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  1. For many healthcare decisions, multiple alternatives are available with different combinations of advantages and disadvantages across several important dimensions. The complexity of current healthcare decision...

    Authors: James G Dolan, Peter J Veazie and Ann J Russ
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:51
  2. The information provided in patient-centered care and shared decision-making influences patients’ concerns and adherence to treatment. In the decision-making process, patients experience decisional conflict. T...

    Authors: Takashi Kawaguchi, Kanako Azuma, Takuhiro Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Soeda, Yusuke Sekine, Masayoshi Koinuma, Hironori Takeuchi, Takao Akashi and Sakae Unezaki
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:50
  3. Many medical organizations have invested heavily in electronic health record (EHR) and health information exchange (HIE) information systems (IS) to improve medical decision-making and increase efficiency. Des...

    Authors: Ofir Ben-Assuli, Itamar Shabtai and Moshe Leshno
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:49
  4. Overtreatment of catheter-associated bacteriuria is a quality and safety problem, despite the availability of evidence-based guidelines. Little is known about how guidelines-based knowledge is integrated into ...

    Authors: Barbara W Trautner, Rupal D Bhimani, Amber B Amspoker, Sylvia J Hysong, Armandina Garza, P Adam Kelly, Velma L Payne and Aanand D Naik
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:48
  5. In two landmark reports on Quality and Information Technology, the Institute of Medicine described a 21st century healthcare delivery system that would improve the quality of care while reducing its costs. To ...

    Authors: James B Jones, Walter F Stewart, Jonathan D Darer and Dean F Sittig
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:47
  6. 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
  7. Algorithms to identify screening colonoscopies in administrative databases would be useful for monitoring colorectal cancer (CRC) screening uptake, tracking health resource utilization, and quality assurance. ...

    Authors: Maida J Sewitch, Mengzhu Jiang, Lawrence Joseph, Robert J Hilsden and Alain Bitton
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:45
  8. Despite strong efforts to improve maternal care, its quality remains deficient in many countries of Sub-Saharan Africa as persistently high maternal mortality rates testify. The QUALMAT study seeks to improve ...

    Authors: Antje Blank, Helen Prytherch, Jens Kaltschmidt, Andreas Krings, Felix Sukums, Nathan Mensah, Alphonse Zakane, Svetla Loukanova, Lars L Gustafsson, Rainer Sauerborn and Walter E Haefeli
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:44
  9. We describe and evaluate the development and use of a Clinical Decision Support (CDS) intervention; an alert, in response to an identified medical error of overuse of a diagnostic laboratory test in a Computer...

    Authors: Donald L Levick, Glenn Stern, Chad D Meyerhoefer, Aaron Levick and David Pucklavage
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:43
  10. With an ever-growing ageing population, dementia is fast becoming the chronic disease of the 21st century. Elderly people affected with dementia progressively lose their autonomy as they encounter problems in the...

    Authors: Hamdi Aloulou, Mounir Mokhtari, Thibaut Tiberghien, Jit Biswas, Clifton Phua, Jin Hong Kenneth Lin and Philip Yap
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:42
  11. Understanding functions of proteins is one of the most important challenges in many studies of biological processes. The function of a protein can be predicted by analyzing the functions of structurally simila...

    Authors: Sungchul Kim, Lee Sael and Hwanjo Yu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13(Suppl 1):S8

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  12. Most previous Protein Protein Interaction (PPI) studies evaluated their algorithms' performance based on "per-instance" precision and recall, in which the instances of an interaction relation were evaluated in...

    Authors: Junkyu Lee, Seongsoon Kim, Sunwon Lee, Kyubum Lee and Jaewoo Kang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13(Suppl 1):S7

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  13. We consider the user task of designing clinical trial protocols and propose a method that discovers and outputs the most appropriate eligibility criteria from a potentially huge set of candidates. Each document d

    Authors: Angelo Restificar, Ioannis Korkontzelos and Sophia Ananiadou
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13(Suppl 1):S6

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  14. Detecting protein complexes is one of essential and fundamental tasks in understanding various biological functions or processes. Therefore accurate identification of protein complexes is indispensable.

    Authors: Jaegyoon Ahn, Dae Hyun Lee, Youngmi Yoon, Yunku Yeu and Sanghyun Park
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13(Suppl 1):S5

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  15. Biological systems are robust and complex to maintain stable phenotypes under various conditions. In these systems, drugs reported the limited efficacy and unexpected side-effects. To remedy this situation, ma...

    Authors: Woochang Hwang, Yongdeuk Hwang, Sunjae Lee and Doheon Lee
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13(Suppl 1):S4

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  16. Due to the low statistical power of individual markers from a genome-wide association study (GWAS), detecting causal single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for complex diseases is a challenge. SNP combinations...

