Clinical Outcomes
To Publish or Not: Experience and Evidence About Publishing Hospital Outcomes Data
1 February 2004
Since the mid-1980s, the publication of hospital outcomes data has become increasingly popular. Canada and the US operate performance reporting systems, with similar initiatives planned in…
Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) for Decision-Making?
9 January 2002
Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) were introduced in 1993 amid the pages and policy directives of the World Development Report ‘Investing in Health’ (World Bank, 1993). DALYs…
Why Care About Health Inequality?
1 January 2001
Public policy in the UK is placing increasing emphasis on health inequalities. The first signal of this renewed commitment came soon after the Labour government was…
Using Consumer Preferences in Health Care Decision Making: The Application of Conjoint Analysis
1 April 1996
The idea that clients or users of public services might legitimately have opinions about how they should be delivered is a relatively new one in the…
Patterns of Prescribing
1 January 1991
Outcomes, it is commonly said by general practitioners, are more difficult to measure in our discipline than those in hospital based specialties. This is true but…
Measurement and Management in the NHS
1 June 1989
The late John Vaizey posed a challenging question about the ‘explosion’ of health care costs in the Western World. ‘Why was it seen as a problem’.…
Measuring Health: a Practical Approach
7 January 1988
In Britain, the tax-payer pays the lion’s share of the national bill for medicines through the tax-supported NHS. There can be no doubt that the supplier…
Measurement of Health
1 June 1985
Expenditure on health care is continuing to rise in all Western countries, both in total and as a percentage of gross national product (Table 1). This…
Techniques of Health Status Measurement Using a Health Index
1 April 1985
It is widely accepted that resources for the provision of health care are scarce, that is, there are not and never will be enough resources to…