Ausgabe 1/2007
Inhalt (212 Artikel)
The value of health care – a matter of discussion in Germany
Franz Porzsolt, Moritz Ackermann, Volker Amelung
Protocol for the Smoking, Nicotine and Pregnancy (SNAP) trial: double-blind, placebo-randomised, controlled trial of nicotine replacement therapy in pregnancy
Tim Coleman, Jim Thornton, John Britton, Sarah Lewis, Kim Watts, Michael WH Coughtrie, Clare Mannion, Neil Marlow, Christine Godfrey
Development of a series of patient information leaflets for constipation using a range of cognitive interview techniques: LIFELAX
Amelia A Lake, Chris Speed, Anna Brookes, Ben Heaven, Ashley J Adamson, Paula Moynihan, Sally Corbett, Elaine McColl
Motives and preferences of general practitioners for new collaboration models with medical specialists: a qualitative study
Annette J Berendsen, Wim HGM Benneker, Betty Meyboom-de Jong, Niek S Klazinga, Jan Schuling
Attainment of clinical performance targets and improvement in clinical outcomes and resource use in hemodialysis care: a prospective cohort study
Laura C Plantinga, Nancy E Fink, Bernard G Jaar, John H Sadler, Nathan W Levin, Josef Coresh, Michael J Klag, Neil R Powe
Exploring the effects of telehealth on medical human resources supply: a qualitative case study in remote regions
Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Julie Duplantie, Jean-Paul Fortin, Réjean Landry
HEE-GER: a systematic review of German economic evaluations of health care published 1990–2004
David LB Schwappach, Till A Boluarte
Use of patient flow analysis to improve patient visit efficiency by decreasing wait time in a primary care-based disease management programs for anticoagulation and chronic pain: a quality improvement study
Nicholas M Potisek, Robb M Malone, Betsy Bryant Shilliday, Timothy J Ives, Paul R Chelminski, Darren A DeWalt, Michael P Pignone
Impact of immigration on the cost of emergency visits in Barcelona (Spain)
Francesc Cots, Xavier Castells, Oscar García, Marta Riu, Aida Felipe, Oriol Vall
Effect of an antepartum Pap smear on the coverage of a cervical cancer screening programme: a population-based prospective study
Mari Nygård, Anne-Kjersti Daltveit, Steinar Ø Thoresen, Jan F Nygård
Resource allocation within the National AIDS Control Program of Pakistan: a qualitative assessment of decision maker's opinions
Sara Husain, Masood Kadir, Zafar Fatmi
Methods for dealing with discrepant records in linked population health datasets: a cross-sectional study
Christine L Roberts, Charles S Algert, Jane B Ford
Estimation of the real population and its impact on the utilisation of healthcare services in Mediterranean resort regions: an ecological study
Emilio Perea-Milla, Sergi Mari Pons, Francisco Rivas-Ruiz, Anna Gallofre, Enrique Navarro Jurado, Marco A Navarro Ales, Alberto Jimenez-Puente, Fidel Fernandez-Nieto, Joan C March Cerda, Manuel Carrasco, Lydia Martin, Damian Lopez Cano, Gonzalo E Gutierrez, Rafael Cortes Macías, Jose A Garcia-Ruiz
Progress towards early detection services for infants with hearing loss in developing countries
Bolajoko O Olusanya, De Wet Swanepoel, Mônica J Chapchap, Salvador Castillo, Hamed Habib, Siti Z Mukari, Norberto V Martinez, Hung-Ching Lin, Bradley McPherson
Cultural competence in mental health care: a review of model evaluations
Kamaldeep Bhui, Nasir Warfa, Patricia Edonya, Kwame McKenzie, Dinesh Bhugra
Day care cataract surgery in Central and Southern Italy: a multicentric survey
Salvatore Cillino, Alessandra Casuccio, Francesco Di Pace, Francesco Pillitteri, Giovanni Cillino, Gaetano Lodato
Effective healthcare teams require effective team members: defining teamwork competencies
Sandra G Leggat
Record linkage research and informed consent: who consents?
Nicole Huang, Shu-Fang Shih, Hsing-Yi Chang, Yiing-Jenq Chou
General practice cooperatives: long waiting times for home visits due to long distances?
