Issue Special Issue 2/2014
Health Services Research: Evidence-based practice
Content (173 Articles)
Making research and evaluation more relevant and useful in the real world: favoured solutions and uncomfortable realities
Nicholas Mays
Health system challenges in implementing universal health coverage: Asian perspectives and experiences
Tikki Pang, Tiffany Robyn Soetikno, Agus Suwandono
Health systems: the challenge of adapting and responding to the accelerating health transition in low income countries
Don de Savigny
Contextual influences on the role of evidence in health policy development: insights from India and Nigeria
Tolib Mirzoev, Mahua Das, Bassey Ebenso, Bindiya Rawat, Nkoli Uguru, Giuliano Russo, Roger Bymolt, Reinhard Huss
Best practice integrated primary/secondary health care governance - applying evidence to Australia’s health reform agenda
Caroline Nicholson, Claire Jackson, John Marley
Panel discussion: The challenges of translating evidence into policy and practice for maternal and newborn health in Ethiopia, Nigeria and India
Meenakshi Gautham, Della Berhanu, Nasir Umar, Amit Ghosh, Noah Elias, Neil Spicer, Agnes Becker, Joanna Schellenberg
Characterization and analysis of guideline implementation tools (GItools) reveals opportunities for improving health service planning, delivery and quality improvement
Anna R Gagliardi
Implementation science: understanding behaviour change and maintenance
Susan Michie
Expanding the PARiHS framework: thinking more broadly about context and facilitation
Robin Urquhart, Joan Sargeant, Geoffrey Porter, Lois Jackson, Eva Grunfeld
Understanding the dynamics of patient systems of implementation: a mixed methods study
Anne Rogers, Ivo Vassilev, Anne Kennedy
Expansion of the reducing use of sedatives (RedUSe) project to Australian nursing homes
Juanita Westbury, Gregory Peterson, Ivan Bindoff
Achieving the promise of universal coverage – the role for strategic purchasing
Kara Hanson
Using cost-effectiveness analysis to support decision making in resource poor settings: methods and practical challenges
Mark Sculpher
Cost-effectiveness of public health interventions - a new methodological approach
Inna Feldman, Anna Sarkadi
Determinants of health insurance enrolment in Sudan: evidence from Health Utilisation and Expenditure Household Survey 2009
Isam Baloul, Maznah Dahlui
Does the implementation of a new payment system for hospital services induce changes in the quality of health care? Experiences from Germany
Bertram Haeussler, Karsten Zich, Hans-Holger Bless
Right time, right place? New evidence on effective health workforce distribution and retention
James Buchan
Recruitment and retention of health professionals in the European Union: lessons from country experiences
Gilles Dussault
Non-EU migrant doctors in Ireland: applying a typology of health worker migration
Niamh Humphries, Sara McAleese, Ella Tyrrell, Steve Thomas, Charles Normand, Ruairi Brugha
Financial incentives for human resources for health: What do we know? What do we do? The case of Sierra Leone
Maria Paola Bertone
Physical therapy counts: counting physical therapists worldwide
Catherine Sykes, Tracy Bury, Brenda Myers
Assessing health systems in low-resource settings: some conceptual and methodological dilemmas
Dina Balabanova
The contribution of health systems research to HSR: time to know what we are talking about, and why it is important for evidence-based policy-making
