Funding for nursing vocabularies.
Author(s): Corn, M
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050391
Author(s): Corn, M
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050391
As controlled clinical vocabularies assume an increasing role in modern clinical information systems, so the issue of their quality demands greater attention. In order to meet the resulting stringent criteria for completeness and correctness, a quality assurance system comprising a database of more than 500 rules is being developed and applied to the Read Thesaurus. The authors discuss the requirement to apply quality assurance processes to their dynamic editing database [...]
Author(s): Schulz, E B, Barrett, J W, Price, C
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050337
Author(s): Brennan, P F
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050317
Author(s): Frisse, M E, Musen, M A, Slack, W V, Stead, W W
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050293
Practice guidelines are an integral part of evidence-based health care delivery. When the authors decided to install the clinical documentation component of an electronic health record in a nurse practitioner faculty practice, however, they found that they lacked the resources to integrate it immediately with other systems and components that would support the processing of clinical rules. They were thus challenged to devise an initial approach for decision support related [...]
Author(s): Henry, S B, Douglas, K, Galzagorry, G, Lahey, A, Holzemer, W L
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050237
To study the objectives, processes, and ideologies expressed during participatory design of information systems (PDIS) in health care.
Author(s): Sjöberg, C, Timpka, T
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050177
Author(s): Stead, W W
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050131
The aim of the project ARIANE is to model and implement seamless, natural, and easy-to-use interfaces with various kinds of heterogeneous biomedical information databases.
Author(s): Joubert, M, Fieschi, M, Robert, J J, Volot, F, Fieschi, D
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050052
An evaluation of the cognitive processes used in the translation of a clinical guideline from text into an encoded form so that it can be shared among medical institutions.
Author(s): Patel, V L, Allen, V G, Arocha, J F, Shortliffe, E H
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050467
The authors consider the problem of identifying new, unexpected, and interesting patterns in hospital infection control and public health surveillance data and present a new data analysis process and system based on association rules to address this problem.
Author(s): Brossette, S E, Sprague, A P, Hardin, J M, Waites, K B, Jones, W T, Moser, S A
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050373