    Authors: Chiyong Kang, Hyeji Yu and Gwan-Su Yi
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13(Suppl 1):S3

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  17. As the amount of publicly available biomedical data increases, discovering hidden knowledge from biomedical data (i.e., Undiscovered Public Knowledge (UPK) proposed by Swanson) became an important research top...

    Authors: Jaejoon Choi, Kwangmin Kim, Min Song and Doheon Lee
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13(Suppl 1):S2

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  18. Named entity recognition (NER) is an important task in clinical natural language processing (NLP) research. Machine learning (ML) based NER methods have shown good performance in recognizing entities in clinic...

    Authors: Buzhou Tang, Hongxin Cao, Yonghui Wu, Min Jiang and Hua Xu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13(Suppl 1):S1

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  19. Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are sequence variations found in individuals at some specific points in the genomic sequence. As SNPs are highly conserved throughout evolution and within a population, t...

    Authors: Subrata Saha, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Jinbo Bi and Sudipta Pathak
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:41
  20. Little is known about the potential of syndromic surveillance to provide early warning of pertussis outbreaks. We conducted a time series analysis to assess whether an emergency department (ED) cough syndrome ...

    Authors: Aaron W Cashmore, David J Muscatello, Alistair Merrifield, Paula Spokes, Kristine Macartney and Bin B Jalaludin
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:40
  21. Multi-site health sciences research is becoming more common, as it enables investigation of rare outcomes and diseases and new healthcare innovations. Multi-site research usually involves the transfer of large...

    Authors: Christine E Bredfeldt, Amy Butani, Sandhyasree Padmanabhan, Paul Hitz and Roy Pardee
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:39
  22. 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
  23. Computerized clinical trial recruitment support is one promising field for the application of routine care data for clinical research. The primary task here is to compare the eligibility criteria defined in tr...

    Authors: Felix Köpcke, Benjamin Trinczek, Raphael W Majeed, Björn Schreiweis, Joachim Wenk, Thomas Leusch, Thomas Ganslandt, Christian Ohmann, Björn Bergh, Rainer Röhrig, Martin Dugas and Hans-Ulrich Prokosch
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:37
  24. Cloud computing is a new paradigm that is changing how enterprises, institutions and people understand, perceive and use current software systems. With this paradigm, the organizations have no need to maintain...

    Authors: Jordi Vilaplana, Francesc Solsona, Francesc Abella, Rosa Filgueira and Josep Rius
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:35
  25. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with increased mortality and poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL) compared with the general population. The objective of this study was to iden...

    Authors: Olli-Pekka Ryynänen, Erkki J Soini, Ari Lindqvist, Maritta Kilpeläinen and Tarja Laitinen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:34
  26. The prevalence of major chronic illnesses, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and diabetes, is increasing. Pulmonary rehabilitation and diabetes self-management education are important in the...

    Authors: Tatjana M Burkow, Lars K Vognild, Geir Østengen, Elin Johnsen, Marijke Jongsma Risberg, Astrid Bratvold, Tord Hagen, Morten Brattvoll, Trine Krogstad and Audhild Hjalmarsen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:33
  27. Clinicians often encounter information about drug-drug interactions (DDIs) during clinical practice. This information is found within product information (hardcopy and electronic) and various electronic system...

    Authors: Edward P Armstrong, Sharon M Wang, Lisa E Hines, Sara Gao, Bimal V Patel and Daniel C Malone
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:32
  28. Despite the relatively huge ICT investment and policy deployment in higher institutions in Ethiopia, there is still scant information about the success of implementation of the Information Communication Techno...

    Authors: Solomon Assefa Woreta, Yigzaw Kebede and Desalegn Tegabu Zegeye
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:31
  29. Distinguishing cases from non-cases in free-text electronic medical records is an important initial step in observational epidemiological studies, but manual record validation is time-consuming and cumbersome....

    Authors: Zubair Afzal, Martijn J Schuemie, Jan C van Blijderveen, Elif F Sen, Miriam CJM Sturkenboom and Jan A Kors
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:30
  30. High levels of adherence to medications for HIV infection are essential for optimal clinical outcomes and to reduce viral transmission, but many patients do not achieve required levels. Clinician-delivered int...

    Authors: Raymond L Ownby, Drenna Waldrop-Valverde, Robin J Jacobs, Amarilis Acevedo and Joshua Caballero
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:29
  31. Accurate, timely and automated identification of patients at high risk for severe clinical deterioration using readily available clinical information in the electronic medical record (EMR) could inform health ...

    Authors: Carlos A Alvarez, Christopher A Clark, Song Zhang, Ethan A Halm, John J Shannon, Carlos E Girod, Lauren Cooper and Ruben Amarasingham
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:28
  32. Evidence informed decision making in health policy development and clinical practice depends on the availability of valid and reliable data. The introduction of interRAI assessment systems in many countries ha...

