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Volume 18;  2018

Database

Leveraging healthcare utilization to explore outcomes from musculoskeletal disorders: methodology for defining relevant variables from a health services data repository
Daniel I. Rhon, Derek Clewley, Jodi L. Young, Charles D. Sissel, Chad E. Cook
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 10. Published online 2018 Jan 31. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0588-8
PMCID:
PMC5793373
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Software

CogStack - experiences of deploying integrated information retrieval and extraction services in a large National Health Service Foundation Trust hospital
Richard Jackson, Ismail Kartoglu, Clive Stringer, Genevieve Gorrell, Angus Roberts, Xingyi Song, Honghan Wu, Asha Agrawal, Kenneth Lui, Tudor Groza, Damian Lewsley, Doug Northwood, Amos Folarin, Robert Stewart, Richard Dobson
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 47. Published online 2018 Jun 25. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0623-9
PMCID:
PMC6020175
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Implementation of informatics for integrating biology and the bedside (i2b2) platform as Docker containers
Kavishwar B. Wagholikar, Pralav Dessai, Javier Sanz, Michael E. Mendis, Douglas S. Bell, Shawn N. Murphy
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 66. Published online 2018 Jul 16. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0646-2
PMCID:
PMC6048900
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Technical Advances

Implementation of a patient-facing genomic test report in the electronic health record using a web-application interface
Marc S. Williams, Melissa S. Kern, Virginia R. Lerch, Jonathan Billet, Janet L. Williams, Gregory J. Moore
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 32. Published online 2018 May 30. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0614-x
PMCID:
PMC5975475
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Development and evaluating multimarker models for guiding treatment decisions
Parvin Tajik, Mohammad Hadi Zafarmand, Aeilko H. Zwinderman, Ben W. Mol, Patrick M. Bossuyt
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 52. Published online 2018 Jun 28. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0619-5
PMCID:
PMC6022448
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Research Articles

