10 articles in this issue
Simon de Lusignan,Paul Krause
Background There has been much criticism of the NHS national programme for information technology (IT); it has been an expensive programme and some elements appear to have achieved little. The Hayes report was written as an independent review of health an... see more
Simon de Lusignan
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Glyn Hayes
Background England's National Health Service information technology (NHS IT) has been much criticised in a number of major governmental and non-governmental reports. The author was requested to write a review of NHS IT to help formulate policy.Objective T... see more
Tim Benson,Steve Sizmur,Justin Whatling,Seref Arikan,Dianna McDonald,David Ingram
Background Quality of life is paramount for patients and clinicians, but existing measures of health were not developed for routine use.Objectives This paper describes the development and testing of a new generic tool for measuring health related quality ... see more
Ernesto Mola,Serena DeDonatis,Gianni Saccomanno,Roberto Giorgia,Sergio Giorgia,Trentino Bosco
Background In recent decades, patients' exposure to ionising radiation (IR) during diagnostic examinations has increased a great deal. X-ray requests do not always conform to the principle of 'justification', which emphasises the real utility and necessit... see more
Maria Pous,Marco Camporese,Alessandro Nobili,Serena Frau,Francesco DelZotti,Anita Conforti,Roberta Zimol,Guido Giustetto,Giulia Zermiani,Giuseppe Lombardo,Luigi Mezzalira
Background Many different brands of primary care electronic patient record (EPR) software are available to general practitioners (GPs). Their ability to support GPs in improving prescribing varies greatly.Objective To assess, using a ten-item tool, the qu... see more
Carmen Tsang,Azeem Majeed,Ricky Banarsee,Shamini Gnani,Paul Aylin
Background Although the majority of patient contact within the UK's National Health Service (NHS) occurs in primary care, relatively little is known about the safety of care in this setting compared to the safety of hospital care. Measurement methods to d... see more
Serguei Pakhomov,Nilay Shah,Penny Hanson,Saranya Balasubramaniam,Steven Smith
Background Low-dose aspirin reduces cardiovascular risk; however, monitoring over-the-counter medication use relies on the time-consuming and costly manual review of medical records. Our objective is to validate natural language processing (NLP) of the el... see more
Beverley Ellis
Background This series summarises new empirical research on quality improvement through case studies of the implementation of clinical governance arrangements in two primary care organisations (PCOs).Objective To describe a new socio-technical model for e... see more
Feroze Kaliyadan,Sreekanth Gopinathan Pillai