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Volume 120, issue 12, 2016

Interventions to reduce emergency department utilisation: A review of reviews pp. 1337-1349

Koen Van den Heede and Carine Van de Voorde

Expanding professional pharmacy services in European community setting: Is it cost-effective? A systematic review for health policy considerations pp. 1350-1362

Clémence Perraudin, Olivier Bugnon and Nathalie Pelletier-Fleury

Policy interventions related to medicines: Survey of measures taken in European countries during 2010–2015 pp. 1363-1377

Sabine Vogler, Nina Zimmermann and Kees de Joncheere

The 2015 National Cancer Program in Sweden: Introducing standardized care pathways in a decentralized system pp. 1378-1382

Jens Wilkens, Hans Thulesius, Ingrid Schmidt and Christina Carlsson

Sick of waiting: Does waiting for elective treatment cause sickness absence? pp. 1383-1388

Karin Dyrstad, Thomas Halvorsen, Karl-Gerhard Hem and Tarald Rohde

Implementing priority setting frameworks: Insights from leading researchers pp. 1389-1394

Blake Angell, Jennie Pares and Gavin Mooney

Trajectories at the end of life: A controlled investigation of longitudinal Health Services Consumption data pp. 1395-1403

Jiska Cohen-Mansfield and Shai Brill

Drug safety and the impact of drug warnings: An interrupted time series analysis of diabetes drug prescriptions in Germany and Denmark pp. 1404-1411

Gisela Hostenkamp, Katharina Elisabeth Fischer and Knut Borch-Johnsen

Evaluating community pharmacists’ perspectives and practices concerning generic medicines substitution in Saudi Arabia: A cross-sectional study pp. 1412-1419

Fahad S. Alkhuzaee, Hamdan M. Almalki, Ammar Y. Attar, Shoeab I. Althubiani, Wassam Ali Almuallim, Ejaz Cheema and Muhammad Abdul Hadi

South Africa's universal health coverage reforms in the post-apartheid period pp. 1420-1428

Alexander Marius van den Heever

Volume 120, issue 11, 2016

The 2015 emergency care reform in Poland: Some improvements, some unmet demands and some looming conflicts pp. 1220-1225

Anna Sagan, Iwona Kowalska-Bobko and Anna Mokrzycka

The 2014 primary health care reform in Poland: Short-term fixes instead of a long-term strategy pp. 1226-1232

Anna Mokrzycka, Iwona Kowalska-Bobko, Anna Sagan and W. Cezary Włodarczyk

Implementation of the cross-border healthcare directive in Poland: How not to encourage patients to seek care abroad? pp. 1233-1239

Iwona Kowalska-Bobko, Anna Mokrzycka, Anna Sagan, W. Cezary Włodarczyk and Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz

Relating Health Technology Assessment recommendations and reimbursement decisions in Poland in years 2012–2014, a retrospective analysis pp. 1240-1248

Paweł Kawalec and Krzysztof Piotr Malinowski

Impact of patient outcomes and cost aspects on reimbursement recommendations in Poland in 2012–2014 pp. 1249-1255

Krzysztof Piotr Malinowski, Paweł Kawalec and Wojciech Trąbka

Mandatory national quality improvement systems using indicators: An initial assessment in Europe and Israel pp. 1256-1269

Anke Bramesfeld, Michel Wensing, Paul Bartels, Henning Bobzin, Catherine Grenier, Mona Heugren, Dena Jaffe Hirschfield, Manfred Langenegger, Birgitta Lindelius, Bruno Lucet, Orly Manor, Theres Schneider, Fiona Wardell and Joachim Szecsenyi

How to set challenging goals and conduct fair evaluation in regional public health systems. Insights from Valencia and Tuscany Regions pp. 1270-1278

Milena Vainieri, Federico Vola, Gregorio Gomez Soriano and Sabina Nuti

Patient satisfaction, e-health and the evolution of the patient–general practitioner relationship: Evidence from an Italian survey pp. 1279-1292

