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  1. Although gastric cancer is a malignancy with high morbidity and mortality in China, the survival rate of patients with early gastric cancer (EGC) is high after surgical resection. To strengthen diagnosing and ...

    Authors: Mi-Mi Liu, Li Wen, Yong-Jia Liu, Qiao Cai, Li-Ting Li and Yong-Ming Cai
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18(Suppl 5):121
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 5

  2. Colorectal cancer incidence and mortality have been increasing in China and as one of the most important health problems facing the nation. Adequate dissemination of correct information about colorectal cancer...

    Authors: Shun Zhang, Yao Yang, Dongyi Yan, Biao Yuan, Xiaohua Jiang and Chun Song
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:129
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. Extracting primary care information in terms of Patient/Problem, Intervention, Comparison and Outcome, known as PICO elements, is difficult as the volume of medical information expands and the health semantics...

    Authors: Samir Chabou and Michal Iglewski
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:128
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. As of 2014, stroke is the fourth leading cause of death in Japan. Predicting a future diagnosis of stroke would better enable proactive forms of healthcare measures to be taken. We aim to predict a diagnosis o...

    Authors: Douglas Teoh
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:127
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  5. With advancements in information technology, computerized physician order entry (CPOE) and electronic Medical Records (eMR), have become widely utilized in medical settings. The predominant mode of CPOE in Tai...

    Authors: George Linn, Yung-Hsiang Ying and Koyin Chang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:109
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Patient portal use can be a stimulant for patient engagement. Yet, the heterogeneous landscape of tethered patient portals, is a major barrier to further portal development and implementation. A variety in por...

    Authors: Gaby Anne Wildenbos, Frank Horenberg, Monique Jaspers, Linda Peute and Danielle Sent
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:108
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. The decreasing cost of obtaining high-quality calls of genomic variants and the increasing availability of clinically relevant data on such variants are important drivers for personalized oncology. To allow ra...

    Authors: Johannes Starlinger, Steffen Pallarz, Jurica Å eva, Damian Rieke, Christine Sers, Ulrich Keilholz and Ulf Leser
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:107
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. Common measures used to describe preventive treatment effects today are proportional, i.e. they compare the proportions of events in relative or absolute terms, however they are not easily interpreted from the...

    Authors: Erik Berglund, Ragnar Westerling, Johan Sundström and Per Lytsy
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:106
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Longevity creates increasing care needs for healthcare providers and family caregivers. Increasingly, the burden of care falls to one primary caregiver, increasing stress and reducing health outcomes. Addition...

    Authors: Yuri Quintana, Bradley Crotty, Darren Fahy, Lewis Lipsitz, Roger B. Davis and Charles Safran
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:105
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  10. To identify publicly available internet resources and assess their likelihood to support women making informed decisions about, and between, fertility preservation procedures before starting their cancer treat...

    Authors: N. Mahmoodi, H. L. Bekker, N. V. King, J. Hughes and G. L. Jones
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:104
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. To characterize the regional and national variation in prescribing patterns in the Medicare Part D program using dimensional reduction visualization methods.

    Authors: Alexander Rosenberg, Christopher Fucile, Robert J. White, Melissa Trayhan, Samir Farooq, Caroline M. Quill, Lisa A. Nelson, Samuel J. Weisenthal, Kristen Bush and Martin S. Zand
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:103
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. Researchers paid little attention to understanding the association of organizational and human factors with patients’ perceived security in the context of health organizations. This study aims to address numer...

    Authors: Hamid Reza Peikari, Ramayah T., Mahmood Hussain Shah and May Chiun Lo
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:102
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. Recent decades have seen rapid growth in the implementation of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) in healthcare settings in both developed regions as well as low and middle income countries. Yet despite substan...

    Authors: Amy O’Donnell, Eileen Kaner, Caroline Shaw and Catherine Haighton
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:101
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Technology can potentially enable the implementation of a value-based healthcare system, where the impact of quality of care is offered at optimised cost for maximised patient benefit. Technology can deliver v...

