Predicting length of stay for psychiatric diagnosis-related groups using neural networks.
Author(s): Shultz, E K, Spackman, K A
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1995.95338876
Author(s): Shultz, E K, Spackman, K A
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1995.95338876
Author(s): Holzemer, W L, Tallberg, M
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1995.95338874
There is an urgent need to capture and record data related to clinical outcomes, but there are many barriers. The range of problems includes lack of agreement on conceptualization of the term "outcome," inadequate measures of outcomes, and inadequate information systems to capture and manipulate data that would reflect outcomes. This article focuses on information system requirements to capture, store, and utilize clinical outcome data. For greatest accuracy, outcome data [...]
Author(s): Zielstorff, R D
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1995.95338872
In recent decades there have been major advances in the creation and implementation of information technologies and in the development of measures of health care quality. The premise of this article is that informatics provides essential infrastructure for quality assessment and improvement in nursing. In this context, the term quality assessment and improvement comprises both short-term processes such as continuous quality improvement (CQI) and long-term outcomes management. This premise is [...]
Author(s): Henry, S B
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1995.95338870
The High-Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) program is a multiagency federal effort to advance the state of computing and communications and to provide the technologic platform on which the National Information Infrastructure (NII) can be built. The HPCC program supports the development of high-speed computers, high-speed telecommunications, related software and algorithms, education and training, and information infrastructure technology and applications. The vision of the NII is to extend access to [...]
Author(s): Lindberg, D A, Humphreys, B L
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1995.95338868
This article describes the implementation of a suite of computer programs to manage and provide access to a database containing the electronic documents that constitute the NIH-Guide that is distributed by the NIH on a weekly basis. The software consists of a management program that reads, processes, and stores the incoming documents and performs erratum updates on existing documents; an alerting program that sends selected information to users who have [...]
Author(s): Smith, P R, Gottesman, S, Jones, W K
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1995.95261911
From my viewpoint as a patient, 1. Medical knowledge has expanded to the point that individuals cannot adequately improve quality without the assistance of computer programs. 2. The medical profession must concentrate on why and how computer program projects must be used, not on why they cannot be used. 3. The successful application of computer programs to clinical medicine is dependent mainly on the efforts of individual institutions and people [...]
Author(s): Mongerson, P
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1995.95261909
Author(s): Clayton, P D
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1995.95261907
Develop a model for structured and encoded representation of medical information that supports human review, decision support applications, ad hoc queries, statistical analysis, and natural-language processing.
Author(s): Huff, S M, Rocha, R A, Bray, B E, Warner, H R, Haug, P J
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1995.95261905
Author(s): Friedman, C P
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1995.95202550