An economic analysis of implementing the SIGN third molar guideline: implications for the design and analysis of implementation studies.

abstract：:This article raises the concern that biobanks are failing to realize the expected research and health service outcomes. Rather than biobanking, we have been engaging in 'biohoarding', where building a quantifiable collection of tissue samples is the primary basis of the bio-resource. The root cause of 'biohoarding' is...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Catchpoole D

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To establish current guidance and practice in UK on presentation of indirect comparison and mixed treatment comparison analyses; to provide recommendations to improve indirect comparison/mixed treatment comparison reporting and to identify research priorities for improved presentation. METHODS:Existing inst...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Tan SH,Bujkiewicz S,Sutton A,Dequen P,Cooper N

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：:Health services researchers have an important role to play in helping health care systems around the world provide high quality, affordable services. However, gaps between the best evidence and current practice suggest that researchers need to work in new ways. The production of research that meets the needs and prior...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Barratt H,Shaw J,Simpson L,Bhatia S,Fulop N

更新日期：2017-10-01 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 determine the extent to which reports of Cochrane reviews recommend the need for further research and, if so, the extent to which they make suggestions regarding that research. METHODS:We examined all 2535 reviews in Issue 4, 2005 of The Cochrane Library. Each review was categorized on the basis of wheth...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Clarke L,Clarke M,Clarke T

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Knowledge transfer' has become established as shorthand for a wide variety of activities linking the production of academic knowledge to the potential use of such knowledge in non-academic environments. While welcoming the attention now being paid to non-academic applications of social research, we contend that terms...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Davies H,Nutley S,Walter I

更新日期：2008-07-01 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: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：:This paper deals with three concerns about the evaluative framework that is currently dominant within health economics. These concerns are: that the evaluative framework is concerned entirely with health; that the evaluative framework has an individualistic focus on patients alone; and that the methods used to estimat...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Coast J,Flynn T,Sutton E,Al-Janabi H,Vosper J,Lavender S,Louviere J,Peters T

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore the relationship between ethnicity, socioeconomic deprivation and utilization of general practice. METHODS:Data routinely collected by New Zealand general practices in 2001 were analysed using generalized linear regression. RESULTS:The mean number of doctor consultations for registered individua...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Health Utilisation Research Alliance (HURA).

更新日期：2006-07-01 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：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Automated pharmacy data have been used to develop a measure of chronic disease status in the general population. The objectives of this project were to refine and apply a model of chronic disease identification using Italian automated pharmacy data; to describe how this model may identify patt...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Maio V,Yuen E,Rabinowitz C,Louis D,Jimbo M,Donatini A,Mall S,Taroni F

更新日期：2005-10-01 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：: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：:Moral hazard in public insurance for long-term care may be counteracted by strategies influencing supply or demand. Demand-side strategies may target the patient or the insurer. Various demand-side strategies and how they are implemented in four European countries (Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands) ar...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Bakx P,Chernichovsky D,Paolucci F,Schokkaert E,Trottmann M,Wasem J,Schut F

更新日期：2015-07-01 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: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：OBJECTIVE:Cost-utility analysis is gaining importance as a tool for setting priorities in health care. The approach requires quality-of-life weights on a scale from 0.00 (corresponding to death) to 1.00 (corresponding to perfect health). Different methods and perspectives of the evaluators tend to give different result...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Arnesen T,Trommald M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore some of the impacts of star performance ratings in acute hospital trusts in England. METHODS:A multiple case study design was used which incorporated purposeful sampling of 'low' and 'high' performing trusts using the star rating system. In each case study site, data collection comprised semi-stru...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Mannion R,Davies H,Marshall M

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：: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：:The study, first published in 2003, looks at the root causes of adverse events and near misses in obstetrics at seven hospital maternity units by interviewing 93 members of staff, identifying the areas of mismanagement in each case and thematically analysing them. ...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Ashcroft B

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：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:English primary care organisations (primary care groups and trusts - PCGs, PCTs) were, and are, responsible for the quality of general practice but lack hierarchical structures and, frequently, contractual relationships through which to influence it. The theory of soft governance describes how managers can i...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Sheaff R,Sibbald B,Campbell S,Roland M,Marshall M,Pickard S,Gask L,Rogers A,Halliwell S

更新日期：2004-07-01 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：OBJECTIVES:The National Service Framework (NSF) for Coronary Heart Disease--published by the English Department of Health in 2000--sets out how those within the health service should seek to prevent and treat coronary heart disease and care for people with the disease. Its prescriptions are partly based on what is know...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Rayner M,Scarborough P,Allender S

更新日期：2006-04-01 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