Reinhard Busse
Opt-out cervical cancer screening increases coverage of cervical cancer screening in HIV clinical care settings: Experiences from Mildmay, Uganda
Anne M Nabukenya, Joseph Matovu, Joan Nangiya, Esther Kawuma, Mary Odiit, Barbara Mukasa
The real-world problem of care coordination: a longitudinal qualitative study with patients living with advanced progressive illness and their unpaid caregivers
Barbara A Daveson, Richard Harding, Cathy Shipman, Bruce L Mason, Eleni Epiphaniou, Irene J Higginson, Clare Ellis-Smith, Lesley Henson, Dan Munday, Veronica Nanton, Jeremy Dale, Kirsty Boyd, Allison Worth, Stephen Barclay, Anne Donaldson, Scott A Murray
Effect of facilitation of local maternal-and-newborn stakeholder groups on neonatal mortality: a cluster randomised trial
Lars Åke Persson, Nga Nguyen T, Mats Målqvist, Hoa Dinh Thi Phuong, Leif Eriksson, Lars Wallin, Katarina Selling, Huy Tran Q, Duc Duong M, Uwe Ewald
Research impact: defining it, measuring it, maximising it, questioning it
Trisha Greenhalgh
Novel programs, international adoptions, or contextual adaptations? Meta-analytical results from German and Swedish intervention research
Henna Hasson, Knut Sundell, Andreas Beelmann, Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz
Governing health professional mobility in the European Union
Matthias Wismar
Building evidence on HRH programme implementation: assessment in 15 Latin American and Caribbean countries
Mario Roberto Dal Poz
Can up-skilling non-physician clinicians (NPCs) make a difference to practice and help towards reductions in maternal and neonatal mortality, in Malawi? The ETATMBA Project
David Ellard
Enriching the evidence base: moving towards full societal costs and benefits
Werner Brouwer
Improving the efficiency of cost-effectiveness analysis to inform policy decisions in the real world: lessons from the Pharmacoeconomics Research Unit at Cancer Care Ontario
Jeffrey S Hoch
Prioritisation of specialist health care services: going beyond the evidence
Philip Webb, Khesh Sidhu, Geoffrey Carroll, Pippa Anderson
Professional experiences of accessing cancer drugs in the NHS: the introduction of the Cancer Drugs Fund, the individual versus the population
Charlotte Chamberlain, Amanda Owen-Smith, William Hollingworth, Jenny Donovan
Effectiveness of interventions to improve, maintain or facilitate oral food and/or drink intake in people with dementia: systematic review
Asmaa Abdelhamid, Diane Bunn, Angela Dickinson, Anne Killett, Fiona Poland, John Potter, Kate Richardson, David Smithard, Chris Fox, Lee Hooper
Polypharmacy as a risk factor for hospital admission among elderly using emergency transport
Toshikazu Abe, Nanako Tamiya, Takako Kitahara, Yoshinori Hasegawa, Yasuharu Tokuda
The trend of geriatric health research and the challenge of health system translation in Nigeria
Musa Abubakar Kana
Maternal and child health interventions in Nigeria: a systematic review of published studies from 1990 to date
Musa Abubakar Kana, Henry Doctor, Bàrbara Peleteiro, Nuno Lunet, Henrique Barros
Transitions in abortion care in Ghana: revealing the potential of globalizing provider attitudes
Patience Aniteye, Susannah Mayhew, Beverley O’Brien
Does health insurance improve utilisation of healthcare services, for chronic illnesses in Sudan?
