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Volume 128, issue C, 2023

The uses of Patient Reported Experience Measures in health systems: A systematic narrative review pp. 1-10

Kendall Jamieson Gilmore, Ilaria Corazza, Lucrezia Coletta and Sara Allin

Patient expectations do matter - Experimental evidence on antibiotic prescribing decisions among hospital-based physicians pp. 11-17

Sophie Y. Wang, Paola Cantarelli, Oliver Groene, Tom Stargardt and Nicola Belle

Trust as a key measure of quality and safety after the restriction of family contact in Canadian long-term care settings during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 18-27

P.V. Hunter, H.A. Ward and G. Puurveen

Relationships between sales of legal medical cannabis and alcohol in Canada pp. 28-33

Michael J. Armstrong

Income-related inequality in smoking habits: A comparative assessment in the European Union pp. 34-41

Giovanni Carnazza, Paolo Liberati and Giuliano Resce

Mental health between present issues and future expectations pp. 42-48

Emilia Barili, Veronica Grembi and Anna C. Rosso

The Italian policy of mandating SARS-CoV-2 vaccination for healthcare workers: Analysis of the policy processes and preliminary outcomes pp. 49-54

Costanza Vicentini, Giacomo Garzaro, Alessandro Roberto Cornio, Davide Bosio, Enrico Bergamaschi, Giovanna Pacchiana Parravicini and Carla Maria Zotti

Why the US spends more treating high-need high-cost patients: a comparative study of pricing and utilization of care in six high-income countries pp. 55-61

Luca Lorenzoni, Alberto Marino, Zeynep Or, Carl Blankart, Kosta Shatrov, Walter Wodchis, Nils Janlov, Jose F. Figueroa, Nicholas Bowden, Enrique Bernal-Delgado and Irene Papanicolas

Pay-for-performance for primary health care in Brazil: A comparison with England's Quality Outcomes Framework and lessons for the future pp. 62-68

Garibaldi Dantas Gurgel, Søren Kristensen, Everton Nunes da Silva, Luciano Bezerra Gomes, Jorge Otávio Maia Barreto, Roxanne J Kovacs, Juliana Sampaio, Adriana Falangola Benjamin Bezerra, Keila Silene de Brito e Silva, Helena Eri Shimizu, Allan Nuno Alves de Sousa, Nasser Fardousi, Josephine Borghi and Timothy Powell-Jackson

Improving hospital nurse staffing during the pandemic: Implementation of the 2019 Fund for Health Care Staff in Belgium pp. 69-74

Koen Van den Heede, Koen Balcaen, Nicolas Bouckaert, Luk Bruyneel, Justien Cornelis, Walter Sermeus and Carine Van de Voorde

Lithuanian physicians practising abroad: Reasons to leave and conditions to return to Lithuania. A survey pp. 75-83

Monika Radike and Tadas Zuromskis

Volume 127, issue C, 2023

The role of the European Union in global health: The EU’s self-perception(s) within the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 5-11

Susan Bergner

Alignment and authority: Federalism, social policy, and COVID-19 response pp. 12-18

Scott L. Greer, Kenneth A. Dubin, Michelle Falkenbach, Holly Jarman and Benjamin D. Trump

Centralization and integration of public health systems: Perspectives of public health leaders on factors facilitating and impeding COVID-19 responses in three Canadian provinces pp. 19-28

Robert William Smith, Tamika Jarvis, Harman Singh Sandhu, Andrew D. Pinto, Meghan O'Neill, Erica Di Ruggiero, Jasmine Pawa, Laura Rosella and Sara Allin

Actors’ awareness of network governance in Child Welfare and Healthcare service networks pp. 29-36

Mariëlle Blanken, Jolanda Mathijssen, Chijs van Nieuwenhuizen, Jörg Raab and Hans van Oers

European immigrant health policies, immigrants’ health, and immigrants’ access to healthcare pp. 37-43

Paul Dourgnon, Nadereh Pourat and Lorenzo Rocco

Progressivity of out-of-pocket costs under Australia's universal health care system: A national linked data study pp. 44-50

Hsei Di Law, Dinith Marasinghe, Danielle Butler, Jennifer Welsh, Emily Lancsar, Emily Banks, Nicholas Biddle and Rosemary Korda

Decomposition of socioeconomic inequalities in catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditure for healthcare in Canada pp. 51-59

Mohammad Hajizadeh, Sujita Pandey and Mohammad Habibullah Pulok

The 2021 proposal to increase market forces in the Australian residential aged-care sector pp. 60-65

Henry Cutler, Yuanyuan Gu, Anam Bilgrami and Andrew Partington

Creativity at the margins: A cross-country case study on how Dutch and Norwegian peripheries address challenges to quality work in care for older persons pp. 66-73

Hester van de Bovenkamp, Nienke van Pijkeren, Eline Ree, Ingunn Aase, Terese Johannessen, Hans Vollaard, Iris Wallenburg, Roland Bal and Siri Wiig

The long process by which HTA became a paradigm: A longitudinal conceptual structure analysis pp. 74-79

Alessandra Belfiore, Alessandro Scaletti, Domenica Lavorato and Corrado Cuccurullo

Uncovering the potential of innovation ecosystems in the healthcare sector after the COVID-19 crisis pp. 80-86

