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Volume 8;  2008
Correspondence
Script Concordance Tests: Guidelines for Construction
Jean Paul Fournier, Anne Demeester, and Bernard Charlin
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 18. Published online 2008 May 6. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-18.
PMCID: PMC2427021
Study Protocol
An integrated strategy of knowledge application for optimal e-health implementation: A multi-method study protocol
Marie-Pierre Gagnon, France Légaré, Jean-Paul Fortin, Lise Lamothe, Michel Labrecque, and Julie Duplantie
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 17. Published online 2008 April 24. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-17.
PMCID: PMC2390530
Technical Advance
Extensions to decision curve analysis, a novel method for evaluating diagnostic tests, prediction models and molecular markers
Andrew J Vickers, Angel M Cronin, Elena B Elkin, and Mithat Gonen
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 53. Published online 2008 November 26. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-53.
PMCID: PMC2611975
Research Articles
A decision-analytic approach to define poor prognosis patients: a case study for non-seminomatous germ cell cancer patients
Merel R van Dijk, Ewout W Steyerberg, and J Dik F Habbema
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 1. Published online 2008 January 3. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-1.
PMCID: PMC2266916
No paper, but the same routines: a qualitative exploration of experiences in two Norwegian hospitals deprived of the paper based medical record
Jan-Tore Lium, Aksel Tjora, and Arild Faxvaag
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 2. Published online 2008 January 10. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-2.
PMCID: PMC2245928
Prospective, randomized evaluation of a personal digital assistant-based research tool in the emergency department
Morris L Rivera, Jason Donnelly, Blair A Parry, Anthony Dinizio, Charles L Johnson, Jeffrey A Kline, and Christopher Kabrhel
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 3. Published online 2008 January 18. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-3.
PMCID: PMC2245927
The effect of offering different numbers of colorectal cancer screening test options in a decision aid: a pilot randomized trial
Jennifer M Griffith, Carmen L Lewis, Alison RT Brenner, and Michael P Pignone
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 4. Published online 2008 January 24. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-4.
PMCID: PMC2259331
Survey of information technology in Intensive Care Units in Ontario, Canada
Stephen E Lapinsky, David Holt, David Hallett, Mohamed Abdolell, and Neill KJ Adhikari
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 5. Published online 2008 January 24. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-5.
PMCID: PMC2233621
Integration of modeling and simulation into hospital-based decision support systems guiding pediatric pharmacotherapy
Jeffrey S Barrett, John T Mondick, Mahesh Narayan, Kalpana Vijayakumar, and Sundararajan Vijayakumar
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 6. Published online 2008 January 28. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-6.
PMCID: PMC2254609
A new methodology for assessment of the performance of heartbeat classification systems
John M Darrington and Livia C Hool
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 7. Published online 2008 January 30. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-7.
PMCID: PMC2373876
Users and non-users of web-based health advice service among Finnish university students – chronic conditions and self-reported health status (a cross-sectional study)
Johanna Castrén, Teppo Huttunen, and Kristina Kunttu
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 8. Published online 2008 January 31. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-8.
PMCID: PMC2262883
Decision support in psychiatry – a comparison between the diagnostic outcomes using a computerized decision support system versus manual diagnosis
Lars G Bergman and Uno GH Fors
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 9. Published online 2008 February 8. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-9.
PMCID: PMC2258291
Should a colon cancer screening decision aid include the option of no testing? A comparative trial of two decision aids
Jennifer M Griffith, Marlie Fichter, Floyd J Fowler, Carmen Lewis, and Michael P Pignone
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 10. Published online 2008 March 5. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-10.
PMCID: PMC2275224
Handheld computers for self-administered sensitive data collection: A comparative study in Peru
Antonio Bernabe-Ortiz, Walter H Curioso, Marco A Gonzales, Wilfredo Evangelista, Jesus M Castagnetto, Cesar P Carcamo, James P Hughes, Patricia J Garcia, Geoffrey P Garnett, and King K Holmes
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 11. Published online 2008 March 19. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-11.
PMCID: PMC2323371
Instant availability of patient records, but diminished availability of patient information: A multi-method study of GP's use of electronic patient records
Tom Christensen and Anders Grimsmo
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 12. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-12.
PMCID: PMC2386452
Physicians' perceptions of an electronic health record-based clinical trial alert approach to subject recruitment: A survey
Peter J Embi, Anil Jain, and C Martin Harris
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 13. Published online 2008 April 2. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-13.
PMCID: PMC2374776
Risk communication formats for low probability events: an exploratory study of patient preferences
James G Dolan and Stephen Iadarola
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 14. Published online 2008 April 10. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-14.
PMCID: PMC2330036
Benchmarking of hospital information systems: Monitoring of discharge letters and scheduling can reveal heterogeneities and time trends
Martin Dugas, Markus Eckholt, and Holger Bunzemeier
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 15. Published online 2008 April 19. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-15.