    Authors: Edward Meinert, Abrar Alturkistani, David Brindley, Peter Knight, Glenn Wells and Nick de Pennington
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:100
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  15. The National Sleep Research Resource (NSRR) is a large-scale, openly shared, data repository of de-identified, highly curated clinical sleep data from multiple NIH-funded epidemiological studies. Although many...

    Authors: Licong Cui, Ningzhou Zeng, Matthew Kim, Remo Mueller, Emily R. Hankosky, Susan Redline and Guo-Qiang Zhang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:99
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. Headache disorders are an important health burden, having a large health-economic impact worldwide. Current treatment & follow-up processes are often archaic, creating opportunities for computer-aided and deci...

    Authors: Gilles Vandewiele, Femke De Backere, Kiani Lannoye, Maarten Vanden Berghe, Olivier Janssens, Sofie Van Hoecke, Vincent Keereman, Koen Paemeleire, Femke Ongenae and Filip De Turck
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:98
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. Mandates abound to share publicly-funded research data for reuse, while data platforms continue to emerge to facilitate such reuse. Birth cohorts (BC) involve longitudinal designs, significant sample sizes and...

    Authors: Kiran Pohar Manhas, Shawn X. Dodd, Stacey Page, Nicole Letourneau, Carol E. Adair, Xinjie Cui and Suzanne C. Tough
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:97
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. Increasing mobile phone ownership, functionality and access to mobile-broad band internet services has triggered growing interest to harness the potential of mobile phone technology to improve health services ...

    Authors: Solomon Shiferaw, Andualem Workneh, Robel Yirgu, Geert-Jan Dinant and Mark Spigt
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:96
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  19. Mobile technology is ubiquitous. Women of childbearing age have embraced health information technology for pregnancy-related counsel as prenatal care provider communication is increasingly scarce and brief. Pr...

    Authors: Lyra Halili, Rebecca Liu, Kelly Ann Hutchinson, Kevin Semeniuk, Leanne M. Redman and Kristi B. Adamo
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:95
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. Cost effectiveness research is emerging in the chronic kidney disease (CKD) research field. Especially, an individual-level state transition model (microsimulation) is widely used for these researches. Some re...

    Authors: Shusuke Hiragi, Hiroshi Tamura, Rei Goto and Tomohiro Kuroda
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:94
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Technological support may be crucial in optimizing healthcare professional practice and improving patient outcomes. A focus on electronic health records has left other technological supports relatively neglect...

    Authors: C Keyworth, J Hart, C J Armitage and M P Tully
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:93
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. In recent years, inter-municipal cooperation in healthcare services has been an important measure implemented to meet future demographic changes in western countries. This entails an increased focus on communi...

    Authors: Elisabeth Holen-Rabbersvik, Elin Thygesen, Tom Roar Eikebrokk, Rune Werner Fensli and Åshild Slettebø
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:92
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Trio studies, which involve the testing of samples from a proband and both parents, are often used by clinical laboratories to help with the classification of genetic variants, including copy number variants. ...

    Authors: Daniel Xia, Chen Zhang, Va Lip, Marian Harris and Yiping Shen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:91
    Content type: Software Published on:

  24. The health area is one of the most affected systems on the perspective of decision-making with multiobjectives, thus becoming prone to errors in the final solution, however, multicriteria decision analysis (MD...

    Authors: Talita D. C. Frazão, Deyse G. G. Camilo, Eric L. S. Cabral and Ricardo P. Souza
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:90
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Molecular precision oncology is an emerging practice to improve cancer therapy by decreasing the risk of choosing treatments that lack efficacy or cause adverse events. However, the challenges of integrating m...

    Authors: Franziska Singer, Anja Irmisch, Nora C. Toussaint, Linda Grob, Jochen Singer, Thomas Thurnherr, Niko Beerenwinkel, Mitchell P. Levesque, Reinhard Dummer, Luca Quagliata, Sacha I. Rothschild, Andreas Wicki, Christian Beisel and Daniel J. Stekhoven
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:89
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. Online health information is unregulated and can be of highly variable quality. There is currently no singular quantitative tool that has undergone a validation process, can be used for a broad range of health...

