1. The effectiveness of an intervention in increasing community health clinician provision of preventive care: a study protocol of a non-randomised, multiple-baseline trial

   • Kathleen M McElwaine
   • Megan Freund
   • John H Wiggers

   Study protocol Open access 30 December 2011 Article: 354

   

2. Earlier surgical intervention in congenital heart disease results in better outcome and resource utilization

   • Roheena Z Panni
   • Awais Ashfaq
   • Muhammad M Amanullah

   Research article Open access 29 December 2011 Article: 353

3. A survey of engagement and competence levels in interventions and activities in a community mental health workforce in England

   • Linda Lang
   • Sophie Orton
   • Ruoling Chen

   Research article Open access 29 December 2011 Article: 352

4. Mapping private pharmacies and their characteristics in Ujjain district, Central India

   • Yogesh D Sabde
   • Vishal Diwan
   • Ayesha De Costa

   Research article Open access 28 December 2011 Article: 351

   

5. What is the 'problem' that outreach work seeks to address and how might it be tackled? Seeking theory in a primary health prevention programme

   • Mhairi Mackenzie
   • Fiona Turner
   • Catherine A O'Donnell

   Research article Open access 28 December 2011 Article: 350

   

6. Lifetime economic burden of prostate cancer

   • Michael E Stokes
   • Jack Ishak
   • Yijian Huang

   Research article Open access 28 December 2011 Article: 349

7. Counting on commitment; the quality of primary care-led diabetes management in a system with minimal incentives

   • Sheena Mc Hugh
   • Paul Marsden
   • Ivan J Perry

   Research article Open access 28 December 2011 Article: 348

   

8. Something is amiss in Denmark: A comparison of preventable hospitalisations and readmissions for chronic medical conditions in the Danish Healthcare system and Kaiser Permanente

   • Michaela Schiøtz
   • Mary Price
   • John Hsu

   Research article Open access 22 December 2011 Article: 347

9. Cost of Community Integrated Prevention Campaign for Malaria, HIV, and Diarrhea in Rural Kenya

   • James G Kahn
   • Brian Harris
   • Navneet Garg

   Research article Open access 21 December 2011 Article: 346

   

10. Which health care facilities do adult malawian antiretroviral therapy patients utilize during intercurrent illness? a cross sectional study

    • Caroline Masangalawe
    • Akuzike Kandulu
    • Joep J van Oosterhout

    Research article Open access 21 December 2011 Article: 345

11. Is the maturity of hospitals' quality improvement systems associated with measures of quality and patient safety?

    • Oliver Groene
    • Nuria Mora
    • Rosa Suñol

    Research article Open access 20 December 2011 Article: 344

    

12. Using network analysis to map the formal clinical reporting process in pediatric palliative care: a pilot study

    • Harold Siden
    • Karen Urbanoski

    Research article Open access 16 December 2011 Article: 343

    

13. Understanding innovators' experiences of barriers and facilitators in implementation and diffusion of healthcare service innovations: a qualitative study

    • Julie Barnett
    • Konstantina Vasileiou
    • Terry Young

    Research article Open access 16 December 2011 Article: 342

14. Treatment adherence among sputum smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients in mountainous areas in China

    • Song Yao
    • Wen-Hui Huang
    • Hai-Feng Pan

    Research article Open access 16 December 2011 Article: 341

15. Juvenile obesity and its association with utilisation and costs of pharmaceuticals - results from the KiGGS study

    • Christina M Wenig
    • Hildtraud Knopf
    • Petra Menn

    Research article Open access 16 December 2011 Article: 340

    

16. The courage to change: Patient perceptions of 12-Step fellowships

    • John-Kåre Vederhus
    • Christine Timko
    • Thomas Clausen

    Research article Open access 15 December 2011 Article: 339

17. Cost effectiveness of total knee arthroplasty from a health care providers' perspective before and after introduction of an interdisciplinary clinical pathway - is investment always improvement?

