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Volume 122, issue 12, 2018

The highly controversial payment reform of dentists in France: Seeking a new compromise after the 2017 strike pp. 1273-1277

Marco E. Mazevet, V. Garyga, Nigel B. Pitts and Mark W. Pennington

Sláintecare – A ten-year plan to achieve universal healthcare in Ireland pp. 1278-1282

Sara Burke, Sarah Barry, Rikke Siersbaek, Bridget Johnston, Maebh Ní Fhallúin and Steve Thomas

Underuse of innovative medicines in Germany: A justification for government intervention? pp. 1283-1286

Afschin Gandjour

The POWER-tool: Recommendations for involving patient representatives in choosing relevant outcome measures during rare disease clinical trial design pp. 1287-1294

C.M.W. Gaasterland, M.C. Jansen-van der Weide, E. Vroom, K. Leeson-Beevers, M. Kaatee, R. Kaczmarek, B. Bartels, W.L. van der Pol, K.C.B. Roes and J.H. van der Lee

Surviving niche busters: Main strategies employed by Canadian private insurers facing the arrival of high cost specialty drugs pp. 1295-1301

Mathieu Charbonneau and Marc-André Gagnon

Drug shortages may compromise patient safety: Results of a survey of the reference pharmacies of the Drug Commission of German Pharmacists pp. 1302-1309

André Said, Ralf Goebel, Matthias Ganso, Petra Zagermann-Muncke and Martin Schulz

Competition in the off-patent medicine market in Spain: The national reference pricing system versus the regional system of tendering for outpatient prescription medicines in Andalusia pp. 1310-1315

Julieta Casanova-Juanes, Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz and Jaime Espín-Balbino

Perceptions of pharmacists and physicians on generic substitution in a financial crisis context in Northwestern Spain: A qualitative study pp. 1316-1325

Cristina Mondelo-García, Elvia Mendoza, María-Jesús Movilla-Fernández and Carmen Coronado

Growth of diabetes drug expenditure decomposed—A nationwide analysis pp. 1326-1332

Aarni Soppi, Pekka Heino, Terhi Kurko, Timo Maljanen, Leena Saastamoinen and Katri Aaltonen

Medicines management activity with physiotherapy and podiatry: A systematic mixed studies review pp. 1333-1339

Karen Stenner, Jude Edwards, Freda Mold, Simon Otter, Molly Courtenay, Ann Moore and Nicola Carey

Towards a sustainable EU health information system infrastructure: A consensus driven approach pp. 1340-1347

Petronille Bogaert, Hans van Oers and Herman Van Oyen

The determinants of access to information on the Internet and knowledge of health related topics in European countries pp. 1348-1355

Genovaitė Liobikienė and Jurga Bernatonienė

Understanding inter-organizational trust among integrated care service provider networks: A perspective on organizational asymmetries pp. 1356-1363

Weizi Li, Aaquib Islam, Kevin Johnson, Priam Lauchande, Xiaopu Shang and Shen Xu

‘I just want to be able to make a choice’: Results from citizen deliberations about mammography screening in Ontario, Canada pp. 1364-1371

Julia Abelson, Laura Tripp and Jonathan Sussman

An evidence-based policy for improving choice in global health access through medical travel pp. 1372-1376

Kai Ruggeri, Nevena Ivanović, Josip Razum, Ondřej Kácha, Igor G. Menezes, Zafar Zafari and Eduardo Garcia-Garzon

Impact of support agreement between municipalities and convenience store chain companies on store staff’s support activities for older adults pp. 1377-1383

Yusuke Nakamura, Hiroshige Matsumoto, Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani, Miho Suzuki and Ayumi Igarashi

Community action for health in socioeconomically deprived neighbourhoods in Barcelona: Evaluating its effects on health and social class health inequalities pp. 1384-1391

Laia Palència, Maica Rodríguez-Sanz, M. José López, Nuria Calzada, Raquel Gallego, Ernesto Morales, Nicolás Barbieri, Xavier Blancafort, Montse Bartroli and M. Isabel Pasarín

Hepatitis C infection and psychiatric burden in two imprisoned cohorts: Young offenders and opioid-maintained prisoners pp. 1392-1402

Marisa Silbernagl, Rudolf Slamanig, Gabriele Fischer and Laura Brandt

Replacement costs of cold storage equipment for medical products of public healthcare establishments of European Union countries pp. 1403-1411

António M. Raimundo, A. Virgílio M. Oliveira and Cristóvão Silva

Volume 122, issue 11, 2018

Strengthening primary care: The Veneto Region’s model of the Integrated Medical Group pp. 1149-1154

Maria Cristina Ghiotto, Ylenia Rizzolo, Elisabetta Gandolfo, Emanuela Zuliani and Domenico Mantoan

Effects of undocumented immigrants exclusion from health care coverage in Spain pp. 1155-1160

Leia Peralta-Gallego, Joan Gené-Badia and Pedro Gallo

The unexpected outcomes of the closure of 67 inpatient care facilities in 2011 in Romania pp. 1161-1164

