Issue 1/2012
Content (486 Articles)
Does GP training in depression care affect patient outcome? - A systematic review and meta-analysis
Claudia Sikorski, Melanie Luppa, Hans-Helmut König, Hendrik van den Bussche, Steffi G Riedel-Heller
The burden of knowing: balancing benefits and barriers in HIV testing decisions. a qualitative study from Zambia
Marte Jürgensen, Mary Tuba, Knut Fylkesnes, Astrid Blystad
Involving patients in HTA activities at local level: a study protocol based on the collaboration between researchers and knowledge users
Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Johanne Gagnon, Michèle St-Pierre, François-Pierre Gauvin, Florence Piron, Marc Rhainds, Martin Coulombe, Dolores Lepage-Savary, Marie Desmartis, Mylène Tantchou Dipankui, France Légaré
Primary health care staff's perceptions of childhood tuberculosis: a qualitative study from Tanzania
Stephanie Bjerrum, Michala V Rose, Ib C Bygbjerg, Sayoki G Mfinanga, Britt P Tersboel, Pernille Ravn
Parent-reported health care expenditures associated with autism spectrum disorders in Heilongjiang province, China
Jia Wang, Xue Zhou, Wei Xia, Cai-Hong Sun, Li-Jie Wu, Jian-Li Wang, Akemi Tomoda
Treating childhood pneumonia in hard-to-reach areas: A model-based comparison of mobile clinics and community-based care
Catherine Pitt, Bayard Roberts, Francesco Checchi
Quasi-experimental trial of diabetes Self-Management Automated and Real-Time Telephonic Support (SMARTSteps) in a Medicaid managed care plan: study protocol
Neda Ratanawongsa, Margaret A Handley, Judy Quan, Urmimala Sarkar, Kelly Pfeifer, Catalina Soria, Dean Schillinger
Socio-economic variation in CT scanning in Northern England, 1990-2002
Mark S Pearce, Jane A Salotti, Kieran McHugh, Kwang Pyo Kim, Alan W Craft, Jay Lubin, Elaine Ron, Louise Parker
P.Re.Val.E.: outcome research program for the evaluation of health care quality in Lazio, Italy
Danilo Fusco, Anna P Barone, Chiara Sorge, Mariangela D'Ovidio, Massimo Stafoggia, Adele Lallo, Marina Davoli, Carlo A Perucci
Outcomes associated with matching patients' treatment preferences to physicians' recommendations: study methodology
Nasir Umar, David Litaker, Marthe-Lisa Schaarschmidt, Wiebke K Peitsch, Astrid Schmieder, Darcey D Terris
Listening to health workers: lessons from Eastern Uganda for strengthening the programme for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV
Joseph Rujumba, James K Tumwine, Thorkild Tylleskär, Stella Neema, Harald K Heggenhougen
Handover patterns: an observational study of critical care physicians
Roy Ilan, Curtis D LeBaron, Marlys K Christianson, Daren K Heyland, Andrew Day, Michael D Cohen
Ethnic diversity outpatient clinic in paediatrics
Nordin Dahhan, Dominique Meijssen, Malika Chegary, Diederik Bosman, Bart Wolf
Effect of genetic testing for risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus on health behaviors and outcomes: study rationale, development and design
Alex H Cho, Ley A Killeya-Jones, Julianne M O'Daniel, Kensaku Kawamoto, Patrick Gallagher, Susanne Haga, Joseph E Lucas, Gloria M Trujillo, Scott V Joy, Geoffrey S Ginsburg
Validation of key behaviourally based mental health diagnoses in administrative data: suicide attempt, alcohol abuse, illicit drug abuse and tobacco use
Hyungjin Myra Kim, Eric G Smith, Claire M Stano, Dara Ganoczy, Kara Zivin, Heather Walters, Marcia Valenstein
Summarizing activity limitations in children with chronic illnesses living in the community: a measurement study of scales using supplemented interRAI items
Charles D Phillips, Ashweeta Patnaik, Darcy K Moudouni, Emily Naiser, James A Dyer, Catherine Hawes, Constance J Fournier, Thomas R Miller, Timothy R Elliott
Assessment of nursing home residents in Europe: the Services and Health for Elderly in Long TERm care (SHELTER) study
Graziano Onder, Iain Carpenter, Harriet Finne-Soveri, Jacob Gindin, Dinnus Frijters, Jean Claude Henrard, Thorsten Nikolaus, Eva Topinkova, Matteo Tosato, Rosa Liperoti, Francesco Landi, Roberto Bernabei
Timing of surgery for hip fracture and in-hospital mortality: a retrospective population-based cohort study in the Spanish National Health System
Julián Librero, Salvador Peiró, Edith Leutscher, Juan Merlo, Enrique Bernal-Delgado, Manuel Ridao, Natalia Martínez-Lizaga, Gabriel Sanfélix-Gimeno
Informal payments and intra-household allocation of resources for health care in Albania
Sonila Tomini, Wim Groot, Milena Pavlova
Use of global coronary heart disease risk assessment in practice: a cross-sectional survey of a sample of U.S. physicians
Benjamin Shillinglaw, Anthony J Viera, Teresa Edwards, Ross Simpson, Stacey L Sheridan
Screening mammography beliefs and recommendations: a web-based survey of primary care physicians
Shagufta Yasmeen, Patrick S Romano, Daniel J Tancredi, Naomi H Saito, Julie Rainwater, Richard L Kravitz
An assessment of the accuracy and availability of data in electronic patient tracking systems for patients receiving HIV treatment in central Mozambique
Barrot H Lambdin, Mark A Micek, Thomas D Koepsell, James P Hughes, Kenneth Sherr, James Pfeiffer, Marina Karagianis, Joseph Lara, Stephen S Gloyd, Andy Stergachis
Measuring the value of older people's production: a diary study
Klas-Göran Sahlen, Curt Löfgren, Håkan Brodin, Lars Dahlgren, Lars Lindholm
How does lean work in emergency care? A case study of a lean-inspired intervention at the Astrid Lindgren Children's hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Pamela Mazzocato, Richard J Holden, Mats Brommels, Håkan Aronsson, Ulrika Bäckman, Mattias Elg, Johan Thor
Is the health of people living in rural areas different from those in cities? Evidence from routine data linked with the Scottish Health Survey
P Teckle, P Hannaford, M Sutton
Patients' experiences of the quality of long-term care among the elderly: comparing scores over time
Marloes Zuidgeest, Diana MJ Delnoij, Katrien G Luijkx, Dolf de Boer, Gert P Westert
Validation of the disease burden morbidity assessment by self-report in a French-speaking population
Marie-Eve Poitras, Martin Fortin, Catherine Hudon, Jeannie Haggerty, José Almirall
Willingness to use and pay for options of care for community-dwelling older people in rural Vietnam
Le Van Hoi, Nguyen Thi Kim Tien, Nguyen Van Tien, Dao Van Dung, Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc, Klas Goran Sahlen, Lars Lindholm
Factors associated with antenatal care adequacy in rural and urban contexts-results from two health and demographic surveillance sites in Vietnam
Toan K Tran, Karin Gottvall, Hinh D Nguyen, Henry Ascher, Max Petzold
Nurse staffing, direct nursing care hours and patient mortality in Taiwan: the longitudinal analysis of hospital nurse staffing and patient outcome study
Yia-Wun Liang, Wen-Yi Chen, Jwo-Leun Lee, Li-Chi Huang
Determinants of access to experimental antiretroviral drugs in an Italian cohort of patients with HIV: a multilevel analysis
Enrico Girardi, Paola Scognamiglio, Claudio Angeletti, Andrea Gori, Dora Buonfrate, Massimo Arlotti, Giovanni Mazzarello, Antonella Castagna, Massimo Andreoni, Antonella d'Arminio Monforte, Andrea Antinori, Giuseppe Ippolito
Paediatric CT scan usage and referrals of children to computed tomography in Germany-a cross-sectional survey of medical practice and awareness of radiation related health risks among physicians
Hiltrud Merzenich, Lucian Krille, Gael Hammer, Melanie Kaiser, Shunichi Yamashita, Hajo Zeeb
Service quality of private hospitals: The Iranian Patients' perspective
Asghar Zarei, Mohammad Arab, Abbas Rahimi Froushani, Arash Rashidian, S Mahmoud Ghazi Tabatabaei
Personal factors influence use of cervical cancer screening services: epidemiological survey and linked administrative data address the limitations of previous research
Sarah C Olesen, Peter Butterworth, Patricia Jacomb, Robert J Tait
Implementing performance improvement in New Zealand emergency departments: the six hour time target policy national research project protocol
Peter Jones, Linda Chalmers, Susan Wells, Shanthi Ameratunga, Peter Carswell, Toni Ashton, Elana Curtis, Papaarangi Reid, Joanna Stewart, Alana Harper, Tim Tenbensel
Outpatient costs in pharmaceutically treated diabetes patients with and without a diagnosis of depression in a Dutch primary care setting
Judith E Bosmans, Marcel C Adriaanse
Key informant perspectives on policy- and service-level challenges and opportunities for delivering integrated sexual and reproductive health and HIV care in South Africa
Jennifer A Smit, Kathryn Church, Cecilia Milford, Abigail D Harrison, Mags E Beksinska
Development of a nurse home visitation intervention for intimate partner violence
Susan M Jack, Marilyn Ford-Gilboe, C Nadine Wathen, Danielle M Davidov, Diane B McNaughton, Jeffrey H Coben, David L Olds, Harriet L MacMillan
Pan-Britain, mixed-methods study of multidisciplinary teams teaching parents to manage children's long-term kidney conditions at home: Study protocol
Veronica M Swallow, Davina Allen, Julian Williams, Trish Smith, Jean Crosier, Heather Lambert, Leila Qizalbash, Lucy Wirz, Nicholas JA Webb
Health care priority setting in Norway a multicriteria decision analysis
Thierry Defechereux, Francesco Paolucci, Andrew Mirelman, Sitaporn Youngkong, Grete Botten, Terje P Hagen, Louis W Niessen
The development of a lay health worker delivered collaborative community based intervention for people with schizophrenia in India
Madhumitha Balaji, Sudipto Chatterjee, Mirja Koschorke, Thara Rangaswamy, Animish Chavan, Hamid Dabholkar, Lilly Dakshin, Pratheesh Kumar, Sujit John, Graham Thornicroft, Vikram Patel
Hardship financing of healthcare among rural poor in Orissa, India
Erika Binnendijk, Ruth Koren, David M Dror
Determinants for participation in a public health insurance program among residents of urban slums in Nairobi, Kenya: results from a cross-sectional survey
James K Kimani, Remare Ettarh, Catherine Kyobutungi, Blessing Mberu, Kanyiva Muindi
A qualitative study of stakeholder views of the conditions for and outcomes of successful clinical networks
Elizabeth McInnes, Sandy Middleton, Glenn Gardner, Mary Haines, Maggie Haertsch, Christine L Paul, Peter Castaldi
The effects of a regional telepathology project: a study protocol
Marie-Claude Trudel, Guy Paré, Bernard Têtu, Claude Sicotte
Beyond price: individuals' accounts of deciding to pay for private healthcare treatment in the UK
Catherine Exley, Nikki Rousseau, Cam Donaldson, Jimmy G Steele
Engaging HIV-HCV co-infected patients in HCV treatment: the roles played by the prescribing physician and patients' beliefs (ANRS CO13 HEPAVIH cohort, France)
Dominique Salmon-Ceron, Julien Cohen, Maria Winnock, Perrine Roux, Firouze Bani Sadr, Eric Rosenthal, Isabelle Poizot Martin, Marc-Arthur Loko, Marion Mora, Philippe Sogni, Bruno Spire, François Dabis, Maria Patrizia Carrieri
Dutch healthcare reform: did it result in better patient experiences in hospitals? a comparison of the consumer quality index over time
David E Ikkersheim, Xander Koolman
Predictors of dropout in the German disease management program for type 2 diabetes
Birgit Fullerton, Antje Erler, Boris Pöhlmann, Ferdinand M Gerlach
Determinants of condom uptake among HIV voluntary counselling and testing clients: experiences from a hospital-based study in south India
Rebecca Myerson, Susanna M Makela, C Chandrasekhar, Siju Mathew, Sourabh Chakraborty
Consenting to health record linkage: evidence from a multi-purpose longitudinal survey of a general population
Gundi Knies, Jonathan Burton, Emanuela Sala
Assessment of providers' referral decisions in Rural Burkina Faso: a retrospective analysis of medical records
Tegawende Pierre Ilboudo, Yiing-Jenq Chou, Nicole Huang
"Workhood"-a useful concept for the analysis of health workers' resources? an evaluation from Tanzania
Karin Gross, Constanze Pfeiffer, Brigit Obrist
Evaluation of primary care midwifery in the Netherlands: design and rationale of a dynamic cohort study (DELIVER)
Judith Manniën, Trudy Klomp, Therese Wiegers, Monique Pereboom, Johannes Brug, Ank de Jonge, Margreeth van der Meijde, Eileen Hutton, Francois Schellevis, Evelien Spelten
Factors predicting hospital length-of-stay and readmission after colorectal resection: a population-based study of elective and emergency admissions
Maria Kelly, Linda Sharp, Fiona Dwane, Tracy Kelleher, Harry Comber
Weekend admission to hospital has a higher risk of death in the elective setting than in the emergency setting: a retrospective database study of national health service hospitals in England
Mohammed A Mohammed, Khesh S Sidhu, Gavin Rudge, Andrew J Stevens
How do small rural primary health care services sustain themselves in a constantly changing health system environment?
