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  1. The emergence of physician owned specialty hospitals focusing on high margin procedures has generated significant controversy. Yet, it is unclear whether physician owned specialty hospitals differ significantl...

    Authors: Peter Cram, Mary S Vaughan-Sarrazin and Gary E Rosenthal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:155
  2. Little is known about the impact of questionnaire-based data collection methods on the consulting behaviour of general practitioners (family physicians) who participate in research. Here data collected during ...

    Authors: Tim Coleman, Andrew Wilson, Steve Barrett, Alison Wynne and Sarah Lewis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:153
  3. Procedures for priority setting need to incorporate both scientific evidence and public values. The aim of this study was to test out a model for priority setting which incorporates both scientific evidence an...

    Authors: Emmanuel Makundi, Lydia Kapiriri and Ole Frithjof Norheim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:152
  4. Analyzing social differences in the health of adolescents is a challenge. The accuracy of adolescent's report on familial socio-economic position is unknown. The aims of the study were to examine the validity ...

    Authors: María-Jesús Pueyo, Vicky Serra-Sutton, Jordi Alonso, Barbara Starfield and Luis Rajmil
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:151
  5. Most studies examining medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) have been performed in primary or secondary care and have examined symptoms for which patients sought medical attention. Disasters are often describe...

    Authors: Bellis van den Berg, C Joris Yzermans, Peter G van der Velden, Rebecca K Stellato, Erik Lebret and Linda Grievink
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:150
  6. STI surveillance systems are subject to qualitative and quantitative underreporting. General practitioners (GPs), who are key subjects in case reporting, explain their underreporting partly by their observatio...

    Authors: Veronique Verhoeven, Annelies Colliers, Ann Verster, Dirk Avonts, Lieve Peremans and Paul Van Royen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:149
  7. The Normalization Process Model is a theoretical model that assists in explaining the processes by which complex interventions become routinely embedded in health care practice. It offers a framework for process ...

    Authors: Carl May, Tracy Finch, Frances Mair, Luciana Ballini, Christopher Dowrick, Martin Eccles, Linda Gask, Anne MacFarlane, Elizabeth Murray, Tim Rapley, Anne Rogers, Shaun Treweek, Paul Wallace, George Anderson, Jo Burns and Ben Heaven
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:148
  8. In Mexico, inappropriate prescription of drugs with potential interactions causing serious risks to patient health has been little studied. Work in this area has focused mainly on hospitalized patients, with o...

    Authors: Svetlana Vladislavovna Doubova (Dubova), Hortensia Reyes-Morales, Laura del Pilar Torres-Arreola and Magdalena Suárez-Ortega
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:147
  9. Severe mental illness (SMI) has been associated with more medical co-morbidity and less cardiovascular procedure use for older patients with myocardial infarction. However, it is unknown whether SMI is associa...

    Authors: Mary E Plomondon, P Michael Ho, Li Wang, Gwendolyn T Greiner, James H Shore, Joseph T Sakai, Stephan D Fihn and John S Rumsfeld
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:146
  10. The first step of handling health promotion (HP) in Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) is a systematic documentation and registration of the activities in the medical records. So far the possibility and tradition...

    Authors: Hanne Tønnesen, Mette E Christensen, Oliver Groene, Ann O'Riordan, Fabrizio Simonelli, Lagle Suurorg, Denise Morris, Peder Vibe, Susan Himel and Poul Erik Hansen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:145
  11. Inter-professional learning (IPL) and inter-professional practice (IPP) are thought to be critical determinants of effective care, improved quality and safety and enhanced provider morale, yet few empirical st...

    Authors: Jeffrey Braithwaite, Johanna I Westbrook, A Ruth Foxwell, Rosalie Boyce, Timothy Devinney, Marc Budge, Karen Murphy, Mary-Ann Ryall, Jenny Beutel, Rebecca Vanderheide, Elizabeth Renton, Joanne Travaglia, Judy Stone, Amanda Barnard, David Greenfield, Angus Corbett…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:144
  12. Previous research suggests that women admitted to hospital with acute myocardial infarction (MI) are managed less intensively than men. Chronic stable angina is the commonest clinical manifestation of coronary...

    Authors: Mike Crilly, Peter Bundred, Xiyuan Hu, Lisa Leckey and Fiona Johnstone
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:142
  13. In Japan, as in many other countries, several quality and safety assurance measures have been implemented since the 1990's. This has occurred in spite of cost containment efforts. Although government and hospi...

    Authors: Kenshi Hayashida, Yuichi Imanaka and Haruhisa Fukuda
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:140
  14. The challenge of finding practical, patient-rated outcome measures is a key issue in the evaluation of health care systems and interventions. The ORIDL (Outcome in Relation to Impact on Daily Living) instrumen...