Predicting 7-day, 30-day and 60-day all-cause unplanned readmission: a case study of a Sydney hospital
Yashar Maali, Oscar Perez-Concha, Enrico Coiera, David Roffe, Richard O. Day, Blanca Gallego
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 1. Published online 2018 Jan 4. doi: 10.1186/s12911-017-0580-8
PMCID:
PMC5755362
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Analyzing hidden populations online: topic, emotion, and social network of HIV-related users in the largest Chinese online community
Chuchu Liu, Xin Lu
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 2. Published online 2018 Jan 5. doi: 10.1186/s12911-017-0579-1
PMCID:
PMC5755307
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The readiness of hospital pharmacists in Kuwait to practise evidence-based medicine: a cross-sectional study
Ali Jasem Buabbas, Fatemah Mohammad Alsaleh, Hamza Mohamad Al-Shawaf, Ali Abdullah, Abdullah Almajran
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 4. Published online 2018 Jan 11. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0585-y
PMCID:
PMC5765677
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A pre-post study testing a lung cancer screening decision aid in primary care
Daniel S. Reuland, Laura Cubillos, Alison T. Brenner, Russell P. Harris, Bailey Minish, Michael P. Pignone
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 5. Published online 2018 Jan 12. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0582-1
PMCID:
PMC5765651
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Functionality of hospital information systems: results from a survey of quality directors at Turkish hospitals
Mehmet Saluvan, Al Ozonoff
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 6. Published online 2018 Jan 12. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0581-2
PMCID:
PMC5767047
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Design and evaluation of a mobile application to assist the self-monitoring of the chronic kidney disease in developing countries
Alvaro Sobrinho, Leandro Dias da Silva, Angelo Perkusich, Maria Eliete Pinheiro, Paulo Cunha
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 7. Published online 2018 Jan 12. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0587-9
PMCID:
PMC5767024
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Developing a tablet computer-based application (‘App’) to measure self-reported alcohol consumption in Indigenous Australians
KS Kylie Lee, Scott Wilson, Jimmy Perry, Robin Room, Sarah Callinan, Robert Assan, Noel Hayman, Tanya Chikritzhs, Dennis Gray, Edward Wilkes, Peter Jack GradDipIndigH, Katherine M. Conigrave
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 8. Published online 2018 Jan 15. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0583-0
Correction in:
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 26.
PMCID:
PMC5769490
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Combining information from a clinical data warehouse and a pharmaceutical database to generate a framework to detect comorbidities in electronic health records
Emmanuelle Sylvestre, Guillaume Bouzillé, Emmanuel Chazard, Cécil His-Mahier, Christine Riou, Marc Cuggia
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 9. Published online 2018 Jan 24. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0586-x
PMCID:
PMC5784648
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Presentation of laboratory test results in patient portals: influence of interface design on risk interpretation and visual search behaviour
Paolo Fraccaro, Markel Vigo, Panagiotis Balatsoukas, Sabine N. van der Veer, Lamiece Hassan, Richard Williams, Grahame Wood, Smeeta Sinha, Iain Buchan, Niels Peek
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 11. Published online 2018 Feb 12. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0589-7
PMCID:
PMC5809992
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Effective behavioral intervention strategies using mobile health applications for chronic disease management: a systematic review
Jung-Ah Lee, Mona Choi, Sang A Lee, Natalie Jiang
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 12. Published online 2018 Feb 20. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0591-0
PMCID:
PMC5819153
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Traditional Chinese medicine pharmacovigilance in signal detection: decision tree-based data classification
Jian-Xiang Wei, Jing Wang, Yun-Xia Zhu, Jun Sun, Hou-Ming Xu, Ming Li
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 19. Published online 2018 Mar 9. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0599-5
PMCID:
PMC5845291
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Effect of clinical decision rules, patient cost and malpractice information on clinician brain CT image ordering: a randomized controlled trial
Ronald W. Gimbel, Ronald G. Pirrallo, Steven C. Lowe, David W. Wright, Lu Zhang, Min-Jae Woo, Paul Fontelo, Fang Liu, Zachary Connor
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 20. Published online 2018 Mar 12. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0602-1
PMCID:
PMC5848437
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Adherence to standardized assessments through a complexity-based model for categorizing rehabilitation©: design and implementation in an acute hospital
Tania Gutiérrez Panchana, Viviane Hidalgo Cabalín
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 21. Published online 2018 Mar 12. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0590-1
PMCID:
PMC5848603
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A mobile phone based tool to identify symptoms of common childhood diseases in Ghana: development and evaluation of the integrated clinical algorithm in a cross-sectional study
Konstantin H. Franke, Ralf Krumkamp, Aliyu Mohammed, Nimako Sarpong, Ellis Owusu-Dabo, Johanna Brinkel, Julius N. Fobil, Axel Bonacic Marinovic, Philip Asihene, Mark Boots, Jürgen May, Benno Kreuels
