Center for Dental Informatics: Publications

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2009 A preliminary model of work during initial examination and treatment planning appointments.
Jeannie Yuhaniak Irwin, Miguel Humberto Torres-Urquidy, Titus Schleyer, and Valerie Monaco.  British Dental Journal 2009;206(1):E1.   PMID: 19119286
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Detection of disease outbreaks by the use of oral manifestations.
Miguel Humberto Torres-Urquidy, Garrick Wallstrom, and Titus K. Schleyer.  Journal of Dental Research 2009;88(1):89-94.   PMID: 19131324
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Electronic dental record information model.
Amit Acharya, Dinesh P. Mital, and Titus K. Schleyer.  International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics 2009;1(4):418-34.
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Comparative study of heuristic evaluation and usability testing methods.
Thankam P. Thyvalikakath, Valerie Monaco, Hima Thambuganipalle, and Titus Schleyer.  Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2009;143:322-7.   PMID: 19380955,   PMCID: PMC2736678
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Evaluating the effectiveness of modeling principles for data models.
Miguel Humberto Torres-Urquidy, Amit Acharya, Pedro Hernandez-Cott, Jonathan Misner, and Titus Schleyer.  Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2009;143:525-33.   PMID: 19380987,   PMCID: PMC2736630
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2008 Supporting emerging disciplines with e-communities: needs and benefits.
Heiko Spallek, Brian S. Butler, Titus K. Schleyer, Patricia M. Weiss, Xiaoqing Wang, Thankam P. Thyvalikakath, Courtney L. Hatala, and Reza A. Naderi.  Journal of Medical Internet Research 2008;30:10(2):e19.   PMID: 18653443,   PMCID: PMC2483921
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Facebook for scientists: requirements and services for optimizing how scientific collaborations are established.
Titus K. Schleyer, Heiko Spallek, Brian S. Butler, Sushmita Subramanian, Daniel Weiss, M. Louisa Poythress, Phijarana Rattanathikun, and Gregory Mueller.  Journal of Medical Internet Research 2008;13:10(3):e24.   PMID: 18701421,   PMCID: PMC2553246
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A salient problem in informatics?
Titus Schleyer.  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2008;15(5):707.   PMID: 18436894,   PMCID: PMC2528037
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A usability evaluation of four commercial dental computer-based patient record systems.
Thankam P. Thyvalikakath, Valerie Monaco, Hima Bindu Thambuganipalle, and Titus Schleyer.  Journal of the American Dental Association 2008;139(12):1632-42.   PMID: 19047669
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Requirements for expertise location systems in biomedical science and the Semantic Web.
Titus Schleyer, Heiko Spallek, Brian S. Butler, Sushmita Subramanian, Daniel Weiss, M. Louisa Poythress, Phijarana Rattanathikun, and Gregory Mueller. In: Malgorzata Mochol, Anna V. Zhdanova, Lyndon J. B. Nixon, John Breslin, and Axel Polleres, editors.  Proceedings of the 3rd Expert Finder Workshop on Personal Identification and Collaboration: Knowledge Mediation and Extraction (PICKME 2008); 2008 Oct 27; Karlsruhe, Germany. Tilburg University, The Netherlands: CEUR-WS.org; 2008. p. 31-41
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Good partners are hard to find: the search for and selection of collaborators in the health sciences.
Heiko Spallek, Titus Schleyer, and Brian S. Butler. Presented at:  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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2007 Heuristic evaluation of clinical functions in four practice management systems: a pilot study.
Thankam P. Thyvalikakath, Titus, K. Schleyer, and Valerie Monaco.  Journal of the American Dental Association 2007;138(2):209-10, 212-8.   PMID: 17272376
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Supporting the emergence of dental informatics with an online community.
Heiko Spallek, Jeannie Y. Irwin, Titus Schleyer, Brian S. Butler, Patricia M. Weiss.  International Journal of Computerized Dentistry 2007;10(3):247-64.   PMID: 18271498,   PMCID: PMC2367256
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A qualitative investigation of the content of dental paper- and computer-based patient record formats.
Titus Schleyer, Heiko Spallek, and Pedro Hernández.  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2007;14(4):515-26.   PMID: 17460133,   PMCID: PMC2244908
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The feasibility of a three-dimensional charting interface for general dentistry.
Titus K. Schleyer, Thankam P. Thyvalikakath, Pat Malatack, Michael Marotta, Tej A. Shah, Purin Phanichphant, Greg Price, and Jason Hong.  Journal of the American Dental Association 2007;138(8):1072-80   PMID: 17670873
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Speech recognition in dental software systems: features and functionality.
