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"Interaction" and research utilisation in health policies and programs: does it work?

scientific article

"No one dies of old age": implications for research, practice, and policy.

scientific article published in January 2011

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Caries Prevention in Dental Practice.

scientific article published in April 2017

A cost-benefit analysis using a willingness-to-pay questionnaire of intranasal budesonide for seasonal allergic rhinitis. Rhinocort Study Group

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

A geometric confidence ellipse approach to the estimation of the ratio of two variables

scientific article published on 01 December 2008

A needs-based methodology for allocating health care resources in Ontario, Canada: development and an application

scientific article published on 01 January 1991

A population-based study on advance directive completion and completion intention among citizens of the western Canadian province of Alberta.

scientific article

A scoping review of research to assess the frequency, types, and reasons for end-of-life care setting transitions

scientific article published on 13 August 2018

A synthesis of recent analyses of human resources for health requirements and labour market dynamics in high-income OECD countries

scientific article published on 29 September 2016

Access as a policy-relevant concept in low- and middle-income countries

scientific article published on 30 January 2009

Achievements and challenges of medicare in Canada: Are we there yet? Are we on course?

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Addressing the realities [correction of realties] of health care in northern aboriginal communities through participatory action research.

scientific article published in November 2004

Allocating resources in health care: alternative approaches to measuring needs in resource allocation formula in Ontario

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Alternative funding and delivery models: practice and prospects in Ontario.

scientific article published in July 1993

An Integrated Needs-Based Approach to Health Service and Health Workforce Planning: Applications for Pandemic Influenza.

scientific article published on August 2017

Applications of cost-benefit analysis to health care. Departures from welfare economic theory.

scientific article published in September 1987

Appropriateness-based reimbursement of elective invasive coronary procedures in low- and middle-income countries: Preliminary assessment of feasibility in India

scientific article

Area-Level Variation in Children's Unmet Need for Community-Based Mental Health Services: Findings from the 2014 Ontario Child Health Study

scientific article published on 23 January 2020

Barriers to treatment adherence for individuals with latent tuberculosis infection: A systematic search and narrative synthesis of the literature.

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Better data to drive more effective care for people with latent tuberculosis infection in Canada

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Beyond demographic change in human resources planning: an extended framework and application to nursing

scientific article published on 01 October 2003

Blunt Policy Instruments Deliver Blunt Policy Outcomes: Why Cost Sharing is Not Effective at Controlling Utilization and Improving Health System Efficiency

scientific article published on February 2016

Building bridges between academic research and policy formulation: when costing less means costing more

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Capitation and primary care in Canada: financial incentives and the evolution of health service organizations.

scientific article

Caring for the elderly: a European perspective on today and tomorrow.

scientific article published on January 1985

Charges for preventive services

scientific article published on 01 January 1988

Chemoprevention: drug pricing and mortality: the case of tamoxifen.

scientific article

Children's Mental Health Need and Expenditures in Ontario: Findings from the 2014 Ontario Child Health Study

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Cohort effects on the need for health care and implications for health care planning in Canada.

scientific article

Commentary: Social inequalities in health, social epidemiology and social value.

scientific article published in April 2001

Concepts of rigour and implications for health services research

scientific article published on 01 April 1998

Conservative versus aggressive follow up of mildly abnormal Pap smears: testing for process utility.

scientific article

Contracting out. Tread carefully: private waters

scientific article published on 01 June 1985

Coordination of care in the Chinese health care systems: a gap analysis of service delivery from a provider perspective.

scientific article

Cost-Effectiveness of Caries Prevention in Practice: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

scientific article published in May 2017

Cost-benefit analysis: dealing with the problems of indivisible projects and fixed budgets

scientific article published on 01 February 1987

Cost-effectiveness ratios: in a league of their own.

scientific article

DRGs U.K. style: a comparison of U.K. and U.S. policies for hospital cost containment and their implications for health status

scientific article published on 01 October 1988

Delivering the goods? Access to family physician services in Canada: a comparison of 1985 and 1991

scientific article published on 01 December 1995

Demand-based models and market failure in health care: projecting shortages and surpluses in doctors and nurses

scientific article published on 02 August 2018

Determining the optimal model for role substitution in NHS dental services in the UK: a mixed-methods study

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

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Developing management information from an administrative database of dental services: identifying factors that influence costs.