Sabina De Rosis and Sara Barsanti

Changes in access to health care for immigrants in Catalonia during the economic crisis: Opinions of health professionals and immigrant users pp. 1293-1303

Victoria Porthé, Ingrid Vargas, Belén Sanz-Barbero, Isabel Plaza-Espuña, Lola Bosch and Maria Luisa Vázquez

Individual and hospital-related determinants of potentially inappropriate admissions emerging from administrative records pp. 1304-1312

Marco Fusco, Alessandra Buja, Paolo Piergentili, Maria Teresa Golfetto, Gianni Serafin, Silvia Gallo, Livio Dalla Barba and Vincenzo Baldo

The effectiveness of a pay for performance program on diabetes care in Taiwan: A nationwide population-based longitudinal study pp. 1313-1321

Tzu-Yu Lin, Chia-Yu Chen, Yu Tang Huang, Ming-Kuo Ting, Jui-Chu Huang and Kuang-Hung Hsu

Paying for volume: British Columbia’s experiment with funding hospitals based on activity pp. 1322-1328

Jason M. Sutherland, Guiping Liu, R. Trafford Crump and Michael Law

Population ageing and healthcare demand: The case of Slovenia pp. 1329-1336

Jure Vrhovec and Maks Tajnikar

Volume 120, issue 10, 2016

A comparative study of drug listing recommendations and the decision-making process in Australia, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK pp. 1104-1114

Sebastian Salas-Vega, Annika Bertling and Elias Mossialos

Health benefit assessment of pharmaceuticals: An international comparison of decisions from Germany, England, Scotland and Australia pp. 1115-1122

Katharina Elisabeth Fischer, Thomas Heisser and Tom Stargardt

Pay for performance in the inpatient sector: A review of 34 P4P programs in 14 OECD countries pp. 1125-1140

Ricarda Milstein and Jonas Schreyoegg

The effectiveness of payment for performance in health care: A meta-analysis and exploration of variation in outcomes pp. 1141-1150

Yewande Kofoworola Ogundeji, John Martin Bland and Trevor Andrew Sheldon

Mechanisms and effects of public reporting of surgeon outcomes: A systematic review of the literature pp. 1151-1161

Katja Behrendt and Oliver Groene

Public reporting and the quality of care of German nursing homes pp. 1162-1170

Annika Herr, Thu-Van Nguyen and Hendrik Schmitz

Why and how did Israel adopt activity-based hospital payment? The Procedure-Related Group incremental reform pp. 1171-1176

Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Ruth Waitzberg, Vadim Perman and Ronni Gamzu

The Spanish long-term care system in transition: Ten years since the 2006 Dependency Act pp. 1177-1182

Luz María Peña-Longobardo, Juan Oliva, Sandra García-Armesto and Cristina Hernández-Quevedo

The impacts of decentralisation on health-related equity: A systematic review of the evidence pp. 1183-1192

Anthony Mwinkaara Sumah, Leonard Baatiema and Seye Abimbola

Long-term sick leave and graded return to work: What do we know about the follow-up effects? pp. 1193-1201

Udo Schneider, Roland Linder and Frank Verheyen

Dental treatment and employment outcomes among social assistance recipients in Ontario, Canada pp. 1202-1208

Sonica Singhal, Muhammad Mamdani, Andrew Mitchell, Howard Tenenbaum, Gerald Lebovic and Carlos Quiñonez

Assessment of the Price–Volume Agreement Program in South Korea pp. 1209-1215

Euna Han, Sun-Young Park and Eui-Kyung Lee

Volume 120, issue 9, 2016

The merry-go-round of approval, pricing and reimbursement of drugs against the Hepatitis C virus infection in Spain pp. 975-981

Carlos Campillo-Artero, Sandra Garcia-Armesto and Enrique Bernal-Delgado

Measuring and improving quality in university hospitals in Canada: The Collaborative for Excellence in Healthcare Quality pp. 982-986

Chantal Backman, Saskia Vanderloo and Alan John Forster

Introducing Diagnosis-Related Groups in Kazakhstan: Evolution, achievements, and challenges pp. 987-991

