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Effect of cost efficiency reporting on utilization by physician specialists: a difference-in-difference study
Conclusions: Simple and transparent reports on specialist cost efficiency distributed to referral sources and specialists using a more laissez-faire style reporting only health plan programme can engage providers and be associated with reductions in utilization. Possible mechanisms include explicit pressure from referral sources or self-motivated change by specialists. (Source: Health Services Management)
Source: Health Services Management - April 3, 2013 Category: Health Management Authors: Goodman, R. M. Tags: Primary Research Source Type: research

Utilizing experience-based co-design to improve the experience of patients accessing emergency departments in New South Wales public hospitals: an evaluation study
Conclusion The primary strength of EBCD over and above other service development methodologies was reported to be its ability to bring about improvements simultaneously in both the operational efficiency and the inter-personal dynamics of care. However, careful consideration must be given to the constraints inherent in transient patient specialties and what needs to be done to tailor EBCD to suit the particular setting in which it is deployed. (Source: Health Services Management)
Source: Health Services Management - April 3, 2013 Category: Health Management Authors: Piper, D., Iedema, R., Gray, J., Verma, R., Holmes, L., Manning, N. Tags: Primary Research Source Type: research

The importance of normative integration in stroke services: case study evidence from Sweden and England
Conclusions: Emphasis on the need to treat stroke as an emergency condition in both countries has created a context in which normative and systemic integration often occurs among clinicians that deliver emergency and acute stroke care, aiding the development of organizational, functional, service and clinical integration across the case study sites. In contrast, integration between hospital and community (rehabilitation and general practice) care is frequently less successful. (Source: Health Services Management)
Source: Health Services Management - April 3, 2013 Category: Health Management Authors: Baeza, J. I., Boaz, A., Fraser, A., Fulop, N., McKevitt, C., Wolfe, C., On behalf of the European Implementation Score (EIS) Collaborative Group Tags: Primary Research Source Type: research