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  1. PTNow.org is an evidence-based, on-line portal created by a professional membership association to promote use of evidence in practice and to help decrease unwarranted variation in practice. The site contains ...

    Authors: Judith E. Deutsch, Wendy Romney, Jan Reynolds and Tara Jo Manal
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:79
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. We designed and validated a rule-based expert system to identify influenza like illness (ILI) from routinely recorded general practice clinical narrative to aid a larger retrospective research study into the i...

    Authors: Jayden MacRae, Tom Love, Michael G. Baker, Anthony Dowell, Matthew Carnachan, Maria Stubbe and Lynn McBain
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:78
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  3. A plethora of publicly available biomedical resources do currently exist and are constantly increasing at a fast rate. In parallel, specialized repositories are been developed, indexing numerous clinical and b...

    Authors: Pepi Sfakianaki, Lefteris Koumakis, Stelios Sfakianakis, Galatia Iatraki, Giorgos Zacharioudakis, Norbert Graf, Kostas Marias and Manolis Tsiknakis
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:77
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  4. Prenatal screening tests for Down syndrome (DS) are routine in many developed countries and new tests are rapidly becoming available. Decisions about prenatal screening are increasingly complex with each succe...

    Authors: Maria Esther Leiva Portocarrero, Mirjam M Garvelink, Maria Margarita Becerra Perez, Anik Giguère, Hubert Robitaille, Brenda J. Wilson, François Rousseau and France Légaré
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:76
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. An Austrian Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS-AT) has been developed to describe the diversity of patient populations and variability of nursing care based on nursing diagnoses, nursing interventions, and nursing...

    Authors: Renate Ranegger, Werner O. Hackl and Elske Ammenwerth
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:75
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:116

  6. The assessment of a new health technology is a multidisciplinary and multidimensional process, which requires a complex analysis and the convergence of different stakeholders into a common decision. This task ...

    Authors: Jorge Cancela, Giuseppe Fico and Maria T Arredondo Waldmeyer
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15(Suppl 3):S7
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 3

  7. Falls in the elderly is a major problem. Although falls have a multifactorial etiology, a commonly cited cause of falls in older people is poor vision. This study proposes a method to discriminate fallers and ...

    Authors: P Melillo, A Orrico, M Attanasio, S Rossi, L Pecchia, F Chirico, F Testa and F Simonelli
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15(Suppl 3):S6
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 3

  8. The European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA) is a European Commission led policy initiative to address the challenges of demographic change in Europe. For monitoring the health...

    Authors: Christian EH Boehler, Gimon de Graaf, Lotte Steuten, Yaling Yang and Fabienne Abadie
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15(Suppl 3):S4
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 3

  9. The project selection process is a crucial step for healthcare organizations at the moment of implementing six sigma programs in both administrative and caring processes. However, six-sigma project selection i...

    Authors: Miguel A Ortíz, Heriberto A Felizzola and Santiago Nieto Isaza
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15(Suppl 3):S3
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 3

  10. Standing from a bed or chair may cause a significant lowering of blood pressure (ΔBP), which may have severe consequences such as, for example, falls in older subjects. The goal of this study was to develop a ...

    Authors: G Sannino, P Melillo, S Stranges, G De Pietro and L Pecchia
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15(Suppl 3):S2
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 3

  11. This paper presents a system for classification of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) based on fuzzy rules and the trained neural network.

    Authors: Almir Badnjevic, Mario Cifrek, Dragan Koruga and Dinko Osmankovic
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15(Suppl 3):S1
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 3

  12. Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is a serious cardiac condition that brings high risks of urgent hospitalization and death. Remote monitoring systems are well-suited to managing patients suffering from CHF, and ...

    Authors: Gabriele Guidi, Luca Pollonini, Clifford C Dacso and Ernesto Iadanza
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15(Suppl 3):S5
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 3

  13. Although evidence has suggested that computerized drug-drug interaction alert systems may reduce the occurrence of drug-drug interactions, the numerous reminders and alerts generated by such systems could repr...

    Authors: Yasuyuki Nasuhara, Ken Sakushima, Akira Endoh, Reona Umeki, Hiromitsu Oki, Takehiro Yamada, Ken Iseki and Makoto Ishikawa
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:74
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:108

  14. In the UK occupational therapy pre-discharge home visits are routinely carried out as a means of facilitating safe transfer from the hospital to home. Whilst they are an integral part of practice, there is lit...

    Authors: Arthur G. Money, Anita Atwal, Katherine L. Young, Yasmin Day, Lesley Wilson and Kevin G. Money
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:73
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  15. The increasing pervasiveness of mobile technologies has given potential to transform healthcare by facilitating clinical management using software applications. These technologies may provide valuable tools in...