Silvia Gabriela Scîntee, Cristian Vlădescu, Anna Sagan and Cristina Hernández-Quevedo

International comparison of minimum volume standards for hospitals pp. 1165-1176

Johannes Morche, Daniela Renner, Barbara Pietsch, Laura Kaiser, Jan Brönneke, Sabine Gruber and Katja Matthias

Public reporting of hospital quality data: What do referring physicians want to know? pp. 1177-1182

Max Geraedts, Peter Hermeling, Annette Ortwein and Werner de Cruppé

The suitability of a DRG casemix system in the Maltese hospital setting pp. 1183-1189

Carl Camilleri, Mireia Jofre-Bonet and Victoria Serra-Sastre

Identifying the barriers to effective breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening in thirty one European countries using the Barriers to Effective Screening Tool (BEST) pp. 1190-1197

Jennifer Priaulx, Harry J. de Koning, Inge M.C.M. de Kok, György Széles and Martin McKee

A health systems approach to identifying barriers to breast cancer screening programmes. Methodology and application in six European countries pp. 1198-1205

Eleanor Turnbull, Jennifer Priaulx, Nicolien T. van Ravesteyn, Sirpa Heinävaara, Ilona Siljander, Carlo Senore, Nereo Segnan, Zoltán Vokó, Judit Hagymásy, Katja Jarm, Piret Veerus, Harry J. de Koning and Martin McKee

Results of a health systems approach to identify barriers to population-based cervical and colorectal cancer screening programmes in six European countries pp. 1206-1211

Eleanor Turnbull, Jennifer Priaulx, Inge M.C.M. de Kok, Iris Lansdorp-Vogelaar, Ahti Anttila, Tytti Sarkeala, Carlo Senore, Nereo Segnan, Marcell Csanádi, János Pitter, Dominika Novak Mlakar, Urska Ivanus, Piret Veerus, Harry J. de Koning and Martin McKee

An ethical appraisal of living-anonymous kidney donation using Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments pp. 1212-1221

Vishal Khetpal and Elias Mossialos

Assessing quality of primary diabetes care in South Korea and Taiwan using avoidable hospitalizations pp. 1222-1231

Hongsoo Kim and Shou-Hsia Cheng

Migrating to electronic health record systems: A comparative study between the United States and the United Kingdom pp. 1232-1239

Karen Wilson and Lara Khansa

Administrative costs in health care—A scoping review pp. 1240-1248

Eugenia Larjow

Physicians’ comprehension of the German Patients’ Rights Act: A cross-sectional study pp. 1249-1254

Daniel Karl-Heinz Voigt, Philipp Lenz and Hendrik Friederichs

Voluntary associations and co-production of health promoting activities for older adults: Experiences and policy lessons from Denmark pp. 1255-1259

Karsten Vrangbæk, Christian Elling Scheele and Margit Kriegbaum

Rebalancing health systems toward community-based care: The role of subsectoral politics pp. 1260-1265

Allie Peckham, Frances Morton-Chang, A. Paul Williams and Fiona A. Miller

Working capital management policy in health care: The effect of leverage pp. 1266-1272

Ilhan Dalci and Hasan Ozyapici

Volume 122, issue 10, 2018

Primary care workforce development in Europe: An overview of health system responses and stakeholder views pp. 1055-1062

Ellen Kuhlmann, Peter P. Groenewegen, Christine Bond, Viola Burau and David J. Hunter

The role of national culture in shaping health workforce collaboration: Lessons learned from a case study on attitudes to interprofessional education in Malta pp. 1063-1069

Marjorie Bonello, Jane Morris and Natasha Azzopardi Muscat

Community orientation of general practitioners in 34 countries pp. 1070-1077

Lisa Vermeulen, Willemijn Schäfer, Danica Rotar Pavlic and Peter Groenewegen

New professional roles and patient satisfaction: Evidence from a European survey along three clinical pathways pp. 1078-1084

Matteo Ruggeri, Carlo Drago, Vincenzo Moramarco, Silvia Coretti, Julia Köppen, Muhammad Kamrul Islam, Jonathan Gibson, Reinhard Busse, Job van Exel, Matthew Sutton, Jan Erik Askildsen, Christine M. Bond and Robert F. Elliott

Health workforce planning: which countries include nurse practitioners and physician assistants and to what effect? pp. 1085-1092

Claudia B. Maier, Ronald Batenburg, Stephen Birch, Britta Zander, Robert Elliott and Reinhard Busse

Doctors, nurses, and the optimal scale size in the Portuguese public hospitals pp. 1093-1100

Diogo Cunha Ferreira, Alexandre Morais Nunes and Rc Marques

Work hour constraints in the German nursing workforce: A quarter of a century in review pp. 1101-1108

Mohamad Alameddine, Steffen Otterbach, Bayan Rafii and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

Healthcare assistants in EU Member States: An overview pp. 1109-1117

Marieke Kroezen, Willemijn Schäfer, Walter Sermeus, Johan Hansen and Ronald Batenburg

