Hospital readmission rates are increasingly used as signals of hospital performance and a basis for hospital reimbursement. However, their interpretation may be complicated by differential patient sur...
Exploring public attitudes towards health and health inequalities, and how public health professionals can communicate to improve understanding of evidence.
Introduction: Patient and public involvement in healthcare planning, service development and health-related research has received significant attention. However, evidence about the role of patient inv...
Background: The development and implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) remains an international challenge. Better understanding of patient and public attitudes and the factors that influen...
We find no evidence of association either between quantity of management and management quality or directly between quantity of management and any of our measures of hospital performance. However, the...
Katherine Merrifield and Gwen Nightingale consider the newly relaunched ONS health index’s potential to track progress on health.
Objectives: Virtual-reality (VR) training has been demonstrated to improve laparoscopic surgical skills in the operating theatre. The incorporation of laparoscopic VR simulation into surgical training...
The impact of COVID-19 on mental health.
In any situation or workplace where conditions are awkward – information is missing, materials are misplaced, supporting services are absent – people will have to spend time in working around issues. ...
At our recent annual conference, we started to explore what a learning health care system might look like in the UK, shared examples of emerging models from across the globe, and looked in depth at so...