Isam Baloul, Maznah Dahlui
How is the positive deviance approach applied within healthcare organizations? A systematic review of methods used
Ruth Baxter, Ian Kellar, Natalie Taylor, Rebecca Lawton
The Context Assessment for Community Health tool - investigating why what works where in low- and middle-income settings
Anna Bergström, Hoa Dinh, Duc Duong, Jesmin Pervin, Anisur Rahman, Sarah Skeen, Mark Tomlinson, Peter Waiswa, Elmer Zelaya, Lars Wallin
Healthcare integration strategy implementation based on distance education and communication for health professionals in São Paulo City, Brazil: study protocol
Mario Bracco, Alexandre Abdo, Marcelo Demarzo, Marcello Dalla, Fernando Colugnati, Ana Delgado, Ana Mafra
Theoretical conceptual model as useful framework for research implementation in a Brazilian public hospital
Mario Bracco, José Carlos Teixeira Jr, Silvio Possa, Luiz Vicente Rizzo
Effectiveness of external factors to reduce the risk of dehydration in older people living in residential care: a systematic review
Diane Bunn, Florence Jimoh, Stephanie Howard Wilsher, Lee Hooper
Measuring, mapping and making sense of Irish health system performance in the recession
Sara Burke, Stephen Thomas, Sarah Barry
The effects of obesity and mobility disability in access to breast and cervical cancer screening in France: results from the National Health and Disability Survey
Clémence Bussière, Jonathan Sicsic, Nathalie Pelletier-Fleury
Enhancing hospital competitiveness: use of the electronic dashboard for managing the power of executing information systems
Chia-Jung Chen, June-Dong Lin, Chung-Feng Liu
Modification of compensation mechanisms of outpatient services
Marine Mardiyan, Armine Chopikyan, Aharon Barseghyan
Personalized evidence of treatment effects for the practice of personalized medicine: a new model of care
Jean-Paul Collet, William McKellin, Sravan Jaggumantri, Niranjan Kissoon
The Oregon health system transformation: preliminary report of Coordinated Care Organizations in the first year implementation
Carlos Crespo, Ellen Smit
Developing a framework for replication of research in implementation science
Janet Curran, Brigitte Vachon, Jamie Brehaut, Anne Sales, Jeremy Grim shaw
Discharge instructions for parents in the context of pediatric emergency care: a narrative review
Janet Curran
Practice preferences of pre-graduation allied health professionals: do graduates want to work where the workforce is needed?
Anne Cusick, Elisha Crichton, Rosalind A Bye
Techniques to tell the real story: narrative inquiry in health services research
Nicole Ison, Anne Cusick, Rosalind A Bye
Workforce characteristics of post-conflict disability services in Benghazi, Libya
Rania Hamed, Anne Cusick
Finding measures of clinical placements quality for pre-service health services training: challenges of definition and search strategy construction
Anne Cusick, Marie Heydon, Katherine Caldwell, Linda Cohen
Evidence informed health policy making: role of evidence in six health policies in India and Nigeria
Mahua Das, Bassey Ebenso, Reinhard Huss, Bindiya Rawat, Nkoli Guru, Guliano Russo, Yme Van Den Berg, Weerasak Puttasari, Tolib Mirzoev
Participation of policy actors in the development of health policies in India and Nigeria and the implications for the role of evidence in policy-making
Reinhard Huss, Mahua Das, Bassey Ebenso, Bindiya Rawat, Obinna Onwujekwe, Giuliano Russo, Lucie Blok, Putthasri Weerasak, Tolib Mirzoev
Improving management of patients with life-threatening emergency conditions in the emergency department of Sant’Andrea Hospital Rome, Italy
Assunta De Luca, Gianluca D’Agostino, Cristiana Luciani, Domenico Antonio Lentile, Francesco Stella
Impacts beyond primary outcomes: a mixed-methods study exploring multiple perspectives of a health system intervention in Eastern Uganda
Deborah DiLiberto, Sarah Staedke, Catherine Maiteki-Sebuguzi, Susan Naiga, Clare Chandler
Implementation of a regional stroke reform in Denmark: a tale of cost reduction and quality improvement
Karla Douw
