Dr. Noriaki Aoki

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

TATRC: Low Band Telemedicine Decision Support System for Disaster Situations, $228,332, Sep 25, 2000 to May 24, 2001.
Juvenile Diabetes Foundation: A Framework for Acquisition and Deployment of Digital Imagery for Computer-assisted Evaluation of Diabetic Retinopathy, Jun 1, 2002 to May 31, 2004.
United States Department of Defense (DOD): Prehospital data analysis for trauma patients, Aug 15, 2002 to Aug 14, 2003.
Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan: Data mining of health behavior in obesity and diabetes patients, Apr 1, 2003 to Mar 31, 2005.
Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan: e-learning system development and evaluation: continuous medical education for rural physicians, $111,000, Apr 1, 2002 to Mar 31, 2005.
Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan, Japan: Handheld-based self-care support system for type-1 diabetes children, $407,000, Apr 1, 2002 to Mar 31, 2005.
Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan: Quality assessment of the care for trauma, AMI and stroke in the emergency centers in Japan, $207,000, Apr 1, 2002 to Mar 31, 2004.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: e-Learning system for continuous nursing education in Japan, Apr 1, 2002 to Mar 31, 2006.
Japan Society Promotion of Science: Development online case conference system utilizing Web 2.0 technologies (PI), 2008 to 2012.
Japan Society Promotion of Science: Preventing accidents and crimes with sharing legally-ordered autopsy data in Japan (Co-PI), 2007 to 2011.
Japan Society Promotion of Science: Development of Wiki-based medical textbook (co-PI), 2007 to 2011.
Japan Trauma Care and Research: Development of patient registry system for trauma care in Japan, 2006 to 2009.
Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan: Development, implementation and evaluation of guideline-based practice support system for non-diabetes specialists in daily diabetes care. Japan Diabetes Outcome Intervention Trial - 2 (J-DOIT-2). (subcontractor), 2005 to 2007.
Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan: Development and evaluation of decision support system for patients with unruptured intracranial aneurysms (subcontractor), 2004 to 2007.

• Aoki N, Uda K, Ohta S, Kiuchi T, Fukui T (Oct 2008) Impact of miscommunication in medical dispute cases in Japan., International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care / ISQua, 20 (5), 358-62
• Kohsaka S, Goto M, Virani S, Lee VV, Aoki N, Elayda MA, Reul RM, Wilson JM (Aug 2008) Long-term clinical outcome of coronary artery stenting or coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with multiple-vessel disease., The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 136 (2), 500-6
• Goto M, Kohsaka S, Aoki N, Lee VV, Elayda MA, Wilson JM (2008) Risk stratification after successful coronary revascularization., Cardiovascular revascularization medicine : including molecular interventions, 9 (3), 132-9
• Aoki N, Ohta S, Kikuchi N, Oishi M (2008) An introduction to the theory of constraint and how it can be applied to medical management., Physician executive, 34 (2), 52-6
• Aoki N, Obu S (Dec 2007) [Beyond EBM: An approach to link theories and tools to practice. Management and communication (2)], Nihon Naika Gakkai zasshi. The Journal of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, 96 (12), 2847-50
• Aoki N, Obu S (Nov 2007) [Management and communication in health care], Nihon Naika Gakkai zasshi. The Journal of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, 96 (11), 2591-4
• Nouso K, Tanaka H, Uematsu S, Shiraga K, Okamoto R, Onishi H, Nakamura SI, Kobayashi Y, Araki Y, Aoki N, Shiratori Y (Aug 2007) Cost-effectiveness of the surveillance program of hepatocellular carcinoma depends on the medical circumstances.
