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The development and testing of a measure assessing clinician beliefs about patient self-managementEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Discussion Clinicians' views appear to be out of step with current policy directions and professional codes. Clinicians need support to transition to understand the need to support patients as independent actors. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - November 11, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Judith H. Hibbard, Peter Alf Collins, Eldon Mahoney, Laurence H. Baker Source Type: journals

Conducting implementation research in community-based primary care: a qualitative study on integrating patient decision support interventions for cancer screening into routine practiceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study suggests that implementation of DESIs to be used immediately before a consultation is feasible if the practice infrastructure can provide sufficient basic accommodation and physician and staff are dedicated to patient care goals that are implicit in the use of these tools. Overall, the physician's role appeared to be the most important factor in determining whether project integration was successful. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - November 10, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Dominick L. Frosch, Kirsty J. Singer, Stefan Timmermans Source Type: journals

Communicating the results of research: how do participants of a cardiac rehabilitation RCT prefer to be informed?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion Survivors of acute myocardial infarction who participated in a RCT of cardiac rehabilitation wanted to receive a summary of the aggregate study results. Participants had preferences regarding how they would wish to be informed about the results of the study. Most participants preferred to be informed by letter or email, but some preferred the interaction of a group or a meeting. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - November 10, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Hasnain Dalal, Jennifer Wingham, Colin Pritchard, Sharon Northey, Philip Evans, Rod S. Taylor, John Campbell Source Type: journals

An ethical justification for the Chronic Care Model (CCM)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Background: Chronic diseases are major causes of morbidity and mortality in developed countries. Their effects can be mitigated by high quality evidence-based care, but this is not the norm in most systems. The Chronic Care Model (CCM) is an evidence-based policy response to this practice gap, which uses multiple strategies to promote the quality of chronic care.Objective: To review CCM with an ethical lens.Methods: We reviewed the published empirical and non-empirical articles of CCM to analyse the ethical underpinnings of this model.Results and conclusions: We argue that its principal ethical value lies in the institutio...
Source: Health Expectations - November 10, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Liviu Oprea, Annette Braunack-Mayer, Wendy A. Rogers, Nigel Stocks Source Type: journals

The intention to switch health insurer and actual switching behaviour: are there differences between groups of people?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions We might have to temper the optimistic expectations on enhanced choice. Future research should determine why people do not switch health insurer when they intend to and which barriers they experience. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - November 10, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Michelle Hendriks, Judith D. de Jong, Atie van den Brink-Muinen, Peter P. Groenewegen Source Type: journals

The role of physician–patient communication in promoting patient–participatory decision makingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion The quality of the process of involving patients in DM depends mainly on the professional's communicative effort to achieve understanding and rapport rather than on an extensive discussion of possibilities or their prioritization. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - October 29, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Roger Ruiz-Moral Source Type: journals

New labour and reform of the English NHS: user views and attitudesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion The best way of delivering such values for patients is perceived to involve empowering frontline staffs who are deemed to embody the same values as service users, thus problematizing the current assumptions of reform frameworks that market-style incentives will necessarily gain public consent and support. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - October 29, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Andrew Wallace, Peter Taylor-Gooby Source Type: journals

What, if anything, is specific about having a rare disorder? Patients' judgements on being ill and being rareEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Patients' experience would be considerably improved if health professionals more often fulfilled their moral expectations, especially regarding diagnosis disclosure and information. (250 words) (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - October 13, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Caroline Huyard Source Type: journals

Patient factors in the implementation of decision aids in general practice: a qualitative studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Clinicians will need to make explicit to patients that DAs are an adjunct to routine care and not a replacement, and therefore do not represent a derogation of responsibility. DAs need to be used as an integral part of the communication and support process for patients who want them. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - October 6, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Vanita Bhavnani, Brian Fisher Source Type: journals

Disclosing clinical adverse events to patients: can practice inform policy?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Evaluating the impact of Open Disclosure refines policy implementation because it provides an evidence base to inform policy. Health services can use specific properties relating to each of the five Open Disclosure elements identified in this study as training standards and to assess the progress of policy implementation. However, health services must surmount their sensitivity to revealing the extent of error so that research into patient experiences can inform practice and policy development. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - October 4, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Ros Sorensen, Rick Iedema, Donella Piper, Elizabeth Manias, Allison Williams, Anthony Tuckett Source Type: journals

