Issue 1/2013
Content (536 Articles)
Official statistics and claims data records indicate non-response and recall bias within survey-based estimates of health care utilization in the older population
Matthias Hunger, Larissa Schwarzkopf, Margit Heier, Annette Peters, Rolf Holle
Are community-living and institutionalized dementia patients cared for differently? Evidence on service utilization and costs of care from German insurance claims data
Larissa Schwarzkopf, Petra Menn, Reiner Leidl, Elmar Graessel, Rolf Holle
Process-related factors associated with disciplinary board decisions
Søren Birkeland, Rene dePont Christensen, Niels Damsbo, Jakob Kragstrup
Selection of medicines in Chilean public hospitals: an exploratory study
Juan F Collao, Felicity Smith, Nick Barber
Relationships between antenatal and postnatal care and post-partum modern contraceptive use: evidence from population surveys in Kenya and Zambia
Mai Do, David Hotchkiss
What aspects of primary care predict emergency admission rates? A cross sectional study
Stephen Gunther, Nick Taub, Stephen Rogers, Richard Baker
Aboriginal-mainstream partnerships: exploring the challenges and enhancers of a collaborative service arrangement for Aboriginal clients with substance use issues
Kate P Taylor, Dawn Bessarab, Lorna Hunter, Sandra C Thompson
Is 50 cent the price of the optimal copayment? - a qualitative study of patient opinions and attitudes in response to a 50 cent charge on prescription drugs in a publicly funded health system in Ireland
Sarah-Jo Sinnott, Marie Guinane, Helen Whelton, Stephen Byrne
The prevalence and ingredient cost of chronic comorbidity in the Irish elderly population with medication treated type 2 diabetes: A retrospective cross-sectional study using a national pharmacy claims database
Miriam O’Shea, Mary Teeling, Kathleen Bennett
Risk adjustment for cesarean delivery rates: how many variables do we need? An observational study using administrative databases
Elisa Stivanello, Paola Rucci, Elisa Carretta, Giulia Pieri, Maria P Fantini
Knowledge, attitude and practice of physiotherapists towards promotion of physically active lifestyles in patient management
Happiness A Aweto, Cynthia N Oligbo, Oluseun A Fapojuwo, Olajide A Olawale
Comparison of outcomes for veterans receiving dialysis care from VA and non-VA providers
Virginia Wang, Matthew L Maciejewski, Uptal D Patel, Karen M Stechuchak, Denise M Hynes, Morris Weinberger
Private sector delivery of health services in developing countries: a mixed-methods study on quality assurance in social franchises
Karen Schlein, Anna York De La Cruz, Tisha Gopalakrishnan, Dominic Montagu
Development of mental health quality indicators (MHQIs) for inpatient psychiatry based on the interRAI mental health assessment
Christopher M Perlman, John P Hirdes, Howard Barbaree, Brant E Fries, Ian McKillop, John N Morris, Terry Rabinowitz
Healthcare-seeking behavior, treatment delays and its determinants among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in rural Nigeria: a cross-sectional study
Kingsley N Ukwaja, Isaac Alobu, Chibueze O Nweke, Ephraim C Onyenwe
Sensitivity and specificity of Norwegian optometrists’ evaluation of diabetic retinopathy in single-field retinal images – a cross-sectional experimental study
Vibeke Sundling, Pål Gulbrandsen, Jørund Straand
Comparison of measures of comorbidity for predicting disability 12-months post-injury
Belinda J Gabbe, James E Harrison, Ronan A Lyons, Elton R Edwards, Peter A Cameron
Inter-jurisdictional cooperation on pharmaceutical product listing agreements: views from Canadian provinces
Steven G Morgan, Paige A Thomson, Jamie R Daw, Melissa K Friesen
A mixed methods descriptive investigation of readiness to change in rural hospitals participating in a tele-critical care intervention
Jane Zapka, Kit Simpson, Lara Hiott, Laura Langston, Samir Fakhry, Dee Ford
Barriers to the implementation of preconception care guidelines as perceived by general practitioners: a qualitative study
Danielle Mazza, Anna Chapman, Susan Michie
Compliance with clinical practice guidelines for breast cancer treatment: a population-based study of quality-of-care indicators in Italy
Carlotta Sacerdote, Rita Bordon, Sabina Pitarella, Maria Piera Mano, Ileana Baldi, Denise Casella, Daniela Di Cuonzo, Alfonso Frigerio, Luisella Milanesio, Franco Merletti, Eva Pagano, Fulvio Ricceri, Stefano Rosso, Nereo Segnan, Mariano Tomatis, Giovannino Ciccone, Paolo Vineis, Antonio Ponti
The Prevention and Reactivation Care Program: intervention fidelity matters
Annemarie JBM de Vos, Ton JEM Bakker, Paul L de Vreede, Jeroen DH van Wijngaarden, Ewout W Steyerberg, Johan P Mackenbach, Anna P Nieboer
Neonatal outcomes after preterm birth by mothers’ health insurance status at birth: a retrospective cohort study
Kristjana Einarsdóttir, Fatima A Haggar, Amanda T Langridge, Anthony S Gunnell, Helen Leonard, Fiona J Stanley
The effect of electronic medical record adoption on outcomes in US hospitals
Jinhyung Lee, Yong-Fang Kuo, James S Goodwin
The needs of people with dementia living at home from user, caregiver and professional perspectives: a cross-sectional survey
Claudia Miranda-Castillo, Bob Woods, Martin Orrell
Type II diabetes patients in primary care: profiles of healthcare utilization obtained from observational data
Christel E van Dijk, Trynke Hoekstra, Robert A Verheij, Jos WR Twisk, Peter P Groenewegen, François G Schellevis, Dinny H de Bakker
Service quality, trust, and patient satisfaction in interpersonal-based medical service encounters
Ching-Sheng Chang, Su-Yueh Chen, Yi-Ting Lan
Developing a patient and family-centred approach for measuring the quality of injury care: a study protocol
Henry T Stelfox, Jamie M Boyd, Sharon E Straus, Anna R Gagliardi
Health information technology capacity at federally qualified health centers: a mechanism for improving quality of care
Jemima A Frimpong, Bradford E Jackson, LaShonda M Stewart, Karan P Singh, Patrick A Rivers, Sejong Bae
Direct economic burden of hepatitis B virus related diseases: evidence from Shandong, China
Jingjing Lu, Aiqiang Xu, Jian Wang, Li Zhang, Lizhi Song, Renpeng Li, Shunxiang Zhang, Guihua Zhuang, Mingshan Lu
Evaluating a questionnaire to measure improvement initiatives in Swedish healthcare
Ann-Christine Andersson, Mattias Elg, Kent-Inge Perseius, Ewa Idvall
Training health care professionals in root cause analysis: a cross-sectional study of post-training experiences, benefits and attitudes
Paul Bowie, Joe Skinner, Carl de Wet
Implementation factors and their effect on e-Health service adoption in rural communities: a systematic literature review
Eveline Hage, John P Roo, Marjolein AG van Offenbeek, Albert Boonstra
Factors associated with involuntary admissions among patients with substance use disorders and comorbidity: a cross-sectional study
Anne Opsal, Øistein Kristensen, Tor K Larsen, Gro Syversen, Bakke Elise Aasen Rudshaug, Arne Gerdner, Thomas Clausen
Technical evaluation of methods for identifying chemotherapy-induced febrile neutropenia in healthcare claims databases
Derek Weycker, Oleg Sofrygin, Kim Seefeld, Robert G Deeter, Jason Legg, John Edelsberg
Reducing unnecessary hospital days to improve quality of care through physician accountability: a cluster randomised trial
Caterina Caminiti, Tiziana Meschi, Luca Braglia, Francesca Diodati, Elisa Iezzi, Barbara Marcomini, Antonio Nouvenne, Eliana Palermo, Beatrice Prati, Tania Schianchi, Loris Borghi
Health service quality scale: Brazilian Portuguese translation, reliability and validity
Luiz Roberto Martins Rocha, Daniela Francescato Veiga, Paulo Rocha e Oliveira, Elaine Horibe Song, Lydia Masako Ferreira
Assessment of the uptake of neonatal and young infant referrals by community health workers to public health facilities in an urban informal settlement, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Duduzile Nsibande, Tanya Doherty, Petrida Ijumba, Mark Tomlinson, Debra Jackson, David Sanders, Joy Lawn
Factors influencing patient safety in Sweden: perceptions of patient safety officers in the county councils
Mikaela Nygren, Kerstin Roback, Annica Öhrn, Hans Rutberg, Mikael Rahmqvist, Per Nilsen
Clinical risk management in mental health: a qualitative study of main risks and related organizational management practices
Matthias Briner, Tanja Manser
Undergraduate nursing students caring for cancer patients: hermeneutic phenomenological insights of their experiences
Andreas Charalambous, Charis Kaite
“I feel it is not enough…” Health providers’ perspectives on services for victims of intimate partner violence in Malaysia
Manuela Colombini, Susannah Mayhew, Siti Hawa Ali, Rashidah Shuib, Charlotte Watts
Design of the DISCovery project: tailored work-oriented interventions to improve employee health, well-being, and performance-related outcomes in hospital care
Irene MW Niks, Jan de Jonge, Josette MP Gevers, Irene LD Houtman
Community participation in rural health: a scoping review
Amanda Kenny, Nerida Hyett, John Sawtell, Virginia Dickson-Swift, Jane Farmer, Peter O’Meara
Changes in FDA enforcement activities following changes in federal administration: the case of regulatory letters released to pharmaceutical companies
Diane Nguyen, Enrique Seoane-Vazquez, Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio, Michael Montagne
Can community retail pharmacist and diabetes expert support facilitate insulin initiation by family physicians? Results of the AIM@GP randomized controlled trial
Stewart B Harris, Hertzel C Gerstein, Jean-François Yale, Lori Berard, John Stewart, Susan Webster-Bogaert, Jordan W Tompkins
Is insufficient knowledge of epilepsy the reason for low levels of healthcare in the Lao PDR?
Aina Harimanana, Phetvongsinh Chivorakul, Vimalay Souvong, Pierre-Marie Preux, Hubert Barennes
Cost utility analysis of reduced intensity hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in adolescence and young adult with severe thalassemia compared to hypertransfusion and iron chelation program
Rosarin Sruamsiri, Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk, Samart Pakakasama, Somtawin Sirireung, Nintita Sripaiboonkij, Udomsak Bunworasate, Suradej Hongeng
A systematic review of the unit costs of allied health and community services used by older people in Australia
Inez Farag, Cathie Sherrington, Manuela Ferreira, Kirsten Howard
Validation of ICD-9-CM codes for identification of acetaminophen-related emergency department visits in a large pediatric hospital
Sofia de Achaval, Chris Feudtner, Shana Palla, Maria E Suarez-Almazor
Decoupling the use and meaning of strategic plans in public healthcare
Federico Lega, Francesco Longo, Andrea Rotolo
Multi-level modelling of the factors that influence the participation of disabled rural individuals in social medical insurance in China
Ju Huang, Xi-Long Pan, Ang Li
Do health systems delay the treatment of poor children? A qualitative study of child deaths in rural Tanzania
Helle Samuelsen, Britt Pinkowski Tersbøl, Selemani Said Mbuyita
The current scenario of emergency care policies in Brazil
Gisele O'Dwyer, Mariana Teixeira Konder, Cristiani Vieira Machado, Camila Paes Alves, Renan Paes Alves
Staff experiences of providing maternity services in rural southern Tanzania – a focus on equipment, drug and supply issues
Suzanne Penfold, Donat Shamba, Claudia Hanson, Jennie Jaribu, Fatuma Manzi, Tanya Marchant, Marcel Tanner, Kate Ramsey, David Schellenberg, Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg
Translating and testing the Alberta context tool for use among nurses in Swedish elder care
Ann Catrine Eldh, Anna Ehrenberg, Janet E Squires, Carole A Estabrooks, Lars Wallin
Comparison of prothrombin time (INR) results and main characteristics of patients on warfarin treatment in primary health care centers and anticoagulation clinics
Kerstin Arbring, Srinivas Uppugunduri, Tomas L Lindahl
Retention of the rural allied health workforce in New South Wales: a comparison of public and private practitioners
Sheila Keane, Michelle Lincoln, Margaret Rolfe, Tony Smith
Impact of effectiveness information format on patient choice of therapy and satisfaction with decisions about chronic disease medication: the "Influence of intervention Methodologies on Patient Choice of Therapy (IMPACT)" cluster-randomised trial in general practice
Charlotte Gry Harmsen, Dorte Ejg Jarbøl, Jørgen Nexøe, Henrik Støvring, Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Jesper Bo Nielsen, Adrian Edwards, Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen
A qualitative study of a social and emotional well-being service for a remote Indigenous Australian community: implications for access, effectiveness, and sustainability
Timothy A Carey
Viewing health expenditures, payment and coping mechanisms with an equity lens in Nigeria
Oforbuike Ewelukwa, Chima Onoka, Obinna Onwujekwe
Explaining the amount of care needed by hospitalised surgical patients: a prospective time and motion study
Catharina J van Oostveen, Hester Vermeulen, Dirk J Gouma, Piet J Bakker, Dirk T Ubbink
Health service pathways for patients with chronic leg ulcers: identifying effective pathways for facilitation of evidence based wound care
Helen Edwards, Kathleen Finlayson, Mary Courtney, Nick Graves, Michelle Gibb, Christina Parker
Politics and its intersection with coverage with evidence development: a qualitative analysis from expert interviews
Danielle Bishop, Joel Lexchin
Experiences of health care providers with integrated HIV and reproductive health services in Kenya: a qualitative study
Richard Mutemwa, Susannah Mayhew, Manuela Colombini, Joanna Busza, Jackline Kivunaga, Charity Ndwiga
The impact of a team-based intervention on the lifestyle risk factor management practices of community nurses: outcomes of the community nursing SNAP trial
Bibiana C Chan, Upali W Jayasinghe, Bettina Christl, Rachel A Laws, Neil Orr, Anna Williams, Kate Partington, Mark F Harris
Implementation of geriatric assessment and decision support in residential care homes: facilitating and impeding factors during initial and maintenance phase
Marijke Boorsma, Eveliene Langedijk, Dinnus HM Frijters, Giel Nijpels, Tom Elfring, Hein PJ van Hout
Case management and self-management support for frequent users with chronic disease in primary care: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial
Maud-Christine Chouinard, Catherine Hudon, Marie-France Dubois, Pasquale Roberge, Christine Loignon, Éric Tchouaket, Martin Fortin, Éva-Marjorie Couture, Maxime Sasseville
Surgical treatment approaches and reimbursement costs of surgical site infections post hip arthroplasty in Australia: a retrospective analysis
Katharina MD Merollini, Ross W Crawford, Nicholas Graves
Couple experiences of provider-initiated couple HIV testing in an antenatal clinic in Lusaka, Zambia: lessons for policy and practice
Maurice Musheke, Virginia Bond, Sonja Merten
Feasibility and effect of integrating tuberculosis screening and detection in postnatal care services: an operations research study
Charity Ndwiga, Harriet Birungi, Chi-Chi Undie, Herman Weyenga, Joseph Sitienei
Assessing the outcomes of implantable cardioverter defibrillator treatment in a real world setting: results from hospital record data
Simone Ghislandi, Aleksandra Torbica, Giuseppe Boriani
Socioeconomic differences in mortality amenable to health care among Finnish adults 1992-2003: 12 year follow up using individual level linked population register data
Alison K McCallum, Kristiina Manderbacka, Martti Arffman, Alastair H Leyland, Ilmo Keskimäki
Effectiveness of moving on: an Australian designed generic self-management program for people with a chronic illness
Anna M Williams, Leah Bloomfield, Eloise Milthorpe, Diana Aspinall, Karen Filocamo, Therese Wellsmore, Nicholas Manolios, Upali W Jayasinghe, Mark F Harris
Patient mobility for cardiac problems: a risk-adjusted analysis in Italy
Gabriele Messina, Silvia Forni, Francesca Collini, Cecilia Quercioli, Nicola Nante
Exploring consumers’ attitudes towards informal patient payments using the combined method of cluster and multinomial regression analysis - the case of Hungary
Petra Baji, Milena Pavlova, László Gulácsi, Wim Groot
Factors influencing health care utilisation among Aboriginal cardiac patients in central Australia: a qualitative study
Stella Artuso, Margaret Cargo, Alex Brown, Mark Daniel
Consumer knowledge and availability of maternal and child health services: a challenge for achieving MDG 4 and 5 in Southeast Nigeria
Nwala K Emmanuel, Ebunoha N Gladys, Ugwu U Cosmas
Mothers’ experiences and satisfactions with health extension program in Jimma zone, Ethiopia: a cross sectional study
Zewdie Birhanu, Ameyu Godesso, Yohannes Kebede, Mulusew Gerbaba
The role of the healthcare sector in the prevention of sexual violence against sub-Saharan transmigrants in Morocco: a study of knowledge, attitudes and practices of healthcare workers
Seline van den Ameele, Ines Keygnaert, Alima Rachidi, Kristien Roelens, Marleen Temmerman
The relationship between local area labor market conditions and the use of Veterans Affairs health services
Edwin S Wong, Chuan-Fen Liu
Economic burden to primary informal caregivers of hospitalized older adults in Mexico: a cohort study
Mariana López-Ortega, Carmen García-Peña, Víctor Granados-García, José Juan García-González, Mario Ulises Pérez-Zepeda
Health workers’ performance in the implementation of Patient Centred Tuberculosis Treatment (PCT) strategy under programmatic conditions in Tanzania: a cross sectional study
Abdallah Mkopi, Nyagosya Range, Mbaraka Amuri, Eveline Geubbels, Fred Lwilla, Saidi Egwaga, Alexander Schulze, Frank van Leth
Multifaceted intervention to enhance the screening and care of hospitalised malnourished children: study protocol for the PREDIRE cluster randomized controlled trial
Sandrine Touzet, Antoine Duclos, Angélique Denis, Lioara Restier-Miron, Pauline Occelli, Stéphanie Polazzi, Daniel Betito, Guillaume Gamba, Fleur Cour-Andlauer, Cyrille Colin, Alain Lachaux, Noël Peretti
Transforming primary healthcare by including the stakeholders involved in delivering care to people living in poverty: EQUIhealThY study protocol
Christine Loignon, Catherine Hudon, Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Sophie Dupéré, Ann C Macaulay, Pierre Pluye, Isabelle Gaboury, Jeannie L Haggerty, Martin Fortin, Émilie Goulet, Mireille Lambert, Luce Pelissier-Simard, Sophie Boyer, Marianne de Laat, Francine Lemire, Louise Champagne, Martin Lemieux
Enhancing screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment among socioeconomically disadvantaged patients: study protocol for a knowledge exchange intervention involving patients and physicians
Ginetta Salvalaggio, Kathryn Dong, Christine Vandenberghe, Scott Kirkland, Kelsey Mramor, Taryn Brown, Marliss Taylor, Robert McKim, Greta G Cummings, T Cameron Wild
How do health workers perceive and practice monitoring and evaluation of malaria control interventions in South-east Nigeria?
