Assessing value-based health care delivery for haemodialysis.

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:The standard of preventive care for poorly controlled seasonal allergic rhinitis (AR) is subcutaneous immunotherapy (SCIT) with allergen extracts, administered in a physician's office. As an alternative to SCIT, sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) is now an option for patients with seasonal A...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Dranitsaris G,Ellis AK

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experience of knowledge management initiatives in non-health care organizations can offer useful insights, and strategies, to implement evidence-based practice in health care. Knowledge management offers a structured process for the generation, storage, distribution and application of knowledge in organizations. This ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Sandars J,Heller R

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:The incidence of falls and fall-related injuries in older age is predicted to increase concomitantly with global population ageing, representing a serious challenge to health care systems. In spite of the availability of policy and practice guidelines for the prevention of falls and fall-...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Peel NM,Travers C,Bell RA,Smith K

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Adolescent Drug Abuse Diagnosis (ADAD) and Health of Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents (HoNOSCA) are both measures of outcome for adolescent mental health services. AIMS:To compare the ADAD with HoNOSCA; to examine their clinical usefulness. METHODS:Comparison of the ADAD and HoNOSCA o...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Holzer L,Tchemadjeu IK,Plancherel B,Bolognini M,Rossier V,Chinet L,Halfon O

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following my own involvement in the rise of evidence-based medicine in General Practice in the UK, and having seen how this tide has led to a relative devaluation of other kinds of knowing this paper sets out four alternative approaches to the problem of knowledge in a way which both undermines the predominance of a s...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Mitchell D

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES:Drug-related morbidity is common, which results in suffering for the patients and a high cost to society. SÄKLÄK2 is a multi-professional intervention model aiming at improving drug safety in primary health care. The objective of this study was to elucidate the perceptions of the partici...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Skoog J,Lenander C,Modig S

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Unattended home sleep studies have been implemented to minimize the cost and delay in establishing obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) diagnosis and therapy. However, their accuracy and validity remain disputed. The purpose of our study is to assess their effectiveness (i.e. their technical reliability ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Domingo C,Vigil L

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metaphors are central to the human understanding of complex issues; through the immediate associations they evoke and frame problems and suggest solutions. Our suggestion of Music in the Park as a metaphor for health systems reform brings to the forefront the environmentally diverse but bounded spaces of hea...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Sturmberg JP,Martin CM,O'Halloran D

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:To describe the first phase of a global evaluation framework for the National Prescribing Service (NPS), with a focus on services for health professionals, and in particular highlight the lessons learnt from evaluation around the establishment and implementation of this national program. METHODS:The agreed e...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Beilby J,Wutzke SE,Bowman J,Mackson JM,Weekes LM

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Child psychoanalytic psychotherapy has been criticized for its reluctance to embrace evidence-based practice. This study aims to explore the historical narrative of a sample of child psychoanalytic psychotherapists about progress in developing the evidence base. METHODS:Fourteen psychotherapists were interv...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Rous E,Clark A

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Values-based practice (VBP), developed as a partner theory to evidence-based medicine (EBM), takes into explicit consideration patients' and clinicians' values, preferences, concerns and expectations during the clinical encounter in order to make decisions about proper interventions. VBP takes seriously the importance...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Fernandez AV,Wieten S

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the growing concern for the safety, cost and adequacy of blood supply, there is an increasing need for appropriate blood product utilization. Despite a number of consensus guidelines for the transfusion of allogeneic blood products, inappropriate blood transfusion continues. We discuss the quality assurance proc...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Joshi GP,Landers DF

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Mortality prediction models using logistic regression analysis play a pivotal role in intensive care quality evaluation, allowing a hospital's performance to be compared with a standard. However, when a difference between predicted and observed mortality exists, that is, the numerator of ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Foltran F,Berchialla P,Giunta F,Malacarne P,Merletti F,Gregori D

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For over 30 years, "evidence-based" clinical guidelines remained entrenched in an oversimplified, design-based, framework for rating the strength of evidence supporting clinical recommendations. The approach frequently equated the rating of evidence with that of the recommendations themselves. "Grading Recommendations...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Wyer PC

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:The extent to which best practice for falls prevention is being routinely delivered by health care providers for community-dwelling older adults is unclear. We investigated falls prevention practice among Hospital Admission Risk Programs (HARP) that provide and coordinate specialized heal...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Day L,Trotter MJ,Hill KD,Haines TP,Thompson C

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:A valid tool to measure clinical competency early in medical school could identify students who may require special educational attention. The overall aim is to assess the relationship between students' scores on an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) given in the second year...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Simon SR,Bui A,Day S,Berti D,Volkan K

