Patients' and carers' views on communication and information provision when undergoing assessments in memory services.

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 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: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：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：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：: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：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：: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：:An important component of the reforms of the British National Health Service (NHS) has been devolution of a previously highly centralised pay bargaining system to the local provider level. As the wage bill is by far the single largest item of health care expenditure, the implications of this change may be far-reaching...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Gray A,Buchan J

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The economic evaluation of health care technologies has a key role within the new National Health Service health technology assessment process. There has, however, been little discussion of the best way of combining economic and clinical research. Economic evaluation should be iterative, generating progressively firme...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Sculpher M,Drummond M,Buxton M

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：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：:'Knowledge transfer' has become established as shorthand for a wide variety of activities linking the production of academic knowledge to the potential use of such knowledge in non-academic environments. While welcoming the attention now being paid to non-academic applications of social research, we contend that terms...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Davies H,Nutley S,Walter I

更新日期：2008-07-01 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: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：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：: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：:'Integrated care' is pitched as the solution to current health system challenges. In the literature, what integrated care actually involves is complex and contested. Multi-disciplinary team case management is frequently the primary focus of integrated care when implemented internationally. We examine the practical app...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Stokes J,Checkland K,Kristensen SR

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：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 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：: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：: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 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：: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：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：: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：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：: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：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