    Authors: David Reilly, Stewart W Mercer, Annemieke P Bikker and Tansy Harrison
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:139
  15. Nearly half of all patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) receive red blood cell (pRBC) transfusions (TFs), despite their associated complications. Restrictive transfusion strategy (Hemoglobin [Hb] < 7 g/dL...

    Authors: Marya D Zilberberg and Andrew F Shorr
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:138
  16. In response to limited resources, health care systems have adopted diverse cost-containment strategies and give priority to differing types of interventions. The perception of physicians, who witness the effec...

    Authors: Samia A Hurst, Reidun Forde, Stella Reiter-Theil, Anne-Marie Slowther, Arnaud Perrier, Renzo Pegoraro and Marion Danis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:137
  17. Diabetes is a chronic illness which requires the individual to assume responsibility for their own care with the aim of maintaining glucose and blood pressure levels as close to normal as possible. Traditional...

    Authors: Gillian Paul, Susan M Smith, David Whitford, Fergus O'Kelly and Tom O'Dowd
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:136
  18. Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is a major health problem worldwide. Detection of the most infectious cases of tuberculosis – sputum smear-positive pulmonary cases – by passive case finding is an essential compone...

    Authors: Chatarina U Wahyuni, Budiono, Lutfia Dwi Rahariyani, Muji Sulistyowati, Tety Rachmawati, Djuwari, Sri Yuliwati and Marieke J van der Werf
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:135
  19. Ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSC), such as hypertension, diabetes, chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma, are conditions that can be managed with timely and effectiv...

    Authors: Paolo Rizza, Aida Bianco, Maria Pavia and Italo F Angelillo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:134
  20. Optimal care of patients is dependent on good professional interaction between general practitioners and general hospital physicians. In Norway this is mainly based upon referral and discharge letters. The mai...

    Authors: Helge Garåsen and Roar Johnsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:133
  21. Current health policies assume that prescribing is more efficient and rational when general practitioners (GPs) work with a formulary or restricted drugs lists and thus with a limited range of drugs. Therefore...

    Authors: Dinny H de Bakker, Dayline SV Coffie, Eibert R Heerdink, Liset van Dijk and Peter P Groenewegen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:132
  22. Hospital in the home programs have been implemented in several countries and have been shown to be safe substitutions (alternatives) to in-patient hospitalization. These programs may offer a solution to the in...

    Authors: Jacques Lemelin, William E Hogg, Simone Dahrouge, Catherine Deri Armstrong, Carmel M Martin, Wei Zhang, Jo-Anne Dusseault, Joy Parsons-Nicota, Raphael Saginur and Gary Viner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:130
  23. The official statistics of persons with mental disorders who are granted disability pension (DP) in Russia and Norway indicate large differences between the countries.

    Authors: Grigory Rezvyy, Walter Schönfelder, Terje Øiesvold, Reidun Olstad and Georges Midré
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:128
  24. To date, mental health problems and mental workload have been increasingly related to long-term sick leave and disability. However, there is, as yet, no structured protocol available for the identification and...

    Authors: Sandra H van Oostrom, Johannes R Anema, Berend Terluin, Anita Venema, Henrica CW de Vet and Willem van Mechelen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:127
  25. Tailor-made approaches enable the uptake of interventions as they are seen as a way to overcome the incompatibility of general interventions with local knowledge about the organisation of routine medical pract...

    Authors: Yvonne JFM Jansen, Antoinette de Bont, Marleen Foets, Marc Bruijnzeels and Roland Bal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:125
  26. Compliance is a major issue in glaucoma care. It is usually poor in glaucomatous patients, and may ultimately result in an acceleration of the disease progression and a risk of blindness. Reasons for this poor...

    Authors: Jean-Philippe Nordmann, Philippe Denis, Marc Vigneux, Elyse Trudeau, Isabelle Guillemin and Gilles Berdeaux
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:124
  27. In order to facilitate the collaborative design, system dynamics (SD) with a group modelling approach was used in the early stages of planning a new stroke unit. During six workshops a SD model was created in ...

    Authors: Marie Elf, Mariya Putilova, Lena von Koch and Kerstin Öhrn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:123
  28. Outpatient drugs are dispensed through both community and mail order pharmacies. There is no empirical evidence that substitution of community pharmacy with mail order reduces overall drug expenditures. The ne...

    Authors: Satish Valluri, Enrique Seoane-Vazquez, Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio and Sheryl L Szeinbach
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:122
  29. The Health and Health Services Research Fund (HHSRF) is dedicated to support research related to all aspects of health and health services in Hong Kong. We evaluated the fund's outcomes and explored factors as...

