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Stephen Birch

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1 "Interaction" and research utilisation in health policies and programs: does it work? Health Policy 2005 2.33
2 Access as a policy-relevant concept in low- and middle-income countries. Health Econ Policy Law 2009 2.13
3 The effect of different methods of remuneration on the behaviour of primary care dentists. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2013 2.07
4 Exploring inequalities in access to and use of maternal health services in South Africa. BMC Health Serv Res 2012 2.01
5 Optimizing a portfolio of health care programs in the presence of uncertainty and constrained resources. Soc Sci Med 2003 2.01
6 Recruitment strategies for minority participation: challenges and cost lessons from the POWER interview. Ethn Dis 2005 1.52
7 Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs): the silence of the lambda. Soc Sci Med 2005 1.47
8 On the impossibility of trigger point-acupoint equivalence: a commentary on Peter Dorsher's analysis. J Altern Complement Med 2008 1.45
9 Preferences of Women Evaluating Risks of Tamoxifen (POWER) study of preferences for tamoxifen for breast cancer risk reduction. Cancer 2005 1.43
10 Who you know, where you live: social capital, neighbourhood and health. Soc Sci Med 2004 1.33
11 A review of the reliability of traditional East Asian medicine diagnoses. J Altern Complement Med 2009 1.33
12 Inclusion of drugs in provincial drug benefit programs: Should "reasonable decisions" lead to uncontrolled growth in expenditures? CMAJ 2003 1.18
13 The Diabetes Continuity of Care Scale: the development and initial evaluation of a questionnaire that measures continuity of care from the patient perspective. Health Soc Care Community 2004 1.16
14 An applied simulation model for estimating the supply of and requirements for registered nurses based on population health needs. Policy Polit Nurs Pract 2009 1.15
15 Eliminating the shortage of registered nurses in Canada: an exercise in applied needs-based planning. Health Policy 2011 1.10
16 NICE methodological guidelines and decision making in the National Health Service in England and Wales. Pharmacoeconomics 2003 1.09
17 Planning for what? Challenging the assumptions of health human resources planning. Health Policy 2009 1.07
18 Unemployment and health: contextual-level influences on the production of health in populations. Soc Sci Med 2002 1.07
19 A framework for costing diagnostic methods in oral health care: an application comparing a new imaging technology with the conventional approach for maxillary canines with eruption disturbances. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 2012 0.99
20 Equity in the use of antiretroviral treatment in the public health care system in urban South Africa. Health Policy 2010 0.96
21 The effects of nursing turnover on continuity of care in isolated First Nation communities. Can J Nurs Res 2005 0.95
22 Individual and regional determinants of mammography uptake. Can J Public Health 2004 0.93
23 Inequalities in neighbourhood socioeconomic characteristics: potential evidence-base for neighbourhood health planning. Int J Health Geogr 2005 0.92
24 Management of the low-grade abnormal Pap smear: What are women's preferences? J Fam Pract 2002 0.90
25 Surveillance after treatment for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia: outcomes, costs, and cost-effectiveness. Obstet Gynecol 2010 0.89
26 Optimizing the mix of basic dental services for Southern Thai schoolchildren based on resource consumption, service needs and parental preference. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 2009 0.89
27 Economic evaluation of HIV screening in pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in India. Health Policy 2005 0.87
28 Gender differences in experiences of ART services in South Africa: a mixed methods study. Trop Med Int Health 2012 0.87
29 Investigating the reliability of Japanese toyohari meridian therapy diagnosis. J Altern Complement Med 2009 0.86
30 Geographic disparity in premature mortality in Ontario, 1992-1996. Int J Health Geogr 2003 0.86
31 Unequal access to ART: exploratory results from rural and urban case studies of ART use. Sex Transm Infect 2012 0.86
32 Prevention versus cure: measuring parental preferences for sealants and fillings as treatments for childhood caries in Southern Thailand. Health Policy 2007 0.85
33 The public's viewpoint on the right to hastened death in Alberta, Canada: findings from a population survey study. Health Soc Care Community 2012 0.83
34 Provider incentives and access to dental care: evaluating NHS reforms in England. Soc Sci Med 2012 0.83
35 Home care evolution in alberta: how have palliative clients fared? Healthc Policy 2007 0.83
