Blar i Artikler fra Kunnskapssenteret på tidsskrift "BMC health services research"
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General practitioners' evaluation of community psychiatric services: responsiveness to change of the General Practitioner Experiences Questionnaire (GPEQ).
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-04-30)BACKGROUND: Instruments have been developed to assess professional views of the quality of care but have rarely been tested for responsiveness to change. The objective of this study was to test the responsiveness of the ... -
International health policy survey in 11 countries: assessment of non-response bias in the Norwegian sample.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-02-10)BACKGROUND: International health policy surveys are used to compare and evaluate health system performance, but little is known about the effects of non-response. The objective of this study was to assess the effects of ... -
International questionnaire postal response rate: an experiment comparing no return postage to provision of International Postage Vouchers--"Coupon-Réponse International".
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2004-07-06)BACKGROUND: Previous studies of methods to increase response rates on international postal surveys did not include providing return postage. We provided International Postage Vouchers--"Coupon-Réponse International" to ... -
Measuring physiotherapy performance in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee: a prospective study.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008-07-08)ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Patients with knee osteoarthritis [OA] are commonly treated by physiotherapists in primary care. Measuring physiotherapy performance is important before developing strategies to improve quality of ... -
Systems for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations I: critical appraisal of existing approaches The GRADE Working Group.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2004-12-22)BACKGROUND: A number of approaches have been used to grade levels of evidence and the strength of recommendations. The use of many different approaches detracts from one of the main reasons for having explicit approaches: ... -
Translating research into policy and practice in developing countries: a case study of magnesium sulphate for pre-eclampsia.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2005)BACKGROUND: The evidence base for improving reproductive health continues to grow. However, concerns remain that the translation of this evidence into appropriate policies is partial and slow. Little is known about the ... -
Understanding the implementation of complex interventions in health care: the normalization process model.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007-09-19)BACKGROUND: The Normalization Process Model is a theoretical model that assists in explaining the processes by which complex interventions become routinely embedded in health care practice. It offers a framework for process ... -
What do we know about how to do audit and feedback? Pitfalls in applying evidence from a systematic review.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2005-07-13)BACKGROUND: Improving the quality of health care requires a range of evidence-based activities. Audit and feedback is commonly used as a quality improvement tool in the UK National Health Service [NHS]. We set out to assess ...