    Authors: Patrick Kwan, Janice Johnston, Anne YK Fung, Doris SY Chong, Richard A Collins and Su V Lo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:121
  30. The extent to which clinical and non-clinical factors impact on the waiting-list prioritization preferences of patients in the queue is unknown. Using a series of hypothetical scenarios, the objective of this ...

    Authors: Katy Shufelt, Alice Chong and David A Alter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:118
  31. Generic community mental health teams (CMHTs) currently deliver specialist mental health care in England. Policy dictates that CMHTs focus on those patients with greatest need but it has proved difficult to es...

    Authors: Carolyn Chew-Graham, Mike Slade, Carolyn Montana, Mairi Stewart and Linda Gask
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:117
  32. A number of intensive care (ICU) patients experience significant problems with physical, psychological, and social functioning for some time after discharge from ICU. These problems have implications not just ...

    Authors: Brian H Cuthbertson, Janice Rattray, Marie Johnston, J Anthony Wildsmith, Edward Wilson, Rodolfo Hernendez, Craig Ramsey, Alastair M Hull, John Norrie and Marion Campbell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:116
  33. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the knee is the second most common MRI examination in Norway after head/brain MRI. Little has been published internationally on trends in the use of knee MRI after 1999. Thi...

    Authors: Ansgar Espeland, Nils L Natvig, Ingard Løge, Lars Engebretsen and Jostein Ellingsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:115
  34. Most of the about 140 million informal sector workers in urban China do not have health insurance. A 1998 central government policy leaves it to the discretion of municipal governments to offer informal sector...

    Authors: Till Bärnighausen, Yuanli Liu, Xinping Zhang and Rainer Sauerborn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:114
  35. The UK has witnessed a considerable increase in immigration in the past decade. Migrant may face barriers to accessing appropriate health care on arrival and the current focus on screening certain migrants for...

    Authors: Graham Cooke, Sally Hargreaves, Jana Natkunarajah, Gurjinder Sandhu, Devesh Dhasmana, Joseph Eliahoo, Alison Holmes and Jon S Friedland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:113
  36. Since 1976, Medicare has linked reimbursement for hospitals performing organ transplants to the attainment of certain benchmarks, including transplant volume. While Medicare is a stakeholder in all transplant ...

    Authors: John M Hollingsworth, Sarah L Krein, David C Miller, Sonya DeMonner and Brent K Hollenbeck
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:112
  37. An increasing number of newly trained Dutch GPs prefer to work in a group practice and as a non-principal rather than in a single-handed practice. In view of the greater number of female doctors, changing prac...

    Authors: Tanja Maiorova, Fred Stevens, Lud van der Velden, Albert Scherpbier and Jouke van der Zee
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:111
  38. To identify differences among men and women with acute coronary syndrome in terms of in-hospital mortality, and to assess whether these differences are related to the use of percutaneous cardiovascular procedu...

    Authors: María J Aguado-Romeo, Soledad Márquez-Calderón and María L Buzón-Barrera
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:110
  39. The Belgian and Dutch societies present many similarities but differ with regard to the organisation of maternity care. The Dutch way of giving birth is well known for its high percentage of home births and it...

    Authors: Wendy Christiaens, Anneleen Gouwy and Piet Bracke
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:109
  40. Economic theory and limited empirical data suggest that costs per unit of HIV prevention program output (unit costs) will initially decrease as small programs expand. Unit costs may then reach a nadir and star...

    Authors: Elliot Marseille, Lalit Dandona, Nell Marshall, Paul Gaist, Sergio Bautista-Arredondo, Brandi Rollins, Stefano M Bertozzi, Jerry Coovadia, Joseph Saba, Dmitry Lioznov, Jo-Ann Du Plessis, Evgeny Krupitsky, Nicci Stanley, Mead Over, Alena Peryshkina, SG Prem Kumar…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:108
  41. Collaboration between providers of conventional care and complementary therapies (CTs) has gained in popularity but there is a lack of conceptualised models for delivering such care, i.e. integrative medicine ...

    Authors: Tobias Sundberg, Jeremy Halpin, Anders Warenmark and Torkel Falkenberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:107
  42. In order to accurately distinguish gaps of varying length in drug treatment for chronic conditions from discontinuation without resuming therapy, short-term observation does not suffice. Thus, the use of inhal...

    Authors: Tanja T Menckeberg, Svetlana V Belitser, Marcel L Bouvy, Madelon Bracke, Jan-Willem J Lammers, Jan AM Raaijmakers and Hubert GM Leufkens
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:106