What are the motivating and hindering factors for health professionals to undertake new roles in hospitals? A study among physicians, nurses and managers looking at breast cancer and acute myocardial infarction care in nine countries pp. 1118-1125

Julia Köppen, Claudia B. Maier and Reinhard Busse

Migration intentions of Lithuanian physicians, nurses, residents and medical students pp. 1126-1131

Bernadeta Goštautaitė, Ilona Bučiūnienė, Žemyna Milašauskienė, Karolis Bareikis, Eglė Bertašiūtė and Gabija Mikelionienė

The relationship between dual practice, intention to work abroad and job satisfaction: A population-based study in the Serbian public healthcare sector pp. 1132-1139

Marijana Gacevic, Milena Santric Milicevic, Milena Vasic, Vesna Horozovic, Marko Milicevic and Natasa Milic

Healthcare governance, professions and populism: Is there a relationship? An explorative comparison of five European countries pp. 1140-1148

Emmanuele Pavolini, Ellen Kuhlmann, Tuba I. Agartan, Viola Burau, Russell Mannion and Ewen Speed

Volume 122, issue 9, 2018

The introduction of electronic medical records in France: More progress during the second attempt pp. 937-940

Philippe Burnel

Welsh 2013 deemed consent legislation falls short of expectations pp. 941-944

Jordan Alexander Parsons

The national program on standardized cancer care pathways in Sweden: Observations and findings half way through pp. 945-948

Ingrid Schmidt, Johan Thor, Thomas Davidson, Fredrik Nilsson and Christina Carlsson

Socioeconomic distribution of GP visits following patient choice reform and differences in reimbursement models: Evidence from Sweden pp. 949-956

Sofia Sveréus, Gustav Kjellsson and Clas Rehnberg

Primary health care nurses’ views on patients’ abilities and resources to make choices and take decisions on health care pp. 957-962

Outi Jolanki and Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen

Towards incentivising integration: A typology of payments for integrated care pp. 963-969

Jonathan Stokes, Verena Struckmann, Søren Kristensen, Sabine Fuchs, Ewout van Ginneken, Apostolos Tsiachristas, Maureen Rutten van Mölken and Matt Sutton

Propensity score-matching analyses on the effectiveness of integrated prospective payment program for patients with prolonged mechanical ventilation pp. 970-976

Chin-Jung Liu, Pei-Tseng Kung, Chia-Chen Chu, Wen-Yu Chou, Yueh-Hsin Wang and Wen-Chen Tsai

Little to lose and no other options: Ethical issues in efforts to facilitate expanded access to investigational drugs pp. 977-983

Eline M. Bunnik, Nikkie Aarts and Suzanne van de Vathorst

An ethical framework for the creation, governance and evaluation of accelerated access programs pp. 984-990

Jessica Pace, Narcyz Ghinea, Ian Kerridge and Wendy Lipworth

Public policies on healthcare associated infections: A case study of three countries pp. 991-1000

Cassimiro Nogueira- and Maria Clara Padoveze

The tobacco industry’s challenges to standardised packaging: A comparative analysis of issue framing in public relations campaigns in four countries pp. 1001-1011

Ross MacKenzie, Annalise Mathers, Benjamin Hawkins, Jappe Eckhardt and Julia Smith

An analysis of expenditures on primary care prescription drugs in the United States versus ten comparable countries pp. 1012-1017

Steven G. Morgan, Chester B. Good, Christine Leopold, Anna Kaltenboeck, Peter B. Bach and Anita Wagner

Healthcare reforms, inertia polarization and group influence pp. 1018-1027

Damien Contandriopoulos, Astrid Brousselle, Catherine Larouche, Mylaine Breton, Michèle Rivard, Marie-Dominique Beaulieu, Jeannie Haggerty, Geneviève Champagne and Mélanie Perroux

Centralisation of cancer surgery and the impact on patients’ travel burden pp. 1028-1034

S.E. Versteeg, Vivian Ho, S. Siesling and M. Varkevisser

Local authority commissioning of NHS Health Checks: A regression analysis of the first three years pp. 1035-1042

Anne Mason, Dan Liu, Linda Marks, Howard Davis, David Hunter, Llinos Mary Jehu, Shelina Visram and Joanne Smithson

Implementation of a politically initiated national clinical guideline for cardiac rehabilitation in hospitals and municipalities in Denmark pp. 1043-1051

Cecilie Lindström Egholm, Henriette Knold Rossau, Per Nilsen, Gitte Bunkenborg, Morten Hulvej Rod, Patrick Doherty, Paul Bartels, Lotte Helmark and Ann-Dorthe Zwisler

Volume 122, issue 8, 2018

Ten years since the 2008 introduction of dental vouchers in the Portuguese NHS pp. 803-807

Jorge Simões, Gonçalo Figueiredo Augusto, Ana do Céu, Maria Cristina Ferreira, Margarida Jordão, Rui Calado and Inês Fronteira

