Volume 9, issue 1, December 2014
186 articles in this issue
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Evaluating the effect of a web-based quality improvement system with feedback and outreach visits on guideline concordance in the field of cardiac rehabilitation: rationale and study protocol
Authors (first, second and last of 7)
- Mariëtte M van Engen-Verheul
- Nicolette F de Keizer
- Niels Peek
- Content type: Study protocol
- Open Access
- Published: 31 December 2014
- Article: 780
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Local politico-administrative perspectives on quality improvement based on national registry data in Sweden: a qualitative study using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research
Authors (first, second and last of 7)
- Mio Fredriksson
- Ann Catrine Eldh
- Ulrika Winblad
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 28 December 2014
- Article: 189
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Understanding evidence: a statewide survey to explore evidence-informed public health decision-making in a local government setting
Authors (first, second and last of 9)
- Rebecca Armstrong
- Elizabeth Waters
- Mark Petticrew
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 14 December 2014
- Article: 188
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A multifaceted quality improvement intervention for CVD risk management in Australian primary healthcare: a protocol for a process evaluation
Authors (first, second and last of 11)
- Bindu Patel
- Anushka Patel
- David Peiris
- Content type: Study protocol
- Open Access
- Published: 17 December 2014
- Article: 187
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Improving community case management of diarrhoea and pneumonia in district Badin, Pakistan through a cluster randomised study—the NIGRAAN trial protocol
Authors (first, second and last of 9)
- Fauziah Rabbani
- Aftab Akbar Ali Mukhi
- Wafa Aftab
- Content type: Study protocol
- Open Access
- Published: 10 December 2014
- Article: 186
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Stakeholders’ contributions to tailored implementation programs: an observational study of group interview methods
Authors (first, second and last of 10)
- Elke Huntink
- Jan van Lieshout
- Michel Wensing
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 06 December 2014
- Article: 185
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Systematic and transparent inclusion of ethical issues and recommendations in clinical practice guidelines: a six-step approach
Authors
- Marcel Mertz
- Daniel Strech
- Content type: Methodology
- Open Access
- Published: 04 December 2014
- Article: 184
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Mixed-method study of a conceptual model of evidence-based intervention sustainment across multiple public-sector service settings
Authors (first, second and last of 7)
- Gregory A Aarons
- Amy E Green
- Mark J Chaffin
- Content type: Study protocol
- Open Access
- Published: 10 December 2014
- Article: 183
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Evaluation of quality improvement for cesarean sections programmes through mixed methods
Authors (first, second and last of 9)
- Clara Bermúdez-Tamayo
- Mira Johri
- Nils Chaillet
- Content type: Study protocol
- Open Access
- Published: 11 December 2014
- Article: 182
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MyPreventiveCare: implementation and dissemination of an interactive preventive health record in three practice-based research networks serving disadvantaged patients—a randomized cluster trial
Authors (first, second and last of 18)
- Alex H Krist
- Rebecca A Aycock
- Steven H Woolf
- Content type: Study protocol
- Open Access
- Published: 11 December 2014
- Article: 181
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Use of action planning to increase provision of smoking cessation care by general practitioners: role of plan specificity and enactment
Authors (first, second and last of 7)
- Marjolein EA Verbiest
- Justin Presseau
- Mathilde R Crone
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 30 December 2014
- Article: 180
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Barriers, facilitators and views about next steps to implementing supports for evidence-informed decision-making in health systems: a qualitative study
Authors (first, second and last of 6)
- Moriah E Ellen
- Grégory Léon
- John N Lavis
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 05 December 2014
- Article: 179
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Using the collaborative intervention planning framework to adapt a health-care manager intervention to a new population and provider group to improve the health of people with serious mental illness
Authors (first, second and last of 9)
- Leopoldo J Cabassa
- Arminda P Gomes
- Roberto Lewis-Fernández
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 30 November 2014
- Article: 178
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Practice change toward better adherence to evidence-based treatment of early dental decay in the National Dental PBRN
Authors (first, second and last of 7)
- Donald Brad Rindal
- Thomas J Flottemesch
- National Dental PBRN Collaborative Group
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 02 December 2014
- Article: 177
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Research funder required research partnerships: a qualitative inquiry
Authors
- Shannon L Sibbald
- Jacqueline Tetroe
- Ian D Graham
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 28 November 2014
- Article: 176
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A complementary marriage of perspectives: understanding organizational social context using mixed methods
Authors (first, second and last of 6)
- Rinad S Beidas
- Courtney L Benjamin Wolk
- Frances K Barg
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 23 November 2014
- Article: 175
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Enablers and barriers to using patient decision aids in early stage breast cancer consultations: a qualitative study of surgeons’ views