Tata Chanturidze, Mike Esau, Simon Hölzer and Erica Richardson

Did hospitals respond to changes in weights of Diagnosis Related Groups in Norway between 2006 and 2013? pp. 992-1000

Hans Olav Melberg, Camilla Beck Olsen and Kine Pedersen

Predictors of emergency department referral in patients using out-of-hours primary care services pp. 1001-1007

Maria Paola Scapinello, Andrea Posocco, Irene De Ronch, Francesco Castrogiovanni, Gianluca Lollo, Guglielmo Sergi, Iginio Tomaselli, Loris Tonon, Marco Solmi, Stefano Traversa, Vincenzo Zambianco and Nicola Veronese

Length of stay and readmission in lumbar intervertebral disc disorder inpatients by hospital characteristics and volumes pp. 1008-1016

Kyu-Tae Han, Hyo Jung Lee, Eun-Cheol Park, Woorim Kim, Sung-In Jang and Tae Hyun Kim

Budgetary participation and performance: The mediating effects of medical managers’ job engagement and self-efficacy pp. 1017-1028

Manuela S. Macinati, Stefano Bozzi and Marco Giovanni Rizzo

Costs and outcomes of the German disease management programme (DMP) for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)—A large population-based cohort study pp. 1029-1039

Dmitrij Achelrod, Tobias Welte, Jonas Schreyögg and Tom Stargardt

Socioeconomic gradient in health in Canada: Is the gap widening or narrowing? pp. 1040-1050

Mohammad Hajizadeh, Arnold Mitnitski and Kenneth Rockwood

What drives public health care expenditure growth? Evidence from Swiss cantons, 1970–2012 pp. 1051-1060

Thomas Braendle and Carsten Colombier

Comparing nationwide prevalences of hypertension and depression based on claims data and survey data: An example from Germany pp. 1061-1069

Janina Frank

Influence of the sickness benefit reform on sickness absence pp. 1070-1078

Evelyn Aaviksoo and Raul Allan Kiivet

A tale of loss of privilege, resilience and change: the impact of the economic crisis on physicians and medical services in Portugal pp. 1079-1086

Giuliano Russo, Inês Rego, Julian Perelman and Pedro Barros

The Italian Health Literacy Project: Insights from the assessment of health literacy skills in Italy pp. 1087-1094

Rocco Palumbo, Carmela Annarumma, Paola Adinolfi, Marco Musella and Gabriella Piscopo

Copayments and physicians visits: A panel data study of Swedish regions 2003–2012 pp. 1095-1099

Niklas Jakobsson and Mikael Svensson

Volume 120, issue 8, 2016

Factors influencing the difference between forecasted and actual drug sales volumes under the price–volume agreement in South Korea pp. 867-874

Sun-Young Park, Euna Han, Jini Kim and Eui-Kyung Lee

Misuse of OTC drugs in Poland pp. 875-881

Tomasz Zaprutko, Dorota Koligat, Michał Michalak, Marta Wieczorek, Malwina Józiak, Monika Ratajczak, Kinga Szydłowska, Joanna Miazek, Krzysztof Kus and Elżbieta Nowakowska

The correlation between regulatory conditions and antibiotic consumption within the WHO European Region pp. 882-889

Tanja Mueller and Per-Olof Östergren

Health sector employment growth calls for improvements in labor productivity pp. 894-902

Maria M. Hofmarcher, Eva Festl and Leslie Bishop-Tarver

Factors influencing coverage decisions on medical devices: A retrospective analysis of 78 medical device appraisals for the Austrian hospital benefit catalogue 2008–2015 pp. 903-912

Agnes Kisser, Heinz Tüchler, Judit Erdös and Claudia Wild

Health policy and the policymaking system: A case study of primary care in Ireland pp. 913-919

Niall Kelly, John Garvey and Dónal Palcic

Physician density planning in a public healthcare system: Complexities, threats and opportunities—The case of the Israeli healthcare system pp. 920-927

