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  1. Recently, machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL), and natural language processing (NLP) have provided promising results in the free-form radiological reports’ classification in the respective medical domain...

    Authors: Sadam Hussain, Usman Naseem, Mansoor Ali, Daly Betzabeth Avendaño Avalos, Servando Cardona-Huerta, Beatriz Alejandra Bosques Palomo and Jose Gerardo Tamez-Peña
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:310
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  2. The mechanism for recording International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and diagnosis related groups (DRG) codes in a patient’s chart is through a certified medical coder who manually reviews the medical re...

    Authors: Eilon Gabel, Jonathan Gal, Tristan Grogan and Ira Hofer
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:309
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  4. Remote monitoring can strengthen postoperative care in the community and minimise the burden of complications. However, implementation requires a clear understanding of how to sustainably integrate such comple...

    Authors: Kenneth A. McLean, Alessandro Sgrò, Leo R. Brown, Louis F. Buijs, Kirsty Mozolowski, Luke Daines, Kathrin Cresswell, Mark A. Potter, Matt-Mouley Bouamrane and Ewen M. Harrison
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:307
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  5. Familiar cardiopathies are genetic disorders that affect the heart. Cardiologists face a significant problem when treating patients suffering from these disorders: most DNA variations are novel (i.e., they hav...

    Authors: Alberto García S., Mireia Costa, Ana Perez and Oscar Pastor
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 23(Suppl 3):303
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 23 Supplement 3

  6. People who use drugs (PWUD) often face restricted healthcare access despite their heightened healthcare needs. Factors such as stigma, mistrust of the healthcare system, competing priorities, and geographical ...

    Authors: Zoi Papalamprakopoulou, Elisavet Ntagianta, Vasiliki Triantafyllou, George Kalamitsis, Arpan Dharia, Suzanne S. Dickerson, Angelos Hatzakis and Andrew H. Talal
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:306
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  7. With the recent surge in the utilization of electronic health records for cognitive decline, the research community has turned its attention to conducting fine-grained analyses of dementia onset using advanced...

    Authors: Muskan Garg, Sara Hejazi, Sunyang Fu, Maria Vassilaki, Ronald C. Petersen, Jennifer St. Sauver and Sunghwan Sohn
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:305
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  8. Determining the optimal timing of surgical intervention for Neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) poses significant challenges. This study develops a predictive model using the long short-term memory networ...

    Authors: Cheng Cui, Ling Qiu, Ling Li, Fei-Long Chen, Xiao Liu, Huan Sun, Xiao-Chen Liu, Lei Bao and Lu-Quan Li
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:304
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  9. As digital healthcare services handle increasingly more sensitive health data, robust access control methods are required. Especially in emergency conditions, where the patient’s health situation is in peril, ...

    Authors: Evgenia Psarra, Dimitris Apostolou, Yiannis Verginadis, Ioannis Patiniotakis and Gregoris Mentzas
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:303
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  10. Outcome measures are crucial to support a treat-to-target approach to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) care, yet their integration into clinical practice remains inconsistent. We developed an Electronic Heath Record-...

    Authors: Catherine Nasrallah, Cherish Wilson, Alicia Hamblin, Christine Hariz, Cammie Young, Jing Li, Jinoos Yazdany and Gabriela Schmajuk
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:302
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  11. Antibiotic resistant infections cause over 700,000 deaths worldwide annually. As antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) helps minimise the emergence of antibiotic resistance resulting from inappropriate use of antibi...

    Authors: Christopher J. Weir, Susan Hinder, Imad Adamestam, Rona Sharp, Holly Ennis, Andrew Heed, Robin Williams, Kathrin Cresswell, Omara Dogar, Sarah Pontefract, Jamie Coleman, Richard Lilford, Neil Watson, Ann Slee, Antony Chuter, Jillian Beggs…
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:301
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  12. The widespread adoption of Hospital Information Systems (HIS) has brought significant benefits in healthcare quality and workflow efficiency. However, downtimes for system maintenance are inevitable and pose a...

    Authors: Inhae Jo, Woojin Kim, Younghee Lim, Eunjeong Kang, Jinung Kim, Hyekyung Chung, Jihae Kim, Eunhye Kang and Yoon Bin Jung
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:300
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  13. Ovarian cancer is a formidable health challenge that demands accurate and timely survival predictions to guide clinical interventions. Existing methods, while commendable, suffer from limitations in harnessing...