Origins and effects of the 2014–2016 national strategy for palliative care in Croatia pp. 808-814

Karmen Lončarek, Aleksandar Džakula, Renata Marđetko and Anna Sagan

Personal health records, global policy and regulation review pp. 815-826

Yakov Flaumenhaft and Ofir Ben-Assuli

The impact of electronic health record systems on clinical documentation times: A systematic review pp. 827-836

Lisa Ann Baumann, Jannah Baker and Adam G. Elshaug

Lessons for achieving health equity comparing Aotearoa/New Zealand and the United States pp. 837-853

Marshall H. Chin, Paula T. King, Rhys G. Jones, Bryn Jones, Shanthi N. Ameratunga, Naoko Muramatsu and Sarah Derrett

Socioeconomic inequalities in health among Indigenous peoples living off-reserve in Canada: Trends and determinants pp. 854-865

Mohammad Hajizadeh, Min Hu, Amy Bombay and Yukiko Asada

The diabetes self-management educational programs and their integration in the usual care: A systematic literature review pp. 866-877

Emmanuel Kumah, Giulia Sciolli, Maria Laura Toraldo and Anna Maria Murante

A multi-criteria decision approach for ranking unmet needs in healthcare pp. 878-884

Irina Cleemput, Stephan Devriese, Laurence Kohn and René Westhovens

Health expenditure data for policy: Health accounts, national accounts or both? pp. 885-891

Cornelis van Mosseveld, Vincent van Polanen Petel, Patricia Hernández-Peña and Piet Verbiest

Mortality reductions from marginal increases in public spending on health pp. 892-899

L.C. Edney, H. Haji Ali Afzali, Terence Cheng and J. Karnon

The application of triple aim framework in the context of primary healthcare: A systematic literature review pp. 900-907

M. Obucina, N. Harris, J.A. Fitzgerald, Andreas Chai, K. Radford, A. Ross, L. Carr and Nerina Vecchio

A Multilevel Analysis of the determinants of emergency care visits by the elderly in France pp. 908-914

Zeynep Or and Anne Penneau

Understanding factors that influence the demand for dialysis among elderly in a multi-ethnic Asian society pp. 915-921

Eric Andrew Finkelstein, Semra Ozdemir, Chetna Malhotra, Tazeen H. Jafar, Lina Choong Hui Lin and Sheryl Gan Shien Wen

“Not an afterthought”: Power imbalances in systemic partnerships between health service providers and consumers in a hospital setting pp. 922-928

Brett Scholz, Julia Bocking, Chris Platania-Phung, Michelle Banfield and Brenda Happell

Public support for tobacco control policies: The role of the protection of children against tobacco pp. 929-935

Thomas G. Kuijpers, Marc C. Willemsen and Anton E. Kunst

Volume 122, issue 7, 2018

Health insurance reforms in Singapore and Hong Kong: How the two ageing asian tigers respond to health financing challenges? pp. 693-697

Jason Dean-Chen Yin and Alex Jingwei He

Universal coverage reforms in the USA: From Obamacare through Trump pp. 698-702

Thomas Rice, Lynn Y. Unruh, Ewout van Ginneken, Pauline Rosenau and Andrew J. Barnes

A proposal for the development of national certification standards for patient decision aids in the US pp. 703-706

Glyn Elwyn, Helen Burstin, Michael J. Barry, Maureen P. Corry, Marie Anne Durand, Daniel Lessler and Christopher Saigal

Pathways to DRG-based hospital payment systems in Japan, Korea, and Thailand pp. 707-713

Peter Leslie Annear, Soonman Kwon, Luca Lorenzoni, Stephen Duckett, Dale Huntington, John C. Langenbrunner, Yuki Murakami, Changwoo Shon and Ke Xu

Beyond Activity Based Funding. An experiment in Denmark pp. 714-721

Viola Burau, Hanne Marlene Dahl, Lotte Groth Jensen and Stina Lou

Does free choice of hospital conflict with equity of access to highly specialized hospitals? A case study from the Danish health care system pp. 722-727

Nasrin Tayyari Dehbarez, Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Niels Uldbjerg and Rikke Søgaard

Improving the forecasting of hospital services: A comparison between projections and actual utilization of hospital services pp. 728-736

Nicolas Bouckaert, Koen Van den Heede and Carine Van de Voorde

Continuity of care and its effect on readmissions for COPD patients: A comparative study of Norway and Germany pp. 737-745

Jayson O. Swanson, Verena Vogt, Leonie Sundmacher, Terje P. Hagen and Tron Anders Moger

Taking the measure of the profession: Physician associations in the measurement age pp. 746-754

Baruch Levi, Amos Zehavi and David Chinitz

The methodological quality of nurse-sensitive indicators in Dutch hospitals: A descriptive exploratory research study pp. 755-764

R.A.M.M. Kieft, D. Stalpers, A.P.M. Jansen, A.L. Francke and D.M.J. Delnoij

Improving quality of psychiatric care in Latvia by measuring patient experiences pp. 765-768