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 23. Published online 2018 Mar 27. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0600-3
PMCID:
PMC5870385
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Metabolic syndrome in hypertensive women in the age of menopause: a case study on data from general practice electronic health records
Šefket Šabanović, Majnarić Trtica Ljiljana, František Babič, Michal Vadovský, Ján Paralič, Aleksandar Včev, Andreas Holzinger
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 24. Published online 2018 Apr 2. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0601-2
PMCID:
PMC5880083
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Clinicians’ perceptions of usefulness of the PubMed4Hh mobile device application for clinical decision making at the point of care: a pilot study
Kyungsook Gartrell, Caitlin W. Brennan, Gwenyth R. Wallen, Fang Liu, Karen G. Smith, Paul Fontelo
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 27. Published online 2018 May 8. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0607-9
PMCID:
PMC5941474
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The relationship between hospital and ehr vendor market dynamics on health information organization presence and participation
Sunny C. Lin, Julia Adler-Milstein
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 28. Published online 2018 May 8. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0605-y
PMCID:
PMC5941339
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Automated extraction of Biomarker information from pathology reports
Jeongeun Lee, Hyun-Je Song, Eunsil Yoon, Seong-Bae Park, Sung-Hye Park, Jeong-Wook Seo, Peom Park, Jinwook Choi
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 29. Published online 2018 May 21. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0609-7
PMCID:
PMC5963015
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Screening pregnant women for suicidal behavior in electronic medical records: diagnostic codes vs. clinical notes processed by natural language processing
Qiu-Yue Zhong, Elizabeth W. Karlson, Bizu Gelaye, Sean Finan, Paul Avillach, Jordan W. Smoller, Tianxi Cai, Michelle A. Williams
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 30. Published online 2018 May 29. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0617-7
PMCID:
PMC5975502
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Algorithm-based decision support for symptom self-management among adults with Cancer: results of usability testing
Mary E. Cooley, Janet L. Abrahm, Donna L. Berry, Michael S. Rabin, Ilana M. Braun, Joanna Paladino, Manan M. Nayak, David F. Lobach
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 31. Published online 2018 May 29. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0608-8
PMCID:
PMC5975425
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Informing evaluation of a smartphone application for people with acquired brain injury: a stakeholder engagement study
Jade Kettlewell, Julie Phillips, Kate Radford, Roshan dasNair
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 33. Published online 2018 May 30. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0611-0
PMCID:
PMC5975503
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A rank weighted classification for plasma proteomic profiles based on case-based reasoning
Amy M. Kwon
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 34. Published online 2018 May 31. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0610-1
PMCID:
PMC5984454
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Combining EEG signal processing with supervised methods for Alzheimer’s patients classification
Giulia Fiscon, Emanuel Weitschek, Alessio Cialini, Giovanni Felici, Paola Bertolazzi, Simona De Salvo, Alessia Bramanti, Placido Bramanti, Maria Cristina De Cola
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 35. Published online 2018 May 31. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0613-y
PMCID:
PMC5984382
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Information standards for recording alcohol use in electronic health records: findings from a national consultation
Shamil Haroon, Darren Wooldridge, Jan Hoogewerf, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar, John Williams, Lina Martino, Neeraj Bhala
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 36. Published online 2018 Jun 7. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0612-z
PMCID:
PMC5992754
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A mathematical modelling tool for unravelling the antibody-mediated effects on CTLA-4 interactions
Aravindhan Ganesan, Theinmozhi Arulraj, Tahir Choulli, Khaled H. Barakat
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 37. Published online 2018 Jun 11. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0606-x
PMCID:
PMC5996525
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Utility of social media and crowd-intelligence data for pharmacovigilance: a scoping review
Andrea C. Tricco, Wasifa Zarin, Erin Lillie, Serena Jeblee, Rachel Warren, Paul A. Khan, Reid Robson, Ba’ Pham, Graeme Hirst, Sharon E. Straus
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 38. Published online 2018 Jun 14. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0621-y
PMCID:
PMC6001022
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Time series model for forecasting the number of new admission inpatients
Lingling Zhou, Ping Zhao, Dongdong Wu, Cheng Cheng, Hao Huang
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 39. Published online 2018 Jun 15. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0616-8
PMCID:
PMC6003180
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Use of feedback to improve mental number line representations in primary care clinics
