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  1. 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

  2. A common challenge with all opioid use disorder treatment paths is withdrawal management. When withdrawal symptoms are not effectively monitored and managed, they lead to relapse which often leads to deadly ov...

    Authors: Joseph K. Nuamah, Farzan Sasangohar, Madhav Erraguntla and Ranjana K. Mehta
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2019 19:113
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2019 19:126

  3. It is becoming increasingly common for individuals and organizations to use social media platforms such as Facebook. These are being used for a wide variety of purposes including disseminating, discussing and ...

    Authors: Sanmitra Bhattacharya, Padmini Srinivasan and Philip Polgreen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:49
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. The Internet is valuable for those with limited access to health care services because of its low cost and wealth of information. Our objectives were to investigate how the Internet is used to obtain health-re...

    Authors: Susan L. Perez, Richard L. Kravitz, Robert A. Bell, Man Shan Chan and Debora A. Paterniti
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:107
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. 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:

  6. Lack of usability can be a major barrier for the rapid adoption of mobile services. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the usability of Mobile Health applications in Bangladesh.

    Authors: Muhammad Nazrul Islam, Md. Mahboob Karim, Toki Tahmid Inan and A. K. M. Najmul Islam
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2020 20:19
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Despite advances in diagnosis and treatment of type 2 diabetes, suboptimal metabolic control persists. Patient education in diabetes has been proved to enhance self-efficacy and guideline-driven treatment, how...

    Authors: I. Odnoletkova, H. Buysse, F. Nobels, G. Goderis, B. Aertgeerts, L. Annemans and D. Ramaekers
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:142
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. Digital health interventions using hybrid delivery models may offer efficient alternatives to traditional behavioral counseling by addressing obstacles of time, resources, and knowledge. Using a computer-facil...

    Authors: Anna María Nápoles, Nicole Appelle, Sara Kalkhoran, Maya Vijayaraghavan, Nicholas Alvarado and Jason Satterfield
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:44
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Information and communication technologies have become a vital infrastructural asset for use in the retention of rural health workers. However, little is known about the potential influence of ICT use, percept...

    Authors: Walter Onen Yagos, Geoffrey Tabo Olok and Emilio Ovuga
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:6
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. Since clinical management of heart failure relies on weights that are self-reported by the patient, errors in reporting will negatively impact the ability of health care professionals to offer timely and effec...

    Authors: Adam Steventon, Sarwat I. Chaudhry, Zhenqiu Lin, Jennifer A. Mattera and Harlan M. Krumholz
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:43
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. 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:

  13. A growing body of literature affirms the usefulness of mobile technologies, including mobile applications (apps), in the primary prevention field. The quality of health apps, which today number in the thousand...

    Authors: Alexander Domnich, Lucia Arata, Daniela Amicizia, Alessio Signori, Bernard Patrick, Stoyan Stoyanov, Leanne Hides, Roberto Gasparini and Donatella Panatto
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:83
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Mobile health has potential for promotion of self-management in patients with chronic diseases. This study was conducted to investigate smartphone usage in patients with type II diabetes and their intention to...

    Authors: Fatemeh Rangraz Jeddi, Ehsan Nabovati, Rahele Hamidi and Reihane Sharif
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2020 20:24
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. Low back pain is the highest reported musculoskeletal problem worldwide. Up to 90 % of patients with low back pain have no clear explanation for the source and origin of their pain. These individuals commonly ...

    Authors: Fran Valenzuela-Pascual, Fidel Molina, Francisco Corbi, Joan Blanco-Blanco, Rosa M. Gil and Jorge Soler-Gonzalez
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:97
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  17. Recognising the limitations of a paper-based approach to documenting vital sign observations and responding to national clinical guidelines, we have explored the use of an electronic solution that could improv...

    Authors: David Wong, Timothy Bonnici, Julia Knight, Lauren Morgan, Paul Coombes and Peter Watkinson
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:68
    Content type: Software Published on:

  18. We developed Supportive care Prioritization, Assessment and Recommendations for Kids (SPARK), a web-based application designed to facilitate symptom screening by children receiving cancer treatments and access...

    Authors: Sadie Cook, Emily Vettese, Dilip Soman, Shannon Hyslop, Susan Kuczynski, Brenda Spiegler, Hailey Davis, Nathan Duong, Stacee Ou Wai, Robert Golabek, Patryk Golabek, Adam Antoszek-Rallo, Tal Schechter, L. Lee Dupuis and Lillian Sung
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2019 19:9
    Content type: Software Published on:

  19. Key barriers to healthcare use in rural Ghana include those of economic, social, cultural and institutional. Amid this, though rarely recognised in Ghanaian healthcare settings, mHealth technology has emerged ...

