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  1. Association Rule Mining (ARM) has been widely used by biomedical researchers to perform exploratory data analysis and uncover potential relationships among variables in biomedical datasets. However, when biome...

    Authors: Rashmie Abeysinghe and Licong Cui
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18(Suppl 2):58
    Content type: Research Published on:

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

  2. There is strong scientific evidence linking obesity and overweight to the risk of various cancers and to cancer survivorship. Nevertheless, the existing online information about the relationship between obesit...

    Authors: Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, William Hogan, François Modave, Yi Guo, Zhe He, Xi Yang, Hansi Zhang and Jiang Bian
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18(Suppl 2):55
    Content type: Research Published on:

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

  4. In low-resource settings, there are numerous socioeconomic challenges such as poverty, inadequate facilities, shortage of skilled health workers, illiteracy and cultural barriers that contribute to high matern...

    Authors: Stephen Mburu and Robert Oboko
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:67
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) is an open source clinical data analytics platform used at over 200 healthcare institutions for querying patient data. The i2b2 platform has several c...

    Authors: Kavishwar B. Wagholikar, Pralav Dessai, Javier Sanz, Michael E. Mendis, Douglas S. Bell and Shawn N. Murphy
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:66
    Content type: Software Published on:

  6. Recent scientific achievements and technological advances have brought forward a massive display of new or updated medical devices, enabled with highly-developed embedded-control functions and interactivity. F...

    Authors: Ignacio Ghersi, Mario Mariño and Mónica Teresita Miralles
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:63
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. The use of knowledge models facilitates information retrieval, knowledge base development, and therefore supports new knowledge discovery that ultimately enables decision support applications. Most existing wo...

    Authors: Yiqing Zhao, Nooshin J. Fesharaki, Hongfang Liu and Jake Luo
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:61
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Healthcare professionals provide care to patients and during that process, record large quantities of data in patient records. Data in an Electronic Health Record should ideally be recorded once and be reusabl...

    Authors: Erik Joukes, Ronald Cornet, Martine C. de Bruijne, Nicolette F. de Keizer and Ameen Abu-Hanna
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:54
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Approaches to nurse staffing are commonly concerned with determining the minimum number of care hours according to the illness severity of patients. However, there is a gap in the literature considering multi-...

    Authors: Ana Respicio, Margarida Moz, Margarida Vaz Pato, Rute Somensi and Cecília Dias Flores
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:53
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. Despite the growing interest in developing markers for predicting treatment response and optimizing treatment decisions, an appropriate methodology to identify, combine and evaluate such markers has been slow ...

    Authors: Parvin Tajik, Mohammad Hadi Zafarmand, Aeilko H. Zwinderman, Ben W. Mol and Patrick M. Bossuyt
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:52
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  12. The performance of Computer Aided Diagnosis Systems for early melanoma detection relies mainly on quantitative evaluation of the geometric features corresponding to skin lesions. In these systems, diagnosis is...

    Authors: Agustin Sancen-Plaza, Raul Santiago-Montero, Humberto Sossa, Francisco J. Perez-Pinal, Juan J. Martinez-Nolasco and Jose A. Padilla-Medina
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:50
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. Traditional health information systems are generally devised to support clinical data collection at the point of care. However, as the significance of the modern information economy expands in scope and permea...

    Authors: Richard Jackson, Ismail Kartoglu, Clive Stringer, Genevieve Gorrell, Angus Roberts, Xingyi Song, Honghan Wu, Asha Agrawal, Kenneth Lui, Tudor Groza, Damian Lewsley, Doug Northwood, Amos Folarin, Robert Stewart and Richard Dobson
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:47
    Content type: Software Published on:

  14. Text mining (TM) methods have been used extensively to extract relations and events from the literature. In addition, TM techniques have been used to extract various types or dimensions of interpretative informat...

    Authors: Matthew Shardlow, Riza Batista-Navarro, Paul Thompson, Raheel Nawaz, John McNaught and Sophia Ananiadou
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:46
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been utilised globally for advancing social and economic development. As information becomes key to enlightening development initiatives, the role of mobi...

