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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Ausgabe 1/2020

Inhalt (272 Artikel)

Open Access Research article

Development of a targeted client communication intervention to women using an electronic maternal and child health registry: a qualitative study

Binyam Bogale, Kjersti Mørkrid, Brian O’Donnell, Buthaina Ghanem, Itimad Abu Ward, Khadija Abu Khader, Mervett Isbeih, Michael Frost, Mohammad Baniode, Taghreed Hijaz, Tamara Awwad, Yousef Rabah, J. Frederik Frøen

Open Access Research article

Digital health Systems in Kenyan Public Hospitals: a mixed-methods survey

Naomi Muinga, Steve Magare, Jonathan Monda, Mike English, Hamish Fraser, John Powell, Chris Paton

Open Access Research article

A new concordant partial AUC and partial c statistic for imbalanced data in the evaluation of machine learning algorithms

André M. Carrington, Paul W. Fieguth, Hammad Qazi, Andreas Holzinger, Helen H. Chen, Franz Mayr, Douglas G. Manuel

Open Access Research article

Can mobile health apps replace GPs? A scoping review of comparisons between mobile apps and GP tasks

Apichai Wattanapisit, Chin Hai Teo, Sanhapan Wattanapisit, Emylia Teoh, Wing Jun Woo, Chirk Jenn Ng

Open Access Research article

Predicting diabetes clinical outcomes using longitudinal risk factor trajectories

Gyorgy J. Simon, Kevin A. Peterson, M. Regina Castro, Michael S. Steinbach, Vipin Kumar, Pedro J. Caraballo

Open Access Research article

Assessing stroke severity using electronic health record data: a machine learning approach

Emily Kogan, Kathryn Twyman, Jesse Heap, Dejan Milentijevic, Jennifer H. Lin, Mark Alberts

Open Access Research article

Usage of cloud storage facilities by medical students in a low-middle income country, Sri Lanka: a cross sectional study

Samankumara Hettige, Eshani Dasanayaka, Dileepa Senajith Ediriweera

Open Access Research article

Assessment of willingness to Tele-monitoring interventions in patients with type 2 diabetes and/or hypertension in the public primary healthcare setting

David Yang Ern Sin, Xiaoxuan Guo, Dayna Wei Wei Yong, Tian Yu Qiu, Peter Kirm Seng Moey, Muller-Riemenschneider Falk, Ngiap Chuan Tan

Open Access Research article

A mobile app implementing the international classification of functioning, disability and health rehabilitation set

Malan Zhang, Jiani Yu, Wei Shen, Yun Zhang, Yun Xiang, Xinting Zhang, Ziling Lin, Tiebin Yan

Open Access Research article

Design and implementation of a clinical decision support tool for primary palliative Care for Emergency Medicine (PRIM-ER)

Audrey Tan, Mark Durbin, Frank R. Chung, Ada L. Rubin, Allison M. Cuthel, Jordan A. McQuilkin, Aram S. Modrek, Catherine Jamin, Nicholas Gavin, Devin Mann, Jordan L. Swartz, Jonathan S. Austrian, Paul A. Testa, Jacob D. Hill, Corita R. Grudzen, Benjamin Abella, David Allard, Jonathan Austrian, M. Fernanda Bellolio, Michael Blum, Todd Burstain, Jeffrey Caterino, Julie Cooper, Bruce Darrow, Marie-Carmelle Elie, Ahmed Elsayem, John Frenzel, Howard Goldberg, Corita Grudzen, Iris Herrera, John Howell, Allen Hsaio, Eric Isaacs, Karen Jubanyik, Ken Kawamoto, Sangeeta Lamba, Troy Madsen, Joseph Miller, Kei Ouchi, Rajesh Patel, Rajiv Pramanik, Lynne Richardson, Milisa Rizer, Elizabeth Schoenfeld, Timothy Shiuh, Ashley Shreves, Robert Swor, Audrey Tan, Paul Testa, Arvind Venkat, Kendall Webb, Howard Weeks, Robert White, Decker Wyatt, Matthew Zimmie, Erin Zimny

