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  1. This paper by John D. Keen and James E. Keen addresses a thorny subject. The numerical findings and commentaries in their paper will be disturbing to some readers and seem to defy logic and well established vi...

    Authors: Michael Retsky
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:20
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  2. We analyzed the claim "mammography saves lives" by calculating the life-saving absolute benefit of screening mammography in reducing breast cancer mortality in women ages 40 to 65.

    Authors: John D Keen and James E Keen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:18
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. In recent years, the completion of the Human Genome Project and other rapid advances in genomics have led to increasing anticipation of an era of genomic and personalized medicine, in which an individual's hea...

    Authors: Kensaku Kawamoto, David F Lobach, Huntington F Willard and Geoffrey S Ginsburg
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:17
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  4. A timely detection of outbreaks through surveillance is needed in order to prevent future pandemics. However, current surveillance systems may not be prepared to accomplish this goal, especially in resource li...

    Authors: Moises A Huaman, Roger V Araujo-Castillo, Giselle Soto, Joan M Neyra, Jose A Quispe, Miguel F Fernandez, Carmen C Mundaca and David L Blazes
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:16
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Adoption of EHRs by U.S. ambulatory practices has been slow despite the perceived benefits of their use. Most evaluations of EHR implementations in the literature apply to large practice settings. While there ...

    Authors: Nancy M Lorenzi, Angelina Kouroubali, Don E Detmer and Meryl Bloomrosen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:15
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  6. The health impacts of heat waves are serious and have prompted the development of heat wave response plans. Even when they are efficient, these plans are developed to limit the health effects of heat waves. Th...

    Authors: Loïc Josseran, Nadège Caillère, Dominique Brun-Ney, Jean Rottner, Laurent Filleul, Gilles Brucker and Pascal Astagneau
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:14
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. With wide applications of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) and surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TO...

    Authors: Yuan Cao, Na Wang, Xiaomin Ying, Ailing Li, Hengsha Wang, Xuemin Zhang and Wuju Li
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:13
    Content type: Software Published on:

  9. Computerized decision support systems (CDSS) are believed to have the potential to improve the quality of health care delivery, although results from high quality studies have been mixed. We conducted a system...

    Authors: Brent Mollon, Jaron JR Chong, Anne M Holbrook, Melani Sung, Lehana Thabane and Gary Foster
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:11
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. The practice of evidence-based medicine (EBM) requires clinicians to integrate their expertise with the latest scientific research. But this is becoming increasingly difficult with the growing numbers of publi...

    Authors: Grace Y Chung
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:10
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. Investing in computer-based information systems is notoriously risky, since many systems fail to become routinely used as part of everyday working practices, yet there is clear evidence about the management pr...

    Authors: David Boddy, Gerry King, Julia S Clark, David Heaney and Frances Mair
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:9
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. The introduction of electronic transfer of prescriptions (ETP) or ePrescriptions in ambulatory health care has been suggested to have a positive impact on the prescribing and dispensing processes. Thereby, imp...

    Authors: Bengt Åstrand, Emelie Montelius, Göran Petersson and Anders Ekedahl
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:8
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. The purpose of this study is to identify publication output, and research areas, as well as descriptively and quantitatively characterize the field of medical informatics through publication trend analysis ove...

    Authors: Jonathan P DeShazo, Donna L LaVallie and Fredric M Wolf
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:7
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Despite wide promotion, clinical practice guidelines have had limited effect in changing physician behavior. Effective implementation strategies to date have included: multifaceted interventions involving audi...

    Authors: Madhukar H Trivedi, Ella J Daly, Janet K Kern, Bruce D Grannemann, Prabha Sunderajan and Cynthia A Claassen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:6
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Timely and accurate information is important to guide the medical treatment process. We developed, implemented and assessed an order-entry system to support documentation of prostate histologies involving urol...

    Authors: Bernhard Breil, Axel Semjonow and Martin Dugas
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:5
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. Vast amounts of data are collected about patients and service users in the course of health and social care service delivery. Electronic data systems for patient records have the potential to revolutionise ser...

    Authors: Ronan A Lyons, Kerina H Jones, Gareth John, Caroline J Brooks, Jean-Philippe Verplancke, David V Ford, Ginevra Brown and Ken Leake
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:3
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. This paper focuses on the creation of a predictive computer-assisted decision making system for traumatic injury using machine learning algorithms. Trauma experts must make several difficult decisions based on...

