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Utilization patterns of healthcare facility and estimated expenditure of PLHIV care under the Indonesian National Health Insurance Scheme in 2018

This study analyzed current patterns of service use, referral, and expenditure regarding HIV care under the National Health Insurance Scheme (JKN) to identify opportunities to improve HIV treatment coverage. A...

Authors: Ery Setiawan, Nurjannah Nurjannah, Kalsum Komaryani, Ryan Rachmad Nugraha, Hasbullah Thabrany, Farah Purwaningrum and Prih Sarnianto

Health practitioners’ perceptions of structural barriers to the identification of intimate partner abuse: a qualitative meta-synthesis

Health care practitioners (HCPs) play a critical role in identifying and responding to intimate partner abuse (IPA). Despite this, studies consistently demonstrate a range of barriers that prevent HCPs from ef...

Authors: Naomi Hudspeth, Jacqui Cameron, Surriya Baloch, Laura Tarzia and Kelsey Hegarty

Is respectful care provided by community health workers associated with infant feeding practices? A cross sectional analysis from India

Breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices in India do not meet recommendations. Community health care workers (CHWs) are often the primary source of information for pregnant and postpartum women about ...

Authors: Nadia Diamond-Smith, Lakshmi Gopalakrishnan, Dilys Walker, Lia Fernald, Purnima Menon and Sumeet Patil

Trends in the development process of clinical practice guidelines: a questionnaire survey for the guideline development groups in Japan

Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are representative methods for promoting healthcare standardization and improving its quality. Previous studies on the CPG (published by 2006) development process in Japan r...

Authors: Yosuke Hatakeyama, Kanako Seto, Koki Hirata, Ryo Onishi, Kunichika Matsumoto and Tomonori Hasegawa

The community residents’ NIMBY attitude on the construction of community ageing care service centres: a cross-sectional study

China is the country with the largest elderly population. To actively respond to this ageing population, China has proposed the Community Aged Care Service Centre (CACSC) network as the major elderly care deve...

Authors: Bo Yu, Yue-Hong Han, Yin Sun and Xu-Dong Zhang

Understanding low-value care and associated de-implementation processes: a qualitative study of Choosing Wisely Interventions across Canadian hospitals

Choosing Wisely (CW) is an international movement comprised of campaigns in more than 20 countries to reduce low-value care (LVC). De-implementation, the reduction or removal of a healthcare practice that offe...

Authors: Gillian Parker, Monika Kastner, Karen Born, Nida Shahid and Whitney Berta

A cross-sectional study of knowledge and practices in the management of patients with Parkinson’s disease amongst public practice-based general practitioners and geriatricians

As most patients are likely to first interface with their community general practitioner (GP) or geriatrician for chronic healthcare conditions, these non-neurologists practitioners are well-placed to diagnose...

Authors: Isis Claire Z. Y. Lim, Seyed Ehsan Saffari and Shermyn Neo

Access to denture restoration services under removable dentures subsidy program for adults aged 65 years and older in Taiwan- an interpretive approach

Access is an important issue in health equality. Availability of dental services and cost subsidies is an important factor affecting access to denture restoration for the elderly. This study aims to explore ac...

Authors: Kuan-Yu Chu

Hospital market concentration and the use of mechanical circulatory support devices in acute myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock

As health care markets in the United States have become increasingly consolidated, the role of market concentration on physician treatment behavior remains unclear. In cardiology, specifically, there has been ...

Authors: Adam S. Vohra, Sun-Joo Jang, Dmitriy N. Feldman, Parag Goyal, Udhay Krishnan, Christopher Sciria, Jim W. Cheung and Luke K. Kim

‘You just really have to assert yourself:’ social work, nursing, and rehabilitation counseling student experiences of providing integrated behavioral health services before and after the immediate start of COVID-19

Educators who train healthcare students to provide behavioral health services in primary care settings frequently encounter challenges as they work to ensure that students acquire the knowledge and skills to e...

Authors: Edward J. Alessi, Barbara Caldwell, Anthony S. Zazzarino, Brett Greenfield and Patricia A. Findley

Staff perceptions of the management of mental health presentations to the emergency department of a rural Australian hospital: qualitative study

Current research demonstrates higher prevalence of mental health related emergency department (ED) presentations in rural areas, despite similar overall prevalence of these conditions in rural and metropolitan...

Authors: Rishaan Pawaskar, Neha Mahajan, Eklavya Wangoo, Wafa Khan, Jannine Bailey and Robyn Vines

Health beliefs and behaviors of livestock industry workers regarding Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Northwest of Iran

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is an acute, feverous disease that is caused by tick bites or humans’ direct contact with the blood and tissues of infected livestock and humans. The transmission of the ...

