Objective Our objective was to review the characteristics, current applications, and
evaluation measures of conversational agents with unconstrained natural language input …

Gene cassettes are small mobile elements, consisting of little more than a single gene and
recombination site, which are captured by larger elements called integrons. Several …

Systematic reviews, a cornerstone of evidence-based medicine, are not produced quickly
enough to support clinical practice. The cost of production, availability of the requisite …

Medical error reduction is an international issue, as is the implementation of patient care
information systems (PCISs) as a potential means to achieving it. As researchers conducting …

This essential text provides a readable yet sophisticated overview of the basic concepts of
information technologies as they apply in healthcare. Spanning areas as diverse as the …

Objective: An exploratory study to identify patterns of communication behaviour among
hospital based healthcare workers. Design: Non-participatory, qualitative observational …

While largely ignored in informatics thinking, the clinical communication space accounts for
the major part of the information flow in health care. Growing evidence indicates that errors …

Objective: To determine the percentage of health care encounters at which a sample of adult
Australians received appropriate care (ie, care in line with evidence‐based or consensus …

Objective: To measure communication loads on clinical staff in an acute clinical setting, and
to describe the pattern of informal and formal communication events. Design: Observational …

Background Interruptions and multitasking are implicated as a major cause of clinical
inefficiency and error. Objective The aim was to measure the association between …