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In-house Editor Hannah Clark PhD
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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the design, development, implementation, use, and evaluation of health information technologies and decision-making within the healthcare setting.
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (ISSN 1472-6947) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, CAS, EMBASE, Scopus, Current Contents, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :50
A novel public health laboratory information system to monitor HAART for HIV in Peru, NETLAB, reduces the time for publication of test results from two months to just one day.
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :41
A new protocol using Bloom filters can encrypt identifying information while allowing reasonable rates of matching to other data sets and thus permit linkage of records from databases with privacy-preserving requirements.
Volume 9 Suppl 1
Research
Philadelphia, PA, USA. 3 November 2008
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Research article
An e-health driven laboratory information system to support HIV treatment in Peru: E-quity for laboratory personnel, health providers and people living with HIV/AIDS Patricia J Garcia, Javier Vargas H, Patricia Caballero N, Javier Calle V, Angela M Bayer BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :50 (10 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Research article
Improving follow-up of abnormal cancer screens using electronic health records: trust but verify test result communication
Hardeep Singh, Lindsey Wilson, Laura A Petersen, Mona K Sawhney, Brian Reis, Donna Espadas, Dean F Sittig BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :49 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Research article
Development of a validation algorithm for 'present on admission' flagging Terri J Jackson, Jude L Michel, Rosemary Roberts, Jennie Shepheard, Diana Cheng, Julie Rust, Catherine Perry BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :48 (1 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Research article
1842676957299765Latent class cluster analysis to understand heterogeneity in prostate cancer treatment utilities Salimah H Meghani, Christopher S Lee, Alexandra L Hanlon, Deborah W Bruner BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :47 (27 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The feasibility of a web-based counselling program for occupational physicians and employees on sick leave due to back or neck pain Tanja de Jong, Judith Heinrich, Birgitte M Blatter, Johannes R Anema, Allard J van der Beek BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :46 (6 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Retraction
Retraction: Estimation of progression of multi-state chronic disease using the Markov model and prevalence pool concept Hui-Chuan Shih, Pesus Chou, Chi-Ming Liu, Tao-Hsin Tung BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :45 (20 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Debate
Information management to enable personalized medicine: stakeholder roles in building clinical decision support Gregory J Downing, Scott N Boyle, Kristin M Brinner, Jerome A Osheroff BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :44 (8 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Research article
An interdisciplinary team communication framework and its application to healthcare 'e-teams' systems design Craig E Kuziemsky, Elizabeth M Borycki, Mary Ellen Purkis, Fraser Black, Michael Boyle, Denise Cloutier-Fisher, Lee Ann Fox, Patricia MacKenzie, Ann Syme, Coby Tschanz, Wendy Wainwright, Helen Wong, Interprofessional Practices Team (alphabetically) BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :43 (15 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Correspondence
A global approach to the management of EMR (Electronic Medical Records) of patients with HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: the experience of DREAM Software Andrea Nucita, Giuseppe M Bernava, Michelangelo Bartolo, Fabio Di Pane Masi, Pietro Giglio, Marco Peroni, Giovanni Pizzimenti, Leonardo Palombi BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :42 (11 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Technical advance
Privacy-preserving record linkage using Bloom filters Rainer Schnell, Tobias Bachteler, J BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9 :41 (25 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Research
Diagnostic accuracy of pattern differentiation algorithm based on Chinese medicine theory: a stochastic simulation study Arthur DE SA Ferreira Chinese Medicine 2009, 4 :24 (21 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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A structured registration program can be validly used for quality assessment in general practice. Andrea S Fokkens, P AUKE Wiegersma, Sijmen A Reijneveld BMC Health Services Research 2009, 9 :241 (21 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Research article
Teleconsultation service to improve healthcare in rural areas: acceptance, organizational impact and appropriateness Paolo Zanaboni, Simonetta Scalvini, Palmira Bernocchi, Gabriella Borghi, Caterina Tridico, Cristina Masella BMC Health Services Research 2009, 9 :238 (18 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Comparing methods for identifying patients with heart failure using
electronic data sources Fadi Alqaisi, L. Keoki Williams, Edward L Peterson, David E Lanfear BMC Health Services Research 2009, 9 :237 (18 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Research
Temporal and spatial stability of Anopheles gambiae larval habitat distribution in western Kenya highlands Li Li, Ling Bian, Laith Yakob, Guofa Zhou, Guiyun Yan International Journal of Health Geographics 2009, 8 :70 (18 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Use of autologous bone graft in anterior cervical decompression: morbidity & quality of life analysis
Helen M Heneghan, John P McCabe BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2009, 10 :158 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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An analysis of farmers' perception of the new cooperative medical system in Liaoning Province, China Xilong Pan, Ying Zhang, Li Xu, Ju Huang, Qianqian Zhao BMC Health Services Research 2009, 9 :230 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Research
Atrial fibrillation detection by heart rate variability in Poincare plot Jinho Park, Sangwook Lee, Moongu Jeon BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2009, 8 :38 (11 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Study protocol
Protocol for the Osteoporosis Choice trial. A pilot randomized trial of a decision aid in primary care practice Laurie J Pencille, Megan E Campbell, Holly K Van Houten, Nilay D Shah, Rebecca J Mullan, Brian A Swiglo, Maggie Breslin, Rebecca L Kesman, Sidna M Tulledge-Scheitel, Thomas M Jaeger, Ruth E Johnson, Gregory A Bartel, Robert A Wermers, L Joseph Melton III, Victor M Montori Trials 2009, 10 :113 (10 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Research
The use of mobile phone data for the estimation of the travel patterns and imported Plasmodium falciparum rates among Zanzibar residents Andrew J Tatem, Youliang Qiu, David L Smith, Oliver Sabot, Abdullah S Ali, Bruno Moonen Malaria Journal 2009, 8 :287 (10 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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