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Report of the Office of Health Economics Commission on NHS Outcomes, Performance and Productivity
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- A Cool Head (Quick Reads) by Ian Rankin
- "Dragons' Den": Your Road to Success (Quick Reads) by Duncan Bannatyne
- Reaching for the Stars by Lola Jaye
- "Doctor Who": The Sontaran Games ("Dr Who") by Jacqueline Rayner
- The Tannery (Quick Reads) by Sherrie Hewson
- The Dare (Quick Reads) by John Boyne
- All These Lonely People (Quick Reads) by Gervase Phinn
- The Cave (Quick Reads) by Kate Mosse
- 101 Ways to Get Your Child to Read (Quick Reads) by Patience Thomson
- Life's New Hurdles (Quick Reads) by Colin Jackson
- Another 15 Minutes…Health News from the Fade Library 29th October 2009
- Another 15 Minutes…Health News from the Fade Library 28th October 2009
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- Another 15 Minutes…Health News from the Fade Library 24th - 26th October 2009
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- The Commissioner Volume 4 Issue 10
- The Commissioner Volume 4 Issue 9
- The Commissioner Volume 4 Issue 8
- The Commissioner Volume 4 Issue 7
- The Commissioner Volume 4 Issue 6
- The Commissioner Volume 4 Issue 5
- The Commissioner Volume 4 Issue 4,
- The Commissioner Volume 4 Issue 3
- The Commissioner Volume 4 Issue 1
- The Commissioner Volume 3 Issue 12
- The future of care pathways and their journal
- Care pathways and designing the health-care built environment: an explanatory framework
- Part 1: The organization of mental health care. Contrasting prevailing approaches with integrated care pathways - care plans, case management and integrated care pathways
- Part 2: The organization of mental health care. Contrasting prevailing approaches with integrated care pathways - integrated care pathways, the care programme approach and clinical guidelines
- Patient satisfaction survey - a measure of quality of patient care and clinical governance
- Termination for fetal abnormality
- A revised approach to performance measurement for health-care estates
- Everybody's business: from policy to lived practice - the benefits of embedding specialist mental health workers in physical health-care systems
- An analysis of the factors influencing networkability in the health-care sector
- Using mixed methods to identify factors influencing patient flow
- Use of card sort methodology in the testing of a clinical leadership competencies model
- Performance evaluation of ambulatory surgery centres: an efficiency approach
- Patient satisfaction questionnaire and quality achievement in hospital care: the case of a Greek public university hospital
- Do effective meetings determine progress in research?
- The theory and practice of markets in health care
- Evidence-based design of health care facilities
- What medical specialists like and dislike about health technology assessment reports
- Bringing genetics into primary care: findings from a national evaluation of pilots in England
- 'There are too many of us to fix.' Patients' views of acceptable waiting times for hip and knee replacement
- Evidence-based practice in British complementary and alternative medicine: double standards?
- Commentary: Motes, beams and evidence-based practice
- A Bayesian method for the synthesis of evidence from qualitative and quantitative reports: the example of antiretroviral medication adherence
- Evaluation of the impact of program budgeting and marginal analysis in Vancouver Island Health Authority
- Equity in the distribution of community pharmacies in England: impact of regulatory reform
- More than the tip of the iceberg: health policies and research that go below the surface
- From mother earth to social ecology: Darwin's legacy and the concept of environment in epidemiology
- The temporal pattern of mortality responses to ambient ozone in the APHEA project
- Morbidity is related to a green living environment
- Darwinism
- Patterns in trouble sleeping among women at mid-life: results from a British prospective cohort study
- Job strain and symptoms of angina pectoris among British and Finnish middle-aged employees
- Correction
- Psychosocial risk factors for coronary heart disease in UK South Asian men and women
- Marital partner and mortality: the effects of the social positions of both spouses
- What now on screening for prostate cancer?
- Ductus venosus pulsatility index as an antenatal screening marker for Down's syndrome: use with the Combined and Integrated tests
- Is umbilical cord blood total thyroxin measurement effective in newborn screening for hypothyroidism?
