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Schleyer T, Song M, Gilbert GH, Rindal DB, Fellows JL, Gordon VV, Funkhouser E, The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Electronic dental record use and clinical information management patterns among practitioner-investigators in The Dental Practice-Based Research Network. J Am Dent Assoc. Forthcoming 2012.
Lee DH, Schleyer TK. Social tagging is no substitute for controlled indexing: a comparison of medical subject headings and Citeulike tags assigned to 231,388 papers. J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec. Forthcoming 2012.
Schleyer T, Butler BS, Song M, Spallek H. Conceptualizing and advancing research networking systems. ACM T Comput-Hum Int. 2012 Mar;19(1):2. DIO:10.1145/2147783.2147785
Oakley M, Spallek H. Social media in dental education: a call for research in action. J Dent Educ. 2012 Mar;76(3):279-87. PM:22383595.
Schleyer TK, Thyvalikakath TP, Spallek H, Dziabiak MP, Johnson, LA. From information technology to informatics: the information revolution in dental education. J Dent Educ. 2012 Jan;76(1):134-45. PM:22262557
2010
Spallek H, Song M, Polk DE, Bekhuis T, Frantsve-Hawley J, Aravamudhan K. Barriers to implementing evidence-based clinical guidelines: a survey of early adopters. J Evid Based Dent Pract. 2010 Dec;10(4):195-206. PM:21093800
Spallek H. Experienced educators needed. J Am Dent Assoc. 2010 Jun;141(6):622, 624. PM:20516086
Bekhuis T, Demner-Fushman D. Towards automating the initial screening phase of a systematic review. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2010;160(Pt 1):146-50. PM:20841667
Spallek H, O'Donnell J, Clayton M, Anderson P, Krueger A. Paradigm shift or annoying distraction: emerging implications of Web 2.0 for clinical practice. Appl Clin Inform. 2010;1(2):96-115
Spallek H, O'Donnell JA, Yoo YI. Preparing faculty members for significant curricular revisions in a school of dental medicine. J Dent Educ. 2010 Mar;74(3):275-88. PM:20203328
Song M, Spallek H, Polk D, Schleyer T, Wali T. How information systems should support the information needs of general dentists in clinical settings: suggestions from a qualitative study. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2010;10(7). PM:20122272
2009
Bekhuis T, Thyvalikakath TP, Oliver R. Interventions for treating ameloblastomas of the jaws (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2009, Issue 4. Art. No.:CD003975. DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD003975.pub2
Bekhuis T. Music therapy may reduce pain and anxiety in children undergoing medical and dental procedures. J Evid Based Dent Pract. 2009;9(4):213-4. PM: 19913737
Irwin JY, Torres-Urquidy MH, Schleyer T, Monaco V. A preliminary model of work during initial examination and treatment planning appointments. Br Dent J. 2009 Jan 10;206(1):E1. PM:19119286
Torres-Urquidy MH, Wallstrom G, Schleyer TK. Detection of disease outbreaks by the use of oral manifestations. J Dent Res. 2009 Jan;88(1):89-94. PM:19131324
Acharya A, Mital DP, Schleyer TK. Electronic dental record information model. Int J Med Eng Inform. 2009;1(4):418-34.
Thyvalikakath TP, Monaco V, Thambuganipalle H, Schleyer T. Comparative study of heuristic evaluation and usability testing methods. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2009;143:322-7. PM:19380955
Torres-Urquidy MH, Acharya A, Hernandez-Cott P, Misner J, Schleyer T. Evaluating the effectiveness of modeling principles for data models. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2009;143:525-33. PM:19380987
2008
Spallek H, Butler BS, Schleyer TK, Weiss PM, Wang X, Thyvalikakath TP, et al. Supporting emerging disciplines with e-communities: needs and benefits. J Med Internet Res 2008;10(2):e19. PM:18653443
Schleyer T, Spallek H, Butler BS, Subramanian S, Weiss D, Poythress ML, et al. Facebook for scientists: requirements and services for optimizing how scientific collaborations are established. J Med Internet Res 2008;10(3):e24. PM:18701421
Thyvalikakath TP, Monaco V, Thambuganipalle HB, Schleyer T. A usability evaluation of four commercial dental computer-based patient record systems. J Am Dent Assoc 2008 Dec;139(12):1632-42. PM:19047669
