Moes, Harmen R Buskens, Erik van Laar, Teus
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Parkinsonism & related disorders
The MANAGE-PD tool may help general neurologists in deciding whether a patient with advanced Parkinson's disease should be referred for an advanced therapy. Although the development and clinical validation of MANAGE-PD would appear to serve an important need, we urge the reader to be aware of several methodological concerns. Copyright © 2022 Elsevi...
Wu, Li-Feng Zhuang, Guo-Hua Hu, Qi-Lei Zhang, Liang Luo, Zhang-Mei Lv, Yin-Jiang Tang, Jian
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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Background This study explored the application effect of information technology in optimizing the patient identification process. Methods The method for optimizing the identification process involved in drawing blood among outpatients using information technology was executed from July 2020. In this paper, 959 patients who had blood drawn from Janu...
Ortsäter, Gustaf De Geer, Anna Geale, Kirk Rieem Dun, Alexander Lindberg, Ingrid Thyssen, Jacob P. von Kobyletzki, Laura Ballardini, Natalia Henrohn, Dan Neregård, Petra
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Introduction: The use of real-world data offers a possibility to perform large-scale epidemiological studies in actual clinical settings. Despite their many advantages, administrative databases were not designed to be used in research, and the validation of diagnoses and treatments in administrative databases is needed. The primary objective of thi...
Jefferies, John L. Spencer, Alison K. Lau, Heather A. Nelson, Matthew W. Giuliano, Joseph D. Zabinski, Joseph W. Boussios, Costas Curhan, Gary Gliklich, Richard E. Warnock, David G.
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Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
BackgroundFabry disease (FD) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by glycosphingolipid accumulation and progressive damage across multiple organ systems. Due to its heterogeneous presentation, the condition is likely significantly underdiagnosed. Several approaches, including provider education efforts and newborn screening, have attempted to a...
Antonini, Angelo Odin, Per Schmidt, Peter Cubillos, Fernando Standaert, David G Henriksen, Tove Jimenez-Shahed, Joohi Alobaidi, Ali Jalundhwala, Yash J Bao, Yanjun
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Parkinsonism & related disorders
Making Informed Decisions to Aid Timely Management of Parkinson's Disease (MANAGE-PD) is a clinician-reported tool designed to facilitate timely identification and management of patients with advancing Parkinson's disease (PD) with suboptimal symptom control while on standard therapy. The objective of this study was to evaluate the validity and cli...
Laaksonen, Niina Varjonen, Juha-Matti Blomster, Minna Palomäki, Antti Vasankari, Tuija Airaksinen, Juhani Huupponen, Risto Scheinin, Mika Juuso Blomster,
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Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications
Electronic health records (EHR) are a potential resource for identification of clinical trial participants. We evaluated how accurately a commercially available EHR Research Platform, InSite, is able to identify potential trial participants from the EHR system of a large tertiary care hospital. Patient counts were compared with results obtained in ...
Gibney, Brian Ryan, J W MacMahon, P J O'Connor, G S Bolster, F
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Emergency radiology
To qualitatively assess the legibility of radiopaque patient identification stickers and their effect on image quality. These stickers are intended for use as a part of a patient registration and identification pack utilized in a mass casualty incident (MCI), to prevent errors in correlating patients with their diagnostic imaging and reports. Four ...
Carrera Jeri, Patrick Lind, Isabelle
With a strong and continuous development in medical technology products, the need to connect the right data to the right person is increasing, a form of patient identification. When the identification is not working it could lead to catastrophic accidents like the wrong person being operated. The problem could be solved with a mobile application. A...
Gothe, Holger Rajsic, Sasa Vukicevic, Djurdja Schoenfelder, Tonio Jahn, Beate Geiger-Gritsch, Sabine Brixner, Diana Popper, Niki Endel, Gottfried Siebert, Uwe
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundChronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) causes significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Estimation of incidence, prevalence and disease burden through routine insurance data is challenging because of under-diagnosis and under-treatment, particularly for early stage disease in health care systems where outpatient International C...
Anne, Njoroge Dunbar, Matthew D. Abuna, Felix Simpson, Peter Macharia, Paul Betz, Bourke Cherutich, Peter Bukusi, David Carey, Farquhar
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International journal of medical informatics
Background: Use of routine HIV programme data for surveillance is often limited due to inaccuracies associated with patient misclassification which can be addressed by unique patient identification. We assessed the feasibility and acceptability of integrating an iris recognition biometric identification system into routine HIV care services at 4 si...