Patients' perceptions of discrimination during hospitalizationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Patient experiences of discrimination during hospitalization are relatively frequent and are associated with lower patient ratings of care. Collection of data on patient experiences of discrimination may contribute to the development of interventions aimed at ensuring respectful, quality care for all patients. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - September 24, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Patricia Hudelson, Véronique Kolly, Thomas Perneger Source Type: journals

Deliberation before determination: the definition and evaluation of good decision makingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Discussion Evaluating the deliberation process, we propose, should comprise of a subjective sufficiency of knowledge, as well as emotional processing and affective forecasting of the alternatives. This should form the basis for a good act of determination. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - September 9, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Glyn Elwyn, Talya Miron-Shatz Source Type: journals

Co-researching with people with learning disabilities: an experience of involvement in qualitative data analysisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion It is possible and valuable to extend involvement to data analysis, but to avoid tokenism and maintain academic rigour, there must be a clear rationale for such involvement. Extra support, time and costs must be planned for. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - September 7, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Irene Tuffrey-Wijne, Gary Butler Source Type: journals

Patient involvement in assessing consultation quality: a quantitative study of the Patient Enablement Instrument in PolandEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion It is feasible to use patient enablement on a large scale at routine consultation in primary care in Poland: acceptability was good in diverse environments. The internal consistency of enablement and its relationships broadly mirror those found in the UK. The effect of patient expectations shaped by social and cultural issues influencing enablement outcome requires further investigation. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - August 27, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Teresa R.B. Pawlikowska, Jeremy J. Walker, Pawel R. Nowak, Wieslawa Szumilo-Grzesik Source Type: journals

Patient participation in collective healthcare decision making: the Dutch modelEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion Although the Dutch model tries to make patient organizations an equal party in healthcare decision making, this goal is not reached in practice. It is therefore important to study more closely which subjects patients can and should contribute to, and in what way. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - August 27, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Hester M. van de Bovenkamp, Margo J. Trappenburg, Kor J. Grit Source Type: journals

Quality of integrated chronic care measured by patient survey: identification, selection and application of most appropriate instrumentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Because of its psychometric characteristics, perceived applicability and relevance, the PACIC is the most appropriate instrument to measure the experience of people receiving integrated chronic care. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - August 26, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Hubertus J. M. Vrijhoef, Rieneke Berbee, Edward H. Wagner, Lotte M. G. Steuten Source Type: journals

Do audio-guided decision aids improve outcomes? A randomized controlled trial of an audio-guided decision aid compared with a booklet decision aid for Australian women considering labour analgesiaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Discussion and conclusions This evaluation highlights the lack of additional benefit in using audio-guided formats for presenting health information to consumers who are from a general English-speaking population. These results considered together with the increase in costs and work involved in producing audio components suggests that written and pictorial methods may be sufficient for decision aids aimed at a general audience. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - August 25, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Camille H. Raynes-Greenow, Christine L. Roberts, Natasha Nassar, Lyndal Trevena Source Type: journals

Medical word use in clinical encountersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions This study provides insights into how the use of medical terminology could contribute to misunderstanding. Findings suggest that steps already promoted in the literature to improve doctor[ndash]patient communication may also ameliorate potential problems arising from the use of medical terminology. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - August 25, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Susan Koch-Weser, William DeJong, Rima E. Rudd Source Type: journals

Exploring kidney patients' experiences of receiving individual peer supportEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions A brief meeting with a peer supporter delivered similar perceived benefits to those described by participants in support groups. Possible explanations for this include selection and training of peer supporters; careful matching of patients with peer supporters; and responsiveness to individual user-defined needs for information and psychosocial support. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - August 18, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Jane Hughes, Eleri Wood, Gaynor Smith Source Type: journals

What is involvement in research and what does it achieve? Reflections on a pilot study of the personal costs of strokeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We report on five stages of the research process from service user identification of a research question to interpretation of pilot study findings. Professional researchers led the research process and developed a novel method to involve stroke service users in the development of a questionnaire. Some academic colleagues questioned the value of the proposed investigation as it did not appear to conform to implicit criteria of quality research. We argue that the moral status that user involvement has acquired means that academics' concerns about quality did not prevent the pilot study from being conducted. We suggest that m...
Source: Health Expectations - August 18, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Christopher McKevitt, Nina Fudge, Charles Wolfe Source Type: journals