Maris Taube and Natalija Berzina-Novikova

The relationship between workload and length of stay in Singapore pp. 769-774

Ke Zhou, Arpana Vidyarthi, David Matchar, Yin Bun Cheung, Shao Wei Lam and Marcus Ong

The Americanization of the British National Health Service: A typological approach pp. 775-782

Martin Powell, Daniel Béland and Alex Waddan

What happens at the end of life? Using linked administrative health data to understand healthcare usage in the last year of life in New Zealand pp. 783-790

Richard Hamblin, Nikolai Minko, Carl Shuker, Jennifer Hill and Alan F. Merry

Influence of municipal policy and individual characteristics on the use of informal and formal domestic help in the Netherlands pp. 791-796

Anna Maria Marangos, Geeke Waverijn, Mirjam de Klerk, Jurjen Iedema and Peter P. Groenewegen

Changing the neurology policy landscape in the United States: Misconceptions and facts about epilepsy pp. 797-802

David C. Grabowski, Jesse Fishman, Imane Wild and Bruce Lavin

Volume 122, issue 6, 2018

Integrated care in Switzerland: Results from the first nationwide survey pp. 568-576

Séverine Schusselé Filliettaz, Peter Berchtold, Dimitri Kohler and Isabelle Peytremann-Bridevaux

Experts’ perspectives on SwissDRG: Second class care for vulnerable patient groups? pp. 577-582

A. Leu, H. Wepf, B. Elger and T. Wangmo

Access to orphan drugs – comparison across Balkan countries pp. 583-589

Ana V. Pejcic, Georgi Iskrov, Mihajlo Michael Jakovljevic and Rumen Stefanov

The view of experts on initiatives to be undertaken to promote equity in the access to orphan drugs and specialised care for rare diseases in Spain: A Delphi consensus pp. 590-598

J. Torrent-Farnell, M. Comellas, J.L. Poveda, I. Abaitua, L.G. Gutiérrez-Solana, J. Pérez-López, J. Cruz, J. Urcelay and L. Lizán

Confirmatory versus explorative endpoint analysis: Decision-making on the basis of evidence available from market authorization and early benefit assessment for oncology drugs pp. 599-606

Ines Niehaus and Charalabos-Markos Dintsios

An exploratory case study of the impact of expanding cost-effectiveness analysis for second-line nivolumab for patients with squamous non-small cell lung cancer in Canada: Does it make a difference? pp. 607-613

Jason Shafrin, Michelle Skornicki, Michelle Brauer, Julie Villeneuve, Michael Lees, Nadine Hertel, John R. Penrod and Jeroen Jansen

Variations in non-prescription drug consumption and expenditure: Determinants and policy implications pp. 614-620

Monica Otto, Patrizio Armeni and Claudio Jommi

Looking back and moving forward: On the application of proportional shortfall in healthcare priority setting in the Netherlands pp. 621-629

V.T. Reckers-Droog, Job van Exel and Werner Brouwer

The meaning of severity – do citizenś views correspond to a severity framework based on ethical principles for priority setting? pp. 630-637

Mari Broqvist, Lars Sandman, Peter Garpenby and Barbro Krevers

Advancing Indigenous primary health care policy in Alberta, Canada pp. 638-644

Rita Henderson, Stephanie Montesanti, Lindsay Crowshoe and Charles Leduc

Equity in access to care in the era of health system reforms in Turkey pp. 645-651

Mahmut S. Yardim and Sarp Uner

Out-of-pocket costs, primary care frequent attendance and sample selection: Estimates from a longitudinal cohort design pp. 652-659

Carly Pymont, Paul McNamee and Peter Butterworth

Should interventions to reduce variation in care quality target doctors or hospitals? pp. 660-666

Nils Gutacker, Karen Bloor, Chris Bojke and Kieran Walshe

The impact of pay-for-performance on the quality of care in ophthalmology: Empirical evidence from Germany pp. 667-673

T. Herbst, J. Foerster and M. Emmert

Strengthening the public health workforce: An estimation of the long-term requirements for public health specialists in Serbia pp. 674-680

Milena Santric Milicevic, Milena Vasic, Matt Edwards, Cristina Sanchez and John Fellows

Does multimorbidity still remain a matter of the elderly: Lithuanian national data analysis pp. 681-686

E. Jurevičienė, G. Onder, Ž. Visockienė, R. Puronaitė, D. Petrikonytė, U. Gargalskaitė, V. Kasiulevičius and R. Navickas

A cost-effectiveness analysis of lowering residential radon levels in Sweden—Results from a modelling study pp. 687-692

Mikael Svensson, Lars Barregård, Gösta Axelsson and Eva Andersson

Volume 122, issue 5, 2018

Strategic Purchasing in Practice: Comparing Ten European Countries pp. 457-472

Katarzyna Klasa, Scott L. Greer and Ewout van Ginneken

Paying hospital specialists: Experiences and lessons from eight high-income countries pp. 473-484