Penny Buykx, John S Humphreys, Rachel Tham, Leigh Kinsman, John Wakerman, Adel Asaid, Kathy Tuohey
MRSA model of learning and adaptation: a qualitative study among the general public
Rodney E Rohde, Jovita Ross-Gordon
The impact of change in a doctor's job position: a five-year cohort study of job satisfaction among Norwegian doctors
Ingunn Bjarnadottir Solberg, Karin Isaksson Rø, Olaf Aasland, Tore Gude, Torbjørn Moum, Per Vaglum, Reidar Tyssen
An exploration of the enablers and barriers in access to the Dutch healthcare system among Ghanaians in Amsterdam
Linda Boateng, Mary Nicolaou, Henriëtte Dijkshoorn, Karien Stronks, Charles Agyemang
The influence of age, gender and socio-economic status on multimorbidity patterns in primary care. first results from the multicare cohort study
Ingmar Schäfer, Heike Hansen, Gerhard Schön, Susanne Höfels, Attila Altiner, Anne Dahlhaus, Jochen Gensichen, Steffi Riedel-Heller, Siegfried Weyerer, Wolfgang A Blank, Hans-Helmut König, Olaf von dem Knesebeck, Karl Wegscheider, Martin Scherer, Hendrik van den Bussche, Birgitt Wiese
Factors influencing integration of TB services in general hospitals in two regions of China: a qualitative study
Guanyang Zou, Xiaolin Wei, John D Walley, Jia Yin, Qiang Sun
Care management for Type 2 diabetes in the United States: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Jason S Egginton, Jennifer L Ridgeway, Nilay D Shah, Saranya Balasubramaniam, Joann R Emmanuel, Larry J Prokop, Victor M Montori, Mohammad Hassan Murad
Evaluation of physicians' professional performance: An iterative development and validation study of multisource feedback instruments
Karlijn Overeem, Hub C Wollersheim, Onyebuchi A Arah, Juliette K Cruijsberg, Richard PTM Grol, Kiki MJMH Lombarts
"This does my head in". Ethnographic study of self-management by people with diabetes
Susan Hinder, Trisha Greenhalgh
Population health status of South Asian and African-Caribbean communities in the United Kingdom
Melanie Calvert, Helen Duffy, Nick Freemantle, Russell Davis, Gregory YH Lip, Paramjit Gill
The effects of oral clefts on hospital use throughout the lifespan
George L Wehby, Dorthe Almind Pedersen, Jeffrey C Murray, Kaare Christensen
Utilization of antenatal ultrasound scan and implications for caesarean section: a cross-sectional study in rural Eastern China
Kun Huang, Fangbiao Tao, Joanna Raven, Liu Liu, Xiaoyan Wu, Shenglan Tang
Care seeking behaviour and barriers to accessing services for sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers in Laos: a cross-sectional study
Ketkesone Phrasisombath, Sarah Thomsen, Vanphanom Sychareun, Elisabeth Faxelid
How much can we gain from improved efficiency? An examination of performance of national HIV/AIDS programs and its determinants in low- and middle-income countries
Wu Zeng, Donald S Shepard, Jon Chilingerian, Carlos Avila-Figueroa
Cost-effectiveness analysis of neonatal hearing screening program in china: should universal screening be prioritized?
Li-Hui Huang, Luo Zhang, Ruo-Yan Gai Tobe, Fang-Hua Qi, Long Sun, Yue Teng, Qing-Lin Ke, Fei Mai, Xue-Feng Zhang, Mei Zhang, Ru-Lan Yang, Lin Tu, Hong-Hui Li, Yan-Qing Gu, Sai-Nan Xu, Xiao-Yan Yue, Xiao-Dong Li, Bei-Er Qi, Xiao-Huan Cheng, Wei Tang, Ling-Zhong Xu, De-Min Han
Effectiveness of a multidisciplinary care program on recovery and return to work of patients after gynaecological surgery; design of a randomized controlled trial
Antonie Vonk Noordegraaf, Judith AF Huirne, Hans AM Brölmann, Mark H Emanuel, Paul JM van Kesteren, Gunilla Kleiverda, Jos P Lips, Alexander Mozes, Andreas L Thurkow, Willem van Mechelen, Johannes R Anema
Adoption of new drugs by physicians: a survival analysis
Francisco Javier Garjón, Ana Azparren, Iván Vergara, Borja Azaola, Jose Ramón Loayssa
Policy and programmatic implications of task shifting in Uganda: a case study
Yoswa M Dambisya, Sheillah Matinhure
Does an activity based remuneration system attract young doctors to general practice?
Birgit Abelsen, Jan Abel Olsen
The National Adult Inpatient Survey conducted in the English National Health Service from 2002 to 2009: how have the data been used and what do we know as a result?
Anna DeCourcy, Elizabeth West, David Barron
The barriers and facilitators to routine outcome measurement by allied health professionals in practice: a systematic review
Edward AS Duncan, Jennifer Murray
The association between socioeconomic status and traditional chinese medicine use among children in Taiwan
Chun-Chuan Shih, Chien-Chang Liao, Yi-Chang Su, Tsu F Yeh, Jaung-Geng Lin
Use of outpatient care in VA and Medicare among disability-eligible and age-eligible veteran patients
Chuan-Fen Liu, Chris L Bryson, James F Burgess Jr, Nancy Sharp, Mark Perkins, Matthew L Maciejewski
Integrating a health-related-quality-of-life module within electronic health records: a comparative case study assessing value added
Christopher M Shea, Jacqueline R Halladay, David Reed, Timothy P Daaleman
Comprehensive geriatric assessment, multifactorial interventions and nurse-led care coordination to prevent functional decline in community-dwelling older persons: protocol of a cluster randomized trial
Jacqueline J Suijker, Bianca M Buurman, Gerben ter Riet, Marjon van Rijn, Rob J de Haan, Sophia E de Rooij, Eric P Moll van Charante
A four-year, systems-wide intervention promoting interprofessional collaboration
Jeffrey Braithwaite, Mary Westbrook, Peter Nugus, David Greenfield, Joanne Travaglia, William Runciman, A Ruth Foxwell, Rosalie A Boyce, Timothy Devinney, Johanna Westbrook
Health service use in families where children enter public care: a nested case control study using the General Practice Research Database
Douglas E Simkiss, Nicholas J Spencer, Nigel Stallard, Margaret Thorogood
Evaluation of drug administration errors in a teaching hospital
Sarah Berdot, Brigitte Sabatier, Florence Gillaizeau, Thibaut Caruba, Patrice Prognon, Pierre Durieux
Protocol for a randomised controlled trial examining the impact of a web-based personally controlled health management system on the uptake of influenza vaccination rates
Annie YS Lau, Vitali Sintchenko, Jacinta Crimmins, Farah Magrabi, Blanca Gallego, Enrico Coiera
A survey tool for measuring evidence-based decision making capacity in public health agencies
Julie A Jacobs, Paula F Clayton, Cassandra Dove, Tanya Funchess, Ellen Jones, Ghazala Perveen, Brandon Skidmore, Victor Sutton, Sarah Worthington, Elizabeth A Baker, Anjali D Deshpande, Ross C Brownson
Discrepancies between the medical record and the reports of patients with acute coronary syndrome regarding important aspects of the medical history
Chete Eze-Nliam, Kellie Cain, Kasey Bond, Keith Forlenza, Rachel Jankowski, Gina Magyar-Russell, Gayane Yenokyan, Roy C Ziegelstein
The contribution of staff call light response time to fall and injurious fall rates: an exploratory study in four US hospitals using archived hospital data
Huey-Ming Tzeng, Marita G Titler, David L Ronis, Chang-Yi Yin
Why do health workers in rural Tanzania prefer public sector employment?
Nils Gunnar Songstad, Karen Marie Moland, Deodatus Amadeus Massay, Astrid Blystad
Incentive payments are not related to expected health gain in the pay for performance scheme for UK primary care: cross-sectional analysis
Robert Fleetcroft, Nicholas Steel, Richard Cookson, Simon Walker, Amanda Howe
Integrating evidence into policy and sustainable disability services delivery in western New South Wales, Australia: the 'wobbly hub and double spokes' project
Craig Veitch, Michelle Lincoln, Anita Bundy, Gisselle Gallego, Angela Dew, Kim Bulkeley, Jennie Brentnall, Scott Griffiths
Variations in hospital standardised mortality ratios (HSMR) as a result of frequent readmissions
Wim F van den Bosch, Peter Spreeuwenberg, Cordula Wagner
Resource utilization and costs before and after total joint arthroplasty
Kevin J Bozic, Brett Stacey, Ariel Berger, Alesia Sadosky, Gerry Oster
Unintentional non-adherence to chronic prescription medications: How unintentional is it really?
Abhijit S Gadkari, Colleen A McHorney
Outcomes of prolonged mechanic ventilation: a discrimination model based on longitudinal health insurance and death certificate data
Hsin-Ming Lu, Likwang Chen, Jung-Der Wang, Mei-Chuan Hung, Ming-Shian Lin, Yuan-Horng Yan, Cheng-Ren Chen, Po-Sheng Fan, Lynn Chu Huang, Ken N Kuo
The influence of power dynamics and trust on multidisciplinary collaboration: a qualitative case study of type 2 diabetes mellitus
Julie McDonald, Rohan Jayasuriya, Mark Fort Harris
Clinicians' adherence versus non adherence to practice guidelines in the management of patients with sarcoma: a cost-effectiveness assessment in two European regions
Lionel Perrier, Alessandra Buja, Giuseppe Mastrangelo, Antonella Vecchiato, Paolo Sandonà, Françoise Ducimetière, Jean-Yves Blay, François Noël Gilly, Carole Siani, Pierre Biron, Dominique Ranchère-Vince, Anne-Valérie Decouvelaere, Philippe Thiesse, Christophe Bergeron, Angelo Paolo Dei Tos, Jean-Michel Coindre, Carlo Riccardo Rossi, Isabelle Ray-Coquard
A cohort study of the recovery of health and wellbeing following colorectal cancer (CREW study): protocol paper
Deborah Fenlon, Alison Richardson, Julia Addington-Hall, Peter Smith, Jessica Corner, Jane Winter, Claire Foster
Predicting the demand of physician workforce: an international model based on "crowd behaviors"
Tsuen-Chiuan Tsai, Misha Eliasziw, Der-Fang Chen
Is telemonitoring an option against shortage of physicians in rural regions? attitude towards telemedical devices in the North Rhine-Westphalian health survey, Germany
Claudia Terschüren, Monika Mensing, Odile CL Mekel
Explaining regional variations in health care utilization between Swiss cantons using panel econometric models
Paul A Camenzind
Assessing barriers to health insurance and threats to equity in comparative perspective: The Health Insurance Access Database
Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, Emilie Renahy, Tania Jenkins, Helen Cerigo
“I know it’s bad for me and yet I do it”: exploring the factors that perpetuate smoking in Aboriginal Health Workers - a qualitative study
Anna P Dawson, Margaret Cargo, Harold Stewart, Alwin Chong, Mark Daniel
An assessment of the Zimbabwe ministry of health and child welfare provider initiated HIV testing and counselling programme
Euphemia L Sibanda, Karin Hatzold, Owen Mugurungi, Getrude Ncube, Beatrice Dupwa, Pester Siraha, Lydia K Madyira, Alexio Mangwiro, Gaurav Bhattacharya, Frances M Cowan
Acceptability – a neglected dimension of access to health care: findings from a study on childhood convulsions in rural Tanzania
Angel Dillip, Sandra Alba, Christopher Mshana, Manuel W Hetzel, Christian Lengeler, Iddy Mayumana, Alexander Schulze, Hassan Mshinda, Mitchell G Weiss, Brigit Obrist
What is preventable harm in healthcare? A systematic review of definitions
Mohammed Nabhan, Tarig Elraiyah, Daniel R Brown, James Dilling, Annie LeBlanc, Victor M Montori, Timothy Morgenthaler, James Naessens, Larry Prokop, Veronique Roger, Stephen Swensen, Rodney L Thompson, M Hassan Murad
Variation in cancer surgical outcomes associated with physician and nurse staffing: a retrospective observational study using the Japanese Diagnosis Procedure Combination Database
Hideo Yasunaga, Hideki Hashimoto, Hiromasa Horiguchi, Hiroaki Miyata, Shinya Matsuda
Strategic approaches to enhanced health service delivery for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with chronic illness: a qualitative study
Clive Aspin, Ngiare Brown, Tanisha Jowsey, Laurann Yen, Stephen Leeder
Failure mode and effects analysis outputs: are they valid?