Open Access Research article

Customization scenarios for de-identification of clinical notes

Tzvika Hartman, Michael D. Howell, Jeff Dean, Shlomo Hoory, Ronit Slyper, Itay Laish, Oren Gilon, Danny Vainstein, Greg Corrado, Katherine Chou, Ming Jack Po, Jutta Williams, Scott Ellis, Gavin Bee, Avinatan Hassidim, Rony Amira, Genady Beryozkin, Idan Szpektor, Yossi Matias

Open Access Research article

Novel methodology to measure pre-procedure antimicrobial prophylaxis: integrating text searches with structured data from the Veterans Health Administration’s electronic medical record

Hillary J. Mull, Kelly Stolzmann, Emily Kalver, Marlena H. Shin, Marin L. Schweizer, Archana Asundi, Payal Mehta, Maggie Stanislawski, Westyn Branch-Elliman

Open Access Research article

Tracking physical activity using smart phone apps: assessing the ability of a current app and systematically collecting patient recommendations for future development

J. Murphy, T. Uttamlal, K. A. Schmidtke, I. Vlaev, D. Taylor, M. Ahmad, S. Alsters, P. Purkayastha, S. Scholtz, R. Ramezani, A. R. Ahmed, H. Chahal, A. Darzi, A. I. F. Blakemore

Open Access Research article

A stratification method based on clustering for the minimization of data masking effect in signal detection

Jian-Xiang Wei, Yue Ding, Ming Li, Jun Sun

Open Access Research article

Investigating usability of mobile health applications in Bangladesh

Muhammad Nazrul Islam, Md. Mahboob Karim, Toki Tahmid Inan, A. K. M. Najmul Islam

Open Access Research article

Contribution of a synchronic teleneurology program to decrease the patient number waiting for a first consultation and their waiting time in Chile

Freddy Constanzo, Paula Aracena-Sherck, Juan Pablo Hidalgo, Lorena Peña, Mery Marrugo, Jonathan Gonzalez, Gerardo Vergara, Cristóbal Alvarado

Open Access Research article

Predicting patient outcomes in psychiatric hospitals with routine data: a machine learning approach

J. Wolff, A. Gary, D. Jung, C. Normann, K. Kaier, H. Binder, K. Domschke, A. Klimke, M. Franz

Open Access Research article

Improving prediction performance of colon cancer prognosis based on the integration of clinical and multi-omics data

Danyang Tong, Yu Tian, Tianshu Zhou, Qiancheng Ye, Jun Li, Kefeng Ding, Jingsong Li

Open Access Research Article

Retrieving 3D medical data along fitted curved slices and their display

Marco Paluszny, Dany Ríos

Open Access Research article

Mobile phone usage in patients with type II diabetes and their intention to use it for self-management: a cross-sectional study in Iran

Fatemeh Rangraz Jeddi, Ehsan Nabovati, Rahele Hamidi, Reihane Sharif

Open Access Research article

A qualitative study of physician perspectives on adaptation to electronic health records

Cynthia J. Sieck, Nicole Pearl, Tiffani J. Bright, Po-Yin Yen

Open Access Research article

Avatar-based versus conventional vital sign display in a central monitor for monitoring multiple patients: a multicenter computer-based laboratory study

Olivier Garot, Julian Rössler, Juliane Pfarr, Michael T. Ganter, Donat R. Spahn, Christoph B. Nöthiger, David W. Tscholl

Open Access Research article

Lessening barriers to healthcare in rural Ghana: providers and users’ perspectives on the role of mHealth technology. A qualitative exploration

Prince Peprah, Emmanuel Mawuli Abalo, Williams Agyemang-Duah, Hayford Isaac Budu, Emmanuel Appiah-Brempong, Anthony Kwame Morgan, Adjei Gyimah Akwasi

Open Access Software

Integration of mathematical model predictions into routine workflows to support clinical decision making in haematology

Katja Hoffmann, Katja Cazemier, Christoph Baldow, Silvio Schuster, Yuri Kheifetz, Sibylle Schirm, Matthias Horn, Thomas Ernst, Constanze Volgmann, Christian Thiede, Andreas Hochhaus, Martin Bornhäuser, Meinolf Suttorp, Markus Scholz, Ingmar Glauche, Markus Loeffler, Ingo Roeder

Open Access Software

A comprehensive tool for creating and evaluating privacy-preserving biomedical prediction models

Johanna Eicher, Raffael Bild, Helmut Spengler, Klaus A. Kuhn, Fabian Prasser

Open Access Debate

Will applications on smartphones allow a generalization of telemedicine?

