Research results have expiration dates: ensuring timely systematic reviews.

abstract：:Performance indicators for healthcare organizations represent a strategy for accountability worldwide. A universal approach to either the design for indicators or their applicability to local needs remains a work in progress. The Maryland Hospital Association's Quality Indicator Project (QIP) is the only indicator-bas...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Kazandjian VA,Matthes N,Wicker KG

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:It has been proposed that delivery should be accomplished within 30 minutes after diagnosis of fetal distress. The objective of this study was to determine the decision-to-delivery interval (DDI) in emergency caesarean delivery for non-reassuring fetal heart rate (FHR). METHODS:A total o...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Boriboonhirunsarn D,Watananirun K,Sompagdee N

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strand and Parkkinen criticize our dispositional account of causation in evidence-based medicine for failing to provide a proper epistemology of causal knowledge. In particular, they claim that we do not explain how causal inferences should be drawn. In response, we point out that dispositionalism does indeed have an ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Kerry R,Eriksen TE,Noer Lie SA,Mumford S,Anjum RL

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Pulmonary aspiration is a feared complication of anaesthesia that is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Within the small existing body of literature on medical malpractice claims related to periprocedural aspiration, very little information is available regarding the case...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Eltorai AS

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Variability in indications for total hip replacement (THR) and unequal waiting times may limit health care access. OBJECTIVE:To analyse the relationship between appropriateness and previously developed surgical priority instruments. METHOD:Multicentre cross-validation study of patients placed on the waiting...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Allepuz A,Quintana JM,Espallargues M,Escobar A,Moharra M,Arostegui I

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Nurses' work is inextricably linked to the evaluation of the quality of care provision in health care. Within this evaluation, individualized care is a topical theme in western countries. Currently, there is no suitable instrument to measure the level of individualized care from the nurses' point of view. AI...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Suhonen R,Gustafsson ML,Katajisto J,Välimäki M,Leino-Kilpi H

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES:Focusing on the implementation of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for the management of adult cancers, the objectives of this study were to (a) describe the intrinsic elements known to influence CPG use; (b) identify the ways in which CPGs are implemented; and (c) explore how CPG cha...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Urquhart R,Woodside H,Kendell C,Porter GA

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of renal transplantation have improved steadily over the years. This article reviews the current status of patient and graft survival and discusses major causes of mortality and renal allograft failure. Review of recent literature demonstrates that the traditional enemies of transplantation, acute rejection an...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Jurewicz WA,Miles A

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Handovers within and between health care settings are known to affect quality of care. Health care organizations, struggle how to guarantee best care during handovers. The aim of this paper is to evaluate handover practices in Dutch birth centres from a process perspective, to identify ob...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Hitzert M,Boesveld IC,Hermus MAA,de Graaf JP,Wiegers TA,Steegers EAP,Meijboom BR,Akkermans HA

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES:Ward rounds present opportunities for medical officers, nurses, allied health clinicians, and patients to interact and plan patient care. A recent literature review found eight types of rounding processes. Different purposes, varying levels of representation from clinical professions, an...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Walton V,Hogden A,Long JC,Johnson J,Greenfield D

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system approach termed P4 medicine has recently been proposed in the field of oncology. This approach has been advanced as an extension of what is usually called 'personalized' or 'genomic medicine'. P4 medicine creates effective predictive, personalized, preventive and participatory models to treat patients. In ord...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Pravettoni G,Gorini A

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare glycaemic control, as reflected in the A1c level, of diabetic patients with primary care vs. with specialist care. METHODS:The study used administrative data from eastern Ontario, Canada, and a database containing the results of all A1c tests from this region between 1 September 1999 and 1 Septemb...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Shah BR,Hux JE,Laupacis A,Mdcm BZ,Austin PC,van Walraven C

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Switzerland, there is a dearth of information on the extent to which patients with chronic illnesses receive care congruent with the Chronic Care Model (CCM). To drive quality improvement programmes, it is necessary to have practical assessment tools in the country's own language to evaluate the delivery ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Steurer-Stey C,Frei A,Schmid-Mohler G,Malcolm-Kohler S,Zoller M,Rosemann T

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outcomes assessment holds great promise to improve the quality and efficiency of health care. By subjecting practices to rigorous and systematic analysis, we should be in a position to make judgments about what does and does not work in clinical practice. However, the outcomes of outcomes assessment themselves should ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Gunderman R