Nada Atef Shebl, Bryony Dean Franklin, Nick Barber
Which factors decided general practitioners’ choice of hospital on behalf of their patients in an area with free choice of public hospital? A questionnaire study
Hans O Birk, Lars O Henriksen
Comparing Dutch Case management care models for people with dementia and their caregivers: The design of the COMPAS study
Janet MacNeil Vroomen, Lisa D Van Mierlo, Peter M van de Ven, Judith E Bosmans, Pim van den Dungen, Franka J M Meiland, Rose-Marie Dröes, Eric P Moll van Charante, Henriëtte E van der Horst, Sophia E de Rooij, Hein P J van Hout
Brain Gains: a literature review of medical missions to low and middle-income countries
Alexandra LC Martiniuk, Mitra Manouchehrian, Joel A Negin, Anthony B Zwi
Changes to the financial responsibility for juvenile court ordered psychiatric evaluations reduce inpatient services utilization: an interrupted time series study
Richard A Epstein, Jeff Feix, Patrick G Arbogast, Stephen H Beckjord, William V Bobo
Frequency, duration and predictors of bronchiolitis episodes of care among infants ≥32 weeks gestation in a large integrated healthcare system: a retrospective cohort study
Valerie J Flaherman, Arona I Ragins, Sherian Xu Li, Patricia Kipnis, Anthony Masaquel, Gabriel J Escobar
The social process of escalation: a promising focus for crisis management research
Johan Bergström, Sidney Dekker, James M Nyce, Isis Amer-Wåhlin
Migrating from user fees to social health insurance: exploring the prospects and challenges for hospital management
Roger A Atinga, Sylvester A Mensah, Francis Asenso-Boadi, Francis-Xavier Andoh Adjei
Experiences of dental care: what do patients value?
Alexandra Sbaraini, Stacy M Carter, R Wendell Evans, Anthony Blinkhorn
Standardizing admission and discharge processes to improve patient flow: A cross sectional study
Berta Ortiga, Albert Salazar, Albert Jovell, Joan Escarrabill, Guillem Marca, Xavier Corbella
Factors affecting collaboration between general practitioners and community pharmacists: a qualitative study
Maria Rubio-Valera, Anna Maria Jové, Carmel M Hughes, Mireia Guillen-Solà, Marta Rovira, Ana Fernández
Everyday practices at the medical ward: a 16-month ethnographic field study
Axel Wolf, Inger Ekman, Lisen Dellenborg
A simple diabetes vascular severity staging instrument and its application to a Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal adult cohort of north Australia
Odette R Gibson, Leonie Segal, Robyn A McDermott
Empiric antibiotic, mechanical ventilation, and central venous catheter duration as potential factors mediating the effect of a checklist prompting intervention on mortality: an exploratory analysis
Curtis H Weiss, Stephen D Persell, Richard G Wunderink, David W Baker
Does Government subsidy for costs of medical and pharmaceutical services result in higher service utilization by older widowed women in Australia?
Leigh R Tooth, Richard Hockey, Susan Treloar, Christine McClintock, Annette Dobson
Ethnic differences in the use of intrapartum epidural analgesia
Alberto Jiménez-Puente, Nicolás Benítez-Parejo, Jorge Del Diego-Salas, Francisco Rivas-Ruiz, Claudio Maañón-Di Leo
Implementation of ICD-10 in Canada: how has it impacted coded hospital discharge data?
Robin L Walker, Deirdre A Hennessy, Helen Johansen, Christie Sambell, Lisa Lix, Hude Quan
Improving data quality and supervision of antiretroviral therapy sites in Malawi: an application of Lot Quality Assurance Sampling
Bethany L Hedt-Gauthier, Lyson Tenthani, Shira Mitchell, Frank M Chimbwandira, Simon Makombe, Zengani Chirwa, Erik J Schouten, Marcello Pagano, Andreas Jahn
Framing the decision to contract out elderly care and primary health care services – perspectives of local level politicians and civil servants in Finland
Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen, Juhani Lehto, Sari Miettinen
Community based study to compare the incidence and health services utilization pyramid for gastrointestinal, respiratory and dermal symptoms
Nusrat Najnin, Martha Sinclair, Andrew Forbes, Karin Leder
Hospital costs of nosocomial multi-drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa acquisition
Eva Morales, Francesc Cots, Maria Sala, Mercè Comas, Francesc Belvis, Marta Riu, Margarita Salvadó, Santiago Grau, Juan P Horcajada, Maria Milagro Montero, Xavier Castells
The health services burden of heart failure: an analysis using linked population health data-sets
Jane Robertson, Patrick McElduff, Sallie-Anne Pearson, David A Henry, Kerry J Inder, John R Attia
Comparison of pharmacy-based measures of medication adherence
William M Vollmer, Maochao Xu, Adrianne Feldstein, David Smith, Amy Waterbury, Cynthia Rand
What is case management in palliative care? An expert panel study
Annicka G M van der Plas, Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Marlies van de Watering, Wim J J Jansen, Kris C Vissers, Luc Deliens
Exploring barriers to participation and adoption of telehealth and telecare within the Whole System Demonstrator trial: a qualitative study
Caroline Sanders, Anne Rogers, Robert Bowen, Peter Bower, Shashivadan Hirani, Martin Cartwright, Ray Fitzpatrick, Martin Knapp, James Barlow, Jane Hendy, Theti Chrysanthaki, Martin Bardsley, Stanton P Newman
An emigration versus a globalization perspective of the Lebanese physician workforce: a qualitative study
Elie A Akl, Nancy Maroun, Aline Rahbany, Amy Hagopian
The diagnostic yield of the first episode of a periodic health evaluation: a descriptive epidemiology study
Cindy A Kermott, Carol S Kuhle, Stephanie S Faubion, Ruth E Johnson, Donald D Hensrud, Mohammad Hassan Murad
Medication reconciliation at hospital admission and discharge: insufficient knowledge, unclear task reallocation and lack of collaboration as major barriers to medication safety
Nelleke van Sluisveld, Marieke Zegers, Stephanie Natsch, Hub Wollersheim
Development of a community-based model for respiratory care services
Emily J Henderson, Greg P Rubin
Effectiveness of interventions for hypertension care in the community – a meta-analysis of controlled studies in China
Zuxun Lu, Shiyi Cao, Yun Chai, Yuan Liang, Max Bachmann, Marc Suhrcke, Fujian Song
Impact of data source and time reference of functional status on hospital mortality prediction
Woan Shin Tan, Yew Yoong Ding, Wai Fung Chong, Jam Chin Tay, Jackie Yu-Ling Tan
Group based diabetes self-management education compared to routine treatment for people with type 2 diabetes mellitus. A systematic review with meta-analysis
Aslak Steinsbekk, LisbethØ Rygg, Monde Lisulo, Marit B Rise, Atle Fretheim
Triumph of hope over experience: learning from interventions to reduce avoidable hospital admissions identified through an Academic Health and Social Care Network
Victoria Woodhams, Simon de Lusignan, Shakeel Mughal, Graham Head, Safia Debar, Terry Desombre, Sean Hilton, Houda Al Sharifi
Factors associated with the utilization and costs of health and social services in frail elderly patients
Sari Kehusmaa, Ilona Autti-Rämö, Hans Helenius, Katariina Hinkka, Maria Valaste, Pekka Rissanen
An overiew of non medical prescribing across one strategic health authority: a questionnaire survey
Molly Courtenay, Nicola Carey, Karen Stenner
Unfulfilled expectations to services offered at primary health care facilities: Experiences of caretakers of underfive children in rural Tanzania
Catherine Kahabuka, Karen Marie Moland, Gunnar Kvåle, Sven Gudmund Hinderaker
Do physician communication skills influence screening mammography utilization?
Ari-Nareg Meguerditchian, Dale Dauphinee, Nadyne Girard, Tewodros Eguale, Kristen Riedel, André Jacques, Sarkis Meterissian, David L Buckeridge, Michal Abrahamowicz, Robyn Tamblyn
Impact of alternative reimbursement strategies in the new cooperative medical scheme on caesarean delivery rates: a mixed-method study in rural China
Kun Huang, Fangbiao Tao, Lennart Bogg, Shenglan Tang
Predictors of primary care referrals to a vascular disease prevention lifestyle program among participants in a cluster randomised trial
Megan E Passey, Rachel A Laws, Upali W Jayasinghe, Mahnaz Fanaian, Suzanne McKenzie, Gawaine Powell-Davies, David Lyle, Mark F Harris
Accessing maternal and child health services in Melbourne, Australia: Reflections from refugee families and service providers
Elisha Riggs, Elise Davis, Lisa Gibbs, Karen Block, Jo Szwarc, Sue Casey, Philippa Duell-Piening, Elizabeth Waters
Acute care inpatients with long-term delayed-discharge: evidence from a Canadian health region
Andrew P Costa, Jeffrey W Poss, Thomas Peirce, John P Hirdes
Networking between community health programs: a case study outlining the effectiveness, barriers and enablers
Nathan J Grills, Priscilla Robinson, Maneesh Phillip
Excess costs of dementia disorders and the role of age and gender - an analysis of German health and long-term care insurance claims data
Larissa Schwarzkopf, Petra Menn, Reiner Leidl, Sonja Wunder, Hilmar Mehlig, Peter Marx, Elmar Graessel, Rolf Holle
The chronic care model: congruency and predictors among patients with cardiovascular diseases and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the Netherlands
Jane Murray Cramm, Anna Petra Nieboer
Clinicians’ and patients’ views of metrics of change derived from patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) for comparing providers’ performance of surgery
Zoe Hildon, Jenny Neuburger, Dominique Allwood, Jan van der Meulen, Nick Black
Horizontal equity and mental health care: a study of priority ratings by clinicians and teams at outpatient clinics
Per Arne Holman, Torleif Ruud, Sverre Grepperud
Reducing the health disparities of Indigenous Australians: time to change focus
Angela Durey, Sandra C Thompson
Assessing methods for measurement of clinical outcomes and quality of care in primary care practices
Michael E Green, William Hogg, Colleen Savage, Sharon Johnston, Grant Russell, R Liisa Jaakkimainen, Richard H Glazier, Janet Barnsley, Richard Birtwhistle
Understanding service user-defined continuity of care and its relationship to health and social measures: a cross-sectional study
Angela Sweeney, Diana Rose, Sarah Clement, Fatima Jichi, Ian Rees Jones, Tom Burns, Jocelyn Catty, Susan Mclaren, Til Wykes
Impact of 5-HT3 receptor antagonists on chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting: a retrospective cohort study
Swu-Jane Lin, Hind T Hatoum, Deborah Buchner, David Cox, Sanjeev Balu
Development and feasibility of a set of quality indicators relative to the timeliness and organisation of care for new breast cancer patients undergoing surgery
Marie Ferrua, Mélanie Couralet, Gérard Nitenberg, Sandrine Morin, Daniel Serin, Etienne Minvielle
Improving treatment intensification to reduce cardiovascular disease risk: a cluster randomized trial
Joe V Selby, Julie A Schmittdiel, Bruce Fireman, Marc Jaffe, Laura J Ransom, Wendy Dyer, Connie S Uratsu, Mary E Reed, Eve A Kerr, John Hsu
Usefulness and acceptability of a standardised orientation and mobility training for partially-sighted older adults using an identification cane
Judith Ballemans, GA Rixt Zijlstra, Ger HMB van Rens, Jan SAG Schouten, Gertrudis IJM Kempen
Obesity, lifestyle risk-factors, and health service outcomes among healthy middle-aged adults in Canada
David A Alter, Harindra C Wijeysundera, Barry Franklin, Peter C Austin, Alice Chong, Paul I Oh, Jack V Tu, Therese A Stukel
An instrument assessing patient satisfaction with day care in hospitals
SM Kleefstra, RB Kool, LC Zandbelt, JCJM de Haes
The acceptability, feasibility and impact of a lay health counsellor delivered health promoting schools programme in India: a case study evaluation
