Partnership working and improved service delivery: views of staff providing sexual health services.

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 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：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：OBJECTIVE:Non-surgical treatment can be effective for many musculoskeletal conditions. Improving access to these options may improve the efficiency of hospitals. The Orthopaedic Physiotherapy Screening Clinic and Multidisciplinary Service offers early comprehensive assessment and coordinated, patient-centred care withi...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Comans T,Raymer M,O'Leary S,Smith D,Scuffham P

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：: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: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: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：:Understanding the environmental and behavioural predictors of wellbeing is a key driver of health and social care research. Research set in the social world examines the relationships between behavioural, cognitive, emotional and environmental factors, linking these to disease or social ills with the aim of providing ...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Jones M,Johnston D

更新日期：2011-07-01 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: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：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：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether geographical areas with relatively low overall hospitalization rates have higher population-based rates of admission of patients with advanced stages of disease. METHODS:Age- and sex-standardized hospital admission rate were calculated for the residents of the 80 Local Health Units in L...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Taroni F,Repetto F,Louis DZ,Moro ML,Yuen EJ,Gonnella JS

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：: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：: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 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 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 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 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：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

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：: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：: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：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:To conduct an economic evaluation comparing a traditional antenatal visiting schedule (traditional care) with a reduced schedule of visits (new style care) for women at low risk of complications. METHODS:Economic evaluation using the results of a randomised controlled trial, the Antenatal Care Project. This...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Henderson J,Roberts T,Sikorski J,Wilson J,Clement S

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The effects of demographic, locational and socio-economic disadvantage, and the influence of private health care on five-year mortality rates in patients with lung cancer or after breast cancer surgery in Western Australia were examined. METHODS:The Western Australian Record Linkage Project was used to extra...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Hall S,Holman CD,Sheiner H,Hendrie D

更新日期：2004-10-01 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：: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