2007
Thyvalikakath TP, Schleyer TK, Monaco V. Heuristic evaluation of clinical functions in four practice management systems: a pilot study. J Am Dent Assoc 2007;138(2):209-18. PM:17272376
Spallek H, Irwin JY, Schleyer T, Butler BS, Weiss PM. Supporting the emergence of dental informatics with an online community. Int J Comput Dent 2007 Jul;10(3):247-64. PM:18271498
Schleyer T, Spallek H, Hernandez P. A qualitative investigation of the content of dental paper-based and computer-based patient record formats. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2007;14(4):515-26. PM:17460133
Schleyer TK, Thyvalikakath TP, Malatack P, Marotta M, Shah TA, Phanichphant P, et al. The feasibility of a three-dimensional charting interface for general dentistry. J Am Dent Assoc 2007 Aug;138(8):1072-80. PM:17670873
2006
Corby PM, Schleyer T, Spallek H, Hart TC, Weyant RJ, Corby AL, et al. Using biometrics for participant identification in a research study: a case report. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2006 Mar;13(2):233-5. PM:16357359
Schleyer TK, Thyvalikakath TP, Spallek H, Torres-Urquidy MH, Hernandez P, Yuhaniak J. Clinical computing in general dentistry. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2006;13(3):344-52. PM:16501177
2005
Schleyer TK, Teasley SD, Bhatnagar R. Comparative case study of two biomedical research collaboratories. J Med Internet Res 2005;7(5):e53. PM:16403717
Schleyer TK, Dodell D. Continuing dental education requirements for relicensure in the United States. J Am Dent Assoc 2005 Oct;136(10):1450-6. PM:16255471
Spallek H, Etzel KR, Maher BS. Dental school applicants' use of website information during the application process. J Dent Educ 2005 Dec;69(12):1359-67. PM:16352772
2004
Schleyer TK. Why integration is key for dental office technology. J Am Dent Assoc 2004 Oct;135 Suppl:4S-9S. PM:15543814
Spallek H. A resource guide for practice development through technology. J Am Dent Assoc 2004 Oct;135:38S-44S. ISI:000224697800009
Schleyer TK. Should dentistry be part of the National Health Information Infrastructure? J Am Dent Assoc 2004;135(12):1687-95. PM:15646601
2003
Schleyer TK, Spallek H, Bartling WC, Corby P. The technologically well-equipped dental office. J Am Dent Assoc 2003 Jan;134(1):30-41. PM:12555955
Schleyer TK. Integrating dental office technology-the next frontier. Dental Abstracts 2003;48(3):112-3.
Schleyer TK. Dental informatics: an emerging biomedical informatics discipline. J Dent Educ 2003 Nov;67(11):1193-200. PM:14650500
Johnson LA, Schleyer TK. Developing high-quality educational software. J Dent Educ 2003 Nov;67(11):1209-20. PM:14650502
Schleyer TK, Johnson LA. Evaluation of educational software. J Dent Educ 2003 Nov;67(11):1221-8. PM:14650503
2002
Barac'h V, Schleyer TK. Dental concepts in the Unified Medical Language System. Quintessence Int 2002;33(1):69-74. PM:11887536
Schleyer T, Spallek H. An evaluation of five dental Internet portals. J Am Dent Assoc 2002 Feb;133(2):204-12. PM:11868839
Spallek H, Pilcher E, Lee JY, Schleyer T. Evaluation of web-based dental CE courses. J Dent Educ 2002 Mar;66(3):393-404. PM:11936230
Spallek H. Information retrieval on the Internet: a guide for dental practitioners. Dent Clin North Am 2002 Jul;46(3):435-62. PM:12222090
Schleyer T. Application service providers in dentistry. Dent Clin North Am 2002;46(3):477-91. PM:12222092
Schleyer T, Eaton KA, Mock D, Barac'h V. Comparison of dental licensure, specialization and continuing education in five countries. Eur J Dent Educ 2002 Nov;6(4):153-61. PM:12410666
2001
Schleyer T, Spallek H. Dental informatics. A cornerstone of dental practice. J Am Dent Assoc 2001 May;132(5):605-13. PM:11367964
Schleyer TK. Collaboratories: leveraging information technology for cooperative research. J Dent Res 2001;80(6):1508-12. PM:11499503
Schleyer TK, Torres-Urquidy H, Straja S. Validation of an instrument to measure dental students' use of, knowledge about, and attitudes towards computers. J Dent Educ 2001 Sep;65(9):883-91. PM:11569604
2000
Spallek H, Berthold P, Shanley DB, Attstrom R. Distance education for dentists: improving the quality of online instruction. The American Journal of Distance Education 2000;14(2):49-59.