Paul Giesen, Nieke van Lin, Henk Mokkink, Wil van den Bosch, Richard Grol
Quality or equality? The Norwegian experience with medical monopolies
Knut Rasmussen, Dag Bratlid
Geographical variation in radiological services: a nationwide survey
Kristin Bakke Lysdahl, Ingelin Børretzen
Managed care and patient ratings of the quality of specialty care among patients with pain or depressive symptoms
David Grembowski, David Paschane, Paula Diehr, Wayne Katon, Diane Martin, Donald L Patrick
Captured voices in cancer: experiences from networking between individuals with experiential and professional knowledge
Christina Carlsson, Kerstin Segesten, Mef Nilbert, Kerstin Nilsson
The federal government commissioner for patient issues in Germany: initial analysis of the user inquiries
Nils Schneider, Marie-Luise Dierks, Gabriele Seidel, Friedrich W Schwartz
Comparing health system performance assessment and management approaches in the Netherlands and Ontario, Canada
Ali R Tawfik-Shukor, Niek S Klazinga, Onyebuchi A Arah
Use frequency of traditional Chinese medicine in Taiwan
Fang-Pey Chen, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Yen-Ying Kung, Yu-Chun Chen, Li-Fang Chou, Fan-Jou Chen, Shinn-Jang Hwang
Design of a retrospective patient record study on the occurrence of adverse events among patients in Dutch hospitals
Marieke Zegers, Martine C de Bruijne, Cordula Wagner, Peter P Groenewegen, Roelof Waaijman, Gerrit van der Wal
Cost-effectiveness of collaborative care for chronically ill patients with comorbid depressive disorder in the general hospital setting, a randomised controlled trial
Eva K Horn, Tjeerd B van Benthem, Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen, Harm WJ van Marwijk, Aartjan TF Beekman, Frans F Rutten, Christina M van der Feltz-Cornelis
Randomised controlled trial of a psychiatric consultation model for treatment of common mental disorder in the occupational health setting
Christina M van der Feltz-Cornelis, Jolanda AC Meeuwissen, Fransina J de Jong, Rob Hoedeman, Iman Elfeddali
The links between health-related behaviors and life satisfaction in elderly individuals who prefer institutional living
Serap Inal, Feryal Subasi, Serap M Ay, Osman Hayran
Willing to wait?: The influence of patient wait time on satisfaction with primary care
Roger T Anderson, Fabian T Camacho, Rajesh Balkrishnan
The acceptability of waiting times for elective general surgery and the appropriateness of prioritising patients
Jurriaan P Oudhoff, Danielle RM Timmermans, Martin Rietberg, Dirk L Knol, Gerrit van der Wal
Physiological-social score (PMEWS) vs. CURB-65 to triage pandemic influenza: a comparative validation study using community-acquired pneumonia as a proxy
Kirsty Challen, John Bright, Andrew Bentley, Darren Walter
Cost-effectiveness of collaborative care including PST and an antidepressant treatment algorithm for the treatment of major depressive disorder in primary care; a randomised clinical trial
Marjoliek A IJff, Klaas ML Huijbregts, Harm WJ van Marwijk, Aartjan TF Beekman, Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen, Frans F Rutten, Jürgen Unützer, Christina M van der Feltz-Cornelis
The costs and potential savings of a novel telepaediatric service in Queensland
Anthony C Smith, Paul Scuffham, Richard Wootton
Exercise on Prescription: trial protocol and evaluation of outcomes
Jes B Sørensen, Jakob Kragstrup, Kirsten Kjær, Lis Puggaard
Urban health insurance reform and coverage in China using data from National Health Services Surveys in 1998 and 2003
Ling Xu, Yan Wang, Charles D Collins, Shenglan Tang
Investigating the cost-effectiveness of videotelephone based support for newly diagnosed paediatric oncology patients and their families: design of a randomised controlled trial
Mark Bensink, Richard Wootton, Helen Irving, Andrew Hallahan, Deborah Theodoros, Trevor Russell, Paul Scuffham, Adrian G Barnett
Drug treatment program patients' hepatitis C virus (HCV) education needs and their use of available HCV education services
Shiela M Strauss, Janetta Astone-Twerell, Corrine E Munoz-Plaza, Don C Des Jarlais, Marya Gwadz, Holly Hagan, Andrew Osborne, Andrew Rosenblum
Effects of residence and race on burden of travel for care: cross sectional analysis of the 2001 US National Household Travel Survey
Janice C Probst, Sarah B Laditka, Jong-Yi Wang, Andrew O Johnson
Equity in health services use and intensity of use in Canada
Yukiko Asada, George Kephart
Feasibility and results of a randomised pilot-study of pre-discharge occupational therapy home visits
Natasha Anne Lannin, Lindy Clemson, Annie McCluskey, Chung-Wei Christine Lin, Ian D Cameron, Sarah Barras
Indian community health insurance schemes provide partial protection against catastrophic health expenditure
Narayanan Devadasan, Bart Criel, Wim Van Damme, Kent Ranson, Patrick Van der Stuyft
Erratum To: Comparing health system performance assessment and management approaches in the Netherlands and Ontario, Canada
Ali R Tawfik-Shukor, Niek S Klazinga, Onyebuchi A Arah
Food safety in hospital: knowledge, attitudes and practices of nursing staff of two hospitals in Sicily, Italy