Ronni Gamzu, Nir Kaidar, Arnon Afek and Tuvia Horev

Medicine and democracy: The importance of institutional quality in the relationship between health expenditure and health outcomes in the MENA region pp. 928-935

Marwân-al-Qays Bousmah, Bruno Ventelou and Mohammad Abu-Zaineh

Larger is not necessarily better! Impact of HIV care unit characteristics on virological success: results from the French national representative ANRS-VESPA2 study pp. 936-947

Luis Sagaon-Teyssier, Lisa Fressard, Marion Mora, Gwenaëlle Maradan, Valérie Guagliardo, Marie Suzan-Monti, Rosemary Dray-Spira and Bruno Spire

Out of pocket payments and social health insurance for private hospital care: Evidence from Greece pp. 948-959

Nikolaos Grigorakis, Christos Floros, Haritini Tsangari and Evangelos Tsoukatos

Impact of co-payment for outpatient utilization among Medical Aid beneficiaries in Korea: A 5-year time series study pp. 960-966

Ki-Bong Yoo, Hong-Uk Ahn, Eun-Cheol Park, Tae Hyun Kim, Sun Jung Kim, Jeoung A Kwon and Sang Gyu Lee

Reframing tobacco dependency management in acute care: A case study pp. 967-974

Annette S.H. Schultz, Randolph Guzman, Jo-Ann V. Sawatzky, Rick Thurmeier, Anna Fedorowicz and Kaitlin Fulmore

Volume 120, issue 7, 2016

Primary care in Ontario, Canada: New proposals after 15 years of reform pp. 732-738

Gregory P. Marchildon and Brian Hutchison

Examining regional variation in health care spending in British Columbia, Canada pp. 739-748

Miriam Ruth Lavergne, Morris Barer, Michael R. Law, Sabrina T. Wong, Sandra Peterson and Kimberlyn McGrail

Health of patients on the waiting list: Opportunity to improve health in Canada? pp. 749-757

Jason Murray Sutherland, R. Trafford Crump, Angie Chan, Guiping Liu, Elizabeth Yue and Matthew Bair

Hospitals in rural or remote areas: An exploratory review of policies in 8 high-income countries pp. 758-769

Bernd Rechel, Aleksandar Džakula, Antonio Duran, Giovanni Fattore, Nigel Edwards, Michel Grignon, Marion Haas, Triin Habicht, Gregory P. Marchildon, Antonio Moreno, Walter Ricciardi, Louella Vaughan and Tina Anderson Smith

Impact of public reporting on the quality of hospital care in Germany: A controlled before–after analysis based on secondary data pp. 770-779

Rike Antje Kraska, Frank Krummenauer and Max Geraedts

Cesarean section and the manipulation of exact delivery time pp. 780-789

Daniele Fabbri, Chiara Monfardini, Ilaria Castaldini and Adalgisa Protonotari

The 2011 proposal for Universal Health Insurance in Ireland: Potential implications for healthcare expenditure pp. 790-796

Sheelah Connolly and Maev-Ann Wren

The 2013 cholesterol guideline controversy: Would better evidence prevent pharmaceuticalization? pp. 797-808

Lynn Unruh, Thomas Rice, Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau and Andrew J. Barnes

The new Australian after-hours general practice incentive payment mechanism: equity for rural general practice? pp. 809-817

Amanda L. Neil, Mark Nelson and Andrew J. Palmer

Effectiveness of comprehensive care programs for patients with multiple chronic conditions or frailty: A systematic literature review pp. 818-832

Petra Hopman, Simone R. de Bruin, Maria João Forjaz, Carmen Rodriguez-Blazquez, Giuseppe Tonnara, Lidwien C. Lemmens, Graziano Onder, Caroline A. Baan and Mieke Rijken

Effects of the financial crisis and Troika austerity measures on health and health care access in Portugal pp. 833-839

Helena Legido-Quigley, Marina Karanikolos, Sonia Hernandez-Plaza, Cláudia de Freitas, Luís Bernardo, Beatriz Padilla, Rita Sá Machado, Karla Diaz-Ordaz, David Stuckler and Martin McKee

