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  1. The Variome corpus, a small collection of published articles about inherited colorectal cancer, includes annotations of 11 entity types and 13 relation types related to the curation of the relationship between...

    Authors: Karin M. Verspoor, Go Eun Heo, Keun Young Kang and Min Song
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16(Suppl 1):68

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1

  2. Prostate specific antigen (PSA) is an important biomarker to monitor the response to the treatment, but has not been fully utilized as a whole sequence. We used a longitudinal biomarker PSA to discover a new p...

    Authors: Yejin Kim, Yong Hyun Park, Ji Youl Lee, In Young Choi and Hwanjo Yu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16(Suppl 1):63

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1

  3. To facilitate long-term safety surveillance of marketing drugs, many spontaneously reporting systems (SRSs) of ADR events have been established world-wide. Since the data collected by SRSs contain sensitive pe...

    Authors: Wen-Yang Lin, Duen-Chuan Yang and Jie-Teng Wang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16(Suppl 1):58

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1

  4. As health care becomes more complex, it becomes more important for clinicians and patients to share information. Electronic health information exchange can help address this need. To this end, all provinces an...

    Authors: Sukirtha Tharmalingam, Simon Hagens and Jennifer Zelmer
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:93
  5. The study investigated the feasibility of conducting a future Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) of a mobile health (mHealth) intervention for weight loss and HbA1c reduction in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM).

    Authors: Claire L. Bentley, Olubukola Otesile, Ruth Bacigalupo, Jackie Elliott, Hayley Noble, Mark S. Hawley, Elizabeth A. Williams and Peter Cudd
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:92
  6. A growing number of physicians are using social media as a professional platform for health communication. The purpose of this study was to understand perspectives and experiences of these “early adopter” phys...

    Authors: Lauren Campbell, Yolanda Evans, Megan Pumper and Megan A. Moreno
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:91
  7. Electronic medical records (EMR) offer a major potential for secondary use of data for research which can improve the safety, quality and efficiency of healthcare. They also enable the measurement of disease b...

    Authors: Michelle Helena van Velthoven, Nikolaos Mastellos, Azeem Majeed, John O’Donoghue and Josip Car
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:90
  8. Health information is increasingly being digitally stored and exchanged. The public is regularly collecting and storing health-related data on their own electronic devices and in the cloud. Diabetes prevention...

    Authors: Rebecca Grochow Mishuris, Jordan Yoder, Dan Wilson and Devin Mann
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:88
  9. Improving retention in prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV programs is critical to optimize maternal and infant health outcomes, especially now that lifelong treatment is immediate regard...

    Authors: Patricia Opondo Awiti, Alessandra Grotta, Mia van der Kop, John Dusabe, Anna Thorson, Jonathan Mwangi, Rino Belloco, Richard Lester, Laura Ternent, Edwin Were and Anna Mia Ekström
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:86
  10. In organisational theory there is an assumption that knowledge is used effectively in healthcare systems that perform well. Actors in healthcare systems focus on managing knowledge of clinical processes like, ...

    Authors: Myriam Lingg, Kaspar Wyss and Luis Durán-Arenas
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:85
  11. Mobile phone technology is utilized for better delivery of health services worldwide. In low-and-middle income countries mobile phones are now ubiquitous. Thus leveraging mHealth applications in health sector ...

    Authors: Ramkrishnan Balakrishnan, Vijayaprasad Gopichandran, Sharadprakash Chaturvedi, Rahul Chatterjee, Tanmay Mahapatra and Indrajit Chaudhuri
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:84
  12. A growing body of literature affirms the usefulness of mobile technologies, including mobile applications (apps), in the primary prevention field. The quality of health apps, which today number in the thousand...

    Authors: Alexander Domnich, Lucia Arata, Daniela Amicizia, Alessio Signori, Bernard Patrick, Stoyan Stoyanov, Leanne Hides, Roberto Gasparini and Donatella Panatto
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:83
  13. Administrative health care data are frequently used to study disease burden and treatment outcomes in many conditions including osteoarthritis (OA). OA is a chronic condition with significant disease burden af...

    Authors: Swastina Shrestha, Amish J. Dave, Elena Losina and Jeffrey N. Katz
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:82
  14. In an unprecedented rate data in the life sciences is generated and stored in many different databases. An ever increasing part of this data is human health data and therefore falls under data protected by leg...

    Authors: Wolfgang Kuchinke, Christian Krauth, René Bergmann, Töresin Karakoyun, Astrid Woollard, Irene Schluender, Benjamin Braasch, Martin Eckert and Christian Ohmann
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:81
  15. No automated methods exist to objectively monitor and evaluate the diagnostic process while physicians review computerized medical images. The present study tested whether using eye tracking to monitor tonic a...

