Informatics in Primary Care  

Simon de Lusignan

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Simon de Lusignan,Norman Poh

Background Personalised medicine involves customising management to meet patients' needs. In chronic kidney disease (CKD) at the population level there is steady decline in renal function with increasing age; and progressiveCKDhas been defined as marked v... see more

Lipika Samal,Adam Wright,Bang Wong,Jeffrey Linder,David Bates

Background The ageing population worldwide is increasingly acquiring multiple chronic diseases. The complex management of chronic diseases could be improved with electronic health records (EHRs) tailored to chronic disease care, but most EHRs in use today... see more

Paula Otero,Pablo Durán,Débora Setton,Alfredo Eymann,Julio Busaniche,Julián Llera

Background The prevalence of obesity has increased dramatically in recent years. An electronic health record (EHR) can be used to identify and manage overweight and obesity by providing timely information.Objective To estimate the prevalence of overweight... see more

Camille Gajria,Joanna Murray,Ruthie Birger,Ricky Banarsee,David Bennett,Keith Tan,Mark Field,Andrew Rice,Azeem Majeed

Background Chronic neuropathic pain is a common condition which is challenging to treat. Many people with neuropathic pain are managed in the community, so primary care records may allow more appropriate subjects to be recruited for clinical studies.Objec... see more

Sam Amirfar,Sheila Anane,Michael Buck,Rachel Cohen,Steve DiLonardo,Phoenix Maa,Colleen McCullough,Marlena Plagianos,Claudia Pulgarin,John Taverna,Jesse Singer

Background Increased electronic prescribing (eRx) rates have the potential to prevent errors, increase patient safety, and curtail fraud. US Federal meaningful use guidelines require at least a 40% electronic prescribing rate.Objective We evaluated eRx ra... see more

Beverley Ellis

Background Quality improvement is a priority for health services worldwide. There are many barriers to implementing change at the locality level and misinterpreting responses and behaviours can effectively block change. Electronic health records will infl... see more

Blake Lesselroth,Patricia Holahan,Kathleen Adams,Zhen Sullivan,Victoria Church,Susan Woods,Robert Felder,Shawn Adams,David Dorr

Background Although medication reconciliation (MR) can reduce medication discrepancies, it is challenging to operationalise. Consequently, we developed a health information technology (HIT) to collect a patient medication history and make it available to ... see more

Eduardo Dreizzen,María Lima,Rosa Kitagawa,Félix Corrons,Osvaldo Spinelli

Background Cervical cancer is an important cause of female mortality. Its incidence, however, has been drastically reduced by early detection using the Papanicolaou screening method. As a result of the widespread use of this method, a large amount of cyto... see more