BMC Health Services Research

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NEW: Disasters, crisis, and emergency management within health services

Guest Edited by Dylan Collins and Shahid Islam

NEW: Health services for substance use disorders

Guest Edited by Chaisiri Angkurawaranon, Berkeley Franz and João Pedro Silva

NEW: Decolonizing global health

Guest Edited by Robert Kaba Alhassan, Nafissatou Diop, and Henry Zakumumpa

Economic Evaluations of Vaccine Programs

Guest Edited by Sayem Ahmed, Saskia den Boon, Edris Hasanpoor and Abdur Razzaque Sarker

Combatting health service delays

Guest Edited by Katherine Harding, Alessandro Jatoba and Yafang Tsai

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Editor's Choice thumbnail 1 Medical screening tests and vaccination among hospital-based physicians in Israel

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Published collections

Innovations for better health and social justice

Guest Edited by Magdalena Szaflarski

Telehealth

Guest Edited by Bassey Ebenso and Hao Xue

Resilient and responsive health systems in a changing world

Guest Edited by Jane K. O'Hara and Siri Wiig

Articles

Client retention in the continuum of maternal health services in Ethiopia

Authors: Frehiwot Birhanu, Kiddus Yitbarek and Mirkuzie woldie

Content type: Research 2 June 2023
Variations in the impact of the new case-based payment reform on medical costs, length of stay, and quality across different hospitals in China: an interrupted time series analysis

Authors: Xue Tang, Xinyu Zhang, Yajing Chen, Jiaqi Yan, Mengcen Qian and Xiaohua Ying

Content type: Research 2 June 2023
Telehealth services for global emergencies: implications for COVID-19: a scoping review based on current evidence

Authors: Jonathan Kissi, Caleb Annobil, Nathan Kumasenu Mensah, Joseph Owusu-Marfo, Ernest Osei and Zenobia Wooduwa Asmah

Content type: Research 1 June 2023
Effect of an app for promoting advance care planning and motivating patients to write their advance directives

Authors: Céline Schöpfer, Catherine Bollondi, Mohamed Amir Moussa, Johanna Sommer and Christine Clavien

Content type: Research 1 June 2023
Facilitating implementation of primary care mental health over time and across organizational contexts: a qualitative study of role and process

Authors: Mona J. Ritchie, Louise E. Parker and JoAnn E. Kirchner

Content type: Research 1 June 2023

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Relationship between Organizational Culture, Leadership Behavior and Job Satisfaction

Authors: Yafang Tsai

Content type: Research article 14 May 2011
How nurses and their work environment affect patient experiences of the quality of care: a qualitative study

Authors: Renate AMM Kieft, Brigitte BJM de Brouwer, Anneke L Francke and Diana MJ Delnoij

Content type: Research article 13 June 2014
Proceedings of the 3rd IPLeiria’s International Health Congress

Authors: Catarina Cardoso Tomás, Emanuel Oliveira, D. Sousa, M. Uba-Chupel, G. Furtado, C. Rocha, A. Teixeira, P. Ferreira, Celeste Alves, Stefan Gisin, Elisabete Catarino, Nelma Carvalho, Tiago Coucelo, Luís Bonfim, Carina Silva, Débora Franco…

Content type: Meeting Abstracts 6 July 2016
The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: psychometric properties, benchmarking data, and emerging research

Authors: John B Sexton, Robert L Helmreich, Torsten B Neilands, Kathy Rowan, Keryn Vella, James Boyden, Peter R Roberts and Eric J Thomas

Content type: Research article 1 December 2006
PICO, PICOS and SPIDER: a comparison study of specificity and sensitivity in three search tools for qualitative systematic reviews

Authors: Abigail M Methley, Stephen Campbell, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Rosalind McNally and Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi

Content type: Research article 21 November 2014

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Innovations for better health and social justice
Edited by: Dr. Magdalena Szaflarski
Collection published: 30th May 2022

Advancing Dementia Care
Edited by: Dr. Clarissa Giebel and Tillie Cryer
Collection published: 13 May 2020

Health Services Research for Opioid Use Disorders
Edited by: Dr. Kim Hoffman
Collection published: 31 March 2020

Management of Infectious Diseases in Health Systems and Services
Edited by: Tillie Cryer
Collection published: 19 March 2020

Aims and scope

BMC Health Services Research is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of health services research. The journal has a special focus on digital health, governance, health policy, health system quality and safety, healthcare delivery and access to healthcare, healthcare financing and economics, implementing reform, and the health workforce.

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