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Different dental care setting: does income matter?

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Disability Grant: a precarious lifeline for HIV/AIDS patients in South Africa

scientific article published on 9 June 2015

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

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Does the community want devolved authority? Results of deliberative polling in Ontario

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Does treatment collection and observation each day keep the patient away? An analysis of the determinants of adherence among patients with Tuberculosis in South Africa

scientific article published on 16 September 2015

Economic evaluation of HIV screening in pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in India

scientific article published on 26 August 2005

Economic issues in the development and use of practice guidelines: an application to resource allocation in dentistry

scientific article published on 01 June 1996

Economics and the evaluation of health care programmes: generalisability of methods and implications for generalisability of results

scientific article published on 01 May 2003

Economics, health and health economics: HYEs (healthy-years equivalent) versus QALYs (quality-adjusted live-year)

scientific article published in October 1993

Economists' dream or nightmare? Maximizing health gains from available resources using the NICE guidelines.

scientific article

Equity and health care: analysis of the relationship between need for care and the utilization of nursing services in Canada

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

Equity in health care: Methodological contributions to the analysis of hospital utilization within Canada ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 1995

Estimating unit costs for dental service delivery in institutional and community-based settings in southern Thailand.

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Estimation, power and sample size calculations for stochastic cost and effectiveness analysis.

scientific article published on January 2007

Ethical economics and cost-effectiveness analysis: is it ethical to ignore opportunity costs?

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Examining End-of-Life Case Management: Systematic Review.

scientific article published on 04 June 2014

Exploring the limitations of age-based models for health care planning.

scientific article published on 6 March 2015

Five-year follow up of patients treated with inpatient psychotherapy at the Cassel Hospital for Nervous Diseases.

scientific article published in September 1987

Gender differences in experiences of ART services in South Africa: a mixed methods study.

scientific article published on 18 May 2012

Geographic disparity in premature mortality in Ontario, 1992-1996

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Health care charges: lessons from the U.K.

scientific article published on 01 November 1989

Health economics: an important contribution to social science and medicine

scientific article published in February 2000

Health human resource planning for the new millennium: inputs in the production of health, illness, and recovery in populations.

scientific article

Health workforce planning: which countries include nurse practitioners and physician assistants and to what effect?

scientific article published on 11 August 2018

Health years equivalents as a measurement of preferences for dental interventions

scientific article published on 01 December 1998

Home and community occupational therapy for children and youth: a before and after study

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Home care evolution in alberta: how have palliative clients fared?

scientific article published on May 2007

Hospital and community health service costs: England and Scotland compared

scientific article published on 01 January 1988

Hospital and community health service costs: England and Scotland compared

article by Stephen Birch & Alan Maynard published 1 October 1987 in The BMJ

How Do Type 2 Diabetes Patients Value Urban Integrated Primary Care in China? Results of a Discrete Choice Experiment

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Human papillomavirus triage of atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance: cost-effective, but at what cost?

scientific article published in January 2006

Hypothesis: charges to patients impair the quality of dental care for elderly people

scientific article published on March 1989

I dreamed a dream: England reduces health inequalities and wins the World Cup

scientific article published on 01 August 2010

Impact of nationwide anti-smoking campaign

scientific article published on 01 October 1985

In place of fear: aligning health care planning with system objectives to achieve financial sustainability

scientific article published on 11 December 2014

Inclusiveness and health economics: reflections on the work of Gavin Mooney (1943-2012).

scientific article published on 7 February 2014

Increasing patient charges in the National Health Service: a method of privatizing primary care

scientific article published on 01 April 1986

Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs): the silence of the lambda

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Individual and regional determinants of mammography uptake

scientific article published on 01 July 2004

Information created to evade reality (ICER): things we should not look to for answers.

scientific article published on January 2006

Investigating the affordability of key health services in South Africa.

scientific article published on 12 December 2012

Is regular visiting associated with lower costs? Analyzing service utilization patterns in the first nations population in Canada

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Letters to the Editor

scientific article published on 01 September 2010

Low prioritization of latent tuberculosis infection-A systemic barrier to tuberculosis control: A qualitative study in Ontario, Canada