    • Frank Krummenauer
    • Klaus-Peter Guenther
    • Stephan Kirschner

    Research article Open access 14 December 2011 Article: 338

    

18. Models of inter professional working for older people living at home: a survey and review of the local strategies of english health and social care statutory organisations

    • Claire Goodman
    • Vari Drennan
    • Steve Iliffe

    Research article Open access 14 December 2011 Article: 337

    

19. Do we have the right models for scaling up health services to achieve the Millennium Development Goals?

    • Savitha Subramanian
    • Joseph Naimoli
    • David H Peters

    Research article Open access 14 December 2011 Article: 336

    

20. Effects on incident reporting after educating residents in patient safety: a controlled study

    • José D Jansma
    • Cordula Wagner
    • Arnold B Bijnen

    Research article Open access 12 December 2011 Article: 335

    

21. Factors affecting the use of patient survey data for quality improvement in the Veterans Health Administration

    • Elizabeth A Davies
    • Mark M Meterko
    • Paul D Cleary

    Research article Open access 12 December 2011 Article: 334

22. Are prescribing doctors sensitive to the price that their patients have to pay in the Spanish National Health System?

    • Beatriz González López-Valcárcel
    • Julián Librero
    • The Group for Drug Utilization Research in the Spanish National Health System (IUM-SNS Group)

    Research article Open access 08 December 2011 Article: 333

    

23. The discriminative power of patient experience surveys

    • Dolf de Boer
    • Diana Delnoij
    • Jany Rademakers

    Research article Open access 06 December 2011 Article: 332

24. A randomized trial of an intervention to improve use and adherence to effective coronary heart disease prevention strategies

    • Stacey L Sheridan
    • Lindy B Draeger
    • Ziya Gizlice

    Research article Open access 05 December 2011 Article: 331

    

25. Assessing the contribution of prescribing in primary care by nurses and professionals allied to medicine: a systematic review of literature

    • Sadiq Bhanbhro
    • Vari M Drennan
    • Ruth Harris

    Research article Open access 02 December 2011 Article: 330

    

26. Bridging health technology assessment (HTA) with multicriteria decision analyses (MCDA): field testing of the EVIDEM framework for coverage decisions by a public payer in Canada

    • Michèle Tony
    • Monika Wagner
    • Mireille M Goetghebeur

    Research article Open access 30 November 2011 Article: 329

    

27. Voices from the frontline: counsellors' perspectives on TB/HIV collaborative activities in the Northwest Region, Cameroon

    • Barnabas N Njozing
    • Kerstin E Edin
    • Anna-Karin Hurtig

    Research article Open access 30 November 2011 Article: 328

    

28. Leadership, staffing and quality of care in nursing homes

    • Anders Kvale Havig
    • Anders Skogstad
    • Tor Inge Romøren

    Research article Open access 28 November 2011 Article: 327

29. Non-adherence to drug therapy and drug acquisition costs in a national population - a patient-based register study

    • Bo Hovstadius
    • Göran Petersson

    Research article Open access 28 November 2011 Article: 326

    

30. Testing the WHO responsiveness concept in the Iranian mental healthcare system: a qualitative study of service users

    • Ameneh Setareh Forouzan
    • Mehdi Ghazinour
    • Miguel San Sebastian

    Research article Open access 25 November 2011 Article: 325

31. Economic evaluation of increasing population rates of cardiac catheterization

    • Fiona M Clement
    • William A Ghali
    • the APPROACH Investigators

    Research article Open access 24 November 2011 Article: 324

    

32. A multi-region assessment of population rates of cardiac catheterization and yield of high-risk coronary artery disease

    • Fiona M Clement
    • Braden J Manns
    • the APPROACH Investigators

    Research article Open access 24 November 2011 Article: 323

    

33. The IRYSS-COPD appropriateness study: objectives, methodology, and description of the prospective cohort

    • José M Quintana
    • Cristóbal Esteban
    • the IRYSS-COPD group

    Study protocol Open access 24 November 2011 Article: 322

    