    Authors: G. S. Pradeep Ghantasala, Kumar Dilip, Pellakuri Vidyullatha, Sarah Allabun, Mohammed S. Alqahtani, Manal Othman, Mohamed Abbas and Ben Othman Soufiene
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:299
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  14. The use of machine learning (ML) in mental health (MH) research is increasing, especially as new, more complex data types become available to analyze. By examining the published literature, this review aims to...

    Authors: Khushbu Khatri Park, Mohammad Saleem, Mohammed Ali Al-Garadi and Abdulaziz Ahmed
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:298
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  15. In Jordan, the confluence of traffic congestion and overcrowding in public hospitals poses a significant challenge for patients to collect their medications timely. This challenge was further intensified durin...

    Authors: Ayah Elshebli, Ghaleb Sweis, Ahmad Sharaf and Ghaith Al Jaghbeer
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:297
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  16. Social and behavioral determinants of health (SBDH) are associated with a variety of health and utilization outcomes, yet these factors are not routinely documented in the structured fields of electronic healt...

    Authors: Sujoy Roy, Shane Morrell, Lili Zhao and Ramin Homayouni
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:296
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  17. Overcrowding and extended waiting times in emergency departments are a pervasive issue, leading to patient dissatisfaction. This study aims to compare the efficacy of two process mining and simulation models i...

    Authors: Fereshteh Davari, Mehdi Nasr Isfahani, Arezoo Atighechian and Erfan Ghobadian
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:295
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  18. In recent years, mobile medical technology has made great progress in chronic disease management, but its application in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) still needs to be clarified.

    Authors: Wenlin Xu, Xinhai Huang, Qiwang Lin, Tingting Wu, Chengfu Guan, Meina Lv, Wei Hu, Hengfen Dai, Pei Chen, Meijuan Li, Feilong Zhang and Jinhua Zhang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:294
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  19. Forecasting models predicting trends in hospitalization rates have the potential to inform hospital management during seasonal epidemics of respiratory diseases and the associated surges caused by acute hospit...

    Authors: Steffen Albrecht, David Broderick, Katharina Dost, Isabella Cheung, Nhung Nghiem, Milton Wu, Johnny Zhu, Nooriyan Poonawala-Lohani, Sarah Jamison, Damayanthi Rasanathan, Sue Huang, Adrian Trenholme, Alicia Stanley, Shirley Lawrence, Samantha Marsh, Lorraine Castelino…
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:293
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  20. Coronary artery disease is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Coronary angiography is a diagnostic procedure used to detect atherosclerosis. Patients typically experience anxiety and ...

    Authors: Milad Safaei, Amin Mahdavi and Roghayeh Mehdipour-Rabori
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:292
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  21. Evaluating healthcare information systems, such as the Electronic Health Records (EHR), is both challenging and essential, especially in resource-limited countries. This study aims to psychometrically develop ...

    Authors: Radouane Rhayha and Abderrahman Alaoui Ismaili
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:291
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  22. Implementing an electronic system of service categorization and a referral system in healthcare is a strategic approach to improving overall health outcomes and optimizing resource use. This study aimed to inv...

    Authors: Ali Vafaee-Najar, Elaheh Hooshmand, Arefeh Pourtaleb and Hasan Ramezani Chenar
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:290
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  23. Rare diseases pose significant challenges in diagnosis and treatment due to their low prevalence and heterogeneous clinical presentations. Unstructured clinical notes contain valuable information for identifyi...

    Authors: Jinge Wu, Hang Dong, Zexi Li, Haowei Wang, Runci Li, Arijit Patra, Chengliang Dai, Waqar Ali, Phil Scordis and Honghan Wu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:289
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  24. Histopathology is a gold standard for cancer diagnosis. It involves extracting tissue specimens from suspicious areas to prepare a glass slide for a microscopic examination. However, histological tissue proces...

    Authors: Neel Kanwal, Farbod Khoraminia, Umay Kiraz, Andrés Mosquera-Zamudio, Carlos Monteagudo, Emiel A. M. Janssen, Tahlita C. M. Zuiverloon, Chunming Rong and Kjersti Engan
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:288
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  25. Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) is a highly aggressive, prevalent, and deadly type of liver cancer. With the advent of deep learning techniques, significant advancements have been made in simplifying and optimi...

