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Brain Bank was established in 1960's in the United States and Europe as a basic infrastructure for human neuroscience research. In Japan,institutional collections are a substitute to brain banks and these function as the main repository of postmortem brains; Niigata University has one such center. T...
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PMID: 20940499
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We used four common Japanese search engines (Yahoo!, Google, goo, and MSN) to look up websites on Dec. 2, 2008. The search keywords were "health food" and "cancer". The websites for the first 100 hits generated by each search engine were screened and extracted by three conditions. We extracted 64 un...
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PMID: 20686206
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Numerous web-based resources are available to improve the knowledge of undergraduate students in assessing and providing care to older adults. These resources can be helpful to nurse educators regardless of the learning environment and to students and nurses who are working with older adults. This a...
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PMID: 20608594
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The Internet is a major source of HIV-related information and resources for persons recently diagnosed with HIV/AIDS (PRDHA). This study examined the types of HIV-related websites that appear as a result of HIV-related keyword searches and the extent to which website information targets PRDHA. The f...
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PMID: 20677056
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We demonstrate that edge direction has profound effects on assortativity. We define a set of four directed assortativity measures and assign statistical significance by comparison to randomized networks. We apply these measures to three network classes--online/social networks, food webs, and word-ad...
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PMID: 20505119
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All participants were using Internet resources to obtain answers to clinical questions. Colleagues were also important for answering immediate questions, but not for future requirements. There is possibly less use of paper book resources. The websites were used to obtain knowledge now and for future...
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PMID: 20690298
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Internet use has expanded globally over the last 10 years. The aim of this study was to determine the extent that cardiac patients researched their forthcoming procedures using the internet and to determine their perception of reliability. Sixty-eight consecutive cardiac patients (51...
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PMID: 20139204
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Recent federal policies and actions support the adoption of health information exchange (HIE) in order to improve healthcare by addressing fragmented personal health information. However, concerted efforts at facilitating HIE have existed for over two decades in this country. The lessons of these ex...
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PMID: 20442146
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The nationwide health information network (NHIN) has been proposed to securely link community and state health information exchange (HIE) entities to create a national, interoperable network for sharing healthcare data in the USA. This paper describes a framework for evaluating the costs, effort, an...
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PMID: 20442147
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Under the provisions of the Health Information Technology for Economic & Clinical Health act providers need to demonstrate their 'meaningful use' of electronic health record systems' health information exchange (HIE) capability. HIE usage is not a simple construct, but the choice of its measurement...
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PMID: 20442148
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We know about the cell concerns its constituent parts, but to a great extent we have yet to decode how these parts are organized to yield complex physiological function. Classically, we have learned about the organization of cellular networks by disrupting them through genetic or chemical means. The...
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PMID: 20192780
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Telephone calls to CIS declined while the number of LiveHelp and e-mail inquiries steadily increased. People who contacted CIS by telephone and LiveHelp were predominantly white and female and, compared with the general population, were relatively well educated. LiveHelp users were significantly you...
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PMID: 20158959
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Hospitals already face a shortage of qualified health IT workers, a shortage that will only intensify with new HIPAA rules, the transition to ICD-10 coding and, most importantly, government pressure to ramp up EHRs. Many initiatives are under way to ease the potential crisis, but hospitals will have...
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PMID: 20297603
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If nursing jobs are currently in short supply in your area, use these tips to maximize your chances of securing employment.
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PMID: 20032682
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This chapter summarizes how prevention, diagnosis and services can result from the activities of a research programme on the group of rare diseases constituted by congenital anomalies. The Spanish Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations (ECEMC) is a research programme based on a case-control...
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PMID: 20824439
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The Central Information Service--(CIS) is located at the Institute of Public Health of Serbia, which maintains and upgrades it. CIS has been developed through the Serbia Health Project, a project developed by the Ministry of Health and funded by the World Bank loan. Through its web portal CIS ensure...
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PMID: 21086766
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We believe that the Promising Practices Project demonstrates a useful approach in pandemic preparedness and response and may serve as a valuable model for other areas of public health....
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PMID: 20873278
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High quality research is essential to the provision of excellent health care in both primary and hospital settings. Midwives, health visitors, other community practitioners and allied health professionals should be encouraged to initiate and participate in research. No one should und...
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PMID: 21319671
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Our experiments show that MKEM is a powerful tool to discover hidden relationships residing in extracted entities that were represented by our Substance-Effect-Process-Disease-Body Part (SEPDB) model....