F. A. Allaert, L. Legrand, N. Abdoul Carime, C. Quantin

Open Access Research article

Users’ acceptance of electronic patient portals in Lebanon

Gladys N. Honein-AbouHaidar, Jumana Antoun, Karim Badr, Sani Hlais, Houry Nazaretian

Open Access Debate

Rethinking the electronic health record through the quadruple aim: time to align its value with the health system

Hassane Alami, Pascale Lehoux, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Jean-Paul Fortin, Richard Fleet, Mohamed Ali Ag Ahmed

Open Access Software

Monitoring stance towards vaccination in twitter messages

Florian Kunneman, Mattijs Lambooij, Albert Wong, Antal van den Bosch, Liesbeth Mollema

Open Access Research article

Designing a mHealth clinical decision support system for Parkinson’s disease: a theoretically grounded user needs approach

L. Timotijevic, C. E. Hodgkins, A. Banks, P. Rusconi, B. Egan, M. Peacock, E. Seiss, M. M. L. Touray, H. Gage, C. Pellicano, G. Spalletta, F. Assogna, M. Giglio, A. Marcante, G. Gentile, I. Cikajlo, D. Gatsios, S. Konitsiotis, D. Fotiadis

Open Access Research article

The development of the evidence-based SDMMCC intervention to improve shared decision making in geriatric outpatients: the DICO study

Ruth E. Pel-Littel, Julia C. M. van Weert, Mirella M. Minkman, Wilma J. M. Scholte op Reimer, Marjolein H. van de Pol, Bianca M. Buurman

Open Access Research article

Multi-criteria analysis in the health area: selection of the most appropriate triage system for the emergency care units in natal

Deyse Gillyane Gomes Camilo, Ricardo Pires de Souza, Talita Dias Chagas Frazão, João Florêncio da Costa Junior

Open Access Software

Design and implementation of a mobile health electronic data capture platform that functions in fully-disconnected settings: a pilot study in rural Liberia

Avi Kenny, Nicholas Gordon, Jordan Downey, Owen Eddins, Kathleen Buchholz, Alvin Menyon, William Mansah

Open Access Study protocol

Effectiveness of PUSH notifications from a mobile app for improving the body composition of overweight or obese women: a protocol of a three-armed randomized controlled trial

A. Hernández-Reyes, G. Molina-Recio, R. Molina-Luque, M. Romero-Saldaña, F. Cámara-Martos, R. Moreno-Rojas

Open Access Research article

MHealth and perceived quality of care delivery: a conceptual model and validation

Yvonne O’Connor, Pavel Andreev, Philip O’Reilly

Open Access Research article

Case identification of mental health and related problems in children and young people using the New Zealand Integrated Data Infrastructure

Nicholas Bowden, Sheree Gibb, Hiran Thabrew, Jesse Kokaua, Richard Audas, Sally Merry, Barry Taylor, Sarah E Hetrick

Open Access Research article

A study on users’ preference towards diabetes-related video clips on YouTube

Jin Zhang, Zhong Zheng, Yanyan Wang, Yifan Zhu

Open Access Research article

Advancing laboratory medicine in hospitals through health information exchange: a survey of specialist physicians in Canada

Louis Raymond, Éric Maillet, Marie-Claude Trudel, Josianne Marsan, Ana Ortiz de Guinea, Guy Paré

Open Access Technical advance

Design and clinical validation of a software program for automated measurement of mammographic breast density

Adriano L. C. Araújo, Heliana B. Soares, Daniel F. Carvalho, Roberto M. Mendonça, Antonio G. Oliveira

