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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：OBJECTIVE:the nature of care delivered in emergency departments has changed due to increased demand. In response, one relatively new change is the introduction of a physiotherapy service. There have been anecdotal reports that this may reduce patient waiting times and lead to more effective use of other health care sta...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Kilner E

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：: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：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：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：: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：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：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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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：OBJECTIVES:The nine NIHR CLAHRCs are collaborations between universities and local NHS organizations that seek to improve patient outcomes through the conduct and application of applied health research. The theoretical and practical context within which the CLAHRCs were set up was characterized by a considerable degree...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Soper B,Yaqub O,Hinrichs S,Marjanovich S,Drabble S,Hanney S,Nolte E

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：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：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：: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：: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：: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：:Almost everything you know about heroin addiction is wrong. Not only is it wrong, but it is obviously wrong. Heroin is not highly addictive; withdrawal from it is not medically serious; addicts do not become criminals to feed their habit; addicts do not need any medical assistance to stop taking heroin; and contrary t...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Dalrymple T

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：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：:Patients are increasingly using the internet to access information on health care and services, as well as writing reviews of their own experiences. With patient choice increasing in many health systems, payers, purchasers and providers are attempting to take control of this trend by designing and managing their own p...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Trigg L

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：:This paper analyses likely implications of two recent European Court rulings on the provision of health care across borders within the European Union. We argue that the two cases have fundamental implications for the provision of health services as free access to care across borders conflicts with the principle of sub...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Kanavos P,McKee M

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We summarise and evaluate Harris' criticisms of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) and the alternative processes he commends to health care decision makers. In contrast to CEA, Harris' asserts that individuals have a right to life-saving treatment that cannot be denied on the basis of their capacity to benefit. We conc...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Edlin R,McCabe C,Round J,Wright J,Claxton K,Sculpher M,Cookson R

更新日期：2013-01-01 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: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