34. Mortality associated with timing of admission to and discharge from ICU: a retrospective cohort study

    • Kevin B Laupland
    • Benoit Misset
    • Jean-Francois Timsit

    Research article Open access 24 November 2011 Article: 321

    

35. A systematic review of integrated working between care homes and health care services

    • Sue L Davies
    • Claire Goodman
    • Katherine Froggatt

    Research article Open access 24 November 2011 Article: 320

    

36. How much time do nurses have for patients? a longitudinal study quantifying hospital nurses' patterns of task time distribution and interactions with health professionals

    • Johanna I Westbrook
    • Christine Duffield
    • Nerida J Creswick

    Research article Open access 24 November 2011 Article: 319

    

37. A web-based appointment system to reduce waiting for outpatients: A retrospective study

    • Wenjun Cao
    • Yi Wan
    • Yongyong Xu

    Research article Open access 22 November 2011 Article: 318

    

38. Reconstruction versus conservative treatment after rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament: cost effectiveness analysis

    • Mazda Farshad
    • Christian Gerber
    • Thomas Szucs

    Research article Open access 19 November 2011 Article: 317

    

39. Patterns of Long Term Care in 29 European countries: evidence from an exploratory study

    • Gianfranco Damiani
    • Valentina Farelli
    • Walter Ricciardi

    Research article Open access 18 November 2011 Article: 316

    

40. Why caretakers bypass Primary Health Care facilities for child care - a case from rural Tanzania

    • Catherine Kahabuka
    • Gunnar Kvåle
    • Sven Gudmund Hinderaker

    Research article Open access 17 November 2011 Article: 315

41. A framework and a measurement instrument for sustainability of work practices in long-term care

    • Sarah S Slaghuis
    • Mathilde MH Strating
    • Anna P Nieboer

    Research article Open access 16 November 2011 Article: 314

    

42. Implementation of patient education at first and second dispensing of statins in Dutch community pharmacies: the sequel of a cluster randomized trial

    • Caroline HPA Van de Steeg-van Gompel
    • Michel Wensing
    • Peter AGM De Smet

    Research article Open access 16 November 2011 Article: 313

    

43. Expert Delphi survey on research and development into drugs for neglected diseases

    • Angela Fehr
    • Petra Thürmann
    • Oliver Razum

    Research article Open access 16 November 2011 Article: 312

44. Association between mental health conditions and rehospitalization, mortality, and functional outcomes in patients with stroke following inpatient rehabilitation

    • Almas Dossa
    • Mark E Glickman
    • Dan Berlowitz

    Research article Open access 15 November 2011 Article: 311

    

45. Consumer evaluation of complaint handling in the Dutch health insurance market

    • Sonja Wendel
    • Judith D de Jong
    • Emile C Curfs

    Research article Open access 15 November 2011 Article: 310

    

46. Diagnosis of chronic conditions with modifiable lifestyle risk factors in selected urban and rural areas of Bangladesh and sociodemographic variability therein

    • John D Parr
    • Wietze Lindeboom
    • Tracey L Pérez Koehlmoos

    Research article Open access 11 November 2011 Article: 309

47. What stops children with a chronic illness accessing health care: a mixed methods study in children with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME)

    • Carly M Webb
    • Simon M Collin
    • Esther Crawley

    Research article Open access 11 November 2011 Article: 308

48. Quality of hospital care for sick newborns and severely malnourished children in Kenya: A two-year descriptive study in 8 hospitals

    • David Gathara
    • Newton Opiyo
    • Mike English

    Research article Open access 11 November 2011 Article: 307

49. Perceptions and practices of pharmaceutical wholesalers surrounding counterfeit medicines in a developing country: a baseline survey

    • Mohiuddin H Khan
    • Manabu Akazawa
    • Kazuko Kimura

    Research article Open access 11 November 2011 Article: 306

    

50. Healthcare costs in patients with metastatic lung cancer receiving chemotherapy

    • Montserrat Vera-Llonch
    • Derek Weycker
    • Gerry Oster

    Research article Open access 10 November 2011 Article: 305