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  1. Functional brain images such as Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) have been widely used to guide the clinicians in the Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) diagnosis...

    Authors: Rosa Chaves, Javier Ramírez, Juan M Górriz, Ignacio A Illán, Manuel Gómez-Río and Cristobal Carnero
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:79
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Semantic Web technology can considerably catalyze translational genetics and genomics research in medicine, where the interchange of information between basic research and clinical levels becomes crucial. This...

    Authors: María Taboada, Diego Martínez, Belén Pilo, Adriano Jiménez-Escrig, Peter N Robinson and María J Sobrido
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:78
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. Due to the great variability of 12-lead ECG instruments and medical specialists’ interpretation skills, it remains a challenge to deliver rapid and accurate 12-lead ECG reports with senior cardiologists’ decis...

    Authors: Jui-chien Hsieh and Meng-Wei Hsu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:77
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  4. To determine the behavior of physicians regarding medical literature reading and participation in research activities at one of the largest teaching hospitals in Pakistan.

    Authors: Muhammad Farhan Khaliq, Muhammad Muslim Noorani, Uzair Ahmed Siddiqui and Maheen Anwar
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:76
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. The treatment of cancer associated thrombosis (CAT) is well established, with level 1A evidence to support the recommendation of a low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) by daily injection for 3–6 months. However...

    Authors: Miriam J Johnson, Laura Sheard, Anthony Maraveyas, Simon Noble, Hayley Prout, Ian Watt and Dawn Dowding
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:75
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. It is well established that considering users is an important aspect of medical device development. However it is also well established that there are numerous barriers to successfully conducting user research...

    Authors: Jennifer L Martin and Julie Barnett
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:74
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. A UK Register of people with Multiple Sclerosis has been developed to address the need for an increased knowledge-base about MS. The Register is being populated via: a web-based portal; NHS neurology clinical ...

    Authors: David V Ford, Kerina H Jones, Rod M Middleton, Hazel Lockhart-Jones, Inocencio DC Maramba, Gareth J Noble, Lisa A Osborne and Ronan A Lyons
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:73
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. Online psychiatric texts are natural language texts expressing depressive problems, published by Internet users via community-based web services such as web forums, message boards and blogs. Understanding the ...

    Authors: Jheng-Long Wu, Liang-Chih Yu and Pei-Chann Chang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:72
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  9. Refugees experience multiple health and social needs. This requires an integrated approach to care in the countries of resettlement, including Canada. Perhaps, interactive eHealth tools could build bridges bet...

    Authors: Farah Ahmad, Yogendra Shakya, Jasmine Li, Khaled Khoaja, Cameron D Norman, Wendy Lou, Izzeldin Abuelaish and Hayat M Ahmadzi
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:71
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Tinnitus is a prevalent and complex medical complaint often co-morbid with stress, anxiety, insomnia, depression, and cognitive or communication difficulties. Its chronicity places a major burden on primary an...

    Authors: Kathryn Fackrell, Derek J Hoare, Sandra Smith, Abby McCormack and Deborah A Hall
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:70
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  11. Automated reporting of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is a recent advance in laboratory information technology (IT) that generates a measure of kidney function with chemistry laboratory results to...

    Authors: Rasheeda K Hall, Virginia Wang, George L Jackson, Bradley G Hammill, Matthew L Maciejewski, Elizabeth M Yano, Laura P Svetkey and Uptal D Patel
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:69
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the Elementally Entangled Organisational Communication (EEOC) framework by drawing on a set of three case studies which assessed the impact of new Health Information ...

    Authors: Andrew Georgiou, Johanna I Westbrook and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:68
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. Advanced mobile communications and portable computation are now combined in handheld devices called “smartphones”, which are also capable of running third-party software. The number of smartphone users is grow...

    Authors: Abu Saleh Mohammad Mosa, Illhoi Yoo and Lincoln Sheets
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:67
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  14. De-identification is a common way to protect patient privacy when disclosing clinical data for secondary purposes, such as research. One type of attack that de-identification protects against is linking the di...

    Authors: Fida Kamal Dankar, Khaled El Emam, Angelica Neisa and Tyson Roffey
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:66
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Patients have typically received health care through face-to-face encounters. However, expansion of electronic communication and electronic health records (EHRs) provide alternative means for patient and physi...

    Authors: Ted E Palen, David Price, Susan Shetterly and Kristin B Wallace
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:65
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  16. Biological signals may carry specific characteristics that reflect basic dynamics of the body. In particular, heart beat signals carry specific signatures that are related to human physiologic mechanisms. In r...

    Authors: Yu-Chen Huang, Hanjun Lin, Yeh-Liang Hsu and Jun-Lin Lin
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:64
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  17. Physicians practicing in ambulatory care are adopting electronic health record (EHR) systems. Governments promote this adoption with financial incentives, some hinged on improvements in care. These systems can...