    Authors: Joseph Thobias and Achilles Kiwanuka
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:45
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. Heart failure is one of the leading causes of hospitalization in the United States. Advances in big data solutions allow for storage, management, and mining of large volumes of structured and semi-structured d...

    Authors: Sara Bersche Golas, Takuma Shibahara, Stephen Agboola, Hiroko Otaki, Jumpei Sato, Tatsuya Nakae, Toru Hisamitsu, Go Kojima, Jennifer Felsted, Sujay Kakarmath, Joseph Kvedar and Kamal Jethwani
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:44
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. As patients become more engaged in decisions regarding their medical care, they must weigh the potential benefits and harms of different treatments. Patients who are low in numeracy may be at a disadvantage wh...

    Authors: Rachel F. Eyler, Sara Cordes, Benjamin R. Szymanski and Liana Fraenkel
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:40
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. Hospital crowding is a rising problem, effective predicting and detecting managment can helpful to reduce crowding. Our team has successfully proposed a hybrid model combining both the autoregressive integrate...

    Authors: Lingling Zhou, Ping Zhao, Dongdong Wu, Cheng Cheng and Hao Huang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:39
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. A scoping review to characterize the literature on the use of conversations in social media as a potential source of data for detecting adverse events (AEs) related to health products.

    Authors: Andrea C. Tricco, Wasifa Zarin, Erin Lillie, Serena Jeblee, Rachel Warren, Paul A. Khan, Reid Robson, Ba’ Pham, Graeme Hirst and Sharon E. Straus
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:38
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. Monoclonal antibodies blocking the Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA-4) receptor have revolutionized the field of anti-cancer therapy for the last few years. The human T-cell-based immune responses are mo...

    Authors: Aravindhan Ganesan, Theinmozhi Arulraj, Tahir Choulli and Khaled H. Barakat
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:37
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Alcohol misuse is an important cause of premature disability and death. While clinicians are recommended to ask patients about alcohol use and provide brief interventions and specialist referral, this is poorl...

    Authors: Shamil Haroon, Darren Wooldridge, Jan Hoogewerf, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar, John Williams, Lina Martino and Neeraj Bhala
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:36
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a neurodegenaritive disorder characterized by a progressive dementia, for which actually no cure is known. An early detection of patients affected by AD can be obtained by analyzing...

    Authors: Giulia Fiscon, Emanuel Weitschek, Alessio Cialini, Giovanni Felici, Paola Bertolazzi, Simona De Salvo, Alessia Bramanti, Placido Bramanti and Maria Cristina De Cola
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:35
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. Brain in Hand is a smartphone application (app) that allows users to create structured diaries with problems and solutions, attach reminders, record task completion and has a symptom monitoring system. Brain i...

    Authors: Jade Kettlewell, Julie Phillips, Kate Radford and Roshan dasNair
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:33
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Genomic medicine is emerging into clinical care. Communication of genetic laboratory results to patients and providers is hampered by the complex technical nature of the laboratory reports. This can lead to co...

    Authors: Marc S. Williams, Melissa S. Kern, Virginia R. Lerch, Jonathan Billet, Janet L. Williams and Gregory J. Moore
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:32
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  26. It is essential that cancer patients understand anticipated symptoms, how to self-manage these symptoms, and when to call their clinicians. However, patients are often ill-prepared to manage symptoms at home. ...

    Authors: Mary E. Cooley, Janet L. Abrahm, Donna L. Berry, Michael S. Rabin, Ilana M. Braun, Joanna Paladino, Manan M. Nayak and David F. Lobach
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:31
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. We examined the comparative performance of structured, diagnostic codes vs. natural language processing (NLP) of unstructured text for screening suicidal behavior among pregnant women in electronic medical rec...