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PMID: 20406501
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As part of its policy to reduce health equalities and make child health a priority, the Government has introduced a free, nationally-available online NHS health promotion tool called Baby LifeCheck. Targeted at parents and carers of babies aged 5-8 months, it provides information and advice to help...
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PMID: 20397550
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In 2007, the Department of Health and Human Services commissioned the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) Trial Implementations project to demonstrate the secure exchange of data among health information exchange organizations around the country. The project's Core Services Content Work Gro...
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PMID: 20064795
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Capture, coding and communication of newborn screening (NBS) information represent a challenge for public health laboratories, health departments, hospitals, and ambulatory care practices. An increasing number of conditions targeted for screening and the complexity of interpretation contribute to a...
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PMID: 20064796
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Exchanging a narrow set of data and involving a broad group of stakeholders were independently associated with a higher likelihood of being operational. Involving hospitals and ambulatory physicians, and securing early funding from participants were associated with a higher likelihood of financial v...
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PMID: 20064803
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Physicians perceive that HIE will have generally positive effects, though a considerable fraction harbor concerns about privacy. While physicians may be willing to participate in HIE, they are not consistently willing to pay to participate. HIE business models that require substantial physician subs...
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PMID: 20064804
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This paper uses a health literacy "lens" to look at key global health challenges, including the achievement of health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the reduction of disease burden due to non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Available global evidence is summarized related to: assessmen...
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PMID: 20845205
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Our goal was to develop a health literacy organizational assessment tool for health plans that could be used as a benchmark and encourage further work. The existing tool consists of six evaluation areas: (1) information for members/navigation; (2) member services/communication; (3) web navigation; (...
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PMID: 20845196
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IMGT, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system, was created in 1989 in Montpellier by the Laboratoire d'ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire (LIGM) headed by the Professors Marie-Paule and Gérard Lefranc (University Montpellier 2 and CNRS). IMGT is specialized in the sequences, structures and...
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PMID: 20035673
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We used a qualitative case study approach to explore the human experiences of NPDB patients and families. To assess psychosocial adjustment, all participants were administered a semi-structured, qualitative interview, as well as quantitative measures. Five major findings emerged: (1) limited physica...
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PMID: 19877061
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Thomas Volk,
Lars Engelhardt,
Claudia Spies,
Thorsten Steinfeldt,
Bernd Kutter,
Axel Heller,
Christian Werner,
Florian Heid,
Hartmut Bürkle,
Thea Koch,
Oliver Vicent,
Peter Geiger,
Paul Kessler and
Hinnerk Wulf
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We are now able to describe risk profiles and associations in case of a complication. Moreover, a benchmark has been implemented in order to continuously improve complication rates.
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PMID: 19918710
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Despite advances in vaccination, rabies remains a significant worldwide public health problem. Although the death rate is low in the United States, treatment and prevention costs are high. Occupational health nurses and occupational health nurse practitioners should consider rabies epidemiology, pat...
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PMID: 19968210
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We describe our experiences of the introduction of the computerized anesthesia-recording systems and the construction of the comprehensive medical information network for patients undergoing surgery in The University of Tokyo Hospital. We also discuss possible efficacy of the comprehensive medical i...
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PMID: 19860244
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Background. Hispanics face barriers in seeking cancer information from sources such as the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service. Their cancer screening rates are lower than those for whites.
Methods. Three focus groups were conducted with 40 Spanish-speaking cancer sur...
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PMID: 19526401
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The value of information in the knowledge economy is indisputable, but so is its capacity to overwhelm consumers of it. HBR contributing editor Hemp reports on practical ways for individuals and organizations to avoid getting too much of a good thing. Ready access to useful information comes at a co...
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PMID: 19736853
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We aimed to establish the proportion of patients undergoing two common surgical procedures, who searched the internet for information about their operations and to assess the usefulness of the information they received.
A total of 105 consecutive patients undergoing elective abdominal wall hernia re...
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PMID: 19558769
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Whether Morgellons disease is a delusional disorder or even a disease has been a mystery for more than 300 years. Symptoms of Morgellons include crawling and stinging sensations, feeling of "bugs" and/or fiber-like material beneath the skin, disabling fatigue, and memory loss. The cause, transmissio...
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PMID: 19681520
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It has been almost 15 years since the National Institutes of Health created the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Clinical Trials Network (ARDS Network) and nearly a decade since the completion of the landmark low-tidal volume (V(T)) trial. In retrospect, the ARDS Network had a profound impact on...
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PMID: 19558741
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