Cecilia Buccheri, Alessandra Casuccio, Santo Giammanco, Marco Giammanco, Maurizio La Guardia, Caterina Mammina
Doctor and practice characteristics associated with differences in patient evaluations of general practice
Hanne N Heje, Peter Vedsted, Ineta Sokolowski, Frede Olesen
Interventions aimed at reducing problems in adult patients discharged from hospital to home: a systematic meta-review
Patriek Mistiaen, Anneke L Francke, Else Poot
Jack-of-all-trades, master of none: Postgraduate perspectives on interdisciplinary health research in Australia
Gemma E Carey, James A Smith
Graduates of Lebanese medical schools in the United States: an observational study of international migration of physicians
Elie A Akl, Nancy Maroun, Stella Major, Bechara Chahoud, Holger J Schünemann
Functional mapping of hospitals by diagnosis-dominant case-mix analysis
Kiyohide Fushimi, Hideki Hashimoto, Yuichi Imanaka, Kazuaki Kuwabara, Hiromasa Horiguchi, Kohichi B Ishikawa, Shinya Matsuda
Patient risk profiles and practice variation in nonadherence to antidepressants, antihypertensives and oral hypoglycemics
Liset van Dijk, Eibert R Heerdink, Dinesh Somai, Sandra van Dulmen, Emmy M Sluijs, Denise T de Ridder, Anna MGF Griens, Jozien M Bensing
Decision-making regarding total knee replacement surgery: A qualitative meta-synthesis
Tracey O'Neill, Clare Jinks, Bie Nio Ong
Time-trend and variations in the proportion of second-eye cataract surgery
Lorena Hoffmeister, Rubén Román, Mercè Comas, Francesc Cots, Enrique Bernal-Delgado, Xavier Castells
Development of a decision support tool to facilitate primary care management of patients with abnormal liver function tests without clinically apparent liver disease [HTA03/38/02]. Abnormal Liver Function Investigations Evaluation (ALFIE)
Peter T Donnan, David McLernon, Douglas Steinke, Stephen Ryder, Paul Roderick, Frank M Sullivan, William Rosenberg, John F Dillon
Patient adherence to medical treatment: a review of reviews
Sandra van Dulmen, Emmy Sluijs, Liset van Dijk, Denise de Ridder, Rob Heerdink, Jozien Bensing
Utilization and expenditures of veterans obtaining primary care in community clinics and VA medical centers: an observational cohort study
Matthew L Maciejewski, Mark Perkins, Yu-Fang Li, Michael Chapko, John C Fortney, Chuan-Fen Liu
Potential barriers and facilitators for implementation of an integrated care pathway for hearing-impaired persons: an exploratory survey among patients and professionals
Janneke PC Grutters, Frans van der Horst, Manuela A Joore, Hans Verschuure, Wouter A Dreschler, Lucien JC Anteunis
Investigating health system performance: An application of data envelopment analysis to Zambian hospitals
Felix Masiye
When "no" might not quite mean "no"; the importance of informed and meaningful non-consent: results from a survey of individuals refusing participation in a health-related research project
Brian Williams, Linda Irvine, Alison R McGinnis, Marion ET McMurdo, Iain K Crombie
The Consumer Quality Index Hip Knee Questionnaire measuring patients' experiences with quality of care after a total hip or knee arthroplasty
Janine H Stubbe, Tanya Gelsema, Diana MJ Delnoij
Exploring the effect of changes to service provision on the use of unscheduled care in England: population surveys
Alicia O'Cathain, Emma Knowles, James Munro, Jon Nicholl
Individual differences in the use of the response scale determine valuations of hypothetical health states: an empirical study
Marie-Louise Essink-Bot, Marja C Stuifbergen, Willem-Jan Meerding, Caspar WN Looman, Gouke J Bonsel
Case-mix and the use of control charts in monitoring mortality rates after coronary artery bypass
Tom Marshall, Mohammed A Mohammed
Considering the case for an antidepressant drug trial involving temporary deception: a qualitative enquiry of potential participants
Christopher F Dowrick, John G Hughes, Julia J Hiscock, Mark Wigglesworth, Thomas J Walley
Translating and validating a Training Needs Assessment tool into Greek
Adelais Markaki, Nikos Antonakis, Carolyn M Hicks, Christos Lionis
Influenza vaccine supply, 2005–2006: did we come up short?
Barbara H Bardenheier, Raymond Strikas, Allison Kempe, Shannon Stokley, Jean Ellis
Improving organisational systems for diabetes care in Australian Indigenous communities
Ross Bailie, Damin Si, Michelle Dowden, Lynette O'Donoghue, Christine Connors, Gary Robinson, Joan Cunningham, Tarun Weeramanthri
Understanding the effects of a decentralized budget on physicians' compliance with guidelines for statin prescription – a multilevel methodological approach
Henrik Ohlsson, Juan Merlo
Hospitalisations at the end of life: using a sentinel surveillance network to study hospital use and associated patient, disease and healthcare factors
Lieve Van den Block, Reginald Deschepper, Katrien Drieskens, Sabien Bauwens, Johan Bilsen, Nathalie Bossuyt, Luc Deliens
Exploring the association of dual use of the VHA and Medicare with mortality: separating the contributions of inpatient and outpatient services
Fredric D Wolinsky, Hyonggin An, Li Liu, Thomas R Miller, Gary E Rosenthal