Divya Rajaraman, Sandra Travasso, Achira Chatterjee, Bhargav Bhat, Gracy Andrew, Suraj Parab, Vikram Patel
Involving expert patients in antiretroviral treatment provision in a tertiary referral hospital HIV clinic in Malawi
Lyson Tenthani, Fabian Cataldo, Adrienne K Chan, Richard Bedell, Alexandra LC Martiniuk, Monique van Lettow
Experiences of community pharmacists involved in the delivery of a specialist asthma service in Australia
Lynne M Emmerton, Lorraine Smith, Kate S LeMay, Ines Krass, Bandana Saini, Sinthia Z Bosnic-Anticevich, Helen K Reddel, Deborah L Burton, Kay Stewart, Carol L Armour
Using pathology-specific laboratory profiles in Clinical Pathology to reduce inappropriate test requesting: two completed audit cycles
Roberto Baricchi, Michele Zini, Maria Grazia Nibali, Walter Vezzosi, Vincenzo Insegnante, Clotilde Manfuso, Alessandra Polese, Valmer Costoli, Antonio Spelti, Debora Formisano, Danilo Orlandini, Fausto Nicolini, Antonio Poli
An economic evaluation of adaptive e-learning devices to promote weight loss via dietary change for people with obesity
Alec Miners, Jody Harris, Lambert Felix, Elizabeth Murray, Susan Michie, Phil Edwards
Measuring data reliability for preventive services in electronic medical records
Michelle Greiver, Jan Barnsley, Richard H Glazier, Bart J Harvey, Rahim Moineddin
Primacy of effective communication and its influence on adherence to artemether-lumefantrine treatment for children under five years of age: a qualitative study
Daudi O Simba, Deodatus Kakoko
Health worker preferences for community-based health insurance payment mechanisms: a discrete choice experiment
Paul Jacob Robyn, Till Bärnighausen, Aurélia Souares, Germain Savadogo, Brice Bicaba, Ali Sié, Rainer Sauerborn
Self-Management Support to People with Type 2 Diabetes - A comparative study of Kaiser Permanente and the Danish Healthcare System
Michaela Schiøtz, Martin Strandberg-Larsen, Anne Frølich, Allan Krasnik, Jim Bellows, Jette K Kristensen, Peter Vedsted, Peter Eskildsen, Henning Beck-Nielsen, John Hsu
Gynecological cancer patients’ differentiated use of help from a nurse navigator: a qualitative study
Marianne K Thygesen, Birthe D Pedersen, Jakob Kragstrup, Lis Wagner, Ole Mogensen
A pilot qualitative study to explore stakeholder opinions regarding prescribing quality indicators
Liana Martirosyan, Joekie Markhorst, Petra Denig, Flora M Haaijer-Ruskamp, Jozé Braspenning
Impact of community-based support services on antiretroviral treatment programme delivery and outcomes in resource-limited countries: a synthetic review
Edwin Wouters, Wim Van Damme, Dingie van Rensburg, Caroline Masquillier, Herman Meulemans
Service provision and barriers to care for homeless people with mental health problems across 14 European capital cities
Réamonn Canavan, Margaret M Barry, Aleksandra Matanov, Henrique Barros, Edina Gabor, Tim Greacen, Petra Holcnerová, Ulrike Kluge, Pablo Nicaise, Jacek Moskalewicz, José Manuel Díaz-Olalla, Christa Straßmayr, Aart H Schene, Joaquim J F Soares, Andrea Gaddini, Stefan Priebe
Examining characteristics, knowledge and regulatory practices of specialized drug shops in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of the literature
Francis N Wafula, Eric M Miriti, Catherine A Goodman
Nation-scale adoption of new medicines by doctors: an application of the Bass diffusion model
Adam G Dunn, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Blanca Gallego, Richard O Day, William Runciman, Enrico Coiera
Estimation of the costs of cervical cancer screening, diagnosis and treatment in rural Shanxi Province, China: a micro-costing study
Ju-Fang Shi, Jun-Feng Chen, Karen Canfell, Xiang-Xian Feng, Jun-Fei Ma, Yong-Zhen Zhang, Fang-Hui Zhao, Rong Li, Li Ma, Zhi-Fang Li, Jie-Bin Lew, Yan Ning, You-Lin Qiao
Health status, quality of life, and satisfaction of patients awaiting multidisciplinary bariatric care
Raj S Padwal, Sumit R Majumdar, Scott Klarenbach, Daniel W Birch, Shahzeer Karmali, Linda McCargar, Konrad Fassbender, Arya M Sharma
Acceptance of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist among surgical personnel in hospitals in Guatemala city
Juan J Delgado Hurtado, Xavier Jiménez, Marco A Peñalonzo, Claudia Villatoro, Sandra de Izquierdo, Mónica Cifuentes
Is there a gap between recommended and ‘real world’ practice in the management of depression in young people? A medical file audit of practice
Sarah E Hetrick, Andrew Thompson, Kally Yuen, Sue Finch, Alexandra G Parker
Preferences for working in rural clinics among trainee health professionals in Uganda: a discrete choice experiment
Peter C Rockers, Wanda Jaskiewicz, Laura Wurts, Margaret E Kruk, George S Mgomella, Francis Ntalazi, Kate Tulenko
Perception of evidence-based practice and the professional environment of Primary Health Care nurses in the Spanish context: a cross-sectional study
Susana González-Torrente, Jordi Pericas-Beltrán, Miguel Bennasar-Veny, Rosa Adrover-Barceló, José M Morales-Asencio, Joan De Pedro-Gómez
Integrating a pharmacist into the general practice environment: opinions of pharmacist’s, general practitioner’s, health care consumer’s, and practice manager’s
Christopher Freeman, W Neil Cottrell, Greg Kyle, Ian Williams, Lisa Nissen
Expansion of discharge planning system in Japan: Comparison of results of a nationwide survey between 2001 and 2010
Satoko Nagata, Hikari Tomura, Sachiyo Murashima
The association between nurse staffing and hospital outcomes in injured patients
Laurent G Glance, Andrew W Dick, Turner M Osler, Dana B Mukamel, Yue Li, Patricia W Stone
The importance of job characteristics in determining medical care-seeking in the Dutch working population, a longitudinal survey study
Romy Steenbeek
Translating evidence-based guidelines into practice: a survey of practices of commissioners and managers of the English stop smoking services
Máirtín S McDermott, Heather Thomson, Robert West, Jennifer AM Kenyon, Andy McEwen
Use of health systems evidence by policymakers in eastern mediterranean countries: views, practices, and contextual influences
Fadi El-Jardali, John N Lavis, Nour Ataya, Diana Jamal, Walid Ammar, Saned Raouf
Controlled trial of a collaborative primary care team model for patients with diabetes and depression: Rationale and design for a comprehensive evaluation
Jeffrey A Johnson, Fatima Al Sayah, Lisa Wozniak, Sandra Rees, Allison Soprovich, Constance L Chik, Pierre Chue, Peter Florence, Jennifer Jacquier, Pauline Lysak, Andrea Opgenorth, Wayne J Katon, Sumit R Majumdar
The consumer quality index (CQ-index) in an accident and emergency department: development and first evaluation
Nanne Bos, Leontien M Sturms, Augustinus JP Schrijvers, Henk F van Stel
Growing old before growing rich: inequality in health service utilization among the mid-aged and elderly in Gansu and Zhejiang Provinces, China
Yang Wang, Jian Wang, Elizabeth Maitland, Yaohui Zhao, Stephen Nicholas, Mingshan Lu
An evaluation of rheumatology practitioner outreach clinics: a qualitative study
Asmaa S Abdelhamid, Janice Mooney, Andrew A Walker, Garry Barton, Alex J MacGregor, David GI Scott, Richard A Watts
Patient empowerment: The need to consider it as a measurable patient-reported outcome for chronic conditions
Marion McAllister, Graham Dunn, Katherine Payne, Linda Davies, Chris Todd
Adverse selection in a community-based health insurance scheme in rural Africa: Implications for introducing targeted subsidies
Divya Parmar, Aurélia Souares, Manuela de Allegri, Germain Savadogo, Rainer Sauerborn
The use of rehabilitation among patients with breast cancer: a retrospective longitudinal cohort study
Yi-Hsien Lin, Po-Jung Pan
Vasectomy as a proxy: extrapolating health system lessons to male circumcision as an HIV prevention strategy in Papua New Guinea
Anna Tynan, Andrew Vallely, Angela Kelly, Greg Law, John Millan, Peter Siba, John Kaldor, Peter S Hill
Triage vital signs predict in-hospital mortality among emergency department patients with acute poisoning: a case control study
Jiun-Hao Yu, Yi-Ming Weng, Kuan-Fu Chen, Shou-Yen Chen, Chih-Chuan Lin
A prospective study of health care resource utilisation and selected costs of schizophrenia in France
Emmanuelle Sarlon, Dirk Heider, Aurélie Millier, Jean-Michel Azorin, Hans-Helmut König, Karina Hansen, Matthias C Angermeyer, Samuel Aballéa, Mondher Toumi
The prevalence of common mental disorders among hospital physicians and their association with self-reported work ability: a cross-sectional study
Martijn M Ruitenburg, Monique HW Frings-Dresen, Judith K Sluiter
Specific guidelines for assessing and improving the methodological quality of economic evaluations of newborn screening
Astrid Langer, Rolf Holle, Jürgen John
Violence towards health care workers in a Public Health Care Facility in Italy: a repeated cross-sectional study
Nicola Magnavita, Tarja Heponiemi
“Completely out-at-sea” with “two-gender medicine”: A qualitative analysis of physician-side barriers to providing healthcare for transgender patients
John W Snelgrove, Amanda M Jasudavisius, Bradley W Rowe, Evan M Head, Greta R Bauer
Disease management projects and the Chronic Care Model in action: baseline qualitative research
Bethany Hipple Walters, Samantha A Adams, Anna P Nieboer, Roland Bal
A reduction in public funding for fertility treatment - an econometric analysis of access to treatment and savings to government
Georgina M Chambers, Van Phuong Hoang, Rong Zhu, Peter J Illingworth
Reasons behind non-adherence of healthcare practitioners to pediatric asthma guidelines in an emergency department in Saudi Arabia
Hayfaa A Wahabi, Rasmieh A Alziedan
A thematic analysis of the role of the organisation in building allied health research capacity: a senior managers’ perspective
Xanthe Golenko, Susan Pager, Libby Holden
A new pathway for elective surgery to reduce cancellation rates
Einar Hovlid, Oddbjørn Bukve, Kjell Haug, Aslak Bjarne Aslaksen, Christian von Plessen
Factors associated with patterns of plural healthcare utilization among patients taking antiretroviral therapy in rural and urban South Africa: a cross-sectional study
Mosa Moshabela, Helen Schneider, Sheetal P Silal, Susan M Cleary
A systematic review of economic evaluations of cardiac rehabilitation
Wai Pong Wong, Jun Feng, Keng Ho Pwee, Jeremy Lim
Utilization of rehabilitation services for inpatient with cancer in Taiwan: a descriptive analysis from national health insurance database
Heui-Fen Lin, Ying-Tai Wu, Jau-Yih Tsauo
Factors influencing consumer adoption of USB-based Personal Health Records in Taiwan
Wen-Shan Jian, Shabbir Syed-Abdul, Sanjay P Sood, Peisan Lee, Min-Huei Hsu, Cheng-Hsun Ho, Yu-Chuan Li, Hsyien-Chia Wen
Assessing cardiovascular risk in regional areas: the Healthy Hearts – Beyond City Limits program
Melinda J Carrington, Garry L Jennings, Robyn A Clark, Simon Stewart
Attempt to increase the transparency of fourth hurdle implementation in Central-Eastern European middle income countries: publication of the critical appraisal methodology
András Inotai, Márta Pékli, Gabriella Jóna, Orsolya Nagy, Edit Remák, Zoltán Kaló
Centralisation of services for children with cleft lip or palate in England: a study of hospital episode statistics
Kate J Fitzsimons, Shumaila Mukarram, Lynn P Copley, Scott A Deacon, Jan H van der Meulen
Impact of dropout of female volunteer community health workers: An exploration in Dhaka urban slums
Khurshid Alam, Jahangir AM Khan, Damian G Walker
Using patients’ experiences to identify priorities for quality improvement in breast cancer care: patient narratives, surveys or both?