Jeannie Yuhaniak Irwin, Sean Fernando, Titus Schleyer, and Heiko Spallek.  Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2007;129(Pt 2):1127-31.   PMID: 17911891
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2006 Using biometrics for patient identification in a research study: a case report.
Patricia M. Corby, Titus Schleyer, Heiko Spallek, Thomas C. Hart, Robert J. Weyant, Andrea L. Corby, and Walter A. Bretz.  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2006;13(2):233-5.   PMID: 16357359,   PMCID: PMC1447546
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Clinical computing in general dentistry.
Titus K. Schleyer, Thankam P. Thyvalikakath, Heiko Spallek, Miguel H. Torres-Urquidy, Pedro Hernandez, and Jeannie Yuhaniak.  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2006;13(3):344–352.   PMID: 16501177,   PMCID: PMC1513654
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2005 Comparative case study of two biomedical research collaboratories.
Titus K. Schleyer, Stephanie D. Teasley, and Rishi Bhatnagar.  Journal of Medical Internet Research 2005;7(5):e53.   PMID: 16403717,   PMCID: PMC1408071
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Continuing dental education requirements for relicensure in the United States.
Titus K. Schleyer and David Dodell.  Journal of the American Dental Association 2005;136(10):1450-6.   PMID: 16255471
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Dental school applicants’ use of website information during the application process.
Heiko Spallek, Ken R. Etzel, and Brion S. Maher.  Journal of Dental Education 2005;69(12):1359-67.   PMID: 16352772
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2004 Why integration is key for dental office technology.
Titus Schleyer.  Journal of the American Dental Association 2004;135(Suppl):4S-9S.   PMID: 15543814
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A resource guide for practice development through technology.
Heiko Spallek.  Journal of the American Dental Association 2004;135(Suppl):38S-44S.
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Should dentistry be part of the National Health Information infrastructure?
Titus Schleyer.  Journal of the American Dental Association 2004;135(12):1687-95.   PMID: 15646601
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2003 The technologically well-equipped dental office.
Titus K. Schleyer, Heiko Spallek, William C. Bartling, and Patricia Corby.  Journal of the American Dental Association 2003;134(1):30-41.   PMID: 12555955
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Integrating dental office technology: the next frontier.
Titus K. Schleyer.  Dental Abstracts 2003;48(3):112–3.
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Dental informatics: an emerging biomedical informatics discipline.
Titus K. Schleyer.  Journal of Dental Education 2003;67(11):1193-200.   PMID: 14650500
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Developing high-quality educational software.
Lynn A. Johnson and Titus K. Schleyer.  Journal of Dental Education 2003;67(11):1209-20.   PMID: 14650502
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Evaluation of educational software.
Titus K. Schleyer and Lynn A. Johnson.  Journal of Dental Education 2003;67(11):1221-8.   PMID: 14650503
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Dental informatics: a work in progress.
Titus K. Schleyer.  Advances in Dental Research 2003;(1)17:9-15.   PMID: 15126199
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A preliminary analysis of the dental informatics literature.
Titus K. Schleyer, Patricia Corby, and Amy L. Gregg.  Advances in Dental Research 2003; 17(1):20-4.   PMID: 15126201
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Adaptive hypermedia: a new paradigm for educational software.
Heiko Spallek.  Advances in Dental Research 2003;17(1):38-42.   PMID: 15126205
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Comparative genomics and structure prediction of dental matrix proteins.
Raj K. Krishnaraju, Thomas C. Hart, and Titus K. Schleyer.  Advances in Dental Research 2003;17(1):100-3.   PMID: 15126218
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Retrieval and classification of dental informatics literature.
William C. Bartling, Titus K. Schleyer, and Shyam Visweswaran.  Advances in Dental Research 2003;17(1):115-20.   PMID: 15126221
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2002 Dental concepts in the Unified Medical Language System.
Victoire Barac’h and Titus K. Schleyer.  Quintessence International 2002;33(1):69-74.   PMID: 11887536
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An evaluation of five dental Internet portals.
Titus Schleyer and Heiko Spallek.  Journal of the American Dental Association 2002;133(2):204-12.   PMID: 11868839
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Evaluation of web-based dental CE-courses.
Heiko Spallek, Elizabeth Pilcher, Ji-Young Lee, and Titus Schleyer.  Journal of the Dental Education 2002;66(3):393-404.   PMID: 11936230
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Information retrieval on the Internet: a guide for dental practitioners.
Heiko Spallek.  Dental Clinics of North America 2002;46(3):435-62.   PMID: 12222090
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Application service providers in dentistry.
Titus Schleyer.  Dental Clinics of North America 2002;46(3):477-91.   PMID: 12222092
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Comparison of dental licensure, specialization and continuing education in five countries.
