A Method to Evaluate the Quality of Clinical Gene-Panel Sequencing Data for Single-Nucleotide Variant Detection.

Customized gene-panel tests, based on next-generation sequencing, have demonstrated their usefulness in a plethora of clinical settings. As with other clinical diagnostic techniques, gene-panel sequencing for clinical purposes requires precise quality control (QC) measures to ensure its reliability. Only detected variants are currently recorded in clinical reports; however, identifying whether a nondetected variant is a true or false negative is regarded essential in a clinical setting and, thus, a comprehensive QC measure is in demand.

Development of the Korean Pregnancy Stress Scale.

Aim: This study was conducted in order to develop and evaluate a Pregnancy Stress Scale (PSS).

Methods: The PSS was developed according to Devellis' scale development process. Data that were collected from 388 pregnant women were used to evaluate the validity and reliability of the tool.

Factors of Prenatal Depression by Stress-vulnerability and Stress-coping Models.

Purpose: This study aimed to identify related factors of prenatal depression by stress-vulnerability and stress-coping models for pregnant women.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey design with a convenience sampling was used. A total of 107 pregnant women who visited a general hospital in a metropolitan city were recruited from August to October, 2013.

Development of an electronic nursing records system based on information models and clinical practice guidelines.

The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility of an electronic nursing records system for perinatal care that is based on information models and clinical practice guidelines in perinatal care. We first generated 799 nursing statements describing nursing assessment, diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes using the entities, attributes, and value sets of detailed clinical models for perinatal care that we developed in a previous study. We then extracted 506 detailed recommendations from clinical practice guidelines.

Development of detailed clinical models for nursing assessments and nursing interventions.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to develop and validate Detailed Clinical Models (DCMs) for nursing assessments and interventions.

Methods: First, we identified the nursing assessment and nursing intervention entities. Second, we identified the attributes and the attribute values in order to describe the entities in more detail.

Development and validation of data specifications for nursing problems in maternal nursing care.

The aims of this study were to develop data specifications for nursing problems related to maternal nursing care and to test the applicability of those data specifications. First, we identified focus concepts and characterizing concepts of nursing problems by analyzing nursing-problem statements from nursing records, reviewing the literature, and interviewing experts. Second, we identified relationships between the focus concepts and characterizing concepts.

Evaluation of the Clinical Data Dictionary (CiDD).

Objectives: The purpose of the study was to evaluate content coverage and data quality of the Clinical Data Dictionary (CiDD) developed by the Center for Interoperable EHR (CiEHR).

Methods: A total of 12,994 terms were collected from 98 clinical forms of a tertiary cancer center hospital with 500 beds. After data cleaning, 9,418 terms were mapped with the data items of the CiDD by the research team, and validated by 30 doctors and nurses at the research hospital.

An experimental study of students' self-learning of the San-Yin-Jiao pressure procedure using CD-ROM or printed materials.

A CD-ROM and printed material on San-Yin-Jiao pressure to lessen labor pain for women were developed as formal didactic instruction using the same content. A prospective, randomized, double-blind study was conducted to compare self-learning outcomes using the software and the printed materials. Eighty third-year student nurses were randomly allocated to either the CD-ROM group or printed material group.