Wilm Quentin, Alexander Geissler, Friedrich Wittenbecher, Geoff Ballinger, Robert Berenson, Karen Bloor, Dana A. Forgione, Peer Köpf, Madelon Kroneman, Lisbeth Serden, Raúl Suarez, Johan W. van Manen and Reinhard Busse

Development of voluntary private health insurance in Nordic countries – An exploratory study on country-specific contextual factors pp. 485-492

Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen, Nina Alexandersen, Oddvar Kaarboe, Anders Anell, Juhani Lehto and Karsten Vrangbӕk

Financial protection in Europe: a systematic review of the literature and mapping of data availability pp. 493-508

Pooja Yerramilli, Óscar Fernández and Sarah Thomson

Decoding disclosure: Comparing conflict of interest policy among the United States, France, and Australia pp. 509-518

Quinn Grundy, Roojin Habibi, Adrienne Shnier, Christopher Mayes and Wendy Lipworth

Promoting health-enhancing physical activity in Europe: Current state of surveillance, policy development and implementation pp. 519-527

João Breda, Jelena Jakovljevic, Giulia Rathmes, Romeu Mendes, Olivier Fontaine, Susanne Hollmann, Alfred Rütten, Peter Gelius, Sonja Kahlmeier and Gauden Galea

Innovative pharmaceutical pricing agreements in five European markets: A survey of stakeholder attitudes and experience pp. 528-532

William C.N. Dunlop, Alexandra Staufer, Pierre Levy and Guy J. Edwards

Cost-effectiveness of HIV screening in high-income countries: A systematic review pp. 533-547

Fabrizio Bert, Maria Rosaria Gualano, Paolo Biancone, Valerio Brescia, Elisa Camussi, Maria Martorana, Silvana Secinaro and Roberta Siliquini

Mapping existing hip and knee replacement registries in Europe pp. 548-557

A. Lübbeke, A.J. Silman, C. Barea, D. Prieto-Alhambra and A.J. Carr

Harnessing the private health sector by using prices as a policy instrument: Lessons learned from South Africa pp. 558-564

Sarah L. Barber, Ankit Kumar, Tomas Roubal, Francesca Colombo and Luca Lorenzoni

Volume 122, issue 4, 2018

Hospital centralization and performance in Denmark—Ten years on pp. 321-328

Terkel Christiansen and Karsten Vrangbæk

Control of hospitals and nursing homes in France: The 2016 reform may indirectly improve a dysfunctional system pp. 329-333

Sandra Bertezene

Socioeconomic status and waiting times for health services: An international literature review and evidence from the Italian National Health System pp. 334-351

Stefano Landi, Enrico Ivaldi and Angela Testi

The impact of the financial crisis and austerity policies on the service quality of public hospitals in Greece pp. 352-358

Ioanna Keramidou and Loukas Triantafyllopoulos

Unplanned admissions to inpatient psychiatric treatment and services received prior to admission pp. 359-366

Solveig Ose, Jorid Kalseth, Marian Ådnanes, Tone Tveit and Solfrid E. Lilleeng

Health policies for the reduction of obstetric interventions in singleton full-term births in Catalonia pp. 367-372

Maria-Jesus Pueyo, Ramon Escuriet, M. Pérez-Botella, I. de Molina, D. Ruíz-Berdun, S. Albert, S. Díaz, P. Torres-Capcha and Vicente Ortun

Evaluating integrative medicine acute stroke inpatient care in South Korea pp. 373-379

Minjung Park, Jennifer Hunter and Soonman Kwon

Patient and public involvement in hospital policy-making: Identifying key elements for effective participation pp. 380-388

S. Malfait, A. Van Hecke, G. De Bodt, N. Palsterman and K. Eeckloo

Stakeholder views on the role of spiritual care in Australian hospitals: An exploratory study pp. 389-395

Cheryl Holmes

Assessing the effect of standardized cost systems on financial performance. A difference-in-differences approach for hospitals according to their technological level pp. 396-403

Beatriz García-Cornejo and José Pérez-Méndez

Implementing the medicines reconciliation tool in practice: challenges and opportunities for pharmacists in Kuwait pp. 404-411

Maram G. Katoue and Jean Ker

No-shows in appointment scheduling – a systematic literature review pp. 412-421

Leila F. Dantas, Julia L. Fleck, Fernando L. Cyrino Oliveira and Silvio Hamacher

Participants, Physicians or Programmes: Participants’ educational level and initiative in cancer screening pp. 422-430

Barbara Willems and Piet Bracke

Health systems reforms in Singapore: A qualitative study of key stakeholders pp. 431-443

Suan Ee Ong, Shilpa Tyagi, Jane Mingjie Lim, Kee Seng Chia and Helena Legido-Quigley

Taking stock of Roma health policies in Spain: Lessons for health governance pp. 444-451

M. Escobar-Ballesta, M. García-Ramírez and C. De Freitas

Volume 122, issue 3, 2018

The Canadian Cannabis Act legalizes and regulates recreational cannabis use in 2018 pp. 205-209