Implementation of changes in perinatal care in the North of the Netherlands, the ACTion project
Andrea Drost, Gera Welker, Jan-Jaap Erwich
An exploratory qualitative study of patient mobility in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Jo Durham, Visanou Hansana, Poom Viengnakhone, Vanphanom Sychareun
Baseline evidence practice gap for type 2 diabetes care among Aboriginal Australians in a cluster randomised controlled trial
Sandra Eades, Chris Paul, Paul Ishiguchi, Paul Zimmet, Jonathan Shaw, Kristy Forshaw, Claudia Koller, Heidi Turon, Robert Sanson-Fisher
Explaining health managers’ information-seeking behaviour and use
Christine Edwards, Pinar Guven-Uslu, Stephen Gourlay, Vari Drennan, Steven Gillard
Monitoring the implementation of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the international recruitment of health personnel: the case of Indonesia
Ferry Efendi, Ching-Min Chen
Registered nurses’ application of the principles of evidence-based practice the first five years after graduation
Anna Ehrenberg, Lars Wallin, Petter Gustavsson, Ann Rudman, Anne-Marie Boström
Quality of life data from EQ-5D for evidence-based health service practice in dialysis care
Klaus Eichler, Sascha Hess, Mathias Früh, Oliver Reich, Urs Brügger
Implementing evidence based health skills in practice through higher education
Eva Ekvall-Hansson, Gunilla Carlsson, Agneta Malmgren Fänge
Establishing evidence-based practices within services for children: knowledge transfer challenges
Helene Eng, Camilla Lauritzen, Charlotte Reedtz, Willy-Tore Mørch, Monica Martinussen
Data-based decision-making at all managerial levels in health care: an integral part of evidence-based practice
Leon Epstein
Changes in lifestyle risk factors: health and economic impact as estimated by the population based RHS model
Inna Feldman, Dmitry Grigorovich, Pia Johansson
Effective access to health care in Mexico
Juan Pablo Gutierrez, Sebastian Garcia-Saiso, German Fajardo-Dolci, Mauricio Hernandez-Avila
Health professionals for the future
Armin Gemperli, Beat Sottas, Gerold Stucki
Shared follow-up care for early breast cancer - results from an Australian national demonstration project
Christine Giles, Caroline Nehill, Vivienne Milch, Helen Zorbas
What does it take? Healthcare professional’s perspective on incentives and obstacles related to implementing ICTs in home-based elderly care
Martha Therese Gjestsen, Siri Wiig, Ingelin Testad
Progress and implementation of team-based care in the United States
Debora Goldberg, Anton Kuzel
Redesign of quality improvement work methods in the community in the health care organization in Israel
Margalit Goldfracht, Mina Rotem, Silvia Fleishman, Calanit Key, Nicky Lieberman
Design and base-line evaluation of financial incentives to increase effective coverage of priority health interventions funded by Seguro Popular, Mexico
Miguel-Angel Gonzalez-Block
Costs of current and improved meningitis disease surveillance in Chad
Ulla Griffiths, Ngozi Erondu
What is the best way to organize vaccination services for the children of Quebec, Canada?
Maryse Guav, Paule Clément, Carole Vanier, Sandie Briand, Cécile Michaud, Chantal Boulet, Joane Désilets, Fernand Guillemette, Eve Dubé, Nicole Boulianne, Jacques Lemaire, Monique Landry, Geneviève Baron
Application of a novel disinvestment research design to the use of weekend allied health services on acute medical and surgical wards - randomised trial and economic evaluation protocol
Terry Haines, Elizabeth Skinner, Deb Mitchell, Lisa O’Brien, Kelly Bowles, Donna Markham, Samantha Plumb, Timothy Chui, Kerry May, Romi Haas, David Lescai, Kathleen Philip, Fiona McDermott
Where should stepped-wedge designs be placed in the evidence hierarchy? Using the “within-wedge” analysis approach to generate evidence of possible bias
Terry Haines, Karla Hemming, Alan Girling, Anne-Marie Hill, Max Bulsara, Jon Deeks
The feasibility and validity of a preference-weighted composite endpoint to establish value in geriatric care
Cynthia Hofman, Jennifer Lutomski, Han Boter, Bianca Buurman, Ton De Craen, Marcel OldeRikkert, Rogier Donders, Peter Makai, René Melis
