Taking data seriously: the value of actor-network theory in rethinking patient experience data.

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：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：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：:It is important to include non English speakers in health services research to ensure not only the generalisability of findings but also to address health inequalities and promote social justice. One approach is to use interpreters but there is little guidance for working with an interpreter in interviews. Involving a...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Plumridge G,Redwood S,Greenfield S,Akhter N,Chowdhury R,Khalade A,Gill P

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:This article raises the concern that biobanks are failing to realize the expected research and health service outcomes. Rather than biobanking, we have been engaging in 'biohoarding', where building a quantifiable collection of tissue samples is the primary basis of the bio-resource. The root cause of 'biohoarding' is...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Catchpoole D

更新日期：2016-04-01 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:To evaluate the effectiveness and cost of obtaining consent for review of medical records within the passively observed non-intervention arm of a cluster randomized controlled trial, 'Comparison Arm for ProtecT'. METHODS:Two hundred and thirty men, who had been notified to the trial by cancer registries as h...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Noble S,Donovan J,Turner E,Metcalfe C,Lane A,Rowlands MA,Neal D,Hamdy F,Ben-Shlomo Y,Martin R

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：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：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：OBJECTIVES:To compare the cost-effectiveness of four third molar guideline implementation strategies. METHODS:Fifty-one dental practices in Scotland were randomized to one of four implementation strategies. The effectiveness of the strategies was measured by general dental practitioners' compliance with the guideline....

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Tilley C,McIntosh E,Bahrami M,Clarkson J,Deery C,Pitts N

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate how UK maternity unit protocols conformed to national recommendations for preventing early-onset neonatal Group B Streptococcal (GBS) disease. METHODS:In December 2005, all UK obstetric maternity units were contacted and asked to provide a copy of their protocol on preventing GBS disease. Informa...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Cromwell D,Joffe T,Hughes R,Murphy D,Dhillon C,van der Meulen J

更新日期：2008-04-01 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: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：AIMS:To evaluate the extent to which structural variation between English general practices is accounted for at higher organisational levels in the National Health Service (NHS). METHODS:We analysed data for 11 structural characteristics of all general practices in England. These included characteristics of general pr...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Adams G,Gulliford M,Ukoumunne O,Chinn S,Campbell M

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To explain recent rapid audited change in the uptake of locally implemented, evidence-based clinical guidelines for asthma and angina in primary care. METHODS:A case study of primary care in two matched, adjacent districts in Northern England, focusing on a stratified random sample of 49 general practitioner...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Harrison S,Dowswell G,Wright J,Russell I

更新日期：2003-07-01 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：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：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：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：OBJECTIVE:Poor people receive shorter consultations in general practice than more affluent people. Our aim was to study the two reasons generally advanced for this for patients consulting with mental health problems: people of low socioeconomic status (SES) demand shorter consultations or they tend to match with practi...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Videau Y,Saliba-Serre B,Paraponaris A,Ventelou B

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:The way that public involvement in research has been evaluated as a complex intervention has derailed the development of an evidence base. Two alternative approaches are available for constructing and evaluating patient involvement, each of which requires us to revisit the purposes and values that underpin it in each ...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Edelman N,Barron D

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00