Ausgabe 1/2006
Inhalt (164 Artikel)
Profit and loss analysis for an intensive care unit (ICU) in Japan: a tool for strategic management
Pengyu Cao, Shin-ichi Toyabe, Toshikazu Abe, Kouhei Akazawa
Quality research in healthcare: are researchers getting enough statistical support?
Rumana Z Omar, Nick McNally, Gareth Ambler, Allyson M Pollock
Overcoming inherent problems of preference-based techniques for measuring health benefits: An empirical study in the context of kidney transplantation
Nick Kontodimopoulos, Dimitris Niakas
A blended knowledge translation initiative to improve colorectal cancer staging [ISRCTN56824239]
Frances C Wright, Calvin HL Law, Linda D Last, Neil Klar, David P Ryan, Andrew J Smith
Referrals from general practice to consultants in Germany: If the GP is the initiator, patients' experiences are more positive
Thomas Rosemann, Michel Wensing, Gernot Rueter, Joachim Szecsenyi
Exploring if day and time of admission is associated with average length of stay among inpatients from a tertiary hospital in Singapore: an analytic study based on routine admission data
Arul Earnest, Mark IC Chen, Eillyne Seow
Nutritional care of medical inpatients: a health technology assessment
Karin O Lassen, Jens Olsen, Edvin Grinderslev, Filip Kruse, Merete Bjerrum
All that glisters is not gold: a comparison of electronic monitoring versus filled prescriptions – an observational study
Gwenn EC Wetzels, Patricia J Nelemans, Jan SAG Schouten, Boris LG van Wijk, Martin H Prins
Impact of briefly-assessed depression on secondary prevention outcomes after acute coronary syndrome: a one-year longitudinal survey
Hannah M McGee, Frank Doyle, Ronán M Conroy, Davida De La Harpe, Emer Shelley
Using Ontario's "Telehealth" health telephone helpline as an early-warning system: a study protocol
Elizabeth Rolland, Kieran M Moore, Victoria A Robinson, Don McGuinness
Referral from secondary care and to aftercare in a tertiary care university hospital in Japan
Shin-ichi Toyabe, Akazawa Kouhei
Willingness to pay for health care services in common cold, retinal detachment, and myocardiac infarction: an internet survey in Japan
Hideo Yasunaga, Hiroo Ide, Tomoaki Imamura, Kazuhiko Ohe
Location of residence associated with the likelihood of patient visit to the preoperative assessment clinic
Judy E Seidel, Cynthia A Beck, Gaia Pocobelli, Jane B Lemaire, Jennifer M Bugar, Hude Quan, William A Ghali
Neonatal hearing screening: modelling cost and effectiveness of hospital- and community-based screening
Eva Grill, Kai Uus, Franz Hessel, Linda Davies, Rod S Taylor, Juergen Wasem, John Bamford
Effects of sex, age, and visits on receipt of preventive healthcare services: a secondary analysis of national data
Anthony J Viera, Joshua M Thorpe, Joanne M Garrett
Effectiveness of a clinical pathway for acute stroke care in a district general hospital: an audit
William J Taylor, Annie Wong, Richard J Siegert, Harry K McNaughton
Assessing health systems for type 1 diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa: developing a 'Rapid Assessment Protocol for Insulin Access'
David Beran, John S Yudkin, Maximilian de Courten
A data mining approach in home healthcare: outcomes and service use
Elizabeth A Madigan, Olivier Louis Curet
Episodic homelessness and health care utilization in a prospective cohort of HIV-infected persons with alcohol problems
Theresa W Kim, Stefan G Kertesz, Nicholas J Horton, Nicole Tibbetts, Jeffrey H Samet
Concepts for risk-based surveillance in the field of veterinary medicine and veterinary public health: Review of current approaches
Katharina DC Stärk, Gertraud Regula, Jorge Hernandez, Lea Knopf, Klemens Fuchs, Roger S Morris, Peter Davies
Information and shared decision-making are top patients' priorities
Ami Schattner, Alexander Bronstein, Navah Jellin
Seasonality of service provision in hip and knee surgery: A possible contributor to waiting times? A time series analysis
Ross EG Upshur, Rahim Moineddin, Eric J Crighton, Muhammad Mamdani
Development of appropriateness explicit criteria for cataract extraction by phacoemulsification
José Ma Quintana, Antonio Escobar, Inmaculada Aróstegui
Explicit criteria for prioritization of cataract surgery
José M Quintana, Antonio Escobar, Amaia Bilbao
Seasonal variation in orthopedic health services utilization in Switzerland: The impact of winter sport tourism
Klazien Matter-Walstra, Marcel Widmer, André Busato
Part-time and full-time medical specialists, are there differences in allocation of time?