    Authors: Qiu-Yue Zhong, Elizabeth W. Karlson, Bizu Gelaye, Sean Finan, Paul Avillach, Jordan W. Smoller, Tianxi Cai and Michelle A. Williams
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:30
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. Pathology reports are written in free-text form, which precludes efficient data gathering. We aimed to overcome this limitation and design an automated system for extracting biomarker profiles from accumulated...

    Authors: Jeongeun Lee, Hyun-Je Song, Eunsil Yoon, Seong-Bae Park, Sung-Hye Park, Jeong-Wook Seo, Peom Park and Jinwook Choi
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:29
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. Health Information Organizations (HIOs) are third party organizations that facilitate electronic health information exchange (HIE) between providers in a geographic area. Despite benefits from HIE, HIOs have s...

    Authors: Sunny C. Lin and Julia Adler-Milstein
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:28
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Although evidence-based practice in healthcare has been facilitated by Internet access through wireless mobile devices, research on the effectiveness of clinical decision support for clinicians at the point of...

    Authors: Kyungsook Gartrell, Caitlin W. Brennan, Gwenyth R. Wallen, Fang Liu, Karen G. Smith and Paul Fontelo
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:27
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. After publication of the original article [1] it was noted that the name of author, Peter Jack, was erroneously typeset in both the PDF and online formats of the manuscript as Peter Jack GradDipIndigH.

    Authors: K. S. Kylie Lee, Scott Wilson, Jimmy Perry, Robin Room, Sarah Callinan, Robert Assan, Noel Hayman, Tanya Chikritzhs, Dennis Gray, Edward Wilkes, Peter Jack and Katherine M. Conigrave
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:26
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:8

  32. After publication of the original article [1] it was noted that the captions relating to Figs. 2 and 3 had been interchanged.

    Authors: Tianyong Hao, Xiaoyi Pan, Zhiying Gu, Yingying Qu and Heng Weng
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:25
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:22

  33. There is potential for medical research on the basis of routine data used from general practice electronic health records (GP eHRs), even in areas where there is no common GP research platform. We present a ca...

    Authors: Šefket Šabanović, Majnarić Trtica Ljiljana, František Babič, Michal Vadovský, Ján Paralič, Aleksandar Včev and Andreas Holzinger
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:24
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. The aim of this study was the development and evaluation of an algorithm-based diagnosis-tool, applicable on mobile phones, to support guardians in providing appropriate care to sick children.

    Authors: Konstantin H. Franke, Ralf Krumkamp, Aliyu Mohammed, Nimako Sarpong, Ellis Owusu-Dabo, Johanna Brinkel, Julius N. Fobil, Axel Bonacic Marinovic, Philip Asihene, Mark Boots, Jürgen May and Benno Kreuels
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:23
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. Temporal expression extraction and normalization is a fundamental and essential step in clinical text processing and analyzing. Though a variety of commonly used NLP tools are available for medical temporal in...

    Authors: Tianyong Hao, Xiaoyi Pan, Zhiying Gu, Yingying Qu and Heng Weng
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18(Suppl 1):22
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 1

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:25

  36. De-identification is the first step to use these records for data processing or further medical investigations in electronic medical records. Consequently, a reliable automated de-identification system would b...

    Authors: Yue-Shu Zhao, Kun-Li Zhang, Hong-Chao Ma and Kun Li
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18(Suppl 1):18
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 1

  37. Identifying targets of herbs is a primary step for investigating pharmacological mechanisms of herbal drugs in Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Experimental targets identification of herbs is a difficult an...

    Authors: Kuo Yang, Guangming Liu, Ning Wang, Runshun Zhang, Jian Yu, Jianxin Chen and Xuezhong Zhou
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18(Suppl 1):17
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 1

  38. Health question-answering (QA) systems have become a typical application scenario of Artificial Intelligent (AI). An annotated question corpus is prerequisite for training machines to understand health informa...

    Authors: Haihong Guo, Xu Na and Jiao Li
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18(Suppl 1):16
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 1

  39. Clinical data registry is designed to collect and manage information about the practices and outcomes of a patient population for improving the quality and safety of care and facilitating novel researches. Sem...