    Authors: Prince Peprah, Emmanuel Mawuli Abalo, Williams Agyemang-Duah, Hayford Isaac Budu, Emmanuel Appiah-Brempong, Anthony Kwame Morgan and Adjei Gyimah Akwasi
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2020 20:27
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) can slow or reverse the progression of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, uptake of community-based CR is very low. E-cardiology, e-health and technology solutions for physical ...

    Authors: Roselien Buys, Jomme Claes, Deirdre Walsh, Nils Cornelis, Kieran Moran, Werner Budts, Catherine Woods and Véronique A. Cornelissen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:95
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Although the factors that affect the end-user’s intention to use a new system and technology have been researched, the previous studies have been theoretical and do not verify the factors that affected the ado...

    Authors: Seok Kim, Kee-Hyuck Lee, Hee Hwang and Sooyoung Yoo
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:12
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Sharing test results with patients via patient web portals is a new trend in healthcare. No research has been done examining patient web portal use with bone density test results. The objective of our study wa...

    Authors: Stephanie Edmonds, Yiyue Lou, Brandi Robinson, Peter Cram, Douglas W. Roblin, Nicole C. Wright, Kenneth Saag and Fredric D. Wolinsky
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2019 19:187
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Technology has significantly changed the way health organizations operate. However, the role it plays in healthcare systems remains unclear. This aim of this study was to evaluate the opinion of physicians reg...

    Authors: Maria Dolors Ruiz Morilla, Mireia Sans, Albert Casasa and Nuria Giménez
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:92
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. Chronic conditions present major health problems, affecting an increasing number of individuals who experience a variety of symptoms that impact their health related quality of life. Digital tools can be of su...

    Authors: Berit Seljelid, Cecilie Varsi, Lise Solberg Nes, Aud-E Stenehjem, Jens Bollerslev and Elin Børøsund
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2020 20:46
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Health care service is a high-credence service and patients may face difficulties ascertaining service quality in order to make choices about their available treatment options. Online health communities (OHCs)...

    Authors: Naiji Lu and Hong Wu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:151
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. For many eServices, end-user trust is a crucial prerequisite for use. Within the context of Telemedicine, the role of trust has hardly ever been studied. In this study, we explored what determines trust in por...

    Authors: Lex Van Velsen, Sabine Wildevuur, Ina Flierman, Boris Van Schooten, Monique Tabak and Hermie Hermens
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:11
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. Non-adherence to Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) is strongly associated with virologic rebound and drug resistance. Studies have shown that the most frequently mentioned reason for missing ART doses is the forg...

    Authors: Mihiretu Kebede, Atinkut Zeleke, Mulusew Asemahagn and Fleur Fritz
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:65
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. 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:

  29. 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:

  30. Despite the growing use of technology in the health sector, little evidence is available on the technological performance of mobile health programs nor on the willingness of target users to utilize these techn...

    Authors: Amnesty E. LeFevre, Diwakar Mohan, David Hutchful, Larissa Jennings, Garrett Mehl, Alain Labrique, Karen Romano and Anitha Moorthy
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:27
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. Quality of care public reporting provides structural, process and outcome information to facilitate hospital choice and strengthen quality competition. Yet, evidence indicates that patients rarely use this inf...

    Authors: Christoph Pross, Lars-Henrik Averdunk, Josip Stjepanovic, Reinhard Busse and Alexander Geissler
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:48
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. New Specific Application Domain (SAD) heuristics or design principles are being developed to guide the design and evaluation of mobile applications in a bid to improve on the usability of these applications. T...

    Authors: Alice Mugisha, Victoria Nankabirwa, Thorkild Tylleskär and Ankica Babic
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2019 19:4
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. Malnutrition is one of the most important reasons for child mortality in developing countries, especially during the first 5 years of life. We set out to systematically review evaluations of interventions that...

    Authors: Navisa Seyyedi, Bahlol Rahimi, Hamid Reza Farrokh Eslamlou, Toomas Timpka and Hadi Lotfnezhad Afshar
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2019 19:83
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. The provision of medical services by Medical Teams (MT) on Online Healthcare Communities (OHCs) is a novel method employed by geographically-dispersed healthcare professionals to serve one patient simultaneous...

    Authors: Jiaying Li, Hong Wu, Zhaohua Deng, Naiji Lu, Richard Evans and Chenxi Xia
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2019 19:119
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. Electronic patient portals are increasingly being implemented, also in (haemato) oncology. However, portal usage is low and depends on user and provider engagement. We explored wishes, expectations and thought...