Optimizing existing health systems: an argument for integrating functioning information
Maren Hopfe, Birgit Prodinger, Jerome Bickenbach, Alarcos Cieza, Gerold Stucki
Improving casemix systems by integrating functioning information: a systematic literature review and call for expert input
Maren Hopfe, Gerold Stucki, Mirjam Brach, Birgit Prodinger
The role of nurses in transforming health care
Carmen Planas-Campmany, M Teresa Icart-lsern
Influence of accessibility and distance in the consumption of disposable equipment in a hemodialysis unit
Antonio Torres-Quintana, M Teresa Icart-Isern, Cristina Esquinas-López
Measuring administrative integration of disease control programmes within health systems: a case study of HIV monitoring and evaluation in South Africa
Mary Kawonga, Sharon Fonn, Duane Blaauw
Health system preparedness for newborn care: a health facility assessment in rural Uganda
Christine Kayemba Nalwadda, Stefan Peterson, Goran Tomson, David Guwatudde, Juliet Kiguli, Gertrude Namazzi, Sarah Namutamba, Faith Namugaya, Harriet Nambuya, Abner Tagoola, Peter Waiswa
Leadership, safety culture and patient safety in hospitals: in search of evidence
Oliver Kessler
Inclusion of private sector in district health systems; case study of private drug shops implementing modified Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) strategy in Rural Uganda
Freddy Kitutu, Chrispus Mayora, Phyllis Awor, Forsberg Birger, Stefan Peterson, Henry Wamani
Norwegian guidelines for persons with concurrent mental disorders and substance use disorders: assessment, treatment and rehabilitation- How to bridge gaps between current practice and clinical guidelines?
Lars Lien, Monica Stolt Pedersen, Anne Landheim
Predictive factors for medical resource utilization among Taiwan’s psychiatric inpatients
Chin-Ming Lin, Chung-Yi Li
Job preferences of primary health care workers in rural China: application of Discrete Choice Experiment
Xiaoyun Liu
Five-hundred years of medicine gone to waste? Negotiating intercultural health policy in Ecuador
Ana Llamas-Montoya, Susannah Mayhew
Health professionals: leaving their countries to migrate to the United States and Canada
Christine Mahoney
Turnover of nurse anesthetists: the similarities and differences between countries
Christine Mahoney, Joshua Lea, Irene Jillson, Vera Meeusen
Geographical data for the definition of theoretical STEMI patient base for hospital emergency departments in the Lazio region, Italy
Francesca Mataloni, Mariangela D’Ovidio, Mirko Di Martino, Paolo Sciattella, Marina Davoli, Danilo Fusco
The care pathway for hip fracture from acute phase to rehabilitation
Paolo Sciattella, Valeria Belleudi, Paola Colais, Mirko Di Martino, Luigi Pinnarelli, Francesca Mataloni, Marina Davoli, Danilo Fusco
Putting the human into health systems: achieving functional integration of service delivery in Kenya and Swaziland
Susannah Mayhew, Richard Mutemwa, Manuela Colombini, Martine Collumbien
Key influences over actors’ preferences and use of evidence in policy development: insights from the Nigerian IMNCH strategy
Chinyere Mbachu, Ifeanyi Chikezie, Sloudo Eze, Obinna Onwujekwe, Benjamin Uzochukwu, Nkoli Ezumah
Progress in understanding the role of the funding agency in the support of evidence-based practice: evaluation results from Canada
Robert McLean, Ian Graham
Clinical research and leadership training program as a knowledge translation initiative across an Australian health care service
Marie Misso, Dragan Ilic, Alison Hutchinson, Terry Haines, Christine East, Helena Teede
Building bridges to integrate care
Tamara Mohammed, Vicky Stergiopoulos, Onil Bhattacharyya, Gary Naglie, Fiona Webster, Elizabeth Mansfield, Jennifer Christian
Retention of nurses in rural Nepal: are short term contracts the answer?
Joanna Morrison, Rita Thapa, Neha Batura, Jolene Skordis-Worrall
TDF (Theoretical Domain Framework): how inclusive are TDF domains and constructs compared to other tools for assessing barriers to change?
