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  1. Mental disorders are common among people with HIV (PWH) and are associated with poor HIV outcomes. Despite high unmet mental health needs among PWH, use of evidence-based mental health screening and treatment ...

    Authors: Kathryn E. L. Grimes, Peter Vanes Ebasone, Anastase Dzudie, Denis Nash, Milton L Wainberg, Brian W. Pence, Clare Barrington, Eric Pefura, Marcel Yotebieng, Kathryn Anastos, Denis Nsame, Rogers Ajeh, Annereke Nyenti and Angela M. Parcesepe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:519
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  2. Rural populations consistently experience a disproportionate burden of cancer, including higher incidence and mortality rates, compared to the urban populations. Factors that are thought to contribute to these...

    Authors: Shin Chang, Michelle Liu, Christa Braun-Inglis, Randall Holcombe and Izumi Okado
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:518
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  3. This study aimed to assess the service quality (SQ) for Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and hypertension in primary healthcare settings from the perspective of service users in Iran.

    Authors: Shabnam Iezadi, Kamal Gholipour, Jabraeil Sherbafi, Sama Behpaie, Nazli soltani, Mohsen Pasha and Javad Farahishahgoli
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:517
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  4. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use of telemedicine which is seen as a possibility to reduce the pressure on healthcare systems globally. However, little research has been carried out on video as a consu...

    Authors: Olivia Mandal Møller, Sif Sofie Vange, Anne Sofie Borsch, Tomas Norman Dam, Anja MB Jensen and Signe Smith Jervelund
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:516
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  5. COVID-19 impacted the mental health of healthcare workers, who endured pressures as they provided care during a prolonged crisis. We aimed to explore whether and how a Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) approach was r...

    Authors: Sonia Rose Harris, Alexis Amano, Marcy Winget, Kelley M Skeff and Cati G Brown-Johnson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:515
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  6. The measurement of patient satisfaction is a vital metric that enhances stakeholders to take proactive steps in improving the quality of healthcare services within medical care systems. This study assessed pat...

    Authors: Doaa Altarifi, Tahani Harb and Murad Abualhasan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:514
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  7. Under the background of the regular implementation of the National Centralized Drug Procurement (NCDP) policy, this study aimed to assess the impacts of the NCDP policy on drug utilization of county-level medi...

    Authors: Haoye Li, Fanyu Lin, Rui Wang, Chenxuan Zhu, Keyao Cao, Yu Chen, Gang Fang, Jiaming Li, Jinxi Ding and Wei Li
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:513
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  8. It is known that many surgeons encounter intraoperative adverse events which can result in Second Victim Syndrome (SVS), with significant detriment to their emotional and physical health. There is, however, a ...

    Authors: Clyve Yu Leon Yaow, Qin Xiang Ng, Ryan Ian Houe Chong, Clarence Ong, Nicolette Zy-Yin Chong, Nicole Li Xian Yap, Ashley Shuen Ying Hong, Benita Kiat Tee Tan, Amos Hong Pheng Loh, Andrew Siang Yih Wong and Hiang Khoon Tan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:512
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  9. On average, older patients use five or more medications daily, increasing the risk of adverse drug reactions, interactions, or medication errors. Healthcare sector transitions increase the risk of information ...

    Authors: Thorbjørn Hougaard Mikkelsen, Jens Søndergaard, Niels Kristian Kjær, Jesper Bo Nielsen, Jesper Ryg, Lene Juel Kjeldsen and Christian Backer Mogensen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:511
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  10. This qualitative study explores the experiences of peer support workers (PSWs) and service users (or peers) during transition from in-person to virtual mental health services. During and following the COVID-19...

    Authors: Elmira Mirbahaeddin and Samia Chreim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:510
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  11. This study evaluates the feasibility of a nine-month advanced quality-improvement program aimed at enhancing the quality of care provided by primary care physical therapists in the Netherlands. The evaluation ...

    Authors: LSF Smeekens, AC Verburg, MJM Maas, R van Heerde, A van Kerkhof and PJ van der Wees
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:509
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  12. Current and former dementia policies in the United Kingdom (UK) recommend diagnosing dementia early, or as close to the onset of symptoms as possible. Informal caregivers play an important role in initiating t...

    Authors: Elyse Couch, Melissa Co, Christopher P. Albertyn, Matthew Prina and Vanessa Lawrence
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:508
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  13. Hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) incur substantial costs on the health system that could be partially avoided with adequate outpatient care. Complications of chronic diseases, s...