- The psychological impact of being offered surveillance colonoscopy following attendance at colorectal screening using flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Comparing interval breast cancer rates in Norway and North Carolina: results and challenges
- Tumour size at detection according to different measures of mammographic breast density
- Carotid ultrasound screening for coronary heart disease: results based on a meta-analysis of 18 studies and 44,861 subjects
- Combining carotid intima-media thickness with carotid plaque on screening for coronary heart disease
- THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH (NIHR) HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT (HTA) PROGRAMME
- How do common chronic conditions affect health-related quality of life?
- Assessing physical activity in general practice: a disconnect between clinical practice and public health?
- November Focus
- Wounded healers
- The challenge of improving patient safety in primary care
- Quality of life: what does it mean for general practice?
- Our debt to those who are dying: the UK medical establishment should reconsider its stance on assisted suicide
- What happens when doctors are patients? Qualitative study of GPs
- Child deaths: confidential enquiry into the role and quality of UK primary care
- Primary care contact prior to suicide in individuals with mental illness
- Trust faces prosecution over death of patient who was given the wrong drug after birth of son
- Private company suspended from providing out of hours services while concerns investigated
- Investigation of incidental hypercalcaemia
- Health research in developing countries
- UK government outlines details of free personal care for people most in need
- A woman with acute myelopathy in pregnancy: case progression
- Avoiding midazolam overdose: summary of a safety report from the National Patient Safety Agency
- National Patient Safety Agency: combining stories with statistics to minimise harm
- Should the NHS strive to eradicate all unexplained variation? No
- Should the NHS strive to eradicate all unexplained variation? Yes
- Three deadly sins: hierarchy, etiquette and conformity
- Are memory clinics effective? The odds are in favour of their benefit, but conclusive evidence is not yet available
- Surgeons and safety
- Competitive culture does not guarantee improved quality
- Cure or cocoa?
- Preventing premature mortality in chronic diseases for South Asians in the UK and beyond
- From practice guidelines to clinical decision support: closing the loop
- An alternative approach to medical genetics based on modern evolutionary biology. Part 4: HERVs in cancer
- Uncomfortable prescribing decisions in hospitals: the impact of teamwork
- Asymptomatic pericardial calcification in Whipple's disease
- Physical activity for all: new research highlights health benefits
- Detecting over-age players using wrist MRI: science partnering with sport to ensure fair play
- Exercise and bone health: optimising bone structure during growth is key, but all is not in vain during ageing
- Fasciitis first before tendinopathy: does the anatomy hold the key?
- BJSM reviews: A-Z of nutritional supplements: dietary supplements, sports nutrition foods and Ergogenic aids for health and performance Part 3
- Consensus statement on epidemiological studies of medical conditions in tennis, April 2009
- A meta-analysis of impact exercise on postmenopausal bone loss: the case for mixed loading exercise programmes
- Predictive validity of health-related fitness in youth: a systematic review
- Beneficial effects of exercise: shifting the focus from body weight to other markers of health
- Impact of mode of transportation on dyslipidaemia in working people in Beijing
- Psychotropic medication: curing illness or creating problems?
- Optical coherence tomography: new (near-infrared) light on stent implantation?
- Cardiac rehabilitation: into the future
- Vasovagal ejaculation syncope
- Psychotropic medication use and risk of adverse cardiovascular events in women with suspected coronary artery disease: outcomes from the Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) study
- Optical coherence tomography evaluation of zotarolimus-eluting stents at 9-month follow-up: comparison with sirolimus-eluting stents
- Optical coherence tomography assessment of the acute effects of stent implantation on the vessel wall: a systematic quantitative approach
- Aldosterone status associated with insulin resistance in patients with heart failure--data from the ALOFT study
- Age and gender effects on the extent of myocardial involvement in acute myocarditis: a cardiovascular magnetic resonance study
- Prosthetic valves: "old meets new"
- Digest
- The year in Gut 2009
- Biomarkers in IBS: when will they replace symptoms for diagnosis and management?