Judith D de Jong, Phil Heiligers, Peter P Groenewegen, Lammert Hingstman
Use of private gynaecologist does not relate to better prevention outcomes – An ecological analysis from Finland
Elina Hemminki, Tiina Sevon, Kati Tanninen, Eero Pukkala, Ahti Anttila
Using quantitative and qualitative data in health services research – what happens when mixed method findings conflict? [ISRCTN61522618]
Suzanne Moffatt, Martin White, Joan Mackintosh, Denise Howel
Evidence-informed obstetric practice during normal birth in China: trends and influences in four hospitals
Xu Qian, Helen Smith, Hong Liang, Ji Liang, Paul Garner
A heart failure self-management program for patients of all literacy levels: A randomized, controlled trial [ISRCTN11535170]
Darren A DeWalt, Robert M Malone, Mary E Bryant, Margaret C Kosnar, Kelly E Corr, Russell L Rothman, Carla A Sueta, Michael P Pignone
Identifying patients at risk of nursing home admission: The Leeds Elderly Assessment Dependency Screening tool (LEADS)
Anita Slade, Jon Fear, Alan Tennant
A comparison of career satisfaction amongst dental healthcare professionals across three health care systems: Comparison of data from the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Trinidad & Tobago
Rahul Naidu, J Tim Newton, Katie Ayers
Effect of drug utilization reviews on the quality of in-hospital prescribing: a quasi-experimental study
Jean-Pierre Grégoire, Jocelyne Moisan, Louise Potvin, Isabelle Chabot, René Verreault, Alain Milot
Lay perceptions of evidence-based information – a qualitative evaluation of a website for back pain sufferers
Claire Glenton, Elin S Nilsen, Benedicte Carlsen
Differences in per capita rates of revascularization and in choice of revascularization procedure for eleven states
Edward L Hannan, Chuntao Wu, Mark R Chassin
Estimation of Pap-test coverage in an area with an organised screening program: challenges for survey methods
Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Gennaro Esposito, Silvia Brezzi, Angela Brachini, Patrizio Raggi, Antonio Federici
Collaborating while competing? The sustainability of community-based integrated care initiatives through a health partnership
Thomas Plochg, Diana MJ Delnoij, Nelleke PC Hoogedoorn, Niek S Klazinga
Alternative models for academic family practices
J Lloyd Michener, Truls Østbye, Victoria S Kaprielian, Katrina M Krause, Kimberly SH Yarnall, Susan D Yaggy, Margaret Gradison
Demand of elderly people for residential care: an exploratory study
PMA van Bilsen, JPH Hamers, W Groot, C Spreeuwenberg
Impact of treatment policies on patient outcomes and resource utilization in acute cholecystitis in Japanese hospitals
Miho Sekimoto, Yuichi Imanaka, Masahiro Hirose, Tatsuro Ishizaki, Genki Murakami, Yushi Fukata
Acute psychiatric admissions from an out-of-hours Casualty Clinic; how do referring doctors and admitting specialists agree?
Trygve S Deraas, Vidje Hansen, Anton Giæver, Reidun Olstad
Lack of patients? – a hypothesis for understanding discrepancies between hospital resources and productivity
Dag Bratlid
The effects of the Two-Week Rule on NHS colorectal cancer diagnostic services: A systematic literature review
Kymberley Thorne, Hayley A Hutchings, Glyn Elwyn
The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: psychometric properties, benchmarking data, and emerging research
John B Sexton, Robert L Helmreich, Torsten B Neilands, Kathy Rowan, Keryn Vella, James Boyden, Peter R Roberts, Eric J Thomas
What effect does physician "profiling" have on inpatient physician satisfaction and hospital length of stay?
