abstract：BACKGROUND:Outreach facilitation has been proven successful in improving the adoption of clinical preventive care guidelines in primary care practice. The net costs and savings of delivering such an intensive intervention need to be understood. We wanted to estimate the proportion of a facilitation intervention cost th...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Hogg W,Baskerville N,Lemelin J

更新日期：2005-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2002, the World Health Organization published a health system performance ranking for 191 member countries. The ranking was based on five indicators, with fixed weights common to all countries. METHODS:We investigate the feasibility and desirability of using mathematical programming techniques that allow...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Lauer JA,Knox Lovell CA,Murray CJ,Evans DB

更新日期：2004-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The interface between primary care and specialist medical services is an important domain for health services research and policy. Of particular concern is optimising specialist services and the organisation of the specialist workforce to meet the needs and demands for specialist care, particularly those gen...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Gruen RL,Knox S,Britt H,Bailie RS

更新日期：2004-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has produced guidelines on the early management of head injury. This study audits the process of the management of patients with head injury presenting at Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments and examines the impact upon resources of introducing NICE ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Miller L,Kent RM,Tennant A

更新日期：2004-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this project was to assess whether outreach visits would improve the implementation of evidence based clinical practice in the area of falls reduction and stroke prevention in a residential care setting. METHODS:Twenty facilities took part in a randomized controlled trial with a seven month follo...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Crotty M,Whitehead C,Rowett D,Halbert J,Weller D,Finucane P,Esterman A

更新日期：2004-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biomedical research constantly produces new findings but these are not routinely translated into health care practice. One way to address this problem is to develop effective interventions to translate research findings into practice. Currently a range of empirical interventions are available and systematic ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Walker AE,Grimshaw J,Johnston M,Pitts N,Steen N,Eccles M

更新日期：2003-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The value of the Internet to deliver preoperative education would increase if there was variability in questions patients want answered. This study's goal was to have patients consulting an orthopedic surgeon about undergoing either a total hip arthroplasty (THA) or a total knee arthroplasty (TKA) rate the i...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Macario A,Schilling P,Rubio R,Bhalla A,Goodman S

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:General practitioners often diverge from clinical guidelines regarding spine radiography. This study aimed to identify and describe A) factors general practitioners consider may affect their decisions about ordering plain radiography for back pain and B) barriers to guideline adherence suggested by such fact...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Espeland A,Baerheim A

更新日期：2003-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The benefit of regular multidimensional assessment of older people remains controversial. The majority of trials have been too small to produce adequate evidence to inform policy. Despite the lack of a firm evidence base, UK primary care practitioners (general practitioners) are required to offer an annual h...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Fletcher AE,Jones DA,Bulpitt CJ,Tulloch AJ

更新日期：2002-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There has been a relentless increase in emergency medical admissions in the UK over recent years. Many of these patients suffer with chronic conditions requiring continuing medical attention. We wished to determine whether conventional outpatient clinic follow up after discharge has any impact on the rate of...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Rayner HC,Temple RM,Marshall T,Clarke D

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Albanian immigrants in Greece comprise a highly mobile population with unknown health care profile. We aimed to assess whether these immigrants were more or less likely to undergo laparotomy for suspected appendicitis with negative findings (negative appendicectomy), by performing a controlled study with ind...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Tatsioni A,Charchanti A,Kitsiou E,Ioannidis JP

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00