The role of evidence in the decline of antibiotic use for common respiratory infections in primary care

JL Cosby, N Francis, CC Butler - The Lancet infectious diseases, 2007 - thelancet.com
Antibiotic prescribing in primary care for common respiratory infections increased steadily
until the mid 1990s, when the trend reversed noticeably. During the subsequent decade, …

Improving patient care: the implementation of change in clinical practice

JL Cosby - 2006 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
2 Jagsi R, Kitch BT, Weinstein DF, et al. Residents report on adverse events and their causes.
Arch Intern Med 2005; 165: 2607–13. 3 Woolf SH. Patient safety is not enough: targeting …

A hybrid qualitative method for pretesting questionnaires: the example of a questionnaire to caregivers of Alzheimer disease patients

M Oremus, JL Cosby, C Wolfson - Research in nursing & health, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
A hybrid method based on cognitive interviewing and consensus panels was developed to
pretest a questionnaire for caregivers of persons with Alzheimer disease (AD). The objective …

Factors affecting antibiotic decisions for upper respiratory tract infections I: A survey of family physicians

DE Zoutman, BD Ford, AR Bassili, JL Cosby… - International Journal of …, 2008 - ijic.info
Identifying factors associated with the ubiquitous inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics for
upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) will help develop effective interventions and …

Decline of antibiotic use in primary care–Authors' reply

JL Cosby, N Francis, C Butler - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2008 - thelancet.com
shows that of the 25 countries for which the authors provided data, 13 did experience an
increase in the defined daily dose (DDD) per 1000 inhabitants per day from 1997 to 2003. …

[HTML][HTML] Open access and the science of perpetual change: developing an integrative perspective of health services research

JL Cosby - Health Services Insights, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
The purpose of this inaugural article is to show that open access journals provide a unique
dissemination strategy that effectively meets the demands of health fcxservices research and …

Thwarting sore throats

JL Cosby - CMAJ, 2001 - Can Med Assoc
The general consensus as stated in guidelines on the use of narcotics2 as well as among
physicians dealing with chronic pain disorders is that narcotics are almost certainly …

Modulating beyond or between evidence: Using qualitative methods to explore physician prescribing decisions.

JL Cosby - 2005 - elibrary.ru
Chapter 1. How and why do physicians modulate evidence? When making prescribing
decisions for a number of common medical conditions, all general practitioners will at times …

[CITATION][C] Making resource allocation decisions in the health care sector: A review of some recent proposals

JE Hurley, JL Cosby, M Giacomini, B Hutchison - 2000 - pascal-francis.inist.fr
Making Resource Allocation Decisions in the Health Care Sector : a review of some recent
proposals CNRS Inist Pascal-Francis CNRS Pascal and Francis Bibliographic Databases …

[PDF][PDF] Narcotics for chronic nonmalignant pain

J Cosby - CMAJ, 2000 - epe.lac-bac.gc.ca
The general consensus as stated in guidelines on the use of narcotics2 as well as among
physicians dealing with chronic pain disorders is that narcotics are almost certainly …