PMCID: PMC2374775
An iconic language for the graphical representation of medical concepts
Jean-Baptiste Lamy, Catherine Duclos, Avner Bar-Hen, Patrick Ouvrard, and Alain Venot
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 16. Published online 2008 April 24. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-16.
PMCID: PMC2413217
The interpretation of systematic reviews with meta-analyses: an objective or subjective process?
Ian Shrier, Jean-François Boivin, Robert W Platt, Russell J Steele, James M Brophy, Franco Carnevale, Mark J Eisenberg, Andrea Furlan, Ritsuko Kakuma, Mary Ellen Macdonald, Louise Pilote, and Michel Rossignol
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 19. Published online 2008 May 21. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-19.
PMCID: PMC2408567
Measurement properties of the Inventory of Cognitive Bias in Medicine (ICBM)
Ruth M Sladek, Paddy A Phillips, and Malcolm J Bond
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 20. Published online 2008 May 28. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-20.
PMCID: PMC2432053
Design of a graphical and interactive interface for facilitating access to drug contraindications, cautions for use, interactions and adverse effects
Jean-Baptiste Lamy, Alain Venot, Avner Bar-Hen, Patrick Ouvrard, and Catherine Duclos
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 21. Published online 2008 June 2. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-21.
PMCID: PMC2442832
Evaluation of SOVAT: An OLAP-GIS decision support system for community health assessment data analysis
Matthew Scotch, Bambang Parmanto, and Valerie Monaco
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 22. Published online 2008 June 9. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-22.
PMCID: PMC2438346
An update on Uniform Resource Locator (URL) decay in MEDLINE abstracts and measures for its mitigation
Erick Ducut, Fang Liu, and Paul Fontelo
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 23. Published online 2008 June 11. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-23.
PMCID: PMC2435527
Discussing life expectancy with surgical patients: Do patients want to know and how should this information be delivered?
Michael G Clarke, Katherine P Kennedy, and Ruaraidh P MacDonagh
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 24. Published online 2008 June 15. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-24.
PMCID: PMC2440736
Communicating effectiveness of intervention for chronic diseases: what single format can replace comprehensive information?
Henrik Stovring, Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Ivar S Kristiansen, Jorgen Nexoe, and Jesper B Nielsen
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 25. Published online 2008 June 19. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-25.
PMCID: PMC2467410
Towards pervasive computing in health care – A literature review
Carsten Orwat, Andreas Graefe, and Timm Faulwasser
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 26. Published online 2008 June 19. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-26.
PMCID: PMC2467411
Adapting a Markov Monte Carlo simulation model for forecasting the number of Coronary Artery Revascularisation Procedures in an era of rapidly changing technology and policy
Haider R Mannan, Matthew Knuiman, and Michael Hobbs
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 27. Published online 2008 June 25. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-27.
PMCID: PMC2443119
Decision-making in percutaneous coronary intervention: a survey
Catherine R Rahilly-Tierney and Ira S Nash
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 28. Published online 2008 June 25. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-28.
PMCID: PMC2443120
Value of syndromic surveillance within the Armed Forces for early warning during a dengue fever outbreak in French Guiana in 2006
Jean-Baptiste Meynard, Hervé Chaudet, Gaetan Texier, Vanessa Ardillon, Françoise Ravachol, Xavier Deparis, Henry Jefferson, Philippe Dussart, Jacques Morvan, and Jean-Paul Boutin
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 29. Published online 2008 July 2. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-29.
PMCID: PMC2459153
Logical Analysis of Data (LAD) model for the early diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke
Anupama Reddy, Honghui Wang, Hua Yu, Tiberius O Bonates, Vimla Gulabani, Joseph Azok, Gerard Hoehn, Peter L Hammer, Alison E Baird, and King C Li
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 30. Published online 2008 July 10. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-30.
PMCID: PMC2492849
Laypersons' understanding of relative risk reductions: Randomised cross-sectional study
Lene Sorensen, Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Ivar S Kristiansen, Jørgen Nexøe, and Jesper B Nielsen
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 31. Published online 2008 July 17. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-31.
PMCID: PMC2494548
Automated de-identification of free-text medical records
Ishna Neamatullah, Margaret M Douglass, Li-wei H Lehman, Andrew Reisner, Mauricio Villarroel, William J Long, Peter Szolovits, George B Moody, Roger G Mark, and Gari D Clifford
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 32. Published online 2008 July 24. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-32.
PMCID: PMC2526997
Is Canada ready for patient accessible electronic health records? A national scan
Sara Urowitz, David Wiljer, Emma Apatu, Gunther Eysenbach, Claudette DeLenardo, Tamara Harth, Howard Pai, and Kevin J Leonard
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 33. Published online 2008 July 24. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-33.