Public–private sector interactions and the demand for supplementary health insurance in the United Kingdom pp. 840-847

Anikó Bíró and Mark Hellowell

Re-insurance in the Swiss health insurance market: Fit, power, and balance pp. 848-855

Christian Schmid and Konstantin Beck

Volume 120, issue 6, 2016

Association between reduction in copayment and gastric cancer patient concentration to the capital area in South Korea: NHI cohort 2003–2013 pp. 580-589

Kyu-Tae Han, Jeeyun Kim, Chung Mo Nam, Ki Tae Moon, Sang Gyu Lee, Seung Ju Kim, Yeong Jun Ju, Jeoung A Kwon, Sun Jung Kim, Woorim Kim and Eun-Cheol Park

Effects of delisting nonprescription combination drugs on health insurance expenditures for pharmaceuticals in Korea pp. 590-595

Chan-Mi Park, Kun-Sei Lee, Euna Han and Dong-Sook Kim

Impact of a diagnosis-related group payment system on cesarean section in Korea pp. 596-603

Seung Ju Kim, Kyu-Tae Han, Sun Jung Kim, Eun-Cheol Park and Hye Ki Park

Greater continuity of care reduces hospital admissions in patients with hypertension: An analysis of nationwide health insurance data in Korea, 2011–2013 pp. 604-611

Young Soon Nam, Kyoung Hee Cho, Hee-Chung Kang, Kwang-Sig Lee and Eun-Cheol Park

Eight-year experience of using HTA in drug reimbursement: South Korea pp. 612-620

Eun-Young Bae, Ji-Min Hong, Hye-Young Kwon, Suhyun Jang, Hye-Jae Lee, SeungJin Bae and Bong-Min Yang

Public satisfaction with the healthcare system performance in South Korea: Universal healthcare system pp. 621-629

Kisoo Park, Jumin Park, Young Dae Kwon, Yoonjeong Kang and Jin-Won Noh

Unmet healthcare needs and community health center utilization among the low-income population based on a nationwide community health survey pp. 630-637

Kyu-Tae Han, Eun-Cheol Park and Sun Jung Kim

Poverty and working status in changes of unmet health care need in old age pp. 638-645

Sojung Park, BoRin Kim and Soojung Kim

Unmet healthcare needs and health status: Panel evidence from Korea pp. 646-653

Hansoo Ko

Health workforce development in the European Union: A matrix for comparing trajectories of change in the professions pp. 654-664

Emmanuele Pavolini and Ellen Kuhlmann

Registration factors that limit international mobility of people holding physiotherapy qualifications: A systematic review pp. 665-673

Jonathan S. Foo, Michael Storr and Stephen Maloney

Improved patient survivals with colorectal cancer under multidisciplinary team care: A nationwide cohort study of 25,766 patients in Taiwan pp. 674-681

Yueh-Han Hsu, Pei-Tseng Kung, Shih-Ting Wang, Chuan-Yin Fang and Wen-Chen Tsai

Nurse practitioners, canaries in the mine of primary care reform pp. 682-689

Damien Contandriopoulos, Astrid Brousselle, Mylaine Breton, Esther Sangster-Gormley, Kelley Kilpatrick, Carl-Ardy Dubois, Isabelle Brault and Mélanie Perroux

Time clock requirements for hospital physicians pp. 690-697

Chen Shapira, Iris Vilnai-Yavetz, Anat Rafaeli and Moran Zemel

Increasing pressures and support for public healthcare in Europe pp. 698-705

Carsten Jensen and Elias Naumann

Monitoring mental healthcare on a system level: Country profiles and status from EU countries pp. 706-717

Anke Bramesfeld, Francesco Amaddeo, José Caldas-de-Almeida, Graça Cardoso, Anne Depaigne-Loth, Rose Derenne, Valeria Donisi, Mette Jørgensen, Birgitta Lindelius, Antonio Lora, Jan Mainz, Cornelis Lambert Mulder, Joachim Szecsenyi and Helen Killaspy

