However, the UNHS IV merely records utilisation contingent upon reporting an illness but excludes the recording of the use of preventive services.
Previous studies report methods and conceptual frameworks that have been applied, if with varying degrees of success, to record utilisation in policy-making.
For example, the Lady Health Worker programme which delivers a package of integrated maternal, child health and family planning services door-to-door, has recorded increased utilisation of its services in Pakistan [ 9].
These approaches would provide triangulation of methods and data-sources and should also provide material to help identify the relative importance, in relation to the level of utilisation recorded, of the HRS mechanisms described in the previous analysis.
The interviews, questionnaires, and documentary analysis should also provide material to help identify the relative importance, in relation to the level of utilisation recorded, of each of the HRS mechanisms listed in the bullet point above.
Treatment plans include psychological approaches to therapy when appropriate a) Access route to psychological therapies exists (yes/no) Physicians' questionnaire b) Utilisation is recorded in patient's record Patients' records B6.
Baseline health care utilisation was recorded for the population as a whole.
In fact, according to the Italian health system organisation, free-of-charge drug prescriptions are, however, ensured (and then recorded in the healthcare utilisation database), even when they have been prescribed by a private physician.
As dentists' remuneration in the PDS is partly based on these data and private patients' reimbursements by the NHI are fully based on recorded treatment, data on utilisation of dental services can be considered to be comprehensive in both sectors.
Healthcare utilisation is recorded for adverse events including cardiac events, and other events participants deem likely to be related to their participation in the study (including, but not limited to, musculoskeletal injury).
