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The medical history is acknowledged as the sine qua non for quality medical care because recognizing problems is pre-requisite for managing them. Medical histories typically are incomplete and inaccurate, however...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:50
There is a need for a new cardiovascular disease model that includes a wider range of relevant risk factors, in particular lifestyle factors, to aid targeting of interventions and improve population models of ...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:49
This paper proposes the use of decision trees as the basis for automatically extracting information from published randomized controlled trial (RCT) reports. An exploratory analysis of RCT abstracts is underta...
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Information systems can play a key role in care innovations including task redesign and shared care. Many demonstration projects have presented evidence of clinical and cost effectiveness and high levels of pa...
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Definitory expressions about clinical procedures, findings and diseases constitute a major benefit of a formally founded clinical reference terminology which is ontologically sound and suited for formal reason...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8(Suppl 1):S9
SNOMED CT is the most comprehensive medical terminology. However, its use for intelligent services based on formal reasoning is questionable.
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8(Suppl 1):S8
The Archetype formalism and the associated Archetype Definition Language have been proposed as an ISO standard for specifying models of components of electronic healthcare records as a means of achieving inter...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8(Suppl 1):S7
In this paper, we describe the design and preliminary evaluation of a new type of tools to speed up the encoding of episodes of care using the SNOMED CT terminology.
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8(Suppl 1):S6
A great challenge in sharing data across information systems in general practice is the lack of interoperability between different terminologies or coding schema used in the information systems. Mapping of med...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8(Suppl 1):S5
WHO-ART and MedDRA are medical terminologies used for the coding of adverse drug reactions in pharmacovigilance databases. MedDRA proposes 13 Special Search Categories (SSC) grouping terms associated to specif...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8(Suppl 1):S4
SNOMED CT is being increasingly adopted as the standard clinical terminology for health care applications. Existing clinical applications that use legacy interface terminology need to migrate to the preferred ...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8(Suppl 1):S3
Over a period of 40 years, SNOMED has developed from a pathology-specific nomenclature (SNOP) into a logic-based health care terminology. In spite of its long existence and continuous evolvement, it is yet unk...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8(Suppl 1):S2
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Sub-optimal adherence to prescribed medications is well documented. Barriers to medication adherence include medication side effects, cost, and forgetting to take or refill medications. Interactive Voice Respo...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:46
Integrated personal health records (PHRs) offer significant potential to stimulate transformational changes in health care delivery and self-care by patients. In 2006, an invitational roundtable sponsored by K...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:45
Cystic fibrosis is the most common fatal genetic disorder in the Caucasian population. Scoring systems for assessment of Cystic fibrosis disease severity have been used for almost 50 years, without being adapt...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:44
Research for developing search strategies to retrieve high-quality clinical journal articles from MEDLINE is expensive and time-consuming. The objective of this study was to determine the minimal number of hig...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:43
The use of PubMed to answer daily medical care questions is limited because it is challenging to retrieve a small set of relevant articles and time is restricted. Knowing what aspects of queries are likely to ...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:42
The guideline for postmastectomy radiotherapy (PMRT), which is prescribed to reduce recurrence of breast cancer in the chest wall and improve overall survival, is not always followed. Identifying and extractin...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:41
In order to promote consumer-oriented informed medical decision-making regarding screening mammography, we created a decision model to predict the age dependence of the cancer detection rate, the recall rate a...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:40
A hospital's clinical information system may require a specific environment in which to flourish. This environment is not yet well defined. We examined whether specific hospital characteristics are associated ...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:39
Nowadays more and more clinical guidelines for health care professionals are being developed. However, this does not automatically mean that these guidelines are actually implemented. The aim of this meta-revi...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:38
The automated monitoring of routinely collected disease surveillance data has the potential to ensure that important changes in disease incidence are promptly recognised. However, few studies have established ...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:37
Choose and Book is a central part of the UK Government patient choice agenda that seeks to provide patients with a choice over the time, date and place of their first outpatient appointment. This is done throu...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:36
The ideal method to encourage uptake of clinical guidelines in hospitals is not known. Several strategies have been suggested. This study evaluates the impact of academic detailing and a computerised decision ...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:35
Evidence-based decision making relies on easy access to trustworthy research results. The Cochrane Library is a key source of evidence about the effect of interventions and aims to "promote the accessibility of s...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:34
Access to personal health information through the electronic health record (EHR) is an innovative means to enable people to be active participants in their own health care. Currently this is not an available o...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:33
Text-based patient medical records are a vital resource in medical research. In order to preserve patient confidentiality, however, the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:32
Despite increasing recognition of the importance of involving patients in decisions on preventive healthcare interventions, little is known about how well patients understand and utilise information provided o...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:31
Strokes are a leading cause of morbidity and the first cause of adult disability in the United States. Currently, no biomarkers are being used clinically to diagnose acute ischemic stroke. A diagnostic test us...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:30
A dengue fever outbreak occured in French Guiana in 2006. The objectives were to study the value of a syndromic surveillance system set up within the armed forces, compared to the traditional clinical surveill...
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Few researchers have examined the perceptions of physicians referring cases for angiography regarding the degree to which collaboration occurs during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) decision-making. W...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:28
Treatments for coronary heart disease (CHD) have evolved rapidly over the last 15 years with considerable change in the number and effectiveness of both medical and surgical treatments. This period has seen th...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:27
The evolving concepts of pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence are increasingly influencing health care and medicine. Summarizing published research, this literature review provide...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:26
There is uncertainty about how GPs should convey information about treatment effectiveness to their patients in the context of cardiovascular disease. Hence we study the concordance of decisions based on one o...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:25
Predicted patient life expectancy (LE) and survival probability (SP), based on a patient's medical history, are important components of surgical decision-making and informed consent. The objective of this stud...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:24
For years, Uniform Resource Locator (URL) decay or "link rot" has been a growing concern in the field of biomedical sciences. This paper addresses this issue by examining the status of the URLs published in ME...
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Data analysis in community health assessment (CHA) involves the collection, integration, and analysis of large numerical and spatial data sets in order to identify health priorities. Geographic Information Sys...
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Drug iatrogeny is important but could be decreased if contraindications, cautions for use, drug interactions and adverse effects of drugs described in drug monographs were taken into account. However, the phys...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:21
Understanding how doctors think may inform both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. Developing such an understanding requires valid and reliable measurement tools. We examined the measurement pro...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:20
Discrepancies between the conclusions of different meta-analyses (quantitative syntheses of systematic reviews) are often ascribed to methodological differences. The objective of this study was to determine th...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:19
SCT is used to assess clinical reasoning in ambiguous or uncertain situations. It allows testing on real-life situations that are not adequately measured with current tests. It probes the multiple judgments th...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:18
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...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:17
Many medication errors are encountered in drug prescriptions, which would not occur if practitioners could remember the drug properties. They can refer to drug monographs to find these properties, however drug...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:16
Monitoring of hospital information system (HIS) usage can provide insights into best practices within a hospital and help to assess time trends. In terms of effort and cost of benchmarking, figures derived aut...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:15
Clear communication about the possible outcomes of proposed medical interventions is an integral part of medical care. Despite its importance, there have been few studies comparing different formats for presen...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:14
Physician participation in clinical research recruitment efforts is critical to many studies' success, but it is often limited. Use of an Electronic Health Record (EHR)-based, point-of-care Clinical Trial Aler...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:13
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 ...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:12
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...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:11
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...
Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:10
Citation Impact
2.067 - 2-year Impact Factor
2.674 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.148 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
0.785 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
811,748 Downloads
538 Altmetric mentions