Dominique Lepore, Emanuele Frontoni, Alessandra Micozzi, Sara Moccia, Luca Romeo and Francesca Spigarelli

Volume 126, issue 12, 2022

Metrics and indicators used to assess health system resilience in response to shocks to health systems in high income countries—A systematic review pp. 1195-1205

Pádraic Fleming, Catherine O'Donoghue, Arianna Almirall-Sanchez, David Mockler, Conor Keegan, Jon Cylus, Anna Sagan and Steve Thomas

Complex community health and social care interventions – Which features lead to reductions in hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions? A systematic literature review pp. 1206-1225

Lize Duminy, Vanessa Ress and Eva-Maria Wild

Population ageing and health financing: A method for forecasting two sides of the same coin pp. 1226-1232

Jonathan Cylus, Gemma Williams, Ludovico Carrino, Tomas Roubal and Sarah Barber

After the four-year transition period: Is the European Union's Medical Device Regulation of 2017 likely to achieve its main goals? pp. 1233-1240

Kosta Shatrov and Carl Blankart

Cross-border healthcare collaborations in Europe (2007–2017): Moving towards a European Health Union? pp. 1241-1247

Andrea E. Schmidt, Julia Bobek, Stefan Mathis-Edenhofer, Tanja Schwarz and Florian Bachner

Barriers for the evaluation of advanced therapy medicines and their translation to clinical practice: Umbrella review pp. 1248-1255

Lorena Aguilera-Cobos, María Piedad Rosario-Lozano, Angela Ponce-Polo, Juan Antonio Blasco-Amaro and David Epstein

Advancing international comparison of pharmaceutical industry funding of patient advocacy: Focus on Denmark pp. 1256-1262

Shai Mulinari, Dylan Pashley and Piotr Ozieranski

Funding community pharmacy dispensing: A qualitative exploration of current and alternate models leading to the development of quality focused funding principles pp. 1263-1268

John Jackson, Oriana Ruffini, Melanie Livet and Ben Urick

Excess mortality and protected areas during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Italian municipalities pp. 1269-1276

Leonardo Becchetti, Gianluigi Conzo, Pierluigi Conzo and Francesco Salustri

Service-, needs-, and quality-based hospital capacity planning – The evolution of a revolution in Switzerland pp. 1277-1282

Elena Bleibtreu, Christine von Ahlen and Alexander Geissler

Freedom of choice and health services’ performance: Evidence from a national health system pp. 1283-1290

Ángel Fernández-Pérez, Dolores Jiménez-Rubio and Silvana Robone

National clinical guidelines and treatment centralization do not guarantee consistency in healthcare delivery. A mixed-methods study of wet age-related macular degeneration treatment in Denmark pp. 1291-1302

Anna Kollerup, Sarah Wadmann, Toke Bek and Jakob Kjellberg

Immediate physical needs of refugees during the Ukrainian armed conflict of 2022 pp. 1303-1309

Yulia Roitblat, Liliia Nehuliaieva, Roksolana Nedilko, Yurii Shashkov and Michael Shterenshis

Effects of cost sharing on long-term care service utilization among home-dwelling older adults in Japan pp. 1310-1316

Kazuaki Sano, Atsushi Miyawaki, Kazuhiro Abe, Xueying Jin, Taeko Watanabe, Nanako Tamiya and Yasuki Kobayashi

Academic Health Centers’ configurations, scientific productivity, and impact: Insights from the Italian setting pp. 1317-1323

Luca D'Aniello, Maria Spano, Corrado Cuccurullo and Massimo Aria

Improving health and sustainability: Patterns of red and processed meat consumption across generations pp. 1324-1330

Cinzia Di Novi and Anna Marenzi

Volume 126, issue 11, 2022

Methodology for restarting hospital activities after a pandemic: COVID-19 experience pp. 1075-1080

Fabian Dehanne, Kevin Lejeune and Benoit Libert

The paradox of the COVID-19 pandemic: The impact on patient demand in Japanese hospitals pp. 1081-1089

, Masako and Sachiko Watanabe

Risky restrictions? Mobility restriction effects on risk awareness and anxiety pp. 1090-1102

Joan Costa-Font and Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

Lockdown support, trust and COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: Insights from the second national lockdown in France pp. 1103-1109

Pauline Kergall and Marlène Guillon

The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on temporal trends of workplace violence against healthcare workers in the emergency department pp. 1110-1116

Francesco Brigo, Arian Zaboli, Eleonora Rella, Serena Sibilio, Massimiliano Fanni Canelles, Gabriele Magnarelli, Norbert Pfeifer and Gianni Turcato

Has COVID-19 changed carer's views of health and care integration in care homes? A sentiment difference-in-difference analysis of on-line service reviews pp. 1117-1123

Eduardo Gonzalo Almorox, Jonathan Stokes and Marcello Morciano

Loneliness in Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 1124-1129

Julia Baarck, Béatrice d'Hombres and Guido Tintori

How do HTA agencies perceive conditional approval of medicines? Evidence from England, Scotland, France and Canada pp. 1130-1143

Mackenzie Mills and Panos Kanavos

Inclusion of essential components of the World Health Organization palliative care development model in national palliative care plans: A documentary analysis in 31 countries pp. 1144-1150

Miguel Antonio Sánchez-Cárdenas, Juan Esteban Correa Morales and Juan Camilo Sánchez-Florez

