Editorials

Neil Craig, Bill Wright, Phil Hanlon, and Sam Galbraith

Does health care improve health?
J Health Serv Res Policy 11(1): 1-2; doi:10.1258/135581906775094299 [PDF]  

Clive Smee

Improving policy-making in a ministry of health
J Health Serv Res Policy 11(1): 2-4; doi:10.1258/135581906775094262 [PDF]  

Nick Black, Nicholas Mays, and Christine Rivett-Carnac

Audit of submissions: July 2004 to June 2005
J Health Serv Res Policy 11(1): 4-5; doi:10.1258/135581906775094325 [PDF]  

Original research

Wayne Putnam, Kelly Nicol Bower, Jafna Cox, Peter Twohig, Kevin Pottie, Lois Jackson, and Frederick Burge

Quality indicators for cardiac care: national standards in a community context
J Health Serv Res Policy 11(1): 5-12; doi:10.1258/135581906775094226 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Deborah Marshall, Jacqueline Gough, Paul Grootendorst, Melanie Buitendyk, Barbara Jaszewski, Susan Simonyi, Farah Jivraj, and Stuart MacLeod

Impact of administrative restrictions on antibiotic use and expenditure in Ontario: time series analysis
J Health Serv Res Policy 11(1): 13-20; doi:10.1258/135581906775094253 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Terri Jackson, Stephen Duckett, Jennie Shepheard, and Kathryn Baxter

Measurement of adverse events using 'incidence flagged' diagnosis codes
J Health Serv Res Policy 11(1): 21-26; doi:10.1258/135581906775094271 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Robert Fleetcroft and Richard Cookson

Do the incentive payments in the new NHS contract for primary care reflect likely population health gains?
J Health Serv Res Policy 11(1): 27-31; doi:10.1258/135581906775094316 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jennifer Gibson, Craig Mitton, Douglas Martin, Cam Donaldson, and Peter Singer

Ethics and economics: does programme budgeting and marginal analysis contribute to fair priority setting?
J Health Serv Res Policy 11(1): 32-37; doi:10.1258/135581906775094280 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Essays

Rachel Baker, Carl Thompson, and Russell Mannion

Q methodology in health economics
J Health Serv Res Policy 11(1): 38-45; doi:10.1258/135581906775094217 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stephen Birch and Amiram Gafni

The biggest bang for the buck or bigger bucks for the bang: the fallacy of the cost-effectiveness threshold
J Health Serv Res Policy 11(1): 46-51; doi:10.1258/135581906775094235 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Review article

Jon Glasby, Rosemary Littlechild, and Kathryn Pryce

All dressed up but nowhere to go? Delayed hospital discharges and older people
J Health Serv Res Policy 11(1): 52-58; doi:10.1258/135581906775094208 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Worth a second look

Rudolf Klein

Uses of epidemiology
J Health Serv Res Policy 11(1): 59-60; doi:10.1258/135581906775094307 [PDF]  

What's on the web?

Su Golder, Lisa Stirk, Kath Wright, and Julie Glanville

Health stories in the mass media
J Health Serv Res Policy 11(1): 61-62; doi:10.1258/135581906775094244 [PDF]  

Mythbusters

Canadian Health Services Research Foundation

We can eliminate errors in health care by getting rid of the 'bad apples'
J Health Serv Res Policy 11(1): 63-64; doi:10.1258/135581906775094190 [PDF]  

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