Open Access Research article

Content and system development of a digital patient-provider communication tool to support shared decision making in chronic health care: InvolveMe

Berit Seljelid, Cecilie Varsi, Lise Solberg Nes, Aud-E Stenehjem, Jens Bollerslev, Elin Børøsund

Open Access Research article

A Neuro-ontology for the neurological examination

Daniel B. Hier, Steven U. Brint

Open Access Research Article

An evaluation of time series summary statistics as features for clinical prediction tasks

Chonghui Guo, Menglin Lu, Jingfeng Chen

Open Access Technical advance

A decision tree to improve identification of pathogenic mutations in clinical practice

Priscilla Machado do Nascimento, Inácio Gomes Medeiros, Raul Maia Falcão, Beatriz Stransky, Jorge Estefano Santana de Souza

Open Access Software

FHIR PIT: an open software application for spatiotemporal integration of clinical data and environmental exposures data

Hao Xu, Steven Cox, Lisa Stillwell, Emily Pfaff, James Champion, Stanley C. Ahalt, Karamarie Fecho

Open Access Research article

Development and internal validation of prediction models for colorectal cancer survivors to estimate the 1-year risk of low health-related quality of life in multiple domains

Dóra Révész, Sander M. J. van Kuijk, Floortje Mols, Fränzel J. B. van Duijnhoven, Renate M. Winkels, Huub Hoofs, I Jmert Kant, Luc J. Smits, Stéphanie O. Breukink, Lonneke V. van de Poll-Franse, Ellen Kampman, Sandra Beijer, Matty P. Weijenberg, Martijn J. L. Bours

Open Access Research article

Methods to improve the quality of smoking records in a primary care EMR database: exploring multiple imputation and pattern-matching algorithms

Stephanie Garies, Michael Cummings, Hude Quan, Kerry McBrien, Neil Drummond, Donna Manca, Tyler Williamson

Open Access Research article

What matters to me – a web-based preference elicitation tool for clients in long-term care: a user-centred design

Catharina M. van Leersum, Albine Moser, Ben van Steenkiste, Marion Reinartz, Esther Stoffers, Judith R. L. M. Wolf, Trudy van der Weijden

Open Access Research article

Assessment of the impact of EHR heterogeneity for clinical research through a case study of silent brain infarction

Sunyang Fu, Lester Y. Leung, Anne-Olivia Raulli, David F. Kallmes, Kristin A. Kinsman, Kristoff B. Nelson, Michael S. Clark, Patrick H. Luetmer, Paul R. Kingsbury, David M. Kent, Hongfang Liu

Open Access Research article

Technical requirements framework of hospital information systems: design and evaluation

Mehrdad Farzandipour, Zahra Meidani, Ehsan Nabovati, Monireh Sadeqi Jabali, Razieh Dehghan Banadaki

Open Access Research article

Evaluating users’ experiences of electronic prescribing systems in relation to patient safety: a mixed methods study

Lisa Aufegger, Naresh Serou, Shiping Chen, Bryony Dean Franklin

Open Access Research article

Assessing patient safety in a pediatric telemedicine setting: a multi-methods study

Motti Haimi, Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Orna Baron-Epel, Yehezkel Waisman

Open Access Research article

Constructing fine-grained entity recognition corpora based on clinical records of traditional Chinese medicine

Tingting Zhang, Yaqiang Wang, Xiaofeng Wang, Yafei Yang, Ying Ye

Open Access Research article

Men’s view on participation in decisions about prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening: patient and public involvement in development of a survey

Søren Birkeland, Susanne S. Pedersen, Anders K. Haakonsson, Michael J. Barry, Nina Rottmann

Open Access Research article

Thailand medical mobile application for patients triage base on criteria based dispatch protocol

Krongkarn Sutham, Pattaraporn Khuwuthyakorn, Orawit Thinnukool

Open Access Research article

Construction of a semi-automatic ICD-10 coding system

Lingling Zhou, Cheng Cheng, Dong Ou, Hao Huang

Open Access Research article

DLI-IT: a deep learning approach to drug label identification through image and text embedding

