{"title":"The impact of anticipatory patient data displays on physician decision making: a pilot study.","authors":"R B Elson, D P Connelly","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Computerized patient records have long offered the promise of facilitated access to patient data for clinical decision-making. Nonetheless, the decision process benefits of improved patient data access have been poorly quantified by prior informatics research. We conducted a pilot study to test the feasibility of study methods and gather data for the planning of a future clinical trial designed to assess the impact of patient data summary displays on serum lipid test interpretation time, on targeted data retrieval time for related data, and on decision quality. The pilot demonstrated feasibility and high face validity of the decision-making simulation methods used. Problem-focused patient data summaries appear to reduce time-based decision performance measures by 40-50%, and may improve decision quality even without the inclusion of knowledge-based recommendations or guideline representations.</p>","PeriodicalId":79455,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings : a conference of the American Medical Informatics Association. AMIA Fall Symposium","volume":" ","pages":"233-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2233294/pdf/procamiaafs00001-0271.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20288990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R D Zielstorff, G Estey, A Vickery, G Hamilton, J B Fitzmaurice, G O Barnett
{"title":"Evaluation of a decision support system for pressure ulcer prevention and management: preliminary findings.","authors":"R D Zielstorff, G Estey, A Vickery, G Hamilton, J B Fitzmaurice, G O Barnett","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A decision support system for prevention and management of pressure ulcers was developed based on AHCPR guidelines and other sources. The system was implemented for 21 weeks on a 20-bed clinical care unit. Fifteen nurses on that unit volunteered as subjects of the intervention to see whether use of the system would have a positive effect on their knowledge about pressure ulcers and on their decision-making skills related to this topic. A similar care unit was used as a control. In addition, the system was evaluated by experts for its instructional adequacy, and by end users for their satisfaction with the system. Preliminary results show no effect on knowledge about pressure ulcers and no effect on clinical decision making skills. The system was rated positively for instructional adequacy, and positively for user satisfaction. User interviews related to satisfaction supplemented the quantitative findings. A discussion of the issues of conducting experiments like this in today's clinical environment is included.</p>","PeriodicalId":79455,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings : a conference of the American Medical Informatics Association. AMIA Fall Symposium","volume":" ","pages":"248-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2233550/pdf/procamiaafs00001-0286.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20288993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving information management in family practice: testing an adult learning model.","authors":"S Teasdale, M Bainbridge","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Information management training has been neglected in family practice in the UK in the past. An adult learning model for such training is introduced. A pilot study using the adult learning approach showed improvements in information management processes over the six-month study period. The research project described in this paper compares the effectiveness of on-site training using adult learning methods, written information, and no intervention, in 33 family practices in the UK. Nine of the eleven practices in the on-site training group completed the training sessions and eight provided full data, whereas only one of the eleven practices in the written information group, and only one of the eleven practices in the control group provided full data. Preliminary analysis demonstrates that on-site training practices made considerable changes to the information systems in their practices, and appreciated the importance of high-quality data, both for patient care and reporting requirements. Full comparisons of data quality and information management methods are presented, and an assessment of priority training needs for maximum benefit is made.</p>","PeriodicalId":79455,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings : a conference of the American Medical Informatics Association. AMIA Fall Symposium","volume":" ","pages":"687-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2233466/pdf/procamiaafs00001-0721.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20288995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"E-mail access to NetCME: implementation of server push paradigm.","authors":"K W McEnery, J E Grossman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We describe the implementation of a Continuing Medical Education project which utilizes e-mail delivery of HTML documents to facilitate participant access to case material. HTML e-mail is displayed directly within the e-mail reader of the Netscape browser. This system of proactive educational content delivery ensures simultaneous distribution to all participants. Although a more effective method of content distribution, the system preserves user confidentiality and maintains security. HTML e-mail is non-proprietary and could be integrated into existing Internet-based educational projects to facilitate user access.</p>","PeriodicalId":79455,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings : a conference of the American Medical Informatics Association. AMIA Fall Symposium","volume":" ","pages":"693-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2233355/pdf/procamiaafs00001-0727.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20288996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementing cognitive learning strategies in computer-based educational technology: a proposed system.","authors":"M J Wang, P B Contino, E S Ramirez","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Switching the development focus of computer-based instruction from the concerns of delivery technology to the fundamentals of instructional methodology, is a notion that has received increased attention among educational theorists and instructional designers over the last several years. Building upon this precept, a proposed methodology and computer support system is presented for distilling educational objectives into concept maps using strategies derived from cognitive theory. Our system design allows for a flexible and extensible architecture in which an educator can create instructional modules that encapsulate their teaching strategies, and mimics the adaptive behavior used by experienced instructors in teaching complex educational objectives.</p>","PeriodicalId":79455,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings : a conference of the American Medical Informatics Association. AMIA Fall Symposium","volume":" ","pages":"703-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2233587/pdf/procamiaafs00001-0737.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20288998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Wolf, Judith G. Miller, L. Gruppen, W. Ensminger
