Variations in the persistence of health expenditures and the implications for the design of capitation payments in Taiwan.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore some of the impacts of star performance ratings in acute hospital trusts in England. METHODS:A multiple case study design was used which incorporated purposeful sampling of 'low' and 'high' performing trusts using the star rating system. In each case study site, data collection comprised semi-stru...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Mannion R,Davies H,Marshall M

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：: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：OBJECTIVES:To compare open heart surgery services provided by public and private hospitals in Catalonia (Spain) according to case mix, procedures undergone and surgical mortality. METHODS:Data on all adult patients undergoing open heart surgery procedures were collected prospectively in a sample of public and privatel...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Pons J,Moreno V,Borras J,Espinas J,Almazan C,Granados A

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：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：:It has previously been suggested that the English Department of Health seems, wittingly or not, to have drawn on the experiences of Stalinist Russia in devising policies for the National Health Service. The development of general practitioner fundholding during the 1990s could be compared to the Soviet support for the...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Clegg K

更新日期：2000-07-01 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：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: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：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：BACKGROUND:The Capital Health (CH) region in Alberta serves the population of the Edmonton area as well as a large referral population in western Canada. CH is responsible for the delivery of the spectrum of patient care, from inpatient to outpatient services. Growth in outpatient care, in particular, has led to the de...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Taylor D,Lahey M

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：: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：: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：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：: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：OBJECTIVE:Effective use of staff is a major aim in all health-care systems both to maximize their impact and to minimize costs. In England, a few general practitioners (GPs) have been recruiting physician assistants (PAs) to work in their practices, independent of any pilot schemes. Our objective was to study the motiv...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Drennan V,Levenson R,Halter M,Tye C

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：:Health services research must continually address the question: Under what conditions may data not collected specifically for research, such as primary medical data, be re-used for research without compromising the privacy of the data-subjects? For secondary use of data in research there are basically three options. O...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Lowrance W

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuity of care is concerned with the quality of care over time. There are two important perspectives on this. Traditionally, continuity of care is idealized in the patient's experience of a 'continuous caring relationship' with an identified health care professional. For providers in vertically integrated systems ...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Gulliford M,Naithani S,Morgan M

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：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 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：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：: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: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：:The rationales used in chiropractic are largely in keeping with current evidence-based guidance. When listening to debates for and against the scientific basis of chiropractic, it is important to be aware of the selective use of evidence on both sides and of the limitations of logical positivistic arguments when it co...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Breen A

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Our aim was to evaluate whether the involvement of health care managers in research projects improves the quality and relevance of research, and whether collaboration builds capacity in the managerial community. METHODS:The NIHR Service Delivery and Organization Management Fellowship programme supports the d...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Bullock A,Morris ZS,Atwell C

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00