Xiangwen Liu, Joe Meehan, Weida Tong, Leihong Wu, Xiaowei Xu, Joshua Xu

Open Access Research article

Understanding the utilisation of a novel interactive electronic medication safety dashboard in general practice: a mixed methods study

Mark Jeffries, Wouter T. Gude, Richard N. Keers, Denham L. Phipps, Richard Williams, Evangelos Kontopantelis, Benjamin Brown, Anthony J. Avery, Niels Peek, Darren M. Ashcroft

Open Access Research article

How an electronic health record became a real-world research resource: comparison between London’s Whole Systems Integrated Care database and the Clinical Practice Research Datalink

Alex Bottle, Carole Cohen, Amanda Lucas, Kavitha Saravanakumar, Zia Ul-Haq, Wayne Smith, Azeem Majeed, Paul Aylin

Open Access Research article

Development and validation of data quality rules in administrative health data using association rule mining

Mingkai Peng, Sangmin Lee, Adam G. D’Souza, Chelsea T. A. Doktorchik, Hude Quan

Open Access Research article

Creating value with eHealth: identification of the value proposition with key stakeholders for the resilience navigator app

Aniek Lentferink, Louis Polstra, Austin D’Souza, Hilbrand Oldenhuis, Hugo Velthuijsen, Lisette van Gemert-Pijnen

Open Access Research article

Publicly available machine learning models for identifying opioid misuse from the clinical notes of hospitalized patients

Brihat Sharma, Dmitriy Dligach, Kristin Swope, Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, Niranjan S. Karnik, Cara Joyce, Majid Afshar

Open Access Research article

Hospital doctors’ attitudes to brief educational messages that aim to modify diagnostic test requests: a qualitative study

Ben Young, Andrew W. Fogarty, Rob Skelly, Dominick Shaw, Nigel Sturrock, Mark Norwood, Peter Thurley, Sarah Lewis, Tessa Langley, Jo Cranwell

Open Access Research article

Development of a patient decision aid for the management of superficial basal cell carcinoma (BCC) in adults with a limited life expectancy

Alexandra Junn, Neha R Shukla, Lily Morrison, Meghan Halley, Mary-Margaret Chren, Louise C. Walter, Dominick L. Frosch, Dan Matlock, Jeanette S. Torres, Eleni Linos

Open Access Review

The inhibiting effects of resistance to change of disability determination system: a status quo bias perspective

Wen-Chou Chi, Po-Jin Lin, I-Chiu Chang, Sing-Liang Chen

Open Access Research article

Machine learning approaches to predict peak demand days of cardiovascular admissions considering environmental exposure

Hang Qiu, Lin Luo, Ziqi Su, Li Zhou, Liya Wang, Yucheng Chen

Open Access Research article

A combination of two methods for evaluating the usability of a hospital information system

Reza Khajouei, Fatemeh Farahani

Open Access Research article

Derivation and validation of a computable phenotype for acute decompensated heart failure in hospitalized patients

Rahul Kashyap, Kumar Sarvottam, Gregory A. Wilson, Jacob C. Jentzer, Mohamed O. Seisa, Kianoush B. Kashani

Open Access Research article

The statistical importance of P-POSSUM scores for predicting mortality after emergency laparotomy in geriatric patients

Yang Cao, Gary A. Bass, Rebecka Ahl, Arvid Pourlotfi, Håkan Geijer, Scott Montgomery, Shahin Mohseni

Open Access Research article

How stable is lung function in patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease when monitored using a telehealth system? A longitudinal and home-based study

Åsa Holmner, Fredrik Öhberg, Urban Wiklund, Eva Bergmann, Anders Blomberg, Karin Wadell

Open Access Research article

Coronary heart disease and mortality following a breast cancer diagnosis

Aixia Guo, Kathleen W. Zhang, Kristi Reynolds, Randi E. Foraker

Open Access Research article

Prospective monitoring of imaging guideline adherence by physicians in a surgical collaborative: comparison of statistical process control methods for detecting outlying performance

Michael Inadomi, Karandeep Singh, Ji Qi, Rodney Dunn, Susan Linsell, Brian Denton, Patrick Hurley, Eduardo Kleer, James Montie, Khurshid R. Ghani