Chinyere O Mbachu, Benjamin SC Uzochukwu, Obinna E Onwujekwe, Amobi L Ilika, Joseph Oranuba
Out-of-pocket expenditures for primary health care in Tajikistan: a time-trend analysis
Joëlle Schwarz, Kaspar Wyss, Zulfiya M Gulyamova, Soleh Sharipov
Analysis of government investment in primary healthcare institutions to promote equity during the three-year health reform program in China
Xiaopeng Zhang, Yuqi Xiong, Jing Ye, Zhaohua Deng, Xinping Zhang
Using computer decision support systems in NHS emergency and urgent care: ethnographic study using normalisation process theory
Catherine Pope, Susan Halford, Joanne Turnbull, Jane Prichard, Melania Calestani, Carl May
Evidence for integrating eye health into primary health care in Africa: a health systems strengthening approach
Rènée du Toit, Hannah B Faal, Daniel Etya’ale, Boateng Wiafe, Ingrid Mason, Ronnie Graham, Simon Bush, Wanjiku Mathenge, Paul Courtright
Existence and functionality of emergency obstetric care services at district level in Kenya: theoretical coverage versus reality
Elizabeth Echoka, Yeri Kombe, Dominique Dubourg, Anselimo Makokha, Bjørg Evjen-Olsen, Moses Mwangi, Jens Byskov, Øystein Evjen Olsen, Richard Mutisya
Improving the quality of palliative and terminal care in the hospital by a network of palliative care nurse champions: the study protocol of the PalTeC-H project
Frederika E Witkamp, Lia van Zuylen, Paul J van der Maas, Helma van Dijk, Carin CD van der Rijt, Agnes van der Heide
Swedish translation and psychometric testing of the safety attitudes questionnaire (operating room version)
Camilla Göras, Fan Yang Wallentin, Ulrica Nilsson, Anna Ehrenberg
Development of a patient-centred care pathway across healthcare providers: a qualitative study
Tove Røsstad, Helge Garåsen, Aslak Steinsbekk, Olav Sletvold, Anders Grimsmo
Developing process guidelines for trauma care in the Netherlands for severely injured patients: results from a Delphi study
Elisabeth Maria Hoogervorst, Eduard Ferdinand van Beeck, Johan Carel Goslings, Pieter Dirk Bezemer, Joost Jan Laurens Marie Bierens
Is Europe putting theory into practice? A qualitative study of the level of self-management support in chronic care management approaches
Arianne Elissen, Ellen Nolte, Cécile Knai, Matthias Brunn, Karine Chevreul, Annalijn Conklin, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, Antje Erler, Maria Flamm, Anne Frølich, Birgit Fullerton, Ramune Jacobsen, Zuleika Saz-Parkinson, Antonio Sarria-Santamera, Andreas Sönnichsen, Hubertus Vrijhoef
Economic impact of switching to fixed-dose combination therapy for Japanese hypertensive patients: a retrospective cost analysis
Manabu Akazawa, Katsushi Fukuoka
Doctors are to blame for perceived medical adverse events. A cross sectional population study. The Tromsø study
Ragnar Hotvedt, Olav Helge Førde
Prospective cohort study protocol to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Quality of Trauma Care Patient-Reported Experience Measure (QTAC-PREM)
Niklas Bobrovitz, Maria Santana, Theresa Kline, John Kortbeek, Henry T Stelfox
Engaging primary care practitioners in quality improvement: making explicit the program theory of an interprofessional education intervention
Brigitte Vachon, Bruno Désorcy, Michel Camirand, Jean Rodrigue, Louise Quesnel, Claude Guimond, Martin Labelle, Johanne Fournier, Jeremy Grimshaw
Place of death and health care utilization for people in the last 6 months of life in Switzerland: a retrospective analysis using administrative data
Oliver Reich, Andri Signorell, André Busato
How do hospital administrators perceive cardiac rehabilitation in a publicly-funded health care system?
Sherry L Grace, Sabrina Scarcello, Janet Newton, Blair O’Neill, Kori Kingsbury, Tiziana Rivera, Caroline Chessex
Text-messaging versus telephone reminders to reduce missed appointments in an academic primary care clinic: a randomized controlled trial
Noelle Junod Perron, Melissa Dominicé Dao, Nadia Camparini Righini, Jean-Paul Humair, Barbara Broers, Françoise Narring, Dagmar M Haller, Jean-Michel Gaspoz
Consumers’ intention to use health recommendation systems to receive personalized nutrition advice
Sonja Wendel, Benedict GC Dellaert, Amber Ronteltap, Hans CM van Trijp
Defining and improving quality management in Dutch diabetes care groups and outpatient clinics: design of the study
Marjo JE Campmans-Kuijpers, Lidwien C Lemmens, Caroline A Baan, Kees J Gorter, Jolanda Groothuis, Klementine H van Vuure, Guy EHM Rutten
The characteristics of patient safety culture in Japan, Taiwan and the United States
Shigeru Fujita, Kanako Seto, Shinya Ito, Yinghui Wu, Chiu-Chin Huang, Tomonori Hasegawa
A qualitative study of stakeholder views on the effects of provider payment on cooperation, quality of care and cost-containment in integrated stroke care
Johanneke FMM Tummers, Augustinus JP Schrijvers, Johanna MA Visser-Meily
Recruitment and retention of occupational therapists and physiotherapists in rural regions: a meta-synthesis
Robin K Roots, Linda C Li
Cancer survivor rehabilitation and recovery: Protocol for the Veterans Cancer Rehabilitation Study (Vet-CaRes)
Aanand D Naik, Lindsey A Martin, Michele Karel, Jennifer Schuster Wachen, Elizabeth Mulligan, Jeffrey S Gosian, Levi Ian Herman, Jennifer Moye
Mapping the concept of vulnerability related to health care disparities: a scoping review
Cristina Grabovschi, Christine Loignon, Martin Fortin
Waiting management at the emergency department – a grounded theory study
Lena Burström, Bengt Starrin, Marie-Louise Engström, Hans Thulesius
Telephone consultations in place of face to face out-patient consultations for patients discharged from hospital following surgery: a systematic review
Jo Thompson-Coon, Abdul-Kareem Abdul-Rahman, Rebecca Whear, Alison Bethel, Bijay Vaidya, Christian A Gericke, Ken Stein
Resource utilization, costs and treatment patterns of switching and discontinuing treatment of MS patients with high relapse activity
Karina Raimundo, Haijun Tian, Huanxue Zhou, Xin Zhang, Kristijan H Kahler, Neetu Agashivala, Edward Kim
Implementation evaluation of the Dutch national heat plan among long-term care institutions in Amsterdam: a cross-sectional study
Anton E Kunst, Rieneke Britstra
The variety of primary healthcare organisations in Australia: a taxonomy
John Rodwell, Andre Gulyas
Lessons learned in Liberia: preliminary examination of the psychometric properties of trust and teamwork among maternal healthcare workers
Jody R Lori, Michelle L Munro, Jennifer E Moore, Jessica Fladger
Staff retention after the privatization of township-village health centers: a case study from the Haimen City of East China
Jiayan Huang, Lu Shi, Yingyao Chen
Factors influencing research engagement: research interest, confidence and experience in an Australian speech-language pathology workforce
Emma Finch, Petrea Cornwell, Elizabeth C Ward, Steven M McPhail
Access granted! barriers endure: determinants of difficulties accessing specialist care when required in Ontario, Canada
Daniel W Harrington, Kathi Wilson, Mark Rosenberg, Scott Bell
Ten-year results of quality assurance in radiotherapy chart round
Bardia Taghavi Bayat, Suki Gill, Shankar Siva, Keen Hun Tai, Michael Lim Joon, Farshad Foroudi
Health systems supports for community case management of childhood illness: lessons from an assessment of early implementation in Malawi
Jennifer A Callaghan-Koru, Kate Gilroy, Adnan A Hyder, Asha George, Humphreys Nsona, Angella Mtimuni, Bernie Zakeyo, Josiah Mayani, Cristina V Cardemil, Jennifer Bryce
Economic efficiency of primary care for CVD prevention and treatment in Eastern European countries
Titus Slavici, Claudiu Avram, Gabriela Victoria Mnerie, Adriana Badescu, Doina Darvasi, Florin Molnar-Matei, Mihai Aristotel Ungureanu
Responding to the deaf in disasters: establishing the need for systematic training for state-level emergency management agencies and community organizations
Alina Engelman, Susan L Ivey, Winston Tseng, Donna Dahrouge, Jim Brune, Linda Neuhauser
Using resource modelling to inform decision making and service planning: the case of colorectal cancer screening in Ireland
Linda Sharp, Lesley Tilson, Sophie Whyte, Alan O Ceilleachair, Cathal Walsh, Cara Usher, Paul Tappenden, James Chilcott, Anthony Staines, Michael Barry, Harry Comber
Network analysis of team communication in a busy emergency department
P Daniel Patterson, Anthony J Pfeiffer, Matthew D Weaver, David Krackhardt, Robert M Arnold, Donald M Yealy, Judith R Lave
Organizational culture in the primary healthcare setting of Cyprus
Theodora Zachariadou, Savvas Zannetos, Andreas Pavlakis
Impact of telemonitoring home care patients with heart failure or chronic lung disease from primary care on healthcare resource use (the TELBIL study randomised controlled trial)
Iñaki Martín-Lesende, Estibalitz Orruño, Amaia Bilbao, Itziar Vergara, Mª Carmen Cairo, Juan Carlos Bayón, Eva Reviriego, María Isabel Romo, Jesús Larrañaga, José Asua, Roberto Abad, Elizabete Recalde
Instruments for assessing the risk of falls in acute hospitalized patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Marta Aranda-Gallardo, Jose M Morales-Asencio, Jose C Canca-Sanchez, Silvia Barrero-Sojo, Claudia Perez-Jimenez, Angeles Morales-Fernandez, Margarita Enriquez de Luna-Rodriguez, Ana B Moya-Suarez, Ana M Mora-Banderas
“One of those areas that people avoid” a qualitative study of implementation in miscarriage management
Blair G Darney, Marcia R Weaver, Deborah VanDerhei, Nancy G Stevens, Sarah W Prager
Evaluating the integration of chronic disease prevention and management services into primary health care
Martin Fortin, Maud-Christine Chouinard, Tarek Bouhali, Marie-France Dubois, Cynthia Gagnon, Martin Bélanger
Negotiating policy in practice: child and family health nurses’ approach to the process of postnatal psychosocial assessment
Mellanie Rollans, Virginia Schmied, Lynn Kemp, Tanya Meade
Development of a case-mix funding system for adults with combined vision and hearing loss
Dawn M Guthrie, Jeffrey W Poss
Empirical evidence of the continuing improvement in cost efficiency of an endoscopic surveillance programme for gastric cancer in Singapore from 2004 to 2010
Hui Jun Zhou, Shu Chuen Li, Nasheen Naidoo, Feng Zhu, Khay Guan Yeoh
Targeted versus tailored multimedia patient engagement to enhance depression recognition and treatment in primary care: randomized controlled trial protocol for the AMEP2 study
Daniel J Tancredi, Christina K Slee, Anthony Jerant, Peter Franks, Jasmine Nettiksimmons, Camille Cipri, Dustin Gottfeld, Julia Huerta, Mitchell D Feldman, Maja Jackson-Triche, Steven Kelly-Reif, Andrew Hudnut, Sarah Olson, Janie Shelton, Richard L Kravitz
Patients’ experience and satisfaction with GP led walk-in centres in the UK; a cross sectional study
Mubashir Arain, Jon Nicholl, Mike Campbell
High referral rates to secondary care by general practitioners in Norway are associated with GPs’ gender and specialist qualifications in family medicine, a study of 4350 consultations
Unni Ringberg, Nils Fleten, Trygve S Deraas, Toralf Hasvold, OlavHelge Førde
Innovation in health economic modelling of service improvements for longer-term depression: demonstration in a local health community
Jonathan Tosh, Ben Kearns, Alan Brennan, Glenys Parry, Thomas Ricketts, David Saxon, Alexis Kilgarriff-Foster, Anna Thake, Eleni Chambers, Rebecca Hutten
