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  1. Infectious disease burden is commonly assessed using notification data. Using retrospective record linkage in Western Australia, we described how well notification data captures laboratory detections of influe...

    Authors: Faye J. Lim, Christopher C. Blyth, Avram Levy, Parveen Fathima, Nicholas de Klerk, Carolien Giele and Hannah C. Moore
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:86
  2. To explore the current situation, existing problems and possible causes of said problems with regards to physician-nurse communication under an environment of increasingly widespread usage of Hospital Informat...

    Authors: Dong Wen, Xingting Zhang, Jie Wan, Jing Fu and Jianbo Lei
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:85
  3. Approximately 10% of admissions to acute-care hospitals are associated with an adverse event. Analysis of incident reports helps to understand how and why incidents occur and can inform policy and practice for...

    Authors: Ying Wang, Enrico Coiera, William Runciman and Farah Magrabi
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:84
  4. Integrating medical data using databases from different sources by record linkage is a powerful technique increasingly used in medical research. Under many jurisdictions, unique personal identifiers needed for...

    Authors: Adrian P. Brown, Christian Borgs, Sean M. Randall and Rainer Schnell
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:83
  5. Pharmacogenomic clinical decision support systems (CDSS) have the potential to help overcome some of the barriers for translating pharmacogenomic knowledge into clinical routine. Before developing a prototype ...

    Authors: Marc Hinderer, Martin Boeker, Sebastian A. Wagner, Martin Lablans, Stephanie Newe, Jan L. Hülsemann, Michael Neumaier, Harald Binder, Harald Renz, Till Acker, Hans-Ulrich Prokosch and Martin Sedlmayr
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:81
  6. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality. CRC incidence and mortality can be reduced by several screening strategies, including colonoscopy, but randomized CRC prevention trials f...

    Authors: Meher K. Prakash, Brian Lang, Henriette Heinrich, Piero V. Valli, Peter Bauerfeind, Amnon Sonnenberg, Niko Beerenwinkel and Benjamin Misselwitz
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:80
  7. Clinical decision support systems (DSS) aimed at supporting diagnosis are not widely used. This is mainly due to usability issues and lack of integration into clinical work and the electronic health record (EH...

    Authors: Talya Porat, Brendan Delaney and Olga Kostopoulou
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:79
  8. The use of technology such as computers, tablets, and smartphones to improve access to and the delivery of mental health care (eMental Health care) is growing worldwide. However, despite the rapidly expanding ...

    Authors: Lori Wozney, Amanda S. Newton, Nicole D. Gehring, Kathryn Bennett, Anna Huguet, Lisa Hartling, Michele P. Dyson and Patrick McGrath
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:78
  9. The advancement of mobile technology had positively influenced healthcare services. An emerging subfield of mobile technology is mobile health (m-Health) in which mobile applications are used for health purpos...

    Authors: Waleed M. Sweileh, Samah W. Al-Jabi, Adham S. AbuTaha, Sa’ed H. Zyoud, Fathi M. A. Anayah and Ansam F. Sawalha
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:72
  10. Current clinical guidelines recommend epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutational testing in patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to predict the benefit of the tyrosine kinase inh...

    Authors: Olga Efimova, Brygida Berse, Daniel W. Denhalter, Scott L. DuVall, Kelly K. Filipski, Michael Icardi, Michael J. Kelley and Julie A. Lynch
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:71
  11. The tumour stroma -or tumour microenvironment- is an important constituent of solid cancers and it is thought to be one of the main obstacles to quantitative translation of drug activity between the preclinica...

    Authors: J. A. Delgado-SanMartin, J. I. Hare, E. J. Davies and J. W. T. Yates
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:70

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:88

  12. Problems may arise during the approval process of treatment after a compensable work injury, which include excess paperwork, delays in approving services, disputes, and allegations of over-servicing. This is p...

