Ausgabe 1/2005
Inhalt (78 Artikel)
From theory to practice: improving the impact of health services research
Kevin Brazil, Elizabeth Ozer, Michelle M Cloutier, Robert Levine, Daniel Stryer
The association between clinical integration of care and transfer of veterans with acute coronary syndromes from primary care VHA hospitals
Anne E Sales, Sandra L Pineros, David J Magid, Nathan R Every, Nancy D Sharp, John S Rumsfeld
A primary care, multi-disciplinary disease management program for opioid-treated patients with chronic non-cancer pain and a high burden of psychiatric comorbidity
Paul R Chelminski, Timothy J Ives, Katherine M Felix, Steven D Prakken, Thomas M Miller, J Stephen Perhac, Robert M Malone, Mary E Bryant, Darren A DeWalt, Michael P Pignone
Patient involvement in medical decision-making and pain among elders: physician or patient-driven?
Tyrone F Borders, Ke Tom Xu, James Heavner, Gina Kruse
Explaining inconsistencies between data on condom use and condom sales
Dominique Meekers, Ronan Van Rossem
Patient satisfaction with out-of-hours primary care in the Netherlands
CJT van Uden, AJHA Ament, SO Hobma, PJ Zwietering, HFJM Crebolder
Risk adjustment methods for Home Care Quality Indicators (HCQIs) based on the minimum data set for home care
Dawn M Dalby, John P Hirdes, Brant E Fries
What do hospital decision-makers in Ontario, Canada, have to say about the fairness of priority setting in their institutions?
David Reeleder, Douglas K Martin, Christian Keresztes, Peter A Singer
Supporter or obstructer; experiences from contact person activities among Swedish women with breast cancer
Christina Carlsson, Mef Nilbert, Kerstin Nilsson
The role of 'confounding by indication' in assessing the effect of quality of care on disease outcomes in general practice: results of a case-control study
Johan S de Koning, Niek S Klazinga, Peter J Koudstaal, Ad Prins, Gerard JJM Borsboom, Johan P Mackenbach
Are ICD-10 codes appropriate for performance assessment in asthma and COPD in general practice? Results of a cross sectional observational study
Antonius Schneider, Lutz Gantner, Inko Maag, Mathias M Borst, Michel Wensing, Joachim Szecsenyi
Home injuries and built form – methodological issues and developments in database linkage
Robert G Newcombe, Ronan A Lyons, Sarah J Jones, Joanne Patterson
Simplicity within complexity: Seasonality and predictability of hospital admissions in the province of Ontario 1988–2001, a population-based analysis
Ross EG Upshur, Rahim Moineddin, Eric Crighton, Lori Kiefer, Muhammad Mamdani
Integrating quantitative and qualitative methodologies for the assessment of health care systems: emergency medicine in post-conflict Serbia
Brett D Nelson, Kerry Dierberg, Milena Šćepanović, Mihajlo Mitrović, Miloš Vuksanović, Ljiljana Milić, Michael J VanRooyen
Is there value in using physician billing claims along with other administrative health care data to document the burden of adolescent injury? An exploratory investigation with comparison to self-reports in Ontario, Canada
Beth K Potter, Douglas Manuel, Kathy N Speechley, Iris A Gutmanis, M Karen Campbell, John J Koval
What is important in evaluating health care quality? An international comparison of user views
Peter P Groenewegen, Jan J Kerssens, Herman J Sixma, Ingrid van der Eijk, Wienke GW Boerma
Determinants of health insurance ownership among South African women
Joses M Kirigia, Luis G Sambo, Benjamin Nganda, Germano M Mwabu, Rufaro Chatora, Takondwa Mwase
Reliability and validity of the AGREE instrument used by physical therapists in assessment of clinical practice guidelines
Joy C MacDermid, Dina Brooks, Sherra Solway, Sharon Switzer-McIntyre, Lucie Brosseau, Ian D Graham
Design of the BiRmingham Early Detection In untREated psyChosis Trial (REDIRECT): cluster randomised controlled trial of general practitioner education in detection of first episode psychosis [ISRCTN87898421]
Lynda Tait, Helen Lester, Max Birchwood, Nick Freemantle, Sue Wilson
Cost savings associated with improving appropriate and reducing inappropriate preventive care: cost-consequences analysis
William Hogg, Neill Baskerville, Jacques Lemelin
International variation in prescribing antihypertensive drugs: Its extent and possible explanations
Atle Fretheim, Andrew D Oxman
Time on wait lists for coronary bypass surgery in British Columbia, Canada, 1991 – 2000
Adrian R Levy, Boris G Sobolev, Robert Hayden, Michael Kiely, J Mark FitzGerald, Martin T Schechter
Is expanding Medicare coverage cost-effective?
