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  1. The improper disposal of pharmaceutical preparations substantially threatens human health and environmental safety. Pharmacists are responsible for properly disposing of unwanted medications and educating pati...

    Authors: Lamees L. Nairat, Noor A. Abahri, Yosr A. Hamdan, Razan T. Abdel-khaliq, Sawsan M. Odeh, Shatha Abutaha, Samah W. Al-Jabi, Amer A. Koni, Amani S. Abushanab and Sa’ed H. Zyoud
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1035
  2. The guideline-based, conservative, non-pharmacological management of hip and knee osteoarthritis in clinical practice has been insufficient in Switzerland until now. The implementation of “Good Life with Osteo...

    Authors: Anja Hinteregger, Karin Niedermann and Markus Wirz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1034
  3. One crucial obstacle to attaining universal immunization coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa is the paucity of timely and high-quality data. This challenge, in part, stems from the fact that many frontline immuniza...

    Authors: Yauba Saidu, Jessica Gu, Budzi Michael Ngenge, Sangwe Clovis Nchinjoh, Amani Adidja, Nadege Edwidge Nnang, Nkwain Jude Muteh, Vouking Marius Zambou, Clarence Mbanga, Valirie Ndip Agbor, Diaby Ousmane, Andreas Ateke Njoh, Junie Flegere, Demba Diack, Owens Wiwa, Emmanuele Montomoli…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1033
  4. Pain in nursing home (NH) residents with dementia is commonly reported and may affect Quality of Life (QoL) negatively. Few longitudinal studies have explored how pain and QoL develop in NH residents with deme...

    Authors: Anne-S. Helvik, Sverre Bergh, Jūratė Šaltytė Benth, Tom Borza, Bettina Husebø and Kjerstin Tevik
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1032
  5. British Columbia 8–1-1 callers who are advised by a nurse to seek urgent medical care can be referred to virtual physicians (VPs) for supplemental assessment and advice. Prior research indicates callers’ subse...

    Authors: Ross Duncan, Kurtis Stewart, Frank X. Scheuermeyer, Riyad B. Abu-Laban, Kendall Ho, Danielle Lavallee, Jim Christenson, Nancy Wood, Stirling Bryan and Lindsay Hedden
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1031
  6. Despite the abundant availability of effective medication adherence interventions, uptake of these interventions into routine care often lacks. Examples of effective medication adherence interventions include ...

    Authors: Stijn Hogervorst, Marcia Vervloet, Ruby Janssen, Ellen Koster, Marcel C. Adriaanse, Charlotte L. Bekker, Bart J. F. van den Bemt, Marcel Bouvy, Eibert R. Heerdink, Jacqueline G. Hugtenburg, Menno van Woerkom, Hanneke Zwikker, Caroline van de Steeg-van Gompel and Liset van Dijk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1030
  7. Infectious disease outbreaks pose a significant threat to public health, and achieving herd immunity highlights the importance of addressing conflicts of interest (COI) in vaccine development and policy-making...

    Authors: Nazanin Soleimani, Hamed Ghoshouni, Hakimeh Mostafavi, Mohammad Hossein Modiri, Mohammad Hasan Movahedian Attar and Seyed Masood Mousavi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1028
  8. People with diabetes mellitus (DM) have an estimated two- to three-times greater risk of adverse tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes compared to those without DM. Blood glucose control is a primary aim of man...

    Authors: Lauren Oliveira Hashiguchi, Sharon E. Cox, Tansy Edwards, Mary C. Castro, Mishal Khan and Marco Liverani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1027
  9. When the COVID pandemic hit the world, there was need for applied guides and training materials to support frontline health care staff to manage patients effectively and safely and to educate themselves and co...

    Authors: Sophie Witter, Guanyang Zou, Kiran Cheedella, John Walley and Haja Wurie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1026
  10. Clinical academic allied health professionals can positively impact patient care, organisational performance, and local research culture. Despite a previous national drive to increase these roles, they remain ...

    Authors: Elizabeth King, Terry Cordrey and Owen Gustafson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1025
  11. Health and welfare technologies (HWT) are increasingly procured and implemented by public providers in Swedish municipalities, but it remains unclear if and how evidence for these technologies’ effectiveness i...