    Authors: Pavel S Roshanov, Hertzel C Gerstein, Dereck L Hunt, Rolf J Sebaldt and R Brian Haynes
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:63
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. Low adherence to chronic kidney disease (CKD) guidelines may be due to unrecognized CKD and lack of guideline awareness on the part of providers. The goal of this study was to evaluate the impact of provider e...

    Authors: Paul E Drawz, R Tyler Miller, Simran Singh, Brook Watts and Elizabeth Kern
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:62
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  19. Quality care of type 2 diabetes is complex and requires systematic use of clinical data to monitor care processes and outcomes. An electronic decision support (EDS) tool for the management of type 2 diabetes i...

    Authors: Qing Wan, Meredith Makeham, Nicholas A Zwar and Susanna Petche
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:61
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  20. Patients making important medical decisions need to evaluate complex information in the light of their own beliefs, attitudes and priorities. The process can be considered in terms of the theory of planned beh...

    Authors: Jürgen Kasper, Sascha Köpke, Korbinian Fischer, Nina Schäffler, Imke Backhus, Alessandra Solari and Christoph Heesen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:60
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  21. Recent large scale deployments of health information technology have created opportunities for the integration of patient medical records with disparate public health, human service, and educational databases ...

    Authors: Tian Mi, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran and Robert Aseltine
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:59
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) is the most common form of glomerulonephritis in China. An accurate diagnosis of IgAN is dependent on renal biopsies, and there is lack of non-invasive and practical classif...

    Authors: Jing Gao, Yong Wang, Zhennan Dong, Zhangming Yan, Xingwang Jia and Yaping Tian
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:58
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. 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:

  24. Patient-provider communication is a major challenge in resource-limited settings with large catchment areas. Though mobile phone usership increased 20-fold in Africa over the past decade, little is known about...

    Authors: Mark J Siedner, Jessica E Haberer, Mwebesa Bosco Bwana, Norma C Ware and David R Bangsberg
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:56
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are widely studied for evaluating diseases. This paper discusses the intelligence mode of an ANN in grading the diagnosis of liver fibrosis by duplex ultrasonogaphy.

    Authors: Li Zhang, Qiao-ying LI, Yun-you Duan, Guo-zhen Yan, Yi-lin Yang and Rui-jing Yang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:55
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. The aim of this study was to develop a new data-mining model to predict axillary lymph node (AxLN) metastasis in primary breast cancer. To achieve this, we used a decision tree-based prediction method—the alte...

    Authors: Masahiro Takada, Masahiro Sugimoto, Yasuhiro Naito, Hyeong-Gon Moon, Wonshik Han, Dong-Young Noh, Masahide Kondo, Katsumasa Kuroi, Hironobu Sasano, Takashi Inamoto, Masaru Tomita and Masakazu Toi
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:54
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. Compared with non-Latinos, Latinos in the US have low rates of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening and low rates of knowledge regarding CRC screening tests and guidelines. Spanish speaking Latinos have particula...

    Authors: Daniel S Reuland, Linda K Ko, Alicia Fernandez, Laura C Braswell and Michael Pignone
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:53
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. In order to explore the influence of anxiety on decision–making processes, valid anxiety measures are needed. We evaluated a prostate cancer screening (PCS) anxiety scale that measures anxiety related to the p...

    Authors: Suzanne K Linder, Paul R Swank, Sally W Vernon, Robert O Morgan, Patricia D Mullen and Robert J Volk
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:52
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  29. The purpose of this paper is to examine the acceptability, feasibility, reliability and validity of a new decision quality instrument that assesses the extent to which patients are informed and receive treatme...

    Authors: Karen R Sepucha, Jeffrey K Belkora, Yuchiao Chang, Carol Cosenza, Carrie A Levin, Beverly Moy, Ann Partridge and Clara N Lee
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:51
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  30. Several low and middle-income countries are implementing electronic health records (EHR). In the near future, EHRs could become an efficient tool to evaluate healthcare performance if appropriate indicators ar...

    Authors: Ricardo Pérez-Cuevas, Svetlana V Doubova, Magdalena Suarez-Ortega, Michael Law, Aakanksha H Pande, Jorge Escobedo, Francisco Espinosa-Larrañaga, Dennis Ross-Degnan and Anita K Wagner
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:50
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. Tools to enhance physician searches of Medline and other bibliographic databases have potential to improve the application of new knowledge in patient care. This is particularly true for articles about glomeru...

    Authors: Ainslie M Hildebrand, Arthur V Iansavichus, Christopher WC Lee, R Brian Haynes, Nancy L Wilczynski, K Ann McKibbon, Michelle A Hladunewich, William F Clark, Daniel C Cattran and Amit X Garg
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:49
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  32. The successful implementation of decision aids in clinical practice initially depends on how clinicians perceive them. Relatively little is known about the acceptance of decision aids by physicians and factors...