    Authors: Nieke A. Elbers, Robin Chase, Ashley Craig, Lyn Guy, Ian A. Harris, James W. Middleton, Michael K. Nicholas, Trudy Rebbeck, John Walsh, Simon Willcock, Keri Lockwood and Ian D Cameron
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:64
  13. Rapid advancement of next generation sequencing technologies such as whole genome sequencing (WGS) has facilitated the search for genetic factors that influence disease risk in the field of human genetics. To ...

    Authors: Dokyoon Kim, Anna O. Basile, Lisa Bang, Emrin Horgusluoglu, Seunggeun Lee, Marylyn D. Ritchie, Andrew J. Saykin and Kwangsik Nho
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17(Suppl 1):61

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 1

  14. The number of people with dementia is increasing along with people’s ageing trend worldwide. Therefore, there are various researches to improve a dementia diagnosis process in the field of computer-aided diagn...

    Authors: Sunjoo Bang, Sangjoon Son, Hyunwoong Roh, Jihye Lee, Sungyun Bae, Kyungwon Lee, Changhyung Hong and Hyunjung Shin
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17(Suppl 1):60

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 1

  15. With the invention of fitness trackers, it has been possible to continuously monitor a user’s biometric data such as heart rates, number of footsteps taken, and amount of calories burned. This paper names the ...

    Authors: Zae Myung Kim, Hyungrai Oh, Han-Gyu Kim, Chae-Gyun Lim, Kyo-Joong Oh and Ho-Jin Choi
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17(Suppl 1):57

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 1

  16. Hearing Aids amplify sounds at certain frequencies to help patients, who have hearing loss, to improve the quality of life. Variables affecting hearing improvement include the characteristics of the patients’ ...

    Authors: Yonghyun Nam, Oak-Sung Choo, Yu-Ri Lee, Yun-Hoon Choung and Hyunjung Shin
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17(Suppl 1):56

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 1

  17. Although drug discoveries can provide meaningful insights and significant enhancements in pharmaceutical field, the longevity and cost that it takes can be extensive where the success rate is low. In order to ...

    Authors: Sunghong Park, Dong-gi Lee and Hyunjung Shin
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17(Suppl 1):55

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 1

  18. Recently, research on human disease network has succeeded and has become an aid in figuring out the relationship between various diseases. In most disease networks, however, the relationship between diseases h...

    Authors: Dong-gi Lee and Hyunjung Shin
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17(Suppl 1):53

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 1

  19. Biological system is a multi-layered structure of omics with genome, epigenome, transcriptome, metabolome, proteome, etc., and can be further stretched to clinical/medical layers such as diseasome, drugs, and ...

    Authors: Myungjun Kim, Yonghyun Nam and Hyunjung Shin
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17(Suppl 1):52

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 1

  20. The Internet, and its popularity, continues to grow at an unprecedented pace. Watching videos online is very popular; it is estimated that 500 h of video are uploaded onto YouTube, a video-sharing service, eve...

    Authors: Carlos Luis Sanchez Bocanegra, Jose Luis Sevillano Ramos, Carlos Rizo, Anton Civit and Luis Fernandez-Luque
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:63
  21. Authors: Luis Fernandez-Luque, Meghna Singh, Ferda Ofli, Yelena A. Mejova, Ingmar Weber, Michael Aupetit, Sahar Karim Jreige, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Jaideep Srivastava and Mohamed Ahmedna
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:62

    The original article was published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:37

  22. Mobile devices may facilitate depression screening in the waiting area of antenatal clinics. This can present implementation challenges, of which we focused on survey layout and technology deployment.

    Authors: José S. Marcano-Belisario, Ajay K. Gupta, John O’Donoghue, Paul Ramchandani, Cecily Morrison and Josip Car
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:59
  23. Self-management support systems (SMSS) have been proposed for renal transplant patients to increase their autonomy and reduce the number of hospital visits. For the design and implementation of such systems, i...

    Authors: Wenxin Wang, Céline L. van Lint, Willem-Paul Brinkman, Ton J. M. Rövekamp, Sandra van Dijk, Paul J. M. van der Boog and Mark A. Neerincx
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:58
  24. It has been shown that the entities in everyday clinical text are often expressed in a way that varies from how they are expressed in the nomenclature. Owing to lots of synonyms, abbreviations, medical jargons...