    Authors: Julie M. Robillard, Jessica H. Jun, Jen-Ai Lai and Tanya L. Feng
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:87
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. Pharmacovigilance consists in monitoring and preventing the occurrence of adverse drug reactions (ADR). This activity requires the collection and analysis of data from the patient record or any other sources t...

    Authors: Thibault Ledieu, Guillaume Bouzillé, Frantz Thiessard, Karine Berquet, Pascal Van Hille, Eric Renault, Elisabeth Polard and Marc Cuggia
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:86
    Content type: Software Published on:

  28. Increased digitalization of healthcare comes along with the cost of cybercrime proliferation. This results to patients’ and healthcare providers' skepticism to adopt Health Information Technologies (HIT). In E...

    Authors: Pantelis Natsiavas, Janne Rasmussen, Maja Voss-Knude, Κostas Votis, Luigi Coppolino, Paolo Campegiani, Isaac Cano, David Marí, Giuliana Faiella, Fabrizio Clemente, Marco Nalin, Evangelos Grivas, Oana Stan, Erol Gelenbe, Jos Dumortier, Jan Petersen…
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:85
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of patient portal adoption on patients’ primary care utilization and appointment adherence.

    Authors: Xiang Zhong, Muxuan Liang, Reynerio Sanchez, Menggang Yu, Pamela R. Budd, Julie L. Sprague and Marvin A. Dewar
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:84
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Recently, attention has shifted to improving the design of computerized alerts via the incorporation of human factors design principles. The Instrument for Evaluating Human Factors Principles in Medication-Rel...

    Authors: Melissa T Baysari, David Lowenstein, Wu Yi Zheng and Richard O Day
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:83
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. Current advances in information and communication technology have made accessing and obtaining health-related information easier than ever before. Today, many hospital websites use a patient-centric approach t...

    Authors: Dari Alhuwail, Zainab AlMeraj and Fatima Boujarwah
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:82
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. Patients suffering obstructive sleep apnea are mainly treated with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). Although it is a highly effective treatment, compliance with this therapy is problematic to achiev...

    Authors: Xavier Rafael-Palou, Cecilia Turino, Alexander Steblin, Manuel Sánchez-de-la-Torre, Ferran Barbé and Eloisa Vargiu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:81
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. Worldwide, over 14% of individuals hospitalized for psychiatric reasons have readmissions to hospitals within 30 days after discharge. Predicting patients at risk and leveraging accelerated interventions can r...

    Authors: Khader Shameer, M. Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez, Roy Bachar, Li Li, Amy Johnson, Kipp W. Johnson, Benjamin S. Glicksberg, Milo R. Smith, Ben Readhead, Joseph Scarpa, Jebakumar Jebakaran, Patricia Kovatch, Sabina Lim, Wayne Goodman, David L. Reich, Andrew Kasarskis…
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18(Suppl 3):79
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 3

  34. Clinical notes such as discharge summaries have a semi- or unstructured format. These documents contain information about diseases, treatments, drugs, etc. Extracting meaningful information from them becomes c...

    Authors: Ruth Reátegui and Sylvie Ratté
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18(Suppl 3):74
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 3

  35. Numerous hospitals and organizations have recently endeavored to study the effects of real-time location systems. However, their experiences of system adoption or pilot testing via implementation were not shar...

    Authors: Sooyoung Yoo, Seok Kim, Eunhye Kim, Eunja Jung, Kee-Hyuck Lee and Hee Hwang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:80
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. With connected medical devices fast becoming ubiquitous in healthcare monitoring there is a deluge of data coming from multiple body-attached sensors. Transforming this flood of data into effective and efficie...

    Authors: Rahul Krishnan Pathinarupothi, P. Durga and Ekanath Srihari Rangan
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:78
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. Treatment with effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) lowers morbidity and mortality among HIV positive individuals. Effective highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) should lead to undetectable viral loa...