    Authors: Matt X. Richardson and Sarah Wamala Andersson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1024
  12. The majority of cancer patients and cancer care clinicians-CCCs (e.g., oncologists) believe that exercise is an important adjunct therapy that should be embedded in standard practice. Yet, CCCs do not routinel...

    Authors: Cristina M. Caperchione, Madeleine English, Paul Sharp, Meera R. Agar, Jane L. Phillips, Winston Liauw, Carole A. Harris, Susan McCullough and Ruth Lilian
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1023
  13. With the double burden of rising chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and persistent infectious diseases facing sub-Saharan Africa, integrated health service delivery strategies among resource-poor countri...

    Authors: David Katende, Ivan Kasamba, Isaac Sekitoleko, Kevin Nakuya, Caleb Kusilika, Allan Buyinza, Michael Charles Mubiru, Gerald Mutungi, Moffat Nyirenda, Heiner Grosskurth and Kathy Baisley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1022
  14. A significant and growing portion of the global burden of diseases is caused by neurological disorders. Tele-neurology has the potential to improve access to health care services and the quality of care, parti...

    Authors: Ana S. Oliveira Gonçalves, Imke Mayer, Ricarda S. Schulz, Agnes Flöel, Felix von Podewils, Anselm Angermaier, Kerstin Wainwright and Tobias Kurth
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1021
  15. Individual psychosocial work characteristics have been associated with health and well-being of registered nurses. However, it is yet to be determined whether different types of psychosocial work characteristi...

    Authors: Katri Lönnqvist, Timo Sinervo, Anu-Marja Kaihlanen, Katri Vehviläinen-Julkunen and Marko Elovainio
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1020
  16. There is a wealth of research, globally, on the help-seeking behavior patterns of individuals with a variety of chronic medical conditions. Contextually relevant findings have been reported describing the infl...

    Authors: Thobekile Kutloano Mtimkulu and Katijah Khoza-Shangase
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1019
  17. Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a major public health concern in sub-Saharan Africa, accounting for nearly 75% of the global disease burden. The current analysis evaluated patient characteristics, treatment patte...

    Authors: Kwaku Marfo, Yvonne Dei-Adomakoh, Catherine Segbefia, Duah Dwomoh, Adeline Edgal, Nancy Ampah, Badarinath Chickballapur Ramachandrachar, Kumaresan Subramanyam, Ashok Natarajan, Olufolake Egbujo and Kenneth I. Ataga
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1018
  18. Participation in cardiac rehabilitation in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) remains underutilised. Digital educational programmes, as part of cardiac rehabilitation, are emerging as a means of incre...

    Authors: Jenny Danielsbacka, Caroline Feldthusen and Maria Bäck
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1017
  19. Improving infant immunization completion and promoting equitable vaccination coverage are crucial to reducing global under-5 childhood mortality. Although there have been hypotheses that the impact of the COVI...

    Authors: Sarah Cooper, Frank Bicaba, Cheick Oumar Tiendrebeogo, Alice Bila, Abel Bicaba and Thomas Druetz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1016
  20. Malawi continues to register HIV/AIDS mortality despite increased expansion of ART services and as well as advanced HIV screening as outlined in the 2020 -2025 Malawi National HIV Strategic Plan (NSP). This st...

    Authors: Brany Mithi, Agatha Bula, Lester Kapanda, Fatsani Ngwalangwa and Evanson Z. Sambala
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1015
  21. Proton pump inhibitor (PPI) abuse poses an overwhelming threat to the allocation of medical resources and places a heavy burden on global medical expenses. In this study, we put forward our prospective prescri...

    Authors: Xiucong Fan, Danxia Chen, Siwei Bao, Xiaohui Dong, Fang Fang, Rong Bai, Yuyi Zhang, Xiaogang Zhang, Weijun Tang, Yabin Ma and Xiaobo Zhai
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1014
  22. Uptake of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) remains low among transgender people as compared to other subgroups, despite high rates of HIV acquisition. In California, Latinx people comprise 40% of the popula...

    Authors: Sophia Zamudio-Haas, Kim Koester, Luz Venegas, Ariana Salinas, Cinthya Herrera, Luis Gutierrez-Mock, Layla Welborn, Madeline B. Deutsch and Jae Sevelius
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1013
  23. The critical role that middle managers play in enacting organisational culture change designed to address unprofessional co-worker behaviours has gone largely unexplored. We aimed to explore middle managers’ p...