Eliciting individual preferences for health care: a case study of perinatal careEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion The willingness to pay values were much higher than the costs for nurse appointments, suggesting this service produces a net social benefit. The willingness to pay for the package including both the nurse appointments and home visits only just exceeded the costs of the package, suggesting there is a relatively high chance that this package produces a net social loss. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - August 17, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Marjon van der Pol, Alan Shiell, Flora Au, David Jonhston, Suzanne Tough Source Type: journals

Why health expectations and hopes are different: the development of a conceptual modelEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion Hopes and expectations are distinct, but linked, constructs. This preliminary conceptual model presents how hopes and expectations develop, become differentiated and how social-cognitive factors may moderate this relationship. A better understanding of hopes and expectations may assist health professionals in communicating illness-related expectations while maintaining the integrity of patient hopes. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - August 17, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Karen K. Leung, James L. Silvius, Nicholas Pimlott, William Dalziel, Neil Drummond Source Type: journals

Exciting but exhausting: experiences with participatory research with chronically ill adolescentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Adolescents with chronic conditions like to have a say in the design and evaluation of hospital services. But their participation as co-researchers demands ample resources from all parties involved without automatically improving research quality. PR does not seem the most effective and efficient way to make services more responsive. We therefore recommend further exploration of other creative and sustainable ways for involving youth in health-care service development and innovation. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - August 13, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: AnneLoes van Staa, Susan Jedeloo, Jos M Latour, Margo J Trappenburg Source Type: journals

Queer Quit: Gay smokers' perspectives on a culturally specific smoking cessation serviceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Gay men reported likely use of a gay-specific intervention. Such interventions may offer support in abstaining from smoking, without abstaining from gay social life. Health-care providers play an important role in communicating the serious threats caused by smoking to gay men. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - August 12, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: David L.B. Schwappach Source Type: journals

Patient choice and evidence based decisions: The case of complementary therapiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion In the case of NHS complementary therapy service provision, patient preference may be largely insignificant in clinician and PCT managerial decisions, with decisions based mainly on 'evidence rhetoric' devised from collectively agreed, unchallenged, tacit perceptions of research literature. If a patient-led NHS is to become a reality, NHS professionals need to cede the power that they wield with evidence rhetoric and acknowledge the legitimacy of patient preferences, views and alternative sources of evidence. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - July 28, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Lesley Wye, Alison Shaw, Debbie Sharp Source Type: journals

Is the test of senior friendly/child resistant packaging ethical?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research has documented the drastic reduction of unintentional poisonings of children since the introduction of child resistant (CR) packaging. However, studies also indicate that consumers report difficulty using CR packages, in part because tests which determine the 'senior friendliness' of CR designs that are used throughout the world disallow people with 'overt or obvious' disabilities from being test subjects. Our review of drug package usability suggests that the current tests of CR packaging can and should be revised to correct this problem. We use US legislation, regulation and data to exemplify these points, but t...
Source: Health Expectations - July 23, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Laura Bix, Javier de la Fuente, Kenneth D. Pimple, Eric Kou Source Type: journals

Patient perspectives on health advice posted on Internet discussion boards: a qualitative studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Many people living with long-term conditions would like to be in contact with their peers, and Internet discussion boards represent a cost-effective and interactive way of achieving this. Within the context of diabetes, the knowledge and expertise accumulated over many years of self-management is central to participants' self-reported ability to evaluate information posted and make decisions on its possible use. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - June 25, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Natalie Armstrong, John Powell Source Type: journals

Health researchers' attitudes towards public involvement in health researchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Objective To investigate health researchers' attitudes to involving the public in research.Background Public involvement in research is encouraged by the Department of Health in the UK. Despite this, the number of health researchers actively involving the public in research appears to be limited. There is little research specifically addressing the attitudes of health researchers towards involving the public: how they interpret the policy, what motivates and de-motivates them and what their experiences have been to date.Design A qualitative research design, using semi-structured telephone interviews.Setting and participant...
Source: Health Expectations - April 24, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Jill Thompson, Rosemary Barber, Paul R. Ward, Jonathan D. Boote, Cindy L. Cooper, Christopher J. Armitage, Georgina Jones Source Type: journals

Concordance: A Partnership In Medicine-TakingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Health Expectations - March 27, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Catherine Dubé Source Type: journals

