BACKGROUND Governments, universities and pan-African research networks are building durable infrastructure and capabilities for biomedical research in Africa. This offers the opportunity to adopt from the outset innovative approaches and technologies that would be challenging to retrofit into fully established research infrastructures such as those regularly found in high-income countries. In t...

BACKGROUND Mobile applications (apps) providing clinical decision support (CDS) may show the greatest promise when created by and for frontline clinicians. Our aim was to create a generic model enabling healthcare providers to direct the development of CDS apps. METHODS We combined Change Management with a three-tier information technology architecture to stimulate CDS app development. RESU...

BACKGROUND Most cannabis patients engage with dispensary staff, like budtenders, for medical advice on cannabis. Yet, little is known about these interactions and how the characteristics of budtenders affect these interactions. This study investigated demographics, workplace characteristics, medical decision-making, and online behaviors among a sample of budtenders. METHODS Between June and S...

BACKGROUND Safety plans have been suggested as an intervention for people at risk of suicide. Given the impulsive character of suicidal ideation, a safety plan in the format of a mobile phone application is likely to be more available and useful than traditional paper versions. AIMS The study describes MYPLAN, a mobile phone application designed to support people at risk of suicide by letting...

Symptomatic venous thromboembolism (VTE) occurs 4-7 times more frequently in cancer patients as compared to non-cancer patients. A significant number of risk factors, which can be subcategorised as patient-, cancer- or treatment-related, have been shown to influence the risk of VTE during malignancy and further incorporated in risk-assessment models. Safe and efficient thromboprophylaxis regime...

A new vision of the web for education, called the NCSA SuperWeb is defined at three different levels: at the pedagogical, at the human collaborative, and in terms of the enabling technology. At the pedagogical it is designed to support models of learning that engage the learner in powerful meaning construction, through a rich co-development of tools and resources. At the collaboration level, th...