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Welfare states, flexible employment, and health: A critical review
05 December 2011
Abstract: Objectives: The aim of this literature review is to identify whether differences between welfare regimes can manifest diverse consequences for the health effects of insecure and precarious e...
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Il-Ho Kim,
Carles Muntaner,
Faraz Vahid Shahidi,
Alejandra Vives,
Christophe Vanroelen,
Joan Benach
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99-127
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Implementing changes to hospital services: Factors influencing the process and ‘results’ of reconfiguration
30 June 2011
Abstract: Objectives: Acute hospital reconfiguration is often presented as a problem to be solved by calculations of optimal design, a rational process amenable to influence by open and responsive con...
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Naomi Fulop,
Rhiannon Walters,
Perri 6,
Peter Spurgeon
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128-135
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Socio-demographic patient profiles and hospital efficiency: Does patient mix affect a hospital's ability to perform?
18 August 2011
Abstract: This study investigates whether inclusion of patient profiles impacts on the inferences drawn from measuring performance using patient level data. Performance is in this setting defined by r...
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Dorte Gyrd-Hansen,
Kim R. Olsen,
Torben H. Sørensen
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136-145
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Adverse event rates as measures of hospital performance
22 July 2011
Abstract: Objectives: Adverse event or complication rates are increasingly advocated as measures of hospital quality and performance. Objective of this study is to analyse patient-complexity adjusted ...
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Katharina Hauck,
Xueyan Zhao,
Terri Jackson
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146-154
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Can patient injury claims be utilised as a quality indicator?
28 September 2011
Abstract: Objectives: To examine the association between patient injury claims and well-known quality indicators and to assess whether claims can be utilised in performance measurement. Methods: Data ...
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Jutta Järvelin,
Unto Häkkinen
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155-162
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Hospital ownership and efficiency: A review of studies with particular focus on Germany
19 December 2011
Abstract: The German hospital market has been subject over the past two decades to a variety of healthcare reforms. Particularly the introduction of diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) in 2004 aimed to in...
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Oliver Tiemann,
Jonas Schreyögg,
Reinhard Busse
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163-171
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Going private: Clinicians’ experience of working in UK Independent Sector Treatment Centres
12 August 2011
Abstract: Objectives: With increased possibility that public healthcare services in the UK will be out-sourced to the private sector, this study investigates how clinicians working in Independent Sect...
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Justin Waring,
Simon Bishop
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172-178
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An even smaller area variation: Differing practice patterns among interventional cardiologists within a single high volume tertiary cardiac centre
06 December 2010
Abstract: Background: Variations in the rate of use of common medical procedures/therapies are widely documented. Previous studies tend to focus on variations between either hospitals or geographic ar...
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Mathew Mercuri,
Madhu K. Natarajan,
Geoff Norman,
Amiram Gafni
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179-185
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Evaluation of the equity of age–sex adjusted primary care capitation payments in Ontario, Canada
14 November 2011
Abstract: Objective: Several innovative primary care models have recently been introduced in Ontario, Canada. Two of these models are funded primarily through age–sex based capitation. There is concer...
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Lyn M. Sibley,
Richard H. Glazier
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186-192
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Equity and equality in the use of GP services for elderly people: The Spanish case
09 November 2011
Abstract: Objectives: To present new evidence both on the horizontal inequity in the delivery of primary health care and on the factors driving inequalities in the use of GP services for Spanish popul...
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Eva Crespo-Cebada,
Rosa M. Urbanos-Garrido
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193-199
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Nudge—A new and better way to improve health?
23 November 2011
Abstract: Nudging, or libertarian paternalism, is presented as a new and ethically justified way of improving people's health. It has proved influential and is currently taken up by the governments in...
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Signild Vallgårda
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200-203
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