Towards population-based payment models in a multiple-payer system: the case of the Netherlands pp. 1151-1156

Toine E.P. Remers, Erik M.E. Wackers, Simone A. van Dulmen and Patrick P.T. Jeurissen

Measuring health insurance literacy in the Netherlands – First results of the HILM-NL questionnaire pp. 1157-1162

Laurens Holst, Jany J.D.J.M. Rademakers, Anne E.M. Brabers and Judith D. de Jong

Mitigating health policy fragmentation through interlocks. The networks between American and Swiss public-private partnerships pp. 1163-1172

Marybel Perez, Georg von Schnurbein and Theresa Gehringer

Prioritization of implementation barriers related to integrated care models in Central and Eastern European countries pp. 1173-1179

Marcell Csanádi, Zoltán Kaló, Maureen Rutten-van Molken, Willemijn Looman, Mirjana Huic, Darija Ercevic, Dragana Atanasijevic, László Lorenzovici, Paweł Petryszyn, Gábor Pogány, János Pitter and Antal Zemplényi

Assessing patients’ acceptable and realised distances to determine accessibility standards for the size of catchment areas in outpatient care pp. 1180-1186

Ines Weinhold, Danny Wende, Christopher Schrey, Carsta Militzer-Horstmann, Laura Schang and Leonie Sundmacher

Patient mobility within national borders. Drivers and politics of cross-border healthcare agreements in the Spanish decentralized system pp. 1187-1193

Roberta Perna, Gibrán Cruz-Martínez and Francisco Javier Moreno Fuentes

Volume 126, issue 10, 2022

Teleconsultation adoption since COVID-19: Comparison of barriers and facilitators in primary care settings in Hong Kong and the Netherlands pp. 933-944

Andrea Fernández Coves, Karene Hoi Ting Yeung, Ingeborg M van der Putten and E. Anthony S Nelson

Demographics of COVID-19 hospitalisations and related fatality risk patterns pp. 945-955

Daniela Ghio, Simona Bignami-Van Assche and Nikolaos I. Stilianakis

A review of the sustainability of vaccine funding across Europe and implications for post-COVID policymaking pp. 956-969

Ryan Lawlor, Tim Wilsdon, Vanessa Rémy-Blanc, Agustín Álvarez Nogal and Adrian Pana

COVID-19 vaccinations: An overview of the Italian national health system's online communication from a citizen perspective pp. 970-979

L. Pirrotta, E. Guidotti, C. Tramontani, E. Bignardelli, G. Venturi and S. De Rosis

Cost effects of nurse led triage at an emergency department with the advice to consult the adjacent general practice cooperative for low-risk patients, a cluster randomised trial pp. 980-987

Stefan Morreel, Ines Homburg, Hilde Philips, Diana De Graeve, Koenraad G. Monsieurs, Jasmine Meysman, Eva Lefevere and Veronique Verhoeven

Tensions and opportunities in the roles of senior public health officials in Canada: A qualitative study pp. 988-995

Adèle Cassola, Patrick Fafard, Ranjana Nagi and Steven J. Hoffman

The impact of healthcare executive seniority on implementation of innovative methods of diagnosis and prevention pp. 996-1001

Eyal Eckhaus, Vasylyna Iholkina and Eleonora Shkolnik

The gender earnings gap in medicine: Evidence from Canada pp. 1002-1009

Boris Kralj, Danielle O'Toole, Meredith Vanstone and Arthur Sweetman

Incentivizing appropriate prescribing in primary care: Development and first results of an electronic health record-based pay-for-performance scheme pp. 1010-1017

Lotte Ramerman, Karin Hek, Christine Cramer- van der Welle, Ellis Simons-Winters, Anouk Middelweerd, Anke Lambooij and Robert Verheij

Reforms to the patented medicine prices review board and the introduction of new drugs in Canada: An observational study pp. 1018-1022

Joel Lexchin

Public and patient involvement in health policy decision-making on the health system level – A scoping review pp. 1023-1038

Lisa Ann Baumann, Anna Katharina Reinhold and Anna Levke Brütt

Factors associated with cervical cancer screening utilisation by people with physical disabilities: A systematic review pp. 1039-1050

Dorothy N.S. Chan, Bernard M.H. Law, Winnie K.W. So and Ning Fan

The population health role of academic health centres: a multiple-case exploratory study in Australia and England pp. 1051-1061

Alexandra Edelman, Judy Taylor, Pavel V Ovseiko, Sarah Larkins and Stephanie M Topp

Induced demand in kidney replacement therapy pp. 1062-1068

Steef Redeker, Emma K. Massey, Ruben G. van Merweland, Willem Weimar, Sohal Y. Ismail and Jan J.V. Busschbach

How to detect hospitals where quality would not be jeopardized by health cost savings? A methodological approach using DEA with SBM analysis pp. 1069-1074

M. Isabel Ortega-Díaz and Juan Carlos Martín

Volume 126, issue 9, 2022

A reform proposal from 2019 aims to improve coordination of health services in Poland by strengthening the role of the counties pp. 837-843

Anna Sagan, Iwona Kowalska-Bobko, Katarzyna Badora-Musiał and Malgorzata Gałązka-Sobotka

The analogue substitution model: Introducing competition in the absence of generic substitution in Danish hospitals pp. 844-852