{"title":"Teaching skills for accessing and interpreting information from systematic reviews/meta-analyses, practice guidelines, and the Internet","authors":"F. Wolf, Judith G. Miller, L. Gruppen, W. Ensminger","doi":"10.1007/978-94-011-4886-3_104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4886-3_104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79455,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings : a conference of the American Medical Informatics Association. AMIA Fall Symposium","volume":"1 1","pages":"662-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51706500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T H Karson, C Perkins, C Dixon, J P Ehresman, G L Mammone, L Sato, J L Schaffer, R A Greenes
{"title":"The PartnerWeb Project: a component-based approach to enterprise-wide information integration and dissemination.","authors":"T H Karson, C Perkins, C Dixon, J P Ehresman, G L Mammone, L Sato, J L Schaffer, R A Greenes","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A component-based health information resource, delivered on an intranet and the Internet, utilizing World Wide Web (WWW) technology, has been built to meet the needs of a large integrated delivery network (IDN). Called PartnerWeb, this resource is intended to provide a variety of health care and reference information to both practitioners and consumers/patients. The initial target audience has been providers. Content management for the numerous departments, divisions, and other organizational entities within the IDN is accomplished by a distributed authoring and editing environment. Structured entry using a set of form tools into databases facilitates consistency of information presentation, while empowering designated authors and editors in the various entities to be responsible for their own materials, but not requiring them to be technically skilled. Each form tool manages an encapsulated component. The output of each component can be a dynamically generated display on WWW platforms, or an appropriate interface to other presentation environments. The PartnerWeb project lays the foundation for both an internal and external communication infrastructure for the enterprise that can facilitate information dissemination.</p>","PeriodicalId":79455,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings : a conference of the American Medical Informatics Association. AMIA Fall Symposium","volume":" ","pages":"359-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2233447/pdf/procamiaafs00001-0396.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20287532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P J Haug, L Christensen, M Gundersen, B Clemons, S Koehler, K Bauer
{"title":"A natural language parsing system for encoding admitting diagnoses.","authors":"P J Haug, L Christensen, M Gundersen, B Clemons, S Koehler, K Bauer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Free-text or natural language documents make up an increasing part of the computerized medical record. While they do provide accessible clinical information to health care personnel, they fail to support processes that require clinical data coded according to a shared lexicon and data structure. We have developed a natural language parser that converts free-text admitting diagnoses into a coded form. This application has proven acceptably accurate in the experimental laboratory to warrant a test in the target clinical environment. Here we describe an approach to moving this research application into a production environment where it can contribute to the efforts of the Health Information Services Department. This transition is essential if the products of natural language understanding research are to contribute to patient care in a routine and sustainable way.</p>","PeriodicalId":79455,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings : a conference of the American Medical Informatics Association. AMIA Fall Symposium","volume":" ","pages":"814-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2233343/pdf/procamiaafs00001-0848.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20287535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P Tarczy-Hornoch, T S Kwan-Gett, L Fouche, J Hoath, S Fuller, K N Ibrahim, D S Ketchell, J P LoGerfo, H I Goldberg
{"title":"Meeting clinician information needs by integrating access to the medical record and knowledge resources via the Web.","authors":"P Tarczy-Hornoch, T S Kwan-Gett, L Fouche, J Hoath, S Fuller, K N Ibrahim, D S Ketchell, J P LoGerfo, H I Goldberg","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>MINDscape is a web based integrated interface to diverse sources of clinical information including both patient specific information (electronic medical record) as well as medical knowledge (the \"digital library\") to provide \"just in time\" information at the point of care. It was developed at the University of Washington to meet clinical information needs both as identified locally and by a review of the literature. Beta testing by over 600 clinicians is in progress and medical centers wide access scheduled for Fall 1997. We describe the information needs we sought to meet and the ongoing evaluation approach we are taking to ensure the information needs of a diverse group of clinicians are met. The iterative evolution of the interface from prototype, to alpha to large scale beta testing is reported. Integration of information occurs at three levels: integration of information by patient, integration of information by provider, and integration of patient specific information with medical reference material and decision support tools.</p>","PeriodicalId":79455,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings : a conference of the American Medical Informatics Association. AMIA Fall Symposium","volume":" ","pages":"809-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2233563/pdf/procamiaafs00001-0843.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20287603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nurses use of health status data to plan for patient care: implications for the development of a computer-based outcomes infrastructure.","authors":"M T Lush, S B Henry","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between the patient's health status at hospital admission and the initial care planned by the nurse. Functional status, engagement in care, and psychosocial well-being were measured by the Health Status Outcome Dimensions(HSOD) instrument. The HSOD is the foundation for developing a computer-based infrastructure for the analysis of health related outcomes. The consecutive, convenience sample of 308 subjects was drawn from five acute clinical populations: pulmonary; cerebrovascular, cardiac; gastrointestinal; and infection. Logistic and multiple regression analyses were used to test the relationships between control (patient and setting) variables, health status, and the dependent variables of type of problem identified, number of problems identified, and the time required to implement interventions ordered for the patient. In seven of ten models, control variables of facility, age, and/or severity of illness contributed to a model at p < .01. In six of ten models, at least one health status measure significantly explained variation beyond the control variables, at p < .01. Study results support using data gathered during the course of care, to evaluate the process of that care. Further work is needed to understand the effects of setting and provider variables on the use of health status data in care planning. Computer-based outcomes infrastructures are essential to support the collection and analysis of health status over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":79455,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings : a conference of the American Medical Informatics Association. AMIA Fall Symposium","volume":" ","pages":"136-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2233240/pdf/procamiaafs00001-0175.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20288522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}