• The instrument successfully differentiates between highand low-quality guideline content.
7• The new user's manual is well received by users. 7• Users provided considerable …

Enormous investment has gone into computerised hospital information systems worldwide.
The estimated costs for each large hospital are about $50 m (£ 33m), yet the overall benefits …

Background. Despite clinical guidelines penetrating every aspect of clinical practice and
health policy, doubts persist over their ability to improve patient care. We have designed and …

A Self-complete Measure of Health Status for Chronic Airflow Limitation: The St. George's
Respiratory Questionnaire Page 1 A Self-complete Measure of Health Status for Chronic …

Objectives. We examined the probability of an obese person attaining normal body weight.
Methods. We drew a sample of individuals aged 20 years and older from the United …

The preceding papers in this Series have outlined how underuse and overuse of health-care
services occur within a complex system of health-care production, with a multiplicity of …

Over the past 10 years NICE has identified over 800 clinical interventions for potential
disinvestment. But Sarah Garner and Peter Littlejohns report that although disinvestment will …

Abstract This Guidance for Priority Setting in Health Care (GPS-Health), initiated by the
World Health Organization, offers a comprehensive map of equity criteria that are relevant to …

The need for policy makers to understand science and for scientists to understand policy
processes is widely recognised. However, the science-policy relationship is sometimes …

The relationship between general health measured using the Sickness Impact Profile (SIP),
lung spirometry, arterial oxygen saturation during exercise, and six-minute walking distance …