    Authors: Oliver Hirsch, Heidemarie Keller, Tanja Krones and Norbert Donner-Banzhoff
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:48
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  33. Clinical trials are the primary mechanism for advancing clinical care and evidenced-based practice, yet challenges with the recruitment of participants for such trials are widely recognized as a major barrier ...

    Authors: Taylor R Pressler, Po-Yin Yen, Jing Ding, Jianhua Liu, Peter J Embi and Philip R O Payne
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:47
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  34. Anesthesia information management system (AIMS) records should be designed and configured to facilitate the accurate and prompt recording of multiple drugs administered coincidentally or in rapid succession.

    Authors: Anil A Marian, Franklin Dexter, Peter Tucker and Michael M Todd
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:46
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. The effectiveness of weight loss therapies is commonly measured using body mass index and other obesity-related variables. Although these data are often stored in electronic health records (EHRs) and potential...

    Authors: G Craig Wood, Xin Chu, Christina Manney, William Strodel, Anthony Petrick, Jon Gabrielsen, Jamie Seiler, David Carey, George Argyropoulos, Peter Benotti, Christopher D Still and Glenn S Gerhard
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:45
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  36. Compared with the increasingly widespread use of picture archiving and communication systems (PACSs), knowledge concerning users’ acceptance of such systems is limited. Knowledge of acceptance is needed given ...

    Authors: Bakheet Aldosari
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:44
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Jurisdictional drug information systems are being implemented in many regions around the world. British Columbia, Canada has had a provincial medication dispensing record, PharmaNet, system since 1995. Little ...

    Authors: Morgan Price, Mike Bowen, Francis Lau, Nicole Kitson and Stan Bardal
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:42
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. PubMed data potentially can provide decision support information, but PubMed was not exclusively designed to be a point-of-care tool. Natural language processing applications that summarize PubMed citations ho...

    Authors: T Elizabeth Workman, Marcelo Fiszman and John F Hurdle
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:41
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. 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:

  41. Data stored in personally controlled health records (PCHRs) may hold value for clinicians and public health entities, if patients and their families will share them. We sought to characterize consumer willingn...

    Authors: Elissa R Weitzman, Skyler Kelemen, Liljana Kaci and Kenneth D Mandl
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:39
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. An important prerequisite for the Chronic Care Model is to be able to identify, in a valid, simple and inexpensive way, the population with a chronic condition that needs proactive and planned care. We investi...

    Authors: Margrethe Smidth, Ineta Sokolowski, Lone Kærsvang and Peter Vedsted
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:38
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Death records are a rich source of data, which can be used to assist with public surveillance and/or decision support. However, to use this type of data for such purposes it has to be transformed into a coded ...

    Authors: Kailah Davis, Catherine Staes, Jeff Duncan, Sean Igo and Julio C Facelli
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:37
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Extraction of clinical information such as medications or problems from clinical text is an important task of clinical natural language processing (NLP). Rule-based methods are often used in clinical NLP syste...

    Authors: Son Doan, Nigel Collier, Hua Xu, Pham Hoang Duy and Tu Minh Phuong
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:36
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. The contact networks between individuals can have a profound impact on the evolution of an infectious outbreak within a network. The impact of the interaction between contact network and disease dynamics on in...

    Authors: Mohammad Hashemian, Kevin Stanley and Nathaniel Osgood
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:35
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. There exist many academic search solutions and most of them can be put on either ends of spectrum: general-purpose search and domain-specific "deep" search systems. The general-purpose search systems, such as ...

    Authors: Jaehoon Choi, Donghyeon Kim, Seongsoon Kim, Sunwon Lee, Kyubum Lee and Jaewoo Kang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12(Suppl 1):S7
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 1

  47. Biofuels produced from biomass are considered to be promising sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels. The conversion of lignocellulose into fermentable sugars for biofuels production requires the use of enzy...

    Authors: Marie-Jean Meurs, Caitlin Murphy, Ingo Morgenstern, Greg Butler, Justin Powlowski, Adrian Tsang and René Witte
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12(Suppl 1):S5
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 1

  48. Clinical trials are mandatory protocols describing medical research on humans and among the most valuable sources of medical practice evidence. Searching for trials relevant to some query is laborious due to t...

    Authors: Ioannis Korkontzelos, Tingting Mu and Sophia Ananiadou
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12(Suppl 1):S3
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 1

  49. The calcium-imaging technique allows us to record movies of brain activity in the antennal lobe of the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster, a brain compartment dedicated to information about odors. Signal processing...

    Authors: Martin Strauch and C Giovanni Galizia
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12(Suppl 1):S2
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 1

  50. The Swanson's ABC model is powerful to infer hidden relationships buried in biological literature. However, the model is inadequate to infer relations with context information. In addition, the model generates...

    Authors: Sejoon Lee, Jaejoon Choi, Kyunghyun Park, Min Song and Doheon Lee
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12(Suppl 1):S1
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 1

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