Ausgabe 1/2014
Inhalt (653 Artikel)
Understanding the barriers to setting up a healthcare quality improvement process in resource-limited settings: a situational analysis at the Medical Department of Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi
Josephine Nana Afrakoma Agyeman-Duah, Antje Theurer, Charles Munthali, Noor Alide, Florian Neuhann
The impact of Regional co-payment and National reimbursement criteria on statins use in Italy: an interrupted time-series analysis
Gianfranco Damiani, Bruno Federico, Angela Anselmi, Caterina Bianca Neve Aurora Bianchi, Giulia Silvestrini, Lanfranco Iodice, Pierluigi Navarra, Roberto Da Cas, Roberto Raschetti, Walter Ricciardi
Implementation challenges of maternal health care in Ghana: the case of health care providers in the Tamale Metropolis
Emmanuel Banchani, Eric Y Tenkorang
Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of an outcall program to reduce carer burden and depression among carers of cancer patients [PROTECT]: rationale and design of a randomized controlled trial
Patricia M Livingston, Richard H Osborne, Mari Botti, Cathy Mihalopoulos, Sean McGuigan, Leila Heckel, Kate Gunn, Jacquie Chirgwin, David M Ashley, Melinda Williams
Discontinuities between maternity and child and family health services: health professional’s perceptions
Kim Psaila, Virginia Schmied, Cathrine Fowler, Sue Kruske
Determinants of health after hospital discharge: rationale and design of the Vanderbilt Inpatient Cohort Study (VICS)
Abby G Meyers, Amanda Salanitro, Kenneth A Wallston, Courtney Cawthon, Eduard E Vasilevskis, Kathryn M Goggins, Corinne M Davis, Russell L Rothman, Liana D Castel, Katharine M Donato, John F Schnelle, Susan P Bell, Jonathan S Schildcrout, Chandra Y Osborn, Frank E Harrell, Sunil Kripalani
Determinants of financial performance of home-visit nursing agencies in Japan
Sakiko Fukui, Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi, Junko Fujita, Sumie Ikezaki
Age, period and cohort analysis of patient dental visits in Australia
Xiangqun Ju, David S Brennan, A John Spencer
Development and validation of an instrument assessing women’s satisfaction with screening mammography in an organized breast cancer screening program
Isabelle Bairati, Stéphane Turcotte, Geneviève Doray, France Belleau, Louise Grégoire
Case management for frail older people – a qualitative study of receivers’ and providers’ experiences of a complex intervention
Magnus Sandberg, Ulf Jakobsson, Patrik Midlöv, Jimmie Kristensson
Healthcare managers in negative media focus: a qualitative study of personification processes and their personal consequences
Maria Wramsten Wilmar, Gunnar Ahlborg Jr, Christian Jacobsson, Lotta Dellve
Psychosocial, behavioural and health system barriers to delivery and uptake of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Tanzania – viewpoints of service providers in Mkuranga and Mufindi districts
Godfrey M Mubyazi, Paul Bloch
Validity of the RAI-MDS for ascertaining diabetes and comorbid conditions in long-term care facility residents
Lisa M Lix, Lin Yan, David Blackburn, Nianping Hu, Verena Schneider-Lindner, Gary F Teare
The prospective effects of workplace violence on physicians’ job satisfaction and turnover intentions: the buffering effect of job control
Tarja Heponiemi, Anne Kouvonen, Marianna Virtanen, Jukka Vänskä, Marko Elovainio
Articulating current service development practices: a qualitative analysis of eleven mental health projects
Gyuchan Thomas Jun, Cecily Morrison, P John Clarkson
Decision-making factors affecting different family members regarding the placement of relatives in long-term care facilities
Ying-Chia Huang, Chiao-Lee Chu, Ching-Sung Ho, Shou-Jen Lan, Chen-Hsi Hsieh, Yen-Ping Hsieh
When incentives work too well: locally implemented pay for performance (P4P) and adverse sanctions towards home birth in Tanzania - a qualitative study
Victor Chimhutu, Ida Lindkvist, Siri Lange
Randomized clinical trial of the timing it right stroke family support program: research protocol
Jill I Cameron, Gary Naglie, Monique A M Gignac, Mark Bayley, Grace Warner, Theresa Green, Anna Czerwonka, Maria Huijbregts, Frank L Silver, Steve J Phillips, Angela M Cheung
Comparing potentially avoidable hospitalization rates related to ambulatory care sensitive conditions in Switzerland: the need to refine the definition of health conditions and to adjust for population health status
Yves Eggli, Béatrice Desquins, Erol Seker, Patricia Halfon
An exploration of how nurse prescribing is being used for patients with respiratory conditions across the east of England
Nicola Carey, Karen Stenner, Molly Courtenay
Barriers and facilitators in the provision of post-abortion care at district level in central Uganda – a qualitative study focusing on task sharing between physicians and midwives
Mandira Paul, Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson, Charles Kiggundu, Rebecka Namugenyi, Marie Klingberg-Allvin
Adult male circumcision in Nyanza, Kenya at scale: the cost and efficiency of alternative service delivery modes
Elliot Marseille, James G Kahn, Sharone Beatty, Moguche Jared, Paul Perchal
“It’s easier in pharmacy”: why some patients prefer to pay for flu jabs rather than use the National Health Service
Claire Anderson, Tracey Thornley
Patient satisfaction with HIV and TB treatment in a public programme in rural KwaZulu-Natal: evidence from patient-exit interviews
Natsayi Chimbindi, Till Bärnighausen, Marie-Louise Newell
‘Stand still …, and move on’ , an early neurologically-focused follow-up for cardiac arrest survivors and their caregivers: a process evaluation
Véronique RM Moulaert, Jolanda CM van Haastregt, Derick T Wade, Caroline M van Heugten, Jeanine A Verbunt
A comparison of home care quality indicator rates in two Canadian provinces
Amanda M Mofina, Dawn M Guthrie
Conditions that influence the impact of malpractice litigation risk on physicians’ behavior regarding patient safety
Erik Renkema, Manda Broekhuis, Kees Ahaus
The dependency on central government funding of decentralised health systems: experiences of the challenges and coping strategies in the Kongwa District, Tanzania
Gasto Frumence, Tumaini Nyamhanga, Mughwira Mwangu, Anna-Karin Hurtig
Prevalence of neurological conditions across the continuum of care based on interRAI assessments
Oana Danila, John P Hirdes, Colleen J Maxwell, Ruth Ann Marrie, Scott Patten, Tamara Pringsheim, Nathalie Jetté
Reducing hospital admissions from nursing homes: a systematic review
Birgitte Graverholt, Louise Forsetlund, Gro Jamtvedt
Assessing the validity of prospective hazard analysis methods: a comparison of two techniques
Henry WW Potts, Janet E Anderson, Lacey Colligan, Paul Leach, Sheena Davis, Jon Berman
Improving accountability through alignment: the role of academic health science centres and networks in England
Pavel V Ovseiko, Axel Heitmueller, Pauline Allen, Stephen M Davies, Glenn Wells, Gary A Ford, Ara Darzi, Alastair M Buchan
A comparative study of two various models of organising diabetes follow-up in public primary health care – the model influences the use of services, their quality and costs
Mikko T Honkasalo, Miika Linna, Timo Sane, Atte Honkasalo, Outi Elonheimo
Mental health policy in Eastern Europe: a comparative analysis of seven mental health systems
Martin Dlouhy
The effectiveness of substitution of hospital ward care from medical doctors to physician assistants: a study protocol
Marijke JC Timmermans, Anneke JAH van Vught, Michel Wensing, Miranda GH Laurant
The cost of a primary care-based childhood obesity prevention intervention
Davene R Wright, Elsie M Taveras, Matthew W Gillman, Christine M Horan, Katherine H Hohman, Steven L Gortmaker, Lisa A Prosser
Reducing bottlenecks: professionals’ and adolescents’ experiences with transitional care delivery
Anna P Nieboer, Jane M Cramm, Henk M Sonneveld, Marij E Roebroeck, AnneLoes van Staa, Mathilde MH Strating
How to improve patient retention in an antiretroviral treatment program in Ethiopia: a mixed-methods study
Yibeltal Assefa, Lut Lynen, Edwin Wouters, Freya Rasschaert, Koen Peeters, Wim Van Damme
Direct vitamin k antagonist anticoagulant treatment health care costs in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation
Álvaro Hidalgo-Vega, Elham Askari, Rosa Vidal, Isaac Aranda-Reneo, Almudena Gonzalez-Dominguez, Alexandra Ivanova, Gabriela Ene, Pilar Llamas
Institution specific risk factors for 30 day readmission at a community hospital: a retrospective observational study
Lee Park, Danielle Andrade, Andrew Mastey, James Sun, LeRoi Hicks
Factors associated with quality of services for marginalized groups with mental health problems in 14 European countries
Diogo Costa, Aleksandra Matanov, Reamonn Canavan, Edina Gabor, Tim Greacen, Petra Vondráčková, Ulrike Kluge, Pablo Nicaise, Jacek Moskalewicz, José Manuel Díaz–Olalla, Christa Straßmayr, Martijn Kikkert, Joaquim JF Soares, Andrea Gaddini, Henrique Barros, Stefan Priebe
Evaluating the implementation of HeLP-Diabeteswithin NHS services: study protocol
Jamie Ross, Fiona Stevenson, Charlotte Dack, Kingshuk Pal, Carl May, Susan Michie, Steve Parrott, Elizabeth Murray
Trends in the types and quality of childhood immunisations research output from Africa 1970–2010: mapping the evidence base
Shingai Machingaidze, Gregory D Hussey, Charles S Wiysonge
Modeling the impact of the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Chinese infants: an economic analysis of a compulsory vaccination
Datian Che, Hua Zhou, Jinchun He, Bin Wu
The effect of hospital mergers on long-term sickness absence among hospital employees: a fixed effects multivariate regression analysis using panel data
Lars Erik Kjekshus, Vilde Hoff Bernstrøm, Espen Dahl, Thomas Lorentzen
Trends over time in prescribing by English primary care nurses: a secondary analysis of a national prescription database
Vari M Drennan, Robert L Grant, Ruth Harris
An observational study of emergency department utilization among enrollees of Minnesota Health Care Programs: financial and non-financial barriers have different associations
Nathan D Shippee, Tetyana P Shippee, Erik P Hess, Timothy J Beebe
The potential impact of increased treatment rates for alcohol dependence in the United Kingdom in 2004
Kevin D Shield, Jürgen Rehm, Maximilien X Rehm, Gerrit Gmel, Colin Drummond
Local psychiatric beds appear to decrease the use of involuntary admission: a case-registry study
Lars Henrik Myklebust, Knut Sørgaard, Rolf Wynn
Estimating recruitment rates for routine use of patient reported outcome measures and the impact on provider comparisons
Andrew Hutchings, Jenny Neuburger, Jan van der Meulen, Nick Black
A cluster-randomized controlled trial of a computerized antithrombotic risk assessment tool to optimize stroke prevention in general practice: a study protocol
Beata Bajorek, Parker Magin, Sarah Hilmer, Ines Krass
Weight management in Canada: an environmental scan of health services for adults with obesity
Marie-Michèle Rosa Fortin, Christine Brown, Geoff DC Ball, Jean-Pierre Chanoine, Marie-France Langlois
Health care costs in the elderly in Germany: an analysis applying Andersen’s behavioral model of health care utilization
Dirk Heider, Herbert Matschinger, Heiko Müller, Kai-Uwe Saum, Renate Quinzler, Walter Emil Haefeli, Beate Wild, Thomas Lehnert, Hermann Brenner, Hans-Helmut König
Everyday uses of standardized test information in a geriatric setting: a qualitative study exploring occupational therapist and physiotherapist test administrators’ justifications
Kariann Krohne, Sandra Torres, Åshild Slettebø, Astrid Bergland
Drug waste minimization as an effective strategy of cost-containment in Oncology
Gianpiero Fasola, Giuseppe Aprile, Luisa Marini, Alessandro Follador, Mauro Mansutti, Manuela Miscoria
Investigating preferences for support with life after stroke: a discrete choice experiment
Christopher R Burton, Emily Fargher, Catrin Plumpton, Gwerfyl W Roberts, Heledd Owen, Eryl Roberts
Primary healthcare worker knowledge related to prenatal and immediate newborn care: a cross sectional study in Masindi, Uganda
Richard Mangwi Ayiasi, Bart Criel, Christopher Garimoi Orach, Elizabeth Nabiwemba, Patrick Kolsteren
Consequences, measurement, and evaluation of the costs associated with adverse drug reactions among hospitalized patients in China
Shi Qing-ping, Jiang Xiao-dong, Ding Feng, Liu Yan, Yu Mei-ling, Zhu Jin-xiu, Zhang Shu-qiang
A study protocol: a community pharmacy-based intervention for improving the management of sleep disorders in the community settings
Zaswiza Mohamad Noor, Alesha J Smith, Simon S Smith, Lisa M Nissen
Advanced practice registered nurses, physician assistants and cancer prevention and screening: a systematic review
Alexandria A Smith, Deanna Kepka, K Robin Yabroff
Turkish health system reform from the people’s perspective: a cross sectional study
Saad Ahmed Ali Jadoo, Syed Mohamed Aljunid, Seher Nur Sulku, Amrizal Muhammad Nur
Increased fairness in priority setting processes within the health sector: the case of Kapiri-Mposhi District, Zambia
Joseph M Zulu, Charles Michelo, Carol Msoni, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Jens Byskov, Astrid Blystad
Predictors of attendance at an obesity clinic and subsequent weight change
Emma Brook, Lauren Cohen, Paul Hakendorf, Gary Wittert, Campbell Thompson
Impact of a fixed price system on the supply of institutional long-term care: a comparative study of Japanese and German metropolitan areas
Keiko Yoshida, Kazuo Kawahara
Can international health programmes be sustained after the end of international funding: the case of eye care interventions in Ghana
Karl Blanchet, Philip James
People with limiting long-term conditions report poorer experiences and more problems with hospital care
Paul Hewitson, Alex Skew, Chris Graham, Crispin Jenkinson, Angela Coulter
An in-depth, exploratory assessment of the implementation of the National Health Information System at a district level hospital in Tanzania
Miriam C Wilms, Osman Mbembela, Helen Prytherch, Peter Hellmold, Rainer Kuelker
Patient engagement in research: a systematic review
Juan Pablo Domecq, Gabriela Prutsky, Tarig Elraiyah, Zhen Wang, Mohammed Nabhan, Nathan Shippee, Juan Pablo Brito, Kasey Boehmer, Rim Hasan, Belal Firwana, Patricia Erwin, David Eton, Jeff Sloan, Victor Montori, Noor Asi, Abd Moain Abu Dabrh, Mohammad Hassan Murad
Trends and changes in prescription opioid analgesic dispensing in Canada 2005–2012: an update with a focus on recent interventions
Benedikt Fischer, Wayne Jones, Jürgen Rehm
Factors influencing performance of health workers in the management of seriously sick children at a Kenyan tertiary hospital - participatory action research
Grace W Irimu, Alexandra Greene, David Gathara, Harrison Kihara, Christopher Maina, Dorothy Mbori-Ngacha, Dejan Zurovac, Santau Migiro, Mike English
Health systems analysis of eye care services in Zambia: evaluating progress towards VISION 2020 goals
Fiammetta Maria Bozzani, Ulla Kou Griffiths, Karl Blanchet, Elena Schmidt
Exploring experiences in peer mentoring as a strategy for capacity building in sexual reproductive health and HIV service integration in Kenya
Charity Ndwiga, Timothy Abuya, Richard Mutemwa, James Kelly Kimani, Manuela Colombini, Susannah Mayhew, Averie Baird, Ruth Wayua Muia, Jackline Kivunaga, Charlotte E Warren
The scale of repeat prescribing – time for an update
Duncan R Petty, Arnold G Zermansky, David P Alldred
“Home is where the patient is”: a qualitative analysis of a patient-centred model of care for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis
Shona Horter, Beverley Stringer, Lucy Reynolds, Muhammad Shoaib, Samuel Kasozi, Esther C Casas, Meggy Verputten, Philipp du Cros
Impact of ethnic-specific guidelines for anti-hypertensive prescribing in primary care in England: a longitudinal study
Lena Barrera, Craig Leaper, Utz J Pape, Azeem Majeed, Marta Blangiardo, Christopher Millett
The practice of venous blood collection among laboratory and non-laboratory professionals working in Ethiopian Government Hospitals: a comparative study
Mulugeta Melkie, Abel Girma, Tsegaye Tsalla
A national survey of inpatient medication systems in English NHS hospitals
Monsey McLeod, Zamzam Ahmed, Nick Barber, Bryony Dean Franklin
Main barriers to effective implementation of stroke care pathways in France: a qualitative study
Kristel Gache, Henri Leleu, Gérard Nitenberg, France Woimant, Marie Ferrua, Etienne Minvielle
Developing cartoons for long-term condition self-management information
Anne Kennedy, Anne Rogers, Christian Blickem, Gavin Daker-White, Robert Bowen
Outcomes associated with comorbid atrial fibrillation and heart failure in medicare beneficiaries with acute coronary syndrome
Shih-Yin Chen, Concetta Crivera, Michael Stokes, Luke Boulanger, Jeff Schein
Efficiency of antenatal care and childbirth services in selected primary health care facilities in rural Tanzania: a cross-sectional study
Happiness P Saronga, Els Duysburgh, Siriel Massawe, Maxwell A Dalaba, Germain Savadogo, Pencho Tonchev, Hengjin Dong, Rainer Sauerborn, Svetla Loukanova
The impact of accreditation of primary healthcare centers: successes, challenges and policy implications as perceived by healthcare providers and directors in Lebanon
Fadi El-Jardali, Randa Hemadeh, Maha Jaafar, Lucie Sagherian, Ranime El-Skaff, Reem Mdeihly, Diana Jamal, Nour Ataya
Measuring satisfaction with health care in young persons with inflammatory bowel disease -an instrument development and validation study
Andrea Sadlo, Julia Altevers, Jenny Peplies, Birgit Kaltz, Martin Claßen, Alexandra Bauer, Sibylle Koletzko, Antje Timmer
Interventions to improve cultural competency in healthcare: a systematic review of reviews
Mandy Truong, Yin Paradies, Naomi Priest
The impact of CHIP premium increases on insurance outcomes among CHIP eligible children
Silviya Nikolova, Sally Stearns
Practice characteristics and prior authorization costs: secondary analysis of data collected by SALT-Net in 9 central New York primary care practices
John W Epling, Emily M Mader, Christopher P Morley
Perceived challenges and opportunities arising from integration of mental health into primary care: a cross-sectional survey of primary health care workers in south-west Ethiopia
Mubarek Abera, Markos Tesfaye, Tefera Belachew, Charlotte Hanlon
Lack of access to chemotherapy for colon cancer: multiplicative disadvantage of being extremely poor, inadequately insured and African American
Kevin M Gorey, Sundus Haji-Jama, Emma Bartfay, Isaac N Luginaah, Frances C Wright, Sindu M Kanjeekal
A quasi-experimental study of the effects of an integrated care intervention for the frail elderly on informal caregivers’ satisfaction with care and support
Benjamin Janse, Robbert Huijsman, Isabelle Natalina Fabbricotti
Motor and functional recovery after stroke: a comparison between rehabilitation settings in a developed versus a developing country
Anthea Rhoda, Mario Smith, Koen Putman, Ratie Mpofu, Willy DeWeerdt, Liesbet DeWit
Intraclass correlation coefficients for cluster randomized trials in care pathways and usual care: hospital treatment for heart failure
Seval Kul, Kris Vanhaecht, Massimiliano Panella
Costs and repeat rates associated with colonoscopy observed in medical claims for commercial and Medicare populations
Bruce Pyenson, Charles Scammell, Jonah Broulette
Variations in levels of care between nursing home patients in a public health care system
Øystein Døhl, Helge Garåsen, Jorid Kalseth, Jon Magnussen
More than a checklist: a realist evaluation of supervision of mid-level health workers in rural Guatemala
Alison R Hernández, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Kjerstin Dahlblom, Miguel San Sebastián
Implementing antiretroviral resistance testing in a primary health care HIV treatment programme in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: early experiences, achievements and challenges
Richard J Lessells, Katharine E Stott, Justen Manasa, Kevindra K Naidu, Andrew Skingsley, Theresa Rossouw, Tulio de Oliveira
Disaster resilience in tertiary hospitals: a cross-sectional survey in Shandong Province, China
Shuang Zhong, Xiang-Yu Hou, Michele Clark, Yu-Li Zang, Lu Wang, Ling-Zhong Xu, Gerard FitzGerald
Barriers to implementation of a redesign of information transfer and feedback in acute care: results from a multiple case study
Janneke E van Leijen-Zeelenberg, Arno JA van Raak, Inge GP Duimel-Peeters, Mariëlle EAL Kroese, Peter RG Brink, Dirk Ruwaard, Hubertus JM Vrijhoef
Disseminating a cervical cancer screening program through primary physicians in Hong Kong: a qualitative study
Cecilia S Fabrizio, Christopher M Shea
Measuring and decomposing the inequality of maternal health services utilization in Western Rural China
Xiaoning Liu, Wenlong Gao, Hong Yan
Evaluation of a tailored, multi-component intervention for implementation of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in primary care physical therapy: a non-randomized controlled trial
Susanne Bernhardsson, Maria EH Larsson, Robert Eggertsen, Monika Fagevik Olsén, Kajsa Johansson, Per Nilsen, Lena Nordeman, Maurits van Tulder, Birgitta Öberg
Provision of smoking cessation support for pregnant women in England: results from an online survey of NHS stop smoking services for pregnant women
Samantha J Fahy, Sue Cooper, Tim Coleman, Felix Naughton, Linda Bauld
Speech pathologists’ experiences with stroke clinical practice guidelines and the barriers and facilitators influencing their use: a national descriptive study
Kathleen A Hadely, Emma Power, Robyn O’Halloran
Urban settings do not ensure access to services: findings from the immunisation programme in Kampala Uganda
Juliet N Babirye, Ingunn MS Engebretsen, Elizeus Rutebemberwa, Juliet Kiguli, Fred Nuwaha
A descriptive phenomenology study of newcomers’ experience of maternity care services: Chinese women’s perspectives
Tsorng-Yeh Lee, Christine Kurtz Landy, Olive Wahoush, Nazilla Khanlou, Yin-Chun Liu, Chia-Chi Li
What proportion of prescription items dispensed in community pharmacies are eligible for the New Medicine Service?