Do longer consultations improve the management of psychological problems in general practice? A systematic literature review
Catherine Hutton, Jane Gunn
Access to electronic health knowledge in five countries in Africa: a descriptive study
Helen Smith, Hasifa Bukirwa, Oscar Mukasa, Paul Snell, Sylvester Adeh-Nsoh, Selemani Mbuyita, Masanja Honorati, Bright Orji, Paul Garner
Evaluating the organisational climate in Italian public healthcare institutions by means of a questionnaire
Ulrich Wienand, Renata Cinotti, Augusta Nicoli, Miriam Bisagni
Differences in the quality of primary medical care for CVD and diabetes across the NHS: evidence from the quality and outcomes framework
Gary McLean, Bruce Guthrie, Matt Sutton
"They think we're OK and we know we're not". A qualitative study of asylum seekers' access, knowledge and views to health care in the UK
Catherine A O'Donnell, Maria Higgins, Rohan Chauhan, Kenneth Mullen
The functioning of the Cuban home hospitalization programme: a descriptive analysis
Pol De Vos, Isabel Barroso, Armando Rodríguez, Mariano Bonet, Patrick Van der Stuyft
Promoting contraceptive use among unmarried female migrants in one factory in Shanghai: a pilot workplace intervention
Xu Qian, Helen Smith, Wenyuan Huang, Jie Zhang, Ying Huang, Paul Garner
Disclosing conflicts of interest in German publications concerning health services research
Nils Schneider, Heidrun Lingner, Friedrich W Schwartz
Implementing a guideline for the treatment of type 2 diabetics: results of a Cluster- Randomized Controlled Trial (C-RCT)
Carla Perria, Donatella Mandolini, Carmelina Guerrera, Tom Jefferson, Paolo Billi, Virgilio Calzini, Alfonso Fiorillo, Giuseppe Grasso, Sergio Leotta, Walter Marrocco, Concetta Suraci, Amina Pasquarella
Healthcare utilization of patients accessing an African national treatment program
Guy Harling, Catherine Orrell, Robin Wood
Validation and cultural adaptation of a German version of the Physicians' Reactions to Uncertainty scales
Antonius Schneider, Joachim Szecsenyi, Stefan Barie, Katharina Joest, Thomas Rosemann
Patients' understanding of genetic susceptibility testing in mainstream medicine: qualitative study on thrombophilia
Paula M Saukko, Sian Ellard, Suzanne H Richards, Maggie H Shepherd, John L Campbell
Do parents who smoke underutilize health care services for their children? A cross sectional study within the longitudinal PIAMA study
Monique AM Jacobs-van der Bruggen, Alet H Wijga, Bert Brunekreef, Johan C de Jongste, Caroline A Baan, Marjan Kerkhof, Henriette A Smit
Priority setting in the provincial health services authority: survey of key decision makers
Flora Teng, Craig Mitton, Jennifer MacKenzie
Why, and how, mixed methods research is undertaken in health services research in England: a mixed methods study
Alicia O'Cathain, Elizabeth Murphy, Jon Nicholl
Deficient supplies of drugs for life threatening diseases in an African community
Norman N Lufesi, Marit Andrew, Ivar Aursnes
Replacing the projected retiring baby boomer nursing cohort 2001 – 2026
Deborah J Schofield
Involving deprived communities in improving the quality of primary care services: does participatory action research work?
Peter G Cawston, Stewart W Mercer, Rosaline S Barbour
Using a multi-method, user centred, prospective hazard analysis to assess care quality and patient safety in a care pathway
Joanne E Dean, Allen Hutchinson, Kamisha Hamilton Escoto, Rod Lawson
Integration in primary community care networks (PCCNs): examination of governance, clinical, marketing, financial, and information infrastructures in a national demonstration project in Taiwan
Blossom Yen-Ju Lin
What is the empirical evidence that hospitals with higher-risk adjusted mortality rates provide poorer quality care? A systematic review of the literature
David W Pitches, Mohammed A Mohammed, Richard J Lilford
Knowledge translation on dementia: a cluster randomized trial to compare a blended learning approach with a "classical" advanced training in GP quality circles
Horst C Vollmar, Martin E Butzlaff, Rolf Lefering, Monika A Rieger
Where should Momma go? Current nursing home performance measurement strategies and a less ambitious approach
Charles D Phillips, Catherine Hawes, Trudy Lieberman, Mary Jane Koren
Bismarck or Beveridge: a beauty contest between dinosaurs
Jouke van der Zee, Madelon W Kroneman
The impact of different rehabilitation strategies after major events in the elderly: the case of stroke and hip fracture in the Tuscany region
Fabrizio Carinci, Lorenzo Roti, Paolo Francesconi, Rosa Gini, Fabrizio Tediosi, Tania Di Iorio, Simone Bartolacci, Eva Buiatti
Practice size, caseload, deprivation and quality of care of patients with coronary heart disease, hypertension and stroke in primary care: national cross-sectional study
Sonia Saxena, Josip Car, Darren Eldred, Michael Soljak, Azeem Majeed
250 labels used to stigmatise people with mental illness
Diana Rose, Graham Thornicroft, Vanessa Pinfold, Aliya Kassam
Relationship of literacy and heart failure in adults with diabetes
Ann S Laramee, Nancy Morris, Benjamin Littenberg
How does mental health care perform in respect to service users' expectations? Evaluating inpatient and outpatient care in Germany with the WHO responsivenessconcept