    Authors: Voula Gkatzidou, Kate Hone, Lorna Sutcliffe, Jo Gibbs, Syed Tariq Sadiq, Ala Szczepura, Pam Sonnenberg and Claudia Estcourt
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:72
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  16. Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) can modify clinician behaviour, yet the factors influencing their effect remain poorly understood. This study assesses the feasibility and acceptability of a CDSS suppo...

    Authors: Rachel Johnson, Maggie Evans, Helen Cramer, Kristina Bennert, Richard Morris, Sandra Eldridge, Katy Juttner, Mohammed J Zaman, Harry Hemingway, Spiros Denaxas, Adam Timmis and Gene Feder
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:71
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  17. There is general consensus that appropriate development and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) are crucial in the delivery of effective primary care (PC). Several countries are defining po...

    Authors: Sabina De Rosis and Chiara Seghieri
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:70
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. Health decision-making requires evidence from high-quality data. As one example, the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) compiles data from the majority of Canadian hospitals to form one of the most comprehensiv...

    Authors: Kelsey Lucyk, Mingshan Lu, Tolulope Sajobi and Hude Quan
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:69
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  19. 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:

  20. With the introduction and implementation of a variety of government programs and policies to encourage adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs), EMRs are being increasingly adopted in North America. We so...

    Authors: Karen Tu, Jessica Widdifield, Jacqueline Young, William Oud, Noah M. Ivers, Debra A. Butt, Chad A. Leaver and Liisa Jaakkimainen
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:67
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. 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:

  23. According to the World Health Organization 130–150 million (according to WHO) of people globally are chronically infected with hepatitis C virus. The virus is responsible for chronic hepatitis that ultimately ...

    Authors: Marcin Bernas, Tomasz Orczyk, Joanna Musialik, Marek Hartleb and Barbara Błońska-Fajfrowska
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:64
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. Choosing the most appropriate family physician (FP) for the individual, plays a fundamental role in primary care. The aim of this study is to determine the selection criteria for the patients in choosing their...

    Authors: Emel Kuruoglu, Dilek Guldal, Vildan Mevsim and Tolga Gunvar
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:63
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  25. Bangladesh is facing serious shortage of trained health professionals. In the pluralistic healthcare system of Bangladesh, formal health care providers constitute only 5 % of the total workforce; the rest are ...

    Authors: Nazib Uz Zaman Khan, Sabrina Rasheed, Tamanna Sharmin, Tanvir Ahmed, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood, Fatema Khatun, SMA Hanifi, Shahidul Hoque, Mohammad Iqbal and Abbas Bhuiya
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:62
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  26. With the increasing implementation of Electronic Medical Record Systems (EMR) in developing countries, there is a growing need to identify antecedents of EMR success to measure and predict the level of adoptio...

    Authors: Binyam Tilahun and Fleur Fritz
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:61
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. Concordance is characterised as a negotiation-like health communication approach based on an equal and collaborative partnership between patients and health professionals. The Leeds Attitudes to Concordance II...

    Authors: Wei He, Ann Bonner and Debra Anderson
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:60
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  28. Clinical workflow is infused with large quantities of data, particularly in areas with enhanced monitoring such as the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Information theory can quantify the expected amounts of total a...

    Authors: Joon Lee and David M. Maslove
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:59
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. The European eHealthMonitor project (eHM) developed a user-sensitive and interactive web portal for dementia care: the eHM Dementia Portal (eHM-DP). It aims to provide targeted and personalized support for inf...

    Authors: Sandra Schaller, Velislava Marinova-Schmidt, Jasmin Gobin, Manfred Criegee-Rieck, Lena Griebel, Sabine Engel, Veronika Stein, Elmar Graessel and Peter L Kolominsky-Rabas
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:58
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  30. 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:

  31. The Personal Patient Profile-Prostate (P3P), a web-based decision aid, was demonstrated to reduce decisional conflict in English-speaking men with localized prostate cancer early after initial diagnosis. The p...

    Authors: Donna L. Berry, Barbara Halpenny, Jaclyn L. F. Bosco, John Bruyere Jr and Martin G. Sanda
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:56
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. Comparing outcomes between hospitals requires consideration of patient factors that could account for any observed differences. Adjusting for comorbid conditions is common when studying outcomes following canc...

    Authors: Timothy A Dobbins, Tim Badgery-Parker, David C Currow and Jane M Young
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:55
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  33. Clinical vignettes are often used to elicit information about health conditions in research studies. This review summarizes the components of clinical vignettes describing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) or other dem...

    Authors: Harkanwal Randhawa, Aalim Jiwa and Mark Oremus
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:54
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. Death certificates provide an invaluable source for mortality statistics which can be used for surveillance and early warnings of increases in disease activity and to support the development and monitoring of ...

    Authors: Bevan Koopman, Sarvnaz Karimi, Anthony Nguyen, Rhydwyn McGuire, David Muscatello, Madonna Kemp, Donna Truran, Ming Zhang and Sarah Thackway
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:53
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  35. Much attention in recent years has been given to the topic of public engagement in health technology assessment (HTA) decision-making. HTA organizations spend substantial resources and time on undertaking publ...