Classification of patients based on their evaluation of hospital outcomes: cluster analysis following a national survey in Norway
Oyvind Bjertnaes, Kjersti Eeg Skudal, Hilde Hestad Iversen
Constructing a questionnaire for assessment of awareness and acceptance of diversity in healthcare institutions
Azita Emami, Jalal Safipour
Facilitating the action of community representatives in a health service: the role of a community participation coordinator
Sally Nathan, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Niamh Stephenson
Developing a questionnaire to identify perceived barriers for implementing the Dutch physical therapy COPD clinical practice guideline
Philip J van der Wees, Cor AM Zagers, Sara E de Die, Erik JM Hendriks, Maria WG Nijhuis-van der Sanden, Rob A de Bie
Implementation and effectiveness of 'care navigation', coordinated management for people with complex chronic illness: rationale and methods of a randomised controlled trial
Natalie Plant, Kylie-Ann Mallitt, Patrick J Kelly, Tim Usherwood, James Gillespie, Steven Boyages, Stephen Jan, Justin McNab, Beverley M Essue, Kathy Gradidge, Nereus Maranan, David Ralphs, Clive Aspin, Stephen Leeder
Variations in risk perceptions: a qualitative study of why unnecessary urinary catheter use continues to be problematic
Molly Harrod, Christine P Kowalski, Sanjay Saint, Jane Forman, Sarah L Krein
Feasibility of offering nicotine replacement therapy as a relapse prevention treatment in routine smoking cessation services
Jessica Turner, Ann McNeill, Tim Coleman, Jo Leonardi Bee, Shade Agboola
Health transitions in recently widowed older women: a mixed methods study
Michelle DiGiacomo, Joanne Lewis, Marie T Nolan, Jane Phillips, Patricia M Davidson
Motivation and incentives of rural maternal and neonatal health care providers: a comparison of qualitative findings from Burkina Faso, Ghana and Tanzania
Helen Prytherch, Moubassira Kagoné, Gifty A Aninanya, John E Williams, Deodatus CV Kakoko, Melkidezek T Leshabari, Maurice Yé, Michael Marx, Rainer Sauerborn
Comparisons of medical utilizations and categorical diagnoses of emergency visits between the elderly with catastrophic illness certificates and those without
Yang Nan-Ping, Lee Yi-Hui, Chung Chi-Yu, Hsu Jin-Chyr, Yu I-Liang, Chang Nien-Tzu, Chan Chien-Lung
Bridges, brokers and boundary spanners in collaborative networks: a systematic review
Janet C Long, Frances C Cunningham, Jeffrey Braithwaite
Hospital laboratory reporting may be a barrier to detection of ‘microsize’ myocardial infarction in the US: an observational study
Monika M Safford, Gaurav Parmar, Codrin S Barasch, Jewell H Halanych, Stephen P Glasser, David C Goff, Ronald J Prineas, Todd M Brown
Factors associated with evidence-based practice among registered nurses in Sweden: a national cross-sectional study
Anne-Marie Boström, Ann Rudman, Anna Ehrenberg, Jens Petter Gustavsson, Lars Wallin
A systematic approach to the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of integrated health services
Heidi W Reynolds, Elizabeth G Sutherland
Data coverage of a cancer registry in southern Iran before and after implementation of a population-based reporting system: a 10-year trend study
Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, Zahra Khosravizadegan, Abbas Rezaianzadeh, Behnam Honarvar, Mohsen Moghadami, Hossein Faramarzi, Mojtaba Mahmoodi, Mahin Farahmand, Seyed Masoom Masoompour, Bahman Nazemzadegan
A systematic review of the care coordination measurement landscape
Ellen M Schultz, Noelle Pineda, Julia Lonhart, Sheryl M Davies, Kathryn M McDonald
Assessment of drug use pattern using WHO prescribing indicators at Hawassa University teaching and referral hospital, south Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
Anteneh Assefa Desalegn
The effect of activity-based financing on hospital length of stay for elderly patients suffering from heart diseases in Norway
Jun Yin, Hilde Lurås, Terje P Hagen, Fredrik A Dahl
The communication of a secondary care diagnosis of autoimmune hepatitis to primary care practitioners: a population-based study
Fumi Varyani, Timothy Card, Philip Kaye, Guru P Aithal, Joe West
Integrating HIV care into nurse-led primary health care services in South Africa: a synthesis of three linked qualitative studies
Kerry Uebel, Andy Guise, Daniella Georgeu, Christopher Colvin, Simon Lewin
Antenatal and obstetric care in Afghanistan – a qualitative study among health care receivers and health care providers
Zuhal Rahmani, Mette Brekke
Economic evaluation of agomelatine relative to other antidepressants for treatment of major depressive disorders in Greece
Nikos Maniadakis, Georgia Kourlaba, Theodoros Mougiakos, Ioannis Chatzimanolis, Linus Jonsson
Why give birth in health facility? Users’ and providers’ accounts of poor quality of birth care in Tanzania
Lilian T Mselle, Karen Marie Moland, Abu Mvungi, Bjorg Evjen-Olsen, Thecla W Kohi
Understanding Hospital Admissions Close to the End of Life (ACE) Study
Zoë Slote Morris, Miranda Fyfe, Natalie Momen, Sarah Hoare, Stephen Barclay
Design of a randomized controlled trial to assess the comparative effectiveness of a multifaceted intervention to improve adherence to colorectal cancer screening among patients cared for in a community health center
David W Baker, Tiffany Brown, David R Buchanan, Jordan Weil, Kenzie A Cameron, Lauren Ranalli, M Rosario Ferreira, Quinn Stephens, Kate Balsley, Shira N Goldman, Michael S Wolf
Factors associated with reported service use for mental health problems by residents of rural and remote communities: cross-sectional findings from a baseline survey
David Perkins, Jeffrey Fuller, Brian J Kelly, Terry J Lewin, Michael Fitzgerald, Clare Coleman, Kerry J Inder, John Allan, Dinesh Arya, Russell Roberts, Richard Buss
The delivery of preventive care to clients of community health services
Kathleen M McElwaine, Megan Freund, Elizabeth M Campbell, Jenny Knight, Jennifer A Bowman, Emma L Doherty, Paula M Wye, Luke Wolfenden, Christophe Lecathelinais, Scott McLachlan, John H Wiggers
Patient satisfaction on tuberculosis treatment service and adherence to treatment in public health facilities of Sidama zone, South Ethiopia
Zekariyas Sahile Nezenega, Yohannes H/Michael Gacho, Tadese Ejigu Tafere
Barriers to alcohol and other drug treatment use among Black African and Coloured South Africans
Bronwyn Myers
Retraction Note: Profiling the different needs and expectations of patients for population-based medicine: a case study using segmentation analysis
Federico Lega, Alessandro Mengoni
Patient neglect in healthcare institutions: a systematic review and conceptual model
Tom W Reader, Alex Gillespie
Measuring fragmentation of ambulatory care in a tripartite healthcare system
Su Liu, Philip C Yeung
A population-based cross-sectional study of health service deficits among U.S. adults with depressive symptoms
Krista L Huot, May Nawal Lutfiyya, Michael F Akers, Maria L Amaro, Michael T Swanoski, Sarah K Schweiss
Application of propensity scores to estimate the association between government subsidy and injection use in primary health care institutions in China
Yuqing Tang, Xiaopeng Zhang, Chunyan Yang, Lianping Yang, Hongtao Wang, Xinping Zhang
Nurses’ workarounds in acute healthcare settings: a scoping review
Deborah S Debono, David Greenfield, Joanne F Travaglia, Janet C Long, Deborah Black, Julie Johnson, Jeffrey Braithwaite
What primary health care services should residents of rural and remote Australia be able to access? A systematic review of “core” primary health care services
Timothy A Carey, John Wakerman, John S Humphreys, Penny Buykx, Melissa Lindeman
The use of risk sharing tools for post adoption surveillance of a non pharmacological technology in routine practice: results after one year
Carlos Campillo-Artero, Francisco M Kovacs
Pharmacological primary and secondary cardiovascular prevention among diabetic patients in a multiethnic general practice population: still room for improvements
Anh T Tran, Jørund Straand, Ingvild Dalen, Kåre I Birkeland, Tor Claudi, John G Cooper, Haakon E Meyer, Anne K Jenum
The use and costs of health and social services in patients with longstanding substance abuse
Corinna Vossius, Ingelin Testad, Rune Skjæveland, Sverre Nesvåg
Community groups as ‘critical enablers’ of the HIV response in Zimbabwe
Morten Skovdal, Sitholubuhle Magutshwa-Zitha, Catherine Campbell, Constance Nyamukapa, Simon Gregson
Adult ADHD patient experiences of impairment, service provision and clinical management in England: a qualitative study
Lauren Matheson, Philip Asherson, Ian Chi Kei Wong, Paul Hodgkins, Juliana Setyawan, Rahul Sasane, Sarah Clifford
Pregnant women’s experiences of routine counselling and testing for HIV in Eastern Uganda: a qualitative study
Joseph Rujumba, Stella Neema, James K Tumwine, Thorkild Tylleskär, Harald K Heggenhougen
Incidence and costs of bleeding-related complications in French hospitals following surgery for various diagnoses
Xin Ye, Antoine Lafuma, Elodie Torreton, Axel Arnaud
Erratum To: 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
Examining markers of safety in homecare using the international classification for patient safety
Marilyn T Macdonald, Ariella Lang, Janet Storch, Lynn Stevenson, Tanya Barber, Kristine Iaboni, Susan Donaldson
Case studies of innovative medical device companies from India: barriers and enablers to development
Szymon Jarosławski, Gayatri Saberwal
Medical services of a mulicultural summer camp event: experiences from the 22nd World Scout Jamboree, Sweden 2011
Ib Jammer, Christina Allansdotter Andersson, Anna Lindholm Olinder, Bo Selander, Anna Elmerfeldt Wallinder, Stefan Rocco Hansson
Implementing a framework for goal setting in community based stroke rehabilitation: a process evaluation
Lesley Scobbie, Donald McLean, Diane Dixon, Edward Duncan, Sally Wyke
Patient and carer experience of obtaining regular prescribed medication for chronic disease in the English National Health Service: a qualitative study
Patricia M Wilson, Neha Kataria, Elaine McNeilly
The human resource implications of improving financial risk protection for mothers and newborns in Zimbabwe
Yotamu Chirwa, Sophie Witter, Malvern Munjoma, Wilson Mashange, Tim Ensor, Barbara McPake, Shungu Munyati
Introducing peer worker roles into UK mental health service teams: a qualitative analysis of the organisational benefits and challenges
Steve G Gillard, Christine Edwards, Sarah L Gibson, Katherine Owen, Christine Wright
Effectiveness of nurse case management compared with usual care in cancer patients at a single medical center in Taiwan: a quasi-experimental study
Yu-Chih Chen, Yu-Jen Chang, Yi-Chen Tsou, Mei-Chuan Chen, Yu-Chu Pai
Evaluating maternity care using national administrative health datasets: How are statistics affected by the quality of data on method of delivery?
Hannah E Knight, Ipek Gurol-Urganci, Tahir A Mahmood, Allan Templeton, David Richmond, Jan H van der Meulen, David A Cromwell
Access to HIV/AIDS care: a systematic review of socio-cultural determinants in low and high income countries
Sara Gari, Camilo Doig-Acuña, Tino Smail, Jacob RS Malungo, Adriane Martin-Hilber, Sonja Merten
Group medical visits can deliver on patient-centred care objectives: results from a qualitative study
Josée G Lavoie, Sabrina T Wong, Meck Chongo, Annette J Browne, Martha LP MacLeod, Cathy Ulrich
Investigating the use of patient involvement and patient experience in quality improvement in Norway: rhetoric or reality?