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Market forces and market failure in the general dental service: the efficiency and equity implications of manpower redistribution

scientific article published on 01 June 1988

Measuring dental health: improvements on the DMF index

scientific article published on 01 December 1986

Medical necessity, benefit and resource allocation in health care

scientific article published on 01 October 1997

Modelling the community as a determinant of health

scientific article published on 01 November 1998

Moving from place to place in the last year of life: A qualitative study identifying care setting transition issues and solutions in Ontario.

scientific article published on 6 November 2017

Multilevel health promotion research: conceptual and analytical considerations.

scientific article published on March 2004

NHS patient charges and the privatisation of dental care

scientific article published on 01 December 1985

NICE methodological guidelines and decision making in the National Health Service in England and Wales

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Needs-based planning for the oral health workforce - development and application of a simulation model

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Needs-based primary medical care capitation: development and evaluation of alternative approaches

scientific article published on 01 February 2000

New Evidence on End-of-Life Hospital Utilization for Enhanced Health Policy and Services Planning.

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Not enough doctors or not enough needs? Refocusing health workforce planning from providers and services to populations and needs.

scientific article published on 24 April 2013

Nursing inputs and outcomes of hospital care: an empirical analysis of Ontario's acute-care hospitals.

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On the margins of health economics: a response to 'resolving NICE'S nasty dilemma'.

scientific article published on April 2015

Opportunities for, and implications of, skill mix changes in health care pathways: Pay, productivity and practice variations in a needs-based planning framework

scientific article published on 22 February 2020

Opportunity costs and uncertainty in the economic evaluation of health care interventions

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Optimizing a portfolio of health care programs in the presence of uncertainty and constrained resources

scientific article published on 01 December 2003

Optimizing the mix of basic dental services for Southern Thai schoolchildren based on resource consumption, service needs and parental preference

scientific article published on 09 June 2009

Oral health behaviours of parents and young children in a practice-based caries prevention trial in Northern Ireland

scientific article published on 22 December 2017

Patient charges. Prescription for privatisation

scientific article published on 01 May 1985

Paying for prevention in clinical practice: Aligning provider remuneration with system objectives. ⬇️

scientific article published on 15 September 2015

People engagement in health-care system transition in China

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

People-centred integrated care in urban China

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Performance indicators and performance assessment in the UK National Health Service: implications for management and planning

scientific article published on 01 January 1986

Planning for what? Challenging the assumptions of health human resources planning

scientific article published on 13 May 2009

Planning the oral health workforce: Time for innovation

scientific article published on 15 December 2020

Policy implications of contracting out care: the case of total hip replacements

scientific article published on 01 November 1985

Portfolio theory and the alternative decision rule of cost-effectiveness analysis: theoretical and practical considerations

scientific article published on 01 May 2004

Preferences and acceptance of colorectal cancer screening in Thailand.

scientific article published in January 2015

Preferences for surveillance strategies for women treated for high-grade precancerous cervical lesions

scientific article

Preferences of Women Evaluating Risks of Tamoxifen (POWER) study of preferences for tamoxifen for breast cancer risk reduction.

scientific article published in May 2005

Prevention in practice--a summary ⬇️

scientific article published on 15 September 2015

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

scientific article published on June 2017

Promoting healthy behaviour: the importance of economic analysis in policy formulation for AIDS prevention

scientific article published on 01 December 1990

Provider incentives and access to dental care: evaluating NHS reforms in England.

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Public policy and the market for dental services

scientific article published on August 2008

QALYs and HYEs (healthy years equivalent). Spotting the differences.

scientific article published in October 1997

QALYs or short straws.

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REFLECTIONS ON THE NICE DECISION TO REJECT PATIENT PRODUCTION LOSSES.

scientific article published on 20 November 2017

Reconsidering value for money in periodontal treatment.

scientific article published in April 2013

Regional differences in the supply of dental care under the general dental service

scientific article published on 01 July 1987

Researching a best-practice end-of-life care model for Canada.

scientific article published in January 2008

Retrospective economic analysis of the transfer of services from hospitals to the community: an application to an enhanced eye care service.

scientific article published on 10 July 2017

Reviewing RAWP

Selective opportunistic screening for hypercholesterolemia in primary care practice

scientific article published on 01 October 1998

Should cost-effectiveness take the blame?