Anke Bramesfeld, Felix Wedegärtner, Hermann Elgeti, Susanne Bisson
Reincentivizing – a new theory of work and work absence
Hans O Thulesius, Birgitta E Grahn
Professional quality of life and organizational changes: a five-year observational study in Primary Care
Jesus Martin-Fernandez, Tomas Gomez-Gascon, Milagros Beamud-Lagos, Jose Alfonso Cortes-Rubio, Angel Alberquilla-Menendez-Asenjo
Procalcitonin guided antibiotic therapy and hospitalization in patients with lower respiratory tract infections: a prospective, multicenter, randomized controlled trial
Philipp Schuetz, Mirjam Christ-Crain, Marcel Wolbers, Ursula Schild, Robert Thomann, Claudine Falconnier, Isabelle Widmer, Stefanie Neidert, Claudine A Blum, Ronald Schönenberger, Christoph Henzen, Thomas Bregenzer, Claus Hoess, Martin Krause, Heiner C Bucher, Werner Zimmerli, Beat Müller
The propensity to adopt evidence-based practice among physical therapists
Patricia H Bridges, Laura L Bierema, Thomas Valentine
The structure of quality systems is important to the process and outcome, an empirical study of 386 hospital departments in Sweden
Stefan Kunkel, Urban Rosenqvist, Ragnar Westerling
Low enrolment in Ugandan Community Health Insurance Schemes: underlying causes and policy implications
Robert Basaza, Bart Criel, Patrick Van der Stuyft
Distinguishing patterns in the dynamics of long-term medication use by Markov analysis: beyond persistence
Tanja T Menckeberg, Svetlana V Belitser, Marcel L Bouvy, Madelon Bracke, Jan-Willem J Lammers, Jan AM Raaijmakers, Hubert GM Leufkens
Towards a model for integrative medicine in Swedish primary care
Tobias Sundberg, Jeremy Halpin, Anders Warenmark, Torkel Falkenberg
HIV prevention costs and program scale: data from the PANCEA project in five low and middle-income countries
Elliot Marseille, Lalit Dandona, Nell Marshall, Paul Gaist, Sergio Bautista-Arredondo, Brandi Rollins, Stefano M Bertozzi, Jerry Coovadia, Joseph Saba, Dmitry Lioznov, Jo-Ann Du Plessis, Evgeny Krupitsky, Nicci Stanley, Mead Over, Alena Peryshkina, SG Prem Kumar, Sowedi Muyingo, Christian Pitter, Mattias Lundberg, James G Kahn
Does a referral from home to hospital affect satisfaction with childbirth? A cross-national comparison
Wendy Christiaens, Anneleen Gouwy, Piet Bracke
Hospital mortality in acute coronary syndrome: differences related to gender and use of percutaneous coronary procedures
María J Aguado-Romeo, Soledad Márquez-Calderón, María L Buzón-Barrera
Gender shift in realisation of preferred type of gp practice: longitudinal survey over the last 25 years
Tanja Maiorova, Fred Stevens, Lud van der Velden, Albert Scherpbier, Jouke van der Zee
Payer leverage and hospital compliance with a benchmark: a population-based observational study
John M Hollingsworth, Sarah L Krein, David C Miller, Sonya DeMonner, Brent K Hollenbeck
Impact on and use of an inner-city London Infectious Diseases Department by international migrants: a questionnaire survey
Graham Cooke, Sally Hargreaves, Jana Natkunarajah, Gurjinder Sandhu, Devesh Dhasmana, Joseph Eliahoo, Alison Holmes, Jon S Friedland
Willingness to pay for social health insurance among informal sector workers in Wuhan, China: a contingent valuation study
Till Bärnighausen, Yuanli Liu, Xinping Zhang, Rainer Sauerborn
Magnetic resonance imaging of the knee in Norway 2002–2004 (national survey): rapid increase, older patients, large geographic differences
Ansgar Espeland, Nils L Natvig, Ingard Løge, Lars Engebretsen, Jostein Ellingsen
A Pragmatic Randomised, Controlled Trial of Intensive Care follow up programmes in improving Longer-term outcomes from critical illness. The PRACTICAL study
Brian H Cuthbertson, Janice Rattray, Marie Johnston, J Anthony Wildsmith, Edward Wilson, Rodolfo Hernendez, Craig Ramsey, Alastair M Hull, John Norrie, Marion Campbell
A qualitative study of referral to community mental health teams in the UK: exploring the rhetoric and the reality
Carolyn Chew-Graham, Mike Slade, Carolyn Montana, Mairi Stewart, Linda Gask
Triage for coronary artery bypass graft surgery in Canada: Do patients agree on who should come first?
Katy Shufelt, Alice Chong, David A Alter
Evidence based practice in postgraduate healthcare education: A systematic review
Gemma Flores-Mateo, Josep M Argimon
Influence of socioeconomic factors on medically unnecessary ambulance calls
Chihiro Kawakami, Kenji Ohshige, Katsuaki Kubota, Osamu Tochikubo
A systematic evaluation of payback of publicly funded health and health services research in Hong Kong
Patrick Kwan, Janice Johnston, Anne YK Fung, Doris SY Chong, Richard A Collins, Su V Lo
Drug utilization and cost in a Medicaid population: A simulation study of community vs. mail order pharmacy
Satish Valluri, Enrique Seoane-Vazquez, Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio, Sheryl L Szeinbach
Using system dynamics for collaborative design: a case study
Marie Elf, Mariya Putilova, Lena von Koch, Kerstin Öhrn
Development of the conceptual framework for the Eye-Drop Satisfaction Questionnaire (EDSQ©) in glaucoma using a qualitative study