Authors: Malek Abazari, Davoud Adham, Abedin Saghafipour, Zahra Taheri-Kharameh, Abbas Abbasi-Ghahramanloo, Javad Asadollahi, Amin Babaei Pouya and Eslam Moradi Asl

Exploring research capacity and culture of allied health professionals: a mixed methods evaluation

Despite the myriad benefits of research to patients, professionals, and organisations, fewer than 0.1% of the Allied Health Professions workforce are employed in clinical academic roles. Identified barriers in...

Authors: Terry Cordrey, Elizabeth King, Emma Pilkington, Katie Gore and Owen Gustafson

Explaing users’ technology acceptance through national cultural values in the hospital context

Current research demonstrates that health information technology can improve the efficiency and quality of health services. However, many implementation projects have failed due to behavioural problems associa...

Authors: C. Metallo, R. Agrifoglio, L. Lepore and L. Landriani

Correction to: Impacts of bariatric surgery in health outcomes and health care costs in Brazil: Interrupted time series analysis of multi-panel data

Authors: José Antonio Orellana Turri, Nana Kwame Anokye, Lionai Lima dos Santos, José Maria Soares Júnior, Edmund Chada Baracat, Marco Aurélio Santo and Flavia Mori Sarti

A single-entry model and wait time for hip and knee replacement in eastern health region of Newfoundland and Labrador 2011–2019

A single-entry model in healthcare consolidates waiting lists through a central intake and allows patients to see the next available health care provider based on the prioritization. This study aimed to examin...

Authors: Anh Thu Vo, Yanqing Yi, Maria Mathews, James Valcour, Michelle Alexander and Marcel Billard

The process of telepractice implementation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a narrative inquiry of preschool speech-language pathologists and assistants from one center in Canada

Many professional services were pressed to adopt telepractice in response to the global coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic. The need to adopt a new service delivery approach quickly created different i...

Authors: Elaine Yuen Ling Kwok, Jessica Chiu, Peter Rosenbaum and Barbara Jane Cunningham

A sub-group evaluation of the multi-month dispensing strategy for differentiated HIV care: is personalization of care guidelines warranted in Haiti?

Differentiated care strategies are rapidly becoming the norm for HIV care delivery globally. Building upon an interest in tailoring antiretroviral therapy (ART) delivery for client-centered needs, the Ministry...

Authors: Canada Parrish, Anirban Basu, Paul Fishman, Jean Baptiste Koama, Ermane Robin, Kesner Francois, Jean Guy Honoré, Joëlle Deas Van Onacker and Nancy Puttkamme

Clinical pharmacist assessment of drug-related problems among intensive care unit patients in a Turkish university hospital

Critically ill patients treated in the intensive care units (ICUs) often suffer from side effects and drug-related problems (DRPs) that can be life-threatening. A way to prevent DRPs and improve drug safety an...

Authors: Aslınur Albayrak, Bilgen Başgut, Gülbin Aygencel Bıkmaz and Bensu Karahalil

Reasons for acute referrals to hospital from general practitioners and out-of-hours doctors in Norway: a registry-based observational study

General practitioners (GPs) and out-of-hours (OOH) doctors are gatekeepers to acute hospital admissions in many healthcare systems. The aim of the present study was to investigate the whole range of reasons fo...

Authors: Jesper Blinkenberg, Øystein Hetlevik, Hogne Sandvik, Valborg Baste and Steinar Hunskaar

User testing of a Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network public guideline for the parents of children with autism

The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) is the leading national clinical guideline producer in Scotland. Improved design and dissemination of guidelines produced for the public can empower peopl...

Authors: Naomi Fearns, Laura Walker, Karen Graham, Norman Gibb and Duncan Service

Attitude toward second opinions in Germany – a survey of the general population

Second medical opinions (SOs) can assist patients in making informed treatment decisions and improve the understanding of their diagnosis. In Germany, there are different approaches to obtain a structured SO p...

Authors: Nadja Könsgen, Barbara Prediger, Anna Schlimbach, Ana-Mihaela Bora, Simone Hess, Michael Caspers and Dawid Pieper

A qualitative system dynamics model for effects of workplace violence and clinician burnout on agitation management in the emergency department

Over 1.7 million episodes of agitation occur annually across the United States in emergency departments (EDs), some of which lead to workplace assaults on clinicians and require invasive methods like physical ...

Authors: Ambrose H. Wong, Nasim S. Sabounchi, Hannah R. Roncallo, Jessica M. Ray and Rebekah Heckmann

Veteran families with complex needs: a qualitative study of the veterans’ support system

Families with complex needs face significant challenges accessing and navigating health and social services. For veteran families, these challenges are exacerbated by interactions between military and civilian...