Katharine M Wells, Matthew J Boyd, Tracey Thornley, Helen F Boardman
Diabetes patient management by pharmacists during Ramadan
Kerry Wilbur, Kawthar Al Tawengi, Eman Remoden
Exploring views on long term rehabilitation for people with stroke in a developing country: findings from focus group discussions
Nor Azlin Mohd Nordin, Noor Azah Abd Aziz, Aznida Firzah Abdul Aziz, Devinder Kaur Ajit Singh, Nor Aishah Omar Othman, Saperi Sulong, Syed Mohamed Aljunid
Explaining the uptake of paediatric guidelines in a Kenyan tertiary hospital – mixed methods research
Grace W Irimu, Alexandra Greene, David Gathara, Harrison Kihara, Christopher Maina, Dorothy Mbori-Ngacha, Dejan Zurovac, Migiro Santau, Jim Todd, Mike English
Patient safety culture in a large teaching hospital in Riyadh: baseline assessment, comparative analysis and opportunities for improvement
Fadi El-Jardali, Farheen Sheikh, Nereo A Garcia, Diana Jamal, Ayman Abdo
Scheduled telephone visits in the veterans health administration patient-centered medical home
Nina R Sperber, Heather A King, Karen Steinhauser, Natalie Ammarell, Susanne Danus, Benjamin J Powers
Identifying diabetics in Medicare claims and survey data: implications for health services research
Joseph W Sakshaug, David R Weir, Lauren H Nicholas
Rural area in a European country from a health care point of view: an adaption of the Rural Ranking Scale
Jost Steinhaeuser, Petra Otto, Katja Goetz, Joachim Szecsenyi, Stefanie Joos
A prospective analysis of false positive events in a National Colon Cancer Surveillance Program
Knut Magne Augestad, Jan Norum, Johnie Rose, Rolv-Ole Lindsetmo
Integration of rural and urban healthcare insurance schemes in China: an empirical research
Xin Wang, Ang Zheng, Xin He, Hanghang Jiang
Living with diabetes: a group-based self-management support programme for T2DM patients in the early phases of illness and their partners, study protocol of a randomised controlled trial
Anne L van Puffelen, Mieke Rijken, Monique JWM Heijmans, Giel Nijpels, Guy EHM Rutten, François G Schellevis
Equity in use of maternal health services in Western Rural China: a survey from Shaanxi province
Yuan Shen, Hong Yan, Klemetti Reija, Qiang Li, Shengbin Xiao, Jianmin Gao, Zhongliang Zhou
The consumer quality index anthroposophic healthcare: a construction and validation study
Evi B Koster, Rob RS Ong, Rachel Heybroek, Diana MJ Delnoij, Erik W Baars
Utilisation trends of rosiglitazone and pioglitazone in Australia before and after safety warnings
Suvimol Niyomnaitham, Andrew Page, Adam La Caze, Karen Whitfield, Alesha J Smith
Does training on performance based financing make a difference in performance and quality of health care delivery? Health care provider’s perspective in Rungwe Tanzania
Rachel Manongi, Declare Mushi, Joachim Kessy, Saria Salome, Bernard Njau
Health extension program factors, frequency of household visits and being model households, improved utilization of basic health services in Ethiopia
Mezgebu Yitayal, Yemane Berhane, Alemayehu Worku, Yigzaw Kebede
Unannounced standardized patients: a promising method of assessing patient-centered care in your health care system
Sondra Zabar, Kathleen Hanley, David Stevens, Jessica Murphy, Angela Burgess, Adina Kalet, Colleen Gillespie
Relative efficiency and productivity: a preliminary exploration of public hospitals in Beijing, China
Hao Li, Siping Dong, Tingfang Liu
Option Grids to facilitate shared decision making for patients with Osteoarthritis of the knee: protocol for a single site, efficacy trial
Katy Marrin, Fiona Wood, Jill Firth, Katharine Kinsey, Adrian Edwards, Kate E Brain, Robert G Newcombe, Alan Nye, Timothy Pickles, Kamila Hawthorne, Glyn Elwyn
Time to antibiotics and outcomes in cancer patients with febrile neutropenia
Thomas Perron, Mohamed Emara, Shahid Ahmed
Nurses’ and community support workers’ experience of telehealth: a longitudinal case study
Urvashi Sharma, Malcolm Clarke
Does the perception of fairness and standard of care in the health system depend on the field of study? Results of an empirical analysis
Kathrin Damm, Anne Prenzler, Andy Zuchandke
Socio-demographic determinants and access to prenatal care in Italy
Manuela Chiavarini, Donatella Lanari, Liliana Minelli, Luca Salmasi
A qualitative study of influences on older women’s practitioner choices for back pain care
Emma R Kirby, Alex F Broom, Jon Adams, David W Sibbritt, Kathryn M Refshauge
The long walk to universal health coverage: patterns of inequities in the use of primary healthcare services in Enugu, Southeast Nigeria
Ijeoma L Okoronkwo, Obinna E Onwujekwe, Francis O Ani
The New South Wales Allied Health Workplace Learning Study: barriers and enablers to learning in the workplace
Bradley Lloyd, Daniella Pfeiffer, Jacqueline Dominish, Gaynor Heading, David Schmidt, Annie McCluskey
Elements of effective palliative care models: a rapid review
Tim Luckett, Jane Phillips, Meera Agar, Claudia Virdun, Anna Green, Patricia M Davidson
Reproductive health knowledge and services utilization among rural adolescents in east Gojjam zone, Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study
Amanuel Alemu Abajobir, Assefa Seme
The safety attitudes questionnaire – ambulatory version: psychometric properties of the Norwegian translated version for the primary care setting
Gunnar Tschudi Bondevik, Dag Hofoss, Elisabeth Holm Hansen, Ellen Catharina Tveter Deilkås
Developing and implementing a service charter for an integrated regional stroke service: an exploratory case study
Jean-Pierre Thomassen, Kees Ahaus, Steven Van de Walle
Predictors of default from follow-up care in a cervical cancer screening program using direct visual inspection in south-western Nigeria
Oliver Chukwujekwu Ezechi, Karen Odberg Petterson, Titilola A Gabajabiamila, Ifeoma Eugenia Idigbe, Olutunmike Kuyoro, Innocent Achaya Otobo Ujah, Per Olof Ostergren
Determinants and patterns of service utilization and recourse to professionals for mental health reasons
Marie-Josée Fleury, Guy Grenier, Jean-Marie Bamvita, Jean Caron
Factors affecting sick leave prescribing in occupational health care: a survey based on hypothetical patient cases
Anni T Kankaanpää, Tuula M Putus, Risto J Tuominen
A cost-utility analysis of drug treatments in patients with HBeAg-positive chronic hepatitis B in Thailand
Narisa Tantai, Usa Chaikledkaew, Tawesak Tanwandee, Pitsaphun Werayingyong, Yot Teerawattananon
Leveraging public health nurses for disaster risk communication in Fukushima City: a qualitative analysis of nurses' written records of parenting counseling and peer discussions
Aya Goto, Rima E Rudd, Alden Y Lai, Kazuki Yoshida, Yuu Suzuki, Donald D Halstead, Hiromi Yoshida-Komiya, Michael R Reich
Housing First: exploring participants’ early support needs
Vicky Stergiopoulos, Agnes Gozdzik, Patricia O’Campo, Alixandra R Holtby, Jeyagobi Jeyaratnam, Sam Tsemberis
Young people’s perception of sexual and reproductive health services in Kenya
Pamela M Godia, Joyce M Olenja, Jan J Hofman, Nynke van den Broek
Improving access to emergent spinal care through knowledge translation: an ethnographic study
Fiona Webster, Michael G Fehlings, Kathleen Rice, Harsha Malempati, Khaled Fawaz, Fred Nicholls, Navindra Baldeo, Scott Reeves, Anoushka Singh, Henry Ahn, Howard Ginsberg, Albert J Yee
Effects of changes in health insurance reimbursement level on outpatient service utilization of rural diabetics: evidence from Jiangsu Province, China
Lu Zhang, Zhonghua Wang, Dongfu Qian, Jian Ni
Enhancing provision of written medicine information in Australia: pharmacist, general practitioner and consumer perceptions of the barriers and facilitators
Kim K Hamrosi, David K Raynor, Parisa Aslani
Physician clinical management strategies and reasoning: a cross-sectional survey using clinical vignettes of eight common medical admissions
Kristofer L Smith, Sarah Ashburn, Jenerius A Aminawung, Micah Mann, Joseph S Ross
Non-degree allopathic practitioners as first contact points for acute illness episodes: insights from a qualitative study in rural northern India
Christina May, Katja Roth, Pradeep Panda
The functional barometer –a self-report questionnaire in accordance with the international classification of functioning, disability and health for pain related problems; validity and patient-observer comparisons
Jan-Rickard Norrefalk, Elisabeth Svensson
Multidisciplinary teams of case managers in the implementation of an innovative integrated services delivery for the elderly in France
Matthieu de Stampa, Isabelle Vedel, Hélène Trouvé, Joël Ankri, Olivier Saint Jean, Dominique Somme
‘Practical’ resources to support patient and family engagement in healthcare decisions: a scoping review
Katharina Kovacs Burns, Mandy Bellows, Carol Eigenseher, Jennifer Gallivan
Implementation of hospital governing boards: views from the field
Zahirah McNatt, Jennifer W Thompson, Abraham Mengistu, Dawit Tatek, Erika Linnander, Leulseged Ageze, Ruth Lawson, Negalign Berhanu, Elizabeth H Bradley
Design of an impact evaluation using a mixed methods model – an explanatory assessment of the effects of results-based financing mechanisms on maternal healthcare services in Malawi
Stephan Brenner, Adamson S Muula, Paul Jacob Robyn, Till Bärnighausen, Malabika Sarker, Don P Mathanga, Thomas Bossert, Manuela De Allegri
Goals of telephone nursing work - the managers’ perspectives: a qualitative study on Swedish healthcare direct
Elenor Kaminsky, Marianne Carlsson, Inger K Holmström, Jan Larsson, Mio Fredriksson
‘Choice, culture and confidence’: key findings from the 2012 having a baby in Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander survey
Susan Parker, Loretta McKinnon, Sue Kruske
The validation of a questionnaire to assess barriers to enteral feeding in critically ill patients: a multicenter international survey
Naomi E Cahill, Lauren Murch, Miao Wang, Andrew G Day, Deborah Cook, Daren K Heyland
Estimating age-based antiretroviral therapy costs for HIV-infected children in resource-limited settings based on World Health Organization weight-based dosing recommendations
Kathleen Doherty, Shaffiq Essajee, Martina Penazzato, Charles Holmes, Stephen Resch, Andrea Ciaranello
Cervical cancer prevention in reproductive health services: knowledge, attitudes and practices of midwives in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa
Boris K Tchounga, Antoine Jaquet, Patrick A Coffie, Apollinaire Horo, Catherine Sauvaget, Innocent Adoubi, Privat Guie, François Dabis, Annie J Sasco, Didier K Ekouevi
Health-seeking behaviour in the city of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo: results from a cross-sectional household survey
Mukalenge F Chenge, Jean Van der Vennet, Numbi O Luboya, Veerle Vanlerberghe, Mala A Mapatano, Bart Criel
Effective access to health care in Mexico
Juan Pablo Gutiérrez, Sebastián García-Saisó, Germán Fajardo Dolci, Mauricio Hernández Ávila
Pharmacy practice and injection use in community pharmacies in Pokhara city, Western Nepal
Sudesh Gyawali, Devendra Singh Rathore, Kishor Adhikari, Pathiyil Ravi Shankar, Vikash Kumar KC, Suyog Basnet
Claims-based algorithms for identifying Medicare beneficiaries at high estimated risk for coronary heart disease events: a cross-sectional study
Evan L Thacker, Paul Muntner, Hong Zhao, Monika M Safford, Jeffrey R Curtis, Elizabeth Delzell, Vera Bittner, Todd M Brown, Emily B Levitan
Differences in sickness absence between self-employed and employed doctors: a cross-sectional study on national sample of Norwegian doctors in 2010
Judith Rosta, Gunnar Tellnes, Olaf G Aasland
Disinvestment policy and the public funding of assisted reproductive technologies: outcomes of deliberative engagements with three key stakeholder groups
Katherine Hodgetts, Janet E Hiller, Jackie M Street, Drew Carter, Annette J Braunack-Mayer, Amber M Watt, John R Moss, Adam G Elshaug
In-office diagnostic arthroscopy for knee and shoulder intra-articular injuries its potential impact on cost savings in the United States
Jeffrey D Voigt, Michael Mosier, Bryan Huber
Risk and consequences of chemotherapy-induced neutropenic complications in patients receiving daily filgrastim: the importance of duration of prophylaxis
Derek Weycker, Rich Barron, John Edelsberg, Alex Kartashov, Jason Legg, Andrew G Glass
Modular health services: a single case study approach to the applicability of modularity to residential mental healthcare
Rutger Soffers, Bert Meijboom, Jos van Zaanen, Christina van der Feltz-Cornelis
Predicting red blood cell transfusion in hospitalized patients: role of hemoglobin level, comorbidities, and illness severity
Nareg H Roubinian, Edward L Murphy, Bix E Swain, Marla N Gardner, Vincent Liu, Gabriel J Escobar
Barriers and facilitators to evidence-use in program management: a systematic review of the literature
Serena Humphries, Tania Stafinski, Zubia Mumtaz, Devidas Menon
Cost-outcome description of clinical pharmacist interventions in a university teaching hospital
James Gallagher, Stephen Byrne, Noel Woods, Deirdre Lynch, Suzanne McCarthy
Health care utilization for acute illnesses in an urban setting with a refugee population in Nairobi, Kenya: a cross-sectional survey
Abdinoor Haji Mohamed, Warren Dalal, Raymond Nyoka, Heather Burke, Jamal Ahmed, Erick Auko, Wilbert Shihaji, Irene Ndege, Robert F Breiman, Rachel B Eidex
The cost-utility of open prostatectomy compared with active surveillance in early localised prostate cancer
Florian Koerber, Raphaela Waidelich, Björn Stollenwerk, Wolf Rogowski
Stakeholders’ perception on the organization of chronic care: a SWOT analysis to draft avenues for health care reforms
Thérèse Van Durme, Jean Macq, Sibyl Anthierens, Linda Symons, Olivier Schmitz, Dominique Paulus, Koen Van den Heede, Roy Remmen
Identifying factors associated with the uptake of prevention of mother to child HIV transmission programme in Tigray region, Ethiopia: a multilevel modeling approach
Wondwossen Lerebo, Steven Callens, Debra Jackson, Christina Zarowsky, Marleen Temmerman
Cost and burden of informal caregiving of dependent older people in a rural Indian community
Ethel M Brinda, Anto P Rajkumar, Ulrika Enemark, Jørn Attermann, KS Jacob
Improvements in pandemic preparedness in 8 Central American countries, 2008 - 2012
Lucinda EA Johnson, Wilfrido Clará, Manoj Gambhir, Rafael Chacón- Fuentes, Carlos Marín-Correa, Jorge Jara, Percy Minaya, David Rodríguez, Natalia Blanco, Naomi Iihoshi, Maribel Orozco, Carmen Lange, Sergio Vinicio Pérez, Nydia Amador, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Ann C Moen, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner
A qualitative study of contextual factors’ impact on measures to reduce surgery cancellations
Einar Hovlid, Oddbjørn Bukve
An evaluation of a tailored intervention on village doctors use of electronic health records
Peiyuan He, Zhaokang Yuan, Yong Liu, Guoqing Li, Huanhuan Lv, Ji Yu, Mark F Harris
The Survivor Unmet Needs Survey (SUNS) for haematological cancer survivors: a cross-sectional study assessing the relevance and psychometric properties
Alix Hall, Catherine D’Este, Flora Tzelepis, Rob Sanson-Fisher, Marita Lynagh
Impact of changed management policies on operating room efficiency
Birgithe E Sandbaek, Berit I Helgheim, Odd I Larsen, Sigurd Fasting
Patterns of collaboration in complex networks: the example of a translational research network
Janet C Long, Frances C Cunningham, Peter Carswell, Jeffrey Braithwaite
Developing attributes and attribute-levels for a discrete choice experiment on micro health insurance in rural Malawi
Gilbert Abotisem Abiiro, Gerald Leppert, Grace Bongololo Mbera, Paul J Robyn, Manuela De Allegri
“Not too far to walk”: the influence of distance on place of delivery in a western Kenya health demographic surveillance system
Emily Mwaliko, Raymond Downing, Wendy O’Meara, Dinah Chelagat, Andrew Obala, Timothy Downing, Chrispinus Simiyu, David Odhiambo, Paul Ayuo, Diana Menya, Barasa Khwa-Otsyula
Evaluation of a multi-pronged intervention to improve access to safe abortion care in two districts in Jharkhand
Sushanta K Banerjee, Kathryn L Andersen, Traci L Baird, Bela Ganatra, Sangeeta Batra, Janardan Warvadekar
Impact of Québec’s healthcare reforms on the organization of primary healthcare (PHC): a 2003-2010 follow-up
Raynald Pineault, Roxane Borgès Da Silva, Alexandre Prud’homme, Michel Fournier, Audrey Couture, Sylvie Provost, Jean-Frédéric Levesque
Decomposition of the drivers of the U.S. hospital spending growth, 2001–2009