Hamideh Sarmast, Mirkaber Mosavianpour, Jean-Paul Collet, Niranjan Kissoon
Towards evidence-based practice in the social services and older people care: from the line managers’ perspective
Rebecca Mosson, Henna Hasson, Lars Wallin, Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz
Development of a theoretically based implementation protocol
Joanna Moullin, Daniel Sabater-Hernández, Shalom Benrimoj
Cross sectional study of drug substitution in community pharmacies in the Ugandan capital city
Asha Nabbale, Richard Odoi-Adome, Freddy Kitutu
Developing a clinical practice guideline implementation strategy based on needs, evidence and theory
Chirk Jenn Ng, Ee Ming Khoo, Ping Yein Lee, Su May Liew, Stalia Siew Lee Wong, Adina Abdullah, Nik Sherina Hanafi, Yook Chin Chia, Nurdiana Abdullah
Tools to manage the decision-making process in operating rooms
Liliana Neriz, Daniela Silva, Francisco Ramis, Alicia Núñez
Unique challenges experienced during the process of implementing mobile health information technology in developing countries
Siobhan O’Connor, John O’Donoghue, Joe Gallagher, Tiwonge Kawonga
Implementing mobile information technology in clinical nursing education: how, why, when, where and what happened? Some answers from a review of the literature
Siobhan O’Connor, Tom Andrews
Bridging Human Resources for Health (HRH) gaps by applying clinical mentoring in selected health facilities: evidence from Jigawa State in northern Nigeria
Ekechi Okereke, Jamilu Tukur, Jean Butera, Bello Mohammed, Ibrahim Yisa, Benson Obonyo, Amina Aminu, Mike Egboh
Increasing health equity and access to skilled birth delivery services for the poor through community-based health-care interventions: evidence from northern Nigeria
Ekechi Okereke, Ibrahim Yisa, Adekunle Akerele, Benson Obonyo, Mike Egboh
Implementation of collaborative governance in cross-sector innovation and education networks: evidence from the National Health Service in England
Pavel Ovseiko, Catherine O’Sullivan, Susan Powell, Stephen Davies, Alastair Buchan
Economic evaluation of a patient and carer centred system of longer-term stroke care from a cluster randomised trial (the LoTS care trial)
Anita Patel, Anne Forster, John Young, Jane Nixon, Katie Chapman, Martin Knapp, Kirste Mellish, Ivana Holloway, Amanda Farrin
Designing an evidence-based mobile health decision aid for the management of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) in low-resourced settings
Beth Payne, Dustin Dunsmuir, David Hall, Joanne Lim, Rozina Sikandar, Laura Magee, Rahat Qureshi, Mark Ansermino, Peter von Dadelszen
Bridging the gap between current practice recommendations in national guidelines - a qualitative study of mental health services
Monica Stolt Pedersen, Anne Landheim, Lars Lien
Effects of ethnicity on the quality of family planning services in Lima, Peru
Maria Elena Planas, Patricia García, Monserrat Bustelo, Cesar Cárcamo, Sebastian Martinez, Hugo Nopo, Julio Rodriguez, Maria-Fernanda Merino, Andrew Morrison
Assessment of an evaluative tool for nursing college students: the tests for Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)
Montserrat Sola-Pola, Anna M Pulpón-Segura
Early identification of familial hypercholesterolaemia in general practice using patient-specific reminders: focus group with General Practitioners
Jennifer Tranter, Joe Kai, Nadeem Qureshi
Realistic genetic competencies achievable by US primary care providers
Nadeem Qureshi, Kathleen Szegda, Joe Kai
Studying moderators of implementation: analysis from an intervention to reduce disrespect and abuse in facility-based childbirth
Kate Ramsey, Wema Moyo, Selemani Mbuyita, Stephanie Kujawski, Godfrey Mbaruku, Lynn P Freedman
Health care reform in the US: an analysis of implementation of the Affordable Care Act in California
Dylan Roby, Ken Jacobs, Greg Watson, Alla Bronshteyn, Dave Graham-Squire, Michelle Keller
The gap in dementia research: the need for translational research
Martina Roes, Franziska Laporte-Uribe, Quasdorf Tina
Psychosomatic consultation in the workplace: do we reach different users by changing the context?
