Issue 1/2014
Content (45 Articles)
Annual acknowledgement of manuscript reviewers
Bruce Rosen, Avi Israeli
Variables correlated with elderly referral from nursing homes to general hospitals
Shir Wagman, Shmuel Rishpon, Genady Kagan, Jonathan Dubnov, Sonia Habib
Hospitalizations of nursing homes residents: the role of reimbursement policies
Toni Ashton
Making the case for directed organ donation to registered donors in Israel
Gil Siegal
Reducing the cesarean delivery rates for breech presentations: administration of spinal anesthesia facilitates manipulation to cephalic presentation, but is it cost saving?
Carolyn F Weiniger, Paul S Spencer, Yuval Weiss, Gary Ginsberg, Yossef Ezra
Coming out ahead: the cost effectiveness of external cephalic version using spinal anesthesia
James A O’Brien, Eli Y Adashi
Points mean prizes: priority points, preferential status and directed organ donation in Israel
Antonia J Cronin
Israeli nurse practice environment characteristics, retention, and job satisfaction
Freda DeKeyser Ganz, Orly Toren
Performance of aseptic technique during neuraxial analgesia for labor before and after the publication of international guidelines on aseptic technique
Alex Ioscovich, Elyad M Davidson, Sharon Orbach-Zinger, Zvia Rudich, Simon Ivry, Laura J Rosen, Alexander Avidan, Yehuda Ginosar
“The mothers have eaten unripe grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge”: the potential inter-generational effects of the Holocaust on chronic morbidity in Holocaust survivors’ offspring
Lital Keinan-Boker
Minor surgical procedures and musculoskeletal injections by primary care physicians - an Israeli experience
Sasson Menahem, Andrey Nazarenko, Pesach Shvartzman
Role of intervention programs to increase influenza vaccination in Israel
Dan Yamin, Arieh Gavious, Nadav Davidovitch, Joseph S Pliskin
Participation of National Medical Associations in quality improvement activities - International comparison and the Israeli case
Baruch Levi, Malke Borow, Michelle Glekin
Low rate of non-attenders to primary care providers in Israel - a retrospective longitudinal study
Dana Rosen, Sasson Nakar, Arnon D Cohen, Shlomo Vinker
How can medical schools contribute to bringing about health equity?
Mary CJ Rudolf, Shmuel Reis, Trevor J Gibbs, Deborah Murdoch Eaton, David Stone, Michael Grady, Anita Berlin, Mitch Blair, Jumanah Essa-Hadad, Sivan Spitzer-Shohat, Michael Weingarten
The shaping of pharmaceutical governance: the Israeli case
Philip Sax
Intervention programs to increase influenza vaccination in Israel: which is the preferred one?
Itamar Grotto, Rami Grefat
The evolving role of physician organizations in quality related activities
L Gregory Pawlson
Coping strategies for existencial and spiritual suffering in Israeli patients with advanced cancer
Netta Bentur, Daphna Yaira Stark, Shirli Resnizky, Zvi Symon
The case for establishing a Holocaust survivors cohort in Israel
Caroline HD Fall, Kalyanaraman Kumaran
Governing the allocation of scarce resources: is health care no longer a special case?
David Chinitz
Transitions from hospital to community care: the role of patient–provider language concordance
Nosaiba Rayan, Hanna Admi, Efrat Shadmi
The role of medical schools in promoting social accountability through shared decision-making
Orit Karnieli-Miller, Yaara Zisman-Ilani, Dafna Meitar, Yoseph Mekori
Work practices and the provision of mental-health care on the verge of reform: a national survey of Israeli psychiatrists and psychologists
Nurit Nirel, Hadar Samuel
Structured nursing follow-up: does it help in diabetes care?
Michal Shani, Sasson Nakar, Alex Lustman, Amnon Lahad, Shlomo Vinker
Multiple chronic disorders - health care system’s modern challenge in the Maccabi Health Care System
Jonathan E Arbelle, Gabriel Chodick, Alex Goldstein, Avi Porath
The burden of smoking in Israel–attributable mortality and costs (2014)
Gary M Ginsberg, Haim Geva
Spiritual care in Israel: the future is now
Barry M Kinzbrunner, Bryan D Kinzbrunner
Addressing language barriers and improving quality of transitions and discharge
Aswita Tan-McGrory, Joseph Betancourt
Retrospective study of the incidence of unstable and shock patients presenting to the emergency room
Sody A Naimer, Moshe Y Prero, Tamar Freud, Carmi Bartal
Reducing the burden of tobacco: what’s the endgame?
Michael Chaiton, Robert Schwartz
Extending the boundaries of family medicine to perform manual procedures
Haim Bitterman, Shlomo Vinker
The Israeli National Committee for sex selection by pre-implantation genetic diagnosis: a novel approach (2005–2011)
Nirit Pessach, Saralee Glasser, Varda Soskolne, Amihai Barash, Liat Lerner-Geva
Maximizing the potential of psychology for the Israeli mental health reform
Jonathan D Huppert
The impact of preventive health behaviour and social factors on visits to the doctor
Gregory Yom Din, Zinaida Zugman, Alla Khashper
Examining professional boundaries between nurses and physicians in neonatal intensive care units
Orly Toren, Nurit Nirel, Yehuda Tsur, Michal Lipschuetz, Asaf Toker
The contribution of comprehensive geriatric assessment to primary care physicians
Shelley A Sternberg, Netta Bentur
Income-related inequalities in health and health services use in Israel
Amir Shmueli
Characteristics of individuals not visiting their primary care provider
Asaf Bitton, Sagar B Dugani