Center for Dental Informatics: Publications

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2008 Requirements for expertise location systems in biomedical science and the Semantic Web. (Schleyer T, Spallek H, Butler BS, Subramanian S, Weiss D, Poythress ML, Rattanathikum P, Mueller G Proceedings of “Personal Identification and Collaborations: Knowledge Mediation and Extraction (PICKME)”, workshop at the International Semantic Web Conference, 2008.)
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Good partners are hard to find: the search for and selection of collaborators in the health sciences. (Spallek H, Schleyer T, Butler BS. Project Management and User Engagement. Fourth IEEE International Conference on eSciene (eScience 2008); 2008 Dec 7-12; Indianapolis, IN. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society; 2008 p. 462-7)
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A usability evaluation of four commercial dental computer-based patient record systems. (Thyvalikakath TP, Monaco V, Thambuganipalle HB, Schleyer T. J Am Dent Assoc 2008 Dec;139(12):1632-42.)
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Facebook for scientists: requirements and services for optimizing how scientific collaborations are established. (Schleyer T, Spallek H, Butler BS, Subramanian S, Weiss D, Poythress ML, Rattanathikun, P. Mueller,G. J Med Internet Res 2008;10(3):e24.)
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A salient problem in informatics? (Schleyer T. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2008 Sep;15(5):707.
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Supporting emerging disciplines with e-communities: needs and benefits. (Spallek H, Butler BS, Schleyer TK, Weiss PM, Wang X, Thyvalikakath TP, Hatala CL, Naderi RA. J Med Internet Res 2008;10(2):e19.)
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2007 Speech recognition in dental software systems: features and functionality. (Yuhaniak Irwin J, Schleyer T, Spallek H. Medinfo. 2007;12(Pt2):1127-31.)
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Supporting the Emergence of Dental Informatics with an Online Community. (Spallek H, Irwin JY, Schleyer T, Butler BS, Weiss PM. International Journal of Computerized Dentistry 2007 10: 247-264)
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The feasibility of a three-dimensional charting interface for general dentistry. (Schleyer TK, Thyvalikakath TP, Malatack P, Marotta M, Shah TA, Phanichphant P, Price G, Hong J. J Am Dent Assoc. 2007 Aug; 138(8):1072-82)
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A qualitative investigation of the content of dental paper- and computer-based patient record (CPR) formats. (Schleyer T, Spallek H, Hernandez P. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2007 Jul-Aug; 14(4):515-26)
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Heuristic Evaluation Of Clinical Functions (Thyvalikakath TP, Schleyer, TK, Monaco V. J Am Dent Assoc. 2007 Feb; 138(2): 209-218)
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2006 Clinical computing in general dentistry (Schleyer TK, Thyvalikakath TP, Spallek H, Torres-Urquidy MH, Hernandez P, Yuhaniak J J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006 May-Jun;13(3):344-52)
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Using biometrics for patient identification in a research study: a case report (Corby PM, Schleyer T, Spallek H, Hart TC, Weyant RJ, Corby AL, Bretz WA, J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006 Mar/April, Vol. 13, No 2)
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2005 Comparative case study of two biomedical research collaboratories. (Schleyer TK, Teasley SD, Bhatnagar, R, J Med Internet Res. 2005; 7(5):e53)
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Dental school applicants' use of website information during the application process (Spallek H, Etzel KR, Maher BS: 2005 Dec. J Dent Educ 69 (12): 1359-67)
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Continuing dental education requirements for relicensure in the United States (Schleyer TK, Dodell D, JADA. 2005; 136(10):1450-1462.)
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2004 Should Dentistry be part of the National Health Information Infrastructure? (Schleyer, T, J Am Dent Assoc. 2004 Dec;135(12):1687-95)
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A resource guide for practice development through technology. (Spallek, H, Journal of the American Dental Association 2004; 135 (September): 38S-44S.)
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Developing High-Quality Educational Software. (Johnson, L, Schleyer, TK, Journal of Dental Education 2003: Vol 67 (11): 1209-1220.)
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2003 Retrieval and classification of dental research articles. (Bartling, WC, Schleyer, TK, Visweswaran S, Advances in Dental Research 2003 Dec;17:115-20.)
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Comparative genomics and structure prediction of dental matrix proteins. (Krishnaraju, RK, Hart, TC, Schleyer, TK, Advances in Dental Research 2003 Dec;17:100-3.)
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A preliminary analysis of the dental informatics literature. (Schleyer, TK, Corby, P, Gregg, AL, Advances in Dental Research 2003 Dec;17:20-4.)
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Dental informatics: A work in progress. (Schleyer, TK, Advances in Dental Research 2003 Dec;17:9-15.)
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Adaptive Hypermedia: A new paradigm for educational software. (Spallek, H, Advances in Dental Research, 17, December 2003: 38-42.)
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Dental Informatics: An Emerging Biomedical Informatics Discipline. (Schleyer TK, Journal of Dental Education 2003: Vol 67 (11): 1193-1200.)
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Developing High-Quality Educational Software. (Johnson, L, Schleyer, TK, Journal of Dental Education 2003: Vol 67 (11): 1209-1220.)
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Evaluation of Educational Software. (Schleyer TK, Journal of Dental Education 2003: Vol 67 (11): 1221-1228.)
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Integrating Dental Office Technology-The Next Frontier. (Schleyer, TK, Dental Abstracts. 48 (3): 2003.)
The technologically well-equipped dental office. (Schleyer TK, Spallek H, Bartling WC, Corby P, Journal of the American Dental Association 2003: 134 (January); 30-41.)
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2002 Comparison of dental licensure, specialisation and continuing education in five countries(Schleyer, T, Eaton, K, Mock, D, Barac’h, V, European Journal Of Dental Education: 6 (4), 153-161.)