    Authors: Rui Zhang, Jialin Liu, Yong Huang, Miye Wang, Qingke Shi, Jun Chen and Zhi Zeng
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:54
  25. A main element of patient-centred care, Patient Decision Aids (PtDAs) facilitate shared decision-making (SDM). A recent update of the International Patient Decision Aids Standards (IPDAS) emphasised patient in...

    Authors: Ingrid Nota, Constance H. C. Drossaert, Heleen C. Melissant, Erik Taal, Harald E. Vonkeman, Cees J. Haagsma and Mart A. F. J. van de Laar
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:51
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. Clinical data repositories (CDR) have great potential to improve outcome prediction and risk modeling. However, most clinical studies require careful study design, dedicated data collection efforts, and sophis...

    Authors: Tak-Ming Chan, Yuxi Li, Choo-Chiap Chiau, Jane Zhu, Jie Jiang and Yong Huo
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:47
  29. There has been indisputable growth in adoption of electronic medical record (EMR) systems in the recent years. However, physicians’ progress in using these systems has stagnated when measured with maturity sca...

    Authors: Marie-Claude Trudel, Josianne Marsan, Guy Paré, Louis Raymond, Ana Ortiz de Guinea, Éric Maillet and Thomas Micheneau
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:46
  30. Information and communication sources in the healthcare sector are replaced with new eHealth technologies. This has led to problems arising from the lack of awareness of the importance of end-user involvement ...

    Authors: Anna Marie Balling Høstgaard, Pernille Bertelsen and Christian Nøhr
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:45
  31. Smartphones and their applications (apps) impact society and health care. With the growth of smartphone users and app downloads in China, patients with chronic diseases have access to a self-management strateg...

    Authors: Liu Sun, Yanling Wang, Brian Greene, Qian Xiao, Chen Jiao, Meihua Ji and Ying Wu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:44
  32. 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
  33. Alkaptonuria (AKU; OMIM:203500) is a classic Mendelian genetic disorder described by Garrod already in 1902. It causes urine to turn black upon exposure to air and also leads to ochronosis as well as early ost...

    Authors: Ottavia Spiga, Vittoria Cicaloni, Andrea Bernini, Andrea Zatkova and Annalisa Santucci
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:42
  34. The inability of patients to accurately and completely recount their clinical status between clinic visits reduces the clinician’s ability to properly manage their patients. One way to improve this situation i...

    Authors: Cubby L. Gardner, Fang Liu, Paul Fontelo, Michael C. Flanagan, Albert Hoang and Harry B. Burke
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:41
  35. For an individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis, multiple datasets must be transformed in a consistent format, e.g. using uniform variable names. When large numbers of datasets have to be processed, thi...

    Authors: Matthias W. Lorenz, Negin Ashtiani Abdi, Frank Scheckenbach, Anja Pflug, Alpaslan Bülbül, Alberico L. Catapano, Stefan Agewall, Marat Ezhov, Michiel L. Bots, Stefan Kiechl and Andreas Orth
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:40
  36. In previous years a substantial number of studies have identified statistically important predictors of nursing home admission (NHA). However, as far as we know, the analyses have been done at the population-l...

    Authors: Mikko Nuutinen, Riikka-Leena Leskelä, Ella Suojalehto, Anniina Tirronen and Vesa Komssi
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:39
  37. Feature selection methods are commonly used to identify subsets of relevant features to facilitate the construction of models for classification, yet little is known about how feature selection methods perform...

    Authors: Yolanda Garcia-Chimeno, Begonya Garcia-Zapirain, Marian Gomez-Beldarrain, Begonya Fernandez-Ruanova and Juan Carlos Garcia-Monco
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:38
  38. The explosion of consumer electronics and social media are facilitating the rise of the Quantified Self (QS) movement where millions of users are tracking various aspects of their daily life using social media...