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence-based health care (EBHC), previously evidence-based medicine (EBM), is considered by many to have modernized health care and brought it from an authority-based past to a more rationalist, scientific grounding. But recent concerns and criticisms pose serious challenges and urge us to look at the fundamentals o...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Wieringa S,Engebretsen E,Heggen K,Greenhalgh T

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:This study aimed to apply the 'systems approach' to patient safety in order to identify causes for delays and errors in lung cancer diagnoses following an abnormal chest radiograph. METHODS:In the first part of this study, the systems approach to patient safety was comprehensively review...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Bhaludin BN,Shelmerdine SC,Arora S,Senbanjo T,Parthipun A

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sturmberg et al write about multimorbidity as "several diagnosable diseases within the same individual." They posit that this syndrome is the result of multiple interconnected disturbances reflecting scale-free, fractal signs of pathology ranging from biochemical/hormonal alterations at one end of a spectrum to commun...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Cohn J

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Data about health care organizations (HCOs) are not useful until they are interpreted. Such interpretations are influenced by the theoretical lenses used by the researcher. OBJECTIVE:Our purpose was to suggest the usefulness of theories of complex adaptive systems (CASs) in guiding research interpretation. S...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Jordon M,Lanham HJ,Anderson RA,McDaniel RR Jr

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the methodological limitations identified in a recent authoritative US report by the Public Health Service, which provides the theoretical background to several other guidelines on cost effectiveness, such as those of the British Medical Journal. It places each limitation in context and discusses ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Raftery J

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Access to appointments in primary care is not routinely measured, and there is no one standardized method for doing so. Any measurement tool has to take account of the dynamic status of appointment availability and the definitional problems of appointment types. The aim of this study was to develop and trial a method ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Elwyn G,Jones W,Rhydderch M,Edwards P

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:The American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) statin guidelines recommend that people with risk of cardio-vascular disease (CVD) ≥7.5% over 10 years should be treated with statins. This recommendation ignores individual patient CVD risks and preferences. We c...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Djulbegovic B,Tsalatsanis A,Hozo I

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research indicates that multifaceted practice development (PD) interventions are more effective than single strategies. However, models of education in health care need to consider cost-effectiveness. OBJECTIVES:This paper presents a research-based, PD theory called the Individual Practice Development Theor...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Melton J,Forsyth K,Freeth D

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Independent qualitative evaluation of a project designed to ensure that clinical policy in specific areas of care in three obstetric units within one English health district was based on authoritative evidence. Data from nonparticipant observation, interviews, questionnaires and documents were combined to generate a d...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Humphrey C,Berrow D

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Work on resilience in health and illness has been approached from a number of perspectives. These are the biological and psychosocial with a focus on the individual's responses to cope and adapt to changing circumstances wrought by changing physical health states. This we argue has a place but is far too narrow emphas...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Walker C,Peterson CL

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Comparisons of the performance of health care providers are increasingly being used. Despite one key audience being clinicians, there has been little research on the format and content of such comparisons. Our aim was to explore clinicians' comprehension and preferences of format and cont...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Allwood D,Hildon Z,Black N

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:This paper reports an initiative which promoted evidence-based practice in pressure risk assessment and management among home nursing clients in Melbourne, Australia. AIM AND OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to evaluate the introduction and uptake of the Australian Wound Management Association Guidelines...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Kapp S

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obese people consume significantly greater amounts of health resources. This study set out to determine if health resource utilization by obese people decreases after losing weight in a comprehensive medically supervised weight management programme. Four hundred and fifty-six patients enrolled in a single-centred, mul...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： van Walraven C,Dent R

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVE:Low back pain (LBP) care can involve many providers. The provider chosen for entry into care may predict future health care utilization and costs. The objective of this study was to explore associations between entry settings and future LBP-related utilization and costs. METHODS:A retrosp...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Fritz JM,Kim J,Dorius J

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES:Little attention has been given to perceptions of pharmacist availability and role in the community setting following policy changes. The Pakistani model is particularly interesting as it encompasses three different pharmacy practice licensure types with major differences in credentials,...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Qadeer G,Amin MEK

更新日期：2020-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Doctors often use theory to inform medical practice. The current bio-psycho-social model of health may be advanced still further with theoretical rigour. Traditional fields of thermodynamics and newer fields of non-linear dynamics including chaos theory and complex systems science can inform our understanding of the c...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Topolski S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00