Research article
Long-term data collection is a challenging task in the domain of medical research. Many effects in medicine require long periods of time to become traceable e.g. the development of secondary malignancies based...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:148
Published on: 18 October 2017
Research article
Poorly functioning, time-consuming, and inadequate information systems are among the most important work-related psychosocial factors causing stress in physicians. The present study examined the trend in the p...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:147
Published on: 17 October 2017
Research article
The purpose of this study is to assess the Business-to-Consumer (B2C) model for telemonitoring patients with Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) by analysing the value it creates, both for organizations or ventures th...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:145
Published on: 11 October 2017
Research article
Search filters aid clinicians and academics to accurately locate literature. Despite this, there is no search filter or Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) term pertaining to paramedics. Therefore, the aim of this...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:146
Published on: 11 October 2017
Research article
Individually tailored cancer treatment is essential to ensure optimal treatment and resource use. Treatments for incurable metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are evolving rapidly, and decision suppo...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:144
Published on: 2 October 2017
Research article
Apps targeted at health and wellbeing sit in a rapidly growing industry associated with widespread optimism about their potential to deliver accessible and cost-effective healthcare. App developers might not b...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:141
Published on: 2 October 2017
Study protocol
Increasingly, women elect breast reconstruction after mastectomy. However, their expectations of surgery are often not met, and dissatisfaction with outcome and ongoing psychosocial concerns and distress are c...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:143
Published on: 2 October 2017
Research article
Information overload in healthcare is dangerous. It can lead to critical errors and delays. During Rapid Response Team (RRT) activations providers must make decisions quickly to rescue patients from physiologi...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:142
Published on: 2 October 2017
Research article
Data collected in EHRs have been widely used to identifying specific conditions; however there is still a need for methods to define comorbidities and sources to identify comorbidities burden. We propose an ap...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:140
Published on: 29 September 2017
Research article
Primary care data gathered from Electronic Health Records are of the utmost interest considering the essential role of general practitioners (GPs) as coordinators of patient care. These data represent the synt...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:139
Published on: 25 September 2017
Research article
The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of accessing primary care records on unscheduled care. Unscheduled care is typically delivered in hospital Emergency Departments. Studies published to Decembe...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:138
Published on: 22 September 2017
Research article
Mortality in end stage renal disease (ESRD) is higher than many malignancies. There is no data about the optimal way to present information about projected survival to patients with ESRD. In other areas, graph...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:137
Published on: 21 September 2017
Research article
Individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders use the Internet for general and health-related purposes. Their ability to find, understand, and apply the health information they acquire online in order to m...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:136
Published on: 20 September 2017
Research article
Chronic periodontitis is a multifactorial polygenetic disease with an increasing number of associated factors that have been identified over recent decades. Longitudinal epidemiologic studies have demonstrated...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:135
Published on: 15 September 2017
Technical advance
Electronic health records (EHRs) contain detailed clinical data stored in proprietary formats with non-standard codes and structures. Participating in multi-site clinical research networks requires EHR data to...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:134
Published on: 13 September 2017
Erratum
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:133
Published on: 12 September 2017
The original article was published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:91
Research article
To improve consistency and streamline development and publication of clinical guidelines (GL), there is a need for appropriate software support. We have found few specific tools for the actual authoring and ma...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:132
Published on: 4 September 2017
Research article
Expert opinion is often sought to complement available information needed to inform model-based economic evaluations in health technology assessments. In this context, we define expert elicitation as the proce...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:131
Published on: 4 September 2017
Research article
Hand hygiene is one of the most effective attempts to control nosocomial infections, and it is an important measure to avoid the transmission of pathogens. However, the compliance of healthcare workers (HCWs) ...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:129
Published on: 31 August 2017
Research article
There is increasing recognition of the delicate balance between the modest benefits of palliative chemotherapy and the burden of treatment. Decision aids (DAs) can potentially help patients with advanced cance...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:130
Published on: 31 August 2017
Research article
Despite the emergence of genomics-based risk prediction tools in oncology, there is not yet an established framework for communication of test results to cancer patients to support shared decision-making. We r...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:128
Published on: 24 August 2017
Research article
Korian is a private group specializing in medical accommodations for elderly and dependent people. A professional data warehouse (DWH) established in 2010 hosts all of the residents’ data. Inside this informat...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:127
Published on: 22 August 2017
Research article
Unsatisfactory colposcopy, where the cells of interest are not visible in women with a positive cervical screening test, is a common area of clinical uncertainty due to the lack of clear evidence and guidance....
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:125
Published on: 22 August 2017
Research Article
Identifying patients with certain clinical criteria based on manual chart review of doctors’ notes is a daunting task given the massive amounts of text notes in the electronic health records (EHR). This task c...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:126
Published on: 22 August 2017
Research article
Implementing patient decision aids in clinic workflow has proven to be a challenge for healthcare organizations and physicians. Our aim was to determine the organizational strategies, motivations, and facilita...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:124
Published on: 18 August 2017
