Integrating mental health services through reimbursement reform and managed mental health care.

abstract：:The way that public involvement in research has been evaluated as a complex intervention has derailed the development of an evidence base. Two alternative approaches are available for constructing and evaluating patient involvement, each of which requires us to revisit the purposes and values that underpin it in each ...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Edelman N,Barron D

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most jurisdictions, public policy regarding assisted death has not advanced beyond simple prohibition. However, this issue is increasingly likely to reach the policy agenda. Policy-makers may be tempted to turn for guidance to the three places in the world with developed policy or legislation: the Netherlands; the ...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Shortt S,Lavery J

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Randomized controlled trials are important for evaluating health care interventions, but recruitment can be difficult. Studies of potential participants' perspectives on trial participation are accumulating, but their collective contribution is not obvious. In 2007, we conducted a meta-ethnographic synthesis...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： McCann S,Campbell M,Entwistle V

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Capital Health (CH) region in Alberta serves the population of the Edmonton area as well as a large referral population in western Canada. CH is responsible for the delivery of the spectrum of patient care, from inpatient to outpatient services. Growth in outpatient care, in particular, has led to the de...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Taylor D,Lahey M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medicaid waivers have been a principal tool of innovation in health policy in the US since at least the mid 1970s. As Republicans seek to give the states more flexibility in their implementation and management of both Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act or its replacement, waiver authority is likely to be one of the ...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Weissert CS,Weissert WG

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the role of economics, in combination with clinical judgement, for setting research priorities, using osteoporosis prevention (and, as a result, hip fracture prevention) as an example. METHODS:Modelling the cost and effectiveness of each of six potential interventions to prevent hip fractures over...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Torgerson D,Donaldson C,Reid D

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Limited resources mean that decision-makers must set priorities among competing opportunities. Programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA) is an economic approach that focuses on optimizing benefits with available resources. Accountability for reasonableness (A4R) is an ethics approach that focuses on en...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Gibson J,Mitton C,Martin D,Donaldson C,Singer P

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess whether it is feasible to elicit patients' preferences for treatments and then to proceed with randomisation which may allocate those with preferences to their less preferred treatment; and to describe which prognostic variables were associated with such preferences within the context of a randomis...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Torgerson DJ,Klaber-Moffett J,Russell IT

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Health Service (NHS) in England is not only a commissioner and provider of health care to the sick, but also offers certainty and peace of mind to all citizens--even those who do not use the health service in any year. However, due to the recent dominance of cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analysis as...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Vaithianathan R,Lewis G

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Though the science of medicine subscribes to learning from best practices and the transmission of superior treatment regimens across national boundaries, the same ethos does not inform political debates surrounding health system reform. The Canadian and English health systems have been used - and, more frequently - ab...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Ehlke D

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The introduction of an internal market in the British National Health Service (NHS) has highlighted the importance of developing appropriate, valid and timely measures of hospital activity, both for the purposes of specifying and monitoring contracts and for evaluating the success of the NHS reforms in gener...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Söderlund N,Gray A,Milne R,Raftery J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This paper focuses upon health status, need for care, and use of health care from 1994/95 to 2000/01 in the Canadian foreign-born population. METHODS:Using Statistics Canada's longitudinal National Population Health Survey, descriptive and survival analyses are used to explore immigrant health status and he...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Newbold B

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The economic evaluation of health care technologies has a key role within the new National Health Service health technology assessment process. There has, however, been little discussion of the best way of combining economic and clinical research. Economic evaluation should be iterative, generating progressively firme...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Sculpher M,Drummond M,Buxton M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Improvements in health service provision need not be costly and indeed may save money. Administration of radio iodine ((131)I) to patients with thyrotoxicosis in the UK is often delayed because few endocrinologists have appropriate Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee (ARSAC) certifica...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Singh R,Aitken M

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Non-surgical treatment can be effective for many musculoskeletal conditions. Improving access to these options may improve the efficiency of hospitals. The Orthopaedic Physiotherapy Screening Clinic and Multidisciplinary Service offers early comprehensive assessment and coordinated, patient-centred care withi...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Comans T,Raymer M,O'Leary S,Smith D,Scuffham P

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence-based medicine (EBM) and evidence-based decision-making (EBDM) were intended to revolutionize health care and health policy. Thus far they have not. A great deal of research has demonstrated the persistent ubiquity of error in health care, wide and unjustifiable variations in practice and the minimal impact o...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Lewis S

