This review was commissioned by the Canadian Health Services Research the request of and with funding from the Advisory Committee on Health Hu of the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Conference of Deputy Ministers of Heal of Health Services and Policy Research in the Canadian Institutes of H provided assistance with peer review and with defining the original scop Nevertheless, the opinions expres...

During the past decade, increasing attention has been paid to the primary care level of service for children and adolescents with mental health problems. In particular, a number of national reports have advised service commissioners and providers to increase the amount of specialist child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) support to primary care colleagues (Department of Health/Depa...

In 2006, the National Advisory Mental Health Council, which provides guidance to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), produced The Road Ahead: Research Partnerships to Transform Services, a report of recommendations to advance services research and clinical epidemiology. As the report’s name belies, the Council saw partnerships among individuals, organizations and communities as cruc...

Current System of Care Emergency Medical Services System Design Prehospital EMS systems have 3 major components: emergency medical dispatch, public safety (fire and law enforcement) first response, and EMS ambulance response. Each of these operates within a broader emergency care system, which includes acute care facilities and regionalized healthcare services. In most states, an EMS regulatory...

OBJECTIVES To develop a systematic method for both summative and formative audit of practice audits, and to use the method to review Oxfordshire practice audits and to plan improvement. DESIGN Development of a coding system for the audit cycle subsequently used prospectively to assess audits reported to medical audit advisory group coordinators on practice visits. SETTING All 85 general pra...

introduction: the reference section is one of the most important parts in every library. moreover, reference services represent all the attempts performed in a library. since libraries primarily aim to satisfy users' information needs, knowing that the effects of information technologies (it) on their services seems essential. therefore, this study manly tried to assess the effects of it on ref...

The Internet and electronic marketplaces have profoundly transformed the travel services industry and challenged the traditional value proposition of travel agencies: What is the reason for their existence if information is abundantly available and transactions can be flexibly conducted in direct buyer-seller interactions on the Internet? Traditional travel agencies are struggling to develop ne...

Context and objective. Previous research on users of sexual health services has focused primarily on women. However, a focus on men also is needed to address sexual ill-health. This paper uses various data sources to describe the level of, and trends in, men’s use of sexual health services in England. Data sources. Routine data are presented on clients of family planning clinics (FPCs), Brook A...