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The meaning of integrated care: a systems approach
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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
- Another 15 Minutes…Health News from the Fade Library 27th October 2009
- Another 15 Minutes…Health News from the Fade Library 24th - 26th October 2009
- Another 15 Minutes…Health News from the Fade Library 23rd October 2009
- Another 15 Minutes…Health News from the Fade Library 21st - 22nd October 2009
- Another 15 Minutes…Health News from the Fade Library 20th October 2009
- Another 15 Minutes…Health News from the Fade Library 17th - 19th 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
- Zero tolerance of chemical pollutants in food and animal feed: European policies and public health
- Changing the world? Reflections on the interface between social science, epidemiology and public health
- Good girls do...get vaccinated: HPV, mass marketing and moral dilemmas for sexually active young women
- Is the wealth index a proxy for consumption expenditure? A systematic review
- Reassessing the construct validity of a Brazilian version of the instrument Caregiver Abuse Screen (CASE) used to identify risk of domestic violence against the elderly
- Serum {gamma}-glutamyltransferase: new insights about an old enzyme
- Solid fuel use and cooking practices as a major risk factor for ALRI mortality among African children
- Effectiveness of a health promotion programme for long-term unemployed subjects with health problems: a randomised controlled trial
- Intelligence is negatively associated with the number of functional somatic symptoms
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of influenza and pneumococcal vaccination for Hong Kong elderly in long-term care facilities
- 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
- Operation
- The years of magical thinking
- Jeremy Morris
- Older people are not getting discreet and appropriate continence care
- Capping earnings from private patients in NHS foundation trusts
- Self diagnosis
- Array
- Array
- Should more patients with acute ischaemic stroke receive thrombolytic treatment?
- Homoeopath society breaks own ethics code by making speculative claims on website, says expert
- 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
- Abstracts
- Delays in angiography may cost lives
- Unveiling the causes of heart disease in China
- Pre-existing cognitive impairment in candidates for cardiac surgery: an overview
- HIV positivity, protease inhibitor exposure and subclinical atherosclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
- A comparison between B-type natriuretic peptide, Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) score and their combination in ACS risk stratification
- Risk assessment with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Potential survival gains in the treatment of myocardial infarction
- Percutaneous surgery for mitral valve disease
- Improving survival in the 6 months after diagnosis of heart failure in the past decade: population-based data from the UK
- Digest
- Obesity and Barrett's oesophagus: more than just reflux
- Corticosteroid treatment for autoimmune pancreatitis
- A novel role for leucocytes in determining the severity of acute pancreatitis
- Childhood NAFLD: a ticking time-bomb?
- Critical role of TRPC6 channels in G2 phase transition and the development of human oesophageal cancer
- Non-endoscopic screening biomarkers for Barrett's oesophagus: from microarray analysis to the clinic
- The bleeding grapes of wrath
- Body mass index and Barrett's oesophagus in women
- Gynaecological cause for bowel obstruction
- 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
- How safe is releasing anonymized confidential data? Clinicians need to understand their legal and professional duties
- Is there a place for risk management in anonymization? A proposed framework
- Reducing risk and improving quality of patient care in hospital: the contribution of standardized medical records
- Hyperfibrinolysis - is it common? Measurement and treatment including the role of thromboelastography
- Premier League footballers' indemnity and confidentiality
- Conciliation in Healthcare: Managing and Resolving Complaints and Conflict
- Editorial
- Medicolegal aspects of reproductive medicine
- Substandard testing for Down's syndrome, and legal ramifications
- Case: Failure of ambulance crew to treat patient: R (1& 2) and M(3) v Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- 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
- The role of patients in European clinical ethics consultation
- Clinical ethics committee case 7: our young patient is in heart failure but has multiple co-morbidities. How can we best care for him and his family?
- Planning for and managing pandemic influenza
- A plea for precaution with public health: the xenotransplantation example
- Involving patients and relatives in a Norwegian clinical ethics committee: what have we learned?
- Clinical ethics consultation in Europe: a comparative and ethical review of the role of patients
- The role of patients in clinical ethics support: a snapshot of practices and attitudes in the United Kingdom
- Patient involvement in clinical ethics services: from access to participation and membership
- Strengths and limitations of considering patients as ethics 'actors' equal to doctors: reflections on the patients' position in a French clinical ethics consultation setting
- Donating one's brain for research - a very personal perspective
- 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
- Whistletop tour
- The role of heterosexual anal intercourse for HIV transmission in developing countries: are we ready to draw conclusions?
- Accepting the torch
- Heterosexual anal intercourse among community and clinical settings in Cape Town, South Africa
- Increasing role of herpes simplex virus type 1 in first-episode anogenital herpes in heterosexual women and younger men who have sex with men, 1992-2006
- Associations between migrant status and sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers in Tijuana, Mexico
- AIDS mortality in African migrants living in Portugal: evidence of large social inequalities
- Mycoplasma genitalium in men who have sex with men at male-only saunas
- Mycoplasma genitalium in asymptomatic patients: implications for screening
- Mycoplasma genitalium compared to chlamydia, gonorrhoea and trichomonas as an aetiological agent of urethritis in men attending STD clinics
- 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
