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| 1 |  | The integration of a clinical prognostic calculator for traumatic brain injury within an electronic health record | Rommel, Casey A. | Bioinformatics; Medicine | Traumatic brain injury (TBI) cases are complex and inherently time sensitive. Clinicians often base treatment decisions upon their individual experiences, training, and many other factors. Prognostic calculators can help enhance the clinician's understanding of the patient's prognosis. Stand-alone, ... | 2018 |
| 2 |  | The impact of cost transparency on the cost of care delivery: a systematic review | Dewey, Jonathan David | | Health care costs in the United States are rising at an alarming rate. Although much of the cost of care is dependent on the decisions of care providers, providers remain largely unaware of those costs. Legislators have passed initiatives aimed at increasing cost transparency, but the impact of cost... | 2015-08 |
| 3 |  | Measuring and improving the quality of household grocery food purchases | Brewster, Philip James | Nutrition; Information Science; Epidemiology | The thesis work developed and validated a system for scoring the quality of household grocery purchases, the Grocery Purchase Quality Index-2016 (GPQI-2016). A grocery sales data set (2012-13) without individual household shopper attributes was provided by a national grocery chain, and a sample of 4... | 2017 |
| 4 |  | Genetic and phenotypic evolution of breast cancer through years of treatment | Brady, Samuel | | Acquired drug resistance is a frequent challenge in breast cancer. A tumor may initially respond to chemotherapy, but later become resistant and relapse. This is largely due to intra-tumoral heterogeneity; tumor genetic subclones with higher fitness in response to chemotherapy survive, and the patie... | 2017-08 |
| 5 |  | Pharmacogenomics information-seeking behavior and the openinfobutton solution | Heale, Bret Scot Edward | | Lack of information is a serious concern for clinicians. Information resources can address this problem, leading to improvements in decision making and patient outcomes. Genomics is an information-rich domain where searching for information can be complex. For example, most physicians agree that pha... | 2016-12 |
| 6 |  | The design and analysis of an informatics infrastructure to support clinical decision making in the management of opioid PCA infusions for palliative patients | Clutter, Justin D. | communication and the arts; health and environmental sciences | Though medical advances in the last century now allow us to forestall death, many patients suffer from significant symptoms as they battle severe disease. Opioid medications are particularly effective when treating pain in these patients and infusion by the patient controlled analgesia (PCA) paradig... | 2016 |
| 7 |  | Improving the discharge summary | Sakaguchi, Farrant Hiroshi | | There is a high risk for communication failures at the hospital discharge. Discharge summaries (DCS) can mitigate these risks by describing not only the hospital course but also follow-up plans. Improvement in the DCS may play a crucial role to improve communication at this transition of care. This ... | 2014-12 |
| 8 |  | Design, development, and initial evalution of a terminology for clinical decision support and electronic iinical quality measurement | Lin, Yanhua | | When coupled with a common information model, a common terminology for clinical decision support (CDS) and electronic clinical quality measurement (eCQM) could greatly facilitate the distributed development and sharing of CDS and eCQM knowledge resources. To enable such scalable knowledge authoring ... | 2015-08 |
| 9 |  | Systematic review of clinical decision support interventions with potential for inpatient cost reduction | Fillmore, Christopher | | The purpose of this thesis was to systematically review trials of clinical decision support interventions with the potential to reduce inpatient costs, so as to identify promising interventions for more widespread implementation and to inform future research in this area. MEDLINE was searched up to ... | 2013-08 |
| 10 |  | Evaluation of a tailored website to support interpretation of genetic test results for Lynch Syndrome | Satyala, Mrudula | Health education; Bioinformatics; Oncology | Patients find genetic test results hard to interpret. Information about testing colon cancer (CRC) patients for Lynch syndrome (LS) is particularly complex as it involves several laboratory tests and has to be interpreted along with family/ personal health history information. In this study, the exa... | 2013-08 |
| 11 |  | Usability evaluation of a vendor's emergency department computerized provider order entry application at the University of Utah Hospital | Zafar, Neelam | | Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption rates have been low in the United States. A key reason for this low adoption rate is poor EHR usability. Currently no standards exist for design, testing and monitoring the usability of EHRs. Therefore, we conducted a usability evaluation of a vendor's product... | 2012-12 |
| 12 |  | An informatics approach to chronic disease management in primary care: blending business intelligence and care process models | Wadsworth, John Chapin | Biological sciences; health and environmental sciences; business intelligence; care process model; data warehouse; intermountain healthcare | Asthma, diabetes, and depression are chronic diseases managed through the Primary Care Clinical Program at Intermountain Healthcare. Primary Care Providers (PCPs) receive monthly reports on their patients with these conditions. The reporting paradigm focuses on individual diseases. PCPs have asked f... | 2013-05 |