Elisabeth Christensen, Niels Christian Hirsch, Jonas Valbjørn Andersen and Lars Holger Ehlers

Strategic purchasing and health systems resilience: Lessons from COVID-19 in selected European countries pp. 853-864

Marie C. Montás, Katarzyna Klasa, Ewout van Ginneken and Scott L. Greer

Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on depression in older adults: A panel data analysis pp. 865-871

Alessio Gaggero, Ángel Fernández-Pérez and Dolores Jiménez-Rubio

The political cost of sanctions: Evidence from COVID-19 pp. 872-878

Andrea Fazio, Tommaso Reggiani and Fabio Sabatini

Should we screen for lung cancer? A 10-country analysis identifying key decision-making factors pp. 879-888

Charlotte Poon, Artes Haderi, Alexander Roediger and Megan Yuan

The expression of ‘policy’ in palliative care: A critical review pp. 889-898

Sandy Whitelaw, Anthony Bell and David Clark

Does default organ donation registration compromise autonomous choice? Public responses to a new donor registration system pp. 899-905

Jonas Wachner, Marieke Adriaanse, Mariette van den Hoven and Denise de Ridder

Consensus among clinicians on referrals’ priority and use of digital decision-making support systems pp. 906-914

Giuliano Mariotti, Luigi Siciliani, Vincenzo Rebba, Silvia Coretti and Maria Gentilini

Defining a risk-adjustment formula for the introduction of population-based payments for primary care in France pp. 915-924

Panayotis Constantinou, Philippe Tuppin, Christelle Gastaldi-Ménager and Nathalie Pelletier-Fleury

The impact of benefits coverage expansion of social health insurance: Evidence from Korea pp. 925-932

Hye Myung Lee and Hansoo Ko

Volume 126, issue 8, 2022

The Swedish model for prioritising research on the use of antibiotics: Aligning public funding with research gaps pp. 725-730

Gunilla Skoog Ståhlgren, Malin Grape and Charlotta Edlund

Governance of nutrivigilance in the Netherlands: Reporting adverse events of non-registered products pp. 731-737

Alie de Boer, Lisanne Geboers, Sonja van de Koppel and Florence van Hunsel

Examining the policy process of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation in Ireland pp. 738-743

Eric Crosbie, Davis Florence, Mickey Nanthaseang and Lindsey Godoy

Developing the 2020-2030 mental health strategy for Malta: Addressing the needs of a small island state undergoing rapid socioeconomic transition pp. 744-748

Annalise Borg, Antonella Sammut, Anton Grech, Elaine Claire Lautier, Stefan Priebe and Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat

The Danish health care quality programme: Creating change through the use of quality improvement collaboratives pp. 749-754

Kathrine Carstensen, Anne Mette Kjeldsen, Stina Lou and Camilla Palmhøj Nielsen

A comparative analysis of COVID-19 vaccination certificates in 12 countries/regions around the world: Rationalising health policies for international travel and domestic social activities during the pandemic pp. 755-762

Binhua Wang and Yuan Ping

Effects of lower screening activity during the COVID-19 pandemic on breast cancer patient pathways: Evidence from the age cut-off of organized screening pp. 763-769

Péter Elek, Petra Fadgyas-Freyler, Balázs Váradi, Balázs Mayer, Antal Zemplényi and Marcell Csanádi

Prioritization of COVID-19 vaccination. The added value of the “VALIDATE” approach pp. 770-776

Pietro Refolo, Bart Bloemen, Barbara Corsano, John Grin, Iñaki Gutierrez-Ibarluzea, Bjørn Hofmann, Wija Oortwijn, Laura Sampietro-Colom, Lars Sandman, Gert Jan van der Wilt and Dario Sacchini

The move towards integrated care: Lessons learnt from managing patients with multiple morbidities in the UK pp. 777-785

Ian Litchfield, Beth Kingston, Dee Narga and Alice Turner

Does integrated care mean fewer hospitalizations? An evaluation of a French field experiment pp. 786-794

Aurélie Gaillard, Borja García-Lorenzo, Thomas Renaud and Jérôme Wittwer

The effect of patented drug price on the share of new medicines across OECD countries pp. 795-801

Oliver Spicer and Paul Grootendorst

New legal forms in health services: Evaluation of a Spanish public policy pp. 802-807

Sophie Gorgemans and Olga Urbina-Pérez

How do busy hospital circumstances affect mortality and readmission within 60 days: A cohort study of 680 000 acute admissions in Norway pp. 808-815

Sara Marie Nilsen, Andreas Asheim, Fredrik Carlsen, Kjartan Sarheim Anthun, Lars Johan Vatten, Stina Aam, Neil M Davies and Johan Håkon Bjørngaard

Europeanization of health policy in post-communist European societies: Comparison of six Western Balkan countries pp. 816-823

Eni Tresa, Katarzyna Czabanowska, Timo Clemens, Helmut Brand, Suzanne M. Babich, Vesna Bjegovic-Mikanovic and Genc Burazeri

Requests for euthanasia or assisted suicide of people without (severe) illness pp. 824-830

Vera E van den Berg, Margot L Zomers, Ghislaine JMW van Thiel, Carlo JW Leget, Johannes JM van Delden and Els J van Wijngaarden