    Authors: Ghada Mostafa, Hamdi Mahmoud, Tarek Abd El-Hafeez and Mohamed E.ElAraby
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:287
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  26. Measures in operations management are pivotal for monitoring and assessing various aspects of hospital performance. Existing literature highlights the importance of regularly updating key management measures t...

    Authors: Wantao Zhang, Yan Zhu, Liqun Tong, Guo Wei and Huajun Zhang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:286
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  27. Significant progress has been made recently with the contribution of technological advances in studies on brain cancer. Regarding this, identifying and correctly classifying tumors is a crucial task in the fie...

    Authors: M.M.Enes Yurtsever, Yilmaz Atay, Bilgehan Arslan and Seref Sagiroglu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:285
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  29. The primary goal of this study is to evaluate the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in understanding and processing complex medical documentation. We chose to focus on the identification of patholog...

    Authors: Ken Cheligeer, Guosong Wu, Alison Laws, May Lynn Quan, Andrea Li, Anne-Marie Brisson, Jason Xie and Yuan Xu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:283
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  30. Wearable sensors have revolutionized cardiac health monitoring, with Seismocardiography (SCG) at the forefront due to its non-invasive nature. However, the substantial motion artefacts have hindered the transl...

    Authors: Geetha N, C. Rohith Bhat, Mahesh TR and Temesgen Engida Yimer
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:282
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  31. Polycystic Ovarian Disease or Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is becoming increasingly communal among women, owing to poor lifestyle choices. According to the research conducted by National Institutes of Heal...

    Authors: Kogilavani Shanmugavadivel, Murali Dhar M S, Mahesh T R, Taher Al-Shehari, Nasser A. Alsadhan and Temesgen Engida Yimer
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:281
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  32. Medical dispute is a global public health issue, which has been garnering increasing attention. In this study, we used machine learning (ML) method to establish a dispute prediction model and explored the clin...

    Authors: Jicheng Li, Tao Zhu, Lin Wang, Luxi Yang, Yulong Zhu, Rui Li, Yubo Li, Yongcong Chen and Lingqing Zhang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:280
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  33. Electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) is an essential technology in the modern health system. This technology has made many changes in the prescription process, which have advantages and disadvantages and hav...

    Authors: Mohamad Jebraeily, Shahryar Naji and Aynaz Nourani
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:279
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  34. Patients undergo regular clinical follow-up after laminoplasty for cervical myelopathy. However, those whose symptoms significantly improve and remain stable do not need to conform to a regular follow-up sched...

    Authors: Yechan Seo, Seoi Jeong, Siyoung Lee, Tae-Shin Kim, Jun-Hoe Kim, Chun Kee Chung, Chang-Hyun Lee, John M. Rhee, Hyoun-Joong Kong and Chi Heon Kim
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:278
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  35. Fibroids are non-cancerous uterine growths that can cause symptoms impacting quality of life. The breadth of treatment options allows for patient-centered preference. While conversation aids are known to facil...

    Authors: Danielle Schubbe, Marie-Anne Durand, Rachel C. Forcino, Jaclyn Engel, Marisa Tomaino, Monica Adams-Foster, Carla Bacon, Carrie Cahill Mulligan, Sateria Venable, Tina Foster, Paul J. Barr, Raymond M. Anchan, Shannon Laughlin-Tommaso, Anne Lindholm, Maya Seshan, Rossella M. Gargiulo…
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:277
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  36. Identifying and managing the most critical side effects encourages patients to take medications regularly and adhere to the course of treatment. Therefore, priority should be given to the more important ones, ...

    Authors: Gökhan Silahtaroğlu, Hasan Dinçer, Serhat Yüksel, Abdurrahman Keskin, Nevin Yılmaztürk and Alperen Kılıç
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:276
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  37. Learning policies for decision-making, such as recommending treatments in clinical settings, is important for enhancing clinical decision-support systems. However, the challenge lies in accurately evaluating a...

    Authors: Hang Wu, Wenqi Shi, Anirudh Choudhary and May D. Wang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:275
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  38. The International Classification of Diseases, 11th Revision (ICD-11) has significantly improved the ability to navigate coding challenges beyond prior iterations of the ICD. Commonly encountered sources of com...

