Volume 1; Issue 2

Evidence-based Healthcare

Volume 1; Issue 2

1

Letter to readers

Anna Donald, Muir Gray

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 49 KB

english, 1997

2

Evidence-based medicine, preference-based practice and clinical decision analysis

Richard Lilford

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 127 KB

english, 1997

3

Use of decision analysis in clinical practice and policy

Ruth Gilbert, Stuart Logan

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 183 KB

english, 1997

4

Decision analysis by TreeAge DATA v3.0 for Windows

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 95 KB

english, 1997

5

Replacing state provision of mental health services by the purchase of services had managerial but no economic benefits

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 104 KB

english, 1997

6

The use of statistical methods to adjust hospital pneumonia severity death rates does not create an outcome measure sufficiently robust to allow the performance of individual hospitals to be judged

Valerie Seagroatt

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 103 KB

english, 1997

7

Neonatal intensive care units of more than 15 patients per day have a significantly lower mortality than smaller units, with no difference in cost if referral is made before birth. The increasing number of smaller units, as a result of policies to provide inter-hospital competition, may increase neonatal mortality

Valerie Chishty

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 96 KB

english, 1997

8

Cost-effectiveness of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) refined but not yet defined. Cost of ICDs relative to amiodarone therapy is approximately $74 000 per quality of life year gained

Colin Sanderson

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 93 KB

english, 1997

9

In some specialties, quality and effectiveness increase with hospital or clinician volume but centralization reduces use of services among those living furthest away

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 106 KB

english, 1997

10

The cost-effectiveness and quality of life from coronary angioplasty compared with bypass surgery depends on how many heart blood vessels the patient has blocked

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 101 KB

english, 1997

11

Leaving bacterially contaminated water in plastic bottles in the sun may reduce diarrhea in children

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 83 KB

english, 1997

12

Patients' own doctors provide better quality out-of-hours primary care than commercial deputizing services

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 113 KB

english, 1997

13

The outcome of elderly patients with myocardial infarction was better following care provided by cardiologists rather than by primary care physicians

Harry Hemingway

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 93 KB

english, 1997

14

Employing more doctors in a health care system did not result in fewer admissions

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 90 KB

english, 1997

15

Family doctor/midwife-led antenatal care is cheaper than obstetric-led care in low-risk pregnant women

Trisha Greenhalgh

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 109 KB

english, 1997

16

A systematic method of leg ulcer care in patients' own homes was cost-effective compared with the usual care offered by district nurses working without protocols and in isolation

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 110 KB

english, 1997

17

Collaborative survey of perinatal loss in planned and unplanned home births

Alison Macfarlane

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 160 KB

english, 1997

18

There is no need for further research on the ineffective Spf66 malaria vaccine

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 88 KB

english, 1997

19

Structured protocols for developmental screening and preventive care increased parent satisfaction and quality of care but did not increase levels of knowledge of the doctors in training

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 112 KB

english, 1997

20

Cost and effectiveness information without financial enforcement is ineffective in controlling doctor's drug prescribing and expenditure

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 108 KB

english, 1997

21

Primary care for breast cancer follow-up was as effective as hospital follow-up

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 82 KB

english, 1997

22

Poor quality information about and understanding of their child's acute illness was a major cause for anxiety and frustration in parents

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 87 KB

english, 1997

23

Giving patients balanced information about prostate cancer screening reduces their interest in being screened

Julian Savulescu

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 138 KB

english, 1997

24

Glossary

Journal:

Evidence-based Healthcare

Year:

1997

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 219 KB

english, 1997