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Jigisha Patel, MRCP PhD

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Hannah Clark PhD


Welcome to BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making published by BioMed Central
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.



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BMC  Latest supplements published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making


Volume 9 Suppl 1
Research
Philadelphia, PA, USA. 3 November 2008





BMC  Latest articles published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making        [more info]


Research article
Regression Tree construction by bootstrap: Model search for DRG-systems applied to Austrian health-data
Thomas Grubinger, Conrad Kobel, Karl-Peter Pfeiffer
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2010, 10:9 (3February2010)
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IT adoption of clinical information systems in Austrian and German hospitals: results of a comparative survey with a focus on nursing
Ursula Hubner, Elske Ammenwerth, Daniel Flemming, Christine Schaubmayr, Bjorn Sellemann
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2010, 10:8 (2February2010)
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Research article
How information systems should support the information needs of general dentists in clinical settings: suggestions from a qualitative study
Mei Song, Heiko Spallek, Deborah Polk, Titus Schleyer, Teena Wali
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2010, 10:7 (2February2010)
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Research article
Use of the internet as a source of health information by Spanish adolescents
Jaime Jimenez-Pernett, Antontio Olry de Labry-Lima, Clara Bermudez-Tamayo, Jose Francisco Garcia-Gutierrez, Maria del Carmen Salcedo-Sanchez
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2010, 10:6 (29January2010)
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Research article
Implementation and evaluation of a nurse-centered computerized potassium regulation protocol in the intensive care unit - a before and after analysis
Miriam Hoekstra, Mathijs Vogelzang, Jose T Drost, Marcel Janse, Bert G Loef, Iwan CC van der Horst, Felix Zijlstra, Maarten WN Nijsten
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2010, 10:5 (25January2010)
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Research article
A novel time series analysis approach for prediction of dialysis in critically ill patients using echo-state networks
T Verplancke, S Van Looy, K Steurbaut, D Benoit, F De Turck, G De Moor, J Decruyenaere
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2010, 10:4 (21January2010)
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Research article
Towards computerizing intensive care sedation guidelines: design of a rule-based architecture for automated execution of clinical guidelines
Femke Ongenae, Femke De Backere, Kristof Steurbaut, Kirsten Colpaert, Wannes Kerckhove, Johan Decruyenaere, Filip De Turck
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2010, 10:3 (18January2010)
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Research article
General practitioners' attitudes and preparedness towards clinical decision support in e-Prescribing (CDS-eP) adoption in the West of Ireland: a cross sectional study
Chee Peng Hor, James M. O'Donnell, Andrew W. Murphy, Timothy O'Brien, Thomas J. B. Kropmans
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2010, 10:2 (12January2010)
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Research article
A framework for enhancing spatial and temporal granularity in report-based health surveillance systems
Hutchatai Chanlekha, Ai Kawazoe, Nigel Collier
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2010, 10:1 (12January2010)
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Research article
Organization-wide adoption of computerized provider order entry systems: a study based on diffusion of innovations theory
Bahlol Rahimi, Toomas Timpka, Vivian Vimarlund, Srinivas Uppugunduri, Mikael Svensson
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, 9:52 (31December2009)
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Research article
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Research article
The combined positive impact of Lean methodology and Ventana Symphony autostainer on histology lab workflow
Lewis A Hassell, Crystal F Glass, Clinton Yip, Patricia A Eneff
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Research article
Building generic anatomical models using virtual model cutting and iterative registration
Mei Xiao, Jung Soh, Oscar Meruvia-Pastor, Eric Schmidt, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Christoph W Sensen
BMC Medical Imaging 2010, 10:5 (8February2010)
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Letter
Hourly measurements not required for safe and effective glycemic control in the critically ill patient
Miriam Hoekstra, Mathijs Vogelzang, Evgeny Verbitskiy, Maarten W Nijsten
Critical Care 2010, 14:404 (8February2010)
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Study protocol
Effects of computerized clinical decision support systems on practitioner performance and patient outcomes: Methods of a decision-maker-researcher partnership systematic review
R BRIAN Haynes, Nancy L Wilczynski, Computerized Clinical Decision Support System Systematic Review (ccdss)
Implementation Science 2010, 5:12 (5February2010)
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Research
Effects of liquid stimuli on dual-axis swallowing accelerometry signals in a healthy population
Joon Lee, Ervin Sejdic, Catriona M Steele, Tom Chau
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010, 9:7 (4February2010)
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Identification of complex metabolic states in critically injured patients using bioinformatic cluster analysis
Mitchell J Cohen, Adam D Grossman, Diane Morabito, M Margaret Knudson, Atul J Butte, Geoffrey T Manley
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Study protocol
How to integrate individual patient values and preferences in clinical practice guidelines? A research protocol
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Implementation Science 2010, 5:10 (2February2010)
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Research
Bridging the gaps among research, policy and practice in ten low- and middle-income countries: development and testing of a questionnaire for researchers
David Cameron, John N Lavis, G Emmanuel Guindon, Tasleem Akhtar, Francisco Becerra-Posada, Godwin D Ndossi, Boungnong Boupha, Research to Policy and Practice Study Team (rppst)
Health Research Policy and Systems 2010, 8:4 (29January2010)
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