Jason M. Green, PhD, is Graduate Research Assistant; and Sowjanya Paladugu, MS, is Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia.
Xu Shuyu, MS, is Graduate Research Assistant, Informatics Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia.
Bob R. Stewart, EdD, is Professor Emeritus, College of Education, and Adjunct Clinical Faculty, Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri, Columbia.
Chi-Ren Shyu, PhD, is Professor and Director of the Informatics Institute, Department of Computer Science, Informatics Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia.
Jane M. Armer, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Professor and Director of Nursing Research at Ellis Fischel Cancer Center and Director of the American Lymphedema Framework Project, Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri, Columbia.
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We thank Dr. Richard Madsen and Isabella Zaniletti for data management assistance. We also thank Ellis Fischel Cancer Center clinical collaborators, the lymphedema research project team at MUSSON and EFCC, and the breast cancer survivors who participated in the study, without whom this work could not have been completed.
The informatics research of this project was supported by the National Library of Medicine Grant 1 G08 LM 010711-01. Jason M. Green, PhD, was supported by the National Library of Medicine Bioinformatics andHealth Informatics Training Grant 2T15LM007089-17 and the Shumaker Endowment in Biomedical Informatics. Data were obtained from research studies at the University of Missouri supported by Grants 1 R01 NR05342-01 and 1 R01 NR010293-01 (J. Armer, PI) from the National Institute for Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health; MU PRIME Fund PRM-01-007, University of Missouri; and Ellis Fischel Cancer Center research gift funds. The contents of this manuscript are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health or the University of Missouri.
Accepted for publication August 29, 2012.
This paper was accepted under the editorship of Dr. Molly C. Dougherty.
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
Corresponding author: Jane Armer, PhD, RN, FAAN, DC 116.05 Suite 408, Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, 115 Business Loop 70 W., Columbia, MO 65203 (e-mail: [email protected]).
