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Audit of deaths in general practice: pilot study of the critical incident technique

OBJECTIVE--To develop and pilot a method for conducting an audit of deaths in general practice by the critical incident technique. DESIGN--Prospective use of the technique within a primary health care team, with the aid of a facilitator, to analyse…

Improvement in pediatric critical care outcomes

National hospice study analysis plan

Since the founding of the first hospice in the United States in 1974, the number of health care organizations providing hospice services has grown rapidly. In 1978, the U.S. General Accounting Office identified 59 operational hospices [1]. A survey…

Mapping the journey of cancer patients through the health care system. Part 2: Methodological approaches and basic findings

This is the second in a series of articles from a line of research whose intent was to construct a complete history of interactions with the health care system. This paper provides details of the methods developed to collect and collate the scattered…

Designing a mixed methods study in primary care

BACKGROUND: Mixed methods or multimethod research holds potential for rigorous, methodologically sound investigations in primary care. The objective of this study was to use criteria from the literature to evaluate 5 mixed methods studies in primary…

Tags: 2004, Annals Of Family Medicine, Backlog, Creswell JW, Fetters MD, Health Services Research/methods, Humans, Ivankova NV, Journal Article, Models, Multi-site Ethics, Primary Health Care, Qualitative Research, Research Design, Theoretical

Research methods used in developing and applying quality indicators in primary care

2003

Tags: 2003, Backlog, Bmj (clinical Research Ed.), Braspenning J, Campbell SM, Consensus, Evidence-based Medicine, Health Care, Health Services Research/methods, Humans, Hutchinson A, Journal Article, Marshall MN, Practice Guidelines, Primary Health Care/standards, Quality Indicators, Quality Of Health Care

Recruiting for research in hospice: feasibility of a research screening protocol

BACKGROUND: The growth of palliative care research has been limited by challenges of slow recruitment and underenrollment. One potential solution to this problem is the use of screening questions embedded in clinical data collection, which identify…

Impact of institutional review board practice variation on observational health services research

OBJECTIVE: To describe, qualitatively and quantitatively, the impact of a review by multiple institutional review boards (IRBs) on the conduct of a multisite observational health services research study. DATA SOURCE AND SETTING: Primary data…

Tags: 2006, Backlog, Ethics Committees, Green LA, Health Services Research, Health Services Research/methods, Journal Article, Kowalski CP, Lowery JC, Multi-site Ethics, Qualitative Research, Research/organization & administration, United States, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Wyszewianski L

Measuring end-of-life care outcomes prospectively

This paper discusses the state of the science in prospective measurement in end-of-life research and identifies particular areas for focused attention. Topics include defining the scope of inquiry, evaluating experiences of patients too ill to…

Tags: 2005, Backlog, Data Collection/methods, Health Services Research/methods, Humans, Journal Article, Journal of Palliative Medicine, Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)/methods, Palliative Care/psychology/standards, Prospective Studies, Psychometrics/instrumentation/methods, Quality Of Life, Reproducibility of Results, Steinhauser KE, Terminal Care/psychology/standards, United States

Families' transition to a Canadian paediatric hospice. Part two: results of a pilot study

The results from a pilot study are reported in this article, part two of a two-part paper. The experiences of parents (six mothers and two fathers) are described as their families transitioned to the Canuck Place Children's Hospice (CPHC) in Canada.…

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