Abstract Background In several northwest European countries, a demand-driven healthcare
system has been implemented that stresses the importance of patient healthcare provider …

Functionality and feedback: a realist synthesis of the collation, interpretation and utilisation
of patient-reported outcome mea Page 1 Northumbria Research Link Citation: Greenhalgh …

The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most
empirical estimates rely on inference from nonexperimental data. In contrast, this paper …

Household production constitutes an important aspect of economic activity and ignoring it
may lead to incorrect inferences about levels and changes in well-being. This paper sheds …

The Health Systems in Transition (‎ HiT)‎ country profiles provide an analytical description of
each health system and of reform initiatives in progress or under development. They aim to …

The causes and effects of marketization of public services have been analysed extensively
in the literature, but there is relatively little research on how those policies impact on the …

Background It is becoming increasingly common to release information about the
performance of hospitals, health professionals or providers, and healthcare organisations …

Objectives Internationally, there has been considerable debate about the role of data in
supporting quality improvement in health care. Our objective was to understand how, why …

Escalating levels of healthcare spending and price variation in the healthcare market have
driven government and insurer interest in price transparency tools that are intended to help …

With the increasing popularity of the Internet, people progressively seek health advice
through online health communities (OHCs). Physician in OHCs are often self-organized into …