Schleyer TK, Forrest JL. Methods for the design and administration of web-based surveys. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2000;7(4):416-25. PM:10887169
Schleyer T. Dental informatics: a new career in dentistry. Pa Dent J (Harrisb ) 2000;67(6):31-48. PM:11411339
1999
Spallek H, Schleyer TK. Internet basics. J Am Coll Dent 1999;66(2):6-15. PM:10506802
Schleyer TK. Clinical decision-making and the Internet. J Am Coll Dent 1999;66(2):29-39. PM:10506804
Schleyer TK, Pham T. Online continuing dental education. J Am Dent Assoc 1999 Jun;130(6):848-54. PM:10377644
Schleyer TK, Dasari VR. Computer-based oral health records on the World Wide Web. Quintessence Int 1999 Jul;30(7):451-60. PM:10635257
Spallek H, Schleyer TK. Educational implications for copyright in a digital world. J Dent Educ 1999 Sep;63(9):673-81. PM:10518204
Schleyer TK, Forrest JL, Kenney R, Dodell DS, Dovgy NA. Is the Internet useful for clinical practice? J Am Dent Assoc 1999;130(10):1501-11. PM:10570599
Schleyer T, Johnson LA, Pham T. Instructional characteristics of online continuing education courses. Quintessence Int 1999 Nov;30(11):755-62. PM:10765875
Johnson LA, Schleyer T. Development of standards for the design of educational software. Quintessence Int 1999 Nov;30(11):763-8. PM:10765876
Schleyer TK. Digital dentistry in the computer age. J Am Dent Assoc 1999 Dec;130(12):1713-20. PM:10599173
1998
Schleyer T, Spallek H, Arsalan M. Dental resources on the World Wide Web. MD Comput 1998 Jul;15(4):252-5, 265. PM:9673092
Schleyer T. Assessing outcomes of an academic computing initiative. J Dent Educ 1998;62(6):432-40. PM: 9698700
Schleyer TK, Spallek H, Torres-Urquidy MH. A profile of current Internet users in dentistry. J Am Dent Assoc 1998 Dec;129(12):1748-53. PM:9854927
1996
Schleyer TK. How should dental informatics evolve? J Dent Educ 1996 Mar;60(3):291-5. PM:8594114
Spallek H, Gougousoudis A, Johnson WW. Scientific data-exchange in periodontology via Internet. J Clin Periodontol 1996 May;23(5):497-504. PM:8783058
1995
Schleyer TK. A portable, GUI-based, object-oriented client-server architecture for computer-based patient record (CPR) systems. J Soc Health Syst 1995;5(1):55-62. PM:7662879
Schleyer T. The digital revolution: are we in control? J Am Coll Dent 1995;62(4):22-6. PM:8926314
1994
Schleyer TKL. Temple Dental School uses an expert-system to schedule students clinical rotations. Interfaces 1994 Sep;24(5):13-21. ISI:A1994PP05700002
Schleyer T, Eisner J. The computer-based oral health record: an essential tool for cross-provider quality management. J Calif Dent Assoc 1994 Nov;22(11):57-64. PM:7760162
Powell V, Din FM, Acharya A, Torres-Urquidy MH. Integration of medical and dental care and patient data. New York: Springer; 2012. (Hannah KJ, Ball MJ, editors. Health informatics; vol. 3).
Schleyer T, Spallek H, Spallek G. The global village of dentistry: Internet, intranet, online services for dental professionals. Chicago: Quintessence; 1998.
Eisner J, Chasteen J, Schleyer T, Feldman CA, Abbey LM, Crall J, et al. The computer based oral health record: a new foundation for oral health information systems. Chicago: American Fund for Dental Health; 1993.
Lee DH, Brusilovsky, Schleyer T. Recommending collaborators using social features and MeSH terms. Proc Am Soc Info Sci Tech. 2011;1-10. DOI: 10.1002/meet.2011.14504801025
Lee DH, Schleyer T. MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2010 Nov 13;2010:412-6. PM:21347011
Schleyer T, Thyvalikakath TP, Smailagic A. Informatics innovation in clinical care: a visionary scenario for dentistry. Presented at: Advances in Health Informatics Conference (AHIC 2010); 2010 Apr 28-30; Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
Acharya A, Wali T, Thyvalikakath TP, Schleyer TK. Evaluation of dental patient record's content: preliminary results. Presented at: Advances in Health Informatics Conference (AHIC 2010); 2010 Apr 28-30; Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
Lee DH, Schleyer TK. A comparison of MeSH terms and CiteULike social tags as metadata for the same items. Veinot T, editor. Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2010); 2010 Nov 11- 12; Arlington, VA. New York, NY: ACM; 2010 p. 445-8.
Schleyer TKL. Collecting research data from clinical practice: how can informatics help? Present at: International Conference on Biodental Engineering; 2009 Jun 26-27; Porto, Portugal.
Irwin JY, Harkema H, Christensen LM, Schleyer T, Haug PJ, Chapman WW. Methodology to develop and evaluate a semantic representation for NLP. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2009;2009:271-5. PM:20351863
Spallek H, Schleyer T, Butler BS. Good partners are hard to find: the search for and selection of collaborators in the health sciences. 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.