Siri Wiig, Marianne Storm, Karina Aase, Martha Therese Gjestsen, Marit Solheim, Stig Harthug, Glenn Robert, Naomi Fulop
Integrated maternal and child health services in Mozambique: structural health system limitations overshadow its effect on follow-up of HIV-exposed infants
Diederike Geelhoed, Yves Lafort, Élder Chissale, Baltazar Candrinho, Olivier Degomme
Efficacy of multiparametric telemonitoring on respiratory outcomes in elderly people with COPD: a randomized controlled trial
Claudio Pedone, Domenica Chiurco, Simone Scarlata, Raffaele Antonelli Incalzi
Evaluation of an integrated system for classification, assessment and comparison of services for long-term care in Europe: the eDESDE-LTC study
Luis Salvador-Carulla, Javier Alvarez-Galvez, Cristina Romero, Mencia R Gutiérrez-Colosía, Germain Weber, David McDaid, Hristo Dimitrov, Lilijana Sprah, Birgitte Kalseth, Giuseppe Tibaldi, Jose A Salinas-Perez, Carolina Lagares-Franco, Maria Teresa Romá-Ferri, Sonia Johnson
Effects of spatial location and household wealth on health insurance subscription among women in Ghana
Akwasi Kumi-Kyereme, Joshua Amo-Adjei
Evaluation of the theory-based Quality Improvement in Physical Therapy (QUIP) programme: a one-group, pre-test post-test pilot study
Geert M Rutten, Janneke Harting, L Kay Bartholomew, Angelique Schlief, Rob AB Oostendorp, Nanne K de Vries
British residents’ views about general practice care in France – a telephone survey
Nathalie Pelletier-Fleury, Marc Le Vaillant
Effects of multiple chronic conditions on health care costs: an analysis based on an advanced tree-based regression model
Hans-Helmut König, Hanna Leicht, Horst Bickel, Angela Fuchs, Jochen Gensichen, Wolfgang Maier, Karola Mergenthal, Steffi Riedel-Heller, Ingmar Schäfer, Gerhard Schön, Siegfried Weyerer, Birgitt Wiese, Hendrik van den Bussche, Martin Scherer, Matthias Eckardt
Feasibility, reliability and validity of a questionnaire on healthcare consumption and productivity loss in patients with a psychiatric disorder (TiC-P)
Clazien Bouwmans, Kim De Jong, Reinier Timman, Moniek Zijlstra-Vlasveld, Christina Van der Feltz-Cornelis, Siok Swan Tan, Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen
Willingness to pay for physician services at a primary contact in Ukraine: results of a contingent valuation study
Andriy Danyliv, Milena Pavlova, Irena Gryga, Wim Groot
A study of physician collaborations through social network and exponential random graph
Shahadat Uddin, Liaquat Hossain, Jafar Hamra, Ashraful Alam
Influences of hospital information systems, indicator data collection and computation on reported Dutch hospital performance indicator scores
Helen A Anema, Job Kievit, Claudia Fischer, Ewout W Steyerberg, Niek S Klazinga
Modeling hospital infrastructure by optimizing quality, accessibility and efficiency via a mixed integer programming model
David Ikkersheim, Marit Tanke, Gwendy van Schooten, Niels de Bresser, Hein Fleuren
The contribution of Physician Assistants in primary care: a systematic review
Mary Halter, Vari Drennan, Kaushik Chattopadhyay, Wilfred Carneiro, Jennifer Yiallouros, Simon de Lusignan, Heather Gage, Jonathan Gabe, Robert Grant
Rationale and design of the Multicenter Medication Reconciliation Quality Improvement Study (MARQUIS)
Amanda H Salanitro, Sunil Kripalani, JoAnne Resnic, Stephanie K Mueller, Tosha B Wetterneck, Katherine Taylor Haynes, Jason Stein, Peter J Kaboli, Stephanie Labonville, Edward Etchells, Daniel J Cobaugh, David Hanson, Jeffrey L Greenwald, Mark V Williams, Jeffrey L Schnipper
Effects of geodemographic profiles on healthcare service utilization: a case study on cardiac care in Ontario, Canada
Li Tao, Jiming Liu, Bo Xiao
“A manager in the minds of doctors:” a comparison of new modes of control in European hospitals
Ellen Kuhlmann, Viola Burau, Tiago Correia, Roman Lewandowski, Christos Lionis, Mirko Noordegraaf, Jose Repullo
Investigating the purpose of an online discussion group for health professionals: a case example from forensic occupational therapy
Crystal Dieleman, Edward AS Duncan
How do hospitalised patients with Turkish migration background estimate their language skills and their comprehension of medical information – a prospective cross-sectional study and comparison to native patients in Germany to assess the language barrier and the need for translation
Arnd Giese, Müberra Uyar, Haci Halil Uslucan, Stefan Becker, Bernhard Ferdinand Henning
Factors influencing participation in a vascular disease prevention lifestyle program among participants in a cluster randomized trial
Rachel A Laws, Mahnaz Fanaian, Upali W Jayasinghe, Suzanne McKenzie, Megan Passey, Gawaine Powell Davies, David Lyle, Mark F Harris
Does implementation of a hospitalist program in a Canadian community hospital improve measures of quality of care and utilization? an observational comparative analysis of hospitalists vs. traditional care providers
Vandad Yousefi, Christopher AKY Chong
Using concept mapping to explore why patients become lost to follow up from an antiretroviral therapy program in the Zomba District of Malawi
Beth Rachlis, Farah Ahmad, Monique van Lettow, Adamson S Muula, Medson Semba, Donald C Cole
A systematic review of the impact of routine collection of patient reported outcome measures on patients, providers and health organisations in an oncologic setting
Jack Chen, Lixin Ou, Stephanie J Hollis
Did hospital mortality in England change from 2005 to 2010? A retrospective cohort analysis
Richard M Jacques, James Fotheringham, Michael J Campbell, Jon Nicholl
Distance and utilisation of out-of-hours services in a Norwegian urban/rural district: an ecological study
Guttorm Raknes, Elisabeth Holm Hansen, Steinar Hunskaar
Hospital survey on patient safety culture in China
Yanli Nie, Xuanyue Mao, Hao Cui, Shenghong He, Jing Li, Mingming Zhang
Patient preference for involvement, experienced involvement, decisional conflict, and satisfaction with physician: a structural equation model test
Lars P Hölzel, Levente Kriston, Martin Härter
Rationale and development of an on-line quality assurance programme for colposcopy in a population-based cervical screening setting in Italy
Lauro Bucchi, Paolo Cristiani, Silvano Costa, Patrizia Schincaglia, Paola Garutti, Priscilla Sassoli de Bianchi, Carlo Naldoni, Oswaldo Olea, Mario Sideri
Facility-level intervention to improve attendance and adherence among patients on anti-retroviral treatment in Kenya—a quasi-experimental study using time series analysis
Patrick Boruett, Dorine Kagai, Susan Njogo, Peter Nguhiu, Christine Awuor, Lillian Gitau, John Chalker, Dennis Ross-Degnan, Rolf Wahlström, Göran Tomson
‘Familiarity’ as a key factor influencing rural family carers’ experience of the nursing home placement of an older relative: a qualitative study
Assumpta Ryan, Hugh McKenna
A patient-centred approach to health service delivery: improving health outcomes for people with chronic illness
Masoud Mirzaei, Clive Aspin, Beverley Essue, Yun-Hee Jeon, Paul Dugdale, Tim Usherwood, Stephen Leeder
‘Talking a different language’: an exploration of the influence of organizational cultures and working practices on transition from child to adult mental health services
Susan McLaren, Ruth Belling, Moli Paul, Tamsin Ford, Tami Kramer, Tim Weaver, Kimberly Hovish, Zoebia Islam, Sarah White, Swaran P Singh
Design of an online health-promoting community: negotiating user community needs with public health goals and service capabilities
Joakim Ekberg, Toomas Timpka, Marianne Angbratt, Linda Frank, Anna-Maria Norén, Lena Hedin, Emelie Andersen, Elin A Gursky, Boel Andersson Gäre
Effects of auditing patient safety in hospital care: design of a mixed-method evaluation
Mirelle Hanskamp-Sebregts, Marieke Zegers, Wilma Boeijen, Gert P Westert, Petra J van Gurp, Hub Wollersheim
Determinants of maternal health care utilization in Holeta town, central Ethiopia
Kidist Birmeta, Yohannes Dibaba, Desalegn Woldeyohannes
Factors influencing specialist care referral of multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Gauteng/South Africa: a descriptive questionnaire-based study
Deliwe Nkosi, Saskia Janssen, Xavier Padanilam, Rianna Louw, Colin N Menezes, Martin P Grobusch
Social firms as a means of vocational recovery for people with mental illness: a UK survey
Eleanor Gilbert, Steven Marwaha, Alyssa Milton, Sonia Johnson, Nicola Morant, Nicholas Parsons, Adrian Fisher, Swaran Singh, Di Cunliffe
Comparison of medicine availability measurements at health facilities: evidence from Service Provision Assessment surveys in five sub-Saharan African countries
Yoonjoung Choi, Paul Ametepi
Increased cancer mortality in diabetic people treated with insulin: a register-based follow-up study
Erja Forssas, Reijo Sund, Kristiina Manderbacka, Martti Arffman, Pirjo Ilanne-Parikka, Ilmo Keskimäki
Facilitated patient experience feedback can improve nursing care: a pilot study for a phase III cluster randomised controlled trial
Rachel Reeves, Elizabeth West, David Barron
The implementation of nice guidance on venous thromboembolism risk assessment and prophylaxis: a before-after observational study to assess the impact on patient safety across four hospitals in England
Alice G Bateman, Rod Sheaff, Susan Child, Olga Boiko, Obioha C Ukoumunne, Tim Nokes, Adrian Copplestone, Christian A Gericke
The calculation of quality indicators for long term care facilities in 8 countries (SHELTER project)
Dinnus HM Frijters, Henriëtte G van der Roest, Iain GI Carpenter, Harriet Finne-Soveri, Jean-Claude Henrard, Angela Chetrit, Jacob Gindin, Roberto Bernabei
Local co-ordination and case management can enhance Indigenous eye care – a qualitative study
Mitchell D Anjou, Andrea I Boudville, Hugh R Taylor
Cross-country comparison of victimisation-related injury admission in children and adolescents in England and Western Australia
Arturo Gonzalez-Izquierdo, Allison Ward, Melissa O’Donnell, Leah Li, Andreas Roposch, Fiona Stanley, Ruth Gilbert
Cost-effectiveness of a nurse-based intervention (AIMS) to improve adherence among HIV-infected patients: design of a multi-centre randomised controlled trial
Edwin Oberjé, Marijn de Bruin, Silvia Evers, Wolfgang Viechtbauer, Hans-Erik Nobel, Herman Schaalma, Jim McCambridge, Luuk Gras, Eric Tousset, Jan Prins
Development of a questionnaire to assess the impact on parents of their infant’s bronchiolitis hospitalization
Alexandre Lapillonne, Antoine Regnault, Véronique Gournay, Jean-Bernard Gouyon, Khadra Benmedjahed, Daniela Anghelescu, Benoit Arnould, Guy Moriette
Death certificate completion skills of hospital physicians in a developing country
Ahmed Suleman Haque, Kanza Shamim, Najm Hasan Siddiqui, Muhammad Irfan, Javaid Ahmed Khan
Developing a complex intervention for the outpatient management of incidentally diagnosed pulmonary embolism in cancer patients
June Palmer, George Bozas, Andrew Stephens, Miriam Johnson, Ged Avery, Lorcan O’Toole, Anthony Maraveyas
Social inequalities in patient experiences with general practice and in access to specialists: the population-based HUNT Study
Eirik Vikum, Roar Johnsen, Steinar Krokstad
The role of a student-run clinic in providing primary care for Calgary’s homeless populations: a qualitative study
David JT Campbell, Katherine Gibson, Braden G O’Neill, Wilfreda E Thurston
Stakeholders’ participation in planning and priority setting in the context of a decentralised health care system: the case of prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV programme in Tanzania
Elizabeth H Shayo, Leonard EG Mboera, Astrid Blystad
Self-reported occupational exposure to HIV and factors influencing its management practice: a study of healthcare workers in Tumbi and Dodoma Hospitals, Tanzania
Kijakazi O Mashoto, Godfrey M Mubyazi, Hussein Mohamed, Hamisi M Malebo
Ontario primary care reform and quality improvement activities: an environmental scan
Shannon L Sibbald, Charmaine McPherson, Anita Kothari
Comparison of legislation, regulations and national health strategies for palliative care in seven European countries (Results from the Europall Research Group): a descriptive study
Karen Van Beek, Kathrin Woitha, Nisar Ahmed, Johan Menten, Birgit Jaspers, Yvonne Engels, Sam H Ahmedzai, Kris Vissers, Jeroen Hasselaar
Multidisciplinary teams, and parents, negotiating common ground in shared-care of children with long-term conditions: A mixed methods study
Veronica M Swallow, Ruth Nightingale, Julian Williams, Heather Lambert, Nicholas JA Webb, Trish Smith, Lucy Wirz, Leila Qizalbash, Laura Crowther, Davina Allen
Incremental analysis of the reengineering of an outpatient billing process: an empirical study in a public hospital
Kuan-Yu Chu, Chunmin Huang
Diabetes care in Switzerland: good, but perfectible: a population-based cross-sectional survey
Isabelle Peytremann-Bridevaux, Julie Bordet, Bernard Burnand
The association of smoking status with healthcare utilisation, productivity loss and resulting costs: results from the population-based KORA F4 study
Margarethe Wacker, Rolf Holle, Joachim Heinrich, Karl-Heinz Ladwig, Annette Peters, Reiner Leidl, Petra Menn
Patient empowerment in long-term conditions: development and preliminary testing of a new measure
Nicola Small, Peter Bower, Carolyn A Chew-Graham, Diane Whalley, Joanne Protheroe
Factors affecting hospital length of stay and hospital charges associated with road traffic-related injuries in Iran
Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Soheil Saadat, Lennart Bogg, Mohammad Hossein Yarmohammadian, Marie Hasselberg
Retrospective record review in proactive patient safety work – identification of no-harm incidents
Kristina Schildmeijer, Maria Unbeck, Olav Muren, Joep Perk, Karin Pukk Härenstam, Lena Nilsson
Risk factors associated with visiting or not visiting the accident & emergency department after a fall
Alice C Scheffer, Pieter Boele van Hensbroek, Nynke van Dijk, Jan S K Luitse, Johannes C Goslings, René H Luigies, Sophia E de Rooij
Direct costs of inequalities in health care utilization in Germany 1994 to 2009: a top-down projection
Lars Eric Kroll, Thomas Lampert
Effect of private insurance incentive policy reforms on trends in coronary revascularisation procedures in the private and public health sectors in Western Australia: a cohort study
Shauna Trafalski, Tom Briffa, Joseph Hung, Rachael E Moorin, Frank Sanfilippo, David B Preen, Kristjana Einarsdóttir
Cost of maternal health services in selected primary care centres in Ghana: a step down allocation approach
Maxwell Ayindenaba Dalaba, Patricia Akweongo, Germain Savadogo, Happiness Saronga, John Williams, Rainer Sauerborn, Hengjin Dong, Svetla Loukanova
The Burnaby treatment center for mental health and addiction, a novel integrated treatment program for patients with addiction and concurrent disorders: results from a program evaluation
Christian Schütz, Isabelle Aubé Linden, Iris Torchalla, Kathy Li, Majid Al-Desouki, Michael Krausz
Compliance with clinical guidelines for whiplash improved with a targeted implementation strategy: a prospective cohort study
Trudy Rebbeck, Luciana G Macedo, Christopher G Maher
Where are we now: assessing the price, availability and affordability of essential medicines in Delhi as India plans free medicine for all
Anita Kotwani
Item generation in the development of an inpatient experience questionnaire: a qualitative study
Eliza LY Wong, Angela Coulter, Annie WL Cheung, Carrie HK Yam, Eng-Kiong Yeoh, Sian Griffiths
A review of decision support, risk communication and patient information tools for thrombolytic treatment in acute stroke: lessons for tool developers
Darren Flynn, Gary A Ford, Lynne Stobbart, Helen Rodgers, Madeleine J Murtagh, Richard G Thomson
Inequities in access to healthcare: analysis of national survey data across six Asia-Pacific countries
Samantha B Meyer, Tini CN Luong, Loreen Mamerow, Paul R Ward
Exploring what lies behind public preferences for avoiding health losses caused by lapses in healthcare safety and patient lifestyle choices
Jeshika Singh, Louise Longworth, Amanda Baine, Joanne Lord, Shepley Orr, Martin Buxton
Instrumental and socioemotional communications in doctor-patient interactions in urban and rural clinics
Kristen Desjarlais-deKlerk, Jean E Wallace
Cost of illness of the stomach cancer in Japan - a time trend and future projections
Kayoko Haga, Kunichika Matsumoto, Takefumi Kitazawa, Kanako Seto, Shigeru Fujita, Tomonori Hasegawa
Systems thinking in practice: the current status of the six WHO building blocks for health system strengthening in three BHOMA intervention districts of Zambia: a baseline qualitative study
Wilbroad Mutale, Virginia Bond, Margaret Tembo Mwanamwenge, Susan Mlewa, Dina Balabanova, Neil Spicer, Helen Ayles
Use of surgical task shifting to scale up essential surgical services: a feasibility analysis at facility level in Uganda
Moses Galukande, Sam Kaggwa, Patrick Sekimpi, Othman Kakaire, Achilles Katamba, Ian Munabi, Francis Mwesigye Runumi, Ed Mills, Amy Hagopian, Geoffrey Blair, Scott Barnhart, Sam Luboga
Definition of a core set of quality indicators for the assessment of HIV/AIDS clinical care: a systematic review
Emanuel Catumbela, Victor Certal, Alberto Freitas, Carlos Costa, António Sarmento, Altamiro da Costa Pereira
Effectiveness of a new health care organization model in primary care for chronic cardiovascular disease patients based on a multifactorial intervention: the PROPRESE randomized controlled trial
Domingo Orozco-Beltran, Esther Ruescas-Escolano, Ana Isabel Navarro-Palazón, Alberto Cordero, María Gaubert-Tortosa, Jorge Navarro-Perez, Concepción Carratalá-Munuera, Salvador Pertusa-Martínez, Enrique Soler-Bahilo, Francisco Brotons-Muntó, Jose Bort-Cubero, Miguel Angel Nuñez-Martinez, Vicente Bertomeu-Martinez, Vicente Francisco Gil-Guillen
The availability, spatial accessibility, service utilisation and retrieval cost of paediatric intensive care services for children in rural, regional and remote Queensland: study protocol
Lauren M Thompson, Nigel R Armfield, Anthony Slater, Christian Mattke, Michele Foster, Anthony C Smith
The Arabic version of the hospital survey on patient safety culture: a psychometric evaluation in a Palestinian sample
Shahenaz Najjar, Motasem Hamdan, Elfi Baillien, Arthur Vleugels, Martin Euwema, Walter Sermeus, Luk Bruyneel, Kris Vanhaecht
A needs-based method for estimating the behavioral health staff needs of community health centers
Bridget Teevan Burke, Benjamin F Miller, Michelle Proser, Stephen M Petterson, Andrew W Bazemore, Eric Goplerud, Robert L Phillips
Decision maker perceptions of resource allocation processes in Canadian health care organizations: a national survey
Neale Smith, Craig Mitton, Stirling Bryan, Alan Davidson, Bonnie Urquhart, Jennifer L Gibson, Stuart Peacock, Cam Donaldson
Healthcare use and costs before and after parathyroidectomy in patients on dialysis
Vasily Belozeroff, Kerry Cooper, Gregory Hess, Chun-Lan Chang
Reforming healthcare systems on a locally integrated basis: is there a potential for increasing collaborations in primary healthcare?