    Authors: John P Hirdes, Jeff W Poss, Hilary Caldarelli, Brant E Fries, John N Morris, Gary F Teare, Kristen Reidel and Norma Jutan
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:27
  33. To reduce the large public health burden of the high prevalence of depression, preventive interventions targeted at people at risk are essential and can be cost-effective. Web-based interventions are able to p...

    Authors: Saskia M Kelders, Wendy TM Pots, Maarten Jan Oskam, Ernst T Bohlmeijer and Julia EWC van Gemert-Pijnen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:26
  34. There has been increasing emphasis on evidence-based approaches to improve patient outcomes through rigorous, standardised and well-validated approaches. Clinical guidelines drive this process and are largely ...

    Authors: Deborah Saltman, Debra Jackson, Phillip J Newton and Patricia M Davidson
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:25
  35. 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
  36. Smartphones and tablet computers have become an integral part of our lives. One of their key features is the possibility of installing third-party apps. These apps can be very helpful for improving health and ...

    Authors: Lex van Velsen, Desirée JMA Beaujean and Julia EWC van Gemert-Pijnen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:23
  37. One area where the use of information and communication technology (ICT), or eHealth, could be developed is the home health care of premature infants. The aim of this randomized controlled study was to investi...

    Authors: Anna Gund, Bengt Arne Sjöqvist, Helena Wigert, Elisabet Hentz, Kaj Lindecrantz and Kristina Bry
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:22
  38. The rate of elective surgeries varies dramatically by geography in the United States. For many of these surgeries, there is not clear evidence of their relative merits over alternate treatment choices and ther...

    Authors: David R Veroff, Tamara Ochoa-Arvelo and Benjamin Venator
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:21
  39. In recent years, there have been numerous initiatives undertaken to describe critical information needs related to the collection, management, analysis, and dissemination of data in support of biomedical resea...

    Authors: Philip RO Payne, Taylor R Pressler, Indra Neil Sarkar and Yves Lussier
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:20
  40. A small pre-test study was conducted to ascertain potential harm and anxiety associated with distributing information about possible cancer treatment options at the time of biopsy, prior to knowledge about a d...

    Authors: Steven B Zeliadt, Peggy A Hannon, Ranak B Trivedi, Laura M Bonner, Thuy T Vu, Carol Simons, Crystal A Kimmie, Elaine Y Hu, Chris Zipperer and Daniel W Lin
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:19
  41. Symptoms of an adverse reaction to contrast agents for computed tomography are diverse ranging, and sometimes serious. The goal of this study is to create a scoring rule to predict adverse reactions to contras...

    Authors: Daiki Kobayashi, Osamu Takahashi, Takuya Ueda, Gautam A Deshpande, Hiroko Arioka and Tsuguya Fukui
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:18
  42. Developing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) supported health communication in PHC could contribute to increased health literacy and empowerment, which are foundations for enabling people to incre...

    Authors: Amina Jama Mahmud, Ewy Olander, Sara Eriksén and Bo JA Haglund
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:17
  43. Although information technology adequately supports clinical care in many intensive care units (ICUs), it provides much poorer support for the managerial information needed to coordinate multi-professional car...

    Authors: Heljä Lundgrén-Laine, Elina Kontio, Tommi Kauko, Heikki Korvenranta, Jari Forsström and Sanna Salanterä
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:15
  44. Preconception counseling is effective in reducing the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes. The Internet is commonly used by women and health professionals to search for health information. We compared the consi...

    Authors: Eleonora Agricola, Francesco Gesualdo, Elisabetta Pandolfi, Michaela V Gonfiantini, Emanuela Carloni, Pierpaolo Mastroiacovo and Alberto E Tozzi
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:14
  45. The public healthcare sector in developing countries faces many challenges including weak healthcare systems and under-resourced facilities that deliver poor outcomes relative to total healthcare expenditure. ...

    Authors: Gregory B Cline and John M Luiz
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:13
  46. Detecting outbreaks is a crucial task for public health officials, yet gaps remain in the systematic evaluation of outbreak detection protocols. The authors’ objectives were to design, implement, and test a fl...

    Authors: Bryan Lewis, Stephen Eubank, Allyson M Abrams and Ken Kleinman
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:12
  47. The dual model approach represents a promising solution for achieving semantically interoperable standardized electronic health record (EHR) exchange. Its acceptance, however, will depend on the effort require...

    Authors: Georg Duftschmid, Judith Chaloupka and Christoph Rinner
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:11
  48. When a new drug is launched onto the market, information about the new manufactured product is contained in its monograph and evaluation report published by national drug agencies. Health professionals need to...

    Authors: Maia Iordatii, Alain Venot and Catherine Duclos
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:10

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