• Aoki N, Demsar J, Zupan B, Mozina M, Pretto EA, Oda J, Tanaka H, Sugimoto K, Yoshioka T, Fukui T (Apr 2007) Predictive model for estimating risk of crush syndrome: a data mining approach., The Journal of trauma, 62 (4), 940-5
• Aoki N, Sakai M, Nakayama T, Fukuhara S, Ohta S, Kikuchi N, Oishi M, Kiuchi T, Nozaki K, Hashimoto N (2007) u-SHARE: web-based decision support/risk communication tool for healthcare consumers with unruptured intracranial aneurysms., Studies in health technology and informatics, 129 (Pt 2), 1012-6
• Aoki N, Kiuchi T (2007) UMIN online abstract and paper entry system for biomedical academic meetings--an overview and its impact on the distribution of digitalized academic information in Japan., Methods of information in medicine, 46 (6), 671-8
• Aoki N, Sakai M, Nakayama T, Fukuhara S, Ohta S, Kikuchi N, Oishi M, Kiuchi T, Nozaki K, Hashimoto N (2007) u-SHARE: web-based decision support/risk communication tool for healthcare consumers with unruptured intracranial aneurysms., Medinfo. MEDINFO, 12 (Pt 2), 1012-6
• Aoki N, Ohta S, Yamamoto H, Kikuchi N, Dunn K (Dec 2006) Triangulation analysis of tele-palliative care implementation in a rural community area in Japan., Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association, 12 (6), 655-62
• Jibaja-Weiss ML, Volk RJ, Friedman LC, Granchi TS, Neff NE, Spann SJ, Robinson EK, Aoki N, Robert Beck J (Sep 2006) Preliminary testing of a just-in-time, user-defined values clarification exercise to aid lower literate women in making informed breast cancer treatment decisions., Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy, 9 (3), 218-31
• Aoki N, Ohta S, Okada T, Oishi M, Fukui T, INSULOT: a Cellular Phone-based Edutainment Learning Tool for Children With Type 1 Diabetes., Diabetes Care, 28(3), 760, Mar 2005
• Aoki N, Dunn K, Fukui T, Beck JR, Schull WJ, Li HK, Cost-effectiveness analysis of telemedicine to evaluate diabetic retinopathy in a prison population, Diabetes Care, 27(5), 1095-101, May 2004
• Aoki N, Nishimura A, Pretto EA, Sugimoto K, Beck JR, Fukui T, Survival and cost analysis of fatalities of the Kobe earthquake in Japan, Prehospital Emergency Care : Official Journal of the National Association of Ems Physicians and the National Association of State Ems Directors., 8(2), 217-22, Apr-J 2004
• Hira K, Aoki N, Fukui T, Pseudohyperkalaemia at commercial laboratories in Japan: a questionnaire survey, Annals of Clinical Biochemistry, 41(Pt 2), 155-6, March 2004
• Hira K, Aoki N, Fukui T, Pseudonormokalaemia caused by recentrifugation of blood samples after storage in gel-separator tubes, Annals of Clinical Biochemistry, 41(Pt 1), 82, January 2004
• Aoki N, Ohta S, Masuda H, Naito T, Sawai T, Nishida K, Okada T, Oishi M, Iwasawa Y, Toyomasu K, Hira K, Fukui T, Edutainment Tools for Initial Education of Type-1 Diabetes Mellitus: Initial Diabetes Education With Fun., Medinfo, 11(Pt 2), 855-9, 2004
• Aoki N, Dunn K, Johnson-Throop KA, Turley JP, Outcomes and methods in telemedicine evaluation, Telemedicine Journal and E-health : the Official Journal of the American Telemedicine Association., 9(4), 393-401, 2003
• Fagan SP, Awad SS, Rahwan K, Hira K, Aoki N, Itani KM, Berger DH, Prognostic factors for the development of gangrenous cholecystitis, American Journal of Surgery, 186(5), 481-5, November 2003
• Schreiber MA, Holcomb JB, Hedner U, Brundage SI, Macaitis JM, Aoki N, Meng ZH, Tweardy DJ, Hoots K, The effect of recombinant factor VIIa on noncoagulopathic pigs with grade V liver injuries, Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 196(5), 691-7, May 2003
• Okada S, Takai T, Tabata N, Nishimura A, Aoki, Refined Statistical Model of Human Casualities Based on the 1995 Hyogo-Ken-Nanbu Earthquake Data [in Japanese], Report of Tonoh Research Institute of Earthquake Science, 1 Apr 2003
• McHenry TP, Holcomb JB, Aoki N, Lindsey RW, Fractures with major vascular injuries from gunshot wounds: implications of surgical sequence, Journal of Trauma, 53(4), 717-21, October 2002