Vicki Tsianakas, Jill Maben, Theresa Wiseman, Glenn Robert, Alison Richardson, Peter Madden, Mairead Griffin, Elizabeth A Davies
Exploring inequalities in access to and use of maternal health services in South Africa
Sheetal P Silal, Loveday Penn-Kekana, Bronwyn Harris, Stephen Birch, Diane McIntyre
Identifying paediatric nursing-sensitive outcomes in linked administrative health data
Sally Wilson, Alexandra P Bremner, Yvonne Hauck, Judith Finn
Cost-effectiveness analysis of timely dialysis referral after renal transplant failure in Spain
Guillermo Villa, Emilio Sánchez-Álvarez, Jesús Cuervo, Lucía Fernández-Ortiz, Pablo Rebollo, Francisco Ortega
Educational inequalities in patient-centred care: patients' preferences and experiences
Jany Rademakers, Diana Delnoij, Jessica Nijman, Dolf de Boer
An international review of the patterns and determinants of health service utilisation by adult cancer survivors
Charlene Treanor, Michael Donnelly
The impact of decision aids to enhance shared decision making for diabetes (the DAD study): protocol of a cluster randomized trial
Annie LeBlanc, Kari L Ruud, Megan E Branda, Kristina Tiedje, Kasey R Boehmer, Laurie J Pencille, Holly Van Houten, Marc Matthews, Nilay D Shah, Carl R May, Barbara P Yawn, Victor M Montori
Informing the development of services supporting self-care for severe, long term mental health conditions: a mixed method study of community based mental health initiatives in England
Gillard Steve, Adams Katie, Edwards Christine, Lucock Mike, Miller Stephen, Simons Lucy, Turner Kati, White Rachel, White Sarah
Assessment of service quality of public antiretroviral treatment (ART) clinics in South Africa: a cross-sectional study
Hans F Kinkel, Adeboye M Adelekan, Tessa S Marcus, Gustaaf Wolvaardt
Differences in primary health care delivery to Australia’s Indigenous population: a template for use in economic evaluations
Katherine S Ong, Rob Carter, Margaret Kelaher, Ian Anderson
Social and economic costs and health-related quality of life in stroke survivors in the Canary Islands, Spain
Julio Lopez-Bastida, Juan Oliva Moreno, Melany Worbes Cerezo, Lilisbeth Perestelo Perez, Pedro Serrano-Aguilar, Fernando Montón-Álvarez
How healthcare professionals respond to parents with religious objections to vaccination: a qualitative study
Wilhelmina LM Ruijs, Jeannine LA Hautvast, Giovanna van IJzendoorn, Wilke JC van Ansem, Glyn Elwyn, Koos van der Velden, Marlies EJL Hulscher
How much are we spending? The estimation of research expenditures on cardiovascular disease in Canada
Claire de Oliveira, Van Hai Nguyen, Harindra C Wijeysundera, William W L Wong, Gloria Woo, Peter P Liu, Murray D Krahn
Rural health workers and their work environment: the role of inter-personal factors on job satisfaction of nurses in rural Papua New Guinea
Rohan Jayasuriya, Maxine Whittaker, Grace Halim, Tim Matineau
Factors affecting hospital stay in psychiatric patients: the role of active comorbidity
Athanassios Douzenis, Dionysios Seretis, Stella Nika, Paraskevi Nikolaidou, Athanassia Papadopoulou, Emmanouil N Rizos, Christos Christodoulou, Christos Tsopelas, Dominic Mitchell, Lefteris Lykouras
An exploration of the role of pharmacists within general practice clinics: the protocol for the pharmacists in practice study (PIPS)
Edwin Tan, Kay Stewart, Rohan A Elliott, Johnson George
Implementation of an innovative web-based conference table for community-dwelling frail older people, their informal caregivers and professionals: a process evaluation
Sarah HM Robben, Marieke Perry, Mirjam Huisjes, Leontien van Nieuwenhuijzen, Henk J Schers, Chris van Weel, Marcel GM Olde Rikkert, Theo van Achterberg, Maud M Heinen, René JF Melis
Effects of proactive population-based nephrologist oversight on progression of chronic kidney disease: a retrospective control analysis
Brian Lee, Marianne Turley, Di Meng, Yvonne Zhou, Terhilda Garrido, Alan Lau, Linda Radler
Medicare immunosuppressant coverage and access to kidney transplantation: a retrospective national cohort study
Vanessa Grubbs, Laura C Plantinga, Eric Vittinghoff, Ann M O’Hare, R Adams Dudley
Factors influencing hospital high length of stay outliers
Alberto Freitas, Tiago Silva-Costa, Fernando Lopes, Isabel Garcia-Lema, Armando Teixeira-Pinto, Pavel Brazdil, Altamiro Costa-Pereira
An injury awareness education program on outcomes of juvenile justice offenders in Western Australia: an economic analysis
Kwok M Ho, Elizabeth Geelhoed, Monica Gope, Maxine Burrell, Sudhakar Rao
A taxonomy of nursing care organization models in hospitals
Carl-Ardy Dubois, Danielle D’Amour, Eric Tchouaket, Michèle Rivard, Sean Clarke, Régis Blais
Enhancing research capacity across healthcare and higher education sectors: development and evaluation of an integrated model
Anne Whitworth, Shona Haining, Helen Stringer
Evaluating the impact of a novel restricted reimbursement policy for quinolone antibiotics: A time series analysis
Braden Manns, Kevin Laupland, Marcello Tonelli, Song Gao, Brenda Hemmelgarn
Using financial incentives to increase initial uptake and completion of HPV vaccinations: protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Eleni Mantzari, Florian Vogt, Theresa M Marteau
Pre-test of questions on health-related resource use and expenditure, using behaviour coding and cognitive interviewing techniques
Nadja Chernyak, Corinna Ernsting, Andrea Icks
No-shows to primary care appointments: subsequent acute care utilization among diabetic patients
Lynn A Nuti, Mark Lawley, Ayten Turkcan, Zhiyi Tian, Lingsong Zhang, Karen Chang, Deanna R Willis, Laura P Sands
The work pattern of personal care workers in two Australian nursing homes: a time-motion study
Si-Yu Qian, Ping Yu, Zhen-Yu Zhang, David M Hailey, Pamela J Davy, Mark I Nelson
Immigrants’ use of emergency primary health care in Norway: a registry-based observational study
Hogne Sandvik, Steinar Hunskaar, Esperanza Diaz
Demand for pneumococcal vaccination under subsidy program for the elderly in Japan
Masahide Kondo, Mariko Yamamura, Shu-Ling Hoshi, Ichiro Okubo
Addressing maternal healthcare through demand side financial incentives: experience of Janani Suraksha Yojana program in India
Saji S Gopalan, Durairaj Varatharajan
District health executives in Midlands province, Zimbabwe: are they performing as expected?
Mary Muchekeza, Anderson Chimusoro, Notion T Gombe, Mufuta Tshimanga, Gerald Shambira
Acceptability of participatory social network analysis for problem-solving in Australian Aboriginal health service partnerships
Jeffrey Fuller, Wendy Hermeston, Megan Passey, Tony Fallon, Kuda Muyambi
Engagement of non-government organisations and community care workers in collaborative TB/HIV activities including prevention of mother to child transmission in South Africa: Opportunities and challenges
Jeannine Uwimana, Christina Zarowsky, Harry Hausler, Debra Jackson
Effort-reward imbalance and quality of life of healthcare workers in military hospitals: a cross-sectional study
Dong-Sheng Tzeng, Wei-Ching Chung, Chi-Hung Lin, Chun-Yuh Yang
Multistate models for comparing trends in hospitalizations among young adult survivors of colorectal cancer and matched controls
Rinku Sutradhar, Shawn Forbes, David R Urbach, Lawrence Paszat, Linda Rabeneck, Nancy N Baxter
STI service delivery in British Columbia, Canada; providers' views of their services to youth
Cindy L Masaro, Joy Johnson, Cathy Chabot, Jean Shoveller
Building a house on shifting sand: methodological considerations when evaluating the implementation and adoption of national electronic health record systems
Amirhossein Takian, Dimitra Petrakaki, Tony Cornford, Aziz Sheikh, Nicholas Barber
How do persons with dementia participate in decision making related to health and daily care? A multi-case study
Kari Lislerud Smebye, Marit Kirkevold, Knut Engedal
Burden of out-of-pocket expenditure for road traffic injuries in urban India
G Anil Kumar, T Ramachandran Dilip, Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona
The experience of community health workers training in Iran: a qualitative study
Sara Javanparast, Fran Baum, Ronald Labonte, David Sanders, Zohreh Rajabi, Gholamreza Heidari
Impact of organizational factors on adherence to laboratory testing protocols in adult HIV care in Lusaka, Zambia
Sarang Deo, Stephanie M Topp, Andrew O Westfall, Matimbo M Chiko, Chibesa S Wamulume, Mary Morris, Stewart Reid
Retention of allied health professionals in rural New South Wales: a thematic analysis of focus group discussions
Sheila Keane, Michelle Lincoln, Tony Smith
Healthcare system intervention for prevention of birth injuries – process evaluation of self-assessment, peer review, feedback and agreement for change
Monica E Nyström, Anna Westerlund, Elisabet Höög, Charlotte Millde-Luthander, Ulf Högberg, Charlotta Grunewald
Quality of generic medicines in South Africa: Perceptions versus Reality – A qualitative study
Aarti Patel, Robin Gauld, Pauline Norris, Thomas Rades
Study protocol: to investigate effects of highly specialized rehabilitation for patients with multiple sclerosis. A randomized controlled trial of a personalized, multidisciplinary intervention
Jan Sørensen, Anne Lee, Brita Løvendahl, Michael Nørgaard, Jette Bay, Peter Vestergaard Rasmussen, Finn Boesen
Patient satisfaction in pediatric outpatient settings from the parents’ perspective - The Child ZAP: A psychometrically validated standardized questionnaire
Eva Maria Bitzer, Stephanie Volkmer, Marco Petrucci, Nikolaus Weissenrieder, Marie-Luise Dierks
HIV/aids related home based care practices among primary health care workers in Ogun state, Nigeria
Amoran Olorunfemi E, Ogunsola Elijah O, Salako Albert O, Alausa Ok O
Cost-effectiveness of counselling, graded-exercise and usual care for chronic fatigue: evidence from a randomised trial in primary care
Ramon Sabes-Figuera, Paul McCrone, Mike Hurley, Michael King, Ana Nora Donaldson, Leone Ridsdale
Psychiatrists′ work with sickness certification: frequency, experiences and severity of the certification tasks in a national survey in Sweden
Gunnar H Nilsson, Britt Arrelöv, Christina Lindholm, Therese Ljungquist, Linnea Kjeldgård, Kristina Alexanderson
Chronic disease management: a qualitative study investigating the barriers, facilitators and incentives perceived by Swiss healthcare stakeholders
Stéphanie Lauvergeon, Bernard Burnand, Isabelle Peytremann-Bridevaux
What do peer support workers do? A job description
Nora Jacobson, Lucy Trojanowski, Carolyn S Dewa
Determinants of demand for total hip and knee arthroplasty: a systematic literature review
Rubén E Mújica Mota, Rosanna Tarricone, Oriana Ciani, John FP Bridges, Mike Drummond
Hypertension: Development of a prediction model to adjust self-reported hypertension prevalence at the community level
Graciela Mentz, Amy J Schulz, Bhramar Mukherjee, Trivellore E Ragunathan, Denise White Perkins, Barbara A Israel
Comorbidity Cohort (2C) study: Cardiovascular disease severity and comorbid osteoarthritis in primary care
James A Prior, Claire A Rushton, Kelvin P Jordan, Umesh T Kadam
Socioeconomic differences in waiting times for elective surgery: a population-based retrospective study
Alessio Petrelli, Giuliana De Luca, Tania Landriscina, Giuseppe Costa
Efficacy of a systematic depression management program in high utilizers of primary care: a randomized trial
Anne Berghöfer, Astrid Hartwich, Michael Bauer, Jürgen Unützer, Stefan N Willich, Andrea Pfennig
Intergenerational enrollment and expenditure changes in Medicaid: trends from 1991 to 2005
Stephen W Patrick, Gary L Freed
The knowledge, attitude and behavior about public health emergencies and the response capacity of primary care medical staffs of Guangdong Province, China
Zhou Zhiheng, Wang Caixia, Wang Jiaji, Yang Huajie, Wang Chao, Liang Wannian
Effect of the delegation of GP-home visits on the development of the number of patients in an ambulatory healthcare centre in Germany
Neeltje van den Berg, Romy Heymann, Claudia Meinke, Sebastian E Baumeister, Steffen Fleßa, Wolfgang Hoffmann
Consumers’ experiences of back pain in rural Western Australia: access to information and services, and self-management behaviours
Andrew M Briggs, Helen Slater, Samantha Bunzli, Joanne E Jordan, Stephanie J Davies, Anne J Smith, John L Quintner
Information seeking for making evidence-informed decisions: a social network analysis on the staff of a public health department in Canada
Reza Yousefi-Nooraie, Maureen Dobbins, Melissa Brouwers, Patricia Wakefield
Exploring improvements in patient logistics in Dutch hospitals with a survey
Wineke AM van Lent, E Marloes Sanders, Wim H van Harten
Patient anxiety and concern as predictors for the perceived quality of treatment and patient reported outcome (PRO) in orthopaedic surgery
Randi Bilberg, Birgitte Nørgaard, Søren Overgaard, Kirsten Kaya Roessler
Workplace violence in a large correctional health service in New South Wales, Australia: a retrospective review of incident management records
Aaron W Cashmore, Devon Indig, Stephen E Hampton, Desley G Hegney, Bin B Jalaludin
Validation of the care transition measure in multi-ethnic South-East Asia in Singapore
Anu Birla Bakshi, Shiou-Liang Wee, Charlene Tay, Loong-Mun Wong, Ian Yi-Onn Leong, Reshma A Merchant, Nan Luo
Development of the patient approach and views toward healthcare communication (PAV-COM) measure among older adults
Derjung M Tarn, Henry N Young, Benjamin M Craig
The role of health extension workers in improving utilization of maternal health services in rural areas in Ethiopia: a cross sectional study
Araya Medhanyie, Mark Spigt, Yohannes Kifle, Nikki Schaay, David Sanders, Roman Blanco, Dinant GeertJan, Yemane Berhane
Smoking and use of primary care services: findings from a population-based cohort study linked with administrative claims data
Louisa R Jorm, Leah C Shepherd, Kris D Rogers, Fiona M Blyth
Using routine data to monitor inequalities in an acute trust: a retrospective study
Katharine M Langford, Alex Bottle, Paul P Aylin, Helen Ward
Health coaching by telephony to support self-care in chronic diseases: clinical outcomes from The TERVA randomized controlled trial
Kristiina Patja, Pilvikki Absetz, Anssi Auvinen, Kari Tokola, Janne Kytö, Erja Oksman, Risto Kuronen, Timo Ovaska, Kari Harno, Mikko Nenonen, Tom Wiklund, Raimo Kettunen, Martti Talja
The effectiveness of a multidisciplinary QI activity for accidental fall prevention: Staff compliance is critical
Sachiko Ohde, Mineko Terai, Aya Oizumi, Osamu Takahashi, Gautam A Deshpande, Miwako Takekata, Ryoichi Ishikawa, Tsuguya Fukui
Simplifying ART cohort monitoring: Can pharmacy stocks provide accurate estimates of patients retained on antiretroviral therapy in Malawi?