Judith K Zemencuk, Timothy P Hofer, Rodney A Hayward, Richard H Moseley, Sanjay Saint
Predictors of opioid misuse in patients with chronic pain: a prospective cohort study
Timothy J Ives, Paul R Chelminski, Catherine A Hammett-Stabler, Robert M Malone, J Stephen Perhac, Nicholas M Potisek, Betsy Bryant Shilliday, Darren A DeWalt, Michael P Pignone
Methods underpinning national clinical guidelines for hypertension: describing the evidence shortfall
Fiona Campbell, Heather O Dickinson, Julia VF Cook, Fiona R Beyer, Martin Eccles, James M Mason
Assessing record linkage between health care and Vital Statistics databases using deterministic methods
Bing Li, Hude Quan, Andrew Fong, Mingshan Lu
A comparative analysis of chiropractic and general practitioner patients in North America: Findings from the joint Canada/United States survey of health, 2002–03
Eric L Hurwitz, Lu-May Chiang
The implementation of quality management systems in hospitals: a comparison between three countries
C Wagner, L Gulácsi, E Takacs, M Outinen
Monitoring the referral system through benchmarking in rural Niger: an evaluation of the functional relation between health centres and the district hospital
Paul Bossyns, Ranaou Abache, Mahaman S Abdoulaye, Hamidou Miyé, Anne-Marie Depoorter, Wim Van Lerberghe
Using and interpreting cost-effectiveness acceptability curves: an example using data from a trial of management strategies for atrial fibrillation
Elisabeth Fenwick, Deborah A Marshall, Adrian R Levy, Graham Nichol
The relationship between organisational characteristics and the effects of clinical guidelines on medical performance in hospitals, a meta-analysis
Rob Dijkstra, Michel Wensing, Ruth Thomas, Reinier Akkermans, Joze Braspenning, Jeremy Grimshaw, Richard Grol
Patterns of ambulatory care utilization in Taiwan
Tzeng-Ji Chen, Li-Fang Chou, Shinn-Jang Hwang
The generation and gender shifts in medicine: an exploratory survey of internal medicine physicians
Emily Jovic, Jean E Wallace, Jane Lemaire
The feminization of the medical work force, implications for Scottish primary care: a survey of Scottish general practitioners
Brian McKinstry, Iain Colthart, Katy Elliott, Colin Hunter
Non-specific low back pain in primary care in the Spanish National Health Service: a prospective study on clinical outcomes and determinants of management
Francisco M Kovacs, Carmen Fernández, Antonio Cordero, Alfonso Muriel, Luis González-Luján, María Teresa Gil del Real
Racial and ethnic disparities in the control of cardiovascular disease risk factors in Southwest American veterans with type 2 diabetes: the Diabetes Outcomes in Veterans Study
Christopher S Wendel, Jayendra H Shah, William C Duckworth, Richard M Hoffman, M Jane Mohler, Glen H Murata
Evaluation of the utilization of the preanaesthetic clinics in a University teaching hospital
Seetharaman Hariharan, Deryk Chen, Lorna Merritt-Charles
Determinants of staff job satisfaction of caregivers in two nursing homes in Pennsylvania
Nicholas G Castle, Howard Degenholtz, Jules Rosen
REFERQUAL: a pilot study of a new service quality assessment instrument in the GP exercise referral scheme setting
Don Cock, Iain C Adams, Adrian B Ibbetson, Phil Baugh
Can a GP be a generalist and a specialist? Stakeholders views on a respiratory General Practitioner with a special interest service in the UK
Mandy A Moffat, Aziz Sheikh, David Price, Annie Peel, Siân Williams, Jen Cleland, Hilary Pinnock
The Canadian Natural Health Products (NHP) regulations: industry perceptions and compliance factors
Hina Laeeque, Heather Boon, Natasha Kachan, Jillian Clare Cohen, Joseph D'Cruz
Characteristics of Primary Care Trusts in financial deficit and surplus – a comparative study in the English NHS
Padmanabhan Badrinath, Rosemary Anne Currell, Peter M Bradley
Health costs in anthroposophic therapy users: a two-year prospective cohort study
Harald J Hamre, Claudia M Witt, Anja Glockmann, Renatus Ziegler, Stefan N Willich, Helmut Kiene
Development and preliminary validation of a Greek-language outpatient satisfaction questionnaire with principal components and multi-trait analyses
