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We develop predictive models enabling clinicians to better understand and explore patient clinical data along with risk factors for pressure ulcers in intensive care unit patients from electronic health record...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17(Suppl 2):65
Published on: 5 July 2017
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 2
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Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and gastro-protective agents should be co-prescribed following a standard clinical practice guideline; however, adherence to this guideline in routine practice is ...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:96
Published on: 4 July 2017
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MEDLINE is the most widely used medical bibliographic database in the world. Most of its citations are in English and this can be an obstacle for some researchers to access the information the database contain...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:94
Published on: 3 July 2017
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Understanding semantic relatedness and similarity between biomedical terms has a great impact on a variety of applications such as biomedical information retrieval, information extraction, and recommender syst...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:95
Published on: 3 July 2017
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Breast-conservation surgery with radiotherapy is a treatment highly recommended by the guidelines from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. However, several variables influence the final receipt of radio...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:93
Published on: 28 June 2017
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Technology has significantly changed the way health organizations operate. However, the role it plays in healthcare systems remains unclear. This aim of this study was to evaluate the opinion of physicians reg...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:92
Published on: 27 June 2017
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Health information technology (HIT) may be used to improve care for increasing numbers of older people with long term conditions (LTCs) who make high demands on health and social care services. Despite its pot...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:89
Published on: 26 June 2017
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Numerous mobile applications have been developed to support diabetes-self-management. However, the majority of these applications lack a theoretical foundation and the involvement of people with diabetes durin...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:91
Published on: 26 June 2017
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With high-quality community-based primary care, hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) are considered avoidable. The purpose of this study was to test the inter-physician reliability ...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:90
Published on: 26 June 2017
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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:88
Published on: 23 June 2017
The original article was published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:70
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Most public health agencies expect reporting of diseases to be initiated by hospital, laboratory or clinic staff even though so-called passive approaches are known to be burdensome for reporters and produce in...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:87
Published on: 23 June 2017
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Infectious disease burden is commonly assessed using notification data. Using retrospective record linkage in Western Australia, we described how well notification data captures laboratory detections of influe...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:86
Published on: 17 June 2017
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Approximately 10% of admissions to acute-care hospitals are associated with an adverse event. Analysis of incident reports helps to understand how and why incidents occur and can inform policy and practice for...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:84
Published on: 12 June 2017
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To explore the current situation, existing problems and possible causes of said problems with regards to physician-nurse communication under an environment of increasingly widespread usage of Hospital Informat...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:85
Published on: 12 June 2017
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Integrating medical data using databases from different sources by record linkage is a powerful technique increasingly used in medical research. Under many jurisdictions, unique personal identifiers needed for...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:83
Published on: 8 June 2017
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Pharmacogenomic clinical decision support systems (CDSS) have the potential to help overcome some of the barriers for translating pharmacogenomic knowledge into clinical routine. Before developing a prototype ...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:81
Published on: 6 June 2017
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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality. CRC incidence and mortality can be reduced by several screening strategies, including colonoscopy, but randomized CRC prevention trials f...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:80
Published on: 5 June 2017
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The use of technology such as computers, tablets, and smartphones to improve access to and the delivery of mental health care (eMental Health care) is growing worldwide. However, despite the rapidly expanding ...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:78
Published on: 2 June 2017
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Clinical decision support systems (DSS) aimed at supporting diagnosis are not widely used. This is mainly due to usability issues and lack of integration into clinical work and the electronic health record (EH...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:79
Published on: 2 June 2017
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Current clinical guidelines recommend epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutational testing in patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to predict the benefit of the tyrosine kinase inh...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:71
Published on: 30 May 2017
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The advancement of mobile technology had positively influenced healthcare services. An emerging subfield of mobile technology is mobile health (m-Health) in which mobile applications are used for health purpos...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:72
Published on: 30 May 2017
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The tumour stroma -or tumour microenvironment- is an important constituent of solid cancers and it is thought to be one of the main obstacles to quantitative translation of drug activity between the preclinica...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:70
Published on: 30 May 2017
The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:88
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Problems may arise during the approval process of treatment after a compensable work injury, which include excess paperwork, delays in approving services, disputes, and allegations of over-servicing. This is p...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:64
Published on: 22 May 2017
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Rapid advancement of next generation sequencing technologies such as whole genome sequencing (WGS) has facilitated the search for genetic factors that influence disease risk in the field of human genetics. To ...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17(Suppl 1):61
Published on: 18 May 2017
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 1
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Hearing Aids amplify sounds at certain frequencies to help patients, who have hearing loss, to improve the quality of life. Variables affecting hearing improvement include the characteristics of the patients’ ...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17(Suppl 1):56
Published on: 18 May 2017
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 1