Peter Franks, Peter Muennig, Marthe Gold
A model for empowerment of nursing in Iran
Mohsen Adib Hajbaghery, Mahvash Salsali
Systems for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations II: Pilot study of a new system
David Atkins, Peter A Briss, Martin Eccles, Signe Flottorp, Gordon H Guyatt, Robin T Harbour, Suzanne Hill, Roman Jaeschke, Alessandro Liberati, Nicola Magrini, James Mason, Dianne O'Connell, Andrew D Oxman, Bob Phillips, Holger Schünemann, Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer, Gunn E Vist, John W Williams Jr
Medical healthcare use in Parkinson's disease: survey in a cohort of ambulatory patients in Italy
Marco Cosentino, Emilia Martignoni, Donatella Michielotto, Daniela Calandrella, Giulio Riboldazzi, Claudio Pacchetti, Gianmario Frigo, Giuseppe Nappi, Sergio Lecchini
General practitioners' satisfaction with and attitudes to out-of-hours services
Caro JT van Uden, Fred HM Nieman, Gemma BWE Voss, Geertjan Wesseling, Ron AG Winkens, Harry FJM Crebolder
The effect of executive walk rounds on nurse safety climate attitudes: A randomized trial of clinical units
Eric J Thomas, J Bryan Sexton, Torsten B Neilands, Allan Frankel, Robert L Helmreich
Health insurance, neighborhood income, and emergency department usage by Utah children 1996–1998
Anthony Suruda, Thomas J Burns, Stacey Knight, J Michael Dean
Reactions to treatment debriefing among the participants of a placebo controlled trial
Zelda Di Blasi, Fay Crawford, Colin Bradley, Jos Kleijnen
Under-reporting of inpatient services utilisation in household surveys – a population-based study in Hong Kong
Eva LH Tsui, Gabriel M Leung, Pauline PS Woo, Sarah Choi, Su-Vui Lo
Adapting developing country epidemiological assessment techniques to improve the quality of health needs assessments in developed countries
Susan M Smith, Jean Long, Jillian Deady, Frances O'Keeffe, Deirdre Handy, Tom O'Dowd
Hospital service areas – a new tool for health care planning in Switzerland
Gunnar Klauss, Lukas Staub, Marcel Widmer, André Busato
Trends in provision of photodynamic therapy and clinician attitudes: a tracker survey of a new health technology
Robbie C Foy, Barny Foot, Jill Francis, Usha Chakravarthy, Richard PL Wormald
Cost-effectiveness of recommended nurse staffing levels for short-stay skilled nursing facility patients
David A Ganz, Sandra F Simmons, John F Schnelle
Using autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models to predict and monitor the number of beds occupied during a SARS outbreak in a tertiary hospital in Singapore
Arul Earnest, Mark I Chen, Donald Ng, Leo Yee Sin
Identification of ambiguities in the 1994 chronic fatigue syndrome research case definition and recommendations for resolution
Bart Stouten
Intermediate care: for better or worse? Process evaluation of an intermediate care model between a university hospital and a residential home
Thomas Plochg, Diana MJ Delnoij, Tineke F van der Kruk, Tonnie ACM Janmaat, Niek S Klazinga
A centralised public information resource for randomised trials: a scoping study to explore desirability and feasibility
Anne L Langston, Marion K Campbell, Vikki A Entwistle, Zoë Skea
General practitioners with a special interest in respiratory medicine: national survey of UK primary care organisations
Hilary Pinnock, Gopalakrishnan Netuveli, David Price, Aziz Sheikh
Organisation and financing of the health care systems of Bulgaria and Greece – what are the parallels?