PMCID: PMC2532996
User experiences of evidence-based online resources for health professionals: User testing of The Cochrane Library
Sarah E Rosenbaum, Claire Glenton, and Jane Cracknell
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 34. Published online 2008 July 28. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-34.
PMCID: PMC2529276
Improving antibiotic prescribing for adults with community acquired pneumonia: Does a computerised decision support system achieve more than academic detailing alone? – a time series analysis
Kirsty L Buising, Karin A Thursky, James F Black, Lachlan MacGregor, Alan C Street, Marcus P Kennedy, and Graham V Brown
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 35. Published online 2008 July 31. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-35.
PMCID: PMC2527556
Does Choose & Book fail to deliver the expected choice to patients? A survey of patients' experience of outpatient appointment booking
Judith Green, Zoe McDowall, and Henry WW Potts
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 36. Published online 2008 August 1. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-36.
PMCID: PMC2529277
Applying cusum-based methods for the detection of outbreaks of Ross River virus disease in Western Australia
Rochelle E Watkins, Serryn Eagleson, Bert Veenendaal, Graeme Wright, and Aileen J Plant
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 37. Published online 2008 August 13. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-37.
PMCID: PMC2542357
Factors influencing the implementation of clinical guidelines for health care professionals: A systematic meta-review
Anneke L Francke, Marieke C Smit, Anke JE de Veer, and Patriek Mistiaen
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 38. Published online 2008 September 12. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-38.
PMCID: PMC2551591
Hospital characteristics associated with highly automated and usable clinical information systems in Texas, United States
Ruben Amarasingham, Marie Diener-West, Laura Plantinga, Aaron C Cunningham, Darrell J Gaskin, and Neil R Powe
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 39. Published online 2008 September 15. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-39.
PMCID: PMC2553406
How does age affect baseline screening mammography performance measures? A decision model
John D Keen and James E Keen
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 40. Published online 2008 September 21. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-40.
PMCID: PMC2563001
Non-compliance with a postmastectomy radiotherapy guideline: Decision tree and cause analysis
Amir R Razavi, Hans Gill, Hans Åhlfeldt, and Nosrat Shahsavar
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 41. Published online 2008 September 21. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-41.
PMCID: PMC2556998
Analysis of queries sent to PubMed at the point of care: Observation of search behaviour in a medical teaching hospital
Arjen Hoogendam, Anton FH Stalenhoef, Pieter F de Vries Robbé, and A John PM Overbeke
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 42. Published online 2008 September 24. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-42.
PMCID: PMC2567311
Sample size determination for bibliographic retrieval studies
Xiaomei Yao, Nancy L Wilczynski, Stephen D Walter, and R Brian Haynes
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 43. Published online 2008 September 29. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-43.
PMCID: PMC2569926
A new scoring system in Cystic Fibrosis: statistical tools for database analysis – a preliminary report
GM Hafen, C Hurst, J Yearwood, J Smith, Z Dzalilov, and PJ Robinson
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 44. Published online 2008 October 5. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-44.
PMCID: PMC2580762
Pilot study of an interactive voice response system to improve medication refill compliance
Kristen Reidel, Robyn Tamblyn, Vaishali Patel, and Allen Huang
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 46. Published online 2008 October 9. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-46.
PMCID: PMC2588437
Telemedicine in interdisciplinary work practices: On an IT system that met the criteria for success set out by its sponsors, yet failed to become part of every-day clinical routines
Antoinette de Bont and Roland Bal
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 47. Published online 2008 October 27. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-47.
PMCID: PMC2615749
Are decision trees a feasible knowledge representation to guide extraction of critical information from randomized controlled trial reports?
Grace Y Chung and Enrico Coiera
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 48. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-48.
PMCID: PMC2584633
Construction of an odds model of coronary heart disease using published information: the Cardiovascular Health Improvement Model (CHIME)
Christopher J Martin, Paul Taylor, and Henry WW Potts
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 49. Published online 2008 October 31. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-49.
PMCID: PMC2601038
Underutilization of information and knowledge in everyday medical practice: Evaluation of a computer-based solution
David Zakim, Niko Braun, Peter Fritz, and Mark Dominik Alscher
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 50. Published online 2008 November 5. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-50.
PMCID: PMC2596106
The experience of linking Victorian emergency medical service trauma data
Malcolm J Boyle
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 52. Published online 2008 November 17. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-52.
PMCID: PMC2596105
Support vector machine versus logistic regression modeling for prediction of hospital mortality in critically ill patients with haematological malignancies
T Verplancke, S Van Looy, D Benoit, S Vansteelandt, P Depuydt, F De Turck, and J Decruyenaere
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 56. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-56.
PMCID: PMC2612652
Debate
Integrated Personal Health Records: Transformative Tools for Consumer-Centric Care
Don Detmer, Meryl Bloomrosen, Brian Raymond, and Paul Tang
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008; 8: 45. Published online 2008 October 6. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-45.
PMCID: PMC2596104
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