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To identify the barriers to shifting services from secondary to primary care perceived by the involved stakeholders. METHODS:Forty-five semi-structured interviews with stakeholders from primary care, acute and community hospitals, purchasers (health authorities) and other agencies involved in two contrastin...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： O'Cathain A,Musson G,Munro J

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This essay considers some limitations of programme theory evaluation in relation to healthcare policies. This approach, which seeks to surface 'programme theories' or construct 'logic models', is often unable to account for empirical observations of policy implementation in real-world contexts. I argue that this failu...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Jones L

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether geographical areas with relatively low overall hospitalization rates have higher population-based rates of admission of patients with advanced stages of disease. METHODS:Age- and sex-standardized hospital admission rate were calculated for the residents of the 80 Local Health Units in L...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Taroni F,Repetto F,Louis DZ,Moro ML,Yuen EJ,Gonnella JS

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Integrated care' is pitched as the solution to current health system challenges. In the literature, what integrated care actually involves is complex and contested. Multi-disciplinary team case management is frequently the primary focus of integrated care when implemented internationally. We examine the practical app...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Stokes J,Checkland K,Kristensen SR

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effectiveness and cost of obtaining consent for review of medical records within the passively observed non-intervention arm of a cluster randomized controlled trial, 'Comparison Arm for ProtecT'. METHODS:Two hundred and thirty men, who had been notified to the trial by cancer registries as h...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Noble S,Donovan J,Turner E,Metcalfe C,Lane A,Rowlands MA,Neal D,Hamdy F,Ben-Shlomo Y,Martin R

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To critically evaluate the quality of hospital medical care at the beginning, during and shortly after regionalization of health boards in Newfoundland and Labrador, and aggregation of hospitals in the St John's region. METHODS:Retrospective chart audits for the years 1995/96, 1998/99 and 2000/01 (at the be...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Curtis B,Gregory D,Parfrey P,Kent G,Jelinski S,Kraft S,O'Reilly D,Barrett B

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The assessment of any health care intervention should consider both risks and benefits and take patients' preferences about these into account. The study reported in this paper aimed to elicit patient valuations of health states relevant to assessment of the prevention of stroke by warfarin antic...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Robinson A,Thomson R,Parkin D,Sudlow M,Eccles M

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The United States Government's Medicaid expansion policy has important implications for health centres, since a large proportion of health centre patients are Medicaid enrollees. The objective of this study was to compare primary care utilization and clinical quality performance between health centres in Med...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Lee DC,Shi L,Liang H

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health services research must continually address the question: Under what conditions may data not collected specifically for research, such as primary medical data, be re-used for research without compromising the privacy of the data-subjects? For secondary use of data in research there are basically three options. O...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Lowrance W

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the influence of the English National Health Service (NHS) South and West (S&W) region Development and Evaluation Committee (DEC) technology appraisal reports on purchasing and clinical decisions in the S&W and elsewhere in the NHS, and to estimate the cost of the DEC process. METHODS:Two postal ...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Dixon S,Coleman P,Nicholl J,Brennan A,Touch S

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:to determine the extent and nature of the decisions individuals are asked to make as in-patients, and whether doctors, nurses, other health care practitioners, and housekeepers engaged in routine (non-emergency) medical assessments, investigations and treatments, or acts of personal care observe the Referenc...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Redley M,Keeley H,Clare I,Hinds D,Luke L,Holland A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scholarship cites health care managers (HCMs) as not using research evidence in their management practice. The purpose of this review was to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to enhance HCMs use of research evidence in practice. METHODS:We carried out a systematic review and focus groups to valida...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Tate K,Hewko S,McLane P,Baxter P,Perry K,Armijo-Olivo S,Estabrooks C,Gordon D,Cummings G

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper takes an overview of the organizational and managerial literature on recent large-scale change efforts within health care organizations. Such literature refers to issues of enhanced policy significance, as a succession of such changes has swept through health care, at an international level. Interpretive an...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Ferlie E

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Effective use of staff is a major aim in all health-care systems both to maximize their impact and to minimize costs. In England, a few general practitioners (GPs) have been recruiting physician assistants (PAs) to work in their practices, independent of any pilot schemes. Our objective was to study the motiv...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Drennan V,Levenson R,Halter M,Tye C

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00