Chelsea Cox

Ten Years after the Creation of the Portuguese National Network for Long-Term Care in 2006: Achievements and Challenges pp. 210-216

Hugo Lopes, Ceu Mateus and Cristina Hernández-Quevedo

Funding breakthrough therapies: A systematic review and recommendation pp. 217-229

E. Hanna, M. Toumi, C. Dussart, B. Borissov, O. Dabbous, K. Badora and P. Auquier

Rationalizing the introduction and use of pharmaceutical products: The role of managed entry agreements in Central and Eastern European countries pp. 230-236

Alexandru M. Rotar, Alin Preda, Olga Löblová, Vanesa Benkovic, Szymon Zawodnik, Laszlo Gulacsi, Maciej Niewada, Imre Boncz, Guenka Petrova, Maria Dimitrova and Niek Klazinga

Utilization and costs of HIV antiretroviral drugs in Europe during the last ten years: Impact of generic antiretroviral drugs on cost reduction pp. 237-242

Joseph Rwagitinywa, Agnès Sommet, Aurore Palmaro, Jean-Louis Montastruc and Maryse Lapeyre-Mestre

Medicines access programs to cancer medicines in Australia and New Zealand: An exploratory study pp. 243-249

Piyush Grover, Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar, Raoul Oehmen and Agnes Vitry

Reconciling a “pleasant exchange” with evidence of information bias: A three-country study on pharmaceutical sales visits in primary care pp. 250-255

Ellen Reynolds, Line Guénette, Joel Lexchin, Alan Cassels, Michael S. Wilkes, Geneviève Durrieu, Marie-Dominique Beaulieu and Barbara Mintzes

Expanding the clinical role of community pharmacy: A qualitative ethnographic study of medication reviews in Ontario, Canada pp. 256-262

Sarah J. Patton, Fiona A. Miller, Lusine Abrahamyan and Valeria E. Rac

Exploring sociodemographic and economic factors that promote adverse drug reactions reporting by patients pp. 263-268

Pedro Inácio, João José Gomes, Marja Airaksinen and Afonso Cavaco

Cognitive determinants of healthcare evaluations – A comparison of Eastern and Western European countries pp. 269-278

Simone M. Schneider and Tamara Popic

The role of the 2011 patients' rights in cross-border health care directive in shaping seven national health systems: Looking beyond patient mobility pp. 279-283

Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, Rita Baeten, Timo Clemens, Triin Habicht, Ilmo Keskimäki, Iwona Kowalska-Bobko, Anna Sagan and Ewout van Ginneken

A scoping review of the implementation of health in all policies at the local level pp. 284-292

Maria Guglielmin, Carles Muntaner, O’Campo, Patricia and Ketan Shankardass

Improving health care service provision by adapting to regional diversity: An efficiency analysis for the case of Germany pp. 293-300

Helmut Herwartz and Katharina Schley

High feeding dependence prevalence in residents living in Italian nursing homes requires new policies: Findings from a regionally based cross-sectional study pp. 301-308

Alvisa Palese, Luca Grassetti, Davide Bandera, Ranieri Zuttion, Barbara Ferrario, Sandra Ponta, Mark Hayter and Roger Watson

The use of preventable hospitalization for monitoring the performance of local health authorities in long-term care pp. 309-314

Andelija Arandelovic, Anna Acampora, Bruno Federico, Francesco Profili, Paolo Francesconi, Walter Ricciardi and Gianfranco Damiani

Extending’ euthanasia to those ‘tired of living’ in the Netherlands could jeopardize a well-functioning practice of physicians’ assessment of a patient's request for death pp. 315-319

Barend W. Florijn

Volume 122, issue 2, 2018

E-health in Switzerland: The laborious adoption of the federal law on electronic health records (EHR) and health information exchange (HIE) networks pp. 69-74

Carlo De Pietro and Igor Francetic

Healthcare reforms in Cyprus 2013–2017: Does the crisis mark the end of the healthcare sector as we know it? pp. 75-80

Panagiotis Petrou and Sotiris Vandoros

An innovative approach to participatory health policy development in Bulgaria: The conception and first achievements of the Partnership for Health pp. 81-86

Antoniya Dimova, Maria Rohova, Stanimir Hasardzhiev and Anne Spranger

The Joint Action on Health Workforce Planning and Forecasting: Results of a European programme to improve health workforce policies pp. 87-93

Marieke Kroezen, Michel Van Hoegaerden and Ronald Batenburg

How much do cancer specialists earn? A comparison of physician fees and remuneration in oncology and radiology in high-income countries pp. 94-101

Seán Boyle, Jeremy Petch, Kathy Batt, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski and Sarah Thomson

Planning of Polish physician workforce – Systemic inconsistencies, challenges and possible ways forward pp. 102-108

Alicja Domagała and Jacek Klich

A government policy on full-time nursing employment in Ontario, Canada: An evaluation pp. 109-114