- "Too much, too soon"
- Adiponectin and JNK: metabolic/inflammatory pathways affecting gastrointestinal carcinogenesis
- Ulcerative colitis: is it in the diet?
- HIV/hepatitis C co-infection and hepatic fibrosis: looking beyond HIV-associated immune suppression; the contribution of hepatic steatosis and insulin resistance
- Selective inhibition of NF-{kappa}B in Kupffer cells: good, but not for everything
- Association of adiponectin multimers with Barrett's oesophagus
- Role of dietary fibres, intestinal hypermotility and leukotrienes in the pathogenesis of NSAID-induced small intestinal ulcers in cats
- Airwaves
- Furthering our understanding of pathogen transmission in cystic fibrosis
- Medication adherence in COPD: what have we learned?
- Airways disease: just nosing around?
- Cough-generated aerosols of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other Gram-negative bacteria from patients with cystic fibrosis
- Sweat gland bioelectrics differ in cystic fibrosis: a new concept for potential diagnosis and assessment of CFTR function in cystic fibrosis
- Adherence to inhaled therapy, mortality and hospital admission in COPD
- Prediction of the rate of decline in FEV1 in smokers using quantitative computed tomography
- The sst1 locus controls granuloma necrosis in tuberculosis
- Development, dimensions, reliability and validity of the novel Manchester COPD fatigue scale
- Clinical risk in aesthetic surgery
- Aesthetic surgery and regulatory risk for doctors
- Managing risk to reputation
- France sets standards for practice of aesthetic surgery
- Clinical risk in cosmetic surgery
- Minimizing risk in aesthetic surgery
- Risk reduction in cosmetic surgery
- Improving the safety of aesthetic surgery: Recommendations following a 14-year review of cases referred to the Medical Defence Union from across the United Kingdom (1990-2004)
- Editorial
- Tuberculosis: clinical management and medicolegal pitfalls
- Quality lines
- SQUIRE after one year
- The role of an ethical culture for the prevention and recovery of "second victims"
- The natural history of recovery for the healthcare provider "second victim" after adverse patient events
- Enhancing medication use safety: benefits of learning from your peers
- Estimates of injury risks for healthcare personnel working night shifts and long hours
- Care homes' use of medicines study: prevalence, causes and potential harm of medication errors in care homes for older people
- Do associations between staff and inpatient feedback have the potential for improving patient experience? An analysis of surveys in NHS acute trusts in England
- Improving colon cancer screening rates in primary care: a pilot study emphasising the role of the medical assistant
- ProvenCare: quality improvement model for designing highly reliable care in cardiac surgery
- Is it time to take primary care seriously in redressing health inequalities?
- Quality of care in two health systems: can the United Kingdom and Australia learn from each other?
- Improving care in depression: qualitative study investigating the effects of using a mental health questionnaire
- The doctorpatient relationship in chronic fatigue syndrome: survey of patient perspectives
- Lean experience in primary care
- Morton's neuroma: diagnostic accuracy, effect on treatment time and costs of direct referral to ultrasound by primary care physicians
- The quality of primary care health centres in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Personalisation of care: implications from two case studies for doctors and health services
- Patient participation groups: the national picture
- Primary care quality digest
- Focusing clinicians on ethics
- Ethics in collaborative global health research networks
- Clinical Ethics Committee Case 8: Should we carry out a predictive genetic test in our young patient?
- Truth-telling in health care
- Competent minors and health-care research: autonomy does not rule, okay?
- Cutting through red tape: non-therapeutic circumcision and unethical guidelines
- Subject positions in research ethics committee letters: a discursive analysis
- Experiencing bad treatment: qualitative study of patient complaints concerning their treatment by public health-care practitioners in the County of Stockholm
- Confidentiality and consent in living kidney transplantation: is it essential for a donor to know that their recipient has HIV disease?