Open Access Research article

The role of text messaging intervention in Inner Mongolia among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a randomized controlled trial

Xuemei Wang, Dan Liu, Maolin Du, Ruiqi Hao, Huiqiu Zheng, Chaoli Yan

Open Access Research article

Preparing for an orthopedic consultation using an eHealth tool: a randomized controlled trial in patients with hip and knee osteoarthritis

Aniek A. O. M. Claassen, Henk J. Schers, Vincent J. J. F. Busch, Petra J. C. Heesterbeek, Frank H. J. van den Hoogen, Thea P. M. Vliet Vlieland, Cornelia H. M. van den Ende

Open Access Correction

Correction to: Implementation of machine learning algorithms to create diabetic patient re-admission profiles

Mohamed Alloghani, Ahmed Aljaaf, Abir Hussain, Thar Baker, Jamila Mustafina, Dhiya Al-Jumeily, Mohammed Khalaf

Open Access Research article

Implementation and comparison of two text mining methods with a standard pharmacovigilance method for signal detection of medication errors

Nadine Kadi Eskildsen, Robert Eriksson, Sten B. Christensen, Tamilla Stine Aghassipour, Mikael Juul Bygsø, Søren Brunak, Suzanne Lisbet Hansen

Open Access Research article

Facilitating the design of HL7 domain models through a model-driven solution

M. A. Olivero, F. J. Domínguez-Mayo, C. L. Parra-Calderón, M. J. Escalona, A. Martínez-García

Open Access Research article

How to automatically turn patient experience free-text responses into actionable insights: a natural language programming (NLP) approach

Simone A. Cammel, Marit S. De Vos, Daphne van Soest, Kristina M. Hettne, Fred Boer, Ewout W. Steyerberg, Hileen Boosman

Open Access Research article

The considerations, experiences and support needs of family members making treatment decisions for patients admitted with major stroke: a qualitative study

A. Visvanathan, G. E. Mead, M. Dennis, W. N. Whiteley, F. N. Doubal, J. Lawton

Open Access Research article

Myocardial infarction evaluation from stopping time decision toward interoperable algorithmic states in reinforcement learning

Jong-Rul Park, Sung Phil Chung, Sung Yeon Hwang, Tae Gun Shin, Jong Eun Park

Open Access Research article

Does health information technology improve acknowledgement of radiology results for discharged Emergency Department patients? A before and after study

Julie Li, Richard Paoloni, Ling Li, Joanne Callen, Johanna I. Westbrook, William B. Runciman, Andrew Georgiou

Open Access Research article

360-degree Delphi: addressing sociotechnical challenges of healthcare IT

Heiko Waldmüller, Cord Spreckelsen, Hannah Rudat, Norbert Krumm, Roman Rolke, Stephan Michael Jonas

Open Access Research article

Readability of web-based sources about induced abortion: a cross-sectional study

Susanne Georgsson, Tommy Carlsson

Open Access Technical advance

Towards a comprehensive and interoperable representation of consent-based data usage permissions in the German medical informatics initiative

Raffael Bild, Martin Bialke, Karoline Buckow, Thomas Ganslandt, Kristina Ihrig, Roland Jahns, Angela Merzweiler, Sybille Roschka, Björn Schreiweis, Sebastian Stäubert, Sven Zenker, Fabian Prasser

Open Access Research Article

AutoDiscern: rating the quality of online health information with hierarchical encoder attention-based neural networks

Laura Kinkead, Ahmed Allam, Michael Krauthammer

Open Access Research article

ICT-based adherence monitoring in kidney transplant recipients: a randomized controlled trial

Hee-Yeon Jung, Yena Jeon, Sook Jin Seong, Jung Ju Seo, Ji-Young Choi, Jang-Hee Cho, Sun-Hee Park, Chan-Duck Kim, Young-Ran Yoon, Se-Hee Yoon, Jong Soo Lee, Yong-Lim Kim