Vassilis H Aletras, Efthemis A Papadopoulos, Dimitris A Niakas
Optimal search strategies for detecting cost and economic studies in EMBASE
R James McKinlay, Nancy L Wilczynski, R Brian Haynes
Using the net benefit regression framework to construct cost-effectiveness acceptability curves: an example using data from a trial of external loop recorders versus Holter monitoring for ambulatory monitoring of "community acquired" syncope
Jeffrey S Hoch, Marie Antoinette Rockx, Andrew D Krahn
Falls and consequent injuries in hospitalized patients: effects of an interdisciplinary falls prevention program
René Schwendimann, Hugo Bühler, Sabina De Geest, Koen Milisen
Hospitalizations during the last months of life of nursing home residents: a retrospective cohort study from Germany
Heribert Ramroth, Norbert Specht-Leible, Hans-Helmut König, Hermann Brenner
Protocol for stage 1 of the GaP study (Genetic testing acceptability for Paget's disease of bone): an interview study about genetic testing and preventive treatment: would relatives of people with Paget's disease want testing and treatment if they were available?
Anne L Langston, Marie Johnston, Clare Robertson, Marion K Campbell, Vikki A Entwistle, Theresa M Marteau, Marilyn McCallum, Stuart H Ralston
A cluster-randomized educational intervention to reduce inappropriate prescription patterns for elderly patients in general practice – The Prescription Peer Academic Detailing (Rx-PAD) study [NCT00281450]
Jørund Straand, Arne Fetveit, Sture Rognstad, Svein Gjelstad, Mette Brekke, Ingvild Dalen
Two years of psychogeriatric consultations in a nursing home: reasons for referral compared to psychiatrists' assessment
Camilla MT Callegari, Marco Menchetti, Giovanni Croci, Scilla Beraldo, Chiara Costantini, Federico Baranzini
The effects of socioeconomic status, accessibility to services and patient type on hospital use in Western Australia: a retrospective cohort study of patients with homogenous health status
Rachael E Moorin, C D'Arcy J Holman
Can antibiotic prescriptions in respiratory tract infections be improved? A cluster-randomized educational intervention in general practice – The Prescription Peer Academic Detailing (Rx-PAD) Study [NCT00272155]
Svein Gjelstad, Arne Fetveit, Jørund Straand, Ingvild Dalen, Sture Rognstad, Morten Lindbaek
Complementary therapy use by patients and parents of children with asthma and the implications for NHS care: a qualitative study
Alison Shaw, Elizabeth A Thompson, Debbie Sharp
Identifying priorities in methodological research using ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 administrative data: report from an international consortium
Carolyn De Coster, Hude Quan, Alan Finlayson, Min Gao, Patricia Halfon, Karin H Humphries, Helen Johansen, Lisa M Lix, Jean-Christophe Luthi, Jin Ma, Patrick S Romano, Leslie Roos, Vijaya Sundararajan, Jack V Tu, Greg Webster, William A Ghali
A methodology to estimate the potential to move inpatient to one day surgery
Nicolas Gilliard, Yves Eggli, Patricia Halfon
Family planning services quality as a determinant of use of IUD in Egypt
Rathavuth Hong, Livia Montana, Vinod Mishra
Cost-effectiveness of primary offer of IVF vs. primary offer of IUI followed by IVF (for IUI failures) in couples with unexplained or mild male factor subfertility
Nora Pashayan, Georgios Lyratzopoulos, Raj Mathur
Cross sectional study of performance indicators for English Primary Care Trusts: testing construct validity and identifying explanatory variables
Celia Brown, Richard Lilford
Health status in the ambulance services: a systematic review
Tom Sterud, Øivind Ekeberg, Erlend Hem
Staffing in postnatal units: is it adequate for the provision of quality care? Staff perspectives from a state-wide review of postnatal care in Victoria, Australia
Della A Forster, Helen L McLachlan, Jane Yelland, Jo Rayner, Judith Lumley, Mary-Ann Davey
Comorbidity in patients with diabetes mellitus: impact on medical health care utilization
Jeroen N Struijs, Caroline A Baan, Francois G Schellevis, Gert P Westert, Geertrudis AM van den Bos
The risk of death associated with delayed coronary artery bypass surgery