Mylaine Breton, Raynald Pineault, Jean-Frédéric Levesque, Danièle Roberge, Roxane Borgès Da Silva, Alexandre Prud’homme
Patient and provider attitudes toward genomic testing for prostate cancer susceptibility: a mixed method study
Wendy C Birmingham, Neeraj Agarwal, Wendy Kohlmann, Lisa G Aspinwall, Mary Wang, Jay Bishoff, Christopher Dechet, Anita Y Kinney
Reproductive health service utilization and associated factors among adolescents (15–19 years old) in Gondar town, Northwest Ethiopia
Senafikish Amsalu Feleke, Digsu Negese Koye, Amsalu Feleke Demssie, Zelalem Birhanu Mengesha
Factors predicting hospital length-of-stay after radical prostatectomy: a population-based study
Maria Kelly, Linda Sharp, Fiona Dwane, Tracy Kelleher, Frances J Drummond, Harry Comber
Predictive risk modelling in the Spanish population: a cross-sectional study
Juan F Orueta, Roberto Nuño-Solinis, Maider Mateos, Itziar Vergara, Gonzalo Grandes, Santiago Esnaola
Investigating the utilization of radiological services by physician patients: a population-based cohort study in Taiwan
Chen-Yi Wu, Hsiao-Yun Hu, Likwang Chen, Nicole Huang, Yiing-Jeng Chou, Chung-Pin Li
The prevention and reduction of weight loss in an acute tertiary care setting: protocol for a pragmatic stepped wedge randomised cluster trial (the PRoWL project)
Alison L Kitson, Timothy J Schultz, Leslye Long, Alison Shanks, Rick Wiechula, Ian Chapman, Stijn Soenen
Accelerators/decelerators of achieving universal access to sexual and reproductive health services: a case study of Iranian health system
Nahid Akbari, Ali Ramezankhani, Mehrnoosh Pazargadi
Feasibility of introducing compulsory community health fund in low resource countries: views from the communities in Liwale district of Tanzania
Boniphace Marwa, Bernard Njau, Joachim Kessy, Declare Mushi
Public health communications and alert fatigue
Janet G Baseman, Debra Revere, Ian Painter, Mariko Toyoji, Hanne Thiede, Jeffrey Duchin
Clinicians’ views on improving inter-organizational care transitions
Lianne Jeffs, Renee F Lyons, Jane Merkley, Chaim M Bell
Care pathways across the primary-hospital care continuum: using the multi-level framework in explaining care coordination
Sabine Van Houdt, Jan Heyrman, Kris Vanhaecht, Walter Sermeus, Jan De Lepeleire
A qualitative study of cardiac rehabilitation patients’ perspectives on taking medicines: implications for the ‘medicines-resistance’ model of medicine-taking
Simon White, Paul Bissell, Claire Anderson
Barriers and enablers to the provision and receipt of preoperative pelvic floor muscle training for men having radical prostatectomy: a qualitative study
Andrew D Hirschhorn, Gregory S Kolt, Andrew J Brooks
No longer diseases of the wealthy: prevalence and health-seeking for self-reported chronic conditions among urban poor in Southern India
Upendra Bhojani, Thriveni S Beerenahalli, Roopa Devadasan, CM Munegowda, Narayanan Devadasan, Bart Criel, Patrick Kolsteren
A survey study to validate a four phases development model for integrated care in the Netherlands
Mirella MN Minkman, Robbert P Vermeulen, Kees TB Ahaus, Robbert Huijsman
The provision of and need for social support among adult and pediatric patients with tuberculosis in Lima, Peru: a qualitative study
Valerie A Paz-Soldán, Rebecca E Alban, Christy D Jones, Richard A Oberhelman
The evaluating self-management and educational support in severely obese patients awaiting multidisciplinary bariatric care (EVOLUTION) trial: rationale and design
Raj S Padwal, Arya M Sharma, Miriam Fradette, Susan Jelinski, Scott Klarenbach, Alun Edwards, Sumit R Majumdar
Adverse events among Ontario home care clients associated with emergency room visit or hospitalization: a retrospective cohort study
Diane M Doran, John P Hirdes, Regis Blais, G Ross Baker, Jeff W Poss, Xiaoqiang Li, Donna Dill, Andrea Gruneir, George Heckman, Hélène Lacroix, Lori Mitchell, Maeve O’Beirne, Nancy White, Lisa Droppo, Andrea D Foebel, Gan Qian, Sang-Myong Nahm, Odilia Yim, Corrine McIsaac, Micaela Jantzi
A cost-minimisation study of 1,001 NHS Direct users
Rod Lambert, Richard Fordham, Shirley Large, Brian Gaffney
Frontier-based techniques in measuring hospital efficiency in Iran: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis
Aliasghar A Kiadaliri, Mehdi Jafari, Ulf-G Gerdtham
How the stigma of low literacy can impair patient-professional spoken interactions and affect health: insights from a qualitative investigation
Phyllis Easton, Vikki A Entwistle, Brian Williams
Shared decision making for patients with type 2 diabetes: a randomized trial in primary care
Megan E Branda, Annie LeBlanc, Nilay D Shah, Kristina Tiedje, Kari Ruud, Holly Van Houten, Laurie Pencille, Marge Kurland, Barbara Yawn, Victor M Montori
Improving access to care in low and middle-income countries: institutional factors related to enrollment and patient outcome in a cancer drug access program
Ebru Tekinturhan, Etienne Audureau, Marie-Pierre Tavolacci, Patricia Garcia-Gonzalez, Joël Ladner, Joseph Saba
Cancer diagnosed by emergency admission in England: an observational study using the general practice research database
Carmen Tsang, Alex Bottle, Azeem Majeed, Paul Aylin
Healthcare providers’ knowledge, experience and challenges of reporting adverse events following immunisation: a qualitative study
Adriana Parrella, Annette Braunack-Mayer, Michael Gold, Helen Marshall, Peter Baghurst
Barriers and enablers to implementing multiple stroke guideline recommendations: a qualitative study
Annie McCluskey, Angela Vratsistas-Curto, Karl Schurr
Perspectives on the role of stakeholders in knowledge translation in health policy development in Uganda
Juliet Nabyonga Orem, Bruno Marchal, DavidKaawa Mafigiri, Freddie Ssengooba, Jean Macq, Valeria Campos Da Silveira, Bart Criel
Addressing potentially inappropriate prescribing in older patients: development and pilot study of an intervention in primary care (the OPTI-SCRIPT study)
Barbara Clyne, Marie C Bradley, Carmel M Hughes, Daniel Clear, Ronan McDonnell, David Williams, Tom Fahey, Susan M Smith
Provider connectedness and communication patterns: extending continuity of care in the context of the circle of care
Morgan Price, Francis Y Lau
The Care Process Self-Evaluation Tool: a valid and reliable instrument for measuring care process organization of health care teams
Deborah Seys, Svin Deneckere, Walter Sermeus, Eva Van Gerven, Massimiliano Panella, Luk Bruyneel, Timothy Mutsvari, Rafaela Camacho Bejarano, Seval Kul, Kris Vanhaecht
Measuring levels of person-centeredness in acute care of older people with cognitive impairment: evaluation of the POPAC scale
Anita Nilsson, Marie Lindkvist, Birgit H Rasmussen, David Edvardsson
Physicians’ perceptions of medical representative visits in Yemen: a qualitative study
Mahmoud Abdullah Al-Areefi, Mohamed Azmi Hassali, Mohamed Izham b Mohamed Ibrahim
Training emergency services’ dispatchers to recognise stroke: an interrupted time-series analysis
Caroline L Watkins, Michael J Leathley, Stephanie P Jones, Gary A Ford, Tom Quinn, Chris J Sutton
The TARGET cohort study protocol: a prospective primary care cohort study to derive and validate a clinical prediction rule to improve the targeting of antibiotics in children with respiratory tract illnesses
Niamh M Redmond, Rachel Davies, Hannah Christensen, Peter S Blair, Andrew M Lovering, John P Leeming, Peter Muir, Barry Vipond, Hannah Thornton, Margaret Fletcher, Brendan Delaney, Paul Little, Matthew Thompson, Tim J Peters, Alastair D Hay
‘Doing the hard yards’: carer and provider focus group perspectives of accessing Aboriginal childhood disability services
Michelle DiGiacomo, Patricia Delaney, Penelope Abbott, Patricia M Davidson, Joanne Delaney, Frank Vincent
Voting with their feet - predictors of discharge against medical advice in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal ischaemic heart disease inpatients in Western Australia: an analytic study using data linkage
Judith M Katzenellenbogen, Frank M Sanfilippo, Michael ST Hobbs, Matthew W Knuiman, Dawn Bessarab, Angela Durey, Sandra C Thompson
Migration of South African health workers: the extent to which financial considerations influence internal flows and external movements
Gavin George, Millicent Atujuna, Jeff Gow
Does informal care reduce public care expenditure on elderly care? Estimates based on Finland’s Age Study
Sari Kehusmaa, Ilona Autti-Rämö, Hans Helenius, Pekka Rissanen
Psychometric properties of the hospital survey on patient safety culture, HSOPSC,applied on a large Swedish health care sample
Mats Hedsköld, Karin Pukk-Härenstam, Elisabeth Berg, Marion Lindh, Michael Soop, John Øvretveit, Magna Andreen Sachs
HIV/AIDS-related attitudes and oral impacts on daily performances: a cross-sectional study of Sudanese adult dental patients
Elwalid F Nasir, Mihaela C Marthinussen, Anne N Åstrøm
Effects of health insurance on non-working married women’s medical care use and bed days at home
Changwoo Lee, Euichul Shin
Predictors of mortality among elderly dependent home care patients
Joan Gené Badia, Alícia Borràs Santos, Joan Carles Contel Segura, Carlos Ascaso Terén, Laura Corredoira González, Ester Limón Ramírez, Pedro Gallo de Puelles
Assistive technologies after stroke: self-management or fending for yourself? A focus group study
Sara Demain, Jane Burridge, Caroline Ellis-Hill, Ann-Marie Hughes, Lucy Yardley, Lisa Tedesco-Triccas, Ian Swain
A systematic review of evidence on the association between hospitalisation for chronic disease related ambulatory care sensitive conditions and primary health care resourcing
Odette R Gibson, Leonie Segal, Robyn A McDermott
Regional health care planning: a methodology to cluster facilities using community utilization patterns
Paul L Delamater, Ashton M Shortridge, Joseph P Messina
Predictive performance of comorbidity measures in administrative databases for diabetes cohorts
Lisa M Lix, Jacqueline Quail, Opeyemi Fadahunsi, Gary F Teare
Into the abyss: diabetes process of care indicators and outcomes of defaulters from a Canadian tertiary care multidisciplinary diabetes clinic
Janine C Malcolm, Julie Maranger, Monica Taljaard, Baiju Shah, Chetna Tailor, Clare Liddy, Erin Keely, Teik Chye Ooi
Impact of a referral management “gateway” on the quality of referral letters; a retrospective time series cross sectional review
Ally Xiang, Helen Smith, Paul Hine, Katy Mason, Stefania Lanza, Anna Cave, Jonathan Sergeant, Zoe Nicholson, Peter Devlin
Viewpoints about collaboration between primary care and public health in Canada
Noori Akhtar-Danesh, Ruta Valaitis, Linda O’Mara, Patricia Austin, Val Munroe
Performance evaluation of the essential dimensions of the primary health care services in six localities of Bogota–Colombia: a cross-sectional study
Paola A Mosquera, Jinneth Hernández, Román Vega, Jorge Martínez, Miguel San Sebastián
Can a theory-based educational intervention change nurses’ knowledge and attitudes concerning cancer pain management? A quasi-experimental design
Markus Gustafsson, Gunilla Borglin
Who are the key players in a new translational research network?