Facilitating safe and successful cross-border healthcare in the European Union pp. 718-727

Sanne Elise Verra, Renske Kroeze and Kai Ruggeri

Volume 120, issue 5, 2016

The Health Care Strengthening Act: The next level of integrated care in Germany pp. 445-451

Ricarda Milstein and Carl Blankart

Characteristics of frequent users of the emergency department in the general adult population: A systematic review of international healthcare systems pp. 452-461

Lesley J.J. Soril, Laura E. Leggett, Diane L. Lorenzetti, Tom W. Noseworthy and Fiona M. Clement

Targeting frequent users of emergency departments: Prominent risk factors and policy implications pp. 462-470

Lucia Leporatti, Marta Ameri, Chiara Trinchero, Patrizia Orcamo and Marcello Montefiori

Which Triple Aim related measures are being used to evaluate population management initiatives? An international comparative analysis pp. 471-485

Roy J.P. Hendrikx, Hanneke W. Drewes, Marieke Spreeuwenberg, Dirk Ruwaard, Jeroen N. Struijs and Caroline A. Baan

Policy options to contain healthcare costs: a review and classification pp. 486-494

Niek Stadhouders, Xander Koolman, Marit Tanke, Hans Maarse and Patrick Jeurissen

Reducing the health care burden for marginalised migrants: The potential role for primary care in Europe pp. 495-508

O’Donnell, Catherine Agnes, Nicola Burns, Frances Susanne Mair, Christopher Dowrick, Ciaran Clissmann, Maria van den Muijsenbergh, Evelyn van Weel-Baumgarten, Christos Lionis, Maria Papadakaki, Aristoula Saridaki, Tomas de Brun and Anne MacFarlane

What can Europe learn from the managed care backlash in the United States? pp. 509-518

Daniëlle Duijmelinck and Wynand van de Ven

Pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement in China: When the whole is less than the sum of its parts pp. 519-534

Jia Hu and Elias Mossialos

Classification of healthcare systems: Can we go further? pp. 535-543

Federico Toth

How to ensure quality of health accounts pp. 544-551

Cornelis van Mosseveld, Patricia Hernández-Peña, Daniel Arán, Veneta Cherilova and Awad Mataria

Obesity risk class and asthma outpatient service utilization by the middle aged and elderly in Taiwan pp. 552-560

Wei-Hua Tian, Li-Fan Liu and Jiu-Yao Wang

Taxing unhealthy choices: The complex idea of liberal egalitarianism in health pp. 561-566

Andreas Albertsen

The ambition of Health in All Policies in Norway: The role of political leadership and bureaucratic change pp. 567-575

Hege Hofstad

Volume 120, issue 4, 2016

Stuck in the middle? pp. 345-349

Daan Westra, Gloria Wilbers and Federica Angeli

The 2015 hospital treatment choice reform in Norway: Continuity or change? pp. 350-355

Ånen Ringard, Ingrid Sperre Saunes and Anna Sagan

Implementation of the 2011 Reimbursement Act in Poland: Desired and undesired effects of the changes in reimbursement policy pp. 356-361

Paweł Kawalec, Anna Sagan, Ewa Stawowczyk, Iwona Kowalska-Bobko and Anna Mokrzycka

The privatization of spa companies in Poland – An evaluation of policy assumptions and implementation pp. 362-368

Adam R. Szromek, Piotr Romaniuk and Andrzej Hadzik

Cross-border healthcare directive: Assessing stakeholders’ perspectives in Poland and Portugal pp. 369-376

Ricardo Helena

Public reporting on quality, waiting times and patient experience in 11 high-income countries pp. 377-383

Bernd Rechel, Martin McKee, Marion Haas, Gregory P. Marchildon, Frederic Bousquet, Miriam Blümel, Alexander Geissler, Ewout van Ginneken, Toni Ashton, Ingrid Sperre Saunes, Anders Anell, Wilm Quentin, Richard Saltman, Steven Culler, Andrew Barnes, Willy Palm and Ellen Nolte