Andrea Baumann, Mabel Hunsberger, Mary Crea-Arsenio, Noori Akhtar-Danesh and Mohamad Alameddine

The importance of population differences: Influence of individual characteristics on the Australian public’s preferences for emergency care pp. 115-125

Paul Harris, Jennifer A. Whitty, Elizabeth Kendall, Julie Ratcliffe, Andrew Wilson, Peter Littlejohns and Paul Scuffham

Does patients’ experience of general practice affect the use of emergency departments? Evidence from Australia pp. 126-133

Chun Yee Wong and Jane Hall

Does access to end-of-life homecare nursing differ by province and community size?: A population-based cohort study of cancer decedents across Canada pp. 134-139

Hsien Seow, Anish Arora, Lisa Barbera, Kim McGrail, Beverley Lawson, Fred Burge and Rinku Sutradhar

Explaining regional variation in home care use by demand and supply variables pp. 140-146

Olivier van Noort, Fredo Schotanus, Joris van de Klundert and Jan Telgen

Demographic factors and attitudes that influence the support of the general public for the introduction of universal healthcare in Ireland: A national survey pp. 147-156

Catherine D. Darker, Erica Donnelly-Swift and Lucy Whiston

Effect of incentive payments on chronic disease management and health services use in British Columbia, Canada: Interrupted time series analysis pp. 157-164

M. Ruth Lavergne, Michael R. Law, Sandra Peterson, Scott Garrison, Jeremiah Hurley, Lucy Cheng and Kimberlyn McGrail

Insights from the design and implementation of a single-entry model of referral for total joint replacement surgery: Critical success factors and unanticipated consequences pp. 165-174

Zaheed Damani, Gail MacKean, Eric Bohm, Tom Noseworthy, Jenney Meng Han Wang, Brie DeMone, Brock Wright and Deborah A. Marshall

Knowledge translation in tri-sectoral collaborations: An exploration of perceptions of academia, industry and healthcare collaborations in innovation adoption pp. 175-183

, Suzanne Sayuri, Louise Fitzgerald, Megan M. Morys-Carter, Natasha L. Davie and Richard Barker

Out-of-pocket health expenditure differences in Chile: Insurance performance or selection? pp. 184-191

Pablo Villalobos Dintrans

Engaging nurses in smoking cessation: Challenges and opportunities in Turkey pp. 192-197

Mimi Nichter, Aslı Çarkoğlu, Mark Nichter, Şeyda Özcan and M. Atilla Uysal

Consequences of restricted STI testing for young heterosexuals in the Netherlands on test costs and QALY losses pp. 198-203

Anita W.M. Suijkerbuijk, Eelco A.B. Over, Fleur van Aar, Hannelore M. Götz, Birgit H.B. van Benthem and Anna K. Lugnér

Volume 122, issue 1, 2018

Multimorbidity care model: Recommendations from the consensus meeting of the Joint Action on Chronic Diseases and Promoting Healthy Ageing across the Life Cycle (JA-CHRODIS) pp. 4-11

Katie Palmer, Alessandra Marengoni, Maria João Forjaz, Elena Jureviciene, Tiina Laatikainen, Federica Mammarella, Christiane Muth, Rokas Navickas, Alexandra Prados-Torres, Mieke Rijken, Ulrike Rothe, Laurène Souchet, Jose Valderas, Theodore Vontetsianos, Jelka Zaletel and Graziano Onder

The SELFIE framework for integrated care for multi-morbidity: Development and description pp. 12-22

Fenna R.M. Leijten, Verena Struckmann, Ewout van Ginneken, Thomas Czypionka, Markus Kraus, Miriam Reiss, Apostolos Tsiachristas, Melinde Boland, Antoinette de Bont, Roland Bal, Reinhard Busse and Maureen Rutten-van Mölken

Relevant models and elements of integrated care for multi-morbidity: Results of a scoping review pp. 23-35

Verena Struckmann, Fenna R.M. Leijten, Ewout van Ginneken, Markus Kraus, Miriam Reiss, Anne Spranger, Melinde R.S. Boland, Thomas Czypionka, Reinhard Busse and Maureen Rutten-van Mölken

Patient-centeredness of integrated care programs for people with multimorbidity. Results from the European ICARE4EU project pp. 36-43

Iris van der Heide, Sanne Snoeijs, Sabrina Quattrini, Verena Struckmann, Anneli Hujala, François Schellevis and Mieke Rijken

Managing multimorbidity: Profiles of integrated care approaches targeting people with multiple chronic conditions in Europe pp. 44-52

Mieke Rijken, Anneli Hujala, Ewout van Ginneken, Maria Gabriella Melchiorre, Peter Groenewegen and Franζois Schellevis

eHealth in integrated care programs for people with multimorbidity in Europe: Insights from the ICARE4EU project pp. 53-63

Maria Gabriella Melchiorre, Roberta Papa, Mieke Rijken, Ewout van Ginneken, Anneli Hujala and Francesco Barbabella