Boris G Sobolev, Adrian R Levy, Lisa Kuramoto, Robert Hayden, James M Brophy, J Mark FitzGerald
A rational model for assessing and evaluating complex interventions in health care
Carl May
Glucose testing and insufficient follow-up of abnormal results: a cohort study
Lisa M Kern, Mark A Callahan, David J Brillon, Maryelena Vargas, Alvin I Mushlin
A systematic review of complex system interventions designed to increase recovery from depression in primary care
Jane Gunn, Justine Diggens, Kelsey Hegarty, Grant Blashki
The cost of health professionals' brain drain in Kenya
Joses Muthuri Kirigia, Akpa Raphael Gbary, Lenity Kainyu Muthuri, Jennifer Nyoni, Anthony Seddoh
The contribution of qualitative research in designing a complex intervention for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in two different healthcare systems
Mairead Corrrigan, Margaret E Cupples, Susan M Smith, Molly Byrne, Claire S Leathem, Pauline Clerkin, Andrew W Murphy
Evaluation of a self-management programme for congestive heart failure patients: design of a randomised controlled trial
Esther STF Smeulders, Jolanda CM van Haastregt, Elisabeth FM van Hoef, Jacques ThM van Eijk, Gertrudis IJM Kempen
Why are physicians not persuaded by scientific evidence? A grounded theory interview study
Miho Sekimoto, Yuichi Imanaka, Nobuko Kitano, Tatsuro Ishizaki, Osamu Takahashi
Service utilization in community health centers in China: a comparison analysis with local hospitals
Xilong Pan, Hassan H Dib, Xiaohang Wang, Hong Zhang
Hospice utilization during the SARS outbreak in Taiwan
Tzeng-Ji Chen, Ming-Hwai Lin, Li-Fang Chou, Shinn-Jang Hwang
Development and testing of innovative patient resources for the management of coronary heart disease (CHD): a descriptive study
Julie Redfern, Elizabeth Ellis, Tom Briffa, Saul B Freedman
Mapping oral health related quality of life to generic health state values
David S Brennan, A John Spencer
How are health professionals earning their living in Malawi?
Adamson S Muula, Fresier C Maseko
Swiss residents' arguments for and against a career in medicine
Barbara Buddeberg-Fischer, Claudia Dietz, Richard Klaghofer, Claus Buddeberg
The time course of subsequent hospitalizations and associated costs in survivors of an ischemic stroke in Canada
J Jaime Caro, Kristen Migliaccio-Walle, Khajak J Ishak, Irina Proskorovsky, Judith A O'Brien
Risk adjustment for inter-hospital comparison of primary cesarean section rates: need, validity and parsimony
Maria P Fantini, Elisa Stivanello, Brunella Frammartino, Anna P Barone, Danilo Fusco, Laura Dallolio, Paolo Cacciari, Carlo A Perucci
The influence of completing a health-related questionnaire on primary care consultation behaviour
Amanda Jeffery, Clare Jinks, Kelvin Jordan
Predictors of patient satisfaction with hospital health care
José M Quintana, Nerea González, Amaia Bilbao, Felipe Aizpuru, Antonio Escobar, Cristóbal Esteban, José Antonio San-Sebastián, Emilio de-la-Sierra, Andrew Thompson
An examination of periodontal treatment and per member per month (PMPM) medical costs in an insured population
David A Albert, Donald Sadowsky, Panos Papapanou, Mary L Conicella, Angela Ward
The devil is in the details: trends in avoidable hospitalization rates by geography in British Columbia, 1990–2000
Denise Cloutier-Fisher, Margaret J Penning, Chi Zheng, Eric-Bené F Druyts
Getting by on credit: how district health managers in Ghana cope with the untimely release of funds
Augustine D Asante, Anthony B Zwi, Maria T Ho
Patient expectations of fair complaint handling in hospitals: empirical data
Roland D Friele, Emmy M Sluijs
The use of percutaneous coronary intervention in black and white veterans with acute myocardial infarction
Charles Maynard, Haili Sun, Elliott Lowy, Anne E Sales, Stephan D Fihn
Satisfaction of patients hospitalised in psychiatric hospitals: a randomised comparison of two psychiatric-specific and one generic satisfaction questionnaires
Isabelle Peytremann-Bridevaux, Frédy Scherer, Laurence Peer, Federico Cathieni, Charles Bonsack, Agatta Cléopas, Véronique Kolly, Thomas V Perneger, Bernard Burnand