Open Access Research article

Risk management-based security evaluation model for telemedicine systems

Dong-won Kim, Jin-young Choi, Keun-hee Han

Open Access Research article

Stratifying patients using fast multiple kernel learning framework: case studies of Alzheimer’s disease and cancers

Thanh-Trung Giang, Thanh-Phuong Nguyen, Dang-Hung Tran

Open Access Research article

Public preferences regarding data linkage for research: a discrete choice experiment comparing Scotland and Sweden

Mary P. Tully, Cecilia Bernsten, Mhairi Aitken, Caroline Vass

Open Access Research article

Identifying essential proteins in dynamic protein networks based on an improved h-index algorithm

Caiyan Dai, Ju He, Kongfa Hu, Youwei Ding

Open Access Research article

Early warning score validation methodologies and performance metrics: a systematic review

Andrew Hao Sen Fang, Wan Tin Lim, Tharmmambal Balakrishnan

Open Access Research article

A predictive analytics model for differentiating between transient ischemic attacks (TIA) and its mimics

Alia Stanciu, Mihai Banciu, Alireza Sadighi, Kyle A. Marshall, Neil R. Holland, Vida Abedi, Ramin Zand

Open Access Research article

Appraising patient preference methods for decision-making in the medical product lifecycle: an empirical comparison

Chiara Whichello, Bennett Levitan, Juhaeri Juhaeri, Vaishali Patadia, Rachael DiSantostefano, Cathy Anne Pinto, Esther W. de Bekker-Grob

Open Access Research article

HealtheDataLab – a cloud computing solution for data science and advanced analytics in healthcare with application to predicting multi-center pediatric readmissions

Louis Ehwerhemuepha, Gary Gasperino, Nathaniel Bischoff, Sharief Taraman, Anthony Chang, William Feaster

Open Access Technical advance

Privacy-preserving architecture for providing feedback to clinicians on their clinical performance

Kassaye Yitbarek Yigzaw, Andrius Budrionis, Luis Marco-Ruiz, Torje Dahle Henriksen, Peder A. Halvorsen, Johan Gustav Bellika

Open Access Research article

Pre-implementation adaptation of primary care cancer prevention clinical decision support in a predominantly rural healthcare system

Melissa L. Harry, Daniel M. Saman, Anjali R. Truitt, Clayton I. Allen, Kayla M. Walton, Patrick J. O’Connor, Heidi L. Ekstrom, JoAnn M. Sperl-Hillen, Joseph A. Bianco, Thomas E. Elliott

Open Access Software

GUIP1: a R package for dose escalation strategies in phase I cancer clinical trials

D. Dinart, J. Fraisse, D. Tosi, A. Mauguen, C. Touraine, S. Gourgou, M. C. Le Deley, C. Bellera, C. Mollevi

Open Access Research article

An exploratory study of public’ awareness about robotics-assisted surgery in Kuwait

Ali Jasem Buabbas, Saad Aldousari, Abrar Abdulmohsen Shehab

Open Access Research article

How good is our diagnostic intuition? Clinician prediction of bacteremia in critically ill children

Katherine E. M. Hoops, James C. Fackler, Anne King, Elizabeth Colantuoni, Aaron M. Milstone, Charlotte Woods-Hill

Open Access Research article

Surgical workflow simulation for the design and assessment of operating room setups in orthopedic surgery

Juliane Neumann, Christine Angrick, Celina Höhn, Dirk Zajonz, Mohamed Ghanem, Andreas Roth, Thomas Neumuth

Open Access Review

Cybersecurity of Hospitals: discussing the challenges and working towards mitigating the risks

Salem T. Argaw, Juan R. Troncoso-Pastoriza, Darren Lacey, Marie-Valentine Florin, Franck Calcavecchia, Denise Anderson, Wayne Burleson, Jan-Michael Vogel, Chana O’Leary, Bruce Eshaya-Chauvin, Antoine Flahault

Open Access Technical advance

Composite CDE: modeling composite relationships between common data elements for representing complex clinical data

Hye Hyeon Kim, Yu Rang Park, Suehyun Lee, Ju Han Kim

Open Access Research article

A risk calculator to inform the need for a prostate biopsy: a rapid access clinic cohort