Preventing tobacco use from the start: Short- and medium-term impacts on the youth pp. 831-836

Pilar Beneito and Marina Muñoz

Volume 126, issue 7, 2022

Public health lessons from the French 2012 soda tax and insights on the modifications enacted in 2018 pp. 585-591

Yann Le Bodo, Fabrice Etilé, Chantal Julia, Marine Friant-Perrot, Eric Breton, Sébastien Lecocq, Christine Boizot-Szantai, Céline Bergeran and Françoise Jabot

Effectiveness of pay for performance to non-physician health care providers: A systematic review pp. 592-602

Mehran Asadi-Aliabadi, Seyed M Karimi, Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi, Fariba Mirbaha-Hashemi, Leila Janani, Ebrahim Babaee, Marzieh Nojomi and Maziar Moradi-Lakeh

Organising and managing patient and public involvement to enhance quality improvement—Comparing a Swedish and a Dutch hospital pp. 603-612

Carolina Bergerum, Maria Wolmesjö and Johan Thor

Governance of academic medical centres in changing healthcare systems: An international comparison pp. 613-618

Ester Cardinaal, Katarzyna Dubas-Jakóbczyk, Daiga Behmane, Lucie Bryndová, Fidelia Cascini, Heleen Duighuisen, Nadav Davidovitch, Ruth Waitzberg and Patrick Jeurissen

Follow-up regimes for sick-listed employees: A comparison of nine north-western European countries pp. 619-631

Solveig Ose, Silje Lill Kaspersen, Taina Leinonen, Suzanne Verstappen, Angelique de Rijk, Slavina Spasova, Sara Hultqvist, Iben Nørup, Jón R. Pálsson, Andreas Blume, Mike Paternoga and Jorid Kalseth

Impact of formal care consumption on informal care use in Europe: What is happening at the beginning of dependency? pp. 632-642

Thomas Rapp, Jérome Ronchetti and Jonathan Sicsic

Trends in hastened death decision criteria: A review of official reports pp. 643-651

Sílvia Marina, Tony Wainwright, Helena P. Pereira and Miguel Ricou

Would universal general practitioner care impact Irish adolescents’ utilisation? pp. 652-660

Kirby Ann and Aileen Murphy

Financial configurations of Italian private hospitals: an evolutionary analysis pp. 661-667

Alessandra Belfiore, Corrado Cuccurullo and Massimo Aria

Is there a bias in patient choices for hospital care? Evidence from three Italian regional health systems pp. 668-679

Gianmaria Martini, Rosella Levaggi and Daniele Spinelli

Do individuals’ health preferences validate the decentralisation of the public health system in Spain? pp. 680-687

Waleska Siguenza and Alaitz Artabe

Virtual clinics versus face-to-face review: Is the benefit the same for new orthopaedic patients? pp. 688-692

Sarah Shammout, Rosemary Wall, Philip N. Murphy and Kowshik Jain

To what degree are health insurance enrollees in the Netherlands aware of the restrictive conditions attached to their policies? pp. 693-703

Frank J.P. van der Hulst, Laurens Holst, Anne E.M. Brabers and Judith D. de Jong

Inequalities in utilization of institutional care among older people in Estonia pp. 704-714

Irina Mozhaeva

The availability of emergency contraception from family health centers in Turkey pp. 715-721

Mary Lou O'Neil, Bahar Aldanmaz and Deniz Altuntaş

Volume 126, issue 6, 2022

How to pay primary care physicians for SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations: An analysis of 43 EU and OECD countries pp. 485-492

Ricarda Milstein, Kosta Shatrov, Lea Miranda Schmutz and Carl Blankart

A comparative study of COVID-19 emergency funds allocated to the health sector: US, UK, and Canada pp. 493-503

Junying Zhao, Myongjin Kim, Gabrielle Westbrook and Dale W Bratzler

Impact of implementation timing on the effectiveness of stay-at-home requirement under the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from the Italian Case pp. 504-511

Stefano Mingolla and Zhongming Lu

Individual performance-based incentives for health care workers in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries: a systematic literature review pp. 512-521

Tracy Kuo Lin, Kalin Werner, Sophie Witter, Mohammed Alluhidan, Taghred Alghaith, Mariam M. Hamza, Christopher H. Herbst and Nahar Alazemi

A comparative assessment of action plans on antimicrobial resistance from OECD and G20 countries using natural language processing pp. 522-533

Ece A Özçelik, Cédric Doucet, Hyunjin Kang, Noémie Levy, Isabelle Feldhaus, Tiago Cravo Oliveira Hashiguchi, Aliénor Lerouge and Michele Cecchini

Pharmaceutical net price transparency across european markets: Insights from a multi-agent simulation model pp. 534-540

Massimo Riccaboni, Torben Swoboda and Walter Van Dyck

The use intention of hospital report cards among patients in the presence or absence of patient-reported outcomes pp. 541-548

Martin Emmert, Anja Schindler, Cordula Drach, Uwe Sander, Christiane Patzelt, Jona Stahmeyer, Elias Kühnel, Michael Lauerer, Eckhard Nagel, Cornelia Frömke, Oliver Schöffski and Laura Heppe

The impact of an integrated care intervention on mortality and unplanned hospital admissions in a disadvantaged community in England: A difference-in-differences study pp. 549-557

