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Performance indicators for public mental healthcare: a systematic international inventorySteve Lauriks
Department of Epidemiology, Documentation and Health Promotion EDG, Municipal Health Service Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 100, 1018 WT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Public Health 12:214. 2012....
Focus on sex differences in grant applications submitted to the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and DevelopmentDebby G Keuken
Department of General Practice, Academic Medical Center University of Amsterdam, Division of Clinical Methods and Public Health, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Int J Equity Health 6:13. 2007..This study evaluates the effect of various formal incentives that were introduced by a Dutch financer of health research to encourage applicants to include sex differences in research proposals...
Pathways into homelessness: recently homeless adults problems and service use before and after becoming homeless in AmsterdamIgor R van Laere
GGD Municipal Public Health Service, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Public Health 9:3. 2009..To improve homelessness prevention practice, we met with recently homeless adults, to explore their pathways into homelessness, problems and service use, before and after becoming homeless...
Acculturation does not necessarily lead to increased physical activity during leisure time: a cross-sectional study among Turkish young people in the NetherlandsKaren Hosper
Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Centre University of Amsterdam, P, O, Box 22700, 1100 DD Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Public Health 7:230. 2007..We explored whether this is also true for migrants who experience contextual barriers such as having children, living in a less attractive neighbourhood, or having occupational physical activity...
Health system outcomes and determinants amenable to public health in industrialized countries: a pooled, cross-sectional time series analysisOnyebuchi A Arah
Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Public Health 5:81. 2005..These amenable factors included addictive and nutritional lifestyle, air quality, public health spending, healthcare coverage, and immunizations...
Determining the interviewer effect on CQ Index outcomes: a multilevel approachSjenny Winters
Kiwa Prismant, P, O, Box 85200, 3508 AE Utrecht, The Netherlands
BMC Med Res Methodol 10:75. 2010....
Transforming medical professionalism to fit changing health needsThomas Plochg
Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Med 7:64. 2009..However, it may also be necessary to initiate basic changes to way in which the medical professionals work in order to adapt to the changing health needs...
Investigating organizational quality improvement systems, patient empowerment, organizational culture, professional involvement and the quality of care in European hospitals: the 'Deepening our Understanding of Quality Improvement in Europe (DUQuE)' projeOliver Groene
Avedis Donabedian University Institute, Autonomous University of Barcelona, CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health, Barcelona, Spain
BMC Health Serv Res 10:281. 2010..Hospitals in European countries apply a wide range of quality improvement strategies. Knowledge of the effectiveness of these strategies, implemented as part of an overall hospital quality improvement system, is limited...
Selecting effective incentive structures in health care: A decision framework to support health care purchasers in finding the right incentives to drive performanceThomas Custers
Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Health Serv Res 8:66. 2008..The objective of the study was to develop a decision framework to assist policymakers in choosing and designing effective incentive systems...
Comparing health system performance assessment and management approaches in the Netherlands and Ontario, CanadaAli R Tawfik-Shukor
Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Health Serv Res 7:25. 2007..To support this cross-national learning, a study was undertaken to compare health system performance approaches in The Netherlands with Ontario, Canada...
Capacity management of nursing staff as a vehicle for organizational improvementSylvia G Elkhuizen
Department of Innovation and Process Management, Academic Medical Center University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Health Serv Res 7:196. 2007..This paper presents a comprehensive capacity model that gives insight into required nursing staff capacity and opportunities to improve capacity utilization on a ward level...
Motives and preferences of general practitioners for new collaboration models with medical specialists: a qualitative studyAnnette J Berendsen
Department of General Practice, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
BMC Health Serv Res 7:4. 2007..The following two questions are addressed in this study: What motivates GPs to initiate and sustain new models for collaborating with medical specialists? What kind of new collaboration models do GPs suggest?..
The role of 'confounding by indication' in assessing the effect of quality of care on disease outcomes in general practice: results of a case-control studyJohan S de Koning
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Health Serv Res 5:10. 2005..We report on the problems related to a variant of confounding by indication, that may be common in quality of care studies...
Intermediate care: for better or worse? Process evaluation of an intermediate care model between a university hospital and a residential homeThomas Plochg
Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Health Serv Res 5:38. 2005..The aim of this study was to produce knowledge for management to improve quality of care, and to provide more generalisable insights into the accumulated impact of such a model...
Suboptimal asthma care for immigrant children: results of an audit studyJ J Nathalie Urbanus-van Laar
Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Health Serv Res 8:22. 2008..This study aimed to assess (1) ethnic differences in suboptimal asthma care for children with an asthma exacerbation who consulted a physician, and (2) ethnic differences in the nature of suboptimal care...
Collaborating while competing? The sustainability of community-based integrated care initiatives through a health partnershipThomas Plochg
Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22660, 1100 DD, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Health Serv Res 6:37. 2006..Thus, a tension exists between the need to collaborate and the need to compete. Despite or because of this tension, community health partnerships are being promoted, and this should enforce a needs-based and integrated care delivery...
Cost-effectiveness of monitoring glaucoma patients in shared care: an economic evaluation alongside a randomized controlled trialKim M Holtzer-Goor
Institute for Medical Technology Assessment Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Health Serv Res 10:312. 2010..Because quality of care turned out to be similar, we focus here on the costs...
Shelter-based convalescence for homeless adults in Amsterdam: a descriptive studyIgor van Laere
Dr Valckenier Outreach Practice for Homeless People, GGD Municipal Public Health Service, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Health Serv Res 9:208. 2009..Adequate support for homeless populations includes shelter and care to recuperate from illness and/or injury. This is a descriptive analysis of diagnoses and use of shelter-based convalescence in a cohort of homeless adults in Amsterdam...
Nurse telephone triage in out-of-hours GP practice: determinants of independent advice and return consultationEric Peter Moll van Charante
Department of General Practice, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Fam Pract 7:74. 2006..This study aims to explore which determinants are associated with NTAA and with subsequent return consultations to the GP...
Indicators without a cause. Reflections on the development and use of indicators in health care from a public health perspectiveN Klazinga
Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Int J Qual Health Care 13:433-8. 2001..The methodological problems of turning epidemiological data into management information for health services are discussed. The key message is that the health of the community should be the ultimate cause of all indicators...
Health services research related to performance indicators and benchmarking in EuropeNiek Klazinga
Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
J Health Serv Res Policy 16:38-47. 2011..This paper aims to identify the main themes of health services research in this area and focuses on opportunities for improving the evidence underpinning performance indicators...
Re-engineering trust: the adoption and adaption of four models for external quality assurance of health care services in western European health care systemsN Klazinga
Department of Social Medicine, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Int J Qual Health Care 12:183-9. 2000....