Early discharge following hip arthroplasty: patients' acceptance masks doubts and concernsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Patients' traditional beliefs about the necessity of prolonged convalescence are not a barrier to early discharge after hip arthroplasty. Nevertheless, some patients' acceptance of early discharge masks doubts and concerns. More intensive post-operative management may be needed if clinical care is not to suffer. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - March 23, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Gillian R. Hunt, George M. Hall, Burra V.S. Murthy, Seamus O'Brien, David Beverland, Martin C. Lynch, Peter Salmon Source Type: journals

Israeli lay persons' views on priority-setting criteria for Alzheimer's diseaseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions The lay public seems to endorse a multi-criteria decision process for the allocation of resources in the area of AD. Similar to other diseases [ndash] disease-related criteria were highly preferred. These preferences should be compared with those of other stakeholders such as clinicians and policy makers. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - March 23, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Perla Werner Source Type: journals

Patients' perceptions and experiences of transitions in diabetes care: a longitudinal qualitative studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions It is important to educate patients about their care pathways, and to reassure them that frequency of reviews depends more on clinical need than location of care and that similar care guidelines are followed in hospital clinics and general practice. A patients' history of service contact may need to be taken into account in future studies of service satisfaction. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - March 22, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Julia Lawton, David Rankin, Elizabeth Peel, Margaret Douglas Source Type: journals

Information and behavioural instruction along the health-care pathway: the perspective of people undergoing hernia repair surgery and the role of formal and informal information sourcesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Background Provision of information and behavioural instruction has been demonstrated to improve recovery after surgery. However, patients draw on a range of information sources and it is important to establish which sources patients use and how this influences perceptions and behaviour as they progress along the surgical pathway. In this qualitative, exploratory and longitudinal study, the use of information and instruction were explored from the perspective of people undergoing inguinal hernia repair surgery.Methods Seven participants undergoing inguinal hernia repair surgery were interviewed using semi-structured interv...
Source: Health Expectations - February 23, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Rachael Powell, Lorna McKee, Julie Bruce Source Type: journals

Mutual influence in shared decision making: a collaborative study of patients and physiciansEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions This study is unique in that clinicians and patients collaboratively defined and described attitudes and behaviours that facilitate shared decision making and expand previous descriptions, particularly of patient attitudes and behaviours that facilitate shared decision making. Study participants described relational, contextual and affective behaviours and attitudes for both patients and physicians, and explicitly discussed sharing control and negotiation. The complementary, interactive behaviours described in the themes for both patients and physicians illustrate mutual influence of patients and physicians on ...
Source: Health Expectations - February 22, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Beth A. Lown, Janice L. Hanson, William D. Clark Source Type: journals

Getting ready for user involvement in a systematic reviewEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Objective This paper aims to support the critical development of user involvement in systematic reviews by explaining some of the theoretical, ethical and practical issues entailed in 'getting ready' for user involvement.Background Relatively few health or social care systematic reviews have actively involved service users. Evidence from other research contexts shows that user involvement can have benefits in terms of improved quality and outcomes, hence there is a need to test out different approaches in order to realize the benefits of user involvement and gain a greater understanding of any negative outcomes.Design Sett...
Source: Health Expectations - February 22, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Elizabeth Smith, Sheila Donovan, Peter Beresford, Jill Manthorpe, Sally Brearley, John Sitzia, Fiona Ross Source Type: journals

Development of an interactive computer program for advance care planningEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions This paper describes the development of an innovative decision aid for advance care planning that was designed to overcome common problems with standard advance directives. Preliminary testing suggests that it is acceptable to users and is accurate. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - September 25, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: Michael J. Green, Benjamin H. Levi Source Type: journals

Do different stakeholder groups share mental health research priorities? A four-arm Delphi studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions The confluence of four different stakeholder groups around a number of clear themes is highly encouraging, providing a framework within which to construct a research agenda and suggesting that mental health research can be built on solid partnerships. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - September 17, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: Christabel Owens, Ann Ley, Peter Aitken Source Type: journals

Exploring informed choice in the context of prenatal testing: findings from a qualitative studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Our findings suggest a need for maternity care providers to be vigilant in promoting active decision making about prenatal testing, particularly around the consideration of personal implications. Further development of measures of informed choice may be necessary to fully evaluate decision support tools and to determine whether prenatal testing programmes are meeting their objectives. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - September 16, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: Beth K. Potter, Natasha O'Reilly, Holly Etchegary, Heather Howley, Ian D. Graham, Mark Walker, Doug Coyle, Yelena Chorny, Mario Cappelli, Isabelle Boland, Brenda J. Wilson Source Type: journals

