvat, Maja Molan, Maja Ravnik, Jean-François Kaux, Valérie Bleret…
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2021 21:243
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  44. Increasingly, women elect breast reconstruction after mastectomy. However, their expectations of surgery are often not met, and dissatisfaction with outcome and ongoing psychosocial concerns and distress are c...

    Authors: Diana Harcourt, Nicole Paraskeva, Paul White, Jane Powell and Alex Clarke
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:143
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  45. Much attention in recent years has been given to the topic of public engagement in health technology assessment (HTA) decision-making. HTA organizations spend substantial resources and time on undertaking publ...

    Authors: Sally Wortley, Allison Tong, Emily Lancsar, Glenn Salkeld and Kirsten Howard
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:52
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  46. Longevity creates increasing care needs for healthcare providers and family caregivers. Increasingly, the burden of care falls to one primary caregiver, increasing stress and reducing health outcomes. Addition...

    Authors: Yuri Quintana, Bradley Crotty, Darren Fahy, Lewis Lipsitz, Roger B. Davis and Charles Safran
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:105
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  47. Health research apps often do not focus on usability as a design priority. This is problematic when the population of interest is disproportionately underrepresented as users of mobile apps, especially observed w...

    Authors: Y. Quintana, D. Fahy, A. M. Abdelfattah, J. Henao and C. Safran
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2019 19:181
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  48. Chlamydia is the most common reportable sexually transmitted disease (STD) in Norway, and its incidence in the two northernmost counties has been disclosed to be nearly the double of the Norwegian average. The...

    Authors: Elia Gabarron, J Artur Serrano, Luis Fernandez-Luque, Rolf Wynn and Thomas Schopf
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:23
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  49. Diabetes education together with patient empowerment has shown to be key to effective self-management behavior. When delivered through information and communication technologies (ICT), this solution has shown ...

    Authors: Sarah Mantwill, Maddalena Fiordelli, Ramona Ludolph and Peter J Schulz
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:18
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  50. The penetration level of mobile technology has grown exponentially and is part of our lifestyle, at all levels. The use of the smartphone has opened up a new horizon of possibilities in the treatment of health...

    Authors: A. Hernández-Reyes, G. Molina-Recio, R. Molina-Luque, M. Romero-Saldaña, F. Cámara-Martos and R. Moreno-Rojas
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2020 20:40
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:
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