Janet C Long, Frances C Cunningham, Peter Carswell, Jeffrey Braithwaite
Developing and implementing an integrated delirium prevention system of care: a theory driven, participatory research study
Mary Godfrey, Jane Smith, John Green, Francine Cheater, Sharon K Inouye, John B Young
General practitioner (family physician) workforce in Australia: comparing geographic data from surveys, a mailing list and medicare
Soumya Mazumdar, Paul Konings, Danielle Butler, Ian Stewart McRae
Navigating veterans with an abnormal prostate cancer screening test: a quasi-experimental study
Melissa A Simon, Narissa J Nonzee, June M McKoy, Dachao Liu, Thanh Ha Luu, Peter Byer, Elizabeth A Eklund, Elizabeth A Richey, Zhigang Wu, XinQi Dong, Alfred W Rademaker
Emergency department use by oldest-old patients from 2005 to 2010 in a Swiss university hospital
Sarah Vilpert, Hélène Jaccard Ruedin, Lionel Trueb, Stéfanie Monod-Zorzi, Bertrand Yersin, Christophe Büla
Assessing the safety attitudes questionnaire (SAQ), German language version in Swiss university hospitals - a validation study
Natalie Zimmermann, Kaspar Küng, Susan M Sereika, Sandra Engberg, Bryan Sexton, René Schwendimann
The caregiving perspective in heart failure: a population based study
Patricia M Davidson, Amy P Abernethy, Phillip J Newton, Katherine Clark, David C Currow
A forgotten aspect of the NICE reference case: an observational study of the health related quality of life impact on caregivers of people with multiple sclerosis
Sarah Acaster, Rodolphe Perard, Deven Chauhan, Andrew J Lloyd
Public health services knowledge and utilization among immigrants in Greece: a cross-sectional study
Petros Galanis, Panayiota Sourtzi, Thalia Bellali, Mamas Theodorou, Ioanna Karamitri, Olga Siskou, Giorgos Charalambous, Daphne Kaitelidou
The influence of organizational context on the use of research by nurses in Canadian pediatric hospitals
Janet E Squires, Carole A Estabrooks, Shannon D Scott, Greta G Cummings, Leslie Hayduk, Sung Hyun Kang, Bonnie Stevens
Epidemiological strategies for adapting clinical practice guidelines to the needs of multimorbid patients
Eva Blozik, Hendrik van den Bussche, Felix Gurtner, Ingmar Schäfer, Martin Scherer
The impact of nurse practitioners on care delivery in the emergency department: a multiple perspectives qualitative study
Julie Li, Johanna Westbrook, Joanne Callen, Andrew Georgiou, Jeffrey Braithwaite
Increased rate of day surgery use for inguinal and femoral hernia repair in a decade of hospital admissions in the Veneto Region (north-east Italy): a record linkage study
Mario Saia, Domenico Mantoan, Alessandra Buja, Chiara Bertoncello, Tatjana Baldovin, Chiara Zanardo, Giampietro Callegaro, Vincenzo Baldo
Assessing the implementation of performance management of health care workers in Uganda
George William Lutwama, Janetta Hendrika Roos, Bethabile Lovely Dolamo
Players and processes behind the national health insurance scheme: a case study of Uganda
Robert K Basaza, Thomas S O’Connell, Ivana Chapčáková
Use of health services in people with multiple sclerosis with and without depressive symptoms: a two-year prospective study
Charlotte Ytterberg, Sanna Lundqvist, Sverker Johansson
Evaluation of health care providers’ role transition and satisfaction in hospital-at-home for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations: a survey study
Cecile MA Utens, Lucas MA Goossens, Onno CP van Schayck, Maureen PHM Rutten-vanMölken, Maria W Braken, Loes MGA van Eijsden, Frank WJM Smeenk
Resources, attitudes and culture: an understanding of the factors that influence the functioning of accountability mechanisms in primary health care settings
Susan M Cleary, Sassy Molyneux, Lucy Gilson
Recommended content of referral letters from general practitioners to specialised mental health care: a qualitative multi-perspective study
Miriam Hartveit, Olav Thorsen, Eva Biringer, Kris Vanhaecht, Benedicte Carlsen, Aslak Aslaksen
Developing community based rehabilitation for cancer survivors: organizing for coordination and coherence in practice
Karen la Cour, Malcolm P Cutchin
Secondary care intervals before and after the introduction of urgent referral guidelines for suspected cancer in Denmark: a comparative before-after study
Mette Bach Larsen, Rikke Pilegaard Hansen, Dorte Gilså Hansen, Frede Olesen, Peter Vedsted
Health economic evaluation of vaccination strategies for the prevention of herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia in Germany
Bernhard Ultsch, Felix Weidemann, Thomas Reinhold, Anette Siedler, Gérard Krause, Ole Wichmann
Intervention to prevent further falls in older people who call an ambulance as a result of a fall: a protocol for the iPREFER randomised controlled trial
A Stefanie Mikolaizak, Paul M Simpson, Anne Tiedemann, Stephen R Lord, Gideon A Caplan, Jason C Bendall, Kirsten Howard, Jacqueline CT Close
Field evaluation in Chad of community usage of CD4 T lymphocyte counting by alternative single-platform flow cytometry
Donato Koyalta, Mohammad-Ali Jenabian, Barou Djouater, Noël Djemadji-Oudjeil, Francois-Xavier Mbopi-Keou, Angélique Ndjoyi-Mbiguino, Laurent Bélec
Survey of patients' view on functional split of consultant psychiatrists
Millia Begum, Keith Brown, Anthony Pelosi, Jim Crabb, John McTaggart, Caroline Mitchell, Everett Julyan, Tony Donegan, Michael Gotz
Performance-based financing as a health system reform: mapping the key dimensions for monitoring and evaluation
Sophie Witter, Jurrien Toonen, Bruno Meessen, Jean Kagubare, György Fritsche, Kelsey Vaughan
Estimated risk of HIV acquisition and practice for preventing occupational exposure: a study of healthcare workers at Tumbi and Dodoma Hospitals, Tanzania
Kijakazi O Mashoto, Godfrey M Mubyazi, Emmanuel Makundi, Hussein Mohamed, Hamisi M Malebo
Feasibility and coverage of implementing intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnant women contacting private or public clinics in Tanzania: experience-based viewpoints of health managers in Mkuranga and Mufindi districts
Godfrey M Mubyazi, Pascal Magnussen, Jens Byskov, Paul Bloch
Acceptance of selective contracting: the role of trust in the health insurer
Romy E Bes, Sonja Wendel, Emile C Curfs, Peter P Groenewegen, Judith D de Jong
A multicentre, double-blind, randomised, controlled, parallel-group study of the effectiveness of a pharmacist-acquired medication history in an emergency department
Jesus Becerra-Camargo, Fernando Martinez-Martinez, Emilio Garcia-Jimenez
Evaluation of facilitative supervision visits in primary health care service delivery in Northern Ghana
Moses Aikins, Amos Laar, Justice Nonvignon, Samuel Sackey, Takaharu Ikeda, George Woode, Alexis Nang-Beifubah, Frank Nyonator
Development and psychometric properties of a scale for measuring internal participation from a patient and health care professional perspective
Mirjam Körner, Markus A Wirtz
Following the money: copy-paste of lifestyle counseling documentation and provider billing
Mary Zhang, Maria Shubina, Fritha Morrison, Alexander Turchin
Nursing home staff’s views on residents’ dignity: a qualitative interview study
Mariska G Oosterveld-Vlug, H Roeline W Pasman, Isis E van Gennip, Dick L Willems, Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen
Methods of international health technology assessment agencies for economic evaluations- a comparative analysis
Tim Mathes, Esther Jacobs, Jana-Carina Morfeld, Dawid Pieper
Trends in quality of care among patients with incident heart failure in Denmark 2003–2010: a nationwide cohort study
Anne Nakano, Søren Paaske Johnsen, Birgitte Lidegaard Frederiksen, Marie Louise Svendsen, Carsten Agger, Inge Schjødt, Kenneth Egstrup
Measuring safety culture in Dutch primary care: psychometric characteristics of the SCOPE-PC questionnaire
Natasha J Verbakel, Dorien LM Zwart, Maaike Langelaan, Theo JM Verheij, Cordula Wagner
Strengthening capacity for AIDS vaccine research: analysis of the Pfizer Global Health Fellows Program and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
Taryn Vian, Sayaka Koseki, Frank G Feeley, Jennifer Beard
Trends in dental visiting avoidance due to cost in Australia, 1994 to 2010: an age-period-cohort analysis
Sergio Chrisopoulos, Liana Luzzi, David S Brennan
A price and use comparison of generic versus originator cardiovascular medicines: a hospital study in Chongqing, China
Wenjie Zeng
Healthcare provision for HIV co-infected tuberculosis patients in rural Zambia: an observational cohort study at primary care centers
Shinsuke Miyano, Samba Muvuma, Naoko Ishikawa, Hiroyoshi Endo, Charles Msiska, Gardner Syakantu
Evaluation of a quality improvement intervention to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) at Zambia defence force facilities
Young Mi Kim, Maureen Chilila, Hildah Shasulwe, Joseph Banda, Webby Kanjipite, Supriya Sarkar, Eva Bazant, Cyndi Hiner, Maya Tholandi, Stephanie Reinhardt, Joyce Chongo Mulilo, Adrienne Kols
The effect of an active implementation of a disease management programme for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on healthcare utilization - a cluster-randomised controlled trial
Margrethe Smidth, Morten Bondo Christensen, Morten Fenger-Grøn, Frede Olesen, Peter Vedsted
Patterns of engagement with the health care system and risk of subsequent hospitalization amongst patients with diabetes
Paul E Ronksley, Pietro Ravani, Claudia Sanmartin, Hude Quan, Braden Manns, Marcello Tonelli, Brenda R Hemmelgarn
Relationships between the intention to use guidelines, behaviour of insurance physicians and their determinants
Antonius JM Schellart, Feico Zwerver, Johannes R Anema, Allard J van der Beek
Societal costs of non-cardiac chest pain compared with ischemic heart disease - a longitudinal study
Ghassan Mourad, Jenny Alwin, Anna Strömberg, Tiny Jaarsma
The effects of improving hospital physicians working conditions on patient care: a prospective, controlled intervention study
Matthias Weigl, Severin Hornung, Peter Angerer, Johannes Siegrist, Jürgen Glaser
Safety measures to prevent workplace violence in emergency primary care centres–a cross-sectional study
Tone Morken, Ingrid H Johansen
A comparison of US and Australian men’s values and preferences for PSA screening
Kirsten Howard, Alison T Brenner, Carmen Lewis, Stacey Sheridan, Trisha Crutchfield, Sarah Hawley, Matthew E Nielsen, Michael P Pignone
Educational outreach visits to improve venous thromboembolism prevention in hospitalised medical patients: a prospective before-and-after intervention study
Jed Duff, Abdullah Omari, Sandy Middleton, Elizabeth McInnes, Kim Walker
Do governance choices matter in health care networks?: an exploratory configuration study of health care networks
Annick Willem, Paul Gemmel
Scaling up the delivery of refractive error services within a district health system: the KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa experience
Kovin S Naidoo, Kesi Naidoo, Yashika Maharaj, Prasidh Ramson, Diane Wallace, Reshma Dabideen
Occurrence and preventability of adverse drug events in surgical patients: a systematic review of literature
Eveline B Boeker, Monica de Boer, Jordy JS Kiewiet, Loraine Lie-A-Huen, Marcel GW Dijkgraaf, Marja A Boermeester
Health system challenges to integration of mental health delivery in primary care in Kenya- perspectives of primary care health workers
Rachel Jenkins, Caleb Othieno, Stephen Okeyo, Julyan Aruwa, James Kingora, Ben Jenkins
Does Finnish hospital staff job satisfaction vary across occupational groups?
Tarja Kvist, Raija Mäntynen, Katri Vehviläinen-Julkunen
Developing content for a process-of-care checklist for use in intensive care units: a dual-method approach to establishing construct validity
Karena M Conroy, Doug Elliott, Anthony R Burrell
Migrant-friendly hospitals: a paediatric perspective - improving hospital care for migrant children
Fabienne N Jaeger, Ligia Kiss, Mazeda Hossain, Cathy Zimmerman
Impact of telehealth on general practice contacts: findings from the whole systems demonstrator cluster randomised trial
Martin Bardsley, Adam Steventon, Helen Doll
Protocol for a randomised blocked design study using telephone and text-messaging to support cardiac patients with diabetes: a cross cultural international collaborative project
Chiung-Jung Jo Wu, Huei-Chuan Sung, Anne M Chang, John Atherton, Karam Kostner, Mary Courtney, Steven M McPhail
Improving utilization of and retention in PMTCT services: Can behavioral economics help?
