Introduction. With Chinese health care reform increasingly emphasizing the importance of primary care, the need for a tool to evaluate primary care performance and service delivery is clear. This study presents a methodology for a rapid assessment of primary care organizations and service delivery in China. Methods. The study translated and adapted the Primary Care Assessment Tool-Adult Edition...

INTRODUCTION Racial and ethnic disparities exist in diabetes prevalence, access to diabetes care, diabetes-related complications and mortality rates, and the quality of diabetes care among Americans. We explored racial and ethnic disparities in primary care quality among Americans with type 2 diabetes. METHODS We analyzed data on adults with type 2 diabetes derived from the household componen...

In 2006, all local education agencies in the United States participating in the National School Lunch Program were required to establish school wellness policies that covered nutrition education, nutrition standards for school foods, and physical activity. The purpose of this psychometric study was to develop and evaluate the properties of a comprehensive and quantitative coding system to evalu...

BACKGROUND Maintaining dignity, the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect, is considered as a goal of palliative care. The aim of this study was to analyse the construct of personal dignity and to assess the content validity of the Patient Dignity Inventory (PDI) in people with an advance directive in the Netherlands. METHODS Data were collected within the framework of an advance direc...

This study examines the effect of strategic performance measurement systems (PMS) on managers’ role clarity, psychological empowerment, job satisfaction and managerial performance. Data were collected using a survey of 83 strategic business unit managers from Australian manufacturing organisations. Consistent with the need to define the underlying theoretical properties of management accounting...

Rheumatologists and other interested professionals at the OMERACT II conference formed small groups to discuss whether it was sensible to use a generic health status instrument in musculoskeletal disease trials. These instruments promise the possibility of comparison of health status between disease states. However, data is lacking on validity of the current generation of instruments to support...

OBJECTIVE To measure the relative efficiency of primary care (PC) in turning their structures into services delivery and turning their services delivery into quality outcomes. DESIGN Cross-sectional study based on the dataset of the Primary Healthcare Activity Monitor for Europe project. Two Data Envelopment ANALYSIS models were run to compare the relative technical efficiency. A sensitivit...