Hannock Tweya, Caryl Feldacker, Anne Ben-Smith, Anthony D Harries, Ryuichi Komatsu, Andreas Jahn, Sam Phiri, Jean-Michel Tassie
Analysis of the Status of Chinese clinical practice guidelines development
Zhi-hong Zheng, Shu-qi Cui, Xiao-qin Lu, David Zakus, Wan-nian Liang, Fang Huang, Xiao-na Cao, Ya-li Zhao, Xiao-xia Peng, Ke-qin Rao, Jing Wu
Determinants of patient choice of healthcare providers: a scoping review
Aafke Victoor, Diana MJ Delnoij, Roland D Friele, Jany JDJM Rademakers
Researcher-decision-maker partnerships in health services research: Practical challenges, guiding principles
Anne Hofmeyer, Catherine Scott, Laura Lagendyk
Factors associated with the number of consultations per dietetic treatment: an observational study
Jacqueline Tol, Ilse C Swinkels, Peter M Spreeuwenberg, Chantal J Leemrijse, Dinny H de Bakker, Cindy Veenhof
Two sides of the coin: patient and provider perceptions of health care delivery to patients from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
Nera Komaric, Suzanne Bedford, Mieke L van Driel
The short-term effect on alliance and satisfaction of using patient feedback scales in mental health out-patient treatment. A randomised controlled trial
Marit By Rise, Lasse Eriksen, Hilde Grimstad, Aslak Steinsbekk
Survey of physician experiences and perceptions about the diagnosis and treatment of fibromyalgia
Serge Perrot, Ernest Choy, Danielle Petersel, Anna Ginovker, Erich Kramer
Chances and risks of publication of quality data – the perspectives of Swiss physicians and nurses
Regula Heller, David Schwappach
Frequent hospital admission of older people with chronic disease: a cross-sectional survey with telephone follow-up and data linkage
Jo M Longman, Margaret I Rolfe, Megan D Passey, Kathy E Heathcote, Dan P Ewald, Therese Dunn, Lesley M Barclay, Geoffrey G Morgan
Rehabilitation time before disability pension
Morten Støver, Kristine Pape, Roar Johnsen, Nils Fleten, Erik R Sund, Bjørgulf Claussen, Solveig Osborg Ose, Johan Håkon Bjørngaard
Effect of in-home and community-based services on the functional status of elderly in the long-term care insurance system in Japan
Pedro Olivares-Tirado, Nanako Tamiya, Masayo Kashiwagi
Community-based post-stroke service provision and challenges: a national survey of managers and inter-disciplinary healthcare staff in Ireland
Anne Hickey, Frances Horgan, Desmond O’Neill, Hannah McGee
The implementation of unit-based perinatal mortality audit in perinatal cooperation units in the northern region of the Netherlands
Mariet Th van Diem, Albertus Timmer, Klasien A Bergman, Katelijne Bouman, Nico van Egmond, Dennis A Stant, Lida H M Ulkeman, Wenda B Veen, JanJaapHM Erwich
Specialized multi-disciplinary heart failure clinics in Ontario, Canada: an environmental scan
Harindra C Wijeysundera, Gina Trubiani, Lusine Abrahamyan, Nicholas Mitsakakis, William Witteman, Mike Paulden, Gabrielle van der Velde, Kori Kingsbury, Murray Krahn
Amenable mortality as a performance indicator of Italian health-care services
Maria P Fantini, Jacopo Lenzi, Giuseppe Franchino, Cristina Raineri, Alessandra Burgio, Luisa Frova, Gianfranco Domenighetti, Walter Ricciardi, Gianfranco Damiani
Hospital discharge diagnostic and procedure codes for upper gastro-intestinal cancer: how accurate are they?
Efty Stavrou, Nicole Pesa, Sallie-Anne Pearson
Use of selected ambulatory dental services in Taiwan before and after global budgeting: a longitudinal study to identify trends in hospital and clinic-based services
Chienhung Lin, Hailun Chao
Economic burden of stroke in a large county in Sweden
Josefine Persson, José Ferraz-Nunes, Ingvar Karlberg
Exposure to second-hand smoke and direct healthcare costs in children – results from two German birth cohorts, GINIplus and LISAplus
Ariane Batscheider, Sylwia Zakrzewska, Joachim Heinrich, Christina M Teuner, Petra Menn, Carl Peter Bauer, Ute Hoffmann, Sibylle Koletzko, Irina Lehmann, Olf Herbarth, Andrea von Berg, Dietrich Berdel, Ursula Krämer, Beate Schaaf, H-Erich Wichmann, Reiner Leidl
A 5A's communication intervention to promote physical activity in underserved populations
Jennifer K Carroll, Kevin Fiscella, Ronald M Epstein, Mechelle R Sanders, Geoffrey C Williams
Attractiveness of employment sectors for physical therapists in Ontario, Canada (1999-2007): implication for the long term care sector
Michel D Landry, Robyn Hastie, Känecy Oñate, Brenda Gamble, Raisa B Deber, Molly C Verrier
Pan-London tuberculosis services: a service evaluation
Ruth Belling, Susan McLaren, Markella Boudioni, Leslie Woods
Use of general practice, diagnostic investigations and hospital services before and after cancer diagnosis - a population-based nationwide registry study of 127,000 incident adult cancer patients
Karina Garnier Christensen, Morten Fenger-Grøn, Kaare Rud Flarup, Peter Vedsted
A framework for assessing Health Economic Evaluation (HEE) quality appraisal instruments
Astrid Langer
The relationship between quality of work life and turnover intention of primary health care nurses in Saudi Arabia
Mohammed J Almalki, Gerry FitzGerald, Michele Clark
Community pharmacist attitudes towards collaboration with general practitioners: development and validation of a measure and a model
Connie Van, Daniel Costa, Penny Abbott, Bernadette Mitchell, Ines Krass
Understanding Australian healthcare workers’ uptake of influenza vaccination: examination of public hospital policies and procedures
Holly Seale, Rajneesh Kaur, C Raina MacIntyre
Are community midwives addressing the inequities in access to skilled birth attendance in Punjab, Pakistan? Gender, class and social exclusion
Zubia Mumtaz, Beverley O’Brien, Afshan Bhatti, Gian S Jhangri
Developing the Diagnostic Adherence to Medication Scale (the DAMS) for use in clinical practice
Sara Garfield, Lina Eliasson, Sarah Clifford, Alan Willson, Nick Barber
Reduction in inappropriate hospital use based on analysis of the causes
Víctor Soria-Aledo, Andrés Carrillo-Alcaraz, Benito Flores-Pastor, Alfredo Moreno-Egea, Milagros Carrasco-Prats, José Luis Aguayo-Albasini
Study Protocol: Screening and Treatment of Alcohol-Related Trauma (START) – a randomised controlled trial
Rama Jayaraj, Mahiban Thomas, David Kavanagh, Peter d’Abbs, Luke Mayo, Valerie Thomson, Carolyn Griffin, Tricia Nagel
The cost of first-ever stroke in Valle d’Aosta, Italy: linking clinical registries and administrative data
Edo Bottacchi, Giovanni Corso, Piera Tosi, Massimo Veronese Morosini, Giuseppe De Filippis, Laura Santoni, Gianluca Furneri, Cristina Negrini
Toward a typology of health-related informal credit: an exploration of borrowing practices for paying for health care by the poor in Cambodia
Por Ir, Bart Jacobs, Bruno Meessen, Wim Van Damme
Independence, institutionalization, death and treatment costs 18 months after rehabilitation of older people in two different primary health care settings
Inger Johansen, Morten Lindbak, Johan K Stanghelle, Mette Brekke
Patient-centered, comparative effectiveness of esophageal cancer screening: protocol for a comparative effectiveness research study to inform guidelines for evidence-based approach to screening and surveillance endoscopy
Jennifer R Kramer, Jennifer Arney, John Chen, Peter Richardson, Zhigang Duan, Richard L Street Jr, Marilyn Hinojosa-Lindsey, Aanand D Naik, Hashem B El-Serag
Primary scene responses by Helicopter Emergency Medical Services in New South Wales Australia 2008–2009
Colman B Taylor, Bette Liu, Eleanor Bruce, Brian Burns, Stephen Jan, John Myburgh
Factors and symptoms associated with work stress and health-promoting lifestyles among hospital staff: a pilot study in Taiwan
Yueh-Chi Tsai, Chieh-Hsing Liu
Do incentives, reminders or reduced burden improve healthcare professional response rates in postal questionnaires? two randomised controlled trials
Liz Glidewell, Ruth Thomas, Graeme MacLennan, Debbie Bonetti, Marie Johnston, Martin P Eccles, Richard Edlin, Nigel B Pitts, Jan Clarkson, Nick Steen, Jeremy M Grimshaw
Home medication management practices and associated factors among patients with selected chronic diseases in a community pharmacy in Uganda
Joan N Kalyango, Maurice Hall, Charles Karamagi
User involvement in service delivery predicts outcomes of assistive technology use: A cross-sectional study in Bangladesh
Johan Borg, Stig Larsson, Per-Olof Östergren, ASM Atiqur Rahman, Nazmul Bari, AHM Noman Khan
Has Vietnam Health care funds for the poor policy favored the elderly poor?
Nguyen Xuan Thanh, Lars Lindholm
Socio-economic inequalities in health care utilisation in Norway: a population based cross-sectional survey
Anne Helen Hansen, Peder A Halvorsen, Unni Ringberg, Olav Helge Førde
Clinical decision support must be useful, functional is not enough: a qualitative study of computer-based clinical decision support in primary care
Tiina Kortteisto, Jorma Komulainen, Marjukka Mäkelä, Ilkka Kunnamo, Minna Kaila
Validation of administrative data sources for endoscopy utilization in colorectal cancer diagnosis
Xue Li, Robert Hilsden, Shakhawat Hossain, John Fleming, Marcy Winget
Assessing effectiveness of a community based health insurance in rural Burkina Faso
Sennen Hounton, Peter Byass, Bocar Kouyate
Cost-effectiveness analysis of different rescue therapies in patients with lamivudine-resistant chronic hepatitis B in China
Bin Wu, Jinfang Shen, Huafeng Cheng
Using administrative health data to describe colorectal and lung cancer care in New South Wales, Australia: a validation study
David E Goldsbury, Katie Armstrong, Leonardo Simonella, Bruce K Armstrong, Dianne L O’Connell
The growth and composition of primary and community-based care services. Metrics and evidence from the Italian National Health Service
Francesco Longo, Domenico Salvatore, Stefano Tasselli
Effects of case management in community aged care on client and carer outcomes: a systematic review of randomized trials and comparative observational studies
Emily Chuanmei You, David Dunt, Colleen Doyle, Arthur Hsueh
Framework and components for effective discharge planning system: a delphi methodology
Carrie HK Yam, Eliza LY Wong, Annie WL Cheung, Frank WK Chan, Fiona YY Wong, Eng-kiong Yeoh
Assessment of factors influencing retention in the Philippine National Rural Physician Deployment Program
Juan Alfonso Leonardia, Helen Prytherch, Kenneth Ronquillo, Rodel G Nodora, Andreas Ruppel
A systematic review of interventions to enhance access to best practice primary health care for chronic disease management, prevention and episodic care
Elizabeth Jean Comino, Gawaine Powell Davies, Yordanka Krastev, Marion Haas, Bettina Christl, John Furler, Anthony Raymont, Mark F Harris
Exploring the relationship between population density and maternal health coverage
Michael Hanlon, Roy Burstein, Samuel H Masters, Raymond Zhang
Prescribing Data in General Practice Demonstration (PDGPD) project - a cluster randomised controlled trial of a quality improvement intervention to achieve better prescribing for chronic heart failure and hypertension
Margaret Williamson, Magnolia Cardona-Morrell, Jeffrey D Elliott, James F Reeve, Nigel P Stocks, Jon Emery, Judith M Mackson, Jane M Gunn
Evaluation of supply-side initiatives to improve access to coronary bypass surgery
Boris G Sobolev, Guy Fradet, Lisa Kuramoto, Rita Sobolyeva, Basia Rogula, Adrian R Levy
Improving access to psychosocial interventions for common mental health problems in the United Kingdom: narrative review and development of a conceptual model for complex interventions
Linda Gask, Peter Bower, Jonathan Lamb, Heather Burroughs, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Suzanne Edwards, Derek Hibbert, Marija Kovandžić, Karina Lovell, Anne Rogers, Waquas Waheed, Christopher Dowrick, AMP Research Group
Design of a prostate cancer patient navigation intervention for a Veterans Affairs hospital
Narissa J Nonzee, June M McKoy, Alfred W Rademaker, Peter Byer, Thanh Ha Luu, Dachao Liu, Elizabeth A Richey, Athena T Samaras, Genna Panucci, XinQi Dong, Melissa A Simon
Delay in discharge and its impact on unnecessary hospital bed occupancy
Muhammad Umair Majeed, Dean Thomas Williams, Rachel Pollock, Farhat Amir, Martin Liam, Keen S Foong, Chris J Whitaker
User fee exemptions and excessive household spending for normal delivery in Burkina Faso: the need for careful implementation
Amal Ben Ameur, Valéry Ridde, Aristide R Bado, Marie-Gloriose Ingabire, Ludovic Queuille
Use of medical tourism for hip and knee surgery in osteoarthritis: a qualitative examination of distinctive attitudinal characteristics among Canadian patients
Valorie A Crooks, Keri Cameron, Vera Chouinard, Rory Johnston, Jeremy Snyder, Victoria Casey
Behavioral health providers' perspectives of delivering behavioral health services in primary care: a qualitative analysis
Gregory P Beehler, Laura O Wray
A comparison of strategies to recruit older patients and carers to end-of-life research in primary care
Barbara Hanratty, Elizabeth Lowson, Louise Holmes, Julia Addington-Hall, Antony Arthur, Gunn Grande, Sheila Payne, Jane Seymour
Patient and work flow and costs associated with staff time and facility usage at a comprehensive cancer centre in Quebec, Canada – a time and motion study
Gayle A Shinder, Pierre Emmanuel Paradis, Marianne Posman, Natalia Mishagina, Marie-Pascale Guay, Dina Linardos, Gerald Batist
Health insurance coverage, medical expenditure and coping strategy: evidence from Taiwan
Kuangnan Fang, Ben-Chang Shia, Shuangge Ma