Nicholas Kenji Taylor, Alison M Buttenheim
Competition in the German pharmacy market: an empirical analysis
Jörg G Heinsohn, Steffen Flessa
An overview of patient involvement in healthcare decision-making: a situational analysis of the Malaysian context
Chirk-Jenn Ng, Ping-Yein Lee, Yew-Kong Lee, Boon-How Chew, Julia P Engkasan, Zarina-Ismail Irmi, Nik-Sherina Hanafi, Seng-Fah Tong
Definition of a prospective payment system to reimburse emergency departments
Rosella Levaggi, Marcello Montefiori
The impact of a pay-for-performance system on timing to hip fracture surgery: experience from the Lazio Region (Italy)
Paola Colais, Luigi Pinnarelli, Danilo Fusco, Marina Davoli, Mario Braga, Carlo A Perucci
The health outcomes and costs of people attending an interdisciplinary chronic disease service in regional Australia: protocol for a longitudinal cohort investigation
Zephanie Tyack, Kerrie-Anne Frakes, Petrea Cornwell, Suzanne S Kuys, Adrian G Barnett, Steven M McPhail
The management of severe hypertension in Australian general practice
Blanca Gallego, William B Runciman, Oscar Perez-Concha, Siaw-Teng Liaw, Ric O Day, Adam G Dunn, Enrico Coiera
Evidence-based health information from the users’ perspective – a qualitative analysis
Irene Hirschberg, Gabriele Seidel, Daniel Strech, Hilda Bastian, Marie-Luise Dierks
Roles and effectiveness of lay community health workers in the prevention of mental, neurological and substance use disorders in low and middle income countries: a systematic review
Byamah Brian Mutamba, Nadja van Ginneken, Lucy Smith Paintain, Simon Wandiembe, David Schellenberg
Assessing health workers’ revenues and coping strategies in Nigeria — a mixed-methods study
Ngozi Akwataghibe, Dulani Samaranayake, Christophe Lemiere, Marjolein Dieleman
Are Health Facility Management Committees in Kenya ready to implement financial management tasks: findings from a nationally representative survey
Evelyn Waweru, Antony Opwora, Mitsuru Toda, Greg Fegan, Tansy Edwards, Catherine Goodman, Sassy Molyneux
Implementing disability evaluation and welfare services based on the framework of the international classification of functioning, disability and health: experiences in Taiwan
Wen-Ta Chiu, Chia-Feng Yen, Sue-Wen Teng, Hua-Fang Liao, Kwang-Hwa Chang, Wen-Chou Chi, Yen-Ho Wang, Tsan-Hon Liou
Developing a medication communication framework across continuums of care using the Circle of Care Modeling approach
Nicole A Kitson, Morgan Price, Francis Y Lau, Grey Showler
Effectiveness of a lifestyle exercise program for older people receiving a restorative home care service: study protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial
Elissa Burton, Gill Lewin, Lindy Clemson, Duncan Boldy
Relationship between efficiency and clinical effectiveness indicators in an adjusted model of resource consumption: a cross-sectional study
Concepción Violán, Oleguer Plana-Ripoll, Quintí Foguet-Boreu, Bonaventura Bolíbar, Alba Aguado, Ruth Navarro-Artieda, Soledad Velasco-Velasco, Antoni Sicras-Mainar
Client-provider interactions in provider-initiated and voluntary HIV counseling and testing services in Uganda
Rhoda K Wanyenze, David Kyaddondo, John Kinsman, Fredrick Makumbi, Robert Colebunders, Anita Hardon
A population-based analysis of leaving the hospital against medical advice: incidence and associated variables
Allen Kraut, Randy Fransoo, Kendiss Olafson, Clare D Ramsey, Marina Yogendran, Allan Garland
Implementation of a children’s hospital-wide central venous catheter insertion and maintenance bundle
Onno Helder, René Kornelisse, Cynthia van der Starre, Dick Tibboel, Caspar Looman, René Wijnen, Marten Poley, Erwin Ista
The experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse family caregivers in utilising dementia services in Australia
Lily Dongxia Xiao, Anita De Bellis, Lesley Habel, Helena Kyriazopoulos
Primary healthcare in transition – a qualitative study of how managers perceived a system change
Andy Maun, Kerstin Nilsson, Carina Furåker, Jörgen Thorn
Impact of BMI and BMI change on future drug expenditures in adults: results from the MONICA/KORA cohort study
Christina M Teuner, Petra Menn, Margit Heier, Rolf Holle, Jürgen John, Silke B Wolfenstetter
Can programme theory be used as a 'translational tool’ to optimise health service delivery in a national early years’ initiative in Scotland: a case study
Jennifer Eaves, Wendy Gnich
Improvement of care for the physical health of patients with severe mental illness: a qualitative study assessing the view of patients and families
Fenneke M van Hasselt, Marian JT Oud, Anton JM Loonen
Acceptability and perceived barriers and facilitators to creating a national research register to enable ’direct to patient’ enrolment into research: the Scottish Health Research Register (SHARE)
Aileen Grant, Jenny Ure, Donald J Nicolson, Janet Hanley, Aziz Sheikh, Brian McKinstry, Frank Sullivan
Household income modifies the association of insurance and dental visiting
Olga Anikeeva, David S Brennan, Dana N Teusner
International developments in revenues and incomes of general practitioners from 2000 to 2010
Madelon Kroneman, Pascal Meeus, Dionne Sofia Kringos, Wim Groot, Jouke van der Zee
Community engagement in biomedical research in an African setting: the Kintampo Health Research Centre experience
Kwaku Poku Asante, Charlotte Tawiah Agyemang, Charles Zandoh, Jacob Saah, Lawrence Gyabaa Febir, Casimir Kabio Donlebo, Seth Owusu-Agyei
English community pharmacists’ experiences of using electronic transmission of prescriptions: a qualitative study
Sara Garfield, Ralph Hibberd, Nick Barber
The CLUES study: a cluster randomized clinical trial for the evaluation of cardiovascular guideline implementation in primary care
Arritxu Etxeberria, Itziar Pérez, Idoia Alcorta, Jose Ignacio Emparanza, Elena Ruiz de Velasco, Maria Teresa Iglesias, Domingo Orozco-Beltrán, Rafael Rotaeche
Quality of antenatal care services at public health facilities of Bahir-Dar special zone, Northwest Ethiopia
Tadese Ejigu, Mirkuzie Woldie, Yibeltal Kifle
Effectiveness of two interventions based on improving patient-practitioner communication on diabetes self-management in patients with low educational level: study protocol of a clustered randomized trial in primary care
Ignacio Ricci-Cabello, Antonio Olry de Labry–Lima, Julia Bolívar-Muñoz, Guadalupe Pastor-Moreno, Clara Bermudez-Tamayo, Isabel Ruiz-Pérez, Fermín Quesada-Jiménez, Enrique Moratalla-López, Susana Domínguez-Martín, Ana M de los Ríos-Álvarez, Pilar Cruz-Vela, Miguel A Prados-Quel, José A López-De Hierro
“Us and Them”: a social network analysis of physicians’ professional networks and their attitudes towards EBM
Daniele Mascia, Americo Cicchetti, Gianfranco Damiani
Beyond antimalarial stock-outs: implications of health provider compliance on out-of-pocket expenditure during care-seeking for fever in South East Tanzania
Inez Mikkelsen-Lopez, Fabrizio Tediosi, Gumi Abdallah, Mustafa Njozi, Baraka Amuri, Rashid Khatib, Fatuma Manzi, Don de Savigny
How well can physicians manage Tuberculosis? A Public-Private sector comparison from Karachi, Pakistan
Maliha Naseer, Ali Khawaja, Amin S Pethani, Salik Aleem
A framework for assessing health system resilience in an economic crisis: Ireland as a test case
Steve Thomas, Conor Keegan, Sarah Barry, Richard Layte, Matt Jowett, Charles Normand
Health care experiences of U.S. Retirees living in Mexico and Panama: a qualitative study
Philip D Sloane, Lauren W Cohen, Bryce E Haac, Sheryl Zimmerman
Genomic testing to determine drug response: measuring preferences of the public and patients using Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE)
Mehdi Najafzadeh, Karissa M Johnston, Stuart J Peacock, Joseph M Connors, Marco A Marra, Larry D Lynd, Carlo A Marra
Practice size, financial sharing and quality of care
Rose Anne Devlin, William Hogg, Jianwei Zhong, Michael Shortt, Simone Dahrouge, Grant Russell
Effectiveness of an organized colorectal cancer screening program on increasing adherence in asymptomatic average-risk Canadians
Thomas J Charters, Erin C Strumpf, Maida J Sewitch
An evaluation of prescribing practices for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in Mongolia
Gereltuya Dorj, Delia Hendrie, Richard Parsons, Bruce Sunderland
Guidelines adherence in the treatment of patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes: a historical cohort comparing the use of metformin in Quebec pre and post-Canadian Diabetes Association guidelines
Ting-Yu Wang, Tewodros Eguale, Robyn Tamblyn
Can life coaching improve health outcomes? – A systematic review of intervention studies
Jette Ammentorp, Lisbeth Uhrenfeldt, Flemming Angel, Martin Ehrensvärd, Ebbe B Carlsen, Poul-Erik Kofoed
Do knowledge brokers facilitate implementation of the stroke guideline in clinical practice?
Mia Willems, Carin Schröder, Marcel Post, Trudy van der Weijden, Anne Visser-Meily
Estimating lifetime healthcare costs with morbidity data
Marc Carreras, Pere Ibern, Jordi Coderch, Inma Sánchez, Jose M Inoriza
Effects of immigrant status on Emergency Room (ER) utilisation by children under age one: a population-based study in the province of Reggio Emilia (Italy)
Paola Ballotari, Stefania D’Angelo, Laura Bonvicini, Serena Broccoli, Nicola Caranci, Silvia Candela, Paolo Giorgi Rossi
How health professionals perceive and experience treating people on social assistance: a qualitative study among dentists in Montreal, Canada
Christophe Bedos, Christine Loignon, Anne Landry, Paul J Allison, Lucie Richard
The psychosocial impact of home use medical devices on the lives of older people: a qualitative study
Ross Thomson, Jennifer L Martin, Sarah Sharples
Current ICD10 codes are insufficient to clearly distinguish acute myocardial infarction type: a descriptive study
Roxana Alexandrescu, Alex Bottle, Brian Jarman, Paul Aylin
Assessing participation in a community-based health planning and services programme in Ghana
Leonard Baatiema, Morten Skovdal, Susan Rifkin, Catherine Campbell
Knowledge and confidence of South African health care providers regarding post-rape care: a cross-sectional study
Ruxana Jina, Rachel Jewkes, Nicola Christofides, Lizle Loots
The relationship between number of primary health care visits and hospitalisations: evidence from linked clinic and hospital data for remote Indigenous Australians
Yuejen Zhao, Jo Wright, Steven Guthridge, Paul Lawton
How are population-based funding formulae for healthcare composed? A comparative analysis of seven models
Erin Penno, Robin Gauld, Rick Audas
Pharmacist care and the management of coronary heart disease: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials
Hongwen Cai, Haibin Dai, Yangmin Hu, Xiaofeng Yan, Huimin Xu
Impact of a large-scale educational intervention program on venous blood specimen collection practices
Karin Bölenius, Marie Lindkvist, Christine Brulin, Kjell Grankvist, Karin Nilsson, Johan Söderberg
Studying complex interventions: reflections from the FEMHealth project on evaluating fee exemption policies in West Africa and Morocco
Bruno Marchal, Sara Van Belle, Vincent De Brouwere, Sophie Witter
Corruption, inequality and population perception of healthcare quality in Europe
Zlatko Nikoloski, Elias Mossialos
Hospital process orientation from an operations management perspective: development of a measurement tool and practical testing in three ophthalmic practices
Pedro D Gonçalves, Marie Louise Hagenbeek, Jan M H Vissers
Understanding significant processes during work environment interventions to alleviate time pressure and associated sick leave of home care workers – a case study
Gunn Robstad Andersen, Rolf H Westgaard
Community perceptions of health insurance and their preferred design features: implications for the design of universal health coverage reforms in Kenya
Stephen Mulupi, Doris Kirigia, Jane Chuma
Overall scores as an alternative to global ratings in patient experience surveys; a comparison of four methods
Maarten W Krol, Dolf de Boer, Jany JDJM Rademakers, Diana M Delnoij
Micro-costing the provision of emotional support and information in UK eye clinics
Hanna Gillespie-Gallery, Ahalya Subramanian, Miriam L Conway
Medication reconciliation at admission and discharge: a time and motion study
Ari N Meguerditchian, Stanimira Krotneva, Kristen Reidel, Allen Huang, Robyn Tamblyn
Evaluating adverse drug event reporting in administrative data from emergency departments: a validation study
Corinne M Hohl, Lisa Kuramoto, Eugenia Yu, Basia Rogula, Jürgen Stausberg, Boris Sobolev
Cataract surgery in Southern Ethiopia: distribution, rates and determinants of service provision
Esmael Habtamu, Zebiba Eshete, Matthew J Burton
Wait times for publicly funded addiction and problem gambling treatment agencies in Ontario, Canada
Rachael V Pascoe, Brian Rush, Nooshin Khobzi Rotondi
Sexual reproductive health service provision to young people in Kenya; health service providers’ experiences
Pamela M Godia, Joyce M Olenja, Joyce A Lavussa, Deborah Quinney, Jan J Hofman, Nynke van den Broek
Patients’ socioeconomic status and their evaluations of primary care in Hong Kong
Onikepe Owolabi, Zhenzhen Zhang, Xiaolin Wei, Nan Yang, Haitao Li, Samuel YS Wong, Martin CS Wong, Winnie Yip, Sian M Griffiths
Injudicious use of laboratory facilities in tertiary care hospitals at rawalpindi, pakistan: a cross-sectional descriptive study
Muhammad Farooq Malik, Dilshad Ahmed Khan, Wafa Munir Ansari, Farooq Ahmad Khan
Healthier choices in an Australian health service: a pre-post audit of an intervention to improve the nutritional value of foods and drinks in vending machines and food outlets
Colin Bell, Nicole Pond, Lynda Davies, Jeryl Lynn Francis, Elizabeth Campbell, John Wiggers
Differences in the structure of outpatient diabetes care between endocrinologist- led and general physician- led services
Máire O’Donnell, Anna de Siún, Monica O’Mullane, Diarmuid Smith, Colin Bradley, Francis M Finucane, Sean F Dinneen
The delivery of heavy menstrual bleeding services in England and Wales after publication of national guidelines: a survey of hospitals
Suzanne M Cox, David Cromwell, Tahir Mahmood, Allan Templeton, Benedetta La Corte, Jan van der Meulen
On call at the mall: a mixed methods study of U.S. medical malls
Lori Uscher-Pines, Ateev Mehrotra, Ramya Chari
Medication adherence in HIV-positive patients with diabetes or hypertension: a focus group study
Anne K Monroe, Tashi L Rowe, Richard D Moore, Geetanjali Chander
What are the safety risks for patients undergoing treatment by multiple specialties: a retrospective patient record review study
Rebecca J Baines, Martine C de Bruijne, Maaike Langelaan, Cordula Wagner
How health professionals conceive and construct interprofessional practice in rural settings: a qualitative study
Vicki Parker, Karen McNeil, Isabel Higgins, Rebecca Mitchell, Penelope Paliadelis, Michelle Giles, Glenda Parmenter
Household cost of out-patient treatment of Buruli ulcer in Ghana: a case study of Obom in Ga South Municipality
Hannah Brown Amoakoh, Moses Aikins
Economic valuation of informal care in cerebrovascular accident survivors in Spain
Juan Oliva-Moreno, Isaac Aranda-Reneo, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto, Almudena González-Domínguez, Álvaro Hidalgo-Vega
Real teams and their effect on the quality of care in nursing homes
Anders Kvale Havig, Anders Skogstad, Marijke Veenstra, Tor Inge Romøren