Vivian Y Wu, Yu-Chu Shen, Myeong-Su Yun, Glenn Melnick
Collaboration between municipal and specialist public health care in tuberculosis screening in Norway
Ingunn Harstad, Anne H Henriksen, Eli Sagvik
Perceived competence and attitudes towards patients with suicidal behaviour: a survey of general practitioners, psychiatrists and internists
Tine K Grimholt, Ole R Haavet, Dag Jacobsen, Leiv Sandvik, Oivind Ekeberg
The characteristics and relevant factors of Pap smear test use for women with intellectual disabilities in Taiwan
Suh-May Yen, Pei-Tseng Kung, Wen-Chen Tsai
Health-service performance of TB treatment for indigenous and non-indigenous populations in Brazil: a cross-sectional study
Everton Ferreira Lemos, Aline Mara da Silva Alves, Giovana de Castro Oliveira, Marcella Paranhos Rodrigues, Natália Daiane Garoni Martins, Julio Croda
Functions of behavior change interventions when implementing multi-professional teamwork at an emergency department: a comparative case study
Mandus Frykman, Henna Hasson, Åsa Muntlin Athlin, Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz
Effects of a TELephone Counselling Intervention by Pharmacist (TelCIP) on medication adherence, patient beliefs and satisfaction with information for patients starting treatment: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
Marcel J Kooy, Erica CG van Geffen, Eibert R Heerdink, Liset van Dijk, Marcel L Bouvy
Barriers and facilitators to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) eligibility screening and ongoing HIV testing among target populations in Bondo and Rarieda, Kenya: Results of a consultation with community stakeholders
Natasha Mack, Jacob Odhiambo, Christina M Wong, Kawango Agot
Gaps in universal health coverage in Malawi: A qualitative study in rural communities
Gilbert Abotisem Abiiro, Grace Bongololo Mbera, Manuela De Allegri
Obese older adults report high satisfaction and positive experiences with care
Frank G Bottone, Shirley Musich, Shaohung S Wang, Cynthia E Hommer, Charlotte S Yeh, Kevin Hawkins
Predicting the cumulative risk of death during hospitalization by modeling weekend, weekday and diurnal mortality risks
Enrico Coiera, Ying Wang, Farah Magrabi, Oscar Perez Concha, Blanca Gallego, William Runciman
Which need characteristics influence healthcare service utilization in home care arrangements in Germany?
Lena Dorin, Suzi C Turner, Lea Beckmann, Jörg große Schlarmann, Andreas Faatz, Sabine Metzing, Andreas Büscher
Impact of a program to prevent incivility towards and assault of healthcare staff in an ophtalmological emergency unit: study protocol for the PREVURGO On/Off trial
Sandrine Touzet, Pierre-Loïc Cornut, Jean-Baptiste Fassier, Marie-Annick Le Pogam, Carole Burillon, Antoine Duclos
Hospital-physician relations: the relative importance of economic, relational and professional attributes to organizational attractiveness
Jeroen Trybou, Paul Gemmel, Yves Van Vaerenbergh, Lieven Annemans
Validation of administrative health data for the pediatric population: a scoping review
Natalie J Shiff, Sadia Jama, Catherine Boden, Lisa M Lix
Improving Aboriginal maternal and infant health services in the ‘Top End’ of Australia; synthesis of the findings of a health services research program aimed at engaging stakeholders, developing research capacity and embedding change
Lesley Barclay, Sue Kruske, Sarah Bar-Zeev, Malinda Steenkamp, Cathryn Josif, Concepta Wulili Narjic, Molly Wardaguga, Suzanne Belton, Yu Gao, Terry Dunbar, Sue Kildea
Local interaction strategies and capacity for better care in nursing homes: a multiple case study
Ruth A Anderson, Mark P Toles, Kirsten Corazzini, Reuben R McDaniel, Cathleen Colón-Emeric
A comparison between reported therapy staffing levels and the department of health therapy staffing guidelines for stroke rehabilitation: a national survey
Gabrielle McHugh, Ian D Swain
The protocol for the Families First Edmonton trial (FFE): a randomized community-based trial to compare four service integration approaches for families with low-income
Jane Drummond, Laurie Schnirer, Sylvia So, Maria Mayan, Deanna L Williamson, Jeffrey Bisanz, Konrad Fassbender, Natasha Wiebe
The association between managed care enrollments and potentially preventable hospitalization among adult Medicaid recipients in Florida
Jungwon Park, Keon-Hyung Lee
An estimate of the cost of burnout on early retirement and reduction in clinical hours of practicing physicians in Canada
Carolyn S Dewa, Philip Jacobs, Nguyen Xuan Thanh, Desmond Loong
Are public health professionals prepared for public health genomics? A cross-sectional survey in Italy
Carolina Marzuillo, Corrado De Vito, Maddalena D’Addario, Paola Santini, Elvira D’Andrea, Antonio Boccia, Paolo Villari
How nurses and their work environment affect patient experiences of the quality of care: a qualitative study
Renate AMM Kieft, Brigitte BJM de Brouwer, Anneke L Francke, Diana MJ Delnoij
Clinicians in management: a qualitative study of managers’ use of influence strategies in hospitals
Ivan Spehar, Jan C Frich, Lars Erik Kjekshus
Substitution of physicians by nurses in primary care: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Nahara Anani Martínez-González, Sima Djalali, Ryan Tandjung, Flore Huber-Geismann, Stefan Markun, Michel Wensing, Thomas Rosemann
A cognitive perspective on health systems integration: results of a Canadian Delphi study
Jenna M Evans, G Ross Baker, Whitney Berta, Jan Barnsley
Compliance with referrals for non-acute child health conditions: evidence from the longitudinal ASENZE study in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
Omolara T Uwemedimo, Stephen M Arpadi, Meera K Chhagan, Shuaib Kauchali, Murray H Craib, Fatimatou Bah, Leslie L Davidson
Why carers use adult day respite: a mixed method case study
Christine M Stirling, Corinna A Dwan, Angela R McKenzie
Demographics, clinical characteristics, health resource utilization and cost of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension patients: retrospective results from six European countries
Bernd Schweikert, David Pittrow, Carmine Dario Vizza, Joanna Pepke-Zaba, Marius M Hoeper, Anja Gabriel, Jenny Berg, Mirko Sikirica
Related factors and use of free preventive health services among adults with intellectual disabilities in Taiwan
Suh-May Yen, Pei-Tseng Kung, Li-Ting Chiu, Wen-Chen Tsai
Barriers to and facilitators of the provision of a youth-friendly health services programme in rural South Africa
Rebecca Sally Geary, Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Kathleen Kahn, Stephen Tollman, Shane Anthony Norris
Health service barriers to HIV testing and counseling among pregnant women attending Antenatal Clinic; a cross-sectional study
Golda Dokuaa Kwapong, Daniel Boateng, Peter Agyei-Baffour, Ernestina A Addy
Peer support for stroke survivors: a case study
Dorothy Kessler, Mary Egan, Lucy-Ann Kubina
Pharmacies as providers of expanded health services for people who inject drugs: a review of laws, policies, and barriers in six countries
Theodore M Hammett, Son Phan, Julia Gaggin, Patricia Case, Nicholas Zaller, Alexandra Lutnick, Alex H Kral, Ekaterina V Fedorova, Robert Heimer, Will Small, Robin Pollini, Leo Beletsky, Carl Latkin, Don C Des Jarlais
Social networks of health care providers and patients in cardiovascular risk management: a study protocol
Naomi Heijmans, Jan van Lieshout, Michel Wensing
A descriptive exploratory study of how admissions caused by medication-related harm are documented within inpatients’ medical records
Matthew Reynolds, Mary Hickson, Ann Jacklin, Bryony Dean Franklin
eHealth and mHealth initiatives in Bangladesh: A scoping study
Tanvir Ahmed, Henry Lucas, Azfar Sadun Khan, Rubana Islam, Abbas Bhuiya, Mohammad Iqbal
Aligning everyday life priorities with people’s self-management support networks: an exploration of the work and implementation of a needs-led telephone support system
Christian Blickem, Anne Kennedy, Praksha Jariwala, Rebecca Morris, Robert Bowen, Ivaylo Vassilev, Helen Brooks, Tom Blakeman, Anne Rogers
Case management for frequent users of the emergency department: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial
Patrick Bodenmann, Venetia-Sofia Velonaki, Ornella Ruggeri, Olivier Hugli, Bernard Burnand, Jean-Blaise Wasserfallen, Karine Moschetti, Katia Iglesias, Stéphanie Baggio, Jean-Bernard Daeppen
Involving patient in the early stages of health technology assessment (HTA): a study protocol
Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Bernard Candas, Marie Desmartis, Johanne Gagnon, Daniel La Roche, Marc Rhainds, Martin Coulombe, Mylène Tantchou Dipankui, France Légaré
Pilot implementation of allied health assistant roles within publicly funded health services in Queensland, Australia: results of a workplace audit
Michelle Stute, Andrea Hurwood, Julie Hulcombe, Pim Kuipers
Quality of physical therapy from a patient’s perspective; factor analysis on web-based survey data revealed three dimensions on patient experiences with physical therapy
Marijn Scholte, Hilly Calsbeek, Maria WG Nijhuis-van der Sanden, Jozé Braspenning
Key concepts in consumer and community engagement: a scoping meta-review
Pooria Sarrami-Foroushani, Joanne Travaglia, Deborah Debono, Jeffrey Braithwaite
Feasibility of sustainable provision of intradermal post exposure prophylaxis against rabies at primary care level –evidence from rural Haryana
Harshal Salve, Sanjeev Kumar, Rizwan SA, Sanjay K Rai, Shashi Kant, Chandrakant S Pandav
Clinical mentorship to improve pediatric quality of care at the health centers in rural Rwanda: a qualitative study of perceptions and acceptability of health care workers
Anatole Manzi, Hema Magge, Bethany L Hedt-Gauthier, Annie P Michaelis, Felix R Cyamatare, Laetitia Nyirazinyoye, Lisa R Hirschhorn, Joseph Ntaganira
HIV/AIDS status disclosure increases support, behavioural change and, HIV prevention in the long term: a case for an Urban Clinic, Kampala, Uganda
Lynn Muhimbuura Atuyambe, Eric Ssegujja, Sarah Ssali, Christopher Tumwine, Nicolate Nekesa, Annette Nannungi, Gery Ryan, Glenn Wagner
Scoping review of patient-centered care approaches in healthcare
Marissa K Constand, Joy C MacDermid, Vanina Dal Bello-Haas, Mary Law
A case study of outsourced primary healthcare services in Sindh, Pakistan: is this a real reform?
Sana Tanzil, Aysha Zahidie, Adeel Ahsan, Ambreen Kazi, Babar Tasneem Shaikh
Rethinking the patient: using Burden of Treatment Theory to understand the changing dynamics of illness
Carl R May, David T Eton, Kasey Boehmer, Katie Gallacher, Katherine Hunt, Sara MacDonald, Frances S Mair, Christine M May, Victor M Montori, Alison Richardson, Anne E Rogers, Nathan Shippee
Impact of the healthcare payment system on patient access to oral anticancer drugs: an illustration from the French and United States contexts
Laure Benjamin, Valérie Buthion, Gwenaëlle Vidal-Trécan, Pascal Briot
A methodological approach to identify external factors for indicator-based risk adjustment illustrated by a cataract surgery register
Ursula Hahn, Irmingard Neuhann, Stefanie Schmickler, Frank Krummenauer
Using health worker opinions to assess changes in structural components of quality in a Cluster Randomized Trial
Naomi Muinga, Philip Ayieko, Charles Opondo, Stephen Ntoburi, Jim Todd, Elizabeth Allen, Mike English
Willingness to pay for a quality-adjusted life year: an evaluation of attitudes towards risk and preferences
Jesus Martín-Fernández, Elena Polentinos-Castro, Ma Isabel del Cura-González, Gloria Ariza-Cardiel, Victor Abraira, Ana Isabel Gil-LaCruz, Sonia García-Pérez
Practice-centred evaluation and the privileging of care in health information technology evaluation
Mary Darking, Rachel Anson, Ferdinand Bravo, Julie Davis, Steve Flowers, Emma Gillingham, Lawrence Goldberg, Paul Helliwell, Flis Henwood, Claire Hudson, Simon Latimer, Paul Lowes, Ian Stirling
Should health insurers target prevention of cardiovascular disease?: a cost-effectiveness analysis of an individualised programme in Germany based on routine data
Majed Aljutaili, Christian Becker, Sabine Witt, Rolf Holle, Reiner Leidl, Michael Block, Johannes Brachmann, Sigmund Silber, Kurt Bestehorn, Björn Stollenwerk
Palliative care professional education via video conference builds confidence to deliver palliative care in rural and remote locations
Robin A Ray, Ofra Fried, Daniel Lindsay
A qualitative analysis of information sharing for children with medical complexity within and across health care organizations
Laura Quigley, Ashley Lacombe-Duncan, Sherri Adams, Charlotte Moore Hepburn, Eyal Cohen
Dose–response effects for depression and Schizophrenia management on hospital utilization in Illinois Medicaid: a multivariate regression analysis
Gregory D Berg, Shawn Donnelly, Kathleen Warnick, Wendie Medina, Mary Miller
Avoidable hospitalizations in Switzerland: a small area analysis on regional variation, density of physicians, hospital supply and rurality
Claudia Berlin, André Busato, Thomas Rosemann, Sima Djalali, Maud Maessen
Adaptation and validation of the patient assessment of chronic illness care in the French context
Nicolas Krucien, Marc Le Vaillant, Nathalie Pelletier-Fleury
Chlamydia among Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people attending sexual health services, general practices and Aboriginal community controlled health services
James Ward, Jane Goller, Hammad Ali, Anna Bowring, Sophia Couzos, Mark Saunders, Phyllis Yau, John M Kaldor, Margaret Hellard, Rebecca J Guy, Basil Donovan
Practicalities and challenges in re-orienting the health system in Zambia for treating chronic conditions
Carolien J Aantjes, Tim KC Quinlan, Joske FG Bunders
Drug costs in the management of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer in Canada
Alice Dragomir, Daniela Dinea, Marie Vanhuyse, Fabio L Cury, Armen G Aprikian
Variations and inter-relationship in outcome from emergency admissions in England: a retrospective analysis of Hospital Episode Statistics from 2005–2010
Peter James Edward Holt, Sidhartha Sinha, Baris Ata Ozdemir, Alan Karthikesalingam, Jan Dominik Poloniecki, Matt Merfyn Thompson
Resource use and costs of type 2 diabetes patients receiving managed or protocolized primary care: a controlled clinical trial
Amber AWA van der Heijden, Martine C de Bruijne, Talitha L Feenstra, Jacqueline M Dekker, Caroline A Baan, Judith E Bosmans, Sandra DM Bot, Gé A Donker, Giel Nijpels
Networking between community health programs: a team-work approach to improving health service provision
Nathan J Grills, Robert Kumar, Maneesh Philip, Gillian Porter
Survival, healthcare resource use and costs among stage IV ER + breast cancer patients not receiving HER2 targeted therapy: a retrospective analysis of linked SEER-Medicare data
Kathleen Lang, Huan Huang, Medha Sasane, Victoria Federico Paly, Yanni Hao, Joseph Menzin
Health-seeking behaviour of male foreign migrant workers living in a dormitory in Singapore
Weixian Lee, Andy Neo, Sandra Tan, Alex R Cook, Mee Lian Wong, Joshua Tan, Andrew Sayampanathan, Daniel Lim, Shin Yong Tang, Wei Leong Goh, Mark I-Cheng Chen, Chwin Ho
Using U.S. Medicare records to evaluate the indirect health effects on spouses: a case study in Alzheimer’s disease patients
Daniel M Gilden, Joanna M Kubisiak, Kristin Kahle-Wrobleski, Daniel E Ball, Lee Bowman
Implementing facility-based kangaroo mother care services: lessons from a multi-country study in Africa
Anne-Marie Bergh, Kate Kerber, Stella Abwao, Joseph de-Graft Johnson, Patrick Aliganyira, Karen Davy, Nathalie Gamache, Modibo Kante, Reuben Ligowe, Richard Luhanga, Béata Mukarugwiro, Fidèle Ngabo, Barbara Rawlins, Felix Sayinzoga, Naamala Hanifah Sengendo, Mariam Sylla, Rachel Taylor, Elise van Rooyen, Jeremie Zoungrana
The patient safety culture as perceived by staff at two different emergency departments before and after introducing a flow-oriented working model with team triage and lean principles: a repeated cross-sectional study
Lena Burström, Anna Letterstål, Marie-Louise Engström, Anders Berglund, Mats Enlund
Evaluation of the effects of comprehensive reform on primary healthcare institutions in Anhui Province
Qing Liu, Xin Tian, Jiang Tian, Xinping Zhang
Emerging communities of child-healthcare practice in the management of long-term conditions such as chronic kidney disease: qualitative study of parents’ accounts
Ian Carolan, Trish Smith, Andy Hall, Veronica M Swallow
Did the new French pay-for-performance system modify benzodiazepine prescribing practices?
