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For achieving equity of the accessibility to primary healthcare, measuring potential geographical accessibility is essential. The provider-to-population ratio is the most frequently used measure. However, it i...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:438
Published on: 26 June 2017
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Globally, most maternal and newborn deaths are within the first week of delivery. Early postnatal-care (EPNC) visits between 2 and 7 days detects early morbidity and averts deaths. However, there is scarcity o...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:442
Published on: 26 June 2017
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The Stroke Canada Optimization of Rehabilitation by Evidence Implementation Trial (SCORE-IT) was a cluster randomized controlled trial that evaluated two knowledge translation (KT) interventions for the promot...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:440
Published on: 26 June 2017
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The admission process of patients to a hospital is the starting point for inpatient services. In order to optimize the quality of the health services provision, one needs a good understanding of the patient ad...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:443
Published on: 26 June 2017
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Internationally, the use of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) is increasing. Electronic PROs (ePROs) offer immediate access of such reports to healthcare providers. The objectives of this study were to assess n...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:439
Published on: 26 June 2017
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Patient satisfaction, one of the main components of quality of care, is a crucial phenomenon for the overall health care delivery system. Even though a number of studies have been conducted about patient satis...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:441
Published on: 26 June 2017
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While greater reliance on nurse practitioners in primary healthcare settings can improve service efficiency and accessibility, their integration is not straightforward, challenging existing role definitions of...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:437
Published on: 26 June 2017
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The importance of assessing research impact is increasingly recognised. Ghana has a long tradition of research dating from the 1970s. In the Ghana Health Service there are three health research centres under t...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:435
Published on: 24 June 2017
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Increasing pressure in the United Kingdom (UK) urgent care system has led to Emergency Departments (EDs) failing to meet the national requirement that 95% of patients are admitted, discharged or transferred wi...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:436
Published on: 24 June 2017
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Mobile phones are gradually becoming an integral part of healthcare services worldwide. We assessed the association between Aponjon mobile phone based messaging services and practices regarding childbirth and ...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:434
Published on: 24 June 2017
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Evidence is urgently needed from complex emergency settings to support efforts to respond to the increasing burden of diabetes mellitus (DM). We conducted a qualitative study of a new model of DM health care (...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:431
Published on: 23 June 2017
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Electronic consultation (eConsult) systems have enhanced access to specialty expertise and enhanced care coordination among primary care and specialty care providers, while maintaining high primary care provid...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:433
Published on: 23 June 2017
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Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) constitutes on average 10–15% of dementia in younger persons (≤65 years old), but can also affect older people. These patients demonstrate a decline in social conduct, and/or lang...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:432
Published on: 23 June 2017
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Kenya has a high maternal mortality rate. Provision of skilled delivery plays a major role in reducing maternal mortality. Cost is a hindrance to the utilization of skilled delivery. The Government of Kenya in...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:429
Published on: 21 June 2017
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The home and community care sector is one of the fastest growing sectors globally and most prominently in mature industrialized countries. Personal support workers (PSWs) are the largest occupational group in ...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:427
Published on: 21 June 2017
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The goal of integrated care is to offer a continuum of care that crosses the boundaries of public health, primary, secondary, and tertiary care. Integrated care is increasingly promoted for people with complex...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:426
Published on: 21 June 2017
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Homelessness is associated with increased morbidity, mortality and health care use. The aim of this study was to examine the role of mental disorders in relation to the use of 1) daytime primary health care se...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:428
Published on: 21 June 2017
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This is the seventh in a series of papers reporting Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) in a local healthcare setting. The SHARE Program was a systematic, integrated, evid...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:430
Published on: 21 June 2017
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High coverage of a screening program is essential to program success. Many European screening programs cover only 10–80% of their target population. A possible explanation for the low coverage may be that some...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:423
Published on: 20 June 2017
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Work design integrates work characteristics having organizational, social and job components which influence employees’ welfare and also organizational goals. We investigated the effects of work characteristic...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:421
Published on: 20 June 2017
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Patient safety culture concerns leader and staff interaction, attitudes, routines, awareness and practices that impinge on the risk of patient-adverse events. Due to their complex multiple diseases, nursing ho...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:424
Published on: 20 June 2017
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Antibiotic resistance (ABR) has become a major public health challenge in most parts of the world including Ghana and is a major threat to gain in bacterial disease control. The role of prescribers in the cont...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:422
Published on: 20 June 2017
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Falsely labelled, falsified (counterfeit) medicines (FFCm’s) are produced or distributed illegally and can harm patients. Although the occurrence of FFCm’s is increasing in Europe, harm is rarely reported. The...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:419
Published on: 20 June 2017
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Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) have been implemented in 49 out of 50 states in an effort to reduce opioid-related misuse, abuse, and mortality, yet the literature evaluating the impact of PDMP i...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:420
Published on: 20 June 2017
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The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric characteristics of four Health Literacy (HL) measurement tools, viz. Newest Vital Sign (NVS), Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (STOFHLA), ...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:410
Published on: 19 June 2017