36 Variation in healthcare services for specialist genetic testing and implications for planning genetic services: the example of inherited retinal dystrophy in the English NHS. J Community Genet 2015 0.83
37 The distribution problem in economic evaluation: income and the valuation of costs and consequences of health care programmes. Health Econ 2002 0.83
38 Addressing the realities [correction of realties] of health care in northern aboriginal communities through participatory action research. J Interprof Care 2004 0.82
39 Researching a best-practice end-of-life care model for Canada. Can J Aging 2008 0.82
40 Using small-area variations to inform health care service planning: what do we 'need' to know? J Eval Clin Pract 2013 0.81
41 I dreamed a dream: England reduces health inequalities and wins the World Cup. Health Econ 2010 0.81
42 Portfolio theory and the alternative decision rule of cost-effectiveness analysis: theoretical and practical considerations. Soc Sci Med 2004 0.81
43 Estimating unit costs for dental service delivery in institutional and community-based settings in southern Thailand. Asia Pac J Public Health 2008 0.80
44 A population-based study on advance directive completion and completion intention among citizens of the western Canadian province of Alberta. J Palliat Care 2013 0.80
45 Reconsidering value for money in periodontal treatment. J Clin Periodontol 2013 0.80
46 Determining the optimal model for role-substitution in NHS dental services in the United Kingdom. BMC Oral Health 2013 0.80
47 Economic evaluation of diagnostic methods used in dentistry. A systematic review. J Dent 2014 0.79
48 Tamoxifen for breast cancer risk reduction: impact of alternative approaches to quality-of-life adjustment on cost-effectiveness analysis. Med Care 2008 0.79
49 Chemoprevention: drug pricing and mortality: the case of tamoxifen. Cancer 2006 0.79
50 "No one dies of old age": implications for research, practice, and policy. J Palliat Care 2011 0.79
51 Ethical economics and cost-effectiveness analysis: is it ethical to ignore opportunity costs? Expert Rev Pharmacoecon Outcomes Res 2005 0.79
52 Comparison of the effects of secondary prevention in schoolchildren between hospitals with and without mobile dental services in Southern Thailand. J Oral Sci 2009 0.78
53 Nursing inputs and outcomes of hospital care: an empirical analysis of Ontario's acute-care hospitals. Can J Nurs Res 2011 0.78
54 Utilities of dentin regeneration among insured and uninsured adults. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 2004 0.78
55 Multilevel health promotion research: conceptual and analytical considerations. Can J Nurs Res 2004 0.78
56 Home and community occupational therapy for children and youth: a before and after study. Can J Occup Ther 2005 0.77
57 Preferences and acceptance of colorectal cancer screening in Thailand. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 2015 0.77
58 Different dental care setting: does income matter? Health Econ 2008 0.76
59 Paying for prevention in clinical practice: Aligning provider remuneration with system objectives. BMC Oral Health 2015 0.75
60 Building bridges between academic research and policy formulation: when costing less means costing more. Pharmacoeconomics 2007 0.75
61 Prevention in practice - a summary. BMC Oral Health 2015 0.75
62 The NICE reference case requirement: more pain for what, if any, gain? Pharmacoeconomics 2004 0.75
63 Letters to the Editor. Nurs Leadersh (Tor Ont) 2010 0.75
64 Human papillomavirus triage of atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance: cost-effective, but at what cost? J Natl Cancer Inst 2006 0.75
65 Blunt Policy Instruments Deliver Blunt Policy Outcomes: Why Cost Sharing is Not Effective at Controlling Utilization and Improving Health System Efficiency. Med Care 2016 0.75
66 Technology resource planning in radiation oncology: application of a needs-based analytic framework to radiosurgery planning in Ontario. J Oncol Pract 2012 0.75
67 Tax-deductible provisions for gluten-free diet in Canada compared with systems for gluten-free diet coverage available in various countries. Can J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2015 0.75
68 Estimation, power and sample size calculations for stochastic cost and effectiveness analysis. Pharmacoeconomics 2007 0.75
69 Is regular visiting associated with lower costs? Analyzing service utilization patterns in the first nations population in Canada. J Public Health Dent 2006 0.75
70 Uncertainty and the decision maker: assessing and managing the risk of undesirable outcomes. Health Econ 2012 0.75
71 Developing management information from an administrative database of dental services: identifying factors that influence costs. J Public Health Dent 2005 0.75
72 Traditional East Asian medical pulse diagnosis: a preliminary physiologic investigation. J Altern Complement Med 2013 0.75
73 Managing moral hazard in motor vehicle accident insurance claims. J Public Health Policy 2013 0.75