Rachel F. Eyler, Sara Cordes, Benjamin R. Szymanski, Liana Fraenkel
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 40. Published online 2018 Jun 20. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0618-6
PMCID:
PMC6011591
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A machine learning model to predict the risk of 30-day readmissions in patients with heart failure: a retrospective analysis of electronic medical records data
Sara Bersche Golas, Takuma Shibahara, Stephen Agboola, Hiroko Otaki, Jumpei Sato, Tatsuya Nakae, Toru Hisamitsu, Go Kojima, Jennifer Felsted, Sujay Kakarmath, Joseph Kvedar, Kamal Jethwani
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 44. Published online 2018 Jun 22. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0620-z
PMCID:
PMC6013959
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Design and implementation of an m-health data model for improving health information access for reproductive and child health services in low resource settings using a participatory action research approach
Joseph Thobias, Achilles Kiwanuka
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 45. Published online 2018 Jun 25. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0622-x
PMCID:
PMC6019504
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Identification of research hypotheses and new knowledge from scientific literature
Matthew Shardlow, Riza Batista-Navarro, Paul Thompson, Raheel Nawaz, John McNaught, Sophia Ananiadou
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 46. Published online 2018 Jun 25. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0639-1
PMCID:
PMC6019216
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Quantitative evaluation of binary digital region asymmetry with application to skin lesion detection
Agustin Sancen-Plaza, Raul Santiago-Montero, Humberto Sossa, Francisco J. Perez-Pinal, Juan J. Martinez-Nolasco, Jose A. Padilla-Medina
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 50. Published online 2018 Jun 27. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0641-7
PMCID:
PMC6020345
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A computational application for multi-skill nurse staffing in hospital units
Ana Respicio, Margarida Moz, Margarida Vaz Pato, Rute Somensi, Cecília Dias Flores
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 53. Published online 2018 Jun 28. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0638-2
PMCID:
PMC6025742
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Development and validation of a model for the adoption of structured and standardised data recording among healthcare professionals
Erik Joukes, Ronald Cornet, Martine C. de Bruijne, Nicolette F. de Keizer, Ameen Abu-Hanna
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 54. Published online 2018 Jun 28. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0640-8
PMCID:
PMC6027789
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Using data-driven sublanguage pattern mining to induce knowledge models: application in medical image reports knowledge representation
Yiqing Zhao, Nooshin J. Fesharaki, Hongfang Liu, Jake Luo
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 61. Published online 2018 Jul 6. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0645-3
PMCID:
PMC6035419
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Detecting change in comparison to peers in NHS prescribing data: a novel application of cumulative sum methodology
Alex J. Walker, Seb Bacon, Richard Croker, Ben Goldacre
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 62. Published online 2018 Jul 9. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0642-6
PMCID:
PMC6038291
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Smart medical beds in patient-care environments of the twenty-first century: a state-of-art survey
Ignacio Ghersi, Mario Mariño, Mónica Teresita Miralles
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 63. Published online 2018 Jul 9. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0643-5
PMCID:
PMC6038300
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A model for predicting utilization of mHealth interventions in low-resource settings: case of maternal and newborn care in Kenya
Stephen Mburu, Robert Oboko
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 67. Published online 2018 Jul 17. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0649-z
PMCID:
PMC6050709
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Debate

Healthcare information systems: the cognitive challenge
Gavan Lintern, Al Motavalli
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 3. Published online 2018 Jan 11. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0584-z
PMCID:
PMC5765659
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Corrections

Correction to: A pattern learning-based method for temporal expression extraction and normalization from multi-lingual heterogeneous clinical texts
Tianyong Hao, Xiaoyi Pan, Zhiying Gu, Yingying Qu, Heng Weng
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 25. Published online 2018 Apr 13. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0603-0
Corrects:
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18(Suppl 1): 22.
PMCID:
PMC5898051
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Correction to: Developing a tablet computer-based application (‘App’) to measure self-reported alcohol consumption in Indigenous Australians
K. S. Kylie Lee, Scott Wilson, Jimmy Perry, Robin Room, Sarah Callinan, Robert Assan, Noel Hayman, Tanya Chikritzhs, Dennis Gray, Edward Wilkes, Peter Jack, Katherine M. Conigrave
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 26. Published online 2018 May 2. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0604-z
Corrects:
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018; 18: 8.
PMCID:
PMC5932830
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