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Randomized trials are undoubtedly different from observational studies, but authors sometimes propose differences between these designs that do not exist. In this article we examine two claims about randomized trials: first, a recent claim that the causal structure of exposure measurement (information) bias in a rando...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Shahar E,Shahar DJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:To evaluate asthma management and control in primary care clinics so as to design improvements based on guideline-directed outcomes. METHODS:In this study, all medical records of asthma-diagnosed patients (children as well as adults, entire lifespan, asthma-related visits or not) were re...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： du Plessis JM,Gerber JJ,Brand L

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:We developed a novel Internet-based blended learning programme that allows busy health care professionals to attain core competency in clinical research. This study details the educational strategies and learning outcomes of the programme. METHOD:This study was conducted at Kyoto Univers...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Tsugihashi Y,Kakudate N,Yokoyama Y,Yamamoto Y,Mishina H,Fukumori N,Nakamura F,Takegami M,Ohno S,Wakita T,Watanabe K,Yamaguchi T,Fukuhara S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Shared decision making (SDM) is very important from patients' perspective. This process has not yet been evaluated in Romania. The study aims to evaluate SDM from the patients' perspective and to evaluate patients' characteristics that associate with SDM. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A cross-sectional multicentric ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Baicus C,Balanescu P,Zeh S,Oprisan E,Lapadatu R,Gurghean A,Padureanu V,Rezus C,Mitu F,Jurcut R,Balanescu AR,Daha I,Balanescu E,Bojinca M,Pinte L,Constantin AM,Dima N,Floria M,Leon-Constantin MM,Roca M,Mitu M,Chi

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Issues of overuse, underuse and misuse are paramount and lead to avoidable morbidity and mortality. Although evidence-based practice is advocated, the widespread implementation of this kind of practice remains a challenge. This is also the case for evidence-based practice related to the p...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Van Herck P,Sermeus W,Jylha V,Michiels D,Van den Heede K

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Quantifying the impact of health care-associated infections (HAIs) on medical resource utilization is necessary for payers and providers to appropriately allocate limited resources for interventions. However, previous studies tend to involve single institutions and do not take into accoun...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Lee J,Imanaka Y,Sekimoto M,Ishizaki T,Hayashida K,Ikai H,Tetsuya O

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:The primary aim of this study is to gain an insight into hospital pharmacists' current practice and perceptions towards medicine reconciliation and to identify common challenges preventing pharmacists from providing this service. METHODS:A cross-sectional study was conducted over 2 month...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Hammour KA,Farha RA,Basheti I

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The difference between the pth quantiles of 2 survival functions can be used to compare patients' survival between 2 therapies. Setting p = 0.5 yields the median survival time difference. Varying p between 0 and 1 defines the quantile survival time difference curve which can be straightforwardly estimated by the horiz...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Heinzl H,Mittlboeck M

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Short-term intensive insulin therapy (IIT) early in the course of type 2 diabetes can improve pancreatic beta-cell function and even induce normoglycemia that persists post-therapy. In spite of this benefit, insulin is often delayed until late in the course of disease partly because of it...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Opsteen C,Qi Y,Zinman B,Retnakaran R

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:The goal is to fully automate the calculation of a breast ptosis measure from clinical photographs through automatic localization of fiducial points relevant to the measure. METHODS:Sixty-eight women (97 clinical photographs) who underwent or were scheduled for breast reconstruction were...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Lee J,Kim E,Reece GP,Crosby MA,Beahm EK,Markey MK

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The ADAPTE framework was established to enhance efficiency in guideline development and to facilitate adaptation of high-quality clinical practice guidelines for a local context. It offers guideline developers a systematic methodology for guideline adaptation; however, the feasibility and usability of the pro...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Chakraborty SP,Jones KM,Mazza D

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:In the context of an ageing population, increasing numbers of older people with long-term conditions are presenting to secondary health care facilities in the United Kingdom having experienced a fall or fall-related injury. Despite such observations, falls and long-term conditions have tr...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Robinson L,Newton JL,Jones D,Dawson P

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES:Clinical studies show equivalent health outcomes from interventional procedures and treatment with medication only for stable angina patients. However, patients may be subject to overuse or access barriers for interventional procedures and may exhibit suboptimal adherence to medications....

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Savitz ST,Bailey SC,Dusetzina SB,Jones WS,Trogdon JG,Stearns SC

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacoeconomic evaluations are often based on computer models which simulate the course of disease with and without medical interventions. The purpose of this study is to propose and illustrate a rigorous approach for validating such disease models. For illustrative purposes, we applied this approach to a computer-b...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Sendi PP,Craig BA,Pfluger D,Gafni A,Bucher HC

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00