    Authors: Sally Wortley, Allison Tong, Emily Lancsar, Glenn Salkeld and Kirsten Howard
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:52
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  36. The Health Care Climate Questionnaire measures patient perceptions of their clinician’s autonomy supportive communication. We sought to evaluate the psychometric properties of a modified brief version of the Heal...

    Authors: Dean Shumway, Kent A. Griffith, Reshma Jagsi, Sheryl G. Gabram, Geoffrey C. Williams and Ken Resnicow
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:51
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  37. Parents are increasingly faced with decisions about optional newborn bloodspot screening (NBS) despite no consistent policy for communicating information about such testing. We examined whether framing optiona...

    Authors: Sarah E. Lillie, Beth A. Tarini, Nancy K. Janz and Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:50
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Estimation of health prevalences is usually performed with a single survey. Some attempts have been made to integrate more than one source of data. We propose here to validate this approach through data fusion...

    Authors: Tomàs Aluja-Banet, Josep Daunis-i-Estadella, Núria Brunsó and Anna Mompart-Penina
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:49
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  39. We have shown in a randomized controlled trial that a computerized patient decision aid (P-DA) improves medical knowledge and reduces decisional conflict, in early stage papillary thyroid cancer patients consi...

    Authors: Anna M. Sawka, Sharon Straus, Gary Rodin, Richard W. Tsang, James D. Brierley, Lorne Rotstein, Phillip Segal, Amiram Gafni, Shereen Ezzat and David P. Goldstein
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:48
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Malaria is the world’s most prevalent vector-borne disease. Accurate prediction of malaria outbreaks may lead to public health interventions that mitigate disease morbidity and mortality.

    Authors: Anna L. Buczak, Benjamin Baugher, Erhan Guven, Liane C. Ramac-Thomas, Yevgeniy Elbert, Steven M. Babin and Sheri H. Lewis
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:47
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  41. Self-management strategies have the potential to support patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Telehealth interventions may have a role in delivering this support along with the opportuni...

    Authors: Maxine Hardinge, Heather Rutter, Carmelo Velardo, Syed Ahmar Shah, Veronika Williams, Lionel Tarassenko and Andrew Farmer
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:46
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Adverse Drug reactions (ADR) cause a high number of deaths among hospitalized patients in developed countries. Major drug agencies have devoted a great interest in the early detection of ADRs due to their high...

    Authors: Isabel Segura-Bedmar, Paloma Martínez, Ricardo Revert and Julián Moreno-Schneider
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15(Suppl 2):S6
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 2

  43. The S ystematized N omenclature of Med icine - C linical T erms (SNOMED CT) is officially released in English and Spanish. In the Basque Autonomous Community two languages, Spanish and Basque, are official. The f...

    Authors: Olatz Perez-de-Viñaspre and Maite Oronoz
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15(Suppl 2):S5
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 2

  44. In Western languages the period character is highly ambiguous, due to its double role as sentence delimiter and abbreviation marker. This is particularly relevant in clinical free-texts characterized by numero...

    Authors: Markus Kreuzthaler and Stefan Schulz
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15(Suppl 2):S4
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 2

  45. Phenotypic information locked away in unstructured narrative text presents significant barriers to information accessibility, both for clinical practitioners and for computerised applications used for clinical...

    Authors: Noha Alnazzawi, Paul Thompson, Riza Batista-Navarro and Sophia Ananiadou
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15(Suppl 2):S3
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 2

  46. Patients' health related information is stored in electronic health records (EHRs) by health service providers. These records include sequential documentation of care episodes in the form of clinical notes. EHRs ...

    Authors: Hans Moen, Filip Ginter, Erwin Marsi, Laura-Maria Peltonen, Tapio Salakoski and Sanna Salanterä
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15(Suppl 2):S2
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 2

  48. Primary endocrine therapy (PET) is a recognised alternative to surgery followed by endocrine therapy for a subset of older, frailer women with breast cancer. Choice of treatment is preference-sensitive and may...

    Authors: Kate J Lifford, Jana Witt, Maria Burton, Karen Collins, Lisa Caldon, Adrian Edwards, Malcolm Reed, Lynda Wyld and Kate Brain
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:45
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC) has a high incidence in elderly patients. The postoperative complications present great challenges within treatment and they're hard for early warning.

    Authors: YiMing Chen, Wei Cao, XianChao Gao, HuiShan Ong and Tong Ji
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:44
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  50. Similarity-based retrieval of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) from large clinical information systems provides physicians the evidence support in making diagnoses or referring examinations for the suspected c...

    Authors: Lawrence WC Chan, Ying Liu, Tao Chan, Helen KW Law, SC Cesar Wong, Andy PH Yeung, KF Lo, SW Yeung, KY Kwok, William YL Chan, Thomas YH Lau and Chi-Ren Shyu
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15:43
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