Health behaviour modelling for prenatal diagnosis in Australia: a geodemographic framework for health service utilisation and policy development
Evelyne E Muggli, David McCloskey, Jane L Halliday
Gender differences in health care use among the elderly population in areas of Norway and Finland. A cross-sectional analysis based on the HUNT study and the FINRISK Senior Survey
Anna Liisa Suominen-Taipale, Tuija Martelin, Seppo Koskinen, Jostein Holmen, Roar Johnsen
Personally addressed hand-signed letters increase questionnaire response: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Pippa Scott, Phil Edwards
An analysis of patient house calls in the area of Attica, Greece
George Peppas, George Theocharis, Efthymia A Karveli, Matthew E Falagas
A prospective, multi-method, multi-disciplinary, multi-level, collaborative, social-organisational design for researching health sector accreditation [LP0560737]
Jeffrey Braithwaite, Johanna Westbrook, Marjorie Pawsey, David Greenfield, Justine Naylor, Rick Iedema, Bill Runciman, Sally Redman, Christine Jorm, Maureen Robinson, Sally Nathan, Robert Gibberd
Factors influencing general practitioner referral of patients developing end-stage renal failure: a standardised case-analysis study
Anthony J Montgomery, Hannah M McGee, William Shannon, John Donohoe
Ethnic minorities and prescription medication; concordance between self-reports and medical records
Ellen Uiters, Liset van Dijk, Walter Devillé, Marleen Foets, Peter Spreeuwenberg, Peter P Groenewegen
Predictors of colorectal cancer screening in diverse primary care practices
Richard K Zimmerman, Mary Patricia Nowalk, Melissa Tabbarah, Seymour Grufferman
What do you do for a living? Toward a more succinct definition of health services research
Charles D Phillips
Developing and testing an instrument for identifying performance incentives in the Greek health care sector
Victoria Paleologou, Nick Kontodimopoulos, Aggeliki Stamouli, Vassilis Aletras, Dimitris Niakas
Analysis of patient flows for orthopedic procedures using small area analysis in Switzerland
Klazien Matter-Walstra, Marcel Widmer, André Busato
Managerial attitude to the implementation of quality management systems in Lithuanian support treatment and nursing hospitals
Ilona Buciuniene, Sonata Malciankina, Zigmas Lydeka, Ruta Kazlauskaite
The impact of a decision aid about heart disease prevention on patients' discussions with their doctor and their plans for prevention: a pilot randomized trial
Stacey L Sheridan, John Shadle, Ross J Simpson Jr, Michael P Pignone
Disparities in preventive procedures: comparisons of self-report and Medicare claims data
Kevin Fiscella, Kathleen Holt, Sean Meldrum, Peter Franks
Employment status and differences in the one-year coverage of physician visits: different needs or unequal access to services?
Pekka Virtanen, Mika Kivimäki, Jussi Vahtera, Markku Koskenvuo
Association of socio-economic status with diabetes prevalence and utilization of diabetes care services
Doreen M Rabi, Alun L Edwards, Danielle A Southern, Lawrence W Svenson, Peter M Sargious, Peter Norton, Eric T Larsen, William A Ghali
Feasibility and validity of International Classification of Diseases based case mix indices
Che-Ming Yang, William Reinke
Internal medicine specialists' attitudes towards working part-time: a comparison between 1996 and 2004
Marjolein Lugtenberg, Phil JM Heiligers, Judith D de Jong, Lammert Hingstman
Priority setting in developing countries health care institutions: the case of a Ugandan hospital
Lydia Kapiriri, Douglas K Martin
The difficult doctor? Characteristics of physicians who report frustration with patients: an analysis of survey data
Erin E Krebs, Joanne M Garrett, Thomas R Konrad
Validation of the Provincial Transfer Authorization Centre database: a comprehensive database containing records of all inter-facility patient transfers in the province of Ontario
Victoria A Robinson, Russell D MacDonald, Doug Manuel, Vivek Goel
Scottish survey of diabetes services for minority ethnic groups
Hamid R Baradaran, Joan Jamieson, Rafik Gardee, Robin P Knill-Jones
Dual use of Medicare and the Veterans Health Administration: are there adverse health outcomes?
