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  1. 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:

  2. 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
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:26

  3. The chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a worldwide critical problem, especially in developing countries. CKD patients usually begin their treatment in advanced stages, which requires dialysis and kidney transplan...

    Authors: Alvaro Sobrinho, Leandro Dias da Silva, Angelo Perkusich, Maria Eliete Pinheiro and Paulo Cunha
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:7
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. 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:

  6. The evolving role of pharmacists in providing pharmaceutical care, as part of the healthcare team, challenges them to acquire up-to-date knowledge of medicines to make the best clinical decisions. The volume o...

    Authors: Ali Jasem Buabbas, Fatemah Mohammad Alsaleh, Hamza Mohamad Al-Shawaf, Ali Abdullah and Abdullah Almajran
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:4
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Healthcare work is, to a considerable extent, cognitive. Subsequently, the analysis and the design of supporting technology must be sensitive to the cognitive and adaptive demands of the work and to the cognit...

    Authors: Gavan Lintern and Al Motavalli
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:3
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  8. Traditional survey methods are limited in the study of hidden populations due to the hard to access properties, including lack of a sampling frame, sensitivity issue, reporting error, small sample size, etc. T...

    Authors: Chuchu Liu and Xin Lu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:2
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. The identification of patients at high risk of unplanned readmission is an important component of discharge planning strategies aimed at preventing unwanted returns to hospital. The aim of this study was to in...

    Authors: Yashar Maali, Oscar Perez-Concha, Enrico Coiera, David Roffe, Richard O. Day and Blanca Gallego
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2018 18:1
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. In Bangladesh, similar to its other South Asian counterparts, shortage of health workers along with inadequate infrastructure constitute some of the major obstacles for the equitable provision of reproductive ...

    Authors: Ghose Bishwajit, Md. Rakibul Hoque and Sanni Yaya
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:182
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. Telemedicine is changing traditional nursing care, and entails nurses performing advanced and complex care within a new clinical environment, and monitoring patients at a distance. Telemedicine practice requir...

    Authors: Tina Lien Barken, Elin Thygesen and Ulrika Söderhamn
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:181
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  12. Norway has a long history of using telemedicine, especially for geographical reasons. Despite the availability of promising telemedicine applications and the implementation of national initiatives and policies...

    Authors: H. Alami, M. P. Gagnon, R. Wootton, J. P. Fortin and P. Zanaboni
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:180
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  13. We studied the impact of a clinical decision support system (CDSS) implemented in a few wards of two Italian health care organizations on the ordering of redundant laboratory tests under different perspectives...

    Authors: Elena Bellodi, Emidia Vagnoni, Barbara Bonvento and Evelina Lamma
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:179
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  14. Little research has examined how physicians choose medical devices for treating individual patients to reveal if interventions are needed to support decision-making and reduce device-associated morbidity and m...

    Authors: Anna R. Gagliardi, Ariel Ducey, Pascale Lehoux, Thomas Turgeon, Jeremy Kolbunik, Sue Ross, Patricia Trbovich, Anthony Easty, Chaim Bell and David R. Urbach
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:178
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  15. Claims data are currently widely used as source data in asthma studies. However, the insufficient information in claims data related to level of asthma severity may negatively impact study findings. The presen...

    Authors: Tsung-Hsien Yu, Pin-Kuei Fu and Yu-Chi Tung
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:177
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma are considered as the two most widespread obstructive lung diseases, whereas they affect more than 500 million people worldwide. Unfortunately, the requi...

    Authors: Antonios Lalas, Stavros Nousias, Dimitrios Kikidis, Aris Lalos, Gerasimos Arvanitis, Christos Sougles, Konstantinos Moustakas, Konstantinos Votis, Sylvia Verbanck, Omar Usmani and Dimitrios Tzovaras
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17(Suppl 3):173
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 3

  17. Cardiac diseases represent the leading cause of sudden death worldwide. During the development of cardiac diseases, the left ventricle (LV) changes obviously in structure and function. LV motion estimation pla...

    Authors: Zhengrui Zhang, Xuan Yang, Cong Tan, Wei Guo and Guoliang Chen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17(Suppl 3):172
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 3

  18. Biomedical event extraction is one of the most frontier domains in biomedical research. The two main subtasks of biomedical event extraction are trigger identification and arguments detection which can both be...

    Authors: Anran Wang, Jian Wang, Hongfei Lin, Jianhai Zhang, Zhihao Yang and Kan Xu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17(Suppl 3):171
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 3

  19. Collaboration between humans and computers has become pervasive and ubiquitous, however current computer systems are limited in that they fail to address the emotional component. An accurate understanding of h...

