In the NHS nearly all the population are registered with a single family practitioner; and have a single unique identifier (NHS number) which can be linked to health services utilisation, making it possible in theory to quantify selection bias and if needed adjust for it [ 2].
The policy decisions relating to conservation targets, and the balance between conservation and utilisation, were made by governments and legislators, not by scientists as claimed by Lonergan.
A total of 11,224 episodes of remote health service utilisation were made by the 398 infants with a community record.
Such processes may also impact on the accuracy of local medicine utilisation systems making future comparisons difficult.
Measurements of systemic and coronary sinus haemodynamics, myocardial O2 consumption and cardiac substrate utilisation were made, before and after treatment with LS.
If we can begin to address this challenge then we can do much to promote research utilisation; by making our research more relevant to global health practitioners and policy makers, and to the aspirations in the Bamako Call.
The perceived value of their utilisation was made clear in the publication of The Plan for Growth [ 1], while the recent update to the NHS constitution [ 2] presents research as a 'core' activity of the NHS making the link between the provision of NHS services and research explicit.
The material is brought together in a wide-ranging interfaces and receptor model of research utilisation in policy making.
Participants may have agreed to take part in the study because of an a priori interest in evidence utilisation in decision-making.
Monash Health publishes its Decision Summaries on the internet but provision of a central website to house this information at a state or national level might encourage similar publications by others and facilitate access and utilisation for decision-making.