Simulating future supply of and requirements for human resources for health in high-income OECD countries

scientific article published on 12 December 2016

Socioeconomic disparities in orthodontic treatment outcomes and expenditure on orthodontics in England's state-funded National Health Service: a retrospective observational study.

scientific article published on 19 September 2017

Surveillance after treatment for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia: outcomes, costs, and cost-effectiveness.

scientific article published in November 2010

Sustainability of Publicly Funded Health Care Systems: What Does Behavioural Economics Offer?

scientific article published on 08 September 2020

Tamoxifen for breast cancer risk reduction: impact of alternative approaches to quality-of-life adjustment on cost-effectiveness analysis.

scientific article published in September 2008

Targeting services to reduce social inequalities in utilisation: an analysis of breast cancer screening in New South Wales.

scientific article published on 5 June 2007

Technology assessment in dentistry

scientific article published on 01 December 1994

Technology resource planning in radiation oncology: application of a needs-based analytic framework to radiosurgery planning in Ontario.

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The 'NICE' approach to technology assessment: an economics perspective

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

The 39 steps: the mystery of health inequalities in the UK.

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The Diabetes Continuity of Care Scale: the development and initial evaluation of a questionnaire that measures continuity of care from the patient perspective*

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The Drive towards Sustainable Health Systems Needs an Alignment: Where are the Innovations in Health Systems Planning?

The Luohu Model: A Template for Integrated Urban Healthcare Systems in China

scientific article published on 12 October 2018

The NICE reference case requirement: more pain for what, if any, gain?

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

The Structure and Effectiveness of Health Systems: Exploring the Impact of System Integration in Rural China

scientific article published on 12 August 2016

The answer is ......., now what was the question? Applying alternative approaches to estimating nurse requirements.

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The biggest bang for the buck or bigger bucks for the bang: the fallacy of the cost-effectiveness threshold

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

The distribution problem in economic evaluation: income and the valuation of costs and consequences of health care programmes

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

The effect of different methods of remuneration on the behaviour of primary care dentists

scientific article (published 2013-11-06)

The effects of nursing turnover on continuity of care in isolated First Nation communities.

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The identification of supplier-inducement in a fixed price system of health care provision. The case of dentistry in the United Kingdom.

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The impact of Cone Beam CT on financial costs and orthodontists' treatment decisions in the management of maxillary canines with eruption disturbance

scientific article published on 24 June 2017

The public's viewpoint on the right to hastened death in Alberta, Canada: findings from a population survey study.

scientific article published on 6 December 2012

The relative cost effectiveness of water fluoridation across communities: analysis of variations according to underlying caries levels

scientific article published on 01 March 1990

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

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Unemployment and health: contextual-level influences on the production of health in populations

scientific article published on 01 December 2002

Unequal access to ART: exploratory results from rural and urban case studies of ART use.

scientific article published on March 2012

Variation in healthcare services for specialist genetic testing and implications for planning genetic services: the example of inherited retinal dystrophy in the English NHS.

scientific article published on 9 January 2015

Variations in survival time for amalgam and resin composite restorations: a population based cohort analysis

scientific article published on September 2016

Who Are High Users of Hospitals in Canada? Findings From a Population-Based Study

scientific article published on 07 March 2019

Who you know, where you live: social capital, neighbourhood and health

scientific article published on 25 December 2004

Will the Need-Based Planning of Health Human Resources Currently Undertaken in Several Countries Lead to Excess Supply and Inefficiency? A Comment on Basu and Pak.

scientific article published on 13 June 2016

Willingness to Pay for Colorectal Cancer Screening and Effect of Copayment in Southern Thailand

scientific article published on 25 June 2018

Willingness to Pay for Mandibular Overdentures: A Societal Perspective

scientific article published on 08 May 2019

Willingness to pay and the valuation of programmes for the prevention and control of influenza.

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Willingness to pay for dentin regeneration in a sample of dentate adults

scientific article published on 01 June 2004

Willingness to pay for periodontal therapy: development and testing of an instrument

scientific article published on 01 January 1999

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