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：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：:This paper deals with three concerns about the evaluative framework that is currently dominant within health economics. These concerns are: that the evaluative framework is concerned entirely with health; that the evaluative framework has an individualistic focus on patients alone; and that the methods used to estimat...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Coast J,Flynn T,Sutton E,Al-Janabi H,Vosper J,Lavender S,Louviere J,Peters T

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Access to cardiac treatments has been documented to vary with patients' age. It is unknown whether these variations reflect patients' treatment preferences. We aimed to investigate patients' preferences for cardiology treatments and develop a Patients' Preferences Questionnaire. METHODS:Semi-structured inte...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Bowling A,Reeves B,Rowe G

更新日期：2008-10-01 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:To identify factors that explain patient satisfaction with general practice physicians and hence that may drive patients' choice of practice. METHODS:Logistic regression analysis of English National Health Service national patient survey data is used to identify the aspects of general practice care that are...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Robertson R,Dixon A,Le Grand J

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：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：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：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：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：: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：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：:There has been much speculation about whether the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has, or ought to have, a 'threshold' figure for the cost of an additional quality-adjusted life-year above which a technology will not be recommended for use. We argue that it is not constitutionally appropri...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Culyer A,McCabe C,Briggs A,Claxton K,Buxton M,Akehurst R,Sculpher M,Brazier J

更新日期：2007-01-01 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:To explore the relationship between ethnicity, socioeconomic deprivation and utilization of general practice. METHODS:Data routinely collected by New Zealand general practices in 2001 were analysed using generalized linear regression. RESULTS:The mean number of doctor consultations for registered individua...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Health Utilisation Research Alliance (HURA).

更新日期：2006-07-01 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：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 AND OBJECTIVES:Automated pharmacy data have been used to develop a measure of chronic disease status in the general population. The objectives of this project were to refine and apply a model of chronic disease identification using Italian automated pharmacy data; to describe how this model may identify patt...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Maio V,Yuen E,Rabinowitz C,Louis D,Jimbo M,Donatini A,Mall S,Taroni F

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To critically evaluate the quality of hospital medical care at the beginning, during and shortly after regionalization of health boards in Newfoundland and Labrador, and aggregation of hospitals in the St John's region. METHODS:Retrospective chart audits for the years 1995/96, 1998/99 and 2000/01 (at the be...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Curtis B,Gregory D,Parfrey P,Kent G,Jelinski S,Kraft S,O'Reilly D,Barrett B

更新日期：2005-10-01 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 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：OBJECTIVES:This paper focuses upon health status, need for care, and use of health care from 1994/95 to 2000/01 in the Canadian foreign-born population. METHODS:Using Statistics Canada's longitudinal National Population Health Survey, descriptive and survival analyses are used to explore immigrant health status and he...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Newbold B

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

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：: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: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：:Research can contribute to resolving some of the workforce challenges that all heath care systems face. In an attempt to identify the research agenda, key stakeholders in the UK were brought together and background papers were presented by academics with expertise in seven related but distinct areas: global issues; pr...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Black N,Rafferty AM,West E,Gough P

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：: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：: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：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：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：OBJECTIVES:To examine the influence of the English National Health Service (NHS) South and West (S&W) region Development and Evaluation Committee (DEC) technology appraisal reports on purchasing and clinical decisions in the S&W and elsewhere in the NHS, and to estimate the cost of the DEC process. METHODS:Two postal ...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Dixon S,Coleman P,Nicholl J,Brennan A,Touch S

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate whether the Clinical Priority Assessment Criteria (CPAC), used to prioritise access to elective surgery, was associated with: (a) patients' access to surgery in practice; (b) patients' level of need; and (c) patients' ability to benefit from surgery. Patients' perceptions of the 'booking system' ...

journal_title：Journal of health services research & policy

authors： Derrett S,Paul C,Herbison P,Williams H

更新日期：2002-07-01 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 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：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：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