Purpose To summarize key issues in the eHealth field from an implementation science
perspective and to highlight illustrative processes, examples and key directions to help more …

Background: Despite a growing literature on patient satisfaction in breast reconstruction, few
studies have compared perforator flaps with the more commonly practiced methods. The …

Health care spending has risen steadily in most countries, becoming a concern for decision-
makers worldwide. Commentators often point to new medical technology as the key driver …

Introduction Continuous ageing of the population coupled with growing health
consciousness and continuous technological advances have fueled the rapid rise in …

Medicalization is the process by which non-medical problems become defined and treated
as medical problems, usually as illnesses or disorders. There has been growing concern …

Clinical practice guidelines are now ubiquitous. This article describes the emergence of
such guidelines in a way that differs from the two dominant explanations, one focusing on …

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the modern world. Cardiac imaging is
routinely applied for assessment and diagnosis of cardiac diseases. Computerized image …

In a growing number of countries, health technology assessment (HTA) has come to be seen
as a vital component in policy making. Even though the assessment of the social, political …

Health policy in the United States has been shaped by the political, socioeconomic, and
ideological environment, with important roles played by public and private actors, as well as …

This article explores the relationship between cabinet instability and political performance in
parliamentary democracies. I develop two theoretical arguments about how cabinet …