Barriers and opportunities for evidence-based health service planning: the example of developing a Decision Analytic Model to plan services for sexually transmitted infections in the UK
Catherine R H Aicken, Nigel T Armstrong, Jackie A Cassell, Neil Macdonald, Angela C Bailey, Sandra A Johnson, Catherine H Mercer
The standard of healthcare accreditation standards: a review of empirical research underpinning their development and impact
David Greenfield, Marjorie Pawsey, Reece Hinchcliff, Max Moldovan, Jeffrey Braithwaite
Using patient reported outcome measures in health services: A qualitative study on including people with low literacy skills and learning disabilities
Deepa Jahagirdar, Thilo Kroll, Karen Ritchie, Sally Wyke
A three-model comparison of the relationship between quality, satisfaction and loyalty: an empirical study of the Chinese healthcare system
Ping Lei, Alain Jolibert
Interprofessional communication with hospitalist and consultant physicians in general internal medicine: a qualitative study
Lesley Gotlib Conn, Scott Reeves, Katie Dainty, Chris Kenaszchuk, Merrick Zwarenstein
Detecting inpatient falls by using natural language processing of electronic medical records
Shin-ichi Toyabe
Accounting for the relationship between per diem cost and LOS when estimating hospitalization costs
K Jack Ishak, Marilyn Stolar, Ming-yi Hu, Piedad Alvarez, Yamei Wang, Denis Getsios, Gregory C Williams
Interpreting the results of a modified gravity model: examining access to primary health care physicians in five Canadian provinces and territories
Valorie A Crooks, Nadine Schuurman
Study protocol: a multi-professional team intervention of physical activity referrals in primary care patients with cardiovascular risk factors—the Dalby lifestyle intervention cohort (DALICO) study
Emelie Stenman, Matti E Leijon, Susanna Calling, Christina Bergmark, Daniel Arvidsson, Ulf-G Gerdtham, Kristina Sundquist, Rickard Ekesbo
The variation of acute treatment costs of trauma in high-income countries
Lynsey Willenberg, Kate Curtis, Colman Taylor, Stephen Jan, Parisa Glass, John Myburgh
A 10 year (2000–2010) systematic review of interventions to improve quality of care in hospitals
Mary C Conry, Niamh Humphries, Karen Morgan, Yvonne McGowan, Anthony Montgomery, Kavita Vedhara, Efharis Panagopoulou, Hannah Mc Gee
Combining QOF data with the care bundle approach may provide a more meaningful measure of quality in general practice
Carl de Wet, John McKay, Paul Bowie
A qualitative study into the use of formal services for dementia by carers from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities
Christopher Shanley, Desiree Boughtwood, Jon Adams, Yvonne Santalucia, Helena Kyriazopoulos, Dimity Pond, Jeffrey Rowland
Applying a Health Network approach to translate evidence-informed policy into practice: A review and case study on musculoskeletal health
Andrew M Briggs, Peter Bragge, Helen Slater, Madelynn Chan, Simon CB Towler
Transversal analysis of public policies on user fees exemptions in six West African countries
Valéry Ridde, Ludovic Queuille, Yamba Kafando, Émilie Robert
Trends in the treatment changes and medication persistence of chronic myeloid leukemia in Taiwan from 1997 to 2007: a longitudinal population database analysis
Chao-Sung Chang, Yi-Hsin Yang, Chien-Ning Hsu, Min-Ting Lin
Beyond section Q: prioritizing nursing home residents for transition to the community
Brant E Fries, Mary L James
Psychometric properties of the patient assessment of chronic illness care measure: acceptability, reliability and validity in United Kingdom patients with long-term conditions
Jo Rick, Kelly Rowe, Mark Hann, Bonnie Sibbald, David Reeves, Martin Roland, Peter Bower
Empirical analysis shows reduced cost data collection may be an efficient method in economic clinical trials
Hildegard Seidl, Christa Meisinger, Rupert Wende, Rolf Holle
Gender and social geography: Impact on Lady Health Workers Mobility in Pakistan
Zubia Mumtaz
Predicting costs of care in heart failure patients
David H Smith, Eric S Johnson, David K Blough, Micah L Thorp, Xiuhai Yang, Amanda F Petrik, Kathy A Crispell
The impact of care pathways for patients with proximal femur fracture: rationale and design of a cluster-randomized controlled trial
Kris Vanhaecht, Walter Sermeus, Jan Peers, Cathy Lodewijckx, Svin Deneckere, Fabrizio Leigheb, Steven Boonen, An Sermon, Paulo Boto, Rita Veloso Mendes, Massimiliano Panella
Evaluating the effects of variation in clinical practice: a risk adjusted cost-effectiveness (RAC-E) analysis of acute stroke services
Clarabelle Pham, Orla Caffrey, David Ben-Tovim, Paul Hakendorf, Maria Crotty, Jonathan Karnon
Comparing hospital mortality – how to count does matter for patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), stroke and hip fracture
Doris T Kristoffersen, Jon Helgeland, Jocelyne Clench-Aas, Petter Laake, Marit B Veierød
Use of routine hospital morbidity data together with weight and height of patients to predict in-hospital complications following total joint replacement
George Mnatzaganian, Philip Ryan, Paul E Norman, David C Davidson, Janet E Hiller
Monitoring the prevalence of chronic conditions: which data should we use?
Juan F Orueta, Roberto Nuño-Solinis, Maider Mateos, Itziar Vergara, Gonzalo Grandes, Santiago Esnaola
Integrated complex care coordination for children with medical complexity: A mixed-methods evaluation of tertiary care-community collaboration
Eyal Cohen, Ashley Lacombe-Duncan, Karen Spalding, Jennifer MacInnis, David Nicholas, Unni G Narayanan, Michelle Gordon, Ivor Margolis, Jeremy N Friedman
Cost-effectiveness of new pneumococcal conjugate vaccines in Turkey: a decision analytical model
Mustafa Bakır, Özden Türel, Oleksandr Topachevskyi
Pharmaceutical care issues identified by pharmacists in patients with diabetes, hypertension or hyperlipidaemia in primary care settings
Siew Siang Chua, Li Ching Kok, Faridah Aryani Md Yusof, Guang Hui Tang, Shaun Wen Huey Lee, Benny Efendie, Thomas Paraidathathu
Quality of outpatient clinical notes: a stakeholder definition derived through qualitative research
Janice L Hanson, Mark B Stephens, Louis N Pangaro, Ronald W Gimbel
Proton pump inhibitors: potential cost reductions by applying prescribing guidelines
Caitriona Cahir, Tom Fahey, Lesley Tilson, Conor Teljeur, Kathleen Bennett
The Seamless Transfer-of-Care Protocol: a randomized controlled trial assessing the efficacy of an electronic transfer-of-care communication tool
Barbara M Okoniewska, Maria J Santana, Jayna Holroyd-Leduc, Ward Flemons, Maeve O’Beirne, Deborah White, Fiona Clement, Alan Forster, William A Ghali
Development of a set of process and structure indicators for palliative care: the Europall project
Kathrin Woitha, Karen Van Beek, Nisar Ahmed, Jeroen Hasselaar, Jean-Marc Mollard, Isabelle Colombet, Lukas Radbruch, Kris Vissers, Yvonne Engels
A teachable moment communication process for smoking cessation talk: description of a group randomized clinician-focused intervention
Susan A Flocke, Elizabeth Antognoli, Mary M Step, Sybil Marsh, Theodore Parran, Mary Jane Mason
Building better systems of care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: findings from the Kanyini health systems assessment
David Peiris, Alex Brown, Michael Howard, Bernadette A Rickards, Andrew Tonkin, Ian Ring, Noel Hayman, Alan Cass
Prioritizing strategies for comprehensive liver cancer control in Asia: a conjoint analysis
John FP Bridges, Liming Dong, Gisselle Gallego, Barri M Blauvelt, Susan M Joy, Timothy M Pawlik
Mandatory quality reports in Germany from the hospitals’ point of view: a cross-sectional observational study
Silke Auras, Werner de Cruppé, Karl Blum, Max Geraedts
Stakeholder perceptions of a nurse led walk-in centre
Rhian M Parker, Jane L Desborough, Laura E Forrest
Using an integrated COC index and multilevel measurements to verify the care outcome of patients with multiple chronic conditions
Chien-Lung Chan, Huey-Jen You, Hsin-Tsung Huang, Hsien-Wei Ting
Referral patterns and proximity to palliative care inpatient services by level of socio-economic disadvantage. A national study using spatial analysis
David C Currow, Samuel Allingham, Sonia Bird, Patsy Yates, Joanne Lewis, James Dawber, Kathy Eagar
Inequalities in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health in Vietnam: a retrospective study of survey data for 1997–2006
Henrik Axelson, Ulf-G Gerdtham, Björn Ekman, Dinh Thi Phuong Hoa, Tobias Alfvén
The economic burden of advanced liver disease among patients with Hepatitis C Virus: a large state Medicaid perspective
Joseph Menzin, Leigh Ann White, Christine Nichols, Baris Deniz
Defining upper gastrointestinal bleeding from linked primary and secondary care data and the effect on occurrence and 28 day mortality
Colin John Crooks, Timothy Richard Card, Joe West
Sustainability of healthcare improvement: what can we learn from learning theory?
Einar Hovlid, Oddbjørn Bukve, Kjell Haug, Aslak Bjarne Aslaksen, Christian von Plessen
Cost-effectiveness of compression technologies for evidence-informed leg ulcer care: results from the Canadian Bandaging Trial
Ba' Pham, Margaret B Harrison, Maggie H Chen, Meg E Carley
Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of clinical practice guidelines: A cross-sectional survey among physicians in Estonia
Pille Taba, Marika Rosenthal, Jarno Habicht, Helvi Tarien, Mari Mathiesen, Suzanne Hill, Lisa Bero
Moving from rhetoric to reality: adapting Housing First for homeless individuals with mental illness from ethno-racial groups
Vicky Stergiopoulos, Patricia O’Campo, Agnes Gozdzik, Jeyagobi Jeyaratnam, Simon Corneau, Aseefa Sarang, Stephen W Hwang
A comprehensive model for intimate partner violence in South African primary care: action research
Kate Joyner, Bob Mash
An organisational analysis of the implementation of telecare and telehealth: the whole systems demonstrator
Jane Hendy, Theopisti Chrysanthaki, James Barlow, Martin Knapp, Anne Rogers, Caroline Sanders, Peter Bower, Robert Bowen, Ray Fitzpatrick, Martin Bardsley, Stanton Newman
The impact of multiple chronic diseases on ambulatory care use; a population based study in Ontario, Canada
Elizabeth Muggah, Erin Graves, Carol Bennett, Douglas G Manuel
Use of cross-border healthcare services among ethnic Danes, Turkish immigrants and Turkish descendants in Denmark: a combined survey and registry study
Signe Smith Nielsen, Suzan Yazici, Signe Gronwald Petersen, Anne Leonora Blaakilde, Allan Krasnik
National Essential Medicines List and policy practice: A case study of China’s health care reform
Xin Tian, Yaran Song, Xinping Zhang
Long-term survival and healthcare utilization outcomes attributable to sepsis and pneumonia
Andrew Dick, Hangsheng Liu, Jack Zwanziger, Eli Perencevich, E Yoko Furuya, Elaine Larson, Monika Pogorzelska-Maziarz, Patricia W Stone
Understanding and benchmarking health service achievement of policy goals for chronic disease
Erica Bell, Bastian Seidel
Health status and socio-economic factors associated with health facility utilization in rural and urban areas in Zambia
Cosmas Zyaambo, Seter Siziya, Knut Fylkesnes
The cost-effectiveness of tracking newborns with bilateral hearing impairment in Bavaria: a decision-analytic model
Astrid Langer, Inken Brockow, Uta Nennstiel-Ratzel, Petra Menn
Can colorectal cancer survivors recall their medications and doctor visits reliably?
Louisa G Gordon, Tania Patrao, Anna L Hawkes
Estimating length of stay in publicly-funded residential and nursing care homes: a retrospective analysis using linked administrative data sets
Adam Steventon, Adam Roberts
Does the presence of a pharmacist in primary care clinics improve diabetes medication adherence?
Beverly Mielke Kocarnik, Chuan-Fen Liu, Edwin S Wong, Mark Perkins, Matthew L Maciejewski, Elizabeth M Yano, David H Au, John D Piette, Chris L Bryson
Challenges in identifying barriers to adoption in a theory-based implementation study: lessons for future implementation studies
Andria Hanbury, Katherine Farley, Carl Thompson, Paul Wilson, Duncan Chambers
Developing consensus-based policy solutions for medicines adherence for Europe: a delphi study
Wendy Clyne, Simon White, Sarah McLachlan
Is patient-grouping on basis of condition on admission indicative for discharge destination in geriatric stroke patients after rehabilitation in skilled nursing facilities? The results of a cluster analysis
Bianca I Buijck, Sytse U Zuidema, Monica Spruit-van Eijk, Hans Bor, Debby L Gerritsen, Raymond TCM Koopmans
Utilization and cost of a new model of care for managing acute knee injuries: the Calgary acute knee injury clinic
Breda HF Lau, Mark R Lafave, Nicholas G Mohtadi, Dale J Butterwick
The effect of community-based health management on the health of the elderly: a randomized controlled trial from China
Jianqian Chao, Yimin Wang, Hui Xu, Qing Yu, Lili Jiang, Lin Tian, Wenyuan Xie, Pei Liu
Shared care in the follow-up of early-stage melanoma: a qualitative study of Australian melanoma clinicians’ perspectives and models of care
Lucie Rychetnik, Rachael L Morton, Kirsten McCaffery, John F Thompson, Scott W Menzies, Les Irwig
Improving HIV outcomes in resource-limited countries: the importance of quality indicators
Aima A Ahonkhai, Ingrid V Bassett, Timothy G Ferris, Kenneth A Freedberg
Do self-report and medical record comorbidity data predict longitudinal functional capacity and quality of life health outcomes similarly?