    Authors: Jing Chen, Bin Hu, Yue Wang, Philip Moore, Yongqiang Dai, Lei Feng and Zhijie Ding
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17(Suppl 3):167
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 3

  20. Schizophrenia is a kind of serious mental illness. Due to the lack of an objective physiological data supporting and a unified data analysis method, doctors can only rely on the subjective experience of the da...

    Authors: Hong Song, Lei Chen, RuiQi Gao, Iordachescu Ilie Mihaita Bogdan, Jian Yang, Shuliang Wang, Wentian Dong, Wenxiang Quan, Weimin Dang and Xin Yu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17(Suppl 3):166
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 3

  21. The use of health information technology (IT) has been shown to promote patient safety in Labor and Delivery (L&D) units. The use of health IT to apply safety science principles (e.g., standardization) to L&D ...

    Authors: Jennifer Webb, Asta Sorensen, Samantha Sommerness, Beth Lasater, Kamila Mistry and Leila Kahwati
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:176
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. It is beneficial for health care institutions to monitor physician prescribing patterns to ensure that high-quality and cost-effective care is being provided to patients. However, detecting treatment patterns ...

    Authors: Daniel Backenroth, Herbert S. Chase, Ying Wei and Carol Friedman
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:175
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  23. Prior studies have demonstrated that cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is a strong marker of cardiovascular health. Machine learning (ML) can enhance the prediction of outcomes through classification techniques ...

    Authors: Sherif Sakr, Radwa Elshawi, Amjad M. Ahmed, Waqas T. Qureshi, Clinton A. Brawner, Steven J. Keteyian, Michael J. Blaha and Mouaz H. Al-Mallah
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:174
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. Safety checklist is a type of cognitive tool enforcing short term memory of medical workers with the purpose of reducing medical errors caused by overlook and ignorance. To facilitate the daily use of safety c...

    Authors: Shan Nan, Pieter Van Gorp, Xudong Lu, Uzay Kaymak, Hendrikus Korsten, Richard Vdovjak and Huilong Duan
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:170
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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

    Authors: Gyuri Kim, Ji Cheol Bae, Byoung Kee Yi, Kyu Yeon Hur, Dong Kyung Chang, Moon-Kyu Lee, Jae Hyeon Kim and Sang-Man Jin
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:169
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:109

  26. Antimicrobial Resistance is threatening our ability to treat common infectious diseases and overuse of antimicrobials to treat human infections in hospitals is accelerating this process. Clinical Decision Supp...

    Authors: Bernard Hernandez, Pau Herrero, Timothy Miles Rawson, Luke S. P. Moore, Benjamin Evans, Christofer Toumazou, Alison H. Holmes and Pantelis Georgiou
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:168
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. Intensive care information systems (ICIS) are continuously evolving to meet the ever changing information needs of intensive care units (ICUs), providing the backbone for a safe, intelligent and efficient pati...

    Authors: Yanhong Qin, Ranyun Zhou, Qiong Wu, Xiaodi Huang, Xinli Chen, Weiwei Wang, Xun Wang, Hua Xu, Jing Zheng, Siyu Qian, Changqing Bai and Ping Yu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:165
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. Decisions about care options and the use of life-sustaining treatments should be informed by a person’s values and treatment preferences. The objective of this study was to examine the consistency of ratings o...

    Authors: Michelle Howard, Nick Bansback, Amy Tan, Doug Klein, Carrie Bernard, Doris Barwich, Peter Dodek, Aman Nijjar and Daren K. Heyland
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:164
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. Adequate record keeping of medication adverse events in electronic health records systems is important for patient safety. Events that remain unrecorded cannot be communicated from one health professional to a...

    Authors: Sabine E. M. de Hoon, Karin Hek, Liset van Dijk and Robert A. Verheij
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:163
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is one of the fastest-growing developmental disorders in the United States. It was hypothesized that variations in the placental chorionic surface vascular network (PCSVN) struct...

    Authors: Jen-Mei Chang, Hui Zeng, Ruxu Han, Ya-Mei Chang, Ruchit Shah, Carolyn M. Salafia, Craig Newschaffer, Richard K. Miller, Philip Katzman, Jack Moye, Margaret Fallin, Cheryl K. Walker and Lisa Croen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:162
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. Commonly used methods to assess cognition, such as direct observation, self-report, or neuropsychological testing, have significant limitations. Therefore, a novel tablet computer-based video simulation was cr...

    Authors: Edward H. Ip, Ryan Barnard, Sarah A. Marshall, Lingyi Lu, Kaycee Sink, Valerie Wilson, Dana Chamberlain and Stephen R. Rapp
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:161
    Content type: Software Published on:

  32. To implement informed shared decision-making (ISDM) in breast care centres, we developed and piloted an inter-professional complex intervention.