Economic benefits of safety-engineered sharp devices in Belgium - a budget impact model
Emma Hanmore, Grant Maclaine, Fiona Garin, Alexander Alonso, Nicolas Leroy, Lewis Ruff
Assessing responsiveness of health care services within a health insurance scheme in Nigeria: users’ perspectives
Shafiu Mohammed, Justo Lorenzo Bermejo, Aurélia Souares, Rainer Sauerborn, Hengjin Dong
Training providers: beyond the basics of electronic health records
Christine E Bredfeldt, Elias Bruce Awad, Kenneth Joseph, Mark H Snyder
Household catastrophic medical expenses in eastern China: determinants and policy implications
Xiaohong Li, Jay J Shen, Jun Lu, Ying Wang, Mei Sun, Chengyue Li, Fengshui Chang, Mo Hao
Costs of medicines and health care: a concern for Australian women across the ages
Emily J Walkom, Deborah Loxton, Jane Robertson
Role construction and boundaries in interprofessional primary health care teams: a qualitative study
Kate MacNaughton, Samia Chreim, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
Disengaged: a qualitative study of communication and collaboration between physicians and other professions on general internal medicine wards
Merrick Zwarenstein, Kathleen Rice, Lesley Gotlib-Conn, Chris Kenaszchuk, Scott Reeves
Hospital accreditation, reimbursement and case mix: links and insights for contractual systems
Walid Ammar, Jade Khalife, Fadi El-Jardali, Jenny Romanos, Hilda Harb, Ghassan Hamadeh, Hani Dimassi
MOVE: weight management program across the veterans health administration: patient- and facility-level predictors of utilization
Aaron C Del Re, Matthew L Maciejewski, Alex HS Harris
Parent experiences of inpatient pediatric care in relation to health care delivery and sociodemographic characteristics: results of a Norwegian national survey
Erling Solheim, Andrew M Garratt
The use of Cincinnati prehospital stroke scale during telephone dispatch interview increases the accuracy in identifying stroke and transient ischemic attack symptoms
Assunta De Luca, Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Guido Francesco Villa
The Older Persons’ Transitions in Care (OPTIC) study: pilot testing of the transition tracking tool
Robert Colin Reid, Garnet E Cummings, Sarah L Cooper, Stephanie L Abel, Laura J Bissell, Carole A Estabrooks, Brian H Rowe, Adrian Wagg, Peter G Norton, Mike Ertel, Greta G Cummings
A preliminary analysis of the effect of the new rural cooperative medical scheme on inpatient care at a county hospital
Chiyu Ye, Shengnan Duan, Yuan Wu, Huimei Hu, Xiaofang Liu, Hua You, Linghao Wang, Lennart Bogg, Hengjin Dong
Bridging evidence-practice gaps: improving use of medicines in elderly Australian veterans
Elizabeth E Roughead, Lisa M Kalisch Ellett, Emmae N Ramsay, Nicole L Pratt, John D Barratt, Vanessa T LeBlanc, Philip Ryan, Robert Peck, Graeme Killer, Andrew L Gilbert
Patients with unexplained physical symptoms have poorer quality of life and higher costs than other patient groups: a cross-sectional study on burden
Lyonne NL Zonneveld, Mirjam AG Sprangers, Cornelis G Kooiman, Adriaan van ’t Spijker, Jan JV Busschbach
The impact of economic factors on migration considerations among Icelandic specialist doctors: a cross-sectional study
Ingunn Bjarnadóttir Solberg, Kristinn Tómasson, Olaf Aasland, Reidar Tyssen
Baseline assessment of adult and adolescent primary care delivery in Rwanda: an opportunity for quality improvement
Ashwin Vasan, Manzi Anatole, Catherine Mezzacappa, Bethany L Hedt-Gauthier, Lisa R Hirschhorn, Fulgence Nkikabahizi, Marc Hagenimana, Aphrodis Ndayisaba, Felix R Cyamatare, Bonaventure Nzeyimana, Peter Drobac, Neil Gupta
Improvement in rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease management and prevention using a health centre-based continuous quality improvement approach
Anna P Ralph, Marea Fittock, Rosalie Schultz, Dale Thompson, Michelle Dowden, Tom Clemens, Matthew G Parnaby, Michele Clark, Malcolm I McDonald, Keith N Edwards, Jonathan R Carapetis, Ross S Bailie
Chemotherapy prescribing errors: an observational study on the role of information technology and computerized physician order entry systems
Marianna Aita, Ornella Belvedere, Elisa De Carlo, Laura Deroma, Federica De Pauli, Lorena Gurrieri, Angela Denaro, Loris Zanier, Gianpiero Fasola
Magnesium sulphate for fetal neuroprotection: a cost-effectiveness analysis
Celeste D Bickford, Laura A Magee, Craig Mitton, Marie Kruse, Anne R Synnes, Diane Sawchuck, Melanie Basso, Vyta M Senikas, Peter von Dadelszen
Patient initiated clinics for patients with chronic or recurrent conditions managed in secondary care: a systematic review of patient reported outcomes and patient and clinician satisfaction
Rebecca Whear, Abdul-Kareem Abdul-Rahman, Jo Thompson-Coon, Kate Boddy, Mark G Perry, Ken Stein
Information needs and seeking behaviour among health professionals working at public hospital and health centres in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
Mulusew Andualem, Gashaw Kebede, Abera Kumie
Provider imposed restrictions to clients’ access to family planning in urban Uttar Pradesh, India: a mixed methods study
Lisa M Calhoun, Ilene S Speizer, Rajiv Rimal, Pooja Sripad, Nilesh Chatterjee, Pranita Achyut, Priya Nanda
Factors associated with consulting a dietitian for diabetes management: a cross-sectional study
Mohamad Alameddine, Lara Nasreddine, Nahla Hwalla, Yara Mourad, Hikma Shoaib, Dana Mousa, Farah Naja
Health examination utilization in the visually disabled population in Taiwan: a nationwide population-based study
Yueh-Han Hsu, Wen-Chen Tsai, Pei-Tseng Kung
Diffusion of subsidized ACTs in accredited drug shops in Tanzania: determinants of stocking and characteristics of early and late adopters
Peter S Larson, Prashant Yadav, Sarah Alphs, Jean Arkedis, Julius Massaga, Oliver Sabot, Jessica L Cohen
Telephone based self-management support by ‘lay health workers’ and ‘peer support workers’ to prevent and manage vascular diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Nicola Small, Christian Blickem, Tom Blakeman, Maria Panagioti, Carolyn A Chew-Graham, Peter Bower
Where is the patient in models of patient-centred care: a grounded theory study of total joint replacement patients
Fiona Webster, Anthony V Perruccio, Richard Jenkinson, Susan Jaglal, Emil Schemitsch, James P Waddell, Samantha Bremner, Melanie Hammond Mobilio, Viji Venkataramanan, Aileen M Davis
Achieving universal health coverage through voluntary insurance: what can we learn from the experience of Lao PDR?
Sarah Alkenbrack, Bart Jacobs, Magnus Lindelow
Patterns, determinants and barriers of health and social service utilization among young urban crack users in Brazil
Marcelo Santos Cruz, Tarcisio Andrade, Francisco I Bastos, Erotildes Leal, Neilane Bertoni, Lara Lipman, Chantal Burnett, Benedikt Fischer
Access to the US Department of Veterans Affairs health system: self-reported barriers to care among returnees of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom
Christine A Elnitsky, Elena M Andresen, Michael E Clark, Suzanne McGarity, Carmen G Hall, Robert D Kerns
Hospital admissions in Alicante (Spain): a comparative analysis of foreign citizens from high-income countries, immigrants from low-income countries, and Spanish citizens
José M Ramos, Eva M Navarrete-Muñoz, Hector Pinargote, Jaume Sastre, José M Seguí, María J Rugero
Parental depression and child conduct problems: evaluation of parental service use and associated costs after attending the Incredible Years Basic Parenting Programme
Joanna M Charles, Tracey J Bywater, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Judy Hutchings, Lu Zou
Emergency and critical care services in Tanzania: a survey of ten hospitals
Tim Baker, Edwin Lugazia, Jaran Eriksen, Victor Mwafongo, Lars Irestedt, David Konrad
Adherence to management guidelines for growth faltering and anaemia in remote dwelling Australian Aboriginal infants and barriers to health service delivery
Sarah J Bar-Zeev, Sue G Kruske, Lesley M Barclay, Naor Bar-Zeev, Sue V Kildea
Applicability of a previously validated readmission predictive index in medical patients in Singapore: a retrospective study
Shu Yun Tan, Lian Leng Low, Yong Yang, Kheng Hock Lee
Economic evaluation alongside a single RCT of an integrative psychotherapeutic nursing home programme
Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen, Ton JEM Bakker, Maiwenn Al, Jacqueline van der Lee, Hugo J Duivenvoorden, Miel W Ribbe, Robbert Huijsman
Effects of comprehensive intervention on health-related quality of life in patients with chronic hepatitis B in China
Jianqian Chao, Long Song, Hua Zhang, Liguo Zhu, Lin Tian, Hui Jin, Pei Liu
The role of AFB microscopy training in improving the performance of laboratory professionals: analysis of pre and post training evaluation scores
Pawlos Reji, Getachew Aga, Gemeda Abebe
The impact of nurse working hours on patient safety culture: a cross-national survey including Japan, the United States and Chinese Taiwan using the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture
Yinghui Wu, Shigeru Fujita, Kanako Seto, Shinya Ito, Kunichika Matsumoto, Chiu-Chin Huang, Tomonori Hasegawa
Evaluation of paediatric nursing-sensitive outcomes in an Australian population using linked administrative hospital data
Sally Wilson, Alexandra P Bremner, Yvonne Hauck, Judith Finn
Healthcare technologies, quality improvement programs and hospital organizational culture in Canadian hospitals
Rajesh K Tyagi, Lori Cook, John Olson, James Belohlav
The efficiency of the public dental services (PDS) in Cyprus and selected determinants
Chrystalla Charalambous, Nikolaos Maniadakis, Nikolaos Polyzos, Vassilis Fragoulakis, Mamas Theodorou
Recognition of physiotherapists’ expertise in Parkinson’s disease
Nicole ABM Ketelaar, Marten Munneke, Bastiaan R Bloem, Gert P Westert, Marjan J Faber
The impact on patient health and service outcomes of introducing nurse consultants: a historically matched controlled study
Diana TF Lee, Kai Chow Choi, Carmen WH Chan, Sek Ying Chair, Dominic Chan, Sylvia YK Fung, Eric LS Chan
Stakeholder perspectives on implementing accreditation programs: a qualitative study of enabling factors
Reece Hinchcliff, David Greenfield, Johanna I Westbrook, Marjorie Pawsey, Virginia Mumford, Jeffrey Braithwaite
The heart healthy lenoir project-an intervention to reduce disparities in hypertension control: study protocol
Jacquie R Halladay, Katrina E Donahue, Alan L Hinderliter, Doyle M Cummings, Crystal W Cene, Cassie L Miller, Beverly A Garcia, Jim Tillman, Darren DeWalt
Factors associated to referral of tuberculosis suspects by private practitioners to community health centres in Bali Province, Indonesia
I Wayan Gede Artawan Eka Putra, Ni Wayan Arya Utami, I Ketut Suarjana, I Made Kerta Duana, Cok Istri Darma Astiti, IW Putra, Ari Probandari, Edine W Tiemersma, Chatarina Umbul Wahyuni
Diabetes care and service access among elderly Vietnamese with type 2 diabetes
Mary C Carolan-Olah, Angie Cassar, Regina Quiazon, Sean Lynch
Considering quality of care for young adults with diabetes in Ireland
Myles Balfe, Ruairi Brugha, Diarmuid Smith, Seamus Sreenan, Frank Doyle, Ronan Conroy
Important challenges for coordination and inter-municipal cooperation in health care services: a Delphi study
Elisabeth Holen-Rabbersvik, Tom Roar Eikebrokk, Rune Werner Fensli, Elin Thygesen, Åshild Slettebø
Changes in health care utilisation following a reform involving choice and privatisation in Swedish primary care: a five-year follow-up of GP-visits
Anders Beckman, Anders Anell
Disease identification based on ambulatory drugs dispensation and in-hospital ICD-10 diagnoses: a comparison
Patricia Halfon, Yves Eggli, Anne Decollogny, Erol Seker
“Be kind to young people so they feel at home”: a qualitative study of adolescents’ and service providers’ perceptions of youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services in Vanuatu
Elissa C Kennedy, Siula Bulu, Jennifer Harris, David Humphreys, Jayline Malverus, Natalie J Gray
Treatment patterns, clinical outcomes and health care costs associated with her2-positive breast cancer with central nervous system metastases: a French multicentre observational study
Sandrine Baffert, Paul Cottu, Youlia M Kirova, Florence Mercier, Cécile Simondi, Thomas Bachelot, Emilie Le Rhun, Christelle Levy, Maya Gutierrez, Nicolas Madranges, Cristian Moldovan, Bruno Coudert, Dominique Spaëth, Daniel Serin, François-Emery Cotté, Laure Benjamin, Cathie Maillard, Sabine Laulhere-Vigneau, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski
Diagnostic data for neurological conditions in interRAI assessments in home care, nursing home and mental health care settings: a validity study
Andrea D Foebel, John P Hirdes, George A Heckman, Marie-Jeanne Kergoat, Scott Patten, Ruth Ann Marrie
Lifesaving emergency obstetric services are inadequate in south-west Ethiopia: a formidable challenge to reducing maternal mortality in Ethiopia
Meseret Girma, Yaliso Yaya, Ewenat Gebrehanna, Yemane Berhane, Bernt Lindtjørn
Identifying barriers and improving communication between cancer service providers and Aboriginal patients and their families: the perspective of service providers
Shaouli Shahid, Angela Durey, Dawn Bessarab, Samar M Aoun, Sandra C Thompson
One size does not fit all: evaluating an intervention to reduce antibiotic prescribing for acute bronchitis
Sara L Ackerman, Ralph Gonzales, Melissa S Stahl, Joshua P Metlay
High and low-risk specialties experience with the U.S. medical malpractice system
Aaron E Carroll, Jennifer L Buddenbaum
German translation of the Alberta context tool and two measures of research use: methods, challenges and lessons learned
Matthias Hoben, Cornelia Mahler, Marion Bär, Sarah Berger, Janet E Squires, Carole A Estabrooks, Johann Behrens
Validating self-report of diabetes use by participants in the 45 and up study: a record linkage study
Elizabeth Jean Comino, Duong Thuy Tran, Marion Haas, Jeff Flack, Bin Jalaludin, Louisa Jorm, Mark Fort Harris
Healthcare reform: implications for knowledge translation in primary care
Ann Dadich, Hassan Hosseinzadeh
Case managers for older persons with multi-morbidity and their everyday work – a focused ethnography
Markus Gustafsson, Jimmie Kristensson, Göran Holst, Ania Willman, Doris Bohman
Physicians’ perceptions of quality of care, professional autonomy, and job satisfaction in Canada, Norway, and the United States
Reidar Tyssen, Karen S Palmer, Ingunn B Solberg, Edgar Voltmer, Erica Frank
Delivery of primary health care to persons who are socio-economically disadvantaged: does the organizational delivery model matter?
Simone Dahrouge, William Hogg, Natalie Ward, Meltem Tuna, Rose Anne Devlin, Elizabeth Kristjansson, Peter Tugwell, Kevin Pottie
A governance model for integrated primary/secondary care for the health-reforming first world – results of a systematic review
Caroline Nicholson, Claire Jackson, John Marley
On evaluating health centers groups in Lisbon and Tagus Valley: efficiency, equity and quality
Cláudia Ferreira, Rui C Marques, Paulo Nicola
Can the theoretical domains framework account for the implementation of clinical quality interventions?
Wendy Lipworth, Natalie Taylor, Jeffrey Braithwaite
Potential for patient-physician language discordance in Ontario
Jennifer Sears, Kamran Khan, Chris I Ardern, Hala Tamim