    Authors: Oluseun O. Atolagbe, Patrick S. Romano, Danielle A. Southern, Wachira Wongtanasarasin and William A. Ghali
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 21(Suppl 6):386
    Content type: Review Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 21 Supplement 6

  39. In the age of big data, linked social and administrative health data in combination with machine learning (ML) is being increasingly used to improve prediction in chronic disease, e.g., cardiovascular diseases...

    Authors: Nhung Nghiem, Nick Wilson, Jeremy Krebs and Truyen Tran
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:274
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:308

  40. Decision thresholds play important role in medical decision-making. Individual decision-making differences may be attributable to differences in subjective judgments or cognitive processes that are captured th...

    Authors: Andrew Scarffe, Alison Coates, Kevin Brand and Wojtek Michalowski
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:273
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  41. Women with high-risk breast lesions, such as atypical hyperplasia (AH) or lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS), have a 4- to tenfold increased risk of breast cancer compared to women with non-proliferative breast ...

    Authors: Alissa M. Michel, Haeseung Yi, Jacquelyn Amenta, Nicole Collins, Anna Vaynrub, Subiksha Umakanth, Garnet Anderson, Katie Arnold, Cynthia Law, Sandhya Pruthi, Ana Sandoval-Leon, Rachel Shirley, Maria Grosse Perdekamp, Sarah Colonna, Stacy Krisher, Tari King…
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:272
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  42. Cephalometric analysis has been used as one of the main tools for orthodontic diagnosis and treatment planning. The analysis can be performed manually on acetate tracing sheets, digitally by manual selection o...

    Authors: Rumeesha Zaheer, Hafiza Zobia Shafique, Zahra Khalid, Rooma Shahid, Abdullah Jan, Tooba Zahoor, Ramsha Nawaz and Mehak ul Hassan
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:271
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  43. Early identification of frail patients and early interventional treatment can minimize the frailty-related medical burden. This study investigated the use of machine learning (ML) to detect frailty in hospital...

    Authors: Yin-Yi Chou, Min-Shian Wang, Cheng-Fu Lin, Yu-Shan Lee, Pei-Hua Lee, Shih-Ming Huang, Chieh-Liang Wu and Shih-Yi Lin
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:270
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  45. Invasive micropapillary carcinoma (IMPC) is a rare subtype of breast cancer. Its epidemiological features, treatment principles, and prognostic factors remain controversial.

    Authors: Zirong Jiang, Yushuai Yu, Xin Yu, Mingyao Huang, Qing Wang, Kaiyan Huang and Chuangui Song
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:268
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  46. Interest in mental health smartphone applications has grown in recent years. Despite their effectiveness and advantages, special attention needs to be paid to two aspects to ensure app engagement: to include p...

    Authors: Laura Martínez-García, Alba Fadrique-Jiménez, Vanesa-Ferreres -Galán, Cristina Robert Flors and Jorge Osma
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:267
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  47. Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) is a life-saving procedure for sepsis but the benefit of CRRT varies and prediction of clinical outcomes is valuable in efficient treatment planning. This study aime...

    Authors: Xiao-Qing Li, Rui-Quan Wang, Lian-Qiang Wu and Dong-Mei Chen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:266
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  48. Segmentation of skin lesions remains essential in histological diagnosis and skin cancer surveillance. Recent advances in deep learning have paved the way for greater improvements in medical imaging. The Hybri...

    Authors: Nadeem Sarwar, Asma Irshad, Qamar H. Naith, Kholod D.Alsufiani and Faris A. Almalki
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:265
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  49. Authors: Md. Sohanur Rahman, Khandaker Reajul Islam, Johayra Prithula, Jaya Kumar, Mufti Mahmud, Mohammed Fasihul Alam, Mamun Bin Ibne Reaz, Abdulrahman Alqahtani and Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:264
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:249

  50. Recognizing the limitations of pre-market clinical data, regulatory authorities have embraced total product lifecycle management with post-market surveillance (PMS) data to assess medical device safety and per...

    Authors: Amelia Hochreiter-Hufford, Jennifer Gatz, Amy M. Griggs, Ryan D. Schoch, Kimberly M. Birmingham, Christopher Frederick, John Price and Scott Snyder
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2024 24:263
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