Cédric Rat, Gaëlle Penhouet, Aurélie Gaultier, Anicet Chaslerie, Jacques Pivette, Jean Michel Nguyen, Caroline Victorri-Vigneau
Association between hospital case volume and mortality in non-elderly pneumonia patients stratified by severity: a retrospective cohort study
Hiraku Kumamaru, Yusuke Tsugawa, Hiromasa Horiguchi, Kanako Kunishima Kumamaru, Hideki Hashimoto, Hideo Yasunaga
Trade-offs between voice and silence: a qualitative exploration of oncology staff’s decisions to speak up about safety concerns
David LB Schwappach, Katrin Gehring
Clinically relevant quality measures for risk factor control in primary care: a retrospective cohort study
Stefan Weiler, Armin Gemperli, Tinh-Hai Collet, Douglas C Bauer, Lukas Zimmerli, Jacques Cornuz, Edouard Battegay, Jean-Michel Gaspoz, Eve A Kerr, Drahomir Aujesky, Nicolas Rodondi
Adaptation of health care for migrants: whose responsibility?
Marie Dauvrin, Vincent Lorant
Smoking and its treatment in addiction services: Clients’ and staff behaviour and attitudes
Camilla Cookson, John Strang, Elena Ratschen, Gay Sutherland, Emily Finch, Ann McNeill
Financial protection effects of modification of China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme on rural households with chronic diseases
Jing Wang, Lina Chen, Ting Ye, Zhiguo Zhang, Jingdong Ma
A cross-sectional study describing factors associated with utilisation of GP services by a cohort of people who inject drugs
Dhanya Nambiar, Mark Stoové, Paul Dietze
Wheelchair interventions, services and provision for disabled children: a mixed-method systematic review and conceptual framework
Nathan Bray, Jane Noyes, Rhiannon T Edwards, Nigel Harris
Effectiveness of internet-based interventions for children, youth, and young adults with anxiety and/or depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Xibiao Ye, Sunita Bayyavarapu Bapuji, Shannon Elizabeth Winters, Ashley Struthers, Melissa Raynard, Colleen Metge, Sara Adi Kreindler, Catherine Joan Charette, Jacqueline Angela Lemaire, Margaret Synyshyn, Karen Sutherland
Assessment of paediatric inpatient care during a multifaceted quality improvement intervention in Kenyan District Hospitals – use of prospectively collected case record data
Paul Mwaniki, Philip Ayieko, Jim Todd, Mike English
Economic evaluation of surgical insertion of ventilation tubes for the management of persistent bilateral otitis media with effusion in children
Syed Mohiuddin, Anne Schilder, Iain Bruce
Physicians’ engagement in dual practices and the effects on labor supply in public hospitals: results from a register-based study
Karl-Arne Johannessen, Terje P Hagen
Characteristics affecting oral anticoagulant therapy choice among patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation: a retrospective claims analysis
Azza AbuDagga, Judith J Stephenson, An-Chen Fu, Winghan Jacqueline Kwong, Hiangkiat Tan, William S Weintraub
A decision exercise to engage cancer patients and families in Deliberation about Medicare Coverage for advanced Cancer Care
Marion Danis, Amy P Abernethy, S Yousuf Zafar, Gregory P Samsa, Steven P Wolf, Lynn Howie, Donald H Taylor Jr
Nationwide survey to evaluate the decision-making process in euthanasia requests in Belgium: do specifically trained 2nd physicians improve quality of consultation?
Joachim Cohen, Yanna Van Wesemael, Tinne Smets, Johan Bilsen, Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Wim Distelmans, Luc Deliens
Estimating the incidence of adverse events in Portuguese hospitals: a contribution to improving quality and patient safety
Paulo Sousa, António Sousa Uva, Florentino Serranheira, Carla Nunes, Ema S Leite
Understanding CBHI hospitalisation patterns: a comparison of insured and uninsured women in Gujarat, India
Sapna Desai, Tara Sinha, Ajay Mahal, Simon Cousens
UK research funding bodies’ views towards public participation in health-related research decisions: an exploratory study
Jennifer E van Bekkum, Shona Hilton
Teleradiology for remote consultation using iPad improves the use of health system human resources for paediatric fractures: prospective controlled study in a tertiary care hospital in Italy
Floriana Zennaro, Daniele Grosso, Riccardo Fascetta, Marta Marini, Luca Odoni, Valentina Di Carlo, Daniela Dibello, Francesca Vittoria, Marzia Lazzerini
Data verification at health centers and district health offices in Xiengkhouang and Houaphanh Provinces, Lao PDR
Vanphanom Sychareun, Visanou Hansana, Alongkone Phengsavanh, Kongmany Chaleunvong, Ko Eunyoung, Jo Durham
Expected lifetime numbers and costs of fractures in postmenopausal women with and without osteoporosis in Germany: a discrete event simulation model
Florian Bleibler, Kilian Rapp, Andrea Jaensch, Clemens Becker, Hans-Helmut König
Updated cost-of-care estimates for commercially insured patients with multiple sclerosis: retrospective observational analysis of medical and pharmacy claims data
Cathryn A Carroll, Kathleen A Fairman, Maureen J Lage
Protocol for evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of ePrescribing systems and candidate prototype for other related health information technologies
Richard J Lilford, Alan J Girling, Aziz Sheikh, Jamie J Coleman, Peter J Chilton, Samantha L Burn, David J Jenkinson, Laurence Blake, Karla Hemming
Cost analysis and exploratory cost-effectiveness of youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services in the Republic of Moldova
Jari Kempers, Evert Ketting, Galina Lesco
Health-related quality of life and emotional distress in patients with dizziness: a cross-sectional approach to disentangle their relationship
Steffi Weidt, Annette B Bruehl, Dominik Straumann, Stefan CA Hegemann, Gerhard Krautstrunk, Michael Rufer
Service quality assessment of a referral hospital in Southern Iran with SERVQUAL technique: patients’ perspective
Teamur Aghamolaei, Tasnim Eghbal Eftekhaari, Shideh Rafati, Kobra Kahnouji, Shamsieh Ahangari, Mohammad Esmaeil Shahrzad, Ataollah Kahnouji, Seyedeh Hamideh Hoseini
The development and evaluation of a five-language multi-perspective standardised measure: clinical decision-making involvement and satisfaction (CDIS)
Mike Slade, Harriet Jordan, Eleanor Clarke, Paul Williams, Helena Kaliniecka, Katrin Arnold, Andrea Fiorillo, Domenico Giacco, Mario Luciano, Anikó Égerházi, Marietta Nagy, Malene Krogsgaard Bording, Helle Østermark Sørensen, Wulf Rössler, Wolfram Kawohl, Bernd Puschner
How does burnout affect physician productivity? A systematic literature review
Carolyn S Dewa, Desmond Loong, Sarah Bonato, Nguyen Xuan Thanh, Philip Jacobs
The indispensable intermediaries: a qualitative study of informal caregivers’ struggle to achieve influence at and after hospital discharge
Line Kildal Bragstad, Marit Kirkevold, Christina Foss
Patient and public attitudes to and awareness of clinical practice guidelines: a systematic review with thematic and narrative syntheses
Kirsty Loudon, Nancy Santesso, Margaret Callaghan, Judith Thornton, Jenny Harbour, Karen Graham, Robin Harbour, Ilkka Kunnamo, Helena Liira, Emma McFarlane, Karen Ritchie, Shaun Treweek
Organizing medical oncology care at a regional level and its subsequent impact on the quality of early breast cancer management: a before-after study
Aline Voidey, Xavier Pivot, Anne-Sophie Woronoff, Gilles Nallet, Laurent Cals, Francis Schwetterle, Samuel Limat
Contextualized analysis of a needs assessment using the Theoretical Domains Framework: a case example in endocrinology
Patrice Lazure, Robert C Bartel, Beverly MK Biller, Mark E Molitch, Stephen M Rosenthal, Judith L Ross, Brock D Bernsten, Sean M Hayes
Governing the implementation of Emergency Obstetric Care: experiences of Rural District Health Managers, Tanzania
Dickson Ally Mkoka, Angwara Kiwara, Isabel Goicolea, Anna-Karin Hurtig
Anticoagulant use for the prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation: findings from a multi-payer analysis
Kathleen Lang, Duygu Bozkaya, Aarti A Patel, Brian Macomson, Winnie Nelson, Gary Owens, Samir Mody, Jeff Schein, Joseph Menzin
Paediatric palliative care by video consultation at home: a cost minimisation analysis
Natalie K Bradford, Nigel R Armfield, Jeanine Young, Anthony C Smith
Women’s preferences for inpatient and outpatient priming for labour induction: a discrete choice experiment
Kirsten Howard, Karen Gerard, Pamela Adelson, Robert Bryce, Chris Wilkinson, Deborah Turnbull
Effect of telehealth on glycaemic control: analysis of patients with type 2 diabetes in the Whole Systems Demonstrator cluster randomised trial
Adam Steventon, Martin Bardsley, Helen Doll, Elizabeth Tuckey, Stanton P Newman
Regional differences in performance of bone marrow transplantation, care-resource use and outcome for adult T-cell leukaemia in Japan
Toshiki Maeda, Akira Babazono, Takumi Nishi, Shinya Matsuda, Kiyohide Fushimi, Kenji Fujimori
Using QALYs in telehealth evaluations: a systematic review of methodology and transparency
Trine S Bergmo
Implementation of chronic illness care in German primary care practices – how do multimorbid older patients view routine care? A cross-sectional study using multilevel hierarchical modeling
Juliana J Petersen, Michael A Paulitsch, Karola Mergenthal, Jochen Gensichen, Heike Hansen, Siegfried Weyerer, Steffi G Riedel-Heller, Angela Fuchs, Wolfgang Maier, Horst Bickel, Hans-Helmut König, Birgitt Wiese, Hendrik van den Bussche, Martin Scherer, Anne Dahlhaus
Sociodemographic correlates of 25-hydroxyvitamin D test utilization in Calgary, Alberta
Lawrence de Koning, Dan Henne, Paul Woods, Brenda R Hemmelgarn, Christopher Naugler
Determinants of Cervical screening services uptake among 18–49 year old women seeking services at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital, Kisumu, Kenya
Everlyne N Morema, Harrysone E Atieli, Rosebella O Onyango, Joyce H Omondi, Collins Ouma
Level of health extension service utilization and associated factors among community in Abuna Gindeberet District, West Shoa Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia
Zewudu Kelbessa, Negga Baraki, Gudina Egata
One third of hospital costs for atherothrombotic disease are attributable to readmissions: a linked data analysis
Emily R Atkins, Elizabeth A Geelhoed, Matthew Knuiman, Tom G Briffa
Is there any role for community involvement in the community-based health planning and services skilled delivery program in rural Ghana?
Evelyn Sakeah, Lois McCloskey, Judith Bernstein, Kojo Yeboah-Antwi, Samuel Mills, Henry V Doctor
Immigrants’ use of primary health care services for mental health problems
Melanie Straiton, Anne Reneflot, Esperanza Diaz
Psycho-social impact of visual impairment on health-related quality of life among nursing home residents
Mahesh Kumar Dev, Nabin Paudel, Niraj Dev Joshi, Dev Narayan Shah, Shishir Subba
How do patients with severe mental diagnosis cope in everyday life - a qualitative study comparing patients’ experiences of self-referral inpatient treatment with treatment as usual?
Marit B Rise, Gretha H Evensen, Inger Elise O Moljord, Marit Rø, Dagfinn Bjørgen, Lasse Eriksen
The impact of preoperative patient characteristics on the cost-effectiveness of total hip replacement: a cohort study
Matthias Vogl, Rainer Wilkesmann, Christian Lausmann, Werner Plötz
Treatment costs of psoriasis in a tertiary-level clinic
Anssi Mustonen, Mauri Leino, Kalle Mattila, Leena Koulu, Risto Tuominen
Tasmanian Aborigines step up to health: evaluation of a cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and secondary prevention program
Maureen Davey, Wendy Moore, Julia Walters
Multidisciplinary intensive education in the hospital improves outcomes for hospitalized heart failure patients in a Japanese rural setting
Yoshiharu Kinugasa, Masahiko Kato, Shinobu Sugihara, Kiyotaka Yanagihara, Kensaku Yamada, Masayuki Hirai, Kazuhiro Yamamoto
Quality care outcomes following transitional care interventions for older people from hospital to home: a systematic review
Jacqueline Allen, Alison M Hutchinson, Rhonda Brown, Patricia M Livingston
A comparison of linkage to HIV care after provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling (PITC) versus voluntary HIV counselling and testing (VCT) for patients with sexually transmitted infections in Cape Town, South Africa
Natalie Leon, Catherine Mathews, Simon Lewin, Meg Osler, Andrew Boulle, Carl Lombard
The Lablite project: A cross-sectional mapping survey of decentralized HIV service provision in Malawi, Uganda and Zimbabwe
Adrienne K Chan, Deborah Ford, Harriet Namata, Margaret Muzambi, Misheck J Nkhata, George Abongomera, Ivan Mambule, Annabelle South, Paul Revill, Caroline Grundy, Travor Mabugu, Levison Chiwaula, Fabian Cataldo, James Hakim, Janet Seeley, Cissy Kityo, Andrew Reid, Elly Katabira, Sumeet Sodhi, Charles F Gilks, Diana M Gibb
Facilitators and barriers to applying a national quality registry for quality improvement in stroke care
Ann Catrine Eldh, Mio Fredriksson, Christina Halford, Lars Wallin, Tobias Dahlström, Sofie Vengberg, Ulrika Winblad
The incidence of adverse events in an Italian acute care hospital: findings of a two-stage method in a retrospective cohort study
Lorenzo Sommella, Chiara de Waure, Anna Maria Ferriero, Amalia Biasco, Maria Teresa Mainelli, Luigi Pinnarelli, Walter Ricciardi, Gianfranco Damiani
A qualitative synthesis of diabetes self-management strategies for long term medical outcomes and quality of life in the UK
Julia Frost, Ruth Garside, Chris Cooper, Nicky Britten
Resource utilization pattern and cost of tuberculosis treatment from the provider and patient perspectives in the state of Penang, Malaysia
Muhammad Atif, Syed Azhar Syed Sulaiman, Asrul Akmal Shafie, Muhammad Asif, Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar
Towards comprehensive and transparent reporting: context-specific additions to the ICF taxonomy for medical evaluations of work capacity involving claimants with chronic widespread pain and low back pain
Urban Schwegler, Jessica Anner, Andrea Glässel, Mirjam Brach, Wout De Boer, Alarcos Cieza, Bruno Trezzini
Internal validity of the Swedish Maternal Health Care Register
Kerstin Petersson, Margareta Persson, Marie Lindkvist, Margareta Hammarström, Carin Nilses, Ingrid Haglund, Yvonne Skogsdal, Ingrid Mogren
Hospital discharge of the elderly-an observational case study of functions, variability and performance-shaping factors
Kristin Laugaland, Karina Aase, Justin Waring
Quality use of medicines within universal health coverage: challenges and opportunities
Anita K Wagner, Jonathan D Quick, Dennis Ross-Degnan
Adjusting for geographic variation in observational comparative effectiveness studies: a case study of antipsychotics using state Medicaid data
Elisabeth Dowling Root, Deborah SK Thomas, Elizabeth J Campagna, Elaine H Morrato
Physiotherapy practice in the private sector: organizational characteristics and models
Kadija Perreault, Clermont E Dionne, Michel Rossignol, Stéphane Poitras, Diane Morin
The use of discrete choice experiments to inform health workforce policy: a systematic review
Kate L Mandeville, Mylene Lagarde, Kara Hanson
Evaluating the impact of equity focused health impact assessment on health service planning: three case studies
Ben Harris-Roxas, Fiona Haigh, Joanne Travaglia, Lynn Kemp
Patient, surgeon, and healthcare purchaser views on the use of decision and communication aids in orthopaedic surgery: a mixed methods study
Kevin J Bozic, Kate Eresian Chenok, Jennifer Schindel, Vanessa Chan, James I Huddleston III, Clarence Braddock III, Jeffrey Belkora
Factors associated with the utilization of primary care emergency centers in a Spanish region with high population dispersion: a mixed-methods study
Belén Sanz-Barbero, Laura Otero-García, Teresa Blasco-Hernández, Miguel San Sebastián
Implementing electronic health records in hospitals: a systematic literature review
Albert Boonstra, Arie Versluis, Janita F J Vos
How do risk preferences relate to malaria care-seeking behavior and the acceptability of a new health technology in Nigeria?
