End-of-life decisions: the policy issue that will not die.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Physician gender may be a source of differences in communication between physicians and their patients, which may in turn contribute to patient satisfaction and other outcomes. Our aim was to review systematically research on gender differences in the length, style and content of communication with patients. ...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Jefferson L,Bloor K,Birks Y,Hewitt C,Bland M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the organisational factors that impede or facilitate transition of young people from child and adolescent (CAMHS) to adult mental health services (AMHS). METHODS:Thirty-four semi-structured interviews were conducted with health and social care professionals working in child and adult services...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Belling R,McLaren S,Paul M,Ford T,Kramer T,Weaver T,Hovish K,Islam Z,White S,Singh SP

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The National Health Insurance (NHI) system in Taiwan launched a trial capitation provider payment programme in 2011, with the capitation formula based on patients' average NHI expenditure in the previous year. This study seeks to examine the concentration and persistence of health care expenditure among the ...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Ku LJ,Chiou MJ,Liu LF

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Access to cardiac treatments has been documented to vary with patients' age. It is unknown whether these variations reflect patients' treatment preferences. We aimed to investigate patients' preferences for cardiology treatments and develop a Patients' Preferences Questionnaire. METHODS:Semi-structured inte...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Bowling A,Reeves B,Rowe G

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been much speculation about whether the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has, or ought to have, a 'threshold' figure for the cost of an additional quality-adjusted life-year above which a technology will not be recommended for use. We argue that it is not constitutionally appropri...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Culyer A,McCabe C,Briggs A,Claxton K,Buxton M,Akehurst R,Sculpher M,Brazier J

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:The incorporation of genetics into health services research has largely floundered, despite the rapidly accelerating availability of, and access to, such data. This is expected given the ethical questions involved. However, using these new resources robustly to examine population choices when it comes to health insure...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Fluegge K

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research can contribute to resolving some of the workforce challenges that all heath care systems face. In an attempt to identify the research agenda, key stakeholders in the UK were brought together and background papers were presented by academics with expertise in seven related but distinct areas: global issues; pr...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Black N,Rafferty AM,West E,Gough P

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People with serious and persistent mental illness require a range of community services typically provided by different specialized agencies. At the clinical level, assertive team case management is the strategy commonly used to achieve integration of services across specialized sectors. The USA also has used various ...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Mechanic D

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rationales used in chiropractic are largely in keeping with current evidence-based guidance. When listening to debates for and against the scientific basis of chiropractic, it is important to be aware of the selective use of evidence on both sides and of the limitations of logical positivistic arguments when it co...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Breen A

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper is to expand understanding of academic-practitioner knowledge-sharing in the service of enhanced knowledge creation in health care. To this end, we describe the tacit and explicit knowledge of academics and practitioners and how this knowledge exists within their communities of practice. We a...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Bartunek J,Trullen J,Bonet E,Sauquet A

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：:It has previously been suggested that the English Department of Health seems, wittingly or not, to have drawn on the experiences of Stalinist Russia in devising policies for the National Health Service. The development of general practitioner fundholding during the 1990s could be compared to the Soviet support for the...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Clegg K

更新日期：2000-07-01 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：:Continuity of care is concerned with the quality of care over time. There are two important perspectives on this. Traditionally, continuity of care is idealized in the patient's experience of a 'continuous caring relationship' with an identified health care professional. For providers in vertically integrated systems ...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Gulliford M,Naithani S,Morgan M

更新日期：2006-10-01 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 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：OBJECTIVES:In developed countries, community pharmacists are increasingly involved in clinical care. This study aimed to explore the acceptability to users of pharmaceutical care (drug therapy monitoring and management) provided in Portuguese community pharmacies, thereby informing future practice, policy and research....

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Guerreiro M,Cantrill J,Martins P

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The effects of demographic, locational and socio-economic disadvantage, and the influence of private health care on five-year mortality rates in patients with lung cancer or after breast cancer surgery in Western Australia were examined. METHODS:The Western Australian Record Linkage Project was used to extra...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Hall S,Holman CD,Sheiner H,Hendrie D

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the effect of a risk factor checklist and training video for general practitioners in reducing inter-practice variation and improving the appropriateness of referrals (assessed by their positive predictive value or PPV) of patients with suspected otitis media with effusion (OME or 'glue ear') to ...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Bennett K,Haggard M,Churchill R,Wood S

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Poor people receive shorter consultations in general practice than more affluent people. Our aim was to study the two reasons generally advanced for this for patients consulting with mental health problems: people of low socioeconomic status (SES) demand shorter consultations or they tend to match with practi...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Videau Y,Saliba-Serre B,Paraponaris A,Ventelou B

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To test the effects of adding text messages to weekly email communications on recipients' total physical activity (leisure-time; workplace; domestic and garden; and active transportation) in employees of universities and colleges in the UK. METHODS:A randomised trial with two study groups (email only or ema...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Suggs S,Blake H,Bardus M,Lloyd S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review the foundations of resource allocation rules based on cost-effectiveness information. Comprehensive approaches, where a total budget is allocated in one go, require estimation of the costs and effects of all available health care programmes, which is unlikely to be practical. A common alternative is to asses...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Lord J,Laking G,Fischer A

更新日期：2004-10-01 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：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：:Diagnosis-related groups are widespread across Europe and they are meant to be a central instrument to improve the activity and efficiency of hospitals. However, there are many examples of diagnosis-related groups having adverse effects which are difficult to control and which endanger the goals of health care systems...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Sørensen ML,Burau V

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To identify factors that explain patient satisfaction with general practice physicians and hence that may drive patients' choice of practice. METHODS:Logistic regression analysis of English National Health Service national patient survey data is used to identify the aspects of general practice care that are...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Robertson R,Dixon A,Le Grand J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare open heart surgery services provided by public and private hospitals in Catalonia (Spain) according to case mix, procedures undergone and surgical mortality. METHODS:Data on all adult patients undergoing open heart surgery procedures were collected prospectively in a sample of public and privatel...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Pons J,Moreno V,Borras J,Espinas J,Almazan C,Granados A

更新日期：1999-04-01 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:To conduct an economic evaluation comparing a traditional antenatal visiting schedule (traditional care) with a reduced schedule of visits (new style care) for women at low risk of complications. METHODS:Economic evaluation using the results of a randomised controlled trial, the Antenatal Care Project. This...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Henderson J,Roberts T,Sikorski J,Wilson J,Clement S

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00