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    Preliminary development of recommendations for the inclusion of patient-reported outcome measures in clinical quality registries

    Clinical quality registries (CQRs) monitor compliance against optimal practice and provide feedback to the clinical community and wider stakeholder groups. Despite a number of CQRs having incorporated the pati...

    Rasa Ruseckaite, Ashika D. Maharaj, Joanne Dean in BMC Health Services Research (2022)

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    Early identification of young children at risk for poor academic achievement: preliminary development of a parent-report prediction tool

    Early school success is clearly related to later health. A prediction index that uses parent report to assess children's risk for poor academic achievement could potentially direct targeted service delivery to...

    Susmita Pati, Kyleen Hashim, Brett Brown, Alexander G Fiks in BMC Health Services Research (2011)

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    Performance measures of the specialty referral process: a systematic review of the literature

    Performance of specialty referrals is coming under scrutiny, but a lack of identifiable measures impedes measurement efforts. The objective of this study was to systematically review the literature to identify...

    James P Guevara, Diane Hsu, Christopher B Forrest in BMC Health Services Research (2011)

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    Routine care provided by specialists to children and adolescents in the United States (2002-2006)

    Specialist physicians provide a large share of outpatient health care for children and adolescents in the United States, but little is known about the nature and content of these services in the ambulatory set...

    Jose M Valderas, Barbara Starfield, Christopher B Forrest in BMC Health Services Research (2009)

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    Health services research doctoral core competencies

    This manuscript presents an initial description of doctoral level core competencies for health services research (HSR). The competencies were developed by a review of the literature, text analysis of instituti...

    Christopher B Forrest, Diane P Martin, Erin Holve in BMC Health Services Research (2009)