Roberta Piroddi, Jennifer Downing, Helen Duckworth and Benjamin Barr

Current and future costs of obesity in Sweden pp. 558-564

Emelie Andersson, Björn Eliasson and Katarina Steen Carlsson

Government policies targeting primary care physician practice from 1998-2018 in three Canadian provinces: A jurisdictional scan pp. 565-575

Madeleine McKay, M. Ruth Lavergne, Amanda Prince Lea, Michael Le, Agnes Grudniewicz, Doug Blackie, Laurie J. Goldsmith, Emily Gard Marshall, Maria Mathews, Rita McCracken, Kimberlyn McGrail, Sabrina Wong and David Rudoler

Stakeholder perspectives towards implementing the national framework on palliative care in Canada pp. 576-583

Jingjie Xiao, Carleen Brenneis and Konrad Fassbender

Volume 126, issue 5, 2022

What have European countries done to prevent the spread of COVID-19? Lessons from the COVID-19 Health system response monitor pp. 355-361

Selina Rajan, Martin McKee, Cristina Hernández-Quevedo, Marina Karanikolos, Erica Richardson, Erin Webb and Jonathan Cylus

European countries' responses in ensuring sufficient physical infrastructure and workforce capacity during the first COVID-19 wave pp. 362-372

Juliane Winkelmann, Erin Webb, Gemma A. Williams, Cristina Hernández-Quevedo, Claudia B. Maier and Dimitra Panteli

A country-level analysis comparing hospital capacity and utilisation during the first COVID-19 wave across Europe pp. 373-381

Elke Berger, Juliane Winkelmann, Helene Eckhardt, Ulrike Nimptsch, Dimitra Panteli, Christoph Reichebner, Tanja Rombey and Reinhard Busse

Providing health services effectively during the first wave of COVID-19: A cross-country comparison on planning services, managing cases, and maintaining essential services pp. 382-390

Erin Webb, Cristina Hernández-Quevedo, Gemma Williams, Giada Scarpetti, Sarah Reed and Dimitra Panteli

Transformations in the landscape of primary health care during COVID-19: Themes from the European region pp. 391-397

Stephanie Kumpunen, Erin Webb, Govin Permanand, Evgeny Zheleznyakov, Nigel Edwards, Ewout van Ginneken and Melitta Jakab

Balancing financial incentives during COVID-19: A comparison of provider payment adjustments across 20 countries pp. 398-407

Ruth Waitzberg, Sophie Gerkens, Antoniya Dimova, Lucie Bryndová, Karsten Vrangbæk, Signe Smith Jervelund, Hans Okkels Birk, Selina Rajan, Triin Habicht, Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen, Ilmo Keskimäki, Zeynep Or, Coralie Gandré, Juliane Winkelmann, Walter Ricciardi, Antonio Giulio de Belvis, Andrea Poscia, Alisha Morsella, Agnė Slapšinskaitė, Laura Miščikienė, Madelon Kroneman, Judith de Jong, Marzena Tambor, Christoph Sowada, Silvia Gabriela Scintee, Cristian Vladescu, Tit Albreht, Enrique Bernal-Delgado, Ester Angulo-Pueyo, Francisco Estupiñán-Romero, Nils Janlöv, Sarah Mantwill, Ewout Van Ginneken and Wilm Quentin

Centralizing and decentralizing governance in the COVID-19 pandemic: The politics of credit and blame pp. 408-417

Scott L. Greer, Sarah Rozenblum, Michelle Falkenbach, Olga Löblová, Holly Jarman, Noah Williams and Matthias Wismar

Nordic responses to Covid-19: Governance and policy measures in the early phases of the pandemic pp. 418-426

Ingrid Sperre Saunes, Karsten Vrangbæk, Haldor Byrkjeflot, Signe Smith Jervelund, Hans Okkels Birk, Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen, Ilmo Keskimäki, Sigurbjörg Sigurgeirsdóttir, Nils Janlöv, Joakim Ramsberg, Cristina Hernández-Quevedo, Sherry Merkur, Anna Sagan and Marina Karanikolos

A comparison of 2020 health policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America pp. 427-437

Lynn Unruh, Sara Allin, Greg Marchildon, Sara Burke, Sarah Barry, Rikke Siersbaek, Steve Thomas, Selina Rajan, Andriy Koval, Mathew Alexander, Sherry Merkur, Erin Webb and Gemma A. Williams

Lessons learned from the Baltic countries’ response to the first wave of COVID-19 pp. 438-445

Erin Webb, Juliane Winkelmann, Giada Scarpetti, Daiga Behmane, Triin Habicht, Kristiina Kahur, Kaija Kasekamp, Kristina Köhler, Laura Miščikienė, Janis Misins, Marge Reinap, Agnė Slapšinskaitė-Dackevičienė, Andres Võrk and Marina Karanikolos

A reversal of fortune: Comparison of health system responses to COVID-19 in the Visegrad group during the early phases of the pandemic pp. 446-455

Anna Sagan, Lucie Bryndova, Iwona Kowalska-Bobko, Martin Smatana, Anne Spranger, Viktoria Szerencses, Erin Webb and Peter Gaal

A comparison of health system responses to COVID-19 in Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania in 2020 pp. 456-464