    Authors: Kuteesa R. Bisaso, Susan A. Karungi, Agnes Kiragga, Jackson K. Mukonzo and Barbara Castelnuovo
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:77
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine—Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT, hereafter abbreviated SCT) is a comprehensive medical terminology used for standardizing the storage, retrieval, and exchange of electronic heal...

    Authors: Shaker El-Sappagh, Francesco Franda, Farman Ali and Kyung-Sup Kwak
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:76
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. The openEHR approach can improve the interoperability of electronic health record (EHR) through two-level modeling. Developing archetypes for the complete EHR dataset is essential for implementing a large-scal...

    Authors: Lingtong Min, Qi Tian, Xudong Lu and Huilong Duan
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:75
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. After publication of this supplement article [1], it was brought to our attention that the Results section of the abstract contained a partial sentence.

    Authors: Zhiwei Chen, Zhe He, Xiuwen Liu and Jiang Bian
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:73
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:65

  41. Kidney stone (KS) disease has high, increasing prevalence in the United States and poses a massive economic burden. Diagnostics algorithms of KS only use a few variables with a limited sensitivity and specific...

    Authors: Zhaoyi Chen, Victoria Y. Bird, Rupam Ruchi, Mark S. Segal, Jiang Bian, Saeed R. Khan, Marie-Carmelle Elie and Mattia Prosperi
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:72
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Traumatic injury is a serious global health burden, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where medical care often lacks resources and expertise. In these contexts, diagnostic telemedicine could pro...

    Authors: Iona Crumley, Lisa Blom, Lucie Laflamme and Helle Mölsted Alvesson
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:71
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Portal use has been studied among outpatients, but its utility and impact on inpatients is unclear. This study describes portal adoption and use among hospitalized cancer patients and investigates associations...

    Authors: Duaa Aljabri, Adrian Dumitrascu, M. Caroline Burton, Launia White, Mahmud Khan, Sudha Xirasagar, Ronnie Horner and James Naessens
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:70
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Usability flaws in medication alerting systems may have a negative impact on clinical use and patient safety. In order to prevent the release of alerting systems that contain such flaws, it is necessary to pro...

    Authors: Romaric Marcilly, Elske Ammenwerth, Erin Roehrer, Julie Niès and Marie-Catherine Beuscart-Zéphir
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:69
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Extracting relationships between chemicals and diseases from unstructured literature have attracted plenty of attention since the relationships are very useful for a large number of biomedical applications suc...

    Authors: Haodi Li, Ming Yang, Qingcai Chen, Buzhou Tang, Xiaolong Wang and Jun Yan
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18(Suppl 2):60
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 2

  46. The emergence of the deep convolutional neural network (CNN) greatly improves the quality of computer-aided supporting systems. However, due to the challenges of generating reliable and timely results, clinica...

    Authors: Xinyuan Zhang, Shiqi Wang, Jie Liu and Cui Tao
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18(Suppl 2):59
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 2

  47. In this editorial, we first summarize the 2nd International Workshop on Semantics-Powered Data Analytics (SEPDA 2017) held on November 13, 2017 in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A., and then briefly introduce 13 r...

    Authors: Zhe He, Cui Tao, Jiang Bian, Rui Zhang and Jingshan Huang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18(Suppl 2):56
    Content type: Introduction Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 2

  48. Despite widespread use, the safety of dietary supplements is open to doubt due to the fact that they can interact with prescribed medications, leading to dangerous clinical outcomes. Electronic health records ...

    Authors: Yadan Fan and Rui Zhang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18(Suppl 2):51
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 2

  49. Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) is an established pacing therapy for heart failure patients. The New York Heart Association (NYHA) class is often used as a measure of a patient’s response to CRT. Ident...

    Authors: Rui Zhang, Sisi Ma, Liesa Shanahan, Jessica Munroe, Sarah Horn and Stuart Speedie
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18(Suppl 2):48
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 2

  50. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, exceeded only by heart disease. Extant cancer survival analyses have primarily focused on individual-level factors due to limited data availabi...

    Authors: Hansi Zhang, Yi Guo, Qian Li, Thomas J. George, Elizabeth Shenkman, François Modave and Jiang Bian
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18(Suppl 2):41
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 2

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