Jean-Philippe Nordmann, Philippe Denis, Marc Vigneux, Elyse Trudeau, Isabelle Guillemin, Gilles Berdeaux
Tailoring intervention procedures to routine primary health care practice; an ethnographic process evaluation
Yvonne JFM Jansen, Antoinette de Bont, Marleen Foets, Marc Bruijnzeels, Roland Bal
Health care utilization and costs in Saskatchewan's registered Indian population with diabetes
Sheri L Pohar, Jeffrey A Johnson
Development of a workplace intervention for sick-listed employees with stress-related mental disorders: Intervention Mapping as a useful tool
Sandra H van Oostrom, Johannes R Anema, Berend Terluin, Anita Venema, Henrica CW de Vet, Willem van Mechelen
Between health care and social security – psychiatric patients and the disability pension system in Norway and Russia
Grigory Rezvyy, Walter Schönfelder, Terje Øiesvold, Reidun Olstad, Georges Midré
Healthcare in schizophrenia: effectiveness and progress of a redesigned care network
Dong-Sheng Tzeng, Li-Chiu Lian, Chin-Un Chang, Chun-Yuh Yang, Gian-Tin Lee, Peter Pan, For-Wey Lung
Patient, informal caregiver and care provider acceptance of a hospital in the home program in Ontario, Canada
Jacques Lemelin, William E Hogg, Simone Dahrouge, Catherine Deri Armstrong, Carmel M Martin, Wei Zhang, Jo-Anne Dusseault, Joy Parsons-Nicota, Raphael Saginur, Gary Viner
Demand for emergency health service: factors associated with inappropriate use
Maria LV Carret, Anaclaudia G Fassa, Ichiro Kawachi
Determinants of the range of drugs prescribed in general practice: a cross-sectional analysis
Dinny H de Bakker, Dayline SV Coffie, Eibert R Heerdink, Liset van Dijk, Peter P Groenewegen
The quality of communication about older patients between hospital physicians and general practitioners: a panel study assessment
Helge Garåsen, Roar Johnsen
Preventable hospitalization and access to primary health care in an area of Southern Italy
Paolo Rizza, Aida Bianco, Maria Pavia, Italo F Angelillo
Obstacles for optimal tuberculosis case detection in primary health centers (PHC) in Sidoarjo district, East Java, Indonesia
Chatarina U Wahyuni, Budiono, Lutfia Dwi Rahariyani, Muji Sulistyowati, Tety Rachmawati, Djuwari, Sri Yuliwati, Marieke J van der Werf
Development of a complex intervention to test the effectiveness of peer support in type 2 diabetes
Gillian Paul, Susan M Smith, David Whitford, Fergus O'Kelly, Tom O'Dowd
Physicians' views on resource availability and equity in four European health care systems
Samia A Hurst, Reidun Forde, Stella Reiter-Theil, Anne-Marie Slowther, Arnaud Perrier, Renzo Pegoraro, Marion Danis
Effect of a restrictive transfusion strategy on transfusion-attributable severe acute complications and costs in the US ICUs: a model simulation
Marya D Zilberberg, Andrew F Shorr
Outcome related to impact on daily living: preliminary validation of the ORIDL instrument
David Reilly, Stewart W Mercer, Annemieke P Bikker, Tansy Harrison
Measuring hospital-wide activity volume for patient safety and infection control: a multi-centre study in Japan
Kenshi Hayashida, Yuichi Imanaka, Haruhisa Fukuda
The impact of generational change and retirement on psychiatry to 2025
Susan L Fletcher, Deborah J Schofield
Gender differences in the clinical management of patients with angina pectoris: a cross-sectional survey in primary care
Mike Crilly, Peter Bundred, Xiyuan Hu, Lisa Leckey, Fiona Johnstone
Can family planning outreach bridge the urban-rural divide in Zambia?
Justin S White, Ilene S Speizer
An action research protocol to strengthen system-wide inter-professional learning and practice [LP0775514]
Jeffrey Braithwaite, Johanna I Westbrook, A Ruth Foxwell, Rosalie Boyce, Timothy Devinney, Marc Budge, Karen Murphy, Mary-Ann Ryall, Jenny Beutel, Rebecca Vanderheide, Elizabeth Renton, Joanne Travaglia, Judy Stone, Amanda Barnard, David Greenfield, Angus Corbett, Peter Nugus, Robyn Clay-Williams
An evaluation of a model for the systematic documentation of hospital based health promotion activities: results from a multicentre study
Hanne Tønnesen, Mette E Christensen, Oliver Groene, Ann O'Riordan, Fabrizio Simonelli, Lagle Suurorg, Denise Morris, Peder Vibe, Susan Himel, Poul Erik Hansen
Severe mental illness and mortality of hospitalized ACS patients in the VHA
Mary E Plomondon, P Michael Ho, Li Wang, Gwendolyn T Greiner, James H Shore, Joseph T Sakai, Stephan D Fihn, John S Rumsfeld
Potential drug-drug and drug-disease interactions in prescriptions for ambulatory patients over 50 years of age in family medicine clinics in Mexico City
Svetlana Vladislavovna Doubova (Dubova), Hortensia Reyes-Morales, Laura del Pilar Torres-Arreola, Magdalena Suárez-Ortega
Understanding the implementation of complex interventions in health care: the normalization process model
Carl May, Tracy Finch, Frances Mair, Luciana Ballini, Christopher Dowrick, Martin Eccles, Linda Gask, Anne MacFarlane, Elizabeth Murray, Tim Rapley, Anne Rogers, Shaun Treweek, Paul Wallace, George Anderson, Jo Burns, Ben Heaven
Collecting data for sexually transmitted infections (STI) surveillance: what do patients prefer in Flanders?