Authors (first, second and last of 8)
- Mary Ann O’Brien
- Cathy Charles
- Eva Grunfeld
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 29 November 2014
- Article: 174
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Assessing organizational readiness for depression care quality improvement: relative commitment and implementation capability
Authors (first, second and last of 6)
- Lisa V Rubenstein
- Marjorie S Danz
- Leif I Solberg
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 02 December 2014
- Article: 173
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Using the Knowledge to Action Framework in practice: a citation analysis and systematic review
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Becky Field
- Andrew Booth
- Kate Gerrish
- Content type: Systematic review
- Open Access
- Published: 23 November 2014
- Article: 172
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Improving outcomes of hospitalized patients: the Physician Relationships, Improvising, and Sensemaking intervention protocol
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- Luci K Leykum
- Holly J Lanham
- Jacqueline Pugh
- Content type: Study protocol
- Open Access
- Published: 26 November 2014
- Article: 171
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Evaluation of a health systems knowledge translation network for Africa (KTNET): a study protocol
Authors (first, second and last of 9)
- Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho
- David R Walugembe
- Suzanne N Kiwanuka
- Content type: Study protocol
- Open Access
- Published: 26 November 2014
- Article: 170
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Leveraging practice-based research networks to accelerate implementation and diffusion of chronic kidney disease guidelines in primary care practices: a prospective cohort study
Authors (first, second and last of 11)
- James W Mold
- Cheryl B Aspy
- Rachel Cohen
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 23 November 2014
- Article: 169
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Economic evaluation of implementation strategies in health care
Authors
- Ties Hoomans
- Johan L Severens
- Content type: Editorial
- Open Access
- Published: 18 December 2014
- Article: 168
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Potential determinants of health-care professionals’ use of survivorship care plans: a qualitative study using the theoretical domains framework
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- Sarah A Birken
- Justin Presseau
- Deborah K Mayer
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 15 November 2014
- Article: 167
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Rethinking capacity building for knowledge mobilisation: developing multilevel capabilities in healthcare organisations
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Roman Kislov
- Heather Waterman
- Ruth Boaden
- Content type: Debate
- Open Access
- Published: 15 November 2014
- Article: 166
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Manifestations and implications of uncertainty for improving healthcare systems: an analysis of observational and interventional studies grounded in complexity science
Authors (first, second and last of 10)
- Luci K Leykum
- Holly J Lanham
- Reuben R McDaniel
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 19 November 2014
- Article: 165
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Protocol for the economic evaluation of the diarrhea alleviation through zinc and oral rehydration salt therapy at scale through private and public providers in rural Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, India
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- Samuel D Shillcutt
- Amnesty E LeFevre
- Sarmila Mazumder
- Content type: Study protocol
- Open Access
- Published: 19 November 2014
- Article: 164
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Enhancing outreach for persons with serious mental illness: 12-month results from a cluster randomized trial of an adaptive implementation strategy
Authors (first, second and last of 7)
- Amy M Kilbourne
- Daniel Almirall
- Nicholas W Bowersox
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 28 December 2014
- Article: 163
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Spreading and sustaining best practices for home care of older adults: a grounded theory study
Authors (first, second and last of 10)
- Jenny Ploeg
- Maureen Markle-Reid
- Sue Bookey-Bassett
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 07 November 2014
- Article: 162
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Data for improvement and clinical excellence: report of an interrupted time series trial of feedback in long-term care
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Anne E Sales
- Corinne Schalm
- Kimberly D Fraser
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 11 November 2014
- Article: 161
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Mapping barriers and intervention activities to behaviour change theory for Mobilization of Vulnerable Elders in Ontario (MOVE ON), a multi-site implementation intervention in acute care hospitals
Authors (first, second and last of 9)
- Julia E Moore
- Alekhya Mascarenhas
- The MOVE ON Team
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 30 October 2014
- Article: 160
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A geographical cluster randomised stepped wedge study of continuing medical education and cancer diagnosis in general practice
Authors
- Berit Skjødeberg Toftegaard
- Flemming Bro
- Peter Vedsted
- Content type: Study protocol
- Open Access
- Published: 07 November 2014
- Article: 159
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Comparing traditional and participatory dissemination of a shared decision making intervention (ADAPT-NC): a cluster randomized trial
Authors (first, second and last of 10)
- Hazel Tapp
- Andrew McWilliams
- Michael Dulin
- Content type: Study protocol