Fredric D Wolinsky, Thomas R Miller, Hyonggin An, Paul R Brezinski, Thomas E Vaughn, Gary E Rosenthal
Extent and structure of health insurance expenditures for complementary and alternative medicine in Swiss primary care
Andre Busato, Reiner Eichenberger, Beat Künzi
The DAMASK trial protocol: a pragmatic randomised trial to evaluate whether GPs should have direct access to MRI for patients with suspected internal derangement of the knee
Stephen D Brealey, Christine Atwell, Stirling Bryan, Simon Coulton, Helen Cox, Ben Cross, Fiona Fylan, Andrew Garratt, Fiona J Gilbert, Maureen GC Gillan, Maggie Hendry, Kerenza Hood, Helen Houston, David King, Veronica Morton, Jo Orchard, Michael Robling, Ian T Russell, David Torgerson, Valerie Wadsworth, Clare Wilkinson
Describing the impact of health research: a Research Impact Framework
Shyama Kuruvilla, Nicholas Mays, Andrew Pleasant, Gill Walt
Status of national health research systems in ten countries of the WHO African Region
Joses M Kirigia, Charles Wambebe
The use of sleep aids among Emergency Medicine residents: a web based survey
Daniel A Handel, Ali Raja, Christopher J Lindsell
Swiss residents' speciality choices – impact of gender, personality traits, career motivation and life goals
Barbara Buddeberg-Fischer, Richard Klaghofer, Thomas Abel, Claus Buddeberg
Gaining insight into the Clinical Practice Guideline development processes: qualitative study in a workshop to implement the GRADE proposal in Spain
Carlos Calderón, Rafael Rotaeche, Arritxu Etxebarria, Mercé Marzo, Rosa Rico, Marta Barandiaran
Consumer satisfaction with primary care provider choice and associated trust
Ming Ying L Chu-Weininger, Rajesh Balkrishnan
Changes in practice patterns affecting in-hospital and post-discharge survival among ACS patients
Manfred Stommel, Ade Olomu, Margaret Holmes-Rovner, William Corser, Joseph C Gardiner
The influence of partnership centrality on organizational perceptions of support: a case study of the AHLN structure
Spencer Moore, Cynthia Smith, Tammy Simpson, Sharlene Wolbeck Minke
Vitamin A supplementation in Tanzania: the impact of a change in programmatic delivery strategy on coverage
Honorati Masanja, Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg, Hassan M Mshinda, Meera Shekar, Joseph KL Mugyabuso, Godwin D Ndossi, Don de Savigny
Direct and indirect costs of Multiple Sclerosis in Baix Llobregat (Catalonia, Spain), according to disability
Virginia Casado, Sergio Martínez-Yélamos, Antonio Martínez-Yélamos, Olga Carmona, Lucia Alonso, Lucia Romero, Esther Moral, Laura Gubieras, Txomin Arbizu
Qualitative evaluation of a form for standardized information exchange between orthopedic surgeons and occupational physicians
Elske Faber, Alex Burdorf, Anne Loes van Staa, Harald S Miedema, Jan AN Verhaar
Does a joint development and dissemination of multidisciplinary guidelines improve prescribing behaviour: a pre/post study with concurrent control group and a randomised trial
Jody D Martens, Ron AG Winkens, Trudy van der Weijden, Daisy de Bruyn, Johan L Severens
Assessment of health care needs and utilization in a mixed public-private system: the case of the Athens area
Evelina Pappa, Dimitris Niakas
Barriers and motivators to gaining access to smoking cessation services amongst deprived smokers – a qualitative study
Elin Roddy, Marilyn Antoniak, John Britton, Andrew Molyneux, Sarah Lewis
Impact of on-site cardiac catheterization on resource utilization and fatal and non-fatal outcomes after acute myocardial infarction
Abdul R Halabi, Christine A Beck, Mark J Eisenberg, Hugues Richard, Louise Pilote
Determinants for receiving acupuncture for LBP and associated treatments: a prospective cohort study
Jean-François Chenot, Annette Becker, Corinna Leonhardt, Stefan Keller, Norbert Donner-Banzhoff, Erika Baum, Michael Pfingsten, Jan Hildebrandt, Michael M Kochen, Heinz-Dieter Basler
Possible criteria for inpatient psychiatric admissions: which patients are transferred from emergency services to inpatient psychiatric treatment?