| 13 |  | Predicting the start week of respiratory syncytial virus outbreaks using real-time weather variables | Walton, Nephi A. | | Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), a major cause of bronchiolitis, has a large impact on the census of pediatric hospitals during outbreaks. Using readily available data, reliable prediction of the week these outbreaks will start could help pediatric hospitals better prepare for staffing and supplie... | 2011-05 |
| 14 |  | Data quality rules in the analytic health repository | Pollock, Susan Elizabeth | biological sciences; applied sciences; health and environmental sciences; clinical data repository | Data quality has become a significant issue in healthcare as large preexisting databases are integrated to provide greater depth for research and process improvement. Large scale data integration exposes and compounds data quality issues latent in source systems. Although the problems related to dat... | 2012-08 |
| 15 |  | Effects of passive lab notification features on emergency department process times | Peterson, Gary Lee | Information science; Health care management | Annually, 46 million patients, or 37% of patients seen in the emergency department (ED), receive laboratory testing in the U.S.; thus, making efficient lab order and result management critical to improving ED throughput, clinical efficacy, and safety. In order to manage labs and other processes, ele... | 2012-05 |
| 16 |  | User Centered Design in the Creation of a Surgical Intensive Care Log | Leung, Eugene Wai Ching | | The Residency Review Committee (RRC) requires that general surgery residents document their Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) experiences. To satisfy these requirements we created a web based intranet log to make it easier for residents to track their patients and determine when these requirements... | 2011-05 |
| 17 |  | Characterization of technical uncertainty in the classification of centroid-based multivariate assays | Ebbert, Mark Tyler Wilkinson | pure sciences; biological sciences; breast cancer; clinical report; monte carlo; pam50; patient care | Multivariate assays using gene expression as their contributing factors, such as the centroid-based PAM50 Breast Cancer Intrinsic Classi er, are becoming commonly used in assisting treatment decisions in medicine, especially in oncology. Although physicians may rely on these multivariate assays for ... | 2012-08 |
| 18 |  | Increasing the detection of adverse drug events in pediatric patients | Atkinson, Sterling Dwight | | Patient safety has received unprecedented attention over the past decade. Some of that attention has been focused on the occurrence and prevention of harm from Adverse Drug Events (ADEs). Between 19 and 61 percent of ADEs are preventable. In order to prevent ADEs, they must first be detected. Severa... | 2010-05 |
| 19 |  | Techniques for physician review of patient history data in the HELP computer system | Anderson, Curtis Lee | Computer-Assisted Diagnosis | The patient medical history is a necessary and critical tool for making diagnostic decisions. Recently the HELP hospital information system implemented a plan to collect a patient's history via a computer-directed, self-administered questionnaire. Because this method removed physicians from the hist... | 1985-12 |
| 20 |  | Validating prediciton models of kidney transpland outcomes using local data | Tang, Hongying | Predicition Models; Utah | Background. Prognosis of kidney transplant outcomes, while clinically important, represents a challenging problem. Existing prediction models use the predictors that are available in the post-transplant period. However, the real value of a model is to predict outcomes prior to the transplantation... | 2007-08 |
| 21 |  | Selection of a niche system within an existing medical records environment: an academic ophthalmology department experience | Madsen, Carlos F. | Moran Eye Center; Salt Lake City; Utah | The publication of To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century by the Institute of Medicine has increase the pressure to implement computerized records systems in health care delivery organizations across the nation. The ac... | 2006-12 |
| 22 |  | Enhancing access to patient education information: a user-centered approach | Beaudoin, Denise E. | Intermountain Health Care (Utah) | Health organizations are developing Web-based portals where patients may access personal medical data, communicate with providers, and obtain supplemental sources of health information. This thesis describes efforts to enhance access to patient education information available through the Intermounta... | 2006-05 |
| 23 |  | Improving surgical performance for early stage breast cancer across multiple institutions | Nkoy, Flory L. | Intermountain Health Care (Utah); Breast - Cancer - Surgery - Utah; Breast - Cancer - Surgery - Idaho; Medical informatics - Utah; Medical informatics - Idaho | Lumpectomy (Breast Conserving Surgery - BCS) followed by radiation therapy provides survival benefit identical to that of mastectomy for early stage breast cancer. Yet BCS is still underutilized and its use varies significantly among hospitals. The purpose of the project was to decrease variation ... | 2005-12 |
| 24 |  | Using an object-oriented database management system to store clinical information | Ghosh, Taranga | Object-Orented databases; Clinical Information Systems | This thesis explores the use of an object-oriented database system to implement the Event Model of clinical information. It also extends the basic model by the use of object-oriented information modeling techniques. An attempt has been made to show that the expressive capabilities of object-orient... | 1998-08 |
| 25 |  | Computerization of infection control and culture data use in surveillance | Hicken, Robert Richards | | A computerized system for infection surveillance data storage and reporting was developed using the HELP computer system at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. Provision was man for the storage of five years of these data on disk. Infection information was entered directly into the patient data ... | 1985-03 |