Veronique Verhoeven, Annelies Colliers, Ann Verster, Dirk Avonts, Lieve Peremans, Paul Van Royen
Are physical symptoms among survivors of a disaster presented to the general practitioner? A comparison between self-reports and GP data
Bellis van den Berg, C Joris Yzermans, Peter G van der Velden, Rebecca K Stellato, Erik Lebret, Linda Grievink
Self-reported social class in adolescents: validity and relationship with gradients in self-reported health
María-Jesús Pueyo, Vicky Serra-Sutton, Jordi Alonso, Barbara Starfield, Luis Rajmil
Combining evidence and values in priority setting: testing the balance sheet method in a low-income country
Emmanuel Makundi, Lydia Kapiriri, Ole Frithjof Norheim
Distributing questionnaires about smoking to patients: impact on general practitioners' recording of smoking advice
Tim Coleman, Andrew Wilson, Steve Barrett, Alison Wynne, Sarah Lewis
Event-based record linkage in health and aged care services data: a methodological innovation
Rosemary Karmel, Diane Gibson
Hospital characteristics and patient populations served by physician owned and non physician owned orthopedic specialty hospitals
Peter Cram, Mary S Vaughan-Sarrazin, Gary E Rosenthal
Feasibility of a cognitive behavioural group intervention to reduce fear of falling and associated avoidance of activity in community-living older people: a process evaluation
Jolanda CM van Haastregt, GA Rixt Zijlstra, Erik van Rossum, Jacques ThM van Eijk, Luc P de Witte, Gertrudis IJM Kempen
Hospital quality reports in Germany: patient and physician opinion of the reported quality indicators
Max Geraedts, David Schwartze, Tanja Molzahn
Randomised controlled trials for evaluating the prescribing impact of information meetings led by pharmacists and of new information formats, in General Practice in Italy
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Validation of ICD-9-CM/ICD-10 coding algorithms for the identification of patients with acetaminophen overdose and hepatotoxicity using administrative data
Robert P Myers, Yvette Leung, Abdel Aziz M Shaheen, Bing Li
A study of the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of MRSA screening and monitoring on surgical wards using a new, rapid molecular test (EMMS)
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Patients' satisfaction and opinions of their experiences during admission in a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan – a cross sectional study
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Patient-provider interaction from the perspectives of type 2 diabetes patients in Muscat, Oman: a qualitative study
Nadia Abdulhadi, Mohammed Al Shafaee, Solveig Freudenthal, Claes-Göran Östenson, Rolf Wahlström
Integrated obesity care management system -implementation and research protocol
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A novel emergency department based prevention intervention program for people living with HIV: evaluation of early experiences
Michael S Lyons, Dana L Raab, Christopher J Lindsell, Alexander T Trott, Carl J Fichtenbaum
Evaluating compulsory minimum volume standards in Germany: how many hospitals were compliant in 2004?
Werner de Cruppé, Christian Ohmann, Karl Blum, Max Geraedts
Do the UK government's new Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) scores adequately measure primary care performance? A cross-sectional survey of routine healthcare data
Amy Downing, Gavin Rudge, Yaping Cheng, Yu-Kang Tu, Justin Keen, Mark S Gilthorpe
Diffusion of good practices of care and decline of the association with case volume: the example of breast conserving surgery
Ugo Fedeli, Natalia Alba, Elena Schievano, Cristiana Visentin, Rosalba Rosato, Manuel Zorzi, Giancarlo Ruscitti, Paolo Spolaore
Microfinance investments in quality at private clinics in Uganda: a case-control study
Eric E Seiber, Amara L Robinson
Health service utilization patterns of primary care patients with osteoarthritis
Thomas Rosemann, Stefanie Joos, Joachim Szecsenyi, Gunter Laux, Michel Wensing
Team climate, intention to leave and turnover among hospital employees: Prospective cohort study
Mika Kivimäki, Anna Vanhala, Jaana Pentti, Hannakaisa Länsisalmi, Marianna Virtanen, Marko Elovainio, Jussi Vahtera
A five-year review of burn injuries in Irrua
Andrew E Dongo, Eshobo E Irekpita, Lilian O Oseghale, Charles E Ogbebor, Christopher E Iyamu, John E Onuminya Sr
Cost-effectiveness analysis of guidelines for antihypertensive care in Finland
Neill Booth, Antti Jula, Pasi Aronen, Minna Kaila, Timo Klaukka, Katriina Kukkonen-Harjula, Antti Reunanen, Pekka Rissanen, Harri Sintonen, Marjukka Mäkelä
The implementation of the Medical Regulation Office and Mobile Emergency Attendance System and its impact on the gravity profile of non-traumatic afflictions treated in a University Hospital: a research study
Sérgio LB Lopes, José Sebastião dos Santos, Sandro Scarpelini
The perception of healthcare quality of elderly in the city of Bari, South Italy
Rosa Prato, Domenico Martinelli, Annarita Fusco, Annarita Panebianco, Pietro Luigi Lopalco, Cinzia Annatea Germinario, Michele Quarto
Impact of prescription size on statin adherence and cholesterol levels
Holly A Batal, Mori J Krantz, Rita A Dale, Phillip S Mehler, John F Steiner
Training pediatric health care providers in prevention of dental decay: results from a randomized controlled trial
Gary D Slade, R Gary Rozier, Leslie P Zeldin, Peter A Margolis
Effectiveness and costs of implementation strategies to reduce acid suppressive drug prescriptions: a systematic review
Hugo M Smeets, Arno W Hoes, Niek J de Wit
Critical views on postpartum care expressed by new mothers
Ann Rudman, Ulla Waldenström
A cluster randomized controlled trial of a clinical pathway for hospital treatment of heart failure: study design and population
Massimiliano Panella, Sara Marchisio, Andrea Gardini, Francesco Di Stanislao
What do District Health Planners in Tanzania think about improving priority setting using 'Accountability for Reasonableness'?
Simon Mshana, Haji Shemilu, Benedict Ndawi, Roman Momburi, Oystein Evjen Olsen, Jens Byskov, Douglas K Martin
The costs of preventing the spread of respiratory infection in family physician offices: a threshold analysis
William Hogg, David Gray, Patricia Huston, Wei Zhang
Adoption of an innovation to repair aortic aneurysms at a Canadian hospital: a qualitative case study and evaluation
Nathalie M Danjoux, Douglas K Martin, Pascale N Lehoux, Julie L Harnish, Randi Zlotnik Shaul, Mark Bernstein, David R Urbach
Evaluating an educational intervention to improve the accuracy of death certification among trainees from various specialties
Jesús Villar, Lina Pérez-Méndez
Dental practice satisfaction with preferred provider organizations
Robert H Aseltine Jr, Susan Reisine, Elizabeth A Schilling, James Kennedy
The most dangerous hospital or the most dangerous equation?
