Usual medical care often fails to meet the needs of chronically ill patients, even in managed,
integrated delivery systems. The medical literature suggests strategies to improve outcomes …

Abstract The Arden Syntax, a language designed for writing and sharing task-specific
knowledge for Medical Logic Modules (MLMs), has been recently accepted as a standard by …

Objective: To evaluate the effect of a patient, healthcare provider, and systems intervention
on the prevalence of risk factors for lower extremity amputation in patients with non–insulin …

This paper presents a comprehensive approach to the validation of logistic prediction
models. It reviews measures of overall goodness‐of‐fit, and indices of calibration and …

Entrusted with the records for more than 1.5 million patients, the Regenstrief Medical Record
System (RMRS) has evolved into a fast and comprehensive data repository used extensively …

Disclosed is a method for delivering decision-supported patient data to a clinician to aid the
clinician with the diagnosis and treatment of a medical condition. The method including …

Importance Hospitalized older adults often lack decisional capacity, but outside of the
intensive care unit and end-of-life care settings, little is known about the frequency of …

A decision-support system for providing a clinician with real-time patient data specific to
each patient that the clinician is to examine in a defined time period. The system including a …

Standard methods of using the t-test and the Wilcoxon test have deficiencies for comparing
the means of two skewed log-normal samples. In this paper, we propose two new methods …

Objective: To improve compliance with computer-generated reminders to perform fecal
occult blood testing (FOBT), mammography, and cervical Papanicolaou (Pap) testing …