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.
Context: Performance measures are increasingly widely used in health care and have an important role in quality. However, field studies of what organizations are doing when they collect and report per...
Episode 19. Will the rising cost of living be paid for by our health? And what more should government do to help?
Purpose: Approaches to quality improvement in healthcare based on clinical communities are founded in practitioner networks, peer influence and professional values. However, evidence for the value of...
Our briefing on the Health and Care Bill 2021/22.
The Health Foundation and the King's Fund urge Yorkshire, Midlands and North East MPs to protect constituents from crippling care costs in key parliamentary vote.
Objective: To determine the bias associated with frequency of visits by physicians in adjusting for illness, using diagnoses recorded in administrative databases. Setting: Claims data from the US ...
