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| Elmer V BernstamSummaryAffiliation: Baylor College of Medicine Country: USA Publications
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Efficacy of quality criteria to identify potentially harmful information: a cross-sectional survey of complementary and alternative medicine web sitesMuhammad Walji
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Health Information Sciences, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
J Med Internet Res 6:e21. 2004..Consumers should be warned to use other means of validation or to trust only known sites. Quality criteria that consider the uniqueness of CAM must be developed and validated...- Using citation data to improve retrieval from MEDLINEElmer V Bernstam
School of Health Information Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 7000 Fannin Street, Suite 600, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 13:96-105. 2006..Citation-based algorithms can help identify important articles within large sets of relevant results. Further studies are needed to determine whether citation-based algorithms can effectively meet actual user information needs... - Instruments to assess the quality of health information on the World Wide Web: what can our patients actually use?Elmer V Bernstam
School of Health Information Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 7000 Fannin Street, Suite 600, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Int J Med Inform 74:13-9. 2005..To find and assess quality-rating instruments that can be used by health care consumers to assess websites displaying health information... - Synergies and distinctions between computational disciplines in biomedical research: perspective from the Clinical andTranslational Science Award programsElmer V Bernstam
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Acad Med 84:964-70. 2009..The paper concludes with recommendations regarding administrative structures that can help to maximize the benefit of computation to biomedical research within academic health centers... - Usability of quality measures for online health information: Can commonly used technical quality criteria be reliably assessed?Elmer V Bernstam
School of Health Information Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 7000 Fannin Street, Suite 600, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Int J Med Inform 74:675-83. 2005..Therefore, we assessed the degree to which two raters could reliably assess 22 popularly cited quality criteria on a sample of 42 complementary and alternative medicine Web sites... - What is biomedical informatics?Elmer V Bernstam
School of Health Information Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
J Biomed Inform 43:104-10. 2010..Furthermore, the definition implies that informatics research, teaching, and service should focus on biomedical information as data plus meaning rather than only computer applications in biomedicine... - Commonly cited website quality criteria are not effective at identifying inaccurate online information about breast cancerElmer V Bernstam
School of Health Information Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Cancer 112:1206-13. 2008..However, the effectiveness of these tools is unknown. The authors determined whether existing quality criteria can identify inaccurate breast cancer information online... - Searching for cancer-related information online: unintended retrieval of complementary and alternative medicine informationMuhammad Walji
School of Health Information Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 7000 Fannin Street, Suite 600, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Int J Med Inform 74:685-93. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Clinicians should help consumers recognize sponsored results and encourage search engines to clearly explain sponsored results... - Explanations for unsuccessful weight loss among bariatric surgery candidatesKevin O Hwang
Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Obes Surg 19:1377-83. 2009..Our objective was to analyze subjective explanations for unsuccessful weight loss among bariatric surgery candidates... - Ontology driven integration platform for clinical and translational researchParsa Mirhaji
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
BMC Bioinformatics 10:S2. 2009..Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is used to modularize and distribute reusable services in a dynamic and distributed environment. Components of the semantic solution and its overall architecture are described... - Predicting biomedical document access as a function of past useJ Caleb Goodwin
School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 19:473-8. 2012..To determine whether past access to biomedical documents can predict future document access... - Measuring social support for weight loss in an internet weight loss communityKevin O Hwang
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
J Health Commun 16:198-211. 2011.... - A day in the life of PubMed: analysis of a typical day's query logJorge R Herskovic
University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston, 7000 Fannin St Suite 600, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 14:212-20. 2007..To characterize PubMed usage over a typical day and compare it to previous studies of user behavior on Web search engines... - Screening for obstructive sleep apnea on the internet: randomized trialKevin O Hwang
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Am J Med 122:961.e1-6. 2009..Obstructive sleep apnea is underdiagnosed. We conducted a pilot randomized controlled trial of an online intervention to promote obstructive sleep apnea screening among members of an Internet weight-loss community... - Automated medication reconciliation and complexity of care transitionsPamela A Bozzo Silva
School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX, USA
AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2011:1252-60. 2011..Our study did not have sufficient statistical power to establish whether the kind of transition affects reconcilability. We conclude that automated reconciliation is possible and will help accomplish the NPSG... - Predictors of student success in graduate biomedical informatics training: introductory course and program successIrmgard U Willcockson
School of Health Information Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 7000 Fannin Street, Suite 600, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 16:837-46. 2009..To predict student performance in an introductory graduate-level biomedical informatics course from application data... - Social support in an Internet weight loss communityKevin O Hwang
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, 6410 Fannin Street, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Int J Med Inform 79:5-13. 2010..To describe social support for weight loss shared by members of a large Internet weight loss community... - Accuracy and self correction of information received from an internet breast cancer list: content analysisAdol Esquivel
School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 7000 Fannin Street, Houston, TX 77030, USA
BMJ 332:939-42. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Most posted information on breast cancer was accurate. Most false or misleading statements were rapidly corrected by participants in subsequent postings... - Using hit curves to compare search algorithm performanceJorge R Herskovic
School of Health Information Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
J Biomed Inform 40:93-9. 2007..We provide example scenarios where traditional measures are less suitable than hit curves and conclude that hit curves may be useful for evaluating retrieval from large collections where ranking performance is crucial... - Comparing clinician knowledge and online information regarding Alli (Orlistat)Stuart Nelson
Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
Int J Med Inform 78:772-7. 2009..Online forums are a popular medium for the exchange of health information between consumers, so it is important to determine the accuracy and completeness of information posted to online forums... - Cross-terminology mapping challenges: A demonstration using medication terminological systemsHimali Saitwal
The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston, 7000 Fannin Suite 600, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Biomed Inform 45:613-25. 2012.... - Quality of weight loss advice on internet forumsKevin O Hwang
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, TX 77030, USA
Am J Med 120:604-9. 2007..Adults use the Internet for weight loss information, sometimes by participating in discussion forums. Our purpose was to analyze the quality of advice exchanged on these forums... - Medication Reconciliation: Work Domain Ontology, prototype development, and a predictive modelEliz Markowitz
School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX, USA
AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2011:878-87. 2011..Accordingly, we believe that developing a MR tool, based upon the WDO and user interface guidelines, improves user efficiency and reduces cognitive load... - Toward a veterinary informatics research agenda: an analysis of the PubMed-indexed literatureKimberly A Smith Akin
School of Health Information Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Int J Med Inform 76:306-12. 2007..However, veterinary informatics has received little attention from the general biomedical informatics community... - Breast cancer on the world wide web: cross sectional survey of quality of information and popularity of websitesFunda Meric
Section of Breast Surgery, Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Texas, USA
BMJ 324:577-81. 2002..To determine the characteristics of popular breast cancer related websites and whether more popular sites are of higher quality...