Being 'fat' in today's world: a qualitative study of the lived experiences of people with obesity in AustraliaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion There are four key conclusions: (i) the experiences of obesity are diverse, but there are common themes, (ii) people living with obesity have heard the messages but find it difficult to act upon them, (iii) interventions should be tailored to address both individual and community needs and (iv) we need to rethink how to approach obesity interventions to ensure that avoid recapitulating damaging social stereotypes and exacerbating social inequalities. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - July 29, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: Samantha L. Thomas, Jim Hyde, Asuntha Karunaratne, Dilinie Herbert, Paul A. Komesaroff Source Type: journals

Health literacy: the need to consider images as well as wordsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Health Expectations - June 1, 2008 Category: Health Management Authors: Vikki Entwistle, Brian Williams Tags: Editorial Source Type: journals

CorrigendumEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Expectations, Volume 11, Issue 2, Page 204, June 2008. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - May 21, 2008 Category: Health Management Tags: article Source Type: journals

What do patients really want? Patients’ preferences for treatment for anginaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Expectations, Volume 11, Issue 2, Page 137-147, June 2008. AbstractObjective To measure preferences for angina treatments among patients admitted from accident and emergency with acute coronary syndrome.Background Evidence suggests variability in treatment allocations amongst certain socio-demographic groups (... (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - May 21, 2008 Category: Health Management Tags: article Source Type: journals

The patient movement as an emancipation movementEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Expectations, Volume 11, Issue 2, Page 102-112, June 2008. AbstractObjective To suggest that the patient movement is an emancipation movement.Background The patient movement is young and fragmented; and it can seem confusing because it lacks an explicit ideology with intellectual and theoretical underpinnings.... (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - May 21, 2008 Category: Health Management Tags: article Source Type: journals

Exploring patient perceptions of larval therapy as a potential treatment for venous leg ulcerationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Expectations, Volume 11, Issue 2, Page 148-159, June 2008. AbstractObjectives To explore patient preferences and acceptability of two forms of larval therapy (‘bagged’ and ‘loose’).Background Larval therapy is frequently used to treat patients with leg ulcers. However, patient preferences and acceptability of ... (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - May 21, 2008 Category: Health Management Tags: article Source Type: journals

Health communication: theory and practiceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Expectations, Volume 11, Issue 2, Page 201-202, June 2008. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - May 21, 2008 Category: Health Management Tags: book review Source Type: journals

Information needs and preferences of low and high literacy consumers for decisions about colorectal cancer screening: utilizing a linguistic modelEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Expectations, Volume 11, Issue 2, Page 123-136, June 2008. AbstractContext The use of written decision aids (DAs) in clinical practice has proliferated. However, few DAs have been developed for low literacy users, despite this group having low knowledge about healthcare and lacking involvement in health ... (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - May 21, 2008 Category: Health Management Tags: article Source Type: journals

Evaluating the use of a modified CAHPS® survey to support improvements in patient-centred care: lessons from a quality improvement collaborativeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Expectations, Volume 11, Issue 2, Page 160-176, June 2008. AbstractObjectives To evaluate the use of a modified Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) survey to support quality improvement in a collaborative focused on patient-centred care, assess subsequent changes in patient ... (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - May 21, 2008 Category: Health Management Tags: article Source Type: journals

Patient health literacy and participation in the health-care processEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Expectations, Volume 11, Issue 2, Page 113-122, June 2008. AbstractObjectives Health information is an important resource for patients to understand and engage in the management of their health conditions. We discuss the role of health literacy (HL) in improving patient participation and propose future research ... (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - May 21, 2008 Category: Health Management Tags: article Source Type: journals

Health literacy: the need to consider images as well as wordsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Expectations, Volume 11, Issue 2, Page 99-101, June 2008. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - May 21, 2008 Category: Health Management Tags: article Source Type: journals

Healthy democracy: the future of involvement in health and social careEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Expectations, Volume 11, Issue 2, Page 202-203, June 2008. (Source: Health Expectations)
Source: Health Expectations - May 21, 2008 Category: Health Management Tags: book review Source Type: journals