Jenny Liu, Sepideh Modrek, Jennifer Anyanti, Ernest Nwokolo, Anna De La Cruz, Eric Schatzkin, Chinwoke Isiguzo, Chinazo Ujuju, Dominic Montagu
Strategies to improve the efficiency and utility of multidisciplinary team meetings in urology cancer care: a survey study
Benjamin W Lamb, Rozh T Jalil, Nick Sevdalis, Charles Vincent, James S A Green
Developing a dashboard to help measure and achieve the triple aim: a population-based cohort study
Hsien-Yeang Seow, Lyn M Sibley
Prioritising health service innovation investments using public preferences: a discrete choice experiment
Seda Erdem, Carl Thompson
What limits the utilization of health services among the rural population in the Dabie Mountains- Evidence from Hubei province, China?
Pengqian Fang, Shilong Han, Lu Zhao, Zi Fang, Yang Zhang, Xiaoxu Zou
Societal cost-effectiveness analysis of the 21-gene assay in estrogen-receptor–positive, lymph-node–negative early-stage breast cancer in Japan
Hideko Yamauchi, Chizuko Nakagawa, Shinji Yamashige, Hiroyuki Takei, Hiroshi Yagata, Atsushi Yoshida, Naoki Hayashi, John Hornberger, Tiffany Yu, Calvin Chao, Carl Yoshizawa, Seigo Nakamura
Research capacity and training needs for non-communicable diseases in the public health arena in Turkey
Bulent Kilic, Peter Phillimore, Duygu Islek, Dilek Oztoprak, Eren Korkmaz, Niveen Abu-Rmeileh, Shahaduz Zaman, Belgin Unal
Indicators of newborn screening for congenital hypothyroidism in Sri Lanka: program challenges and way forward
Manjula Hettiarachchi, Sujeewa Amarasena
Optimizing patient-centeredness in the transitions of healthcare systems in low- and middle-income countries
Yodi Mahendradhata, Aurélia Souares, Revati Phalkey, Rainer Sauerborn
Female community health volunteers service utilization for childhood illness- improving quality of health services only is not enough: a cross-sectional study in mid-western region, Nepal
Moe Miyaguchi, Junko Yasuoka, Amod Kumar Poudyal, Ram Chandra Silwal, Masamine Jimba
Health care provider perspectives on pregnancy and parenting in HIV-positive individuals in South Africa
Jennifer Moodley, Diane Cooper, Joanne E Mantell, Erin Stern
The effects of China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme on accessibility and affordability of healthcare services: an empirical research in Liaoning Province
Xin Wang, Xin He, Ang Zheng, Xianpu Ji
Perspectives on reproductive healthcare delivered through a basic package of health services in Afghanistan: a qualitative study
Natasha Howard, Aniek Woodward, Dhrusti Patel, Ahmad Shafi, Lisa Oddy, Annemarieter Veen, Nooria Atta, Egbert Sondorp, Bayard Roberts
Trends of pre-hospital emergency medical services activity over 10 years: a population-based registry analysis
Valérie Pittet, Bernard Burnand, Bertrand Yersin, Pierre-Nicolas Carron
Multiple sclerosis in Germany: data analysis of administrative prevalence and healthcare delivery in the statutory health system
Ariane Höer, Guido Schiffhorst, Anne Zimmermann, Johann Fischaleck, Luise Gehrmann, Henrik Ahrens, Gunther Carl, Karl-Otto Sigel, Ulrike Osowski, Maria Klein, Hans-Holger Bleß
Field methods in medical record abstraction: assessing the properties of comparative effectiveness estimates
Elizabeth A Cook, Kathleen M Schneider, Jennifer Robinson, June Wilwert, Elizabeth Chrischilles, Jane Pendergast, John Brooks
Participants’, caregivers’, and professionals’ experiences with a group-based rehabilitation program for Huntington’s disease: a qualitative study
Jan C Frich, Merete Røthing, Alf Reiar Berge
Improving patient discharge and reducing hospital readmissions by using Intervention Mapping
Gijs Hesselink, Marieke Zegers, Myrra Vernooij-Dassen, Paul Barach, Cor Kalkman, Maria Flink, Gunnar Ön, Mariann Olsson, Susanne Bergenbrant, Carola Orrego, Rosa Suñol, Giulio Toccafondi, Francesco Venneri, Ewa Dudzik-Urbaniak, Basia Kutryba, Lisette Schoonhoven, Hub Wollersheim
Relationships between patient activation, disease-specific knowledge and health outcomes among people with diabetes; a survey study
Michelle Hendriks, Jany Rademakers
Different faces of discrimination: perceived discrimination among homeless adults with mental illness in healthcare settings
Anna Skosireva, Patricia O’Campo, Suzanne Zerger, Catharine Chambers, Susan Gapka, Vicky Stergiopoulos
Patient delay in cancer diagnosis: what do we really mean and can we be more specific?
Christina Mary Dobson, Andrew James Russell, Greg Paul Rubin
The policy-practice gap: describing discordances between regulation on paper and real-life practices among specialized drug shops in Kenya
Francis Wafula, Timothy Abuya, Abdinasir Amin, Catherine Goodman
Development of a technical assistance framework for building organizational capacity of health programs in resource-limited settings
E Michael Reyes, Anjali Sharma, Kate K Thomas, Chuck Kuehn, José Rafael Morales
Using focused ethnography in paediatric settings to explore professionals’ and parents’ attitudes towards expertise in managing chronic kidney disease stage 3–5
Ruth Nightingale, Manish D Sinha, Veronica Swallow
Self-management support interventions to reduce health care utilisation without compromising outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Maria Panagioti, Gerry Richardson, Nicola Small, Elizabeth Murray, Anne Rogers, Anne Kennedy, Stanton Newman, Peter Bower
Consensus on quality indicators to assess the organisation of palliative cancer and dementia care applicable across national healthcare systems and selected by international experts
Jasper van Riet Paap, Myrra Vernooij-Dassen, Rose-Marie Dröes, Lukas Radbruch, Kris Vissers, Yvonne Engels
Understanding medication oversupply and its predictors in the outpatient departments in Thailand
Piyameth Dilokthornsakul, Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk, Piyarat Nimpitakpong, Napawan Jeanpeerapong, Katechan Jampachaisri, Todd A Lee
Single item measures of self-rated mental health: a scoping review
Farah Ahmad, Anuroop K Jhajj, Donna E Stewart, Madeline Burghardt, Arlene S Bierman
Strategies to facilitate implementation and sustainability of large system transformations: a case study of a national program for improving quality of care for elderly people
Monica Elisabeth Nyström, Helena Strehlenert, Johan Hansson, Henna Hasson
Implementing strategies in consumer and community engagement in health care: results of a large-scale, scoping meta-review
Pooria Sarrami-Foroushani, Joanne Travaglia, Deborah Debono, Jeffrey Braithwaite
Improving healthcare empowerment through breast cancer patient navigation: a mixed methods evaluation in a safety-net setting
Guzyal Gabitova, Nancy J Burke
Reorganization increases long-term sickness absence at all levels of hospital staff: panel data analysis of employees of Norwegian public hospitals
Mari H Ingelsrud
‘Cosmetic boob jobs’ or evidence-based breast surgery: an interpretive policy analysis of the rationing of ‘low value’ treatments in the English National Health Service
Jill Russell, Deborah Swinglehurst, Trisha Greenhalgh
Improving service uptake and quality of care of integrated maternal health services: the Kenya kwale district improvement collaborative
Michael K Mwaniki, Sonali Vaid, Isaac Mwamuye Chome, Dorcas Amolo, Youssef Tawfik
Epidemiological and performance indicators for occupational health services: a feasibility study in Belgium
Lode Godderis, Kristien Johannik, Godewina Mylle, Simon Bulterys, Guido Moens
Cost-effectiveness analysis of liraglutide versus sitagliptin or exenatide in patients with inadequately controlled Type 2 diabetes on oral antidiabetic drugs in Greece
Charalampos Tzanetakos, Andreas Melidonis, Christos Verras, Georgia Kourlaba, Nikos Maniadakis
The development of a public optometry system in Mozambique: a Cost Benefit Analysis
Stephen Thompson, Kovin Naidoo, Geoff Harris, Luigi Bilotto, Jorge Ferrão, James Loughman
Examining the relationship between health-related need and the receipt of care by participants experiencing homelessness and mental illness
Lauren B Currie, Michelle L Patterson, Akm Moniruzzaman, Lawrence C McCandless, Julian M Somers
Client satisfaction with cervical cancer screening in Malawi
Fresier C Maseko, Maureen L Chirwa, Adamson S Muula
Identifying keys to success in reducing readmissions using the ideal transitions in care framework
Robert E Burke, Ruixin Guo, Allan V Prochazka, Gregory J Misky
Application of WHO’s guideline for the selection of sentinel sites for hospital-based influenza surveillance in Indonesia
Ni Ketut Susilarini, Martahan Sitorus, Catharina Yekti Praptaningsih, Ondri Dwi Sampurno, Arie Bratasena, Ester Mulyadi, Roselinda Rusli, Ahmad Fandil, Amalya Mangiri, Hana Apsari, Edy Hariyanto, Gina Samaan
Electronic health information exchange in underserved settings: examining initiatives in small physician practices & community health centers
J Mac McCullough, Frederick J Zimmerman, Douglas S Bell, Hector P Rodriguez
Silence in the EHR: infrequent documentation of aphonia in the electronic health record
Megan A Morris, Abel N Kho
Patient and caregiver perspectives of health provision practices for First Nations and Métis women with gestational diabetes mellitus accessing care in Winnipeg, Manitoba
Hannah Tait Neufeld
Characteristics of unit-level patient safety culture in hospitals in Japan: a cross-sectional study
Shigeru Fujita, Kanako Seto, Takefumi Kitazawa, Kunichika Matsumoto, Tomonori Hasegawa
A short generic patient experience questionnaire: howRwedevelopment and validation
Tim Benson, Henry WW Potts
Using clinical variables and drug prescription data to control for confounding in outcome comparisons between hospitals
Paola Colais, Mirko Di Martino, Danilo Fusco, Marina Davoli, Paul Aylin, Carlo Alberto Perucci
A novel triage approach of child preventive health assessment: an observational study of routine registry-data
Janine Bezem, Meinou Theunissen, Simone E Buitendijk, Paul L Kocken
“No decision about me without me” in the context of cancer multidisciplinary team meetings: a qualitative interview study
Cath Taylor, Jennifer Finnegan-John, James SA Green
A `combined framework’ approach to developing a patient decision aid: the PANDAs model
Chirk Jenn Ng, Nigel Mathers, Alastair Bradley, Brigitte Colwell
Service user involvement: impact and participation: a survey of service user and staff perspectives
Edward Omeni, Marian Barnes, Dee MacDonald, Mike Crawford, Diana Rose
Patient perspectives on having multiple versus single prescribers of chronic disease medications: results of a qualitative study in a veteran population
Corrine I Voils, Betsy Sleath, Matthew L Maciejewski
Interpretations of legal criteria for involuntary psychiatric admission: a qualitative analysis
Eli Feiring, Kristian N Ugstad
Barriers and facilitators to using NHS Direct: a qualitative study of `users’ and `non-users’
Erica J Cook, Gurch Randhawa, Shirley Large, Andy Guppy, Angel M Chater, Nasreen Ali
A comparison of drugs and procedures of care in the Italian hospice and hospital settings: the final three days of life for cancer patients
Emily West, Massimo Costantini, H Roeline Pasman, Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen
The impact of China’s national essential medicine system on improving rational drug use in primary health care facilities: an empirical study in four provinces
Yan Song, Ying Bian, Max Petzold, Lingui Li, Aitian Yin
A systematic review of hospital experiences of people with intellectual disability
Teresa Iacono, Christine Bigby, Carolyn Unsworth, Jacinta Douglas, Petya Fitzpatrick
Preventable hospital admissions among the homeless in California: A retrospective analysis of care for ambulatory care sensitive conditions
Brandi M White, Charles Ellis Jr, Kit N Simpson
Identifying and explaining the variability in development and implementation costs of disease management programs in the Netherlands
Apostolos Tsiachristas, Bethany Hipple Waters, Samantha A Adams, Roland Bal, Maureen PMM Rutten-van M’lken
Aboriginal health research in the remote Kimberley: an exploration of perceptions, attitudes and concerns of stakeholders
Frieda Mc Loughlin, Nyssa T Hadgraft, David Atkinson, Julia V Marley
Barriers to the implementation of mobile phone reminders in pediatric HIV care: a pre-trial analysis of the Cameroonian MORE CARE study
Jean Joel R Bigna, Jean Jacques N Noubiap, Claudia S Plottel, Charles Kouanfack, Sinata Koulla-Shiro
Can a community health worker and a trained traditional birth attendant work as a team to deliver child health interventions in rural Zambia?
Kojo Yeboah-Antwi, Davidson H Hamer, Katherine Semrau, Karen Z Waltensperger, Gail Snetro-Plewman, Chilobe Kambikambi, Amon Sakala, Stephen Filumba, Bias Sichamba, David R Marsh
Direct costs of hypertensive patients admitted to hospital in Vietnam’ a bottom-up micro-costing analysis
Thi-Phuong-Lan Nguyen, Thi Bach Yen Nguyen, Thanh Trung Nguyen, Van Vinh Hac, Hoa H Le, CCM Schuiling-Veninga, Maarten J Postma
Agreement between referral information and discharge diagnoses according to Norwegian elective treatment guidelines - a cross-sectional study
Lise Lund H’heim, Jon Helgeland
Reproductive health service use and social determinants among the floating population: a quantitative comparative study in Guangzhou City
Huan Liu, Qi Wang, Zuxun Lu, Junan Liu
The development of the PROMPT (PRescribing Optimally in Middle-aged People’s Treatments) criteria
Janine A Cooper, Cristín Ryan, Susan M Smith, Emma Wallace, Kathleen Bennett, Caitriona Cahir, David Williams, Mary Teeling, Tom Fahey, Carmel M Hughes
Market competition and price of disease management programmes: an observational study
Christel E van Dijk, Bob Venema, Judith D de Jong, Dinny H de Bakker
High-cost health care users in Ontario, Canada: demographic, socio-economic, and health status characteristics
Laura C Rosella, Tiffany Fitzpatrick, Walter P Wodchis, Andrew Calzavara, Heather Manson, Vivek Goel
Video-confidence: a qualitative exploration of videoconferencing for psychiatric emergencies
Marianne Vibeke Trondsen, Stein Roald Bolle, Geir Øyvind Stensland, Aksel Tjora
Health service planning contributes to policy dialogue around strengthening district health systems: an example from DR Congo 2008-2013
Dheepa Rajan, Hyppolite Kalambay, Mathias Mossoko, Dieudonné Kwete, Joseph Bulakali, Jean-Pierre Lokonga, Denis Porignon, Gerard Schmets
Capacity, responsibility, and motivation: a critical qualitative evaluation of patient and practitioner views about barriers to self-management in people with multimorbidity
Peter A Coventry, Louise Fisher, Cassandra Kenning, Penny Bee, Peter Bower
From pediatric to adult care: strategic evaluation of a transition program for patients with osteogenesis imperfecta
Maman Joyce Dogba, Frank Rauch, Trudy Wong, Joanne Ruck, Francis H Glorieux, Christophe Bedos
Influences on participant reporting in the World Health Organisation drugs exposure pregnancy registry; a qualitative study
Elizabeth N Allen, Melba Gomes, Lucy Yevoo, Omar Egesah, Christine Clerk, Josaphat Byamugisha, Anthony Mbonye, Edwin Were, Ushma Mehta, Lynn M Atuyambe
Regulation of medical diagnostics and medical devices in the East African community partner states
Simon Peter Rugera, Ruth McNerney, Albert K Poon, Gladys Akimana, Rehema Forgen Mariki, Henry Kajumbula, Elizabeth Kamau, Servilien Mpawenimana, Said Yusuf Said, Anthony Toroitich, Wesley Ronoh, Kimberly A Sollis, Stanley Sonoiya, Rosanna W Peeling
Economic and health consequences of non-invasive respiratory support in newborn infants: a difference-in-difference analysis using data from the Norwegian patient registry
Inger Cathrine Kann, Anne Lee Solevåg
Staff motivation and welfare in Adventist health facilities in Malawi: a qualitative study
Fyson Kasenga, Anna-Karin Hurtig
Relational coordination amongst health professionals involved in insulin initiation for people with type 2 diabetes in general practice: an exploratory survey
Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis, Irene Blackberry, Doris Young, David O’Neal, Elizabeth Patterson, John Furler
Does the practice of blood film microscopy for detection and quantification of malaria parasites in northwest Ethiopia fit the standard?