    Authors: Lingtong Min, Qi Tian, Xudong Lu, Jiye An and Huilong Duan
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18(Suppl 1):15
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 1

  40. Natural language processing (NLP) has become an increasingly significant role in advancing medicine. Rich research achievements of NLP methods and applications for medical information processing are available....

    Authors: Xieling Chen, Haoran Xie, Fu Lee Wang, Ziqing Liu, Juan Xu and Tianyong Hao
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18(Suppl 1):14
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 1

  41. Acute kidney injury (AKI), characterized by abrupt deterioration of renal function, is a common clinical event among hospitalized patients and it is associated with high morbidity and mortality. AKI is defined...

    Authors: Weiqi Chen, Yong Hu, Xiangzhou Zhang, Lijuan Wu, Kang Liu, Jianqin He, Zilin Tang, Xing Song, Lemuel R. Waitman and Mei Liu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18(Suppl 1):13
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 1

  42. The use of measurement instruments has become a major issue in physical therapy, but their use in daily practice is rare. The aim of this paper is to describe adherence to standardized assessments by physical ...

    Authors: Tania Gutiérrez Panchana and Viviane Hidalgo Cabalín
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:21
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. The frequency of head computed tomography (CT) imaging for mild head trauma patients has raised safety and cost concerns. Validated clinical decision rules exist in the published literature and on-line sources...

    Authors: Ronald W. Gimbel, Ronald G. Pirrallo, Steven C. Lowe, David W. Wright, Lu Zhang, Min-Jae Woo, Paul Fontelo, Fang Liu and Zachary Connor
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:20
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a style of traditional medicine informed by modern medicine but built on a foundation of more than 2500 years of Chinese medical practice. According to statistics, TCM acc...

    Authors: Jian-Xiang Wei, Jing Wang, Yun-Xia Zhu, Jun Sun, Hou-Ming Xu and Ming Li
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:19
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Mobile health (mHealth) has continuously been used as a method in behavioral research to improve self-management in patients with chronic diseases. However, the evidence of its effectiveness in chronic disease...

    Authors: Jung-Ah Lee, Mona Choi, Sang A Lee and Natalie Jiang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:12
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Patient portals are considered valuable instruments for self-management of long term conditions, however, there are concerns over how patients might interpret and act on the clinical information they access. W...

    Authors: Paolo Fraccaro, Markel Vigo, Panagiotis Balatsoukas, Sabine N. van der Veer, Lamiece Hassan, Richard Williams, Grahame Wood, Smeeta Sinha, Iain Buchan and Niels Peek
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:11
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Large healthcare databases, with their ability to collect many variables from daily medical practice, greatly enable health services research. These longitudinal databases provide large cohorts and longitudina...

    Authors: Daniel I. Rhon, Derek Clewley, Jodi L. Young, Charles D. Sissel and Chad E. Cook
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:10
    Content type: Database Published on:

  48. Medical coding is used for a variety of activities, from observational studies to hospital billing. However, comorbidities tend to be under-reported by medical coders. The aim of this study was to develop an a...

    Authors: Emmanuelle Sylvestre, Guillaume Bouzillé, Emmanuel Chazard, Cécil His-Mahier, Christine Riou and Marc Cuggia
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:9
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. The challenges of assessing alcohol consumption can be greater in Indigenous communities where there may be culturally distinct approaches to communication, sharing of drinking containers and episodic patterns...

    Authors: KS Kylie Lee, Scott Wilson, Jimmy Perry, Robin Room, Sarah Callinan, Robert Assan, Noel Hayman, Tanya Chikritzhs, Dennis Gray, Edward Wilkes, Peter Jack and Katherine M. Conigrave
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:8
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:26

  50. The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued recommendations for older, heavy lifetime smokers to complete annual low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scans of the chest as screening for lun...

    Authors: Daniel S. Reuland, Laura Cubillos, Alison T. Brenner, Russell P. Harris, Bailey Minish and Michael P. Pignone
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:5
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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