Academic Articles & Research Papers

Challenges in Medical Informatics: Perspectives of an International Medical Informatics Organization

OBJECTIVE: As an international organization with the missions to promote informatics in health care and biomedical research, advance international cooperation, stimulate research, development and education, and disseminate and exchange info...

Secondary research use of personal medical data: patient attitudes towards data donation

Abstract Background The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has highlighted once more the great need for comprehensive access to, and uncomplicated use of, pre-existing patient data for medical research. Enabling secondary research-use of patient-data is a...

An updated database of human maximum skin fluxes and epidermal permeability coefficients for drugs, xenobiotics, and other solutes applied as aqueous solutions

The dataset represented in this article is referred to by the review article entitled “Topical drug delivery: history, percutaneous absorption, and product development” (MS Roberts et al., 2021) [1]. The dataset contains maximal flux (Jmax)...

Grey matter volume associations with personality functioning in a clinical cohort of female youths

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a severe mental illness, although its neurobiological underpinnings remain largely unknown. Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (sMRI) in adolescents can offer insights into potential biomarkers to...

Toward Home‐Based Telerehabilitation for Cerebral Palsy Patients: A Qualitative Study on Feasibility, Barriers and Facilitators

ABSTRACT Background and Aim Telerehabilitation has emerged as a promising solution to address accessibility, cost‐effectiveness, and continuity of care for patients requiring long‐term rehabilitation, like cerebral palsy (CP) patients. This...

Correction: Five-year dementia prediction and decision support system based on real-world data

Medical Informatics: Searching for Underlying Components

OBJECTIVE: To discuss unifying principles that can provide a theory for the diverse aspects of work in medical informatics. If medical informatics is to have academic credibility, it must articulate a clear theory that is distinct from that...

Antecedents of the People and Organizational Aspects of Medical Informatics: Review of the Literature

People and organizational issues are critical in both implementing medical informatics systems and in dealing with the altered organizations that new systems often create. The people and organizational issues area--like medical informatics ...

Development and production of an oligonucleotide MuscleChip: use for validation of ambiguous ESTs

Abstract Background We describe the development, validation, and use of a highly redundant 120,000 oligonucleotide microarray (MuscleChip) containing 4,601 probe sets representing 1,150 known genes expressed in muscle and 2,075 EST clusters...

e-Health interventions for healthy aging: a systematic review

Abstract Background Healthy aging (HA) is a contemporary challenge for population health worldwide. Electronic health (e-Health) interventions have the potential to support empowerment and education of adults aged 50 and over. Objectives To...

Noninvasive aspergillosis following COVID-19 exacerbates the severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection

Objectives: Few large-scale population-based studies have examined the association between COVID-19 and respiratory aspergillosis. Using nationwide data, we investigated whether SARS-CoV-2 infection increases respiratory aspergillosis incid...

The influence of patient characteristics on the alarm rate in intensive care units: a retrospective cohort study

Abstract Intensive care units (ICU) are often overflooded with alarms from monitoring devices which constitutes a hazard to both staff and patients. To date, the suggested solutions to excessive monitoring alarms have remained on a research...

Data on farmers’ perception and acceptance of sustainability standards

The presented data informs about a comprehensive online survey on the perception and acceptance of farm sustainability standards amongst German farmers. We conducted the online interviews, with a total of 598 adequately answered questionnai...

Data for: Terrain units, land use/cover, and gross primary productivity of the largest fluvial basin in the Brazilian Amazonia/Cerrado ecotone: The Araguaia River Basin

Integrity of most of tropical wetlands is threatened because they are often considered freely available resources of land and water. The Araguaia River Basin is one of the Brazilian basins most influenced by tropical seasonal floods, in add...

Subjective wellbeing and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Data from three population groups in Colombia

This paper presents three data sets about the consequences of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and subjective wellbeing in Colombia for three population subgroups: adults (+18 years old), college students, and informal workers. The data w...

Effectiveness of Social Cognitive Theory–Based Interventions for Glycemic Control in Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

BackgroundFor those living with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), failing to engage in self-management behaviors leads to poor glycemic control. Social cognitive theory (SCT) has been shown to improve health behaviors by altering cognitive p...

History of Medical Informatics: Fifty Years in Medical Informatics

Summary An overview of personal experiences in medical informatics based on Dr. Morris Collen’s 50 years of research in the field. A personal reminiscence and historical overview, focusing on the first two decades of medical informatics, wh...

Non-parametric synergy modeling of chemical compounds with Gaussian processes

Abstract Background Understanding the synergetic and antagonistic effects of combinations of drugs and toxins is vital for many applications, including treatment of multifactorial diseases and ecotoxicological monitoring. Synergy is usually...

Data describing the poor outcome associated with a breast cancer diagnosis in the post-weaning period

Postpartum breast cancer (PPBC) - which according to new data, can extend to 5–10 years after the birth - are estimated to represent 35–55% of all cases of breast cancer in women younger than 45 years. Increasing clinical evidence indicates...

Rural Telemedicine Use Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Repeated Cross-sectional Study

BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has led to a notable increase in telemedicine adoption. However, the impact of the pandemic on telemedicine use at a population level in rural and remote settings remains unclear. ObjectiveThis st...