Fantahun Biadglegne, Yeshambel Belyhun, Jemal Ali, Fisha Walle, Nigussu Gudeta, Afework Kassu, Andargachew Mulu
Creating advantages through franchising in healthcare: a qualitative, multiple embedded case study on the role of the business format
Karlijn J Nijmeijer, Robbert Huijsman, Isabelle N Fabbricotti
Key actors’ perspectives on cost-effectiveness analysis in Uganda: a cross-sectional survey
Jackson S Musuuza, Mendel E Singer, Anna M Mandalakas, Achilles Katamba
A mixed methods exploration of patterns of healthcare utilization of urban women with non-communicable disease in South Africa
Daniel Lopes Ibanez-Gonzalez, Emily Mendenhall, Shane A Norris
Measuring progress with clinical governance development in New Zealand: perceptions of senior doctors in 2010 and 2012
Robin Gauld, Simon Horsburgh
Distance decay and persistent health care disparities in South Africa
Zoë M McLaren, Cally Ardington, Murray Leibbrandt
Design and rationale of the comprehensive evaluation of risk factors in older patients with AMI (SILVER-AMI) study
John A Dodson, Mary Geda, Harlan M Krumholz, Nancy Lorenze, Terrence E Murphy, Heather G Allore, Peter Charpentier, Sui W Tsang, Denise Acampora, Mary E Tinetti, Thomas M Gill, Sarwat I Chaudhry
Recentralizing healthcare through evidence-based guidelines - striving for national equity in Sweden
Mio Fredriksson, Paula Blomqvist, Ulrika Winblad
Frontline health workers as brokers: provider perceptions, experiences and mitigating strategies to improve access to essential medicines in South Africa
Bvudzai Priscilla Magadzire, Ashwin Budden, Kim Ward, Roger Jeffery, David Sanders
The experience of engaging with mental health services among young people who hear voices and their families: a mixed methods exploratory study
Prerna Kapur, Daniel Hayes, Rachel Waddingham, Saul Hillman, Jessica Deighton, Nick Midgley
Picking up the bill - improving health-care utilisation in the Democratic Republic of Congo through user fee subsidisation: a before and after study
Rishma Maini, Rafael Van den Bergh, Johan van Griensven, Katie Tayler-Smith, Janet Ousley, Daniel Carter, Seb Mhatre, Lara Ho, Rony Zachariah
Cohort study of Western Australia computed tomography utilisation patterns and their policy implications
David AJ Gibson, Rachael E Moorin, C D’Arcy J Holman
Evaluation of the internal construct validity of the Personal Care Participation Assessment and Resource Tool (PC-PART) using Rasch analysis
Susan Darzins, Christine Imms, Marilyn Di Stefano, Nicholas F Taylor, Julie F Pallant
Providing emergency care and assessing a patient triage system in a referral hospital in Somaliland: a cross-sectional study
Temmy Sunyoto, Rafael Van den Bergh, Pola Valles, Reinaldo Gutierrez, Latifa Ayada, Rony Zachariah, Abdi Yassin, Sven Gudmund Hinderaker, Anthony D Harries
Effect of telemedicine follow-up care of leg and foot ulcers: a systematic review
Lena Victoria Nordheim, Marianne Tveit Haavind, Marjolein M Iversen
What, how and from whom do health care professionals learn during collaboration in palliative home care: a cross-sectional study in primary palliative care
Peter Pype, Wim Peersman, Johan Wens, Ann Stes, Bart Van den Eynden, Myriam Deveugele
IMatter: validation of the NHS Scotland Employee Engagement Index
Austyn Snowden, Ewan MacArthur
Characteristics of a self-management support programme applicable in primary health care: a qualitative study of users’ and health professionals’ perceptions
Hilde Strøm Solberg, Aslak Steinsbekk, Marit Solbjør, Randi Granbo, Helge Garåsen
Organizational readiness for knowledge translation in chronic care: a Delphi study
Randa Attieh, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Carole A Estabrooks, France Légaré, Mathieu Ouimet, Patricia Vazquez, Roberto Nuño
Understanding the challenges to implementing case management for people with dementia in primary care in England: a qualitative study using Normalization Process Theory
Claire Bamford, Marie Poole, Katie Brittain, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Chris Fox, Steve Iliffe, Jill Manthorpe, Louise Robinson
The effect of a regional care model on cardiac catheterization rates in patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes
Helen J Curran, Jaroslav Hubacek, Danielle Southern, Diane Galbraith, Merril L Knudtson, William A Ghali, Michelle M Graham
Implementation of collaborative governance in cross-sector innovation and education networks: evidence from the National Health Service in England
Pavel V Ovseiko, Catherine O’Sullivan, Susan C Powell, Stephen M Davies, Alastair M Buchan
The effectiveness of telemedicine for paediatric retrieval consultations: rationale and study design for a pragmatic multicentre randomised controlled trial
Nigel R Armfield, Mark G Coulthard, Anthony Slater, Julie McEniery, Mark Elcock, Robert S Ware, Paul A Scuffham, Mark E Bensink, Anthony C Smith
Work, family and social environment in patients with Fibromyalgia in Spain: an epidemiological study: EPIFFAC study
Antonio Collado, Emili Gomez, Rosa Coscolla, Ruth Sunyol, Emília Solé, Javier Rivera, Emília Altarriba, Jordi Carbonell, Xavier Castells
Application of propensity scores to explore the effect of public reporting of medicine use information on rational drug use in China: a quasi-experimental design
Xiaopeng Zhang, Lijun Wang, Xinping Zhang
The use of research evidence on patient preferences in pharmaceutical coverage decisions and clinical practice guideline development: exploratory study into current state of play and potential barriers
Cecile MA Utens, Trudy van der Weijden, Manuela A Joore, Carmen D Dirksen
A cost management model for hospital food and nutrition in a public hospital
Liliana Neriz, Alicia Núñez, Francisco Ramis
Community health worker interventions to improve access to health care services for older adults from ethnic minorities: a systematic review
Ilona Verhagen, Bas Steunenberg, Niek J de Wit, Wynand JG Ros
Factors affecting medication adherence: patient perspectives from five veterans affairs facilities
Clarissa Hsu, Jaclyn M Lemon, Edwin S Wong, Elizabeth Carson-Cheng, Mark Perkins, Margaret S Nordstrom, Chuan-Fen Liu, Carol Sprague, Christopher L Bryson
Barriers to and facilitators of interventions to counter publication bias: thematic analysis of scholarly articles and stakeholder interviews
Christina Kien, Barbara Nußbaumer, Kylie J Thaler, Ursula Griebler, Megan G Van Noord, Petra Wagner, Gerald Gartlehner
Developing a framework to review near-miss maternal morbidity in India: a structured review and key stakeholder analysis
Sanghita Bhattacharyya, Aradhana Srivastava, Marian Knight
Impact of population ageing on the costs of hospitalisations for cardiovascular disease: a population-based data linkage study
Ninh Thi Ha, Delia Hendrie, Rachael Moorin
Comparison of demographics, treatment patterns, health care utilization, and costs among elderly patients with extensive-stage small cell and metastatic non-small cell lung cancers
Sudeep J Karve, Gregory L Price, Keith L Davis, Gerhardt M Pohl, Emily Nash Smyth, Lee Bowman
Billing and insurance-related administrative costs in United States’ health care: synthesis of micro-costing evidence
Aliya Jiwani, David Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler, James G Kahn
The association of asthma education centre characteristics on hospitalizations and emergency department visits in Ontario: a population-based study
Nancy J Garvey, Therese A Stukel, Jun Guan, Yan Lu, Phillip T Bwititi, Astrid Guttmann
Cross-sector, sessional employment of pharmacists in rural hospitals in Australia and New Zealand: a qualitative study exploring pharmacists’ perceptions and experiences
Amy CW Tan, Lynne M Emmerton, H Laetitia Hattingh, Adam La Caze
Notifiable disease reporting among public sector physicians in Nigeria: a cross-sectional survey to evaluate possible barriers and identify best sources of information
Kathryn E Lafond, Ibrahim Dalhatu, Vivek Shinde, Ekanem E Ekanem, Saidu Ahmed, Patrick Peebles, Mwenda Kudumu, Milele Bynum, Kabiru Salami, Joseph Okeibunor, Pamela Schwingl, Anthony Mounts, Abdulsalami Nasidi, Diane Gross
Predicting risk of hospital and emergency department use for home care elderly persons through a secondary analysis of cross-national data
John N Morris, Elizabeth P Howard, Knight Steel, Robert Schreiber, Brant E Fries, Lewis A Lipsitz, Beryl Goldman
Training needs and supports for evidence-based decision making among the public health workforce in the United States
Rebekah R Jacob, Elizabeth A Baker, Peg Allen, Elizabeth A Dodson, Kathleen Duggan, Robert Fields, Sonia Sequeira, Ross C Brownson
Assisting allied health in performance evaluation: a systematic review
Lucylynn Lizarondo, Karen Grimmer, Saravana Kumar
Adherence to standards of quality HIV/AIDS care and antiretroviral therapy in the West Nile Region of Uganda
Aldomoro Burua, Fred Nuwaha, Peter Waiswa
Transferability of health cost evaluation across locations in oncology: cluster and principal component analysis as an explorative tool
Lionel Perrier, Alessandra Buja, Giuseppe Mastrangelo, Patrick Sylvestre Baron, Françoise Ducimetière, Petrus J Pauwels, Carlo Riccardo Rossi, François Noël Gilly, Amaury Martin, Bertrand Favier, Fadila Farsi, Mathieu Laramas, Vincenzo Baldo, Olivier Collard, Dominic Cellier, Jean-Yves Blay, Isabelle Ray-Coquard
How does context influence collaborative decision-making for health services planning, delivery and evaluation?
Anna R Gagliardi, Fiona Webster, Melissa C Brouwers, Nancy N Baxter, Antonio Finelli, Steven Gallinger
A cost-utility analysis of a rehabilitation service for people living with and beyond cancer
Jeff Round, Baptiste Leurent, Louise Jones
Using qualitative mixed methods to study small health care organizations while maximising trustworthiness and authenticity
Christine B Phillips, Kathryn Dwan, Julie Hepworth, Christopher Pearce, Sally Hall
Opioid prescribing patterns for non-malignant chronic pain for rural versus non-rural US adults: a population-based study using 2010 NAMCS data
Jacob P Prunuske, Catherine A St. Hill, Keri D Hager, Andrine M Lemieux, Michael T Swanoski, Grant W Anderson, M Nawal Lutfiyya
Community resistance to a peer education programme in Zimbabwe
Catherine Campbell, Kerry Scott, Zivai Mupambireyi, Mercy Nhamo, Constance Nyamukapa, Morten Skovdal, Simon Gregson
Facilitators of health systems change for tobacco dependence treatment: a qualitative study of stakeholders? perceptions
Amanda L Jansen, Traci R Capesius, Randi Lachter, Lija O Greenseid, Paula A Keller
Safety and effectiveness of a Patient Blood Management (PBM) program in surgical patients - the study design for a multi-centre prospective epidemiologic non-inferiority trial
Patrick Meybohm, Dania Patricia Fischer, Christof Geisen, Markus Matthias Miller, Christian Friedrich Weber, Eva Herrmann, Bjirn Steffen, Erhard Seifried, Kai Zacharowski
Duration of participation in continuous quality improvement: a key factor explaining improved delivery of Type 2 diabetes services
Veronica Matthews, Gill Schierhout, James McBroom, Christine Connors, Catherine Kennedy, Ru Kwedza, Sarah Larkins, Elizabeth Moore, Sandra Thompson, David Scrimgeour, Ross Bailie
The role of skin self-examination at the Swiss skin cancer day
Nina Badertscher, Muriel Meier, Thomas Rosemann, Ralph Braun, Antonio Cozzio, Brigitte Tag, Michel Wensing, Ryan Tandjung
Understanding how low-income families prioritize elements of health care access for their children via the optimal care model
Heather Angier, Jessica Gregg, Rachel Gold, Courtney Crawford, Melinda Davis, Jennifer E DeVoe
An analysis of women’s and children’s health professional requirements in China in 2010 based on workload
Peige Song, Zhenghong Ren, Evropi Theodoratou, Sufang Guo, Lin An
Knowledge and practice of tuberculosis infection control among health professionals in Northwest Ethiopia; 2011
Chanie Temesgen, Meaza Demissie
Determinants of community health fund membership in Tanzania: a mixed methods analysis
Jane Macha, August Kuwawenaruwa, Suzan Makawia, Gemini Mtei, Josephine Borghi
Data quality audit of the arthroplasty clinical outcomes registry NSW
Kurt G Seagrave, Justine Naylor, Elizabeth Armstrong, Kwong-Ming Leong, Joseph Descallar, Ian A Harris
Managing hospital doctors and their practice: what can we learn about human resource management from non-healthcare organisations?
Timothy M Trebble, Nicola Heyworth, Nicholas Clarke, Timothy Powell, Peter M Hockey
Effect of health insurance type on health care utilization in patients with hypertension: a national health insurance database study in Korea
Hae Sun Suh, Hye-Young Kang, Jinkyung Kim, Euichul Shin
A mechanism for revising accreditation standards: a study of the process, resources required and evaluation outcomes
David Greenfield, Mike Civil, Andrew Donnison, Anne Hogden, Reece Hinchcliff, Johanna Westbrook, Jeffrey Braithwaite
Health state descriptions to elicit stroke values: do they reflect patient experience of stroke?
Joanne Gray, Mabel L S Lie, Madeleine J Murtagh, Gary A Ford, Peter McMeekin, Richard G Thomson
PICO, PICOS and SPIDER: a comparison study of specificity and sensitivity in three search tools for qualitative systematic reviews
Abigail M Methley, Stephen Campbell, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Rosalind McNally, Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi
Differences in medication knowledge and risk of errors between graduating nursing students and working registered nurses: comparative study
Bjoerg O Simonsen, Gro K Daehlin, Inger Johansson, Per G Farup
Individualised, flexible postnatal care: a feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial
Della A Forster, Tracey L Savage, Helen L McLachlan, Lisa Gold, Tanya Farrell, Jo Rayner, Jane Yelland, Bree Rankin, Belinda Lovell
Inputs for universal health coverage: a methodological contribution to finding proxy indicators for financial hardship due to health expenditure
Priyanka Saksena, Thomas Smith, Fabrizio Tediosi
The introduction of Greek Central Health Fund: Has the reform met its goal in the sector of Primary Health Care or is there a new model needed?
Nikos Polyzos, Stefanos Karakolias, Costas Dikeos, Mamas Theodorou, Catherine Kastanioti, Kalomira Mama, Periklis Polizoidis, Christoforos Skamnakis, Charalampos Tsairidis, Eleutherios Thireos
Predictors of non-transplantation of adult donor organs - an observational study using routine data from Eurotransplant
Karl Philipp Drewitz, Martin Loss, Julika Loss, Christian Joachim Apfelbacher
Patient safety risks associated with telecare: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of the literature
Veslemøy Guise, Janet Anderson, Siri Wiig
Improving coordination through information continuity: a framework for translational research
Karen Gardner, Michelle Banfield, Ian McRae, James Gillespie, Laurann Yen
Quality of hip and knee osteoarthritis management in primary health care in a Norwegian county: a cross-sectional survey
Gudmund Grønhaug, Nina Østerås, Kåre Birger Hagen
Meeting patients’ health information needs in breast cancer center hospitals - a multilevel analysis
Christoph Kowalski, Shoou-Yih D Lee, Lena Ansmann, Simone Wesselmann, Holger Pfaff
Mobile phone intervention for increasing adherence to treatment for type 2 diabetes in an urban area of Bangladesh: protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Andreas Lechner, Uta Ferrari, Guenter Froeschl, Dewan Shamsul Alam, Rolf Holle, Jochen Seissler, Louis W Niessen
Barriers and facilitators to expanding the role of community health workers to include smoking cessation services in Vietnam: a qualitative analysis
Donna Shelley, Linh Nguyen, Hieu Pham, Nancy VanDevanter, Nam Nguyen
A cross-sectional survey of mental health clinicians’ knowledge, attitudes, and practice relating to tobacco dependence among young people with mental disorders
Meghana Kulkarni, Lisa Huddlestone, Anne Taylor, Kapil Sayal, Elena Ratschen
Differential utilization of primary health care services among older immigrants and Norwegians: a register-based comparative study in Norway
Esperanza Diaz, Bernadette N Kumar
Evaluation of the implementation of the Montreal at home/chez soi project
Marie-Josée Fleury, Guy Grenier, Catherine Vallée
Perinatal staff perceptions of safety and quality in their service
Suzanne V Sinni, Euan M Wallace, Wendy M Cross
An evaluation of primary care led dementia diagnostic services in Bristol
Emily Dodd, Richard Cheston, Tina Fear, Ellie Brown, Chris Fox, Clare Morley, Rosalyn Jefferies, Richard Gray
International comparison of the factors influencing reimbursement of targeted anti-cancer drugs
Carol Sunghye Lim, Yun-Gyoo Lee, Youngil Koh, Dae Seog Heo
Assessing cost and technical efficiency of HIV prevention interventions in sub-Saharan Africa: the ORPHEA study design and methods
Sergio Bautista-Arredondo, Sandra G Sosa-Rubí, Marjorie Opuni, Ada Kwan, Claire Chaumont, Jenny Coetzee, Jeanine Condo, Kumbutso Dzekedzeke, Omar Galárraga, Neil Martinson, Felix Masiye, Sabin Nsanzimana, Richard Wamai, Joseph Wang’ombe
A research-based strategy for managing housing adaptations: study protocol for a quasi-experimental trial
Lisa Ekstam, Gunilla Carlsson, Carlos Chiatti, Maria H Nilsson, Agneta Malmgren Fänge
Years worked at night and body mass index among registered nurses from eighteen public hospitals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rosane Härter Griep, Leonardo S Bastos, Maria de Jesus Mendes da Fonseca, Aline Silva-Costa, Luciana Fernandes Portela, Susanna Toivanen, Lucia Rotenberg
Room for improvement: noise on a maternity ward
Safina Adatia, Susan Law, Jeannie Haggerty
Social inequalities in self-reported refraining from health care due to financial reasons in Sweden: health care on equal terms?