    Authors: Birte Berger-Höger, Katrin Liethmann, Ingrid Mühlhauser and Anke Steckelberg
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:160
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. Electronic rating scales represent an important resource for standardized data collection. However, the ability to exploit reasoning on rating scale data is still limited. The objective of this work is to faci...

    Authors: Haitham Maarouf, María Taboada, Hadriana Rodriguez, Manuel Arias, Ángel Sesar and María Jesús Sobrido
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:159
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. Since the emergence of electronic health records, nursing information is increasingly being recorded and stored digitally. Several studies have shown that a wide range of nursing information is not interoperab...

    Authors: R. A. M. M. Kieft, E. M. Vreeke, E. M. de Groot, P. A. Volkert, A. L. Francke and D. M. J. Delnoij
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:158
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. This study aimed to validate an algorithm that determines stroke diagnostic code accuracy, in a hospital-based cancer registry, using electronic medical records (EMRs) in Japan.

    Authors: Yasufumi Gon, Daijiro Kabata, Keichi Yamamoto, Ayumi Shintani, Kenichi Todo, Hideki Mochizuki and Manabu Sakaguchi
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:157
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. Despite the introduction of the Millennium Development Goal to reduce maternal deaths from 400 to 100 per 100,000 live births, the proportion of maternal deaths is still much higher in most developing countrie...

    Authors: Pedro Pagalday-Olivares, Bengt Arne Sjöqvist, Jessy Adjordor-van de Beek, Samuel Abudey, Ants R. Silberberg and Ruben Buendia
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:156
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. The medical subdomain of a clinical note, such as cardiology or neurology, is useful content-derived metadata for developing machine learning downstream applications. To classify the medical subdomain of a not...

    Authors: Wei-Hung Weng, Kavishwar B. Wagholikar, Alexa T. McCray, Peter Szolovits and Henry C. Chueh
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:155
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Physicians’ guideline use rates for diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of diabetes mellitus (DM) is very low. Time constraints, patient overpopulation, and complex guidelines require alternative solutions for...

    Authors: Özge Kart, Vildan Mevsim, Alp Kut, İsmail Yürek, Ayşe Özge Altın and Oğuz Yılmaz
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:154
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  39. Surveys of patients suggest many want to be actively involved in treatment decisions for acute coronary syndromes. However, patient experiences of their engagement and participation in early phase decision-mak...

    Authors: Todd Wilson, Jean Miller, Sylvia Teare, Colin Penman, Winnie Pearson, Nancy J. Marlett, Svetlana Shklarov, P. Diane Galbraith, Danielle A. Southern, Merril L. Knudtson, Colleen M. Norris, Matthew T. James and Stephen B. Wilton
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:153
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Even small variations of serum sodium concentration may be associated with mortality. Our objective was to confirm the impact of borderline dysnatremia for patients admitted to hospital on in-hospital mortalit...

    Authors: Yannick Girardeau, Anne-Sophie Jannot, Gilles Chatellier and Olivier Saint-Jean
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:152
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. To test the application of Business Process Management technology to manage clinical pathways, using a pediatric kidney transplantation as case study, and to identify the benefits obtained from using this tech...

    Authors: Martina Andellini, Sandra Fernandez Riesgo, Federica Morolli, Matteo Ritrovato, Piero Cosoli, Silverio Petruzzellis and Nicola Rosso
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:151
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) has appeared as a methodology to address limitations of economic evaluation in health technology assessment (HTA), however there are limited empirical evidence from r...

    Authors: Aris Angelis, Gilberto Montibeller, Daniel Hochhauser and Panos Kanavos
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:149
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. 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...

    Authors: S. Oberbichler, W. O. Hackl and A. Hörbst
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:148
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. 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...

    Authors: Tarja Heponiemi, Hannele Hyppönen, Tuulikki Vehko, Sari Kujala, Anna-Mari Aalto, Jukka Vänskä and Marko Elovainio
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:147
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. 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...

    Authors: Alexander Olaussen, William Semple, Alaa Oteir, Paula Todd and Brett Williams
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:146
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. 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...

    Authors: Andrija S. Grustam, Hubertus J. M. Vrijhoef, Ron Koymans, Philipp Hukal and Johan L. Severens
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:145
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. 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...

    Authors: Diana Harcourt, Nicole Paraskeva, Paul White, Jane Powell and Alex Clarke
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:143
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  49. 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...

    Authors: Amelia Barwise, Sean Caples, Jeffrey Jensen, Brian Pickering and Vitaly Herasevich
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:142
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. 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...

    Authors: Lisa Parker, Tanya Karliychuk, Donna Gillies, Barbara Mintzes, Melissa Raven and Quinn Grundy
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:141
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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