Eva Rothermund, Reinhold Kilian, Michael Hoelzer, Monika Annemarie Rieger, Harald Guendel
Are group-based parenting programmes in Sweden a cost-effective way of reducing early child behaviour problems?
Filipa Sampaio, Inna Feldman
Effect of 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine on medical expenses in Japan
Kazunari Satomura, Toshitaka Nakahara, Suketaka Iwanaga, Megumi Noami, Keiko Kusaka, Kazuyoshi Harano
Evaluation of an Emergency Department Lean Process Improvement Program to reduce length of stay
Marian Vermeulen, Therese Stukel, Astrid Guttmann, Brian Rowe, Merrick Zwarenstein, Brian Golden, Amit Nigam, Geoff Anderson, Robert Bell, Michael Schull
The inter-relation between policy and practice for transitions from hospital to home: an ethnographic case study in England’s National Health Service
James Shaw, Pia Kontos, Wendy Martin, Christina Victor
Quality indicators for Bariatric Surgery 2004 to 2012: example from Florida
Annie N Simpson, Emily E Johnson, Kit N Simpson
Arogya Kiran model for early detection of diabetes and hypertension: an initiative for the community and by the community in India
Ruchi Sogarwal, Sunil Mehra
Policies and priorities to combat NCD challenges in India
Ruchi Sogarwal, Damodar Bachani
An effective inequity reduction intervention: evaluating what made it work
Sivan Spitzer Shohat, Efrat Shadmi, Margalit Goldfracht, Calanit Kay, Ran D Balicer
How can mental health and substance use services become dual diagnosis capable? Moving from theory into practice
Petra Staiger, Alexandra Howard, Anna C Thomas, Greg Young, Marita McCabe
The staying power of change: sustainability of pain practice improvements after a multidimensional knowledge translation intervention
Bonnie Stevens, Janet Yamada, Sara Promislow
Effectiveness of psychosocial intervention for teenage pregnancy on low birth weight and preterm birth outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Kanokporn Sukhato, Chathaya Wongrathanandha, Pornpoj Horsuwansak, Thunyarat Anothaisintawee
Health insurance for people with citizenship problems in Thailand: a case study of policy implementation within a complex health system
Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Weerasak Putthasri, Phusit Prakongsai, Anne Mills
Health systems modelling – demonstrating the potential impact of diagnostic and treatment integration of human African trypanosomiasis using different health system structures
Claudette S Sutherland, Chris Stone, Fabrizio Tediosi
Evidence-based health human resources planning and medical professionals’ education in Iran
Shima Tabatabai, Seyed Amir Mohsen Ziaee, Nasser Simforoosh
Trends in postgraduate medical education in Iran
Shima Tabatabai, Seyed Amir Mohsen Ziaee
Descriptive analysis of service use covered by long-term care insurance in Japan - based on population-based claims data
Nanako Tamiya, Masayo Kashiwagi, Hideto Takahashi, Haruko Noguchi
Development and pilot testing of a National Men’s Health Index
Chin Hai Teo, Chirk Jenn Ng
Does multi-disciplinary team (MDT)-working variation impact on cancer patient care experience? Results of a cross-sectional survey in Quebec, Canada
Dominique Tremblay, Danièle Roberge, Nassera Touati, Djamal Berbiche
Long-term economic effect of telecare on patients with chronic diseases
Masatsugu Tsuji, Yuji Akematsu
Trainees’ self-reported challenges in knowledge translation practice and research
Robin Urquhart, Evelyn Cornelissen, Shalini Lal, Kristine Newman, Dwayne Van Eerd, Byron Powell, Vivian Chan
Identifying emerging priorities in Knowledge Translation from the perspective of trainees
Kristine Newman, Dwayne Van Eerd, Byron Powell, Robin Urquhart, Evelyn Cornelissen, Vivian Chan, Shalini Lal
How do surgeons make decisions about referral to oncology services?