Healthcare coverage for undocumented migrants in Spain: Regional differences after Royal Decree Law 16/2012 pp. 384-395

Marta Cimas, Pedro Gullon, Eva Aguilera, Stefan Meyer, José Manuel Freire and Beatriz Perez-Gomez

Was access to health care easy for immigrants in Spain? The perspectives of health personnel in Catalonia and Andalusia pp. 396-405

María-Luisa Vázquez, Ingrid Vargas, Daniel López Jaramillo, Victoria Porthé, Luis Andrés López-Fernández, Hernán Vargas, Lola Bosch, Silvia S. Hernández and Ainhoa Ruiz Azarola

Can service integration work for universal health coverage? Evidence from around the globe pp. 406-419

Gillian Lê, Rosemary Morgan, Janine Bestall, Imogen Featherstone, Thomas Veale and Tim Ensor

Impact of financial agreements in European chronic care on health care expenditure growth pp. 420-430

Apostolos Tsiachristas, Carolien Dikkers, Melinde R.S. Boland and Maureen P.M.H. Rutten-van Mölken

Perceived quality of chronic illness care is associated with self-management: Results of a nationwide study in the Netherlands pp. 431-439

L. van Houtum, M. Heijmans, M. Rijken and P. Groenewegen

Volume 120, issue 3, 2016

Expanding choice of primary care in Finland: much debate but little change so far pp. 227-234

Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen, Miisa Chydenius, Anna Saloranta and Ilmo Keskimäki

From universal health insurance to universal healthcare? The shifting health policy landscape in Ireland since the economic crisis pp. 235-240

Sara Ann Burke, Charles Normand, Sarah Barry and Steve Thomas

The policy and politics of the 2015 long-term care reform in the Netherlands pp. 241-245

Maarse, J.A.M. (Hans) and Jeurissen, P.P. (Patrick)

A new proposal for priority setting in Norway: Open and fair pp. 246-251

Trygve Ottersen, Reidun Førde, Meetali Kakad, Alice Kjellevold, Hans Olav Melberg, Atle Moen, Ånen Ringard and Ole Frithjof Norheim

The efficiency of health care production in OECD countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-country comparisons pp. 252-263

Yauheniya Varabyova and Julia-Maria Müller

Alcohol prices, taxes, and alcohol-related harms: A critical review of natural experiments in alcohol policy for nine countries pp. 264-272

Jon Nelson and Amy D. McNall

The performance measurement–management divide in public health pp. 273-280

Robert Schwartz and Raisa Deber

Explaining differences in stakeholder take up of disease management programmes: A comparative analysis of policy implementation in Austria and Germany pp. 281-292

Laura Schang, Sarah Thomson and Thomas Czypionka

Influenza vaccination policy-making processes in France and The Netherlands: Framework and determinants pp. 293-305

Maria Laura Silva, Lionel Perrier, John W. Paget, Anne Mosnier, Valérie Buthion, Jean Marie Cohen and Hans Martin Späth

Lessons from the Italian NHS retrenchment policy pp. 306-315

Francesco Longo

New pricing approaches for bundled payments: Leveraging clinical standards and regional variations to target avoidable utilization pp. 316-326

Erik Hellsten, Scally Chu, R. Trafford Crump, Kevin Yu and Jason M. Sutherland

Consumer preferences for over-the-counter drug retailers in the reregulated Swedish pharmacy market pp. 327-333

Helle Håkonsen, Karolina Andersson Sundell, Johan Martinsson and Tove Hedenrud

Social network analysis of duplicative prescriptions: One-month analysis of medical facilities in Japan pp. 334-341

Yoshimitsu Takahashi, Tatsuro Ishizaki, Takeo Nakayama and Ichiro Kawachi

Volume 120, issue 2, 2016

High cost pool or high cost groups—How to handle high(est) cost cases in a risk adjustment mechanism? pp. 141-147

