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James J. Cimino

Researcher at University of Alabama at Birmingham

Publications -  390
Citations -  14092

James J. Cimino is an academic researcher from University of Alabama at Birmingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Unified Medical Language System & Information needs. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 367 publications receiving 12899 citations. Previous affiliations of James J. Cimino include Duke University & Rutgers University.

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Representation of ophthalmology concepts by electronic systems: adequacy of controlled medical terminologies.

TL;DR: Assessing the adequacy of 5 controlled medical terminologies for representing concepts in ophthalmology found SNOMED-CT had significantly higher content coverage than any other terminology in this study.
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Web-based tailoring and its effect on self-efficacy: results from the MI-HEART randomized controlled trial.

TL;DR: The effects of a tailored Web-based delivery system on self-efficacy as it relates to a patients' response to acute myocardial information (AMI) symptoms are reported from MI-HEART, a randomized trial examining ways in which a clinical information system can favorably influence the appropriateness and rapidity of decision-making in patients suffering from symptoms of acuteMyocardial infarction.
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Coping with changing controlled vocabularies.

TL;DR: The methods being used at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center to reconcile its Medical Entities Dictionary and its clinical database are discussed, and the kinds of changes that can occur in controlled vocabularies are explored.
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Access to Data: Comparing AccessMed With Query by Review

TL;DR: Query by Review, with its more constrained user interface, performed somewhat better than AccessMed, a more general tool, which points to the difficulty of formulating a query for a clinical database and the need for further work.