Robin Urquhart, Cynthia Kendell, Joan Sargeant, Gordon Buduhan, Daniel Rayson, Paul Johnson, Eva Grunfeld, Geoffrey Porter
Facilitating quality improvement in primary healthcare using performance feedback and action planning
Brigitte Vachon, Michel Camirand, Jean Rodrigue, Louise Quesnel, Jeremy Grimshaw
Development of an ecological framework for building successful collaboration between Primary Care and Public Health
Ruta Valaitis, Marjorie MacDonald, Sabrina Wong, Ruth Martin-Misener, Linda O’Mara, Donna Meagher-Stewart
Public accountability practices of district health management teams: a realist inquiry in two local health systems in Ghana
Sara Van Belle, Susannah H Mayhew
Which factors determine the patients’ care intensity for surgeons and surgical nurses? A conjoint analysis
Catharina J van Oostveen, Hester Vermeulen, Els J Nieveen van Dijkum, Dirk J Gouma, Dirk T Ubbink
Nurse staffing issues; just the tip of the iceberg
Catharina J van Oostveen, Elke Mathijssen, Hester Vermeulen
What determines the patients’ demand for hospital care services?
Catharina J van Oostveen, Hester Vermeulen, Piet J Bakker, Dirk J Gouma, Dirk T Ubbink
The role of change agents in achieving quality improvement
Gera Welker, Alice Hobo, Eva Danchell, Jet Van der Weerd, Kees Ahaus
Translation of a gestational diabetes nutrition model of care into practice: results from an implementation project
Shelley Wilkinson, Sally McCray, Michael Beckmann, H David McIntyre
Can we get the benefits of integrated services? An evaluation of the delivery of integrated prenatal HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B testing services in China
Jianhong Xia, Yuanzhu Ma, Shuang Gao, Shannon Rutherford, Xiaozhuang Zhang, Cordia Chu
A framework for knowledge translation linked to a national clinical guidance initiative
Linda Young, Craig Ramsay, Maria Prior, Gillian Forbes, Anna Templeton, Jan Clarkson
Effort-reward imbalance among medical students and physicians
Lucia Jerg-Bretzke, Manuel Fenkl, Harald C Traue, Kerstin Limbrecht-Ecklundt
Comparing income inequalities in healthcare utilization in the low income community in suburban Kuala Lumpur and Malaysia
Nithiah Thangiah, Hazreen Abdul Majid, Tin Tin Su
Mobility of Spanish nurses in a globalized labor market: the impact on health
M Teresa Icart-Isern, Anna M Pulpón-Segura, Carme Icart-Isern
Patients’ experiences with intensive combination treatment strategies for early rheumatoid arthritis: a longitudinal qualitative study embedded in the carera trial
Sabrina Meyfroidt, Kristien Van der Elst, Diederik De Cock, Johan Joly, René Westhovens, Marlies Hulscher, Patrick Verschueren
An exploration of the relative importance of barriers hindering intensive combination treatment strategies in early rheumatoid arthritis
Sabrina Meyfroidt, Marlies Hulscher, Diederik De Cock, Kristien Van der Elst, Johan Joly, René Westhovens, Patrick Verschueren
Using performance-based financing (PBF) to motivate health commodity supply chain improvement at a central medical store in Mozambique
Brian Serumaga, Cary Spisak, James Rosen, Lindsay Morgan, Rena Eichler
Public health approach of clinical trials: Cuban’s experience of research translation into clinical practice
Maria A Pascual, Martha M Fors, Gladys Jiménez, Isabel López, Ania Torres
Scientific meetings within a Benin Teaching Hospital: what type of research is being done? A pilot initiative to identify needs of health services research in a resource-limited country
Alain Azondekon, Tanguy Bognon, Rafiou Lawani, Rodolph Vignon, Marc Fayomi, Albert Gnangnon, Benson Amaechi