Anu Molarius, Bo Simonsson, Margareta Lindén-Boström, Marina Kalander-Blomqvist, Inna Feldman, Hans G Eriksson
Whole-system change: case study of factors facilitating early implementation of a primary health care reform in a South African province
Helen Schneider, Rene English, Hanani Tabana, Thesandree Padayachee, Marsha Orgill
Initiatives supporting evidence informed health system policymaking in Cameroon and Uganda: a comparative historical case study
Pierre Ongolo-Zogo, John N Lavis, Goran Tomson, Nelson K Sewankambo
Health literacy: health professionals’ understandings and their perceptions of barriers that Indigenous patients encounter
Michelle Lambert, Joanne Luke, Bernice Downey, Sue Crengle, Margaret Kelaher, Susan Reid, Janet Smylie
How physicians identify with predetermined personalities and links to perceived performance and wellness outcomes: a cross-sectional study
Jane B Lemaire, Jean E Wallace
Wake up, wake up! It’s me! It’s my life!patient narratives on person-centeredness in the integrated care context: a qualitative study
Geva Greenfield, Agnieszka M Ignatowicz, Athina Belsi, Yannis Pappas, Josip Car, Azeem Majeed, Matthew Harris
Perceived difficulty and appropriateness of decision making by General Practitioners: a systematic review of scenario studies
Nicola McCleary, Craig R Ramsay, Jill J Francis, Marion K Campbell, Julia Allan
Best practice and needs for improvement in the chain of care for persons with dementia in Sweden: a qualitative study based on focus group interviews
Christina Bökberg, Gerd Ahlström, Staffan Karlsson, Ingalill Rahm Hallberg, Ann-Christin Janlöv
Using a discrete choice experiment to inform the design of programs to promote colon cancer screening for vulnerable populations in North Carolina
Michael P Pignone, Trisha M Crutchfield, Paul M Brown, Sarah T Hawley, Jane L Laping, Carmen L Lewis, Kristen Hassmiller Lich, Lisa C Richardson, Florence KL Tangka, Stephanie B Wheeler
Physician organization care management capabilities associated with effective inpatient utilization management: a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis
Thomas J Sheehy, N Marcus Thygeson
Process evaluation of a point-of-care cluster randomised trial using a computer-delivered intervention to reduce antibiotic prescribing in primary care
Lisa McDermott, Lucy Yardley, Paul Little, Tjeerd van Staa, Alex Dregan, Gerard McCann, Mark Ashworth, Martin Gulliford
Comparing the implementation of team approaches for improving diabetes care in community health centers
Philip J Van der Wees, Mark W Friedberg, Elena Alcala Guzman, John Z Ayanian, Hector P Rodriguez
Awareness and current implementation of drug dosage adjustment by pharmacists in patients with chronic kidney disease in Japan: a web-based survey
Yuki Kondo, Yoichi Ishitsuka, Eri Shigemori, Mitsuru Irikura, Daisuke Kadowaki, Sumio Hirata, Takeshi Maemura, Tetsumi Irie
Patients’ expectations of variation in quality of care relates to their search for comparative performance information
Nicole ABM Ketelaar, Marjan J Faber, Jozé C Braspenning, Gert P Westert
Validity of a questionnaire measuring the world health organization concept of health system responsiveness with respect to perinatal services in the dutch obstetric care system
Jacoba van der Kooy, Nicole B Valentine, Erwin Birnie, Marijana Vujkovic, Johanna P de Graaf, Semiha Denktaş, Eric AP Steegers, Gouke J Bonsel
Inpatient mortality of HIV-infected adults in sub-Saharan Africa and possible interventions: a mixed methods review
Bahati MK Wajanga, Lauren E Webster, Robert N Peck, Jennifer A Downs, Kedar Mate, Luke R Smart, Daniel W Fitzgerald
The exit interview as a proxy measure of malaria case management practice: sensitivity and specificity relative to direct observation
Justin Pulford, Peter M Siba, Ivo Mueller, Manuel W Hetzel
Patient severity matters for night-shift workload for internal medicine residents in Taiwan
Nin-Chieh Hsu, Ming-Chin Yang, Ray-E Chang, Wen-Je Ko
Right care, right time, right place: improving outcomes for people with spinal cord injury through early access to intervention and improved access to specialised care: study protocol
James M Middleton, Lisa N Sharwood, Peter Cameron, Paul M Middleton, James E Harrison, Doug Brown, Rod McClure, Karen Smith, Sandy Muecke, Sarah Healy
Ethnographic process evaluation in primary care: explaining the complexity of implementation
Arwen E Bunce, Rachel Gold, James V Davis, Carmit K McMullen, Victoria Jaworski, MaryBeth Mercer, Christine Nelson
Factors associated with free adult preventive health care utilization among physically disabled people in Taiwan: nationwide population-based study
Suh-May Yen, Pei-Tseng Kung, Wen-Chen Tsai
Young people’s perceptions of youth-oriented health services in urban Soweto, South Africa: a qualitative investigation
Brittany Schriver, Kathryn Meagley, Shane Norris, Rebecca Geary, Aryeh D Stein
Effects of generic substitution on refill adherence to statin therapy: a nationwide population-based study
Henrik Trusell, Karolina Andersson Sundell
Continuity of GP care is associated with lower use of complementary and alternative medical providers: a population-based cross-sectional survey
Anne Helen Hansen, Agnete E Kristoffersen, Olaug S Lian, Peder A Halvorsen
User perspectives on the Swedish Maternal Health Care Register
Kerstin Petersson, Margareta Persson, Marie Lindkvist, Margareta Hammarström, Ingrid Haglund, Carin Nilses, Yvonne Skogsdal, Ingrid Mogren
Perceptions of inhibitors and facilitators for adhering to hypertension treatment among insured patients in rural Nigeria: a qualitative study
Aina O Odusola, Marleen Hendriks, Constance Schultsz, Oladimeji A Bolarinwa, Tanimola Akande, Akin Osibogun, Charles Agyemang, Gbenga Ogedegbe, Kayode Agbede, Peju Adenusi, Joep Lange, Henk van Weert, Karien Stronks, Joke A Haafkens
A review of rural and remote health service indexes: are they relevant for the development of an Australian rural birth index?
Jennifer Pilcher, Sue Kruske, Lesley Barclay
Hospital bed occupancy for rotavirus and all cause acute gastroenteritis in two Finnish hospitals before and after the implementation of the national rotavirus vaccination program with RotaTeq®
Susanne Hartwig, Matti Uhari, Marjo Renko, Perrine Bertet, Maria Hemming, Timo Vesikari
Economic evaluation of ivabradine in the treatment of chronic heart failure in Greece
Georgia Kourlaba, John Parissis, Apostolos Karavidas, Alexandra Beletsi, Charalambos Milonas, Neil Branscombe, Nikos Maniadakis
Using intervention mapping to deconstruct cognitive work hardening: a return-to-work intervention for people with depression
Adeena Wisenthal, Terry Krupa
Factors explaining priority setting at community mental health centres: a quantitative analysis of referral assessments
Sverre Grepperud, Per Arne Holman, Knut Reidar Wangen
Is Ghana’s pro-poor health insurance scheme really for the poor? Evidence from Northern Ghana
James Akazili, Paul Welaga, Ayaga Bawah, Fabian S Achana, Abraham Oduro, John Koku Awoonor-Williams, John E Williams, Moses Aikins, James F Phillips
Identification of promising strategies to sustain improvements in hospital practice: a qualitative case study
Stephanie MC Ament, Freek Gillissen, Albine Moser, José MC Maessen, Carmen D Dirksen, Maarten F von Meyenfeldt, Trudy van der Weijden
Work productivity loss from depression: evidence from an employer survey
Kathryn M Rost, Hongdao Meng, Stanley Xu
Patient participation in patients with heart failure receiving structured home care - a prospective longitudinal study
Lena Näsström, Tiny Jaarsma, Ewa Idvall, Kristofer Årestedt, Anna Strömberg
Uptake of evidence in policy development: the case of user fees for health care in public health facilities in Uganda
Juliet Nabyonga-Orem, Freddie Ssengooba, Rhona Mijumbi, Christine Kirunga Tashobya, Bruno Marchal, Bart Criel
Current level and determinants of inappropriate admissions to township hospitals under the new rural cooperative medical system in China: a cross-sectional study
Yan Zhang, Yingchun Chen, Xiang Zhang, Liang Zhang
One size does not fit all: a qualitative content analysis of the importance of existing quality improvement capacity in the implementation of Releasing Time to Care: the Productive Ward™ in Saskatchewan, Canada
Jessica Hamilton, Tanya Verrall, Jill Maben, Peter Griffiths, Kyla Avis, G Ross Baker, Gary Teare
A qualitative description of telemedicine for acute stroke care in Norway: technology is not the issue
Tove Sørensen, Kari Dyb, Ellen Rygh, Rolf Salvesen, Lars Thomassen
Health facility barriers to HIV linkage and retention in Western Kenya
Juddy Wachira, Violet Naanyu, Becky Genberg, Beatrice Koech, Jacqueline Akinyi, Regina Kamene, Samson Ndege, Abraham M Siika, Sylvester Kimayo, Paula Braitstein
A call for better care: the impact of postnatal contact services on women’s parenting confidence and experiences of postpartum care in Queensland, Australia
Yvette D Miller, Aimée C Dane, Rachel Thompson
A surgeon led smoking cessation intervention in a head and neck cancer centre
Ming Wei Tang, Richard Oakley, Catherine Dale, Arnie Purushotham, Henrik Møller, Jennifer Elizabeth Gallagher
Five types of home-visit nursing agencies in Japan based on characteristics of service delivery: cluster analysis of three nationwide surveys
Sakiko Fukui, Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani, Junko Fujita
Sociodemographic factors associated with the use of mental health services in depressed adults: results from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES)
Se Jin Park, Hong Jin Jeon, Ju Young Kim, Sohye Kim, Sungwon Roh
Barriers to and facilitators of partner notification for chlamydia trachomatis among health care professionals
Kevin ATM Theunissen, Pim Schipper, Christian JPA Hoebe, Rik Crutzen, Gerjo Kok, Nicole HTM Dukers-Muijrers
Teachable moments and missed opportunities for smoking cessation counseling in a hospital emergency department: a mixed-methods study of patient-provider communication
Mara Buchbinder, Rachel Wilbur, Diana Zuskov, Samuel McLean, Betsy Sleath
Profile of usage of a reference diagnostic service on oral pathology: a 10-year evaluation
Karla Rachel Oliveira e Silva, Ana Luísa Lara Siqueira, Patrícia Carlos Caldeira, Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães de Abreu, Maria Cássia Ferreira de Aguiar
Characteristics of clients who access mobile compared to clinic HIV counselling and testing services: a matched study from Cape Town, South Africa
Sue-Ann Meehan, Pren Naidoo, Mareli M Claassens, Carl Lombard, Nulda Beyers
Patterns of prescription drug expenditures and medication adherence among medicare part D beneficiaries with and without the low-income supplement
Stella M Yala, Obidiugwu Kenrik Duru, Susan L Ettner, Norman Turk, Carol M Mangione, Arleen F Brown
Does long-term care insurance affect the length of stay in hospitals for the elderly in Korea?: a difference-in-difference method
Kyung-Rae Hyun, Sungwook Kang, Sunmi Lee
Collaborating with front-line healthcare professionals: the clinical and cost effectiveness of a theory based approach to the implementation of a national guideline
Natalie Taylor, Rebecca Lawton, Sally Moore, Joyce Craig, Beverley Slater, Alison Cracknell, John Wright, Mohammed A Mohammed
Sharing of clinical data in a maternity setting: How do paper hand-held records and electronic health records compare for completeness?
Glenda Hawley, Claire Jackson, Julie Hepworth, Shelley A Wilkinson
Validation of triggers and development of a pediatric trigger tool to identify adverse events
Maria Unbeck, Synnöve Lindemalm, Per Nydert, Britt-Marie Ygge, Urban Nylén, Carina Berglund, Karin Pukk Härenstam
The economic burden of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in the US on payers and patients
Mirko Sikirica, Serban R Iorga, Tim Bancroft, Jesse Potash
Reimbursement for reconstruction by tissue transfer–a European comparison
Oliver Lotter, William Arthur Townley, Philipp Gonser, Hans-Eberhard Schaller, Sebastian Hoefert
Drug shortages in European countries: a trade-off between market attractiveness and cost containment?
Kim Pauwels, Isabelle Huys, Minne Casteels, Steven Simoens
The challenges in monitoring and preventing patient safety incidents for people with intellectual disabilities in NHS acute hospitals: evidence from a mixed-methods study
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne, Lucy Goulding, Vanessa Gordon, Elisabeth Abraham, Nikoletta Giatras, Christine Edwards, Steve Gillard, Sheila Hollins
Patients’ level of satisfaction on quality of health care at Mwananyamala hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Kudra Khamis, Bernard Njau
Evaluation of a regional ST-elevation myocardial infarction primary percutaneous coronary intervention program at the Rouge Valley Health System
Pria MD Nippak, Jodie Pritchard, Robin Horodyski, Candace J Ikeda-Douglas, Winston W Isaac
Vaccine resource tracking systems
Katherine Leach-Kemon, Casey M Graves, Elizabeth K Johnson, Rouselle F Lavado, Michael Hanlon, Annie Haakenstad
Women’s secure hospital care pathways in practice: a qualitative analysis of clinicians views in England and Wales
Nadia Somers, Annie Bartlett
Applying a private sector capitation model to the management of type 2 diabetes in the South African public sector: a cost-effectiveness analysis
Heinrich C Volmink, Melanie Y Bertram, Ruxana Jina, Alisha N Wade, Karen J Hofman
“Managed competition” for Ireland? The single versus multiple payer debate
Misja Mikkers, Padhraig Ryan
Variations in statin prescribing for primary cardiovascular disease prevention: cross-sectional analysis
Robert Fleetcroft, Peter Schofield, Mark Ashworth
Evaluating the impact of the reconfiguration of gynaecology services at a University Hospital NHS trust in the United Kingdom
Teck Choo, Shilpa Deb, Joanne Wilkins, William Atiomo
Incidence and cost of treatment-emergent comorbid events in insured patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection: a retrospective cohort study
Sandhya Sapra, Eunice Chang, Michael S Broder, Gilbert L’Italien
Workflow interruptions and mental workload in hospital pediatricians: an observational study
Matthias Weigl, Andreas Müller, Peter Angerer, Florian Hoffmann
Costs associated with febrile neutropenia in solid tumor and lymphoma patients – an observational study in Singapore
Xiao Jun Wang, Mabel Wong, Li Yang Hsu, Alexandre Chan
Explaining variation in Down’s syndrome screening uptake: comparing the Netherlands with England and Denmark using documentary analysis and expert stakeholder interviews
Neeltje MTH Crombag, Ynke E Vellinga, Sandra A Kluijfhout, Louise D Bryant, Pat A Ward, Rita Iedema-Kuiper, Peter CJI Schielen, Jozien M Bensing, Gerard HA Visser, Ann Tabor, Janet Hirst
Organising health care services for people with an acquired brain injury: an overview of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials
Kate Laver, Natasha A Lannin, Peter Bragge, Peter Hunter, Anne E Holland, Emma Tavender, Denise O’Connor, Fary Khan, Robert Teasell, Russell Gruen
Understanding factors that influence the use of risk scoring instruments in the management of patients with unstable angina or non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction in the Netherlands: a qualitative study of health care practitioners’ perceptions
Josien Engel, Marie-Julie Heeren, Ineke van der Wulp, Martine C de Bruijne, Cordula Wagner
Has socioeconomic equity increased in somatic specialist care: a register-based cohort study from Finland in 1995–2010
Kristiina Manderbacka, Martti Arffman, Ilmo Keskimäki
A framework for community ownership of a text messaging programme to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy and client-provider communication: a mixed methods study
Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Renee-Cecile Bonono-Momnougui, Lehana Thabane, Charles Kouanfack, Marek Smieja, Pierre Ongolo-Zogo
“I knew what was going to happen if I did nothing and so I was going to do something”: Faith, hope, and trust in the decisions of Canadians with multiple sclerosis to seek unproven interventions abroad
Jeremy Snyder, Krystyna Adams, Valorie A Crooks, David Whitehurst, Jennifer Vallee
Equal access, (Un)equal uptake: a longitudinal study of cataract surgery uptake in older people in England
Jennifer Whillans, James Nazroo
Intervention impact on depression product appraisal and purchasing behavior by employers: a randomized trial
Kathryn M Rost, Donna Marshall, Stanley Xu
A descriptive retrospective study of time consumption in home care services: how do employees use their working time?