Schleyer T, Spallek H, Butler BS, Subramanian S, Weiss D, Poythress ML, Rattanathikum P, Mueller G. Requirements for expertise location systems in biomedical science and the Semantic Web. Proceedings of “Personal Identification and Collaborations: Knowledge Mediation and Extraction (PICKME)”, workshop at the International Semantic Web Conference, 2008.
Irwin JY, Fernando S, Schleyer T, Spallek H. Speech recognition in dental software systems: features and functionality. Medinfo 2007;12(Pt 2):1127-31. PM:17911891
Torres-Urquidy MH, Schleyer TK. Evaluation of the Systematized Nomenclature of Dentistry using case reports: preliminary results. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2006;1124. PM:17238743
Schleyer TK. Dental informatics: a work in progress. In: Schleyer TKL, Spallek H, editors. Dental informatics and dental research: making the connection. Proceeding from a Conference sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Center for Dental Informatics; 2003 Jun 12-13; Bethesda, MD. Alexandria, Virginia: International and American Associations of Dental Research; p. 9-15. (Adv Dent Res 2003 Dec;17:9-15. PM:15126199).
Schleyer TK, Corby P, Gregg AL. A preliminary analysis of the dental informatics literature. In: Schleyer TKL, Spallek H, editors. Dental informatics and dental research: making the connection. Proceeding from a Conference sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Center for Dental Informatics; 2003 Jun 12-13; Bethesda, MD. Alexandria, Virginia: International and American Associations of Dental Research; p. 20-4. (Adv Dent Res 2003 Dec;17:20-4. PM:15126201).
Spallek H. Adaptive hypermedia: a new paradigm for educational software. In: Schleyer TKL, Spallek H, editors. Dental informatics and dental research: making the connection. Proceeding from a Conference sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Center for Dental Informatics; 2003 Jun 12-13; Bethesda, MD. Alexandria, Virginia: International and American Associations of Dental Research; p. 38-42. (Adv Dent Res 2003 Dec;17:38-42. PM:15126205).
Krishnaraju RK, Hart TC, Schleyer TK. Comparative genomics and structure prediction of dental matrix proteins. In: Schleyer TKL, Spallek H, editors. Dental informatics and dental research: making the connection. Proceeding from a Conference sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Center for Dental Informatics; 2003 Jun 12-13; Bethesda, MD. Alexandria, Virginia: International and American Associations of Dental Research; p. 100-3. (Adv Dent Res 2003 Dec;17:100-3. PM:15126218).
Bartling WC, Schleyer TK, Visweswaran S. Retrieval and classification of dental research articles. In: Schleyer TKL, Spallek H, editors. Dental informatics and dental research: making the connection. Proceeding from a Conference sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Center for Dental Informatics; 2003 Jun 12-13; Bethesda, MD. Alexandria, Virginia: International and American Associations of Dental Research; p. 115-20. (Adv Dent Res 2003 Dec;17:115-20. PM:15126221).
Mowery D, Schleyer T, Harkema H. Chapman W. Developing a discourse model for charting dictated dental exams.J Dent Res 90(Spec Iss A):710, 2011.
Reed R, Spallek H, Jiang J, He D, Acharya A, Close J, Song M, Suchow T, Thyvalikakath T, Schleyer T. Developing rocused literature collections: a pilot study from dental informatics.J Dent Res 90(Spec Iss A):2117, 2011.
Rush W. Schleyer T, Kirshner M, Boyle R, Thyvalikakath T, Spallek H, Thoele MJ, Asche S, Durand E, Enstad C, Huntley C, Rindal DB. Randomized clinical trial: computer-assisted tool for tobacco dependence interventions.J Dent Res 90(Spec Iss A):2609, 2011.
Schleyer T. Feasibility of an electronic dental practice-based research network. J Dent Res 89(Spec Iss A):428, 2011.
Irwin J, Christensen L, Harkema H, Schleyer T, Spallek H, Haug P, Chapman B, Chapman W. A speech-to-chart prototype for automatically charting hard tissue exams. J Dent Res 89(Spec Iss A):513, 2011.
Acharya A, Thyvalikakath T, Schleyer T. Feasibility of Delphi Methodology to validate dental information items list. J Dent Res 89(Spec Iss A):517, 2011.
Mowery D, Schleyer T, Chapman W. Distinguishing existing findings from planned treatments in dictated dental exams. J Dent Res 89(Spec Iss A):519, 2011.
Spallek H, Irwin J, Schleyer T. The Dental Informatics Online Community. J Dent Res 89(Spec Iss A):877, 2011.
Irwin JY, Schleyer T. A preliminary comparison of speech recognition functionality in dental practice management systems. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2008;988. PM:18998943
Hill HK, Torres-Urquidy MH. The impact of clinical information systems in dental schools. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2008;968. PM:18998905
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