Authors: Angela M. Maguire, Julieann Keyser, Kelly Brown, Daniel Kivlahan, Madeline Romaniuk, Ian R. Gardner and Miriam Dwyer

Improving hospital-based processes for effective implementation of Government funded health insurance schemes: evidence from early implementation of PM-JAY in India

Government-sponsored health insurance schemes (GSHIS) aim to improve access to and utilization of healthcare services and offer financial protection to the population. India’s Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Ja...

Authors: Anurag Saxena, Mayur Trivedi, Zubin Cyrus Shroff and Manas Sharma

Patients’ perspective on supposedly patient-relevant process and outcome parameters: a cross-sectional survey within the ‘PRO patients study’

To be able to make informed choices based on their individual preferences, patients need to be adequately informed about treatment options and their potential outcomes. This implies that studies measure the ef...

Authors: Christine Kersting, Julia Hülsmann, Klaus Weckbecker and Achim Mortsiefer

Do pharmacy practice standards effectively describe behaviour? Reviewing practice standards using a behavioural specificity framework

Guidelines and practice standards exist to communicate the conduct and behaviour expected of health care professionals and ensure consistent quality practice. It is important that they describe behaviours expl...

Authors: Deanna Mill, Amy Page, Jacinta Johnson, Kenneth Lee, Sandra M. Salter, Liza Seubert, Rhonda Clifford and Danielle D’Lima

What underlies the observed hospital volume-outcome relationship?

Studies of the hospital volume-outcome relationship have highlighted that a greater volume activity improves patient outcomes. While this finding has been known for years, most studies to date have failed to d...

Authors: Marius Huguet, Xavier Joutard, Isabelle Ray-Coquard and Lionel Perrier

Cost of integrating assisted partner services in HIV testing services in Kisumu and Homa Bay counties, Kenya: a microcosting study

HIV assisted partner services (aPS), or provider notification and testing for sexual and injecting partners of people diagnosed with HIV, is shown to be safe, effective, and cost-effective and was scaled up wi...

Authors: Beatrice Wamuti, Monisha Sharma, Edward Kariithi, Harison Lagat, George Otieno, Rose Bosire, Sarah Masyuko, Mary Mugambi, Bryan J. Weiner, David A. Katz, Carey Farquhar and Carol Levin

Evaluation of a Medicaid performance improvement project to reduce high-dose opioid prescriptions

In 2015, Oregon’s Medicaid program implemented a performance improvement project to reduce high-dose opioid prescribing across its 16 coordinated care organizations (CCOs). The objective of this study was to e...

Authors: Daniel M. Hartung, Jonah Geddes, Sara E. Hallvik, P. Todd Korthuis, Luke Middleton, Gillian Leichtling, Christi Hildebran and Hyunjee Kim

How do working conditions affect the turnover intention of medical social workers in China?

The development of medical social work is an indispensable part of the Healthy China Strategy. However, the medical service field has the fewest social workers in all service fields in China. Creating favorabl...

Authors: Na Li, Jin Peng and Rui Yang

Associations of the COVID-19 pandemic with older individuals’ healthcare utilization and self-reported health status: a longitudinal analysis from Singapore

The COVID–19 pandemic has challenged the capacity of healthcare systems around the world and can potentially compromise healthcare utilization and health outcomes among non-COVID–19 patients.

Authors: SangNam Ahn, Seonghoon Kim and Kanghyock Koh

The deployment of balanced scorecard in health care organizations: is it beneficial? A systematic review

Balanced Scorecard (BSC) has been implemented for three decades to evaluate and improve the performance of organizations. To the best of the researchers’ knowledge, no previous systematic review has performed ...

Authors: Faten Amer, Sahar Hammoud, Haitham Khatatbeh, Szimonetta Lohner, Imre Boncz and Dóra Endrei

Hospital management practices in county-level hospitals in rural China and international comparison

Although management is important in healthcare, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have little experience measuring the competence of hospital management. While improving hospital management is the main ...

Authors: Min Hu, Wen Chen and Winnie Yip

Cost-savings and potential cost-savings through the distribution of generic antiretroviral drugs within the statutory health insurance market of Germany between January 2017 and June 2019

Recent patent losses for antiretroviral drugs (ARV) have led to the debate of cost-saving through the replacement of patented drugs with generic drugs. The split of recommended single-tablet regimens (STR) int...

Authors: Matthäus Lottes, Viviane Bremer, Christof Prugger, Christian Kollan and Daniel