    Authors: Luis Fernandez-Luque, Meghna Singh, Ferda Ofli, Yelena A Mejova, Ingmar Weber, Michael Aupetit, Sahar Karim Jreige, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Jaideep Srivastava and Mohamed Ahmedna
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:37

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:62

  39. Although alert fatigue is blamed for high override rates in contemporary clinical decision support systems, the concept of alert fatigue is poorly defined. We tested hypotheses arising from two possible alert ...

    Authors: Jessica S. Ancker, Alison Edwards, Sarah Nosal, Diane Hauser, Elizabeth Mauer and Rainu Kaushal
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:36
  40. An accurate risk stratification tool is critical in identifying patients who are at high risk of frequent hospital readmissions. While 30-day hospital readmissions have been widely studied, there is increasing...

    Authors: Lian Leng Low, Nan Liu, Kheng Hock Lee, Marcus Eng Hock Ong, Sijia Wang, Xuan Jing and Julian Thumboo
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:35
  41. The increasing burden of type 2 diabetes mellitus makes the continuous surveillance of its prevalence and incidence advisable. Electronic health records (EHRs) have great potential for research and surveillanc...

    Authors: Conchi Moreno-Iribas, Carmen Sayon-Orea, Josu Delfrade, Eva Ardanaz, Javier Gorricho, Rosana Burgui, Marian Nuin and Marcela Guevara
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:34
  42. Literature indicates that one of the most important factors affecting the widespread adoption of Health Information Exchange (HIE) is patient support and endorsement. In order to reap all the expected benefits...

    Authors: Pouyan Esmaeilzadeh and Murali Sambasivan
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:33
  43. Despite recommendations, many middle-age adults neglect to check their blood cholesterol levels. Short message service (SMS, also known as texting) has been seldom studied for preventive education. We estimate...

    Authors: Saeed Sadeghian, Mohsen Shams, Zahra Alipour, Soheil Saadat, Reza Hamidian and Maryam Shahrzad
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:32
  44. The rising prevalence of chronic diseases is pressing health systems to introduce reforms. Primary healthcare and multidisciplinary models have been suggested as approaches to deal with this challenge, with ne...

    Authors: Luís Velez Lapão, Miguel Mira da Silva and João Gregório
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:31
  45. Translational researchers need robust IT solutions to access a range of data types, varying from public data sets to pseudonymised patient information with restricted access, provided on a case by case basis. ...

    Authors: Marco Brandizi, Olga Melnichuk, Raffael Bild, Florian Kohlmayer, Benedicto Rodriguez-Castro, Helmut Spengler, Klaus A. Kuhn, Wolfgang Kuchinke, Christian Ohmann, Timo Mustonen, Mikael Linden, Tommi Nyrönen, Ilkka Lappalainen, Alvis Brazma and Ugis Sarkans
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:30
  46. Expert groups and national guidelines recommend individualized decision making about screening mammography for women in their 40s at low-to-average risk of breast cancer. We created Breast Screening Decisions (BS...

    Authors: Elena B. Elkin, Valerie H. Pocus, Alvin I. Mushlin, Tessa Cigler, Coral L. Atoria and Margaret M. Polaneczky
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:29
  47. Clinical decision support (CDS) in e-prescribing can improve safety by alerting potential errors, but introduces new sources of risk. Automation bias (AB) occurs when users over-rely on CDS, reducing vigilance...

    Authors: David Lyell, Farah Magrabi, Magdalena Z. Raban, L.G. Pont, Melissa T. Baysari, Richard O. Day and Enrico Coiera
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:28
  48. 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
  49. Autogenous arteriovenous fistula (AVF) is the best vascular access (VA) for hemodialysis, but its creation is still a critical procedure. Physical examination, vascular mapping and doppler ultrasound (DUS) eva...

    Authors: Michela Bozzetto, Stefano Rota, Valentina Vigo, Francesco Casucci, Carlo Lomonte, Walter Morale, Massimo Senatore, Luigi Tazza, Massimo Lodi, Giuseppe Remuzzi and Andrea Remuzzi
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:26

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