• Holcomb JB, Dumire RD, Crommett JW, Stamateris CE, Fagert MA, Cleveland JA, Dorlac GR, Dorlac WC, Bonar JP, Hira K, Aoki N, Mattox KL, Evaluation of trauma team performance using an advanced human patient simulator for resuscitation training, Journal of Trauma, 52(6), 1078-85; discussion, June 2002
• Awad SS, Liscum KR, Aoki N, Awad SH, Berger DH, Does the subjective evaluation of medical student surgical knowledge correlate with written and oral exam performance?, Journal of Surgical Research, 104(1), 36-9, May 2002
• Schreiber MA, Aoki N, Scott BG, Beck JR, Determinants of mortality in patients with severe blunt head injury, Archives of Surgery (chicago, Ill. : 1960), 137(3), 285-90, March 2002
• Kennedy CE, Aoki N, Generating a mortality model from a pediatric ICU (PICU) database utilizing knowledge discovery, Proceedings / Amia ... Annual Symposium. Amia Symposium, 375-9, 2002
• Demsar J, Zupan B, Aoki N, Wall MJ, Granchi TH, Robert Beck J, Feature mining and predictive model construction from severe trauma patient's data, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 63(1-2), 41-50, September 2001
• Aoki N, Beck JR, Kitahara T, Ohbu S, Soma K, Ohwada T, Cone RW, Fukui T, Reanalysis of unruptured intracranial aneurysm management: effect of a new international study on the threshold probabilities, Medical Decision Making, 21(2), 87-96, 2001
• Beck JR, Guilhot J, Giles FJ, Aoki N, Wirt DP, Guilhot F, Cytarabine added to interferon improves the cost-effectiveness of initial therapy for patients with early chronic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia, Leukemia and Lymphoma, 41(1-2), 117-24, March 2001
• Zupan B, Porenta A, Vidmar G, Aoki N, Bratko I, Beck JR, Decisions at hand: a decision support system on handhelds, Medinfo, 10(Pt 1), 566-70, 2001
• Aoki N, Wall MJ, Demsar J, Zupan B, Granchi T, Schreiber MA, Holcomb JB, Byrne M, Liscum KR, Goodwin G, Beck JR, Mattox KL, Predictive model for survival at the conclusion of a damage control laparotomy, American Journal of Surgery, 180(6), 540-4, December 2000
• Aoki N, Kajiyama T, Beck JR, Cone RW, Soma K, Fukui T, Decision analysis of prophylactic treatment for patients with high-risk esophageal varices, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 52(6), 707-14, December 2000
• Aoki N, Soma K, Sekine H, Beck JR, Ohwada T, The Significance of Lactate Dehydrogenase Value in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Journal of Bronchology, 7, 122-126, 2000
• Aoki N, Kitahara T, Fukui T, Beck JR, Soma K, Yamamoto W, Kamae I, Ohwada T, Management of unruptured intracranial aneurysm in Japan: a Markovian decision analysis with utility measurements based on the Glasgow Outcome Scale., Medical Decision Making, 18(4), 357-64, October 1998
• Aoki N, Soma K, Shindo M, Kurosawa T, Ohwada T, Evaluation of potential fat emboli during placement of intramedullary nails after orthopedic fractures, Chest, 113(1), 178-81, Jan 1998
• Aoki N, Soma K, Katagiri H, Aizawa Y, Kadowaki T, Ohwada T, The pulmonary hemodynamic effects of 1,1,1-trichloroethane inhalation, Industrial Health, 35(4), 451-5, October 1997
• Katagiri H, Aoki N, Soma K, Karube H, Aizawa Y, Kadowaki T, Inoue Y, Concentration in blood and organs of dogs after high dose 1,1,1-trichloroethane inhalation, Industrial Health, 35(4), 461-6, October 1997
• Aoki N, Yamamoto W, Fukui T, Decision analysis and clinical laboratory test in general internal medicine, Rinsho Byori. Japanese Journal of Clinical Pathology, 45(4), 337-41, April 1997
• Aoki N, Yamamoto W, Fukui T, Evidence-Based Medicine in Emergency and Critical care [in Japanese with English abstract], ICU & CCU, 21, 355-360, 1997