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Evaluation of Web-based Dental CE-Courses. (Spallek, H, Pilcher, E, Lee, J, Schleyer, T, Journal of Dental Education 2002: Vol 66 (3): 393-404)
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An Evaluation of Five Dental Internet Portals.(Schleyer, T, Spallek, H, Journal of the American Dental Association, Vol. 133(2), February 2002: 204- 212)
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2001 Validation of an instrument to measure dental students' use of, knowledge about, and attitudes towards computers. (Schleyer, TK, Torres-Urquidy, H, Straja, S, J Dent Educ. 2001 Sep;65(9):883-91)
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Dental informatics: A cornerstone for dental practice. (Schleyer, T, Spallek, H, Journal of the American Dental Association 2001: 132 (May): 605-613)
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Collaboratories: Leveraging information technology for cooperative research (Schleyer, T, Journal of Dental Research 2001: 80(June):1508-12)
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2000 Methods for design and administration of Web-based surveys. (Schleyer, T, Forrest, J, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association; 7(4), 2000: 416-425)
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1999 Educational implications for copyright in a digital world. (Spallek, H, Schleyer,T, Journal of Dental Education Vol 63 (9), 1999: 673-681.)
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Digital dentistry in the computer age. (Schleyer, T, Journal of the American Dental Association. 1999:130(December); 1713-1720.)
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Online continuing dental education. (Schleyer, T, Pham, T, Journal of the American Dental Association 1999;130(June):848-854,877-878.)
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Digital Radiographs (letter to the editor). (Schleyer, T, Dove, B, Journal of the American Dental Association 1999: 130 (December):1693-1694.)
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Is the Internet useful in clinical practice? (Schleyer, T, Forrest, J, Kenney, R, Dodell, D, Dovgy, N, J Am Dent Assoc 1999:130 (October):1502-1511.)
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1998 A profile of current Internet users in dentistry. (Schleyer, T, Spallek, H, Torres-Urquidy, MH, J Am Dent Assoc 1998;129(December 1998):1748-1753.)
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1996 Scientific Data-Exchange in Periodontology via Internet. (Spallek H, Gougousoudis A, Johnson WW, J Clin Periodontol 1996; 5: 497 - 504)
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Why integration is key for dental office technology. (Schleyer, TK, Journal of the American Dental Association 2004; 135 (September):4S-9S)
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Application service providers in dentistry,(Schleyer, T, Dental Clinics of North America 46 (2002) 277-491)
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Information Retrieval on the Internet: A Guide for Dental Practitioners.(Spallek, H, Dental Clinics of North America 46 (2002) 435-462)
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Dental concepts in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)(Barac'h, V, Schleyer, T , Quintessence International; 33(1) 2002: 69-74
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Developing a protocol for an educational software competition (Schleyer, T, Johnson, L , Proceedings of the 2001 AMIA Fall Symposium: 603-6)
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Distance education for dentists: Improving the quality of online instruction. (Spallek, H, Berthold, P, Shanley, DB, Attstrom, R, The American Journal of Distance Education. Vol 14(2), 2000: 49-59.) 603-6)
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Dental informatics: A new career in dentistry. (Schleyer, T, Pennsylvania Dental Journal 2000: 67(6): 31, 32, 46-48.) Access Abstract
Clinical Decision-making and the Internet. (Schleyer, T, Journal of the American College of Dentists 1999;66(2):29-39.)
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Developing standards for the design of educational software. (Johnson, L, Schleyer T, Quintessence International 1999;30(11):763-768.)
Republished in German:
Entwicklung von Normen für die Gestaltung von Lernsoftware. (Johnson, L, Schleyer, T, Die Quintessenz: 51 (11): 1171-1179 )
Computer-based oral health records on the World Wide Web [English]. (Schleyer, T, Dasari, V, Quintessence International 1999;30(7):451-460.)
Republished in Spanish and Japanese:
Historias informatizadas de salud oral en el World Wide Web [Spanish]. (Schleyer, T, Dasari, VR, Quintessence 13(7):469-478, 2000.)
Computer-based oral health records on the World Wide Web [Japanese]. (Schleyer, T, Dasari, VR, The Quintessence 19(2):188-198, 2000.)
Instructional characteristics of online continuing education courses. (Schleyer, T, Johnson, L, Pham, T, Quintessence International 1999;30(11):755-761.)
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Pädagogische Qualität von Online-Weiterbildungskursen. (Schleyer, T, Johnson, L, Pham, T, Die Quintessenz: 51 (10): 1063-1073)
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Internet basics. (Spallek, H, Schleyer, T, Journal of the American College of Dentists 1999;66(2):6-15.)
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Dental resources on the World Wide Web. (Schleyer, T, Spallek, H, Arsalan, M, MD Comput 1998;15(4):252-255, 265.) Access Abstract
Assessing outcomes of an academic computing initiative.(Schleyer, T, J Dent Educ 1998;62(6):432-40.)
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How Should Dental Informatics Evolve?(Schleyer, T, Journal of Dental Education 1996;60(3):291-295.)
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The digital revolution: Are we in control? (Schleyer, T, Journal of the American College of Dentists Winter 1995;Volume 62(4):22 - 26.)
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A portable, GUI-based, object-oriented client-server architecture for computer-based patient record (CPR) systems. (Schleyer, T, J Soc Health Syst 1994;5(1):55-62.) Access Abstract
Temple Dental School Uses an Expert System to Schedule Students' Clinical Rotations. (Schleyer, T, Interfaces 1994;24(5):13-21.)
The Computer-Based Oral Health Record: An Essential Tool for Cross-provider Quality Management. (Schleyer, T, Eisner, J, Journal of the California Dental Association 1994;22(11):57-64.)
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