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List of works by Ruth McDonald

'Bourdieu', medical elites and 'social class': a qualitative study of 'desert island' doctors.

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Acute coronary syndrome nurses: perceptions of other members of the health care team.

scientific article published on 17 October 2006

Autonomy and modernisation: the management of change in an English primary care trust.

scientific article published in May 2004

Biomedicine, holism and general medical practice: responses to the 2004 General Practitioner contract

scientific article published on 28 April 2008

Challenges, solutions and future directions in the evaluation of service innovations in health care and public health

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Changes to financial incentives in English dentistry 2006-2009: a qualitative study.

scientific article published on 29 March 2012

Characteristics and Pathways of Long-Stay Patients in High and Medium Secure Settings in England; A Secondary Publication From a Large Mixed-Methods Study.

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Competing and coexisting logics in the changing field of English general medical practice.

scientific article published on 18 June 2013

Dependence and identity: nurses and chronic conditions in a primary care setting.

scientific article published in January 2008

Determining the optimal model for role-substitution in NHS dental services in the United Kingdom

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Diagnostic scanning for suspected scaphoid fractures: an economic evaluation based on cost-minimisation models

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

Does capitation affect the delivery of oral healthcare and access to services? Evidence from a pilot contact in Northern Ireland.

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Economic evaluation of a randomized clinical trial of hospital versus telephone follow-up after treatment for breast cancer

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Everything you wanted to know about anxiety but were afraid to ask.

scientific article published in October 2008

Governing the ethical consumer: identity, choice and the primary care medical encounter.

scientific article published in April 2007

Health and social care devolution: the Greater Manchester experiment.

scientific article published on 22 March 2016

Hospital pay for performance in England

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How do they measure up? Differences in stakeholder perceptions of quality measures used in English community nursing

scientific article published on 08 October 2019

Incentives and control in primary health care: findings from English pay-for-performance case studies.

scientific article published in January 2008

Individual identity and organisational control: empowerment and modernisation in a primary care trust.

scientific article published in November 2004

Innovation sustainability in challenging health-care contexts: embedding clinically led change in routine practice

scientific article published on November 2012

Issues arising from the use of qualitative methods in health economics

scientific article published in July 2004

Leadership and leadership development in healthcare settings - a simplistic solution to complex problems?

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Making sense of patient priorities: applying discrete choice methods in primary care using 'think aloud' technique

scientific article published on 02 May 2007

Managing madness, murderers and paedophiles: Understanding change in the field of English forensic psychiatry

scientific article published on 13 July 2016

Managing the entry of new medicines in the National Health Service: health authority experiences and prospects for primary care groups and trusts

scientific article published on 01 November 2001

Market reforms in English primary medical care: medicine, habitus and the public sphere

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Medicine, madness and murderers: the context of English forensic psychiatric hospitals.

scientific article published in August 2017

Pay for performance in primary care in England and California: comparison of unintended consequences

scientific article published on March 2009

Paying for performance in healthcare organisations

scientific article published on 17 January 2014

Paying for performance in primary medical care: learning about and learning from "success" and "failure" in England and California.

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Paying for the wrong kind of performance? Financial incentives and behaviour changes in National Health Service dentistry 1992-2009

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Practice nurses and the effects of the new general practitioner contract in the English National Health Service: The extension of a professional project?

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Productive efficiency and its determinants in the Community Dental Service in the north-west of England.

scientific article published on June 2017

Professional status in a changing world: The case of medicines use reviews in English community pharmacy.

scientific article published on 12 May 2010

Reduced mortality with hospital pay for performance in England.

scientific article published in November 2012

Regional assemblage and the spatial reorganisation of health and care: the case of devolution in Greater Manchester, England

scientific article published on 13 February 2019

Rules and guidelines in clinical practice: a qualitative study in operating theatres of doctors' and nurses' views.

scientific article published on August 2005

Safety and complexity: inter-departmental relationships as a threat to patient safety in the operating department

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Sensemaking and the co-production of safety: a qualitative study of primary medical care patients

scientific article published on 6 November 2015

Shifting care from hospitals to the community: a review of the evidence on quality and efficiency

scientific article published on April 2007

Shifting the balance of power? Culture change and identity in an English health-care setting

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Street-level bureaucrats? heart disease, health economics and policy in a primary care group

scientific article published on 01 May 2002

The experience of pay for performance in English family practice: a qualitative study

scientific article published on May 2008

The impact of a combinatorial digital and organisational intervention on the management of long-term conditions in UK primary care: a non-randomised evaluation

scientific article published on 12 March 2019

The impact of pay-for-performance on professional boundaries in UK general practice: an ethnographic study

scientific article published on 2 October 2008

The medium-term sustainability of organisational innovations in the national health service.

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The present state and future direction of primary care: a qualitative study of GPs' views.

scientific article published on December 2009

The technical efficiency of oral healthcare provision: Evaluating role substitution in National Health Service dental practices in England

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Understanding behaviour change in context: examining the role of midstream social marketing programmes

scientific article published on 16 May 2019

What are the key attributes of primary care for patients? Building a conceptual 'map' of patient preferences.

scientific article published on September 2006

What benefits will choice bring to patients? Literature review and assessment of implications

scientific article published on July 2008

What patients want from primary care consultations: a discrete choice experiment to identify patients' priorities

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Whither British general practice after the 2004 GMS contract?

Why are patients in clinical trials of heart failure not like those we see in everyday practice?

scientific article published on 01 December 2003