Titus Schleyer, Kenneth Eaton, David Mock, and Victoire Barac'h.  European Journal of Dental Education 2002;6(4):153-61.   PMID: 12410666
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2001 Dental informatics: a cornerstone for dental practice.
Titus Schleyer and Heiko Spallek.  Journal of the American Dental Association 2001;132(5):605-13.   PMID: 11367964
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Collaboratories: leveraging information technology for cooperative research.
Titus Schleyer.  Journal of Dental Research 2001;80(6):1508-12.   PMID: 11499503
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Validation of an instrument to measure dental students’ use of, knowledge about, and attitudes towards computers.
Titus Schleyer, Humberto Torres-Urquidy, and Sorin Straja.  Journal of Dental Education 2001;65(9):883-91.   PMID: 11569604
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2000 Distance education for dentists: improving the quality of online instruction.
Heiko Spallek, Peter Berthold, Diarmuid B. Shanley, and Rolf Attstrom.  The American Journal of Distance Education 2000;14(2):49-59.
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Methods for the design and administration of web-based surveys.
Titus K. Schleyer and Jane L. Forrest.  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2000;7(4):416-25.   PMID: 10887169,   PMCID: PMC61445
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Dental informatics: a new career in dentistry.
Titus Schleyer.  Pennsylvania Dental Journal 2000;67(6):31-48.   PMID: 11411339
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1999 Internet basics.
Heiko Spallek and Titus K. Schleyer.  The Journal of the American College of Dentists 1999;66(2):6-15.   PMID: 10506802
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Clinical decision-making and the Internet.
Titus K. Schleyer.  The Journal of the American College of Dentists 1999;66(2):29-39.   PMID: 10506804
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Online continuing dental education.
Titus K. Schleyer and Tuan Pham.  Journal of the American Dental Association 1999;130(6):848-54.   PMID: 10377644
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Computer-based oral health records on the World Wide Web.
Titus K. Schleyer and V. Rao Dasari.  Quintessence International 1999;30(7):451-60.   PMID: 10635257
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Educational implications for copyright in a digital world.
Heiko Spallek and Titus K. Schleyer.  Journal of Dental Education 1999;63(9):673-81.   PMID: 10518204
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Is the Internet useful for clinical practice?
Titus K. Schleyer, Jane L. Forrest, Roger Kenney, David S. Dodell, and Natalia A. Dovgy.  Journal of the American Dental Association 1999;130(10):1501-11.   PMID: 10570599
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Instructional characteristics of online continuing education courses.
Titus Schleyer, Lynn A. Johnson, and Tuan Pham.  Quintessence International 1999;30(11):755-62.   PMID: 10765875
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Development of standards for the design of educational software.
Lynn A. Johnson and Titus Schleyer.  Quintessence International 1999;30(11):763-8.   PMID: 10765876
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Digital radiographs [letter to the editor].
Titus Schleyer and S. Brent Dove.  Journal of the American Dental Association 1999;130(12):1693-4.
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Digital dentistry in the computer age.
Titus K. Schleyer.  Journal of the American Dental Association 1999;130(12):1713-20.   PMID: 10599173
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1998 Dental resources on the World Wide Web.
Titus Schleyer, Heiko Spallek, and Maziar Arsalan.  M.D. Computing: Computers in Medical Practice 1998;15(4):252-5, 265.   PMID: 9673092
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Assessing outcomes of an academic computing initiative.
Titus Schleyer.  Journal of Dental Education 1998:62(6)432-40.   PMID: 9698700
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A profile of current Internet users in dentistry.
Titus K. Schleyer, Heiko Spallek, and Miguel Humberto Torres-Urquidy.  Journal of the American Dental Association 1998;129(12):1748-53.   PMID: 9854927
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1996 How should dental informatics evolve?
Titus K. Schleyer.  Journal of Dental Education 1996;60(3)291-5.   PMID: 8594114
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Scientific data-exchange in periodontology via Internet.
Heiko Spallek, Alexandros Gougousoudis, and William W. Johnson.  Journal of Clinical Periodontology 1996;23(5):497-504.   PMID: 8783058
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1995 A portable, GUI-based, object-oriented client-server architecture for computer-based patient record (CPR) systems.
Titus Schleyer.  Journal of the Society of Health Systems 1995;5(1):55-62.   PMID: 7662879
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The digital revolution: are we in control?
Titus Schleyer.  The Journal of the American College of Dentists 1995;62(4):22-6.   PMID: 8926314
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1994 Temple Dental School uses an expert system to schedule students' clinical rotations.
Titus Schleyer.  Interfaces 1994;24(5):13-21.
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The computer-based oral health record: an essential tool for cross-provider quality management.
Titus Schleyer and Jon Eisner.  Journal of the California Dental Association 1994 Nov;22(11):57-64.   PMID: 7760162
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