Aleksandar Džakula, Maja Banadinović, Iva Lukačević Lovrenčić, Maja Vajagić, Antoniya Dimova, Maria Rohova, Mincho Minev, Silvia Gabriela Scintee, Cristian Vladescu, Dana Farcasanu, Susannah Robinson, Anne Spranger, Anna Sagan and Bernd Rechel

Early health system responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mediterranean countries: A tale of successes and challenges pp. 465-475

Ruth Waitzberg, Cristina Hernández-Quevedo, Enrique Bernal-Delgado, Francisco Estupiñán-Romero, Ester Angulo-Pueyo, Mamas Theodorou, Marios Kantaris, Chrystala Charalambous, Elena Gabriel, Charalampos Economou, Daphne Kaitelidou, Olympia Konstantakopoulou, Lilian Venetia Vildiridi, Amit Meshulam, Antonio Giulio de Belvis, Alisha Morsella, Alexia Bezzina, Karen Vincenti, Gonçalo Figueiredo Augusto, Inês Fronteira, Jorge Simões, Marina Karanikolos, Gemma Williams and Anna Maresso

Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic: Initial responses in 2020 in selected social health insurance countries in Europe☆ pp. 476-484

Andrea E. Schmidt, Sherry Merkur, Anita Haindl, Sophie Gerkens, Coralie Gandré, Zeynep Or, Peter Groenewegen, Madelon Kroneman, Judith de Jong, Tit Albreht, Pia Vracko, Sarah Mantwill, Cristina Hernández-Quevedo, Wilm Quentin, Erin Webb and Juliane Winkelmann

Volume 126, issue 4, 2022

Managing COVID-19 in four small countries: Initial response to the pandemic in San Marino, Montenegro, Malta and Cyprus pp. 281-286

Neville Calleja, Andrea Gualtieri, Natasa Terzic, Vasos Scoutellas and Jean Calleja-Agius

Italian national policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia and Umbria Regions pp. 287-293

Elvina Merkaj and Raffaella Santolini

Health and healthcare variables associated with Italy's excess mortality during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: An ecological study pp. 294-301

Alessandra Buja, Matteo Paganini, Riccardo Fusinato, Claudia Cozzolino, Silvia Cocchio, Manuela Scioni, Vincenzo Rebba, Vincenzo Baldo and Giovanna Boccuzzo

Improving the value of healthcare systems using the Triple Aim framework: A systematic literature review pp. 302-309

Petra Kokko

Expanding our understanding of factors impacting delayed hospital discharge: Insights from patients, caregivers, providers and organizational leaders in Ontario, Canada pp. 310-317

Kerry Kuluski, Lauren Cadel, Michelle Marcinow, Jane Sandercock and Sara JT Guilcher

Examining the transnational preventive healthcare utilisation of a group of Eastern European migrants living full-time in another European state pp. 318-324

Dan Kelleher, Edel Doherty and Ciaran O'Neill

The diffusion of robotic surgery: Examining technology use in the English NHS pp. 325-336

Laia Maynou, Georgia Pearson, Alistair McGuire and Victoria Serra-Sastre

Incremental net benefit of whole genome sequencing for newborns and children with suspected genetic disorders: Systematic review and meta-analysis of cost-effectiveness evidence pp. 337-345

Mario Cesare Nurchis, Maria Teresa Riccardi, Francesca Clementina Radio, Giovanni Chillemi, Enrico Silvio Bertini, Marco Tartaglia, Americo Cicchetti, Bruno Dallapiccola and Gianfranco Damiani

Volume 126, issue 3, 2022

Supporting evidence-informed policy making in rehabilitation: A logic framework for continuous improvement of rehabilitation programs pp. 152-157

Carla Sabariego, Jerome Bickenbach and Gerold Stucki

Supporting government policies to embed and expand rehabilitation in health systems in Europe: A framework for action pp. 158-172

Dimitrios Skempes, Carlotte Kiekens, Anti Malmivaara, Xanthi Michail, Jerome Bickenbach and Gerold Stucki

Exploration of current challenges in rehabilitation from the perspective of healthcare professionals: Switzerland as a case in point pp. 173-182

Adrian Andrea Flavio Spiess, Dimitrios Skempes, Jerome Bickenbach and Gerold Stucki

Cost-effectiveness of home-based stroke rehabilitation across Europe: A modelling study pp. 183-189

Paolo Candio, Mara Violato, Ramon Luengo-Fernandez and Jose Leal

Public health insurance and mortality in the older population: Evidence from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing pp. 190-196

Anne Nolan, Peter May, Soraya Matthews, Charles Normand, Rose Anne Kenny and Mark Ward

Impact of multimorbidity and frailty on adverse outcomes among older delayed discharge patients: Implications for healthcare policy pp. 197-206

Somayeh Ghazalbash, Manaf Zargoush, Fabrice Mowbray and Andrew Costa

Integration processes within the Croatian palliative care model in 2014 – 2020 pp. 207-215

Dorja Vočanec, Aleksandar Džakula, Karmen Lončarek, Slavica Sović and Bernd Rechel

The effects of expanding the generosity of statutory sick leave insurance: The case of a French reform pp. 216-223

Mohamed Ali Ben Halima and Malik Koubi

Promoting innovation while controlling cost: The UK's approach to health technology assessment pp. 224-233

Michael Anderson, Michael Drummond, David Taylor, Alistair McGuire, Paul Carter and Elias Mossialos