• Fukui T, Maekawa M, Yamamoto K, Kurokawa W, Aoki N, Shiramizu R, Kajiyama T, Kishino M, Asai A, Fujimura S, [Usefulness of autopsy in clinical training in internal medicine: a report on Survey on Feedback of Autopsy Findings to Clinical Training in Internal Medicine], Nippon Naika Gakkai Zasshi. Journal of Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, 85(12), 2096-105, December 1996
• Yokoba M, Shirasaki K, Aoki N, Soma K, A case of severe acute hepatorenal failure due to Aeromoas hydrophila septicemia, Kansenshogaku Zasshi. Journal of the Japanese Association fo, 70(10), 1111-5, October 1996
• Fukui T, Aoki N, Decision Analysis [in Japanese], Clinic All-round, 45, 1841-1842, 1996
• Fukui T, Aoki N, The pitfall of cognition and decision in clinical situation [in Japanese], Rigaku Ryoho, 13, 273-278, 1996
• Aoki N, Soma K, Electrocardiugram findings in shock [in Japanese], The Japanese Journal of Acute Medicine, 20, 541-544, 1996
• Sano T, Fukuda M, Aoki N, Masuda T, Kitahara T, Soma K, Ohwada T, A case report of bacterial meningitis caused by group-G streptococcus [in Japanese], KANTO Journal of Japanese Association for Acute Medicine, 17, 34-35, 1996
• Ohnishi H, Aoki N, Kamijo Y, Hirata M, Kitahara T, Soma K, Ohwada T, A case report of Weil disease died from massive pulmonary bleeding [in Japanese], KANTO Journal of Japanese Association for Acute Medicine, 17, 160-161, 1996
• Aoki N, Masuda T, Soma K, Kurosawa T, Ohwada T, Transient disturbance of pulmonary blood flow and subsequent pressure overloading in right ventricle following the inhalation of a water-proof spray [in Japanese with English abstract], Journal of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine, 3, 99-102, 1996
• Saita Y, Aoki N, Kamijo Y, Soma K, Ohwada T, A case report of emergency balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration for ruptured gastric varices [in Japanese], KANTO Journal of Japanese Association for Acute Medicine, 17, 202-203, 1996
• Aoki N, Soma K, Kubota M, Katagiri M, Sekine T, Imai H, Yanase N, Tomita T, Bronchoalveolar lipid-laden cells in lung disease and fat embolism syndrome [in Japanese with English abstract], The Journal of The Society for Bronchology, 18, 11-16, 1996
• Aoki N, Soma K, Owada T, Ishii H, Wegener's granulomatosis complicated by arterial aneurysm, Internal Medicine, 34(8), 790-3, August 1995
• Soma K, Aoki N, Vital signs of Respiratory system [in Japanese], Emergency Nursing, 8, 433-437, 1995
• Aoki N, Kurosawa T, Masuda S, Shirasaki K, The transesophageal echocardiogram findings in patients with intramedurally reamed nailing procedure [in Japanese], The Japanese Journal of Medical Ultrasonics, 21(suppl), 348, 1994
• Karube H, Takada T, Aizawa Y, Sugiura Y, Mashimo K, Katagiri H, Kadowaki T, Aoki N, Soma K, Pathological findings in dogs with 1,1,1-trichroloethane inhalation [in Japanese], Japanese Journal of Hygene, 49, 158, 1994
• Aoki N, Soma K, Common Cold Syndrome [in Japanese], The Japanese Journal of Acute Medicine, 18, 1199-1201, 1994
• Aoki N, Hirata M, Horiike J, Sugimoto K, Soma K, Ohwada T, A case of descending necrotizing mediastinitis [in Japanese], KANTO Journal of Japanese Association for Acute Medicine, 15, 234-235, 1994
• Takahashi M, Kurosawa T, Aoki N, Wakabayashi Y, Soma K, Ohwada T, A case of pseudo-aldosteronism [in Japanese], KANTO Journal of Japanese Association for Acute Medicine, 15, 134-136, 1994
• Yamamoto S, Nishiguchi K, Kataoka Y, Aoki N, Soma K, Ohwada T, A case of Stanford-A type dissective aneurysm undergone emergency thracotomy [in Japanese], KANTO Journal of Japanese Association for Acute Medicine, 15, 282-283, 1994
• Katagiri H, Kadowaki T, Inoue Y, Aizawa Y, Takada T, Aoki N, Soma K, Measurement of 1,1,1-trichloroethane level in blood and tissue of dogs exposed to water-proof spray [in Japanese], Japanese Journal of Industrial Health, 36, 416, 1994
• Aoki N, Kikuno T, Ino Y, Ichikizaki K, Comparing patients' severity between interhospital and intrahospital transfar using APACH-II, APACHE-III, SAPS, MAPS [in Japanese], KANTO Journal of Japanese Association for Acute Medicine, 14, 394-396, 1993