Amirhossein Jalali, Robert W. Foley, Robert M. Maweni, Keefe Murphy, Dara J. Lundon, Thomas Lynch, Richard Power, Frank O’Brien, Kieran J. O’Malley, David J. Galvin, Garrett C. Durkan, T. Brendan Murphy, R. William Watson

Open Access Research article

Machine learning assisted DSC-MRI radiomics as a tool for glioma classification by grade and mutation status

Carole H. Sudre, Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths, Eser Sanverdi, Sebastian Brandner, Vasileios K. Katsaros, George Stranjalis, Francesca B. Pizzini, Claudio Ghimenton, Katarina Surlan-Popovic, Jernej Avsenik, Maria Vittoria Spampinato, Mario Nigro, Arindam R. Chatterjee, Arnaud Attye, Sylvie Grand, Alexandre Krainik, Nicoletta Anzalone, Gian Marco Conte, Valeria Romeo, Lorenzo Ugga, Andrea Elefante, Elisa Francesca Ciceri, Elia Guadagno, Eftychia Kapsalaki, Diana Roettger, Javier Gonzalez, Timothé Boutelier, M. Jorge Cardoso, Sotirios Bisdas

Open Access Research article

Application of standardised effect sizes to hospital discharge outcomes for people with diabetes

Tim Robbins, Sarah N. Lim Choi Keung, Sailesh Sankar, Harpal Randeva, Theodoros N. Arvanitis

Open Access Research article

Differential influences of social support on app use for diabetes self-management – a mixed methods approach

Nicola Brew-Sam, Arul Chib, Constanze Rossmann

Open Access Technical Advance

Sparse multi-output Gaussian processes for online medical time series prediction

Li-Fang Cheng, Bianca Dumitrascu, Gregory Darnell, Corey Chivers, Michael Draugelis, Kai Li, Barbara E Engelhardt

Open Access Research article

Barriers to patient, provider, and caregiver adoption and use of electronic personal health records in chronic care: a systematic review

Zahra Niazkhani, Esmaeel Toni, Mojgan Cheshmekaboodi, Andrew Georgiou, Habibollah Pirnejad

Open Access Research article

Development of an algorithm to detect and reduce complexity of drug treatment and its technical realisation

Viktoria S. Wurmbach, Steffen J. Schmidt, Anette Lampert, Eduard Frick, Michael Metzner, Simone Bernard, Petra A. Thürmann, Stefan Wilm, Achim Mortsiefer, Attila Altiner, Lisa Sparenberg, Joachim Szecsenyi, Frank Peters-Klimm, Petra Kaufmann-Kolle, Walter E. Haefeli, Hanna M. Seidling

Open Access Research article

Caregivers' role in using a personal electronic health record: a qualitative study of cancer patients and caregivers in Germany

Aline Weis, Sabrina Pohlmann, Regina Poss-Doering, Beate Strauss, Charlotte Ullrich, Helene Hofmann, Dominik Ose, Eva C. Winkler, Joachim Szecsenyi, Michel Wensing

Open Access Research article

Staff perspectives on the usability of electronic patient records for planning and delivering dementia care in nursing homes: a multiple case study

Kate Shiells, Angie Alejandra Diaz Baquero, Olga Štěpánková, Iva Holmerová

Open Access Research article

Implementing a system for the real-time risk assessment of patients considered for intensive care

Simarjot S. Dahella, James S. Briggs, Paul Coombes, Nazli Farajidavar, Paul Meredith, Timothy Bonnici, Julie L. Darbyshire, Peter J. Watkinson

Open Access Research article

Histopathological distinction of non-invasive and invasive bladder cancers using machine learning approaches

Peng-Nien Yin, Kishan KC, Shishi Wei, Qi Yu, Rui Li, Anne R. Haake, Hiroshi Miyamoto, Feng Cui

Open Access Research article

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg: a case study of a national master patient index in production since five years

Raffaella Vaccaroli, Frédéric Markus, Samuel Danhardt, Heiko Zimmermann, Francois Wisniewski, Pascale Lucas, Hervé Barge

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