    Authors: Pedro Saturno-Hernández, Estephania Moreno-Zegbe, Ofelia Poblano-Verastegui, Laura del Pilar Torres-Arreola, Arturo C. Bautista-Morales, Cynthya Maya-Hernández, Juan David Uscanga-Castillo, Sergio Flores-Hernández, Patricia María Gómez-Cortez and Waldo Iván Vieyra-Romero
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:507
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  15. Since 2015, the New York State Office of Mental Health has provided state primary care clinics with outreach, free training and technical assistance, and the opportunity to bill Medicaid for the Collaborative ...

    Authors: Erin LePoire, Molly Joseph, Ashley Heald, Danielle Gadbois, Amy Jones, Joan Russo and Deborah J Bowen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:505
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  16. Children with medical complexity (CMC) comprise 1% of the paediatric population, but account for over 30% of health service costs. Lack of healthcare integration and coordination for CMC is well-documented. To...

    Authors: Stephanie Hodgson, Kirsten Noack, Ashleigh Griffiths and Michael Hodgins
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:504
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  18. A new interprofessional model incorporating non-dispensing pharmacists in general practice teams can improve the quality of pharmaceutical care. However, results of the model are dependent on the context. Unde...

    Authors: A.C.M. Hazen, V.M. Sloeserwij, E. de Groot, J.J. de Gier, N.J. de Wit, A.A. de Bont and D.L.M. Zwart
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:502
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  19. Primary healthcare in South Africa aims to transform the national health system by emphasising community-based care and preventive strategies. However, rehabilitation services, particularly for individuals wit...

    Authors: Lebogang Maseko, Fasloen Adams and Hellen Myezwa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:501
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  20. Although chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) admissions put a substantial burden on hospitals, most of the patients’ contacts with health services are in outpatient care. Traditionally, outpatient car...

    Authors: Tron Anders Moger, Jon Helgheim Holte, Olav Amundsen, Silje Bjørnsen Haavaag, Anne Edvardsen, Line Kildal Bragstad, Ragnhild Hellesø, Trond Tjerbo and Nina Køpke Vøllestad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:500
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  21. Previous research has shown that the use of dental care services has a significant socioeconomic gradient. Lower income groups tend to use dental care services less, and they often have poorer dental health th...

    Authors: Miska Simanainen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:499
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  22. There are large racial inequities in pregnancy and early childhood health within state Medicaid programs in the United States. To date, few Medicaid policy interventions have explicitly focused on improving he...

    Authors: Marian Jarlenski, Evan Cole, Christine McClure, Sarah Sanders, Marquita Smalls and Dara D Méndez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:498
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  23. Intersectoral cooperation between physicians in private practice and hospitals is highly relevant for ensuring the quality of medical care. However, the experiences and potential for optimization at this inter...

    Authors: R. M. Waeschle, T. Epperlein, I. Demmer, E. Hummers and Q. Quintel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:497
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  24. China initiated the Medical Alliances (MAs) reform to enhance resource allocation efficiency and ensure equitable healthcare. In response to challenges posed by the predominance of public hospitals, the reform...

    Authors: Yingbei Xiong, Kunhe Lin, Yifan Yao, Zhengdong Zhong and Li Xiang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:496
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  25. Since 2005, the healthcare system in Ethiopia has implemented policies to promote the provision of free maternal healthcare services. The primary goal of these policies is to enhance the accessibility of mater...

    Authors: Menen Tilahun Chewaka, Gistane Ayele, Godana Yaya Tessema, Dagne Deresa Dinagde, Hana Tadesse Afework, Bezalem Mekonen Biwota and Habtamu Wana Wada
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:495
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  26. Utilization of telemedicine care for vulnerable and low income populations, especially individuals with mental health conditions, is not well understood. The goal is to describe the utilization and regional di...

    Authors: Benjamin Ukert, Mark Lawley and Hye-Chung Kum
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:494
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  27. Health literacy (HL) has become a subject of major interest in public health worldwide. It is known to be linked to self-efficacy in care use and to global health status, and a non-negligible frequency of prob...

    Authors: Pauline Marie, Nicolas Romain-Scelle, Veronique Potinet, Anne Marie Schott and Marion Douplat
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:493
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  28. Homelessness is associated with significant health disparities. Conventional health services often fail to address the unique needs and lived experience of homeless individuals and fail to include participator...