    Authors: Soo-Yeon Ji, Rebecca Smith, Toan Huynh and Kayvan Najarian
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:2
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. Pretreatment auxological variables, such as birth size and parental heights, are important predictors of the growth response to GH treatment. For children with missing pretreatment data, published prediction m...

    Authors: Berit Kriström, Jovanna Dahlgren, Aimon Niklasson, Andreas FM Nierop and Kerstin Albertsson-Wikland
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:1
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. New legal regulations for the marketing of pharmaceutical products were introduced in 2002 in Switzerland. We investigated whether claims in drug advertisements citing published scientific studies were justifi...

    Authors: Macarena Gonzalez Santiago, Heiner C Bucher and Alain J Nordmann
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:61
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  21. Despite the pressing need for the creation of applications that facilitate the aggregation of clinical and molecular data, most current applications are proprietary and lack the necessary compliance with stand...

    Authors: Patrick McConnell, Rajesh C Dash, Ram Chilukuri, Ricardo Pietrobon, Kimberly Johnson, Robert Annechiarico and A Jamie Cuticchia
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:60
    Content type: Software Published on:

  22. While many factors can influence the way that cancer care is delivered, including the way that evidence is packaged and disseminated, little research has evaluated how health care professionals who manage canc...

    Authors: Anna R Gagliardi, Frances C Wright, Dave Davis, Robin S McLeod and David R Urbach
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:59
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. First generation Internet technologies such as mailing lists or newsgroups afforded unprecedented levels of information exchange within a variety of interest groups, including those who seek health information...

    Authors: Laura A O'Grady, Holly Witteman and C Nadine Wathen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:58
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  24. Common dental procedures induce bacteremia. To prevent infectious complications from bacteremia in patients with specific medical conditions, antibiotic prophylaxis is considered. Recommendations are often unc...

    Authors: Eva Ellervall, Berndt Brehmer and Kerstin Knutsson
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:57
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Several models for mortality prediction have been constructed for critically ill patients with haematological malignancies in recent years. These models have proven to be equally or more accurate in predicting...

    Authors: T Verplancke, S Van Looy, D Benoit, S Vansteelandt, P Depuydt, F De Turck and J Decruyenaere
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:56
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. Diabetic type 1 patients are often advised to use dose adjustment guidelines to calculate their doses of insulin. Conventional methods of measuring patients' adherence are not applicable to these cases, becaus...

    Authors: Massoud Toussi, Carine Choleau, Gérard Reach, Michel Cahané, Avner Bar-Hen and Alain Venot
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:55
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. Chronic disease management is a global health concern. By the time they reach adolescence, 10–15% of all children live with a chronic disease. The role of educational interventions in facilitating adaptation t...

    Authors: Toomas Timpka, Henrik Eriksson, Johnny Ludvigsson, Joakim Ekberg, Sam Nordfeldt and Lena Hanberger
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:54
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. Decision curve analysis is a novel method for evaluating diagnostic tests, prediction models and molecular markers. It combines the mathematical simplicity of accuracy measures, such as sensitivity and specifi...

    Authors: Andrew J Vickers, Angel M Cronin, Elena B Elkin and Mithat Gonen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:53
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  30. The present work aims at the application of the decision theory to radiological image quality control (QC) in diagnostic routine. The main problem addressed in the framework of decision theory is to accept or ...

    Authors: Patrícia S Lessa, Cristofer A Caous, Paula R Arantes, Edson Amaro Jr and Fernando M Campello de Souza
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:51
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. The medical history is acknowledged as the sine qua non for quality medical care because recognizing problems is pre-requisite for managing them. Medical histories typically are incomplete and inaccurate, however...

    Authors: David Zakim, Niko Braun, Peter Fritz and Mark Dominik Alscher
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:50
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. There is a need for a new cardiovascular disease model that includes a wider range of relevant risk factors, in particular lifestyle factors, to aid targeting of interventions and improve population models of ...

    Authors: Christopher J Martin, Paul Taylor and Henry WW Potts
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:49
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. This paper proposes the use of decision trees as the basis for automatically extracting information from published randomized controlled trial (RCT) reports. An exploratory analysis of RCT abstracts is underta...

    Authors: Grace Y Chung and Enrico Coiera
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:48
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. Information systems can play a key role in care innovations including task redesign and shared care. Many demonstration projects have presented evidence of clinical and cost effectiveness and high levels of pa...

