Presentation of the Morris F. Collen, M.D. Medal to Dr. Morris F. Collen.
Author(s): Hammond, W E
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95236151
Author(s): Hammond, W E
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95236151
Develop standard terms and codes for recording nursing care information in patient records to permit relevant data to be abstracted into a shared database for effectiveness research.
Author(s): Ozbolt, J G, Fruchtnicht, J N, Hayden, J R
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95236147
Develop a representation of clinical observations and actions and a method of processing free-text patient documents to facilitate applications such as quality assurance.
Author(s): Sager, N, Lyman, M, Bucknall, C, Nhan, N, Tick, L J
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95236145
Articles about medical diagnostic decision support (MDDS) systems often begin with a disclaimer such as, "despite many years of research and millions of dollars of expenditures on medical diagnostic systems, none is in widespread use at the present time." While this statement remains true in the sense that no single diagnostic system is in widespread use, it is misleading with regard to the state of the art of these systems [...]
Author(s): Miller, R A
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95236141
To analyze the terms used by nurses in a variety of data sources and to test the feasibility of using SNOMED III to represent nursing terms.
Author(s): Henry, S B, Holzemer, W L, Reilly, C A, Campbell, K E
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95236137
A major obstacle to establishing a computer-stored medical record is the lack of "standards" that would permit government, care providers, insurance companies, and medical computer system developers to share patient data easily. In this position paper, the Board of Directors of the American Medical Informatics Association recommends specific approaches to standardization in the areas of patient, provider, and site of care identifiers; computerized health care message exchange; medical record content [...]
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DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95236133
Author(s): McCloskey, J, Bulechek, G
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95153437
To test the effect of diagnosis on training an artificial neural network (ANN) to predict length of stay (LOS) for psychiatric patients involuntarily admitted to a state hospital.
Author(s): Lowell, W E, Davis, G E
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95153435
Develop a prototype expert system for preterm birth risk assessment of pregnant women. Normal gestation involves a term of 40 weeks, but because 8-12% of the newborns in the United States are delivered prior to 37 weeks' gestation, problems associated with prematurity continue to plague individuals, families, and the health care system.
Author(s): Woolery, L K, Grzymala-Busse, J
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95153433
The American Nurses Association (ANA) Cabinet on Nursing Practice mandated the formation of the Steering Committee on Databases to Support Clinical Nursing Practice. The Committee has established the process and the criteria by which to review and recommend nursing classification schemes based on the ANA Nursing Process Standards and elements contained in the Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS) for inclusion of nursing data elements in national databases. Four classification schemes [...]
Author(s): McCormick, K A, Lang, N, Zielstorff, R, Milholland, D K, Saba, V, Jacox, A
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95153431