    Authors: KL Bagot, E McInnes, R Mannion, RD McMullan, R Urwin, K Churruca, P Hibbert and JI Westbrook
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1012
  24. Clinical Pathways in Oncology can benefit patients using organized interventions to standardize and increase care efficiency. Healthcare systems should have tools to identify their oncological clinical pathway...

    Authors: Mario Forrester, Luiza Breitenfeld, Miguel Castelo-Branco and Jorge Aperta
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1011
  25. In the last ten years, many countries have started to develop constructive systems for registering common diseases and cancers. In this research, we intended to determine and identify the minimum data set (MDS...

    Authors: Leila Shahmoradi, Nazanin Mahdavi, Hana Saffar, Reza Ghalehtaki, Mohammad Shirkhoda, Maziar Motiee-Langroudi, Mohammad Javad Kharazi Fard, Sorayya Rezayi and Erfan Esmaeeli
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1010
  26. Return on Investment (ROI), whereby the ratio of costs to benefits is assessed, is encouraged in-order to justify the value of Quality Improvement (QI) programmes. We previously performed a literature review t...

    Authors: S’thembile Thusini, Tayana Soukup, Kia-Chong Chua and Claire Henderson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1009
  27. During the COVID-19 pandemic, most countries introduced temporary visiting restrictions on the relatives of acute care hospital patients, whether or not they were infected with SARS-CoV-2. This affected relati...

    Authors: N. Tacchini-Jacquier, S. Monnay, E. Bonvin, J. Dubuis and H. Verloo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1008
  28. Affordability and accessibility of hospital care are under pressure. Research on hospital care financing focuses primarily on incentives in the financial system outside the hospital. It is notable that little ...

    Authors: L. V. L. van Leeuwen, R. Mesman, H. J. J. M. Berden and P. P. T. Jeurissen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1007
  29. Burden of dementia is expected to substantially increase. Early dementia is underdiagnosed in primary care. Given the benefits of active management of dementia, earlier detection in primary care is imperative....

    Authors: Monica Zigman Suchsland, Barak Gaster, Jaqueline Raetz, Basia Belza, Lisa McGuire, Benjamin Olivari, Karen Tracy and Annette L. Fitzpatrick
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1006
  30. Routine program data indicates positivity rates under 2% from HIV testing services (HTS) at sites supported by Centre for Health Solutions-Kenya in Central Kenya. Achieving the UNAIDS 95:95:95 goals requires c...

    Authors: Rachael Muinde, Kevin Owuor, Jones Mutiso, Jonathan Mwangi and Paul Wekesa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1005
  31. Lungsco01 is the first study assessing the real benefits and the medico-economic impact of video-thoracoscopy versus open thoracotomy for non-small cell lung cancer in the French context.

    Authors: Anne-Laure Soilly, Ludwig Serge Aho Glélé, Alain Bernard, Halim Abou Hanna, Marc Filaire, Pierre Magdaleinat, Charles Marty-Ané, François Tronc, Renaud Grima, Jean-Marc Baste, Pascal-Alexandre Thomas, Bertrand Richard De Latour, Arnaud Pforr and Pierre-Benoît Pagès
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1004
  32. Utilisation of the Emergency Department (ED) for non-urgent care increases demand for services, therefore reducing inappropriate or avoidable attendances is an important area for intervention in prevention of ...

    Authors: Niamh M Cummins, Louise A Barry, Carrie Garavan, Collette Devlin, Gillian Corey, Fergal Cummins, Damien Ryan, Emma Wallace, Conor Deasy, Mary Flynn, Gerard McCarthy and Rose Galvin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1003
  33. In several countries, citizens are expected to be critical consumers when choosing a health insurance policy. However, there are indications that citizens do not always have the sufficient skills, so called he...

    Authors: Laurens Holst, Adriana Elisabeth Maria Brabers, Jeannette Josepha Dingena Johanna Maria Rademakers and Judith Danielle de Jong
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1002
  34. Because of critical shortage of physician anaesthesiologists, the government of Tanzania adopted a task shifting strategy for provision of anaesthesia services. This paper describes the results of an operation...

    Authors: E. Kweyamba, AS Nyamtema, JC LeBlanc, A. Shayo, RB George, H. Scott, O. Kilume, J. Bulemela, Z. Abel and G. Mtey
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1001
  35. Appropriate use of available inpatient beds is an ongoing challenge for US hospitals. Historical capacity goals of 80% to 85% may no longer serve the intended purpose of maximizing the resources of space, staf...

