There is an urgent need to improve the infrastructure supporting the reuse of scholarly data.
A diverse set of stakeholders—representing academia, industry, funding agencies, and …

A growing number of international initiatives (eg EU‐ADR, S entinel, OMOP, PROTECT and
VAESCO) are based on the combined use of multiple healthcare databases for the conduct …

The vision of creating accessible, reliable clinical evidence by accessing the clinical
experience of hundreds of millions of patients across the globe is a reality. The …

The sharing of legacy preclinical safety data among pharmaceutical companies and its
integration with other information sources offers unprecedented opportunities to improve the …

The importance of the social sciences for medical informatics is increasingly recognized. As
ICT requires interaction with people and thereby inevitably affects them, understanding ICT …

Background Antipsychotics have been associated with prolongation of the corrected QT
interval and sudden cardiac death. Only a few epidemiological studies have investigated …

Objectives. To assess the incidence of priapism in the general population. Methods. We
conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study within a general practitioners …

Purpose In this proof‐of‐concept paper we describe the framework, process, and
preliminary results of combining data from European electronic healthcare record (EHR) …

Computer-based patient records, although an area of active research, are not in widespread
use. In June 1992, 38% of Dutch general practitioners had introduced computer-based …

Objective To validate use of the Manchester triage system in paediatric emergency care.
Design Prospective observational study. Setting Emergency departments of a university …