    Authors: Tad T. Brunyé, Marianna D. Eddy, Ezgi Mercan, Kimberly H. Allison, Donald L. Weaver and Joann G. Elmore
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:77
  16. Universal human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) screening remains low in many clinical practices despite published guidelines recommending screening for all patients between ages 13–65. Electronic clinical decisi...

    Authors: Jasmine R. Marcelin, Eugene M. Tan, Alberto Marcelin, Marianne Scheitel, Praveen Ramu, Ronald Hankey, Pritesh Keniya, Majken Wingo, Stacey A. Rizza, Frederick North and Rajeev Chaudhry
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:76
  17. The use of telemonitoring is a promising approach to optimizing outcomes in the treatment of heart failure (HF) for patients living in the community. HF telemonitoring interventions, however, have not been tes...

    Authors: R. Pekmezaris, R. M. Schwartz, T. N. Taylor, P. DiMarzio, C. N. Nouryan, L. Murray, G. McKenzie, D. Ahern, S. Castillo, K. Pecinka, L. Bauer, T. Orona and A.N. Makaryus
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:75
  18. Eye tracking is commonly used in marketing to understand complex responses to materials, but has not been used to understand how low-literacy adults access health information or its relationship to decision ma...

    Authors: Sarah Bauerle Bass, Thomas F. Gordon, Ryan Gordon and Claudia Parvanta
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:67
  19. Despite the potential of eHealth services to revolutionize the way healthcare and prevention is provided many applications developed for patients fail to deliver their promise. Therefore, the aim of this study...

    Authors: Nadia Davoody, Sabine Koch, Ingvar Krakau and Maria Hägglund
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:66
  20. Radiology reports are a rich resource for biomedical research. Prior to utilization, trained experts must manually review reports to identify discrete outcomes. The Audiological and Genetic Database (AudGenDB)...

    Authors: Aaron J. Masino, Robert W. Grundmeier, Jeffrey W. Pennington, John A. Germiller and E. Bryan Crenshaw III
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:65
  21. Shared decision-making (SDM) is considered a key component of high quality cancer care and may be supported by patient decision aids (PtDAs). Many patients, however, face multiple social disadvantages that may...

    Authors: Kimberly R. Enard, Patricia Dolan Mullen, Geetanjali R. Kamath, Nickell M. Dixon and Robert J. Volk
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:64
  22. Vital sign data are important for clinical decision making in emergency care. Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) have been advocated to increase patient safety and quality of care. However, the efficienc...

    Authors: Niclas Skyttberg, Joana Vicente, Rong Chen, Hans Blomqvist and Sabine Koch
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:61
  23. Undernutrition is a major concern for Myanmar children with low exclusive breastfeeding rate (24%). A formative study was conducted to explore the perceptions and practices relating to exclusive breastfeeding,...

    Authors: Myat Pan Hmone, Michael J. Dibley, Mu Li and Ashraful Alam
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:60
  24. Several models have been proposed to predict the short-term outcome of acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) after treatment. We aimed to determine whether better decisions for artificial liver support system ...

    Authors: Gang Qin, Zhao-Lian Bian, Yi Shen, Lei Zhang, Xiao-Hong Zhu, Yan-Mei Liu and Jian-Guo Shao
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:59
  25. PubMed is a widely used database for scientists to find biomedical-related literature. Due to the complexity of the selected research subject and its interdisciplinary nature, as well as the exponential growth...

    Authors: Yan Su, James Andrews, Hong Huang, Yue Wang, Liangliang Kong, Peter Cannon and Ping Xu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:54
  26. While, lost to follow-up (LTFU) from antiretroviral therapy (ART) can be considered a catch-all category for patients who miss scheduled visits or medication pick-ups, operational definitions and methods for d...

    Authors: Beth Rachlis, Donald C. Cole, Monique van Lettow and Michael Escobar
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:52
  27. Delirium is a common medical condition with a high prevalence in hospital settings. Effective delirium management requires a multi-component intervention, including the use of Interprofessional teams and evide...

    Authors: Melvyn Zhang, Kathleen Bingham, Karin Kantarovich, Jennifer Laidlaw, David Urbach, Sanjeev Sockalingam and Roger Ho
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:50
  28. Privacy must be protected when sensitive biomedical data is shared, e.g. for research purposes. Data de-identification is an important safeguard, where datasets are transformed to meet two conflicting objectiv...

    Authors: Fabian Prasser, Florian Kohlmayer and Klaus A. Kuhn
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:49
  29. Discharge planning is a care process that aims to secure the transfer of care for the patient at transition from home to the hospital and back home. Information exchange and collaboration between care provider...

    Authors: Sofi Nordmark, Karin Zingmark and Inger Lindberg
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:48
  30. Healthcare organizations have far greater maintenance needs for their medical equipment than other organization, as many are used directly with patients. However, the literature on asset management in healthca...