    Authors: Brian N. Bartlett, Nadine N. Vanhoudt, Hanyin Wang, Ashley A. Anderson, Danielle L. Juliar, Jennifer M. Bartelt, April D. Lanz, Pawan Bhandari and Gokhan Anil
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1000
  36. While health care payers are increasingly considering approaches that help support stable and affordable housing for their beneficiaries, experience with these initiatives is limited. Through its §1115 HealthC...

    Authors: Robert DeGrazia Jr, Abdikarin Abdullahi, MaryAnn Mood, Christin Diehl, Ian Stockwell and Craig Evan Pollack
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:999
  37. The connection between a weak patient safety culture and adverse patient events is well known, but although most long-term care is provided outside of hospitals, the focus of patient safety culture is most com...

    Authors: Anastasia Silverglow, Helle Wijk, Eva Lidén and Lena Johansson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:998
  38. The Swedish Physical Activity on Prescription (PAP-S) is a method for healthcare to promote physical activity for prevention and treatment of health disorders. Despite scientific support and education campaign...

    Authors: Catharina Gustavsson, Maria Nordqvist, Åsa Bergman Bruhn, Kristina Bröms, Lars Jerdén, Lena V. Kallings and Lars Wallin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:996
  39. Primary health care (PHC) institutions are key to realizing the main functions of the health care system. Since the new health care reform in 2009, the Chinese government has invested heavily in PHC institutio...

    Authors: Wanmin Su, Yatian Hou, Mengge Huang, Jiamian Xu, Qingfeng Du and Peixi Wang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:995
  40. Bespoke self-report resource-use measures (RUMs) are commonly developed or adapted for each new randomised controlled trial. Consequently, RUMs lack standardisation and validation is rarely conducted. A new ge...

    Authors: Kirsty Garfield, Joanna C. Thorn, Sian Noble, Samantha Husbands and Will Hollingworth
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:994
  41. Individuals who have a low socio-economic position (SEP) are more likely to smoke and face greater barriers to quitting tobacco. However, the effectiveness of tailored interventions has been limited probably d...

    Authors: Aurélia Manns, Sarah Mahdjoub, Gladys Ibanez, Emilie Jarrier, Ava Daeipour, Maria Melchior and Fabienne El-Khoury
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:993
  42. Many countries face an increasing demand for home-based healthcare services, and consequently experience a mismatch between expectations and available financial and human resources. It is therefore important t...

    Authors: Olaug Øygarden, Martin Nøkleberg and Leif Jarle Gressgård
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:991
  43. This study aimed to explore the experiences and needs of (ex-)welfare benefit recipients from a large urban municipality in the Netherlands regarding their welfare-to-work services and their case workers.

    Authors: Esmee Oude Geerdink, Ranu Sewdas, Hetty van Kempen, Jaap van Weeghel, Johannes R. Anema and Maaike A. Huysmans
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:990
  44. No-show appointments pose a significant challenge for healthcare providers, particularly in rural areas. In this study, we developed an evidence-based predictive model for patient no-shows at the Marshfield Cl...

    Authors: Abdul R. Shour, Garrett L. Jones, Ronald Anguzu, Suhail A. Doi and Adedayo A Onitilo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:989
  45. Although patient experience surveys flourish in many countries with the aim to improve quality of care, questions remain concerning their ability to become effective drivers of change within institutions. The ...

    Authors: Marion Crubezy, Céline Douay, Philippe Michel and Julie Haesebaert
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:988
  46. The digitalization studies in public hospitals in Türkiye started with the Health Transformation Program in 2003. As digitalization was accomplished, the policymakers needed to measure hospitals’ electronic he...

    Authors: İlker Köse, Sinem Cece, Songül Yener, Senanur Seyhan, Beytiye Özge Elmas, John Rayner, Şuayip Birinci, Mustafa Mahir Ülgü, Esra Zehir and Berrin Gündoğdu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:987
  47. Given the variability of intensive care unit (ICU) costs in different countries and the importance of this information for guiding clinicians to effective treatment and to the organisation of ICUs at the natio...

    Authors: Arnaud Bruyneel, Lionel Larcin, Dimitri Martins, Julie Van Den Bulcke, Pol Leclercq and Magali Pirson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:986