    Authors: Jean-Philippe Miller, Jennie Hutton, Claire Doherty, Shannen Vallesi, Jane Currie, Katrina Rushworth, Matthew Larkin, Matthew Scott, James Morrow and Lisa Wood
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:492
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  29. Hospice care professionals often experience trauma patient deaths and multiple patient deaths in a short period of time (more so than other nurses). This repeated exposure to the death process and the death of...

    Authors: Yanting Zhang, Li Zheng, Yanling He, Min Han, Yu Wang, Jinyu Xv, Hui Qiu and Liu Yang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:491
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  30. Demand for healthcare outweighs available resources, making priority setting a critical issue. ‘Severity’ is a priority-setting criterion in many healthcare systems, including in Norway, Sweden, the Netherland...

    Authors: Mille Sofie Stenmarck, David GT Whitehurst, Hilde Lurås and Jorun Rugkåsa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:490
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  31. To understand the awareness and practice of diabetic kidney disease (DKD) or nephropathy screening among community-based patients with type 2 diabetes in six provinces and cities in China, and to analyse the r...

    Authors: Zhang Xia, Xuechun Luo, Yanzhi Wang, Tingling Xu, Jianqun Dong, Wei Jiang and Yingying Jiang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:489
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  32. This study was a two-year follow-up evaluation of health service use and the cost-effectiveness of a multicomponent general practice intervention targeted at people at high risk of poor health outcomes.

    Authors: Richard L. Reed, Leigh Roeger and Billingsley Kaambwa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:488
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  33. The growing adoption of continuous quality improvement (CQI) initiatives in healthcare has generated a surge in research interest to gain a deeper understanding of CQI. However, comprehensive evidence regardin...

    Authors: Aklilu Endalamaw, Resham B Khatri, Tesfaye Setegn Mengistu, Daniel Erku, Eskinder Wolka, Anteneh Zewdie and Yibeltal Assefa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:487
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  34. Burn treatments are complex, and for this reason, a specialised multidisciplinary approach is recommended. Evaluating the quality of care provided to acute burn patients through quality indicators makes it pos...

    Authors: Denise R. Rabelo Suzuki, Levy Aniceto Santana, Juliana Elvira H. Guerra Ávila, Fábio Ferreira Amorim, Guilherme Pacheco Modesto, Leila Bernarda Donato Gottems and Vinicius Maldaner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:486
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  35. Older adults and people with dementia were anticipated to be particularly unable to use health and care services during the lockdown period following the COVID-19 pandemic. To better prepare for future pandemi...

    Authors: Tanja Louise Ibsen, Bjørn Heine Strand, Sverre Bergh, Gill Livingston, Hilde Lurås, Svenn-Erik Mamelund, Richard Oude Voshaar, Anne Marie Mork Rokstad, Pernille Thingstad, Debby Gerritsen and Geir Selbæk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:485
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  36. Malaria in pregnancy remains a major global public health problem. Intermittent prophylaxis treatment of malaria in pregnancy with Sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine and co-trimoxazole is efficacious for prevention of...

    Authors: Rita Nakalega, Ruth Nabisere-Arinaitwe, Nelson Mukiza, Cynthia Ndikuno Kuteesa, Denis Mawanda, Paul Natureeba, Ronnie Kasirye, Clemensia Nakabiito, Jane Nabakooza, Emmie Mulumba, Josephine Nabukeera, Joseph Ggita, Abel Kakuru, Lynn Atuyambe, Philippa Musoke, Mary Glenn Fowler…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:484
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  37. COVID-19 has had wide-reaching effects on healthcare services beyond the direct treatment of the pandemic. Most current studies have reported changes in realised service usage, but the dynamics of how patients...

    Authors: Oskar Niemenoja, Antti-Jussi Ämmälä, Sari Riihijärvi, Paul Lillrank, Petri Bono and Simo Taimela
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:483
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  38. Eliminating hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a significant worldwide challenge requiring innovative approaches for vaccination, screening, disease management, and the prevention of related conditions. Programs that ...

    Authors: M. Cabell Jonas, Yi-Shin Sheu, Kara Wright, Lauren Peyton, R. Clayton Bishop, Sundeep Basra, Fariha Sarwar, Grace Winn and Karen Chesbrough
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:482
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  39. Healthcare providers may experience moral distress when they are unable to take the ethically or morally appropriate action due to real or perceived constraints in delivering care, and this psychological stres...