    Authors: María Carmen Carnero and Andrés Gómez
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:47
  31. Chronic diseases have emerged as a serious threat for health, as well as for global development. They endenger considerably increased health care costs and diminish the productivity of the adult population gro...

    Authors: F. Yasmin, B. Banu, S. M. Zakir, R. Sauerborn, L. Ali and A. Souares
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:46
  32. Decision aids have been overall successful in improving the quality of health decision making. However, it is unclear whether the impact of the results of using decision aids also apply to older people (aged 6...

    Authors: Julia C. M. van Weert, Barbara C. van Munster, Remco Sanders, René Spijker, Lotty Hooft and Jesse Jansen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:45
  33. Digital health interventions using hybrid delivery models may offer efficient alternatives to traditional behavioral counseling by addressing obstacles of time, resources, and knowledge. Using a computer-facil...

    Authors: Anna María Nápoles, Nicole Appelle, Sara Kalkhoran, Maya Vijayaraghavan, Nicholas Alvarado and Jason Satterfield
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:44
  34. The past decade has witnessed the increasing adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in medical education. Recently, the notion of digital habitats, Web 2.0 supported learning environments, has also come onto the sce...

    Authors: Si Fan, Jan Radford and Debbie Fabian
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:43
  35. Health care institutions have patient question sets that can expand over time. For a multispecialty group, each specialty might have multiple question sets. As a result, question set governance can be challeng...

    Authors: Sarah J. Vande Loo and Frederick North
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:41
  36. Recent advances in the adoption and use of health information technology (HIT) have had a dramatic impact on the practice of medicine. In many environments, this has led to the ability to achieve new efficienc...

    Authors: Philip R. O. Payne, Yves Lussier, Randi E. Foraker and Peter J. Embi
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:40
  37. Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) occurs in at least 5 % of hospitalized patients and can result in 40–70 % morbidity and mortality. Even following recovery, many subjects may experience progressive deterioration of r...

    Authors: Rohit J. Kate, Ruth M. Perez, Debesh Mazumdar, Kalyan S. Pasupathy and Vani Nilakantan
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:39
  38. Virtual Reality has been extensively used in a wide range of psychological experiments. In this study, we aimed to introduce NeuroVirtual 3D, a platform that clinicians could use free of charge.

    Authors: Pietro Cipresso, Silvia Serino and Giuseppe Riva
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:37
  39. There is evidence to suggest that decision aids improve a number of patient outcomes. However, little is known about the progression of research effort in this area over time. This literature review examined t...

    Authors: Anne Herrmann, Elise Mansfield, Alix E. Hall, Rob Sanson-Fisher and Nicholas Zdenkowski
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:36
  40. The robustness of epidemiological research using routinely collected primary care electronic data to support policy and practice for common mental disorders (CMD) anxiety and depression would be greatly enhanc...

    Authors: Ann John, Joanne McGregor, David Fone, Frank Dunstan, Rosie Cornish, Ronan A. Lyons and Keith R. Lloyd
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:35
  41. Adherence to guidelines for the treatment of hospitalized elderly patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) has been associated with improved clinical outcomes. This study evaluated the cost-effectivene...

    Authors: Michael E. Egger, John A. Myers, Forest W. Arnold, Leigh Ann Pass, Julio A. Ramirez and Guy N. Brock
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:34
  42. Most studies of epidemic detection focus on their start and rarely on the whole signal or the end of the epidemic. In some cases, it may be necessary to retrospectively identify outbreak signals from surveilla...

    Authors: Gaëtan Texier, Magnim Farouh, Liliane Pellegrin, Michael L. Jackson, Jean-Baptiste Meynard, Xavier Deparis and Hervé Chaudet
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:33
  43. Electronic medical records (EMRs) used in primary care contain a breadth of data that can be used in public health research. Patient data from EMRs could be linked with other data sources, such as a postal cod...

    Authors: Suzanne Biro, Tyler Williamson, Jannet Ann Leggett, David Barber, Rachael Morkem, Kieran Moore, Paul Belanger, Brian Mosley and Ian Janssen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:32
  44. Diagnosis of neuromuscular diseases in primary care is often challenging. Rare diseases such as Pompe disease are easily overlooked by the general practitioner. We therefore aimed to develop a diagnostic suppo...

    Authors: Lorenz Grigull, Werner Lechner, Susanne Petri, Katja Kollewe, Reinhard Dengler, Sandra Mehmecke, Ulrike Schumacher, Thomas Lücke, Christiane Schneider-Gold, Cornelia Köhler, Anne-Katrin Güttsches, Xiaowei Kortum and Frank Klawonn
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:31

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