Adesuwa B Olomu, William D Corser, Manfred Stommel, Yan Xie, Margaret Holmes-Rovner
Factors which influence the length of an out-of-hours telephone consultation in primary care: a retrospective database study
Mohammed A Mohammed, Gill Clements, Elaine Edwards, Helen Lester
Association between unemployment rates and prescription drug utilization in the United States, 2007–2010
Daniel Kozman, Christopher Graziul, Robert Gibbons, G Caleb Alexander
Acute care utilization due to hospitalizations for pediatric lower respiratory tract infections in British Columbia, Canada
Pablo Santibanez, Katherine Gooch, Pamela Vo, Michelle Lorimer, Yurik Sandino
The cancer multi-disciplinary team from the co-ordinators’ perspective: results from a national survey in the UK
Rozh Jalil, Benjamin Lamb, Stephanie Russ, Nick Sevdalis, James SA Green
Emotional intelligence, emotional labor, and job satisfaction among physicians in Greece
Aristea Psilopanagioti, Fotios Anagnostopoulos, Efstratia Mourtou, Dimitris Niakas
Motives for early retirement of self-employed GPs in the Netherlands: a comparison of two time periods
Malou Van Greuningen, Phil JM Heiligers, Lud FJ Van der Velden
Workplace violence against physicians and nurses in Palestinian public hospitals: a cross-sectional study
Mohamad Kitaneh, Motasem Hamdan
Designation, diligence and drift: understanding laboratory expenditure increases in British Columbia, 1996/97 to 2005/06
Saskia N Sivananthan, Sandra Peterson, Ruth Lavergne, Morris L Barer, Kimberlyn M McGrail
Shaping healthcare-seeking processes during fatal illness in resource-poor settings. A study in Lao PDR
Helle M Alvesson, Magnus Lindelow, Bouasavanh Khanthaphat, Lucie Laflamme
Unsupported off-label chemotherapy in metastatic colon cancer
Jonas A de Souza, Blase Polite, Monica Perkins, Neal J Meropol, Mark J Ratain, Lee N Newcomer, G Caleb Alexander
Should I stay or should I go? Understanding families’ decisions regarding initiating, continuing, and terminating health services for managing pediatric obesity: the protocol for a multi-center, qualitative study
Geoff DC Ball, Arnaldo Perez Garcia, Jean-Pierre Chanoine, Katherine M Morrison, Laurent Legault, Arya M Sharma, Rebecca Gokiert, Nicholas L Holt
Perceptions of cardiac rehabilitation patients, specialists and rehabilitation programs regarding cardiac rehabilitation wait times
Sherry L Grace, Yongyao Tan, Louise Marcus, William Dafoe, Chris Simpson, Neville Suskin, Caroline Chessex
We are bitter, but we are better off: case study of the implementation of an electronic health record system into a mental health hospital in England
Amirhossein Takian, Aziz Sheikh, Nicholas Barber
Study Protocol: establishing good relationships between patients and health care providers while providing cardiac care. Exploring how patient-clinician engagement contributes to health disparities between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in South Australia
Yvette L Roe, Christopher J Zeitz, Bronwyn Fredericks
Sustainability of healthcare innovations (SUSHI): long term effects of two implemented surgical care programmes (protocol)
Stephanie M C Ament, Freek Gillissen, José M C Maessen, Carmen D Dirksen, Trudy van der Weijden, Maarten F von Meyenfeldt
Free choice of healthcare providers in the Netherlands is both a goal in itself and a precondition: modelling the policy assumptions underlying the promotion of patient choice through documentary analysis and interviews
Aafke Victoor, Roland D Friele, Diana MJ Delnoij, Jany JDJM Rademakers
Expenditure and resource utilisation for cervical screening in Australia
Jie-Bin Lew, Kirsten Howard, Dorota Gertig, Megan Smith, Mark Clements, Carolyn Nickson, Ju-Fang Shi, Suzanne Dyer, Sarah Lord, Prudence Creighton, Yoon-Jung Kang, Jeffrey Tan, Karen Canfell
Equity of access to reproductive health services among youths in resource-limited suburban communities of Mandalay City, Myanmar
Phyu Phyu Thin Zaw, Tippawan Liabsuetrakul, Thien Thien Htay, Edward McNeil
A model for community health service development in depressed rural areas in China
Yuan Zhaokang, Liu Yuxi, Liu Yong, Xiao Yunchang, Guo Yuanjun, Mark Harris
Stigma, an important source of dissatisfaction of health workers in HIV response in Vietnam: a qualitative study
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Determining adult type 2 diabetes-related health care needs in an indigenous population from rural Guatemala: a mixed-methods preliminary study
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Cost-effectiveness of a health-social partnership transitional program for post-discharge medical patients
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Persisting stigma reduces the utilisation of HIV-related care and support services in Viet Nam
Duong Cong Thanh, Karen Marie Moland, Knut Fylkesnes
The socio-technical organisation of community pharmacies as a factor in the Electronic Prescription Service Release Two implementation: a qualitative study
Jasmine Harvey, Anthony J Avery, Justin Waring, Nick Barber
Patient characteristics associated with hospitalisations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in Victoria, Australia
Zahid Ansari, Syed Imran Haider, Humaira Ansari, Tanyth de Gooyer, Colin Sindall
A multi-perspective cost-effectiveness analysis comparing rivaroxaban with enoxaparin sodium for thromboprophylaxis after total hip and knee replacement in the German healthcare setting
Sonja Zindel, Stephanie Stock, Dirk Müller, Björn Stollenwerk
Cost comparison of MRSA screening and management – a decision tree analysis
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Effect of the act on promotion of personal autonomy and care for dependent persons on their family caregivers
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Outpatient prescription practices in rural township health centers in Sichuan Province, China
Qian Jiang, Bo Nancy Yu, Guiying Ying, Jiaqiang Liao, Huaping Gan, James Blanchard, Juying Zhang
Oesophagectomy rates and post-resection outcomes in patients with cancer of the oesophagus and gastro-oesophageal junction: a population-based study using linked health administrative linked data
Efty P Stavrou, Robyn Ward, Sallie-Anne Pearson
Providing community-based health practitioners with timely and accurate discharge medicines information
Alice V Gilbert, Bhavini Patel, Melanie Morrow, Desmond Williams, Michael S Roberts, Andrew L Gilbert
Assessing research impact in academic clinical medicine: a study using Research Excellence Framework pilot impact indicators
Pavel V Ovseiko, Alis Oancea, Alastair M Buchan
Association between value-based purchasing score and hospital characteristics
Bijan J Borah, Michael G Rock, Douglas L Wood, Daniel L Roellinger, Matthew G Johnson, James M Naessens
Factors influencing the development of evidence-based practice among nurses: a self-report survey
Anne Dalheim, Stig Harthug, Roy M Nilsen, Monica W Nortvedt
“It is a challenge to do it the right way”: an interpretive description of caregivers’ experiences in caring for migrant patients in Northern Sweden
Faustine Kyungu Nkulu Kalengayi, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Clas Ahlm, Beth Maina Ahlberg
Cardiac rehabilitation may not provide a quality of life benefit in coronary artery disease patients
Rosanna Tavella, John F Beltrame
Short and long term retention in antiretroviral care in health facilities in rural Malawi and Zimbabwe
Freya Rasschaert, Olivier Koole, Rony Zachariah, Lut Lynen, Marcel Manzi, Wim Van Damme
VIDEOCARE: Decentralised psychiatric emergency care through videoconferencing
Marianne V Trondsen, Stein Roald Bolle, Geir Øyvind Stensland, Aksel Tjora
“More bang for the buck”: exploring optimal approaches for guideline implementation through interviews with international developers
Anna R Gagliardi
Catastrophic health care spending and impoverishment in Kenya
Jane Chuma, Thomas Maina
A case study of the counterpart technical support policy to improve rural health services in Beijing
Weiyan Jian, Kit Yee Chan, Shunv Tang, Daniel D Reidpath
Professional health care use and subjective unmet need for social or emotional problems: a cross-sectional survey of the married and divorced population of Flanders
Elien Colman, Sara Symoens, Piet Bracke
Clinicians’ experiences of becoming a clinical manager: a qualitative study
Ivan Spehar, Jan C Frich, Lars Erik Kjekshus
An exercise intervention to prevent falls in Parkinson’s: an economic evaluation
Emily Fletcher, Victoria A Goodwin, Suzanne H Richards, John L Campbell, Rod S Taylor
Developing the specifications of an Open Angle Glaucoma screening intervention in the United Kingdom: a Delphi approach
Susan E Campbell, Augusto Azuara-Blanco, Marion K Campbell, Jillian J Francis, Alexandra C Greene, Craig R Ramsay, Jennifer M Burr
Mapping of multiple criteria for priority setting of health interventions: an aid for decision makers
Noor Tromp, Rob Baltussen
A metasynthesis of qualitative studies regarding opinions and perceptions about barriers and determinants of health services’ accessibility in economic migrants
Andrés A Agudelo-Suárez, Diana Gil-González, Carmen Vives-Cases, John G Love, Peter Wimpenny, Elena Ronda-Pérez
New evidence on financing equity in China's health care reform - A case study on Gansu province, China
Mingsheng Chen, Wen Chen, Yuxin Zhao
The LINKIN Health Census process: design and implementation
Catherine Elizabeth Hoon-Leahy, Jonathan Newbury, Alison Kitson, Deirdre Whitford, Anne Wilson, Jonathan Karnon, Jenny Baker, Konrad Jamrozik, Justin Beilby
The retention of health human resources in primary healthcare centers in Lebanon: a national survey
Mohamad Alameddine, Shadi Saleh, Fadi El-Jardali, Hani Dimassi, Yara Mourad
Contracting in specialists for emergency obstetric care- does it work in rural India?
Bharat Randive, Sarika Chaturvedi, Nerges Mistry
Awareness and management of chronic disease, insurance status, and health professional shortage areas in the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS): a cross-sectional study
Raegan W Durant, Gaurav Parmar, Faisal Shuaib, Anh Le, Todd M Brown, David L Roth, Martha Hovater, Jewell H Halanych, James M Shikany, Ronald J Prineas, Tandaw J Samdarshi, Monika M Safford
Physician assessments of medication adherence and decisions to intensify medications for patients with uncontrolled blood pressure: still no better than a coin toss
Jennifer Meddings, Eve A Kerr, Michele Heisler, Timothy P Hofer
Embedding chiropractic in Indigenous Health Care Organisations: applying the normalisation process model
Barbara I Polus, Charlotte Paterson, Joan van Rotterdam, Dein Vindigni
Design of a prospective cohort study to assess ethnic inequalities in patient safety in hospital care using mixed methods
Floor van Rosse, Martine C de Bruijne, Cordula Wagner, Karien Stronks, Marie-Louise Essink-Bot
Profiling the different needs and expectations of patients for population-based medicine: a case study using segmentation analysis
Federico Lega, Alessandro Mengoni
Sustaining modified behaviours learnt in a diabetes prevention program in regional Australia: the role of social context
Christine Walker, Andrea Hernan, Prasuna Reddy, James A Dunbar
Application of Variable Life Adjusted Displays (VLAD) on Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset (VAED)
Nick Andrianopoulos, Damien Jolley, Sue M Evans, Caroline A Brand, Peter A Cameron
Primary health care in rural Malawi - a qualitative assessment exploring the relevance of the community-directed interventions approach
Peter Makaula, Paul Bloch, Hastings T Banda, Grace Bongololo Mbera, Charles Mangani, Alexandra de Sousa, Edwin Nkhono, Samuel Jemu, Adamson S Muula
A new analytical framework of 'continuum of prevention and care' to maximize HIV case detection and retention in care in Vietnam
Masami Fujita, Krishna C Poudel, Nhan Do Thi, Duong Bui Duc, Kinh Nguyen Van, Kimberly Green, Thu Nguyen Thi Minh, Masaya Kato, David Jacka, Thuy Cao Thi Thanh, Long Nguyen Thanh, Masamine Jimba
Characteristics of practitioners in a private managed behavioral health plan
Sharon Reif, Maria E Torres, Constance M Horgan, Elizabeth L Merrick
Data linkage infrastructure for cross-jurisdictional health-related research in Australia
James H Boyd, Anna M Ferrante, Christine M O’Keefe, Alfred J Bass, Sean M Randall, James B Semmens
Efficacy of a numerical value of a fixed-effect estimator in stochastic frontier analysis as an indicator of hospital production structure
Hiroyuki Kawaguchi, Hideki Hashimoto, Shinya Matsuda
Comorbidities as a driver of the excess costs of community-acquired pneumonia in U.S. commercially-insured working age adults
Daniel Polsky, Machaon Bonafede, Jose A Suaya
Identifying factors associated with experiences of coronary heart disease patients receiving structured chronic care and counselling in European primary care
Sabine Ludt, Jan van Lieshout, Stephen M Campbell, J Rochon, Dominik Ose, T Freund, Michel Wensing, Joachim Szecsenyi