Sonja Schillo, Gerald Lux, Juergen Wasem and Florian Buchner

Would German physicians opt for pay-for-performance programs? A willingness-to-accept experiment in a large general practitioners’ sample pp. 148-158

Christian Krauth, Sebastian Liersch, Sören Jensen and Volker Eric Amelung

Health care utilisation and costs in the general population in Germany pp. 159-169

Helen Grupp, Hans-Helmut König and Alexander Konnopka

Forgone care among chronically ill patients in Germany—Results from a cross-sectional survey with 15,565 individuals pp. 170-178

Julia Röttger, Miriam Blümel, Julia Köppen and Reinhard Busse

Higher prices, higher quality? Evidence from German nursing homes pp. 179-189

Annika Herr and Hanna Hottenrott

Dispensing behaviour of pharmacies in prescription drug markets pp. 190-197

Dennis Guhl, Tom Stargardt, Udo Schneider and Katharina E. Fischer

The contribution of locational factors to regional variations in office-based physicians in Germany pp. 198-204

Verena Vogt

Developing a composite index of spatial accessibility across different health care sectors: A German example pp. 205-212

Martin Siegel, Daniela Koller, Verena Vogt and Leonie Sundmacher

Status and perspectives of claims data analyses in Germany—A systematic review pp. 213-226

Kristine Kreis, Sarah Neubauer, Mike Klora, Ansgar Lange and Jan Zeidler

Volume 120, issue 1, 2016

Implant rates of cardiac implantable electrical devices in Europe: A systematic literature review pp. 1-15

Cinzia Valzania, Aleksandra Torbica, Rosanna Tarricone, Francisco Leyva and Giuseppe Boriani

Hospital merger control in Germany, the Netherlands and England: Experiences and challenges pp. 16-25

Andreas Schmid and Marco Varkevisser

The incidence of high medical expenses by health status in seven developed countries pp. 26-34

Katherine Elizabeth Baird

Developing an evidence-based methodological framework to systematically compare HTA coverage decisions: A mixed methods study pp. 35-45

Elena Nicod and Panos Kanavos

Understanding the stakeholders’ intention to use economic decision-support tools: A cross-sectional study with the tobacco return on investment tool pp. 46-54

Kei Long Cheung, Silvia M.A.A. Evers, Mickaël Hiligsmann, Zoltán Vokó, Subhash Pokhrel, Teresa Jones, Celia Muñoz, Silke B. Wolfenstetter, Judit Józwiak-Hagymásy and Hein de Vries

The relationship between integrated care and cancer patient experience: A scoping review of the evidence pp. 55-63

Silvia Foglino, Francesca Bravi, Elisa Carretta, Maria Pia Fantini, Mark J. Dobrow and Adalsteinn D. Brown

Valuing technology: A qualitative interview study with physicians about insulin pump therapy for children with type 1 diabetes pp. 64-71

Rayzel Shulman, Fiona A. Miller, Denis Daneman and Astrid Guttmann

Dealing with minor illnesses: The link between primary care characteristics and Walk-in Centres’ attendances pp. 72-80

Cristina Ugolini, Matteo Lippi Bruni, Irene Mammi, Andrea Donatini and Gianluca Fiorentini

Cohort effects on the need for health care and implications for health care planning in Canada pp. 81-88

William Whittaker, Stephen Birch, Adrian MacKenzie and Gail Tomblin Murphy

Have hospital readmissions increased in the face of reductions in length of stay? Evidence from England pp. 89-99

Stephen Martin, Andrew Street, Lu Han and John Hutton

Explaining inequalities in Health Care Utilization among Turkish adults: Findings from Health Survey 2008 pp. 100-110

Kaan Sözmen and Belgin Ünal

Artificial Neural Networks and risk stratification models in Emergency Departments: The policy maker's perspective pp. 111-119

Ivo Casagranda, Giorgio Costantino, Greta Falavigna, Raffaello Furlan and Roberto Ippoliti

How to integrate research evidence on patient preferences in pharmaceutical coverage decisions and clinical practice guidelines: A qualitative study among Dutch stakeholders pp. 120-128

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