    Authors: Anne Marie Levy, Alisa Grigorovich, Josephine McMurray, Hannah Quirt, Kaitlyn Ranft, Katia Engell, Steven Stewart, Arlene Astell, Kristina Kokorelias, Denise Schon, Kevin Rogrigues, Mario Tsokas, Alastair J. Flint and Andrea Iaboni
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:481
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  40. Stakeholder engagement is essential to the design, implementation and evaluation of complex mental health interventions like peer support. Theory of Change (ToC) is commonly used in global health research to h...

    Authors: Ramona Hiltensperger, Grace Ryan, Inbar Adler Ben-Dor, Ashleigh Charles, Ellen Epple, Jasmine Kalha, Palak Korde, Yasuhiro Kotera, Richard Mpango, Galia Moran, Annabel Sandra Mueller-Stierlin, Rebecca Nixdorf, Mary Ramesh, Donat Shamba, Mike Slade, Bernd Puschner…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:480
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  41. Audit and Feedback (A&F) interventions based on quality indicators have been shown to lead to significant improvements in compliance with evidence-based care including de-adoption of low-value practices (LVPs)...

    Authors: Blanchard Conombo, Jason R. Guertin, Jeffrey S. Hoch, Jeremy Grimshaw, Mélanie Bérubé, Christian Malo, Simon Berthelot, François Lauzier, Henry T. Stelfox, Alexis F. Turgeon, Patrick Archambault, Amina Belcaid and Lynne Moore
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:479
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  42. High hospital occupancy degrades emergency department performance by increasing wait times, decreasing patient satisfaction, and increasing patient morbidity and mortality. Late discharges contribute to high h...

    Authors: Ryan Bailey, Ankur Segon, Sean Garcia, Saket Kottewar, Ting Lu, Nelson Tuazon, Lisa Sanchez, Jonathan A. Gelfond and Gregory Bowling
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:478
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  43. Public health emergencies are characterized by uncertainty, rapid transmission, a large number of cases, a high rate of critical illness, and a high case fatality rate. The intensive care unit (ICU) is the “la...

    Authors: Weiwei Zhang and Xinchun Li
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:477
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  44. The transition from hospital to outpatient care is a particularly vulnerable period for patients as they move from regular health monitoring to self-management. This study aimed to map and investigate the jour...

    Authors: Léa Solh Dost, Giacomo Gastaldi, Marcelo Dos Santos Mamed and Marie P. Schneider
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:476
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  45. More than 80 countries, including Australia, have made commitments to deliver climate-resilient and low carbon healthcare. Understanding how healthcare workers view their own and their organization’s efforts t...

    Authors: Andrea Huang, Susan Monro Cooke, Christine Garsden, Carol Behne and Erika Borkoles
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:475
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  46. Healthcare workplace mistreatment has been documented globally. Poor workplace behaviour, ranging from incivility to bullying and harassment, is common in healthcare, and contributes significantly to adverse e...

    Authors: Claire Hooker, Aspasia Karageorge, Karen M. Scott, Renee Lim and Louise Nash
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:474
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  47. The Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia (FGAE) operates as a non-governmental organization dedicated to offering family planning and reproductive health services to the Ethiopian population. The gap in the...

    Authors: Niguss Cherie, Yawkal Tsega, Anissa Mohammed, Zinet Abegaz, Abel Endawkie, Yeshimebet Ali Dawed and Natnael Kebede
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:473
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  48. The accessibility of pharmacies has been associated with overall health and wellbeing. Past studies have suggested that low income and racial minority communities are underserved by pharmacies. However, the li...

    Authors: Abhinav Suri, James Quinn, Raymond R. Balise, Daniel J. Feaster, Nabila El-Bassel and Andrew G. Rundle
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:471
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  49. The COVID-19 pandemic unveiled huge challenges in health workforce governance in the context of public health emergencies in Africa. Several countries applied several measures to ensure access to qualified and...

    Authors: Adam Ahmat, Sunny C Okoroafor, James Avoka Asamani, Millogo Jean, Abdou Illou Mourtala, Jennifer Nyoni and Kasonde Mwinga
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:470
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  50. China has piloted Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) to address increasing care demand. However, many cities neglected adjusting LTCI premiums since the pilot, risking the long-term sustainability of LTCI. Theref...

    Authors: Xueying Xu, Yichao Li and Hong Mi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:469
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