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- SwetsWise reaps first crop of 2004 publishers.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-12 February 2004-Swets Information Services: SwetsWise reaps first crop of 2004 publishersC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:02122004 Swets Information Services announced today that it has recently succeeded in signing an additional 10 prestigious publishers to SwetsWise Online Content. ...
- Research articles 2004-02-12
- BioMed Central
- BioMed Central (Washington, D.C.) has announced the first group of research journals on its service in which groups of researchers publish online journals at no cost to targeted readers. Peer-reviewed research articles in these journals will join the rest of the citations to medical literature through indexing in the National...
- Research articles 2002-03-16
- Setting Priorities in Health Care Organizations: Criteria, Processes, and Parameters of Success
- This white paper document deals with Hospitals and regional health authorities that must set priorities in the face of resource constraints. Decision-makers seek practical ways to set priorities fairly in strategic planning, but find limited guidance from the literature. The paper also reports from the perspective of Board members and...
- White papers 2004-09-08
- Health Care Restructuring and Family Physician Care for Those Who Died of Cancer
- The purpose of this study was to describe the trends in the provision of Family Physician FP visits to advanced cancer patients in Nova Scotia NS during the years of health care restructuring. The paper in its conclusion reveals that Despite hospital downsizing and fewer deaths occurring in hospitals, FP...
- White papers 2005-01-04
- World Health System Performance Revisited: The Impact of Varying the Relative Importance of Health System Goals
- This white paper investigates the feasibility and desirability of using mathematical programming techniques that allow weights to vary across countries to reflect their varying circumstances and objectives. The result shows that by global distributional measures, scores and ranks are found to be not very sensitive to changes in weights, although...
- White papers 2004-07-22
- Assessing the Impact of Heart Failure Specialist Services on Patient Populations
- This white paper document examines the potential impact on readmissions and mortality of specialist heart failure services capable of delivering treatments such as b-blockers and Nurse-Led Educational Intervention (N-LEI). The paper suggests that local use of information from audit, routine administrative data and the literature can help estimate the impact...
- White papers 2004-05-24
- An Outreach Intervention to Implement Evidence Based Practice in Residential Care: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- The aim of this white paper 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. The paper also reveals about the method and the result. In conclusion the paper...
- White papers 2004-04-06
- Do Pediatric Hospitalizations Have a Unique Geography?
- This white paper article assesses the need for a unique system of HSAs to support pediatric small area analyses. It is a cross-sectional analysis of California hospital discharges for two age groups -non-newborns 0-17 years old, and seniors. The measure of interest was index of localization, which is the percentage...
- White papers 2004-01-22
- PRIME - Process Modelling in Implementation Research: Selecting a Theoretical Basis for Interventions to Change Clinical Practice
- The objectives of white paper study are: to amplify and populate scientifically validated theories of behavior with evidence from the experience of health professionals; to use this as a basis for developing predictive questionnaires using replicable methods; to identify which elements of the questionnaire (i.e., which theoretical constructs) predict clinical...
- White papers 2003-12-19
- Patient Attitudes Toward Using Computers to Improve Health Services Delivery
- The aim of this white paper study is to examine the acceptability of point of care computerized prompts to improve health services delivery among a sample of primary care patients. The paper suggest method to carry out this study and provides results that yield support for using computers to generate...
- White papers 2002-09-11
- Application of the Development Stages of a Cluster Randomized Trial to a Framework for Evaluating Complex Health Interventions
- The objective of this white paper is to assess the extent to which the various development steps of a cluster randomized trial to optimize antibiotic use in nursing homes are represented in a recently published framework for the design and evaluation of complex health interventions. A pilot study to assess...
- White papers 2002-07-11
- A Power Law Global Error Model for the Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes in Microarray Data
- High-density oligonucleotide microarray technology enables the discovery of genes that are transcriptionally modulated in different biological samples due to physiology, disease or intervention. Methods for the identification of these so-called "differentially expressed genes" DEG would largely benefit from a deeper knowledge of the intrinsic measurement variability. The aim of this...
- White papers 2004-12-17
- The Role of NGOs in Global Health Research for Development
- Global health research is essential for development. A major issue is the inequitable distribution of research efforts and funds directed towards populations suffering the world's greatest health problems. This imbalance is fostering major attempts at redirecting research to the health problems of low and middle income countries. NGOs are contributing...
- White papers 2005-02-21
- Transfer of Health for All Policy - What, How and in Which Direction? A Two-Case Study
- This article explores the transfer of World Health Organization's WHO policy initiative Health for All by the Year 2000 (HFA2000) into national contexts by using the changes in the public health policies of Finland and Portugal from the 1970's onward and the relationship of these changes to WHO policy development...
- White papers 2004-12-07
- The Effect of Ethnicity on Outcomes in a Practice-Based Trial to Improve Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
- Health disparities are a growing concern. Recently, we conducted a practice-based trial to help primary care physicians improve adherence with 21 quality indicators relevant to the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease and stroke. Although the primary concern in that study was whether patients in intervention practices out performed...
- White papers 2004-12-07
- Reproductive Health Research Challenges
- The paper reveals that reproductive health is defined as a state of physical, mental, and social well-being in all matters relating to the reproductive system at all stages of life. Good reproductive health implies that people are able to have a satisfying and safe sex life and that they have...
- White papers 2004-06-09
- Psychosocial Risk Factors for Obesity Among Women in a Family Planning Clinic
- The epidemiology of obesity in primary care populations has not been thoroughly explored. The study described in this paper contributes to filling this gap by investigating the relationship between obesity and different sources of personal stress, mental health, exercise, and demographic characteristics. Five hundred women who attended family planning clinics...
- White papers 2004-09-20
- Influence of Intense Multidisciplinary Follow-Up and Orlistat on Weight Reduction in a Primary Care Setting
- Obesity is the most common health problem in developed countries. Recently, several physicians' organizations have issued recommendations for treating obesity to family physicians, including instructions in nutrition, physical activity and medications. The aim of this study was to examine if effective weight-reducing treatment can be given by a family physician....
- White papers 2005-01-29
- Sicily Statement on Evidence-Based Practice
- A variety of definitions of evidence-based practice EBP exist. However, definitions are in themselves insufficient to explain the underlying processes of EBP and to differentiate between an evidence-based process and evidence-based outcome. Evidence-Based Practice has evolved in both scope and definition. Evidence-Based Practice EBP requires that decisions about health care...
- White papers 2005-01-05
- Cardiovascular Comorbidities Among Public Health Clinic Patients With Diabetes: The Urban Diabetics Study
- The paper involves determining the frequency and distribution of cardiovascular comorbidities in a large cohort of low-income patients with diabetes who had received primary care for diabetes at municipal health clinics. It further reveals that cardiovascular comorbidities were common both before and after diabetes diagnosis in this low-income cohort, but...
- White papers 2005-02-08
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