Open science communication: The first year of the UK's Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies pp. 234-244

Martin McKee, Danny Altmann, Anthony Costello, Karl Friston, Zubaida Haque, Kamlesh Khunti, Susan Michie, Tolullah Oni, Christina Pagel, Deenan Pillay, Steve Reicher, Helen Salisbury, Gabriel Scally, Kit Yates, Linda Bauld, Laura Bear, John Drury, Melissa Parker, Ann Phoenix, Elizabeth Stokoe and Robert West

Development of an evidence-based reference framework for care coordination with a focus on the micro level of integrated care: A mixed method design study combining scoping review of reviews and nominal group technique pp. 245-261

Françoise Colombani, Gaëlle Encrenaz, Matthieu Sibé, Bruno Quintard, Alain Ravaud and Florence Saillour-Glénisson

Let's stick together: The role of self-interest and ideological beliefs for supporting a ‘solidaristic’ health policy in Norway pp. 262-268

Pål E. Martinussen

Variability in prescription medication coverage for children and youth across Canada: A scoping review pp. 269-279

Afreen Ahmad, Momina Abbas, Benard Miregwa and Anne Marie Holbrook

Volume 126, issue 2, 2022

Variability drivers of treatment costs in hospitals: A systematic review pp. 75-86

Karel Jacobs, Erin Roman, Jo Lambert, Lieven Moke, Lennart Scheys, Katrien Kesteloot, Filip Roodhooft and Brecht Cardoen

When patients get stuck: A systematic literature review on throughput barriers in hospital-wide patient processes pp. 87-98

Philip Åhlin, Peter Almström and Carl Wänström

Prioritization and surgical wait lists: A cross-sectional survey of patient's health-related quality of life pp. 99-105

Michael Y. Guo, R. Trafford Crump, Ahmer A Karimuddin, Guiping Liu, Matthew J. Bair and Jason M. Sutherland

“My problems aren't severe enough to seek help”: Stress levels and use of mental health supports by Canadian hospital employees during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 106-111

Amy Dana Ménard, Kendall Soucie, Laurie A. Freeman and Jody L. Ralph

How value-based policy interventions influence price negotiations for new medicines: An experimental approach and initial evidence pp. 112-121

Dominik J. Wettstein and Stefan Boes

Do health insurers use target marketing as a tool for risk selection? Evidence from the Netherlands pp. 122-128

Karel C.F. Stolper, Lieke H.H.M. Boonen, Frederik T. Schut and Marco Varkevisser

Does providing everyone with free-of-charge organised exercise opportunities work in public health? pp. 129-142

Paolo Candio, David Meads, Andrew J. Hill and Laura Bojke

Copayment policy reforms and effective care utilization by patients with persistent asthma in Taiwan pp. 143-150

Tzu-Ling Juan, Li-Chuan Chang and Yue-Chune Lee

Volume 126, issue 1, 2022

Drawing light from the pandemic: Rethinking strategies for health policy and beyond pp. 1-6

Rebecca Forman, Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, Victoria Kirkby, Suszy Lessof, Naomi Limaro Nathan, Gabriele Pastorino, Govin Permanand, May CI van Schalkwyk, Aleksandra Torbica, Reinhard Busse, Josep Figueras, Martin McKee and Elias Mossialos

How resilient is health financing policy in Europe to economic shocks? Evidence from the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2008 global financial crisis pp. 7-15

Sarah Thomson, Jorge Alejandro García-Ramírez, Baktygul Akkazieva, Triin Habicht, Jonathan Cylus and Tamás Evetovits

Translating health information into policy-making: A pragmatic framework pp. 16-23

Tjede Funk, Tarang Sharma, Evelina Chapman and Tanja Kuchenmüller

An impact evaluation of the strategy for normal birth care on caesarean section rates and perinatal mortality in Spain pp. 24-34

Adela Recio Alcaide and Jose Arranz

Addressing vaccine supply challenges in Europe: Expert industry perspective and recommendations pp. 35-42

Muriel Pasté, Michel Stoffel, Corinne Bardone, Florence Baron-Papillon, Anna Czwarno, Heike Galbraith, Thierry Gastineau, Olivier Germay, Davide Gonzo, Philippe Juvin, Julia Kissane, Valérie Laigle, Peter Mlynarczyk, Paul van Hoof, Martine Wettendorff and Sibilia Quilici

Strategic cost-shifting in long-term care. Evidence from the Netherlands pp. 43-48

Peter Alders and Frederik T. Schut

Amortization of gene replacement therapies: A health policy analysis exploring a mechanism for mitigating budget impact of high-cost treatments pp. 49-59

Monique Dabbous, Mondher Toumi, Steven Simoens, Juergen Wasem, Gauri Saal, Yitong Wang, José Luis Huerta Osuna, Clément François, Lieven Annemans, Johann Graf von der Schulenburg, Oriol Sola-Morales, Daniel Malone and Louis P. Garrison

Won't you stay just a little bit longer? A discrete choice experiment of UK doctors’ preferences for delaying retirement pp. 60-68

Jennifer Cleland, Terry Porteous, Ourega-Zoé Ejebu, Mandy Ryan and Diane Skåtun

Health promotion policies for elderly—Some comparisons across Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland pp. 69-73

Jelena Arsenijevic and Wim Groot