Yu-Kang Tu, Mark S Gilthorpe
Public involvement in the priority setting activities of a wait time management initiative: a qualitative case study
Rebecca A Bruni, Andreas Laupacis, Wendy Levinson, Douglas K Martin
Factors associated with the appropriate use of preoperatory hospital stays: historical cohort study
Sonia Tamames, Alberto Perez Rubio, Javier Castrodeza Sanz, Maria Belen Canton Alvarez, Francisco J Luquero, Sara Santos Sanz, Placido Lopez Encinar, Maria Paz de la Torre Pardo, Juan Manuel Gil Gonzalez
Using hospital discharge data for determining neonatal morbidity and mortality: a validation study
Jane B Ford, Christine L Roberts, Charles S Algert, Jennifer R Bowen, Barbara Bajuk, David J Henderson-Smart
Cost of diabetes care in out-patient clinics of Karachi, Pakistan
Liaquat A Khowaja, Ali K Khuwaja, Peter Cosgrove
The care of patients with subthreshold depression in primary care: Is it all that bad? A qualitative study on the views of general practitioners and patients
Matthias Backenstrass, Katharina Joest, Thomas Rosemann, Joachim Szecsenyi
Comparison of international guideline programs to evaluate and update the Dutch program for clinical guideline development in physical therapy
Philip J Van der Wees, Erik JM Hendriks, Jan WH Custers, Jako S Burgers, Joost Dekker, Rob A de Bie
Widening access to cardiovascular healthcare: community screening among ethnic minorities in inner-city Britain – the Healthy Hearts Project
Jeetesh V Patel, Ashan Gunarathne, Deidre Lane, Hoong S Lim, Inessa Tracey, Nimai C Panja, Gregory YH Lip, Elizabeth A Hughes
The effect of priority setting decisions for new cancer drugs on medical oncologists' practice in Ontario: a qualitative study
Scott R Berry, Stacey Hubay, Hagit Soibelman, Douglas K Martin
Effects of insurance status on children's access to specialty care: a systematic review of the literature
Asheley Cockrell Skinner, Michelle L Mayer
Selecting process quality indicators for the integrated care of vulnerable older adults affected by cognitive impairment or dementia
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Capacity management of nursing staff as a vehicle for organizational improvement
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Improvement of psychometric properties of a scale measuring inpatient satisfaction with care: a better response rate and a reduction of the ceiling effect
Leïla Moret, Jean-Michel Nguyen, Nathalie Pillet, Bruno Falissard, Pierre Lombrail, Isabelle Gasquet
Hospital outpatient perceptions of the physical environment of waiting areas: the role of patient characteristics on atmospherics in one academic medical center
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Hospital admission patterns subsequent to diagnosis of type 1 diabetes in children : a systematic review
Val C Angus, Norman Waugh
Databases as policy instruments. About extending networks as evidence-based policy
Antoinette de Bont, Herman Stoevelaar, Roland Bal
Physicians' migration in Europe: an overview of the current situation
Miguel A García-Pérez, Carlos Amaya, Ángel Otero
Validation of a method for identifying nursing home admissions using administrative claims
Ilene H Zuckerman, Masayo Sato, Van Doren Hsu, Jose J Hernandez
Imparting carrier status results detected by universal newborn screening for sickle cell and cystic fibrosis in England: a qualitative study of current practice and policy challenges
Hilda Parker, Nadeem Qureshi, Fiona Ulph, Joe Kai
Use of comparative data for integrated cancer services
Dawn L Wilkinson, Mark McCarthy
'I believe that the staff have reduced their closeness to patients': an exploratory study on the impact of HIV/AIDS on staff in four rural hospitals in Uganda
Marjolein Dieleman, Vincent Bwete, Everd Maniple, Mirjam Bakker, Grace Namaganda, John Odaga, Gert Jan van der Wilt
The Internet for weight control in an obese sample: results of a randomised controlled trial
Áine McConnon, Sara FL Kirk, Jennie E Cockroft, Emma L Harvey, Darren C Greenwood, James D Thomas, Joan K Ransley, Laura Bojke
The development of a theory-based intervention to promote appropriate disclosure of a diagnosis of dementia
Robbie Foy, Jillian J Francis, Marie Johnston, Martin Eccles, Jan Lecouturier, Claire Bamford, Jeremy Grimshaw
Human resources requirements for highly active antiretroviral therapy scale-up in Malawi
Adamson S Muula, John Chipeta, Seter Siziya, Emmanuel Rudatsikira, Ronald H Mataya, Edward Kataika
Process skill rather than motor skill seems to be a predictor of costs for rehabilitation after a stroke in working age; a longitudinal study with a 1 year follow up post discharge
Ann Björkdahl, Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen
Resource allocation of in vitro fertilization: a nationwide register-based cohort study
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Oral health service utilization by elderly beneficiaries of the Mexican Institute of Social Security in México city
Sergio Sánchez-García, Javier de la Fuente-Hernández, Teresa Juárez-Cedillo, José Manuel Ortega Mendoza, Hortensia Reyes-Morales, Fortino Solórzano-Santos, Carmen García-Peña
Obesity and pre-hypertension in family medicine: Implications for quality improvement
James E Rohrer, Gregory J Anderson, Joseph W Furst