Nikolaos M Exadaktylos
Volume-based referral for cardiovascular procedures in the United States: a cross-sectional regression analysis
Andrew J Epstein, Saif S Rathore, Harlan M Krumholz, Kevin GM Volpp
Willingness to pay to assess patient preferences for therapy in a Canadian setting
Carlo A Marra, Luciana Frighetto, Alan F Goodfellow, Amy O Wai, M Lynn Chase, Ruth E Nicol, Carole A Leong, Sally Tomlinson, Barbara M Ferreira, Peter J Jewesson
Unhappy doctors? A longitudinal study of life and job satisfaction among Norwegian doctors 1994 – 2002
Magne Nylenna, Pål Gulbrandsen, Reidun Førde, Olaf G Aasland
The factors associated to psychosocial stress among general practitioners in Lithuania. Cross-sectional study
Giedrius Vanagas, Susanna Bihari-Axelsson
Erratum To: The effect of executive walk rounds on nurse safety climate attitudes: A randomized trial of clinical units [ISRCTN85147255]
Eric J Thomas, J Bryan Sexton, Torsten B Neilands, Allan Frankel, Robert L Helmreich
Do medical outpatients want 'out of hours' clinics?
Claire L Feeney, Nicola J Roberts, Martyn R Partridge
The impact of a pharmacist-managed dosage form conversion service on ciprofloxacin usage at a major Canadian teaching hospital: a pre- and post-intervention study
Bradley P Ho, Tim TY Lau, Robert M Balen, Terryn L Naumann, Peter J Jewesson
The development and implementation of a regional network of physiotherapists for exercise therapy in patients with peripheral arterial disease, a preliminary report
EM Willigendael, BLW Bendermacher, C van der Berg, RJThJ Welten, MH Prins, RA Bie de, JAW Teijink
What do we know about how to do audit and feedback? Pitfalls in applying evidence from a systematic review
R Foy, MP Eccles, G Jamtvedt, J Young, JM Grimshaw, R Baker
Predictors of failed attendances in a multi-specialty outpatient centre using electronic databases
Vernon J Lee, Arul Earnest, Mark I Chen, Bala Krishnan
Effect on survey response rate of hand written versus printed signature on a covering letter: randomised controlled trial [ISRCTN67566265]
Kirstie McKenzie-McHarg, Lucy Tully, Simon Gates, Sarah Ayers, Peter Brocklehurst
Implementation of a health care policy: An analysis of barriers and facilitators to practice change
Susan Watt, Wendy Sword, Paul Krueger
Verbal and physical violence towards hospital- and community-based physicians in the Negev: an observational study
Tal Carmi-Iluz, Roni Peleg, Tami Freud, Pesach Shvartzman
The effect of a monetary incentive on return of a postal health and development questionnaire: a randomised trial [ISRCTN53994660]
Sara Kenyon, Katie Pike, David Jones, David Taylor, Alison Salt, Neil Marlow, Peter Brocklehurst
Assessing health centre systems for guiding improvement in diabetes care
Damin Si, Ross Bailie, Christine Connors, Michelle Dowden, Allison Stewart, Gary Robinson, Joan Cunningham, Tarun Weeramanthri
Heart failure guidelines and prescribing in primary care across Europe
Heidrun B Sturm, Wiek H van Gilst, Karl Swedberg, FD Richard Hobbs, Flora M Haaijer-Ruskamp
The cost-effectiveness of early noninvasive ventilation for ALS patients
Kirsten L Gruis, Michael E Chernew, Devin L Brown
Caution required when relying on a colleague's advice; a comparison between professional advice and evidence from the literature
Frederieke Schaafsma, Jos Verbeek, Carel Hulshof, Frank van Dijk
Household out-of-pocket medical expenditures and national health insurance in Taiwan: income and regional inequality
Tu-Bin Chu, Tsai-Ching Liu, Chin-Shyan Chen, Yi-Wen Tsai, Wen-Ta Chiu
