Patient choice in general practice: the implications of patient satisfaction surveys.

abstract：:Discussion of unanticipated problems in care with patients and their families ('open disclosure') is now widely advocated. Despite international efforts and the introduction of a range of policies and guidance to promote such discussions, the expectations of policy makers and patients are often not matched in practice...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Birks Y,Entwistle V,Harrison R,Bosanquet K,Watt I,Iedema R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the tensions across the primary-secondary interface when referral from primary care is to a team and to inform service developments in other specialties. METHODS:A nested qualitative study within a randomized controlled trial of primary care and Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) in Croydon and...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Chew-Graham C,Slade M,Montâna C,Stewart M,Gask L

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To review the impact of payment systems on the behaviour of primary care physicians. METHODS:All randomised trials, controlled before and after studies, and interrupted time series studies that compared capitation, salary, fee-for-service or target payments (mixed or separately) that were identified by compu...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Gosden T,Forland F,Kristiansen IS,Sutton M,Leese B,Giuffrida A,Sergison M,Pedersen L

更新日期：2001-01-01 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:Successful partnership working has theoretically been linked to improvements in service delivery and is dependent on the strength of the partnership, trust, communication, professional roles and resource sharing. Empirical evidence to confirm the relationships between these factors and improved service provi...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Pow J,Elliott L,Raeside R,Themessl-Huber M,Claveirole A

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hospitals are awash with patient experience data, much of it collected with the ostensible purpose of improving the quality of patient care. However, there has been comparatively little consideration of the nature and capacities of data itself. Using insights from actor-network theory, we propose that paying attention...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Desai A,Zoccatelli G,Adams M,Allen D,Brearley S,Rafferty AM,Robert G,Donetto S

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To illustrate the complexity of setting up evaluative research when it is perceived to threaten professional and financial interests. METHODS:A case study based on participatory observation of attempts to study the delivery and health consequences of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Two research projects were ...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Hemminki E

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：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：OBJECTIVES:Increasingly health care performance data are being disseminated in the form of 'league tables' of health care providers, with the implication that such publication helps purchasers select the better providers, and spurs providers into improvements. This paper examines progress to date. METHODS:Three stages...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Nutley S,Smith PC

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：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：: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：AIMS:To evaluate the extent to which structural variation between English general practices is accounted for at higher organisational levels in the National Health Service (NHS). METHODS:We analysed data for 11 structural characteristics of all general practices in England. These included characteristics of general pr...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Adams G,Gulliford M,Ukoumunne O,Chinn S,Campbell M

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：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：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：: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：: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：INTRODUCTION:Levels of management staffing in the UK National Health Service (NHS) have received considerable political and media attention in the last four years or so. Both the previous and current governments committed themselves to reducing management expenditure in the health service, and significant cuts appear t...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Söderlund N

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To demonstrate the benefits of applying meta ethnography to the synthesis of qualitative research, by means of a worked example. METHODS:Four papers about lay meanings of medicines were arbitrarily chosen. Noblit and Hare's seven-step process for conducting a meta ethnography was employed: getting started; ...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Britten N,Campbell R,Pope C,Donovan J,Morgan M,Pill R

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To explore patients' and carers' views on what constitutes high-quality communication and information provision during diagnostic assessment in memory clinic services in three areas of England. METHODS:Interviews with 27 people with cognitive impairment (13 with confirmed dementia) and 26 carers (20 matched...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Abley C,Manthorpe J,Bond J,Keady J,Samsi K,Campbell S,Watts S,Robinson L

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：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：OBJECTIVES:To estimate the costs and potential efficiency gains of changing the frequency of clinic appointments and drug dispensing arrangements for stable HIV patients compared to the costs of hospital pharmacy dispensing and home delivery. METHODS:We estimated the annual costs per patient (HIV clinic visits and eit...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Adams E,Ogden D,Ehrlich A,Hay P

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To explain recent rapid audited change in the uptake of locally implemented, evidence-based clinical guidelines for asthma and angina in primary care. METHODS:A case study of primary care in two matched, adjacent districts in Northern England, focusing on a stratified random sample of 49 general practitioner...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Harrison S,Dowswell G,Wright J,Russell I

更新日期：2003-07-01 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