Marc Ziegenbein, Christoph Anreis, Bernhard Brüggen, Martin Ohlmeier, Stefan Kropp
Ideal timing to transfer from an acute care hospital to an interdisciplinary inpatient rehabilitation program following a stroke: an exploratory study
Dany Gagnon, Sylvie Nadeau, Vincent Tam
Socioeconomic status and hospital utilization among younger adult pneumonia admissions at a Canadian hospital
Margaret J McGregor, Robert J Reid, Michael Schulzer, J Mark Fitzgerald, Adrian R Levy, Michelle B Cox
Impact on and use of health services by international migrants: questionnaire survey of inner city London A&E attenders
Sally Hargreaves, Jon S Friedland, Philip Gothard, Sonia Saxena, Hugh Millington, Joseph Eliahoo, Peter Le Feuvre, Alison Holmes
Physicians' communication with patients about adherence to HIV medication in San Francisco and Copenhagen: a qualitative study using Grounded Theory
Toke S Barfod, Frederick M Hecht, Cecilie Rubow, Jan Gerstoft
Collaboration with general practitioners: preferences of medical specialists – a qualitative study
Annette J Berendsen, Wim HGM Benneker, Jan Schuling, Nienke Rijkers-Koorn, Joris PJ Slaets, Betty Meyboom-de Jong
Quality and effectiveness of different approaches to primary care delivery in Brazil
Erno Harzheim, Bruce B Duncan, Airton T Stein, Carlo RH Cunha, Marcelo R Goncalves, Thiago G Trindade, Mônica MC Oliveira, Maria Eugênia B Pinto
A review of interventions triggered by hepatitis A infected food-handlers in Canada
Andrea C Tricco, Ba' Pham, Bernard Duval, Gaston De Serres, Vladimir Gilca, Linda Vrbova, Andrea Anonychuk, Murray Krahn, David Moher
Symptom experience and subsequent mortality: results from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 study
Alison M Elliott, Philip C Hannaford, Blair H Smith, Sally Wyke, Kate Hunt
Utilization of diabetes medication and cost of testing supplies in Saskatchewan, 2001
Jeffrey A Johnson, Sheri L Pohar, Kristina Secnik, Nicole Yurgin, Zeenat Hirji
Coping with methodological dilemmas; about establishing the effectiveness of interventions in routine medical practice
Yvonne JFM Jansen, Roland Bal, Marc Bruijnzeels, Marleen Foets, Rianne Frenken, Antoinette de Bont
ICD-10 coding algorithms for defining comorbidities of acute myocardial infarction
Lawrence So, Dewey Evans, Hude Quan
Functional status decline as a measure of adverse events in home health care: an observational study
Tanya Pollack Scharpf, Natalie Colabianchi, Elizabeth A Madigan, Duncan Neuhauser, Timothy Peng, Penny H Feldman, John FP Bridges
CESAR: conventional ventilatory support vs extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe adult respiratory failure
Giles J Peek, Felicity Clemens, Diana Elbourne, Richard Firmin, Pollyanna Hardy, Clare Hibbert, Hilliary Killer, Miranda Mugford, Mariamma Thalanany, Ravin Tiruvoipati, Ann Truesdale, Andrew Wilson
Illness-related behaviour and utilization of oral health services among adult city-dwellers in Burkina Faso: evidence from a household survey
Benoît Varenne, Poul Erik Petersen, Florence Fournet, Philippe Msellati, Jean Gary, Seydou Ouattara, Maud Harang, Gérard Salem