Public Health Units - Exploratory Analysis for Decision Support

Author(s):  
Tatiane Lautert ◽  
Nádia P. Kozievitch ◽  
Ismael Villanueva-Miranda ◽  
Monika Akbar
2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (01) ◽  
pp. 84-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Y. S. Lau ◽  
G. Tsafnat ◽  
V. Sintchenko ◽  
F. Magrabi ◽  
E. Coiera

Summary Objectives To review the recent research literature in clinical decision support systems (CDSS). Methods A review of recent literature was undertaken, focussing on CDSS evaluation, consumers and public health, the impact of translational bioinformatics on CDSS design, and CDSS safety. Results In recent years, researchers have concentrated much less on the development of decision technologies, and have focussed more on the impact of CDSS in the clinical world. Recent work highlights that traditional process measures of CDSS effectiveness, such as document relevance are poor proxy measures for decision outcomes. Measuring the dynamics of decision making, for example via decision velocity, may produce a more accurate picture of effectiveness. Another trend is the broadening of user base for CDSS beyond front line clinicians. Consumers are now a major focus for biomedical informatics, as are public health officials, tasked with detecting and managing disease outbreaks at a health system, rather than individual patient level. Bioinformatics is also changing the nature of CDSS. Apart from personalisation of therapy recommendations, translational bioinformatics is creating new challenges in the interpretation of the meaning of genetic data. Finally, there is much recent interest in the safety and effectiveness of computerised physicianorderentry (CPOE) systems, given that prescribing and administration errors are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. Of note, there is still much controversy surrounding the contention that poorly designed, implemented or used CDSS may actually lead to harm. Conclusions CDSS research remains an active and evolving area of research, as CDSS penetrate more widely beyond their traditional domain into consumer decision support, and as decisions become more complex, for example by involving sequence level genetic data.


Author(s):  
Antonio Cláudio do Rego Coelho ◽  
Anna Klara Paim dos Anjos ◽  
Clerislene De Sousa Oliveira ◽  
Fábio Lucas da Cruz Viana ◽  
Maria Da Conceição Lisboa Dutra ◽  
...  

A dengue é um problema de saúde pública, acometendo especialmente os países tropicas e subtropicais. No Brasil, até meados de dezembro de 2012, o sistema nacional de vigilância da dengue havia registrado mais de 1,4 milhões de casos suspeitos. O artigo tem como objetivo, investigar a incidência dos casos de dengue no Brasil no período de 2007 a 2012, analisando, conforme o que consta na literatura, os fatores de risco que levam a um grande número de casos. O método de pesquisa consistiu na análise documental e exploratória do número de notificações de casos da dengue no período de 2007 a 2012 em todo território nacional através do banco de dados do SINAN. As informações foram apresentadas segundo Unidade da Federação e ano dos primeiros sintomas, considerando todas as notificações. Através do resultado obtido conclui-se que a maioria das notificações de casos ocorreu na região Sudeste, Nordeste, Centro-Oeste.Descritores: Dengue, Epidemiologia, Perfil Epidemiológico. Dengue in Brazil impact of the period 2007 to 2012Abstract: Dengue is a public health problem, especially affecting tropical and subtropical countries. In Brazil, by mid-December 2012, the national dengue surveillance system had recorded more than 1.4 million suspected cases. The objective of this article is to investigate the incidence of dengue cases in Brazil from 2007 to 2012, analyzing, according to the literature, the risk factors that lead to a large number of cases. The research method consisted of documental and exploratory analysis of the number of reports of dengue cases in the period from 2007 to 2012 throughout the national territory through the SINAN database. The information was presented according to the Federation Unit and year of the first symptoms, considering all the notifications. Through the obtained results it is concluded that the majority of cases reports occurred in the Southeast, Northeast, Midwest.Descriptors: Dengue, Epidemiology, Epidemiological Profile. Impacto del dengue en Brasil en período 2007 a 2012Resumen: El dengue es un problema de salud pública, afectando especialmente a los países tropicales y subtropicales. En Brasil, hasta mediados de diciembre de 2012, el sistema nacional de vigilancia del dengue había registrado más de 1,4 millones de casos sospechosos. El artículo tiene como objetivo, investigar la incidencia de los casos de dengue en Brasil en el período de 2007 a 2012, analizando, según lo que consta en la literatura, los factores de riesgo que llevan a un gran número de casos. El método de investigación consistió en el análisis documental y exploratorio del número de notificaciones de casos del dengue en el período de 2007 a 2012 en todo el territorio nacional a través de la base de datos del SINAN. Las informaciones fueron presentadas según Unidad de la Federación y año de los primeros síntomas, considerando todas las notificaciones. A través del resultado obtenido se concluye que la mayoría de las notificaciones de casos ocurrió en la región Sudeste, Nordeste, Centro-Oeste.Descriptores: Dengue, Epidemiología, Perfil Epidemiológico.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Dowie ◽  
Mette Kjer Kaltoft

UNSTRUCTURED According to researchers drawing on the ideas of Jürgen Habermas, Canadian patients and Danish General Practitioners are experiencing ‘colonisation’ of their ‘lifeworlds’ by ‘the system’, Their suggested remedy is to ensure that the clinical encounter, freed of strategic rationality, re-prioritises Habermasian ‘communicative action’ aimed at mutual understanding. However, Blau shows that such communicative action is, and should be, inextricably interwoven into means-end rationality, when Habermas’ caricature of the latter is rejected. We argue that the decision support framework provided by Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis can help produce the ‘communicative means-end rationality’ essential in a public health service based on role-respecting sincerity and autonomy. No ‘positivistic reduction’ is involved in the technique.


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