    Authors: Paul A. F. Geerts, Trudy van der Weijden, Pien G. M. Loeffen, Lise E. F. Janssen, Celine Almekinders, Tobias A. Wienhold and Gerard M. J. Bos
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2019 19:129
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. Cloud based health platforms (CBHP) have tremendous capacity to meet patient’s health needs. The benefits inherent in CBHP position it to be relevant for efficient healthcare delivery. Nonetheless, studies hav...

    Authors: Patience E. Idoga, Mehmet Toycan, Halil Nadiri and Erbuğ Çelebi
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2019 19:34
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. 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:

  38. 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:

  39. The objective of this research is to examine, conceptualize, and empirically validate a model of mobile health (mHealth) impacts on physicians’ perceived quality of care delivery (PQoC).

    Authors: Yvonne O’Connor, Pavel Andreev and Philip O’Reilly
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2020 20:41
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Around 300 million people worldwide have asthma and prevalence is increasing. Self-management can be effective in improving a range of outcomes and is cost effective, but is underutilised as a treatment strate...

    Authors: Deborah Morrison, Frances S. Mair, Rekha Chaudhuri, Marilyn McGee-Lennon, Mike Thomas, Neil C. Thomson, Lucy Yardley and Sally Wyke
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:57
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Falls are the main cause of death and injury for older adults in the UK. Many of these falls occur within the home as a result of extrinsic falls risk factors such as poor lighting, loose/uneven flooring, and ...

    Authors: Arthur G. Money, Anita Atwal, Emily Boyce, Sophie Gaber, Susan Windeatt and Kyriakos Alexandrou
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2019 19:85
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Management of diabetes through improved glycemic control and risk factor modification can help prevent long-term complications. Much diabetes management is self-management, in which healthcare providers play a...

    Authors: Laura Desveaux, Payal Agarwal, Jay Shaw, Jennifer M. Hensel, Geetha Mukerji, Nike Onabajo, Husayn Marani, Trevor Jamieson, Onil Bhattacharyya, Danielle Martin, Muhammad Mamdani, Lianne Jeffs, Walter P. Wodchis, Noah M. Ivers and R. Sacha Bhatia
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:144
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  43. Health and social care interventions show promise as a way of managing the progression of frailty in older adults. Information technology could improve the availability of interventions and services for older ...

    Authors: Holly Gwyther, Lex van Velsen, Rachel L. Shaw, Barbara D’Avanzo, Maria Bujnowska-Fedak, Donata Kurpas, Katarzyna Szwamel, Jan-Willem van’t Klooster and Carol Holland
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2019 19:110
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Improving retention in prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV programs is critical to optimize maternal and infant health outcomes, especially now that lifelong treatment is immediate regard...

    Authors: Patricia Opondo Awiti, Alessandra Grotta, Mia van der Kop, John Dusabe, Anna Thorson, Jonathan Mwangi, Rino Belloco, Richard Lester, Laura Ternent, Edwin Were and Anna Mia Ekström
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:86
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  46. Before patients are admitted into the emergency department, it is important to undertake a pre-hospital process, both in terms of treatment performance and a request for resources from an emergency unit. The e...

    Authors: Krongkarn Sutham, Pattaraporn Khuwuthyakorn and Orawit Thinnukool
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2020 20:66
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. In low-income settings, community health workers (CHWs) are frequently the first point of contact for newborns. Mobile technology may aid health workers in classifying illness and providing referral and manage...

    Authors: Lauren E. Schaeffer, Salahuddin Ahmed, Mahmoodur Rahman, Rachel Whelan, Sayedur Rahman, Arunangshu Dutta Roy, Tanzia Ahmed Nijhum, Nazmun Nahar Bably, Helen D’Couto, Carly Hudelson, Iffat Ara Jaben, Sayed Rubayet, Abdullah Baqui and Anne CC Lee
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2019 19:116
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. The internet is an increasingly relevant source of health information. We aimed to assess the quality of German dentists’ websites on periodontitis, hypothesizing that it was significantly associated with a nu...

    Authors: Falk Schwendicke, Jörg Stange, Claudia Stange and Christian Graetz
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:114
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Despite WHO guidelines for testing all suspected cases of malaria before initiating treatment, presumptive malaria treatment remains common practice among some clinicians and in certain low-resource settings t...

    Authors: S. Smith, R. Koech, D. Nzorubara, M. Otieno, L. Wong, G. Bhat, E. van den Bogaart, M. Thuranira, D. Onchonga and T. F. Rinke de Wit
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2019 19:139
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  50. Information and communications technologies, like social media, have the potential to reduce some barriers in disease prevention and control in the Americas. National health authorities can use these technolog...

    Authors: David Novillo-Ortiz and Tony Hernández-Pérez
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:16
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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