Patients' opinions of health care providers for supporting choice and quality improvement.

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：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:To examine the extent to which proximity to the income threshold for free GP care results in significant differences in GP visiting. Approximately 30% of the Irish population receives free GP care (medical card patients), while the remaining 70% pays in full (private patients). Medical card eligibility exert...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Nolan A

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To assess the role of economics, in combination with clinical judgement, for setting research priorities, using osteoporosis prevention (and, as a result, hip fracture prevention) as an example. METHODS:Modelling the cost and effectiveness of each of six potential interventions to prevent hip fractures over...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Torgerson D,Donaldson C,Reid D

更新日期：1996-07-01 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

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: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 understand the challenges and opportunities associated with the introduction of assistant practitioner (AP) roles supporting the work of ward-based registered nurses (RNs) in National Health Service (NHS) acute hospital trusts in England. METHODS:Three case studies of NHS acute hospital trusts. This pape...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Spilsbury K,Adamson J,Atkin K,Bloor K,Carr-Hill R,McCaughan D,McKenna H,Wakefield A

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：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：: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: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：: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：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：: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：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: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：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：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：: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：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 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：: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：:Policy-makers and managers have always used a wide range of sources of evidence in making decisions about policy and the organization of services. However, they are under increasing pressure to adopt a more systematic approach to the utilization of the complex evidence base. Decision-makers must address complicated qu...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Mays N,Pope C,Popay J

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：BACKGROUND:Scholarship cites health care managers (HCMs) as not using research evidence in their management practice. The purpose of this review was to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to enhance HCMs use of research evidence in practice. METHODS:We carried out a systematic review and focus groups to valida...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Tate K,Hewko S,McLane P,Baxter P,Perry K,Armijo-Olivo S,Estabrooks C,Gordon D,Cummings G

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：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：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