    Authors: Antoinette de Bont and Roland Bal
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:47
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. Definitory expressions about clinical procedures, findings and diseases constitute a major benefit of a formally founded clinical reference terminology which is ontologically sound and suited for formal reason...

    Authors: Stefan Schulz, Kornél Markó and Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8(Suppl 1):S9
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 8 Supplement 1

  36. SNOMED CT is the most comprehensive medical terminology. However, its use for intelligent services based on formal reasoning is questionable.

    Authors: Gergely Héja, György Surján and Péter Varga
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8(Suppl 1):S8
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 8 Supplement 1

  37. The Archetype formalism and the associated Archetype Definition Language have been proposed as an ISO standard for specifying models of components of electronic healthcare records as a means of achieving inter...

    Authors: Erik Sundvall, Rahil Qamar, Mikael Nyström, Mattias Forss, Håkan Petersson, Daniel Karlsson, Hans Åhlfeldt and Alan Rector
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8(Suppl 1):S7
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 8 Supplement 1

  38. In this paper, we describe the design and preliminary evaluation of a new type of tools to speed up the encoding of episodes of care using the SNOMED CT terminology.

    Authors: Patrick Ruch, Julien Gobeill, Christian Lovis and Antoine Geissbühler
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8(Suppl 1):S6
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 8 Supplement 1

  39. A great challenge in sharing data across information systems in general practice is the lack of interoperability between different terminologies or coding schema used in the information systems. Mapping of med...

    Authors: Yefeng Wang, Jon Patrick, Graeme Miller and Julie O'Hallaran
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8(Suppl 1):S5
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 8 Supplement 1

  40. WHO-ART and MedDRA are medical terminologies used for the coding of adverse drug reactions in pharmacovigilance databases. MedDRA proposes 13 Special Search Categories (SSC) grouping terms associated to specif...

    Authors: Iulian Alecu, Cedric Bousquet and Marie-Christine Jaulent
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8(Suppl 1):S4
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 8 Supplement 1

  41. SNOMED CT is being increasingly adopted as the standard clinical terminology for health care applications. Existing clinical applications that use legacy interface terminology need to migrate to the preferred ...

    Authors: Geraldine Wade and S Trent Rosenbloom
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8(Suppl 1):S3
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 8 Supplement 1

  42. Over a period of 40 years, SNOMED has developed from a pathology-specific nomenclature (SNOP) into a logic-based health care terminology. In spite of its long existence and continuous evolvement, it is yet unk...

    Authors: Ronald Cornet and Nicolette de Keizer
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8(Suppl 1):S2
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 8 Supplement 1

  44. Sub-optimal adherence to prescribed medications is well documented. Barriers to medication adherence include medication side effects, cost, and forgetting to take or refill medications. Interactive Voice Respo...

    Authors: Kristen Reidel, Robyn Tamblyn, Vaishali Patel and Allen Huang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:46
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Integrated personal health records (PHRs) offer significant potential to stimulate transformational changes in health care delivery and self-care by patients. In 2006, an invitational roundtable sponsored by K...

    Authors: Don Detmer, Meryl Bloomrosen, Brian Raymond and Paul Tang
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:45
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  46. Cystic fibrosis is the most common fatal genetic disorder in the Caucasian population. Scoring systems for assessment of Cystic fibrosis disease severity have been used for almost 50 years, without being adapt...

    Authors: GM Hafen, C Hurst, J Yearwood, J Smith, Z Dzalilov and PJ Robinson
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:44
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Research for developing search strategies to retrieve high-quality clinical journal articles from MEDLINE is expensive and time-consuming. The objective of this study was to determine the minimal number of hig...

    Authors: Xiaomei Yao, Nancy L Wilczynski, Stephen D Walter and R Brian Haynes
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:43
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. The use of PubMed to answer daily medical care questions is limited because it is challenging to retrieve a small set of relevant articles and time is restricted. Knowing what aspects of queries are likely to ...

    Authors: Arjen Hoogendam, Anton FH Stalenhoef, Pieter F de Vries Robbé and A John PM Overbeke
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:42
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. The guideline for postmastectomy radiotherapy (PMRT), which is prescribed to reduce recurrence of breast cancer in the chest wall and improve overall survival, is not always followed. Identifying and extractin...

    Authors: Amir R Razavi, Hans Gill, Hans Åhlfeldt and Nosrat Shahsavar
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:41
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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