Allowing patients direct access to their electronic health record (EHR) notes has been shown to enhance medical understanding and may improve healthcare management and outcome. However, EHR notes contain medical terms, shortened forms, complex disease and medication names, and other domain specific jargon that make them difficult for patients to fathom. In this paper, we present a BioNLP system...

The unrelenting increase of health information on the World Wide Web has resulted in an urgent need for portals that provide consumers with trustworthy health information. In response to this need, the National Library of Medicine initiated the Go Local initiative, which extends MEDLINEplus by providing consumers with links to local health services, programs and providers. NC Health Info (www.n...

Article history: Received 16 October 2014 Received in revised form 8 May 2015 Accepted 30 June 2015 Available online 3 July 2015

BACKGROUND Many health problems affecting children today are based in the community and cannot be easily addressed in the office setting. Child advocacy is an effective approach for pediatricians to take. OBJECTIVE To describe pediatric residents' choices of advocacy topics and interventions. DESIGN Cross-sectional observational study. METHODS Residents from 3 pediatric training programs ...

Environmental health research encompasses a wide range of investigational topics, study designs, and empirical methodologies. As that arm of public health research concerned with understanding the health effects of the many environments in which humans live and work, the field is intimately connected with social concerns about environmental quality and disparities of power and privilege that pl...