Solrun G Holm, Ragnhild O Angelsen
Development and impact of the Iranian hospital performance measurement program
Asgar Aghaei Hashjin, Dionne S Kringos, Jila Manoochehri, Aidin Aryankhesal, Niek S Klazinga
Knowledge and experience sharing practices among health professionals in hospitals under the Addis Ababa health bureau, Ethiopia
Mulusew Andualem Asemahagn
Quality of care and health status in Ukraine
John W Peabody, Jeff Luck, Lisa DeMaria, Rekha Menon
Making sense of a cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for fear of falling: qualitative study of intervention development
Tracy L Finch, Claire Bamford, Vincent Deary, Neil Sabin, Steve W Parry
Combinations of long-term care insurance services and associated factors in Japan: a classification tree model
Ayumi Igarashi, Tomoaki Ishibashi, Tomohiro Shinozaki, Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani
Claims, liabilities, injures and compensation payments of medical malpractice litigation cases in China from 1998 to 2011
Heng Li, Xiangcheng Wu, Tao Sun, Li Li, Xiaowen Zhao, Xinyan Liu, Lei Gao, Quansheng Sun, Zhong Zhang, Lihua Fan
Pay for performance: an analysis of the context of implementation in a pilot project in Tanzania
Anna Elisabet Olafsdottir, Iddy Mayumana, Irene Mashasi, Ikunda Njau, Masuma Mamdani, Edith Patouillard, Peter Binyaruka, Salim Abdulla, Josephine Borghi
Outcomes after first percutaneous coronary intervention for acute myocardial infarction according to patient funding source
Pamela J Bradshaw, Shauna Trafalski, Joseph Hung, Tom G Briffa, Kristjana Einarsdóttir
Experiences of stigma among women living with HIV attending sexual and reproductive health services in Kenya: a qualitative study
Manuela Colombini, Richard Mutemwa, Jackie Kivunaga, Lucy Stackpool Moore, Susannah H Mayhew
Distribution and trends in outpatient utilization of generic versusbrand name psychopharmaceuticals during a ten-year period in Croatia
Marina Polić-Vižintin, Danijela Štimac, Zvonimir Šostar, Ingrid Tripković
Hospital physicians perform five types of work duties in Japan: An observational study
Michiko Nohara, Toru Yoshikawa, Norihiro Nakajima, Kosuke Okutsu
Effect of a care transition intervention by pharmacists: an RCT
Karen B Farris, Barry L Carter, Yinghui Xu, Jeffrey D Dawson, Constance Shelsky, David B Weetman, Peter J Kaboli, Paul A James, Alan J Christensen, John M Brooks
Development of a Chronic Care Model for Neurological Conditions (CCM-NC)
Susan B Jaglal, Sara J T Guilcher, Tarik Bereket, Mae Kwan, Sarah Munce, James Conklin, Joan Versnel, Tanya Packer, Molly Verrier, Connie Marras, Kristen B Pitzul, Richard Riopelle
Determinants and pattern of care seeking for preterm newborns in a rural Bangladeshi cohort
Rashed Shah, Luke C Mullany, Gary L Darmstadt, Radwanur Rahman Talukder, Syed Moshfiqur Rahman, Ishtiaq Mannan, Shams El Arifeen, Abdullah H Baqui
A National study of burdensome health care costs among non-elderly Americans
Ilana B Richman, Mollyann Brodie
Comparison of Chinese inpatients with different types of medical insurance before and after the 2009 healthcare reform
Shan Wang, Lihua Liu, Lin Li, Jianchao Liu
Accessibility, availability and utilisation of malaria interventions among women of reproductive age in Kilosa district in central Tanzania
Susan F Rumisha, Maria M Zinga, Carolyn A Fahey, Dorothy Wei, Veneranda M Bwana, Malongo RS Mlozi, Elizabeth H Shayo, Robert C Malima, Benjamin K Mayala, Grades Stanley, Tabitha Mlacha, Leonard EG Mboera
A qualitative study of integrated care from the perspectives of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and their relatives
Pernille Maria Wodskou, Dorte Høst, Nina Skavlan Godtfredsen, Anne Frølich
Better health outcomes at lower costs: the benefits of primary care utilisation for chronic disease management in remote Indigenous communities in Australia’s Northern Territory
Yuejen Zhao, Susan L Thomas, Steven L Guthridge, John Wakerman
Association between the unemployment rate and inpatient cost per discharge by payer in the United States, 2005–2010
Jared Lane K Maeda, Rachel Mosher Henke, William D Marder, Zeynal Karaca, Bernard S Friedman, Herbert S Wong
Quality of diabetes care worldwide and feasibility of implementation of the Alphabet Strategy: GAIA project (Global Alphabet Strategy Implementation Audit)
James D Lee, Ponnusamy Saravanan, Lakshminarayanan Varadhan, John R Morrissey, Vinod Patel
Talking about quality: exploring how ‘quality’ is conceptualized in European hospitals and healthcare systems
Siri Wiig, Karina Aase, Christian von Plessen, Susan Burnett, Francisco Nunes, Anne Marie Weggelaar, Boel Anderson-Gare, Johan Calltorp, Naomi Fulop
Exploring the relationship between governance mechanisms in healthcare and health workforce outcomes: a systematic review
Stephanie E Hastings, Gail D Armitage, Sara Mallinson, Karen Jackson, Esther Suter
An economic assessment of embryo diagnostics (Dx) - the costs of introducing non-invasive embryo diagnostics into IVF standard treatment practices
Hans-Joerg Fugel, Mark Connolly, Mark Nuijten
The experience of community first responders in co-producing rural health care: in the liminal gap between citizen and professional
Anne Roberts, Amy Nimegeer, Jane Farmer, David J Heaney
Is organizational progress in the EFQM model related to employee satisfaction?
Carmen Matthies-Baraibar, Andoni Arcelay-Salazar, David Cantero-González, Alberto Colina-Alonso, Marbella García-Urbaneja, Rosa María González-Llinares, Jon Letona-Aranburu, Catalina Martínez-Carazo, Maider Mateos-del Pino, Roberto Nuño-Solinís, Esther Olaetxea-Urizar, José Antonio de la Rica-Giménez, María Angeles Rodríguez-González, Silvia Dabouza-Acebal
Health behaviors and participation in health promotion activities among hospital staff: which occupational group performs better?
Shu-Ti Chiou, Jen-Huai Chiang, Nicole Huang, Li-Yin Chien
Pharmaceutical cost management in an ambulatory setting using a risk adjustment tool
David Vivas-Consuelo, Ruth Usó-Talamantes, Natividad Guadalajara-Olmeda, José-Luis Trillo-Mata, Carla Sancho-Mestre, Laia Buigues-Pastor
Usual hospital care versus post-abortion care for women with unsafe abortion: a case control study from Sri Lanka
Carukshi Arambepola, Lalini C Rajapaksa, Chandani Galwaduge
Exploring the impact of common assessment instrumentation on communication and collaboration in inpatient and community-based mental health settings: a focus group study
Lynn Martin, John P Hirdes
Cross-sectional research into counselling for non-physician assisted suicide: who asks for it and what happens?
Martijn Hagens, H Roeline W Pasman, Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen
Non communicable disease multimorbidity and associated health care utilization and expenditures in India: cross-sectional study
Sanghamitra Pati, Sutapa Agrawal, Subhashisa Swain, John Tayu Lee, Sukumar Vellakkal, Mohammad Akhtar Hussain, Christopher Millett
Obstacles to the uptake of breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screenings: what remains to be achieved by French national programmes?
Jonathan Sicsic, Carine Franc
Is the pharmacy profession innovative enough?: meeting the needs of Australian residents with chronic conditions and their carers using the nominal group technique
Sara S McMillan, Adem Sav, Fiona Kelly, Michelle A King, Jennifer A Whitty, Amanda J Wheeler
Diabetes self-management arrangements in Europe: a realist review to facilitate a project implemented in six countries
Antonis A Kousoulis, Evridiki Patelarou, Sue Shea, Christina Foss, Ingrid A Ruud Knutsen, Elka Todorova, Poli Roukova, Mari Carmen Portillo, María J Pumar-Méndez, Agurtzane Mujika, Anne Rogers, Ivaylo Vassilev, Manuel Serrano-Gil, Christos Lionis
Physicians’ knowledge, beliefs, and use of race and human genetic variation: new measures and insights
Vence L Bonham, Sherrill L Sellers, Sam Woolford
Effects of patient health literacy, patient engagement and a system-level health literacy attribute on patient-reported outcomes: a representative statewide survey
Kimberly A Kaphingst, Nancy L Weaver, Ricardo J Wray, Melissa LR Brown, Trent Buskirk, Matthew W Kreuter
Providing care to people on social assistance: how dentists in Montreal, Canada, respond to organisational, biomedical, and financial challenges
Christophe Bedos, Christine Loignon, Anne Landry, Lucie Richard, Paul J Allison
Managing daily surgery schedules in a teaching hospital: a mixed-integer optimization approach
Raul Pulido, Adrian M Aguirre, Miguel Ortega-Mier, Álvaro García-Sánchez, Carlos A Méndez
Determinants of perceived quality of obstetric care in rural Tanzania: a cross-sectional study
Elysia Larson, Sabrina Hermosilla, Angela Kimweri, Godfrey M Mbaruku, Margaret E Kruk
The relationship between patients’ perceptions of care quality and three factors: nursing staff job satisfaction, organizational characteristics and patient age
Tarja Kvist, Ari Voutilainen, Raija Mäntynen, Katri Vehviläinen-Julkunen
Factors affecting the uptake of new medicines: a systematic literature review
Ágnes Lublóy
Quality improvement in practice: improving diabetes care and patient outcomes in Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services
Alice Stoneman, David Atkinson, Maureen Davey, Julia V Marley
Mental illness and intensification of diabetes medications: an observational cohort study
Susan M Frayne, Tyson H Holmes, Eric Berg, Mary K Goldstein, Dan R Berlowitz, Donald R Miller, Leonard M Pogach, Kaajal J Laungani, Tina T Lee, Rudolf Moos
Interactions between lean management and the psychosocial work environment in a hospital setting – a multi-method study
Waqar Ulhassan, Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz, Johan Thor, Hugo Westerlund
Do large-scale hospital- and system-wide interventions improve patient outcomes: a systematic review
Robyn Clay-Williams, Hadis Nosrati, Frances C Cunningham, Kenneth Hillman, Jeffrey Braithwaite
Strengthening Nepal’s Female Community Health Volunteer network: a qualitative study of experiences at two years
Dan Schwarz, Ranju Sharma, Chhitij Bashyal, Ryan Schwarz, Ashma Baruwal, Gregory Karelas, Bibhusan Basnet, Nirajan Khadka, Jesse Brady, Zach Silver, Joia Mukherjee, Jason Andrews, Duncan Smith-Rohrberg Maru
You’ll know when you’re ready: a qualitative study exploring how patients decide when the time is right for joint replacement surgery
Barbara L Conner-Spady, Deborah A Marshall, Gillian A Hawker, Eric Bohm, Michael J Dunbar, Cy Frank, Tom W Noseworthy
The implications of regional and national demographic projections for future GMS costs in Ireland through to 2026
Aisling Conway, Martin Kenneally, Noel Woods, Andreas Thummel, Marie Ryan
Provider cost analysis supports results-based contracting out of maternal and newborn health services: an evidence-based policy perspective
Peter Hatcher, Shiraz Shaikh, Hassan Fazli, Shehla Zaidi, Atif Riaz
Medicaid managed care: how to target efforts to reduce costs
Mary E Charlson, Martin T Wells, Balavenkatesh Kanna, Van Dunn, Walid Michelen
Implementation of evidence-based antenatal care in Mozambique: a cluster randomized controlled trial: study protocol
Leonardo Chavane, Mario Merialdi, Ana Pilar Betrán, Jennifer Requejo-Harris, Eduardo Bergel, Alicia Aleman, Mercedes Colomar, Maria Luisa Cafferata, Alicia Carbonell, Beatrice Crahay, Therese Delvaux, Diederike Geelhoed, Metin Gülmezoglu, Celsa Regina Malapende, Armando Melo, My Huong Nguyen, Nafissa Bique Osman, Mariana Widmer, Marleen Temmerman, Fernando Althabe
Translation of evidence-based Assistive Technologies into stroke rehabilitation: users’ perceptions of the barriers and opportunities
Ann-Marie Hughes, Jane Helena Burridge, Sara Holtum Demain, Caroline Ellis-Hill, Claire Meagher, Lisa Tedesco-Triccas, Ruth Turk, Ian Swain
Performance evaluation of a health insurance in Nigeria using optimal resource use: health care providers perspectives
Shafiu Mohammed, Aurélia Souares, Justo Lorenzo Bermejo, Rainer Sauerborn, Hengjin Dong
Acceptance of illness and satisfaction with life among malaria patients in rivers state, Nigeria
Katarzyna Van Damme-Ostapowicz, Elżbieta Krajewska-Kułak, Paul JC Nwosu, Wojciech Kułak, Marek Sobolewski, Romuald Olszański
A systematic review of barriers to and facilitators of the use of evidence by policymakers
Kathryn Oliver, Simon Innvar, Theo Lorenc, Jenny Woodman, James Thomas
Patient-reported measurement of time to diagnosis in cancer: development of the Cancer Symptom Interval Measure (C-SIM) and randomised controlled trial of method of delivery
Richard D Neal, Sadia Nafees, Diana Pasterfield, Kerenza Hood, Maggie Hendry, Simon Gollins, Matthew Makin, Nick Stuart, Jim Turner, Ben Carter, Clare Wilkinson, Nefyn Williams, Mike Robling
On the improvement of blood sample collection at clinical laboratories
Alex Grasas, Helena Ramalhinho, Luciana S Pessoa, Mauricio GC Resende, Imma Caballé, Nuria Barba
The use of annual physical examinations among the elderly in rural China: a cross-sectional study
Xi Sun, Yingchun Chen, Xuetao Tong, Zhanchun Feng, Li Wei, Donghua Zhou, Miaomiao Tian, Benyan Lv, Da Feng
Coding of obesity in administrative hospital discharge abstract data: accuracy and impact for future research studies
Billie-Jean Martin, Guanmin Chen, Michelle Graham, Hude Quan
Pressure ulcer multidisciplinary teams via telemedicine: a pragmatic cluster randomized stepped wedge trial in long term care
Anita Stern, Nicholas Mitsakakis, Mike Paulden, Shabbir Alibhai, Josephine Wong, George Tomlinson, Ann-Sylvia Brooker, Murray Krahn, Merrick Zwarenstein
The ecometric properties of a measurement instrument for prospective risk analysis in hospital departments
Steffie M van Schoten, Rebecca J Baines, Peter Spreeuwenberg, Martine C de Bruijne, Peter P Groenewegen, Jop Groeneweg, Cordula Wagner
Effect of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) point-of-care testing in OP poisoning on knowledge, attitudes and practices of treating physicians in Sri Lanka
Bishan N Rajapakse, Teresa Neeman, Nicholas A Buckley
No effect of user fee exemption on perceived quality of delivery care in Burkina Faso: a case-control study
Aline Philibert, Valéry Ridde, Aristide Bado, Pierre Fournier
Racial disparities in the use of blood transfusion in major surgery
Feng Qian, Michael P Eaton, Stewart J Lustik, Samuel F Hohmann, Carol B Diachun, Robert Pasternak, Richard N Wissler, Laurent G Glance
Village health volunteers’ social capital related to their performance in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: a cross-sectional study
Yu Sato, Tiengkham Pongvongsa, Daisuke Nonaka, Sengchanh Kounnavong, Phetsomphone Nansounthavong, Kazuhiko Moji, Panom Phongmany, Yasuhiko Kamiya, Miho Sato, Jun Kobayashi
International prevalence of adverse drug events in hospitals: an analysis of routine data from England, Germany, and the USA
Jürgen Stausberg
Development and psychometric testing of a scale assessing the sharing of medical information and interprofessional communication: the CSI scale
Emmanuelle Anthoine, Christelle Delmas, Julie Coutherut, Leïla Moret
Sociodemographic, clinical and organisational factors associated with delayed hospital discharges: a cross-sectional study
Jacopo Lenzi, Maria Mongardi, Paola Rucci, Eugenio Di Ruscio, Maria Vizioli, Concetta Randazzo, Elena Toschi, Tiziano Carradori, Maria Pia Fantini
Community participation to design rural primary healthcare services
Jane Farmer, Amy Nimegeer
Economic costs of obesity in Thailand: a retrospective cost-of-illness study
Paiboon Pitayatienanan, Rukmanee Butchon, Jomkwan Yothasamut, Wichai Aekplakorn, Yot Teerawattananon, Naeti Suksomboon, Montarat Thavorncharoensap
Learning organizations, internal marketing, and organizational commitment in hospitals
Yafang Tsai
It takes patience and persistence to get negative feedback about patients’ experiences: a secondary analysis of national inpatient survey data
David N Barron, Elizabeth West, Rachel Reeves, Denise Hawkes
A scoping study on task shifting; the case of Uganda
Sebastian Olikira Baine, Arabat Kasangaki
Behavioral health coaching for rural veterans with diabetes and depression: a patient randomized effectiveness implementation trial
Jeffrey A Cully, Jessica Y Breland, Suzanne Robertson, Anne E Utech, Natalie Hundt, Mark E Kunik, Nancy J Petersen, Nicholas Masozera, Radha Rao, Aanand D Naik
Pattern and predictors of maternal care-seeking practices for severe neonatal jaundice in Nigeria: a multi-centre survey
Chinyere V Ezeaka, Rosemary O Ugwu, Mariya Mukhtar-Yola, Ekanem N Ekure, Bolajoko O Olusanya
A qualitative exploration of discharge destination as an outcome or a driver of acute stroke care
Julie A Luker, Julie Bernhardt, Karen A Grimmer, Ian Edwards
Evaluation of a complex intervention to improve activities of daily living of disabled cancer patients: protocol for a randomised controlled study and feasibility of recruitment and intervention
Line Lindahl-Jacobsen, Dorte Gilså Hansen, Karen la Cour, Jens Søndergaard
Impact of a chronic disease self-management program on health care utilization in rural communities: a retrospective cohort study using linked administrative data
Susan B Jaglal, Sara JT Guilcher, Gillian Hawker, Wendy Lou, Nancy M Salbach, Michael Manno, Merrick Zwarenstein
A study of role expansion: a new GP role in cardiology care
Lorraine Pollard, Stephen Rogers, Jonathan Shribman, David Sprigings, Paul Sinfield
Quality and safety issues highlighted by patients in the handling of laboratory test results by general practices–a qualitative study
David Edward Cunningham, Duncan McNab, Paul Bowie
Implementing medication reconciliation from the planner’s perspective: a qualitative study
Sadie H Sanchez, Sanjum S Sethi, Susan L Santos, Kenneth Boockvar
Integration opportunities for HIV and family planning services in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: an organizational network analysis
James C Thomas, Heidi Reynolds, Christine Bevc, Ademe Tsegaye
Implementing new routines in adult mental health care to identify and support children of mentally ill parents
Camilla Lauritzen, Charlotte Reedtz, Karin TM Van Doesum, Monica Martinussen
Speaking up for patient safety by hospital-based health care professionals: a literature review
Ayako Okuyama, Cordula Wagner, Bart Bijnen
Effective policy initiatives to constrain lipid-lowering drug expenditure growth in South Korea
Green Bae, Chanmi Park, Hyejin Lee, Euna Han, Dong-Sook Kim, Sunmee Jang