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Patient Computer Use To Prompt Doctor Adherence To Diabetes Management Guidelines

Rationale, Aims and Objectives Doctor compliance with diabetic care guidelines is low and may be improved with system-wide changes that include patient involvement. The objective of this study was to determine if patients in an internal medicine…

Sequential test selection in the analysis of abdominal pain

Numerous decision-making tools exist to assist physicians in diagnosis management. However, the accuracy of available clinical information is often ambiguous or unknown and current analytical models do not explicitly incorporate judgmentally defined…

Tags: 1996, Caccamo L P, cardiopulmonary bypass, Carter K J, Castro F, complications, Erickson B A, Health Care Sciences & Services, Johnson W, Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication, Kessler E, Medical Decision Making, Medical Informatics, Ritchey N P, Ruiz C A

Treatment of early-stage breast cancer in the elderly: A health-outcome-based approach

Purpose. To evaluate the post-lumpectomy treatment of a nonpalpable, stage 1, T1b tumor, mammographically detected, in a 74-year-old woman without comorbidities. Methods. A Markov process, through 120 monthly cycles, was used to model patient…

Analysis of three decision-making methods: A Breast cancer patient as a model

Purpose: To compare three decision making techniques using a common clinical problem. Methods: Two recently developed methods, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the analytic network process (ANP), were compared with a Markov process in the…

Quality assurance in anatomic pathology: Automated SNOMED coding

This case study details the set-up and implementation of the PathNet autocoder (Cerner Corporation) in a busy anatomic pathology laboratory. After initial start-up, procedures were developed to improve the system's performance. Four classes of…

Tags: 1996, Caccamo L P, Carter K J, Castro F, Computer Science, Erickson B A, Health Care Sciences & Services, Information Science &, Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Kessler E, Library Science, Medical Informatics, Poggione M D, Rinehart S, Ritchey N P

Clarifying the management decision for early breast cancer - reply

Tags: 1998, Carter K J, Health Care Sciences & Services, Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication, Medical Decision Making, Medical Informatics

HOW TO CONFIGURE A COMPUTER-AIDED NEURON RECONSTRUCTION AND GRAPHICS DISPLAY SYSTEM

Tags: 1979, Capowski J J, Computer Science, Computers and Biomedical Research, Cruce W L R, Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication, Medical Informatics

Chaotic behavior of the coronary circulation

The regulation of the coronary circulation is a complex paradigm in which many inputs that influence vasomotor tone have to be integrated to provide the coronary vasomotor adjustments to cardiac metabolism and to perfusion pressure. We hypothesized…

OPTIMAL INTERVAL FOR TRIPLE-LUMEN CATHETER CHANGES - A DECISION-ANALYSIS

A survey of 53 university and community hospitals revealed that 73% of the institutions had no standard policy for the replacement of triple-lumen catheters (TLCs). Since the maintenance of a TLC in place for a prolonged period may lead to infectious…

Consensus Development of a Modern Ontology of Emergency Department Presenting Problems-The Hierarchical Presenting Problem Ontology (HaPPy)

Objective Numerous attempts have been made to create a standardized "presenting problem" or "chief complaint" list to characterize the nature of an emergency department visit. Previous attempts have failed to gain widespread adoption as they were not…

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