- Open Access
- Published: 29 October 2014
- Article: 158
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Assessing the organizational context for EBP implementation: the development and validity testing of the Implementation Climate Scale (ICS)
Authors
- Mark G Ehrhart
- Gregory A Aarons
- Lauren R Farahnak
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 23 October 2014
- Article: 157
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Impact of pharmacy worker training and deployment on access to essential medicines and health outcomes in Malawi: protocol for a cluster quasi-experimental evaluation
Authors (first, second and last of 7)
- Solomon J Lubinga
- Alisa M Jenny
- Joseph B Babigumira
- Content type: Study protocol
- Open Access
- Published: 11 October 2014
- Article: 156
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Improving patient care for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children by organizational redesign (Tornado program) and enhanced collaboration between psychiatry and general practice: a controlled before and after study
Authors (first, second and last of 6)
- Mijnke Janssen
- Michel Wensing
- Jan Buitelaar
- Content type: Study protocol
- Open Access
- Published: 30 October 2014
- Article: 155
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Erratum to: Towards a common terminology: a simplified framework of interventions to promote and integrate evidence into health practices, systems, and policies
Authors (first, second and last of 11)
- Heather Colquhoun
- Jennifer Leeman
- Jeremy Grimshaw
- Content type: Erratum
- Open Access
- Published: 21 December 2014
- Article: 154
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Factors influencing rheumatologists’ prescription of biological treatment in rheumatoid arthritis: an interview study
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Almina Kalkan
- Kerstin Roback
- Per Carlsson
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 11 October 2014
- Article: 153
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Are multifaceted interventions more effective than single-component interventions in changing health-care professionals' behaviours? An overview of systematic reviews
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- Janet E Squires
- Katrina Sullivan
- Jeremy M Grimshaw
- Content type: Systematic review
- Open Access
- Published: 06 October 2014
- Article: 152
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Optimizing polypharmacy among elderly hospital patients with chronic diseases—study protocol of the cluster randomized controlled POLITE-RCT trial
Authors (first, second and last of 15)
- Christin Löffler
- Eva Drewelow
- Attila Altiner
- Content type: Study protocol
- Open Access
- Published: 06 October 2014
- Article: 151
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The roles and influence of actors in the uptake of evidence: the case of malaria treatment policy change in Uganda
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- Juliet Nabyonga-Orem
- Miriam Nanyunja
- Freddie Ssengooba
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 08 October 2014
- Article: 150
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Protocol for the process evaluation of interventions combining performance-based financing with health equity in Burkina Faso
Authors (first, second and last of 11)
- Valéry Ridde
- Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay
- Manuela De Allegri
- Content type: Study protocol
- Open Access
- Published: 12 October 2014
- Article: 149
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A randomised controlled trial of an intervention to increase the implementation of a healthy canteen policy in Australian primary schools: study protocol
Authors (first, second and last of 16)
- Luke Wolfenden
- Nicole Nathan
- John Wiggers
- Content type: Study protocol
- Open Access
- Published: 11 October 2014
- Article: 147
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A cross-sectional survey of supports for evidence-informed decision-making in healthcare organisations: a research protocol
Authors (first, second and last of 7)
- Mathieu Ouimet
- John N Lavis
- Marie-Pierre Gagnon
- Content type: Study protocol
- Open Access
- Published: 09 October 2014
- Article: 146
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Evaluating the uptake and effects of the computerized decision support system NHGDoc on quality of primary care: protocol for a large-scale cluster randomized controlled trial
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- Marjolein Lugtenberg
- Gert P Westert
- Rudolf B Kool
- Content type: Study protocol
- Open Access
- Published: 17 October 2014
- Article: 145
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Evidence summaries (decision boxes) to prepare clinicians for shared decision-making with patients: a mixed methods implementation study
Authors (first, second and last of 9)
- Anik MC Giguere
- Michel Labrecque
- Pierre-Hugues Carmichael
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 05 October 2014
- Article: 144
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Improvement of care for ICU patients with delirium by early screening and treatment: study protocol of iDECePTIvE study
Authors (first, second and last of 6)
- Erwin Ista
- Zoran Trogrlic
- Mathieu van der Jagt
- Content type: Study protocol
- Open Access
- Published: 02 October 2014
- Article: 143
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Predicting research use in a public health policy environment: results of a logistic regression analysis
Authors
- Pauline Zardo
- Alex Collie
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 09 October 2014
- Article: 142
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"I should have discharged him but I felt guilty": a qualitative investigation of clinicians' emotions in the context of implementing occupational therapy
Authors
- Niina Kolehmainen
- Jennifer McAnuff
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 02 October 2014
- Article: 141