- Substituted misjudgement
- Flagging fasting plasma glucose specimens: time to routinely label the context in which pathology specimens are recorded
- In this issue of Informatics in Primary Care: ethnicity, learning and diabetes
- Hospital data may be more accurate than census data in estimating the ethnic composition of general practice populations
- The cognitive impact of research synopses on physicians: a prospective observational analysis of evidence-based summaries sent by email
- Leveraging time and learning style, iPod vs. realtime attendance at a series of medicine residents conferences: a randomised controlled trial
- Clinical informatics to improve quality of care: a population-based system for patients with diabetes mellitus
- Record media used by primary care providers in medically underserved regions of upstate New York was not pivotal to clinical result in the Informatics for Diabetes Education and Telemedicine (IDEATel) project
- Variation in the recording of diabetes diagnostic data in primary care computer systems: implications for the quality of care
- Using surrogate markers in primary electronic patient record systems to confirm or refute the diagnosis of diabetes
- Illogical placing of codes within a clinical classification
- Integration of diagnostic and communication technologies
- Technologically-assisted behaviour change: a systematic review of studies of novel technologies for the management of chronic illness
- Application of camera phones in telehaematology
- A comparison of in-person home care, home care with telephone contact and home care with telemonitoring for disease management
- Interactive emergency communication involving persons in crisis
- Telehealth in clinical supervision: a comparison of supervision formats
- Feasibility of telemonitoring for active surveillance of influenza vaccine safety in the primary care setting in the Netherlands
- Pandemic influenza planning by videoconference
- A Brazilian educational experiment: teleradiology on web TV
- Questioning the value of screening for gonorrhoea in symptomless heterosexual men
- Assessing training in sexual dysfunction for genitourinary medicine registrars
- Destigmatizing genitourinary medicine and sexually transmitted infections in the UK
- Shortening the voiding interval for men having chlamydia nucleic acid amplification tests
- Nurse-led sexually transmitted disease clinics: staff perceptions concerning the quality of the service
- Sexual behaviour, condom use and rates of sexually transmitted infections in HIV clinic attendees in South East London
- Emotional intimacy predicts condom use: findings in a group at high sexually transmitted disease risk
- HIV testing men in the antenatal setting: understanding male non-disclosure
- Pearly penile papules regress in older patients and with circumcision
- Mucocutaneous manifestations in 150 HIV-infected Indian patients and their relationship with CD4 lymphocyte counts
- Whistlestop tour
- Time to improve HIV testing and recording of HIV diagnosis in UK primary care
- HIV testing in men who have sex with men: are we ready to take the next HIV testing test?
- A prospective study of risk factors for herpes simplex virus type 2 acquisition among high-risk HIV-1 seronegative women in Kenya
- Sexual network position and risk of sexually transmitted infections
- Rapid decline in presentations of genital warts after the implementation of a national quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccination programme for young women
- Anal squamous intraepithelial lesions among HIV positive and HIV negative men who have sex with men in Thailand
- The psychosocial burden of human papillomavirus related disease and screening interventions
- A multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo controlled study of cryotherapy versus cryotherapy and podophyllotoxin cream as treatment for external anogenital warts
- Trends in HIV testing and recording of HIV status in the UK primary care setting: a retrospective cohort study 1995-2005
- One small cheer
- A profession of equals
- Sickle cell disease: quality of care needs to improve within the NHS
- Healthcare provision for sickle cell disease in Ghana: challenges for the African context
- 'Give us the weapon to argue': eHealth and the Somali community of Manchester
- Strategies and effectiveness of diabetes self-management education interventions for Bangladeshis
- 'We're not fully aware of their cultural needs': tutors' experiences of delivering the Expert Patients Programme to South Asian attendees
- Understanding migrants' primary healthcare utilisation in New Zealand through an ethnographic approach
- Did you see?
- Knowledgeshare
- Learning and disasters
- Servants and leaders
- Developing competences for learning in the age of the internet
- Pandemic flu: putting plans into practice
- Disaster planning: using an 'evolving scenario' approach for pandemic influenza with primary care doctors in training
- Preventing burnout among general practitioners: is there a possible route?
- A conceptual description of potential scenarios of e-mentoring in GP specialist training
- Questionnaire for quality management of general practice specialist training
- Patients' attitudes to general practice registrars: a review of the literature
- The application process for general practitioner trainers in United Kingdom deaneries: similarities and differences