The use of end-quintile comparisons to identify under-servicing of the poor and over-servicing of the rich: A longitudinal study describing the effect of socioeconomic status on healthcare
Kate J Brameld, C D'Arcy J Holman
How to promote, improve and test adherence to scientific evidence in clinical practice
Caterina Caminiti, Umberto Scoditti, Francesca Diodati, Rodolfo Passalacqua
Chances of late surgery in relation to length of wait lists
Boris G Sobolev, Adrian R Levy, Lisa Kuramoto, Robert Hayden
Development of abbreviated measures to assess patient trust in a physician, a health insurer, and the medical profession
Elizabeth Dugan, Felicia Trachtenberg, Mark A Hall
The design of the Dutch EASYcare study: a randomised controlled trial on the effectiveness of a problem-based community intervention model for frail elderly people [NCT00105378]
René JF Melis, Monique IJ van Eijken, George F Borm, Michel Wensing, Eddy Adang, Eloy H van de Lisdonk, Theo van Achterberg, Marcel GM Olde Rikkert
Does a pre-hospital emergency pathway improve early diagnosis and referral in suspected stroke patients? – Study protocol of a cluster randomised trial [ISRCTN41456865]
Marica Ferri, Assunta De Luca, Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Giuliano Lori, Gabriella Guasticchi
Communication of bed allocation decisions in a critical care unit and accountability for reasonableness
Andrew B Cooper, Amit S Joglekar, Jennifer Gibson, Alissa H Swota, Douglas K Martin
Translating research into policy and practice in developing countries: a case study of magnesium sulphate for pre-eclampsia
Morten Aaserud, Simon Lewin, Simon Innvaer, Elizabeth J Paulsen, Astrid T Dahlgren, Mari Trommald, Lelia Duley, Merrick Zwarenstein, Andrew D Oxman
Cost and efficiency of public sector sexually transmitted infection clinics in Andhra Pradesh, India
Lalit Dandona, Pratap Sisodia, TLN Prasad, Elliot Marseille, M Chalapathi Rao, A Anod Kumar, SG Prem Kumar, YK Ramesh, Mead Over, M Someshwar, James G Kahn
"Saying no is no easy matter" A qualitative study of competing concerns in rationing decisions in general practice
Benedicte Carlsen, Ole Frithjof Norheim
The Swiss cheese model of safety incidents: are there holes in the metaphor?
Thomas V Perneger
Cost-consciousness among Swiss doctors: a cross-sectional survey
Patrick A Bovier, Diane P Martin, Thomas V Perneger
A 6-months assessment of the alcohol-related clinical burden at emergency rooms (ERs) in 11 acute care hospitals of an urban area in Germany
Bernhard T Baune, Rafael T Mikolajczyk, Gerhard Reymann, Annette Duesterhaus, Susanne Fleck, Hildegard Kratz, Ulrike Sundermann
What factors explain the number of physical therapy treatment sessions in patients referred with low back pain; a multilevel analysis
Ilse CS Swinkels, Raymond H Wimmers, Peter P Groenewegen, Wil JH van den Bosch, Joost Dekker, Cornelia HM van den Ende
Consumer involvement in Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) projects – lessons from Australia
Carl MJ Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth E Roughead, Gregory R Monteith, Susan E Tett
Correlates of health and healthcare performance: applying the Canadian health indicators framework at the provincial-territorial level
OA Arah, GP Westert
Technical efficiency of peripheral health units in Pujehun district of Sierra Leone: a DEA application
Ade Renner, Joses M Kirigia, Eyob A Zere, Saidou P Barry, Doris G Kirigia, Clifford Kamara, Lenity HK Muthuri
Integrating complementary and alternative medicine into academic medical centers: Experience and perceptions of nine leading centers in North America
Sunita Vohra, Kymm Feldman, Brad Johnston, Kellie Waters, Heather Boon