Academic Articles & Research Papers

Contribution of EFMI to development of medical informatics. European Federation for Medical Informatics.

The European Federation for Medical Informatics has been established in 1976. At the MIE 96 it has celebrated the 20th anniversary of its existence. During these 20 years the number of number of national societies who became a member has be...

Medical Informatics and Pediatrics

We were very pleased to see the article Medical Informatics and Pediatrics: Decision-Support System in the December 1995 issue. 1 TheArchivesis taking the lead in providing a series of academic articles on informatics topics for the pediatr...

MEDICAL INFORMATICS

Medical informatics, according to two US researchers, "is emerging as a distinct academic entity." More cynically one could say that the academic world has realised that grants are to be had, jobs created, and money made from building datab...

The Effects of a Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme on Functional Capacity and Strength of Respiratory Muscles in Patients with Post-COVID Syndrome

The aim of this study was to estimate the effects of a pulmonary rehabilitation programme (PR) on the functional capacity and respiratory muscle strength of patients with post-COVID syndrome....

Predictors of community acquired childhood pneumonia among 2–59 months old children in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Abstract Background Worldwide, pneumonia is the third leading cause of death in under 5 years children. Ethiopia is ranked 4th out of 15 countries having the highest burdens of the death rate among under-five children due to pneumonia. Rega...

Infodemiological data concerning silicosis in the USA in the period 2004–2010 correlating with real-world statistical data

This article reports data concerning silicosis-related web-activities using Google Trends (GT) capturing the Internet behavior in the USA for the period 2004–2010. GT-generated data were then compared with the most recent available epidemio...

Data on genotypic distribution and linkage disequilibrium of several ANRIL polymorphisms in hemodialysis patients

A long non-coding RNA called ANRIL located on chromosome 9p21.3 has been identified as a novel genetic factor associated with cardiovascular disease. Investigation of several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of Noncoding Antisense RNA...

Recommendations of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) on Education in Biomedical and Health Informatics

Summary Objective: The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) agreed on revising the existing international recommendations in health informatics /medical informatics education. These should help to establish courses, course t...

A review of medical education and medical informatics

Physicians have considerable difficulty collecting and interpreting information from patients, dealing with the uncertainties associated with diagnosing and treating their patients, communicating precisely with one another, keeping up to da...

Medical Informatics Europe '99

This volume seeks to reflect the state of the art on medical informatics. It presents ideas that will guide the process of medical informatics. Topics in the book include: information systems in health care and medicine; telemedicine and te...

Inter-Observer Reliability in Myocardial Blood Flow Measurement Using Rb-82-PET/CT

Background/Objectives: Myocardial perfusion PET/CT, e.g., using Rb-82, enables the measurement of absolute myocardial blood flow (MBF) and, hence, the blood flow reserve, which plays a crucial role in the diagnosis of coronary artery diseas...

A Collaborative Approach to Improving Breast Cancer Screening and Follow-Up Through Multicomponent Interventions and Process Improvements: The Links to Care Community Grants Project study protocol and baseline findings

Background: The Links to Care Community Grants Project was developed to improve breast cancer outcomes by increasing access to appropriate follow-up care, improving processes for care transitions, and enhancing care coordination between com...

The relationship between informatics competency and clinical competency in nurses working in intensive care units: A Cross-sectional Study in Northeast Iran

Background: The use of information technology improves the competency of nurses at the bedside. This study was conducted to determine the relationship between informatics competency and clinical competency in nurses working in intensive car...

Changes in physical activity and sedentary behavior during the first COVID-19 pandemic- restrictions in Germany: a nationwide survey

Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic restrictions posed challenges to maintaining healthy lifestyles and physical well-being. During the first mobility restrictions from March to mid-July 2020, the German population was advised to stay...

Understanding Public Perceptions of Lung Cancer in China: Infodemiology Study of Baidu Index and Weibo Posts

Abstract BackgroundIn China, lung cancer remains a major public health concern and accounts for a substantial proportion of cancer-related deaths nationwide. However, limited research has examined public perceptions of lung canc...

Clinical implications of subclonal TP53 mutations in acute myeloid leukemia

The role of subclonal TP53 mutations, defined by a variant allele frequency of 40%, 20%-40% and 40%, 19 had variant allele frequencies between 20%-40% and 18 had frequencies...

Publisher Correction: Endophenotype effect sizes support variant pathogenicity in monogenic disease susceptibility genes

Empowering Health Care Actors to Contribute to the Implementation of Health Data Integration Platforms: Retrospective of the medEmotion Project

Health data integration platforms are vital to drive collaborative, interdisciplinary medical research projects. Developing such a platform requires input from different stakeholders. Managing these stakeholders and steering platform develo...

Medical Informatics

Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine covers the basic foundations of the area while extending the foundational material to include the recent leading-edge research in the field. The new...

Mapping the Domain of Medical Informatics

OBJECTIVES: The domain of medical informatics (MI) is not well defined. It covers a wide range of research topics. Our objective is to characterize the field of MI by means of the scientific literature in this domain. METHODS: We used title...