BACKGROUND Health service and systems researchers have developed knowledge translation strategies to facilitate the use of reliable evidence for policy, including rapid response briefs as timely and responsive tools supporting decision making. However, little is known about users' experience with these newer formats for presenting evidence. We sought to explore Ugandan policymakers' experience ...

This article explores the work of a rapid response team (RRT) in an English city. The RRT is a multiprofessional intermediate care team that is able to support patients to remain at home during clinical crises and changes to their social care needs. The service is popular with patients and cost effective. The National Audit of Intermediate Care is in its fourth year and benchmarks how intermedi...

Introduction A simplified syndromic surveillance system, based on early detection and reporting of four core syndromes and immediate reporting of unusual events, was established across PICTs in 2010. An early evaluation of the system was undertaken to make recommendations on improvements(1). The evaluation examined whether the system was meeting its objective of serving as an early warning syst...

Because Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) usually involve different independent stakeholders, producing meaningful prototypes for validating early design ideas is a difficult task. This paper presents a Rapid Prototyping framework for SOAs built around a Model-Driven Development methodology which we use for transforming high-level specifications of an SOA into executable artefacts, both for...

Liaison Old Age Psychiatry services (LOAP) have begun to emerge in the UK and further development of the service is supported by the latest health policies. Since qualitative and quantitative studies in this area are lacking, we have undertaken a detailed quantitative prospective review of referrals to the Newcastle LOAP to evaluate the clinical activity of the service. We report high referral ...

The rapid globalization of world enterprises and the pressing need to provide networks and services more responsive to the “end users” push the telecommunications world towards rapid service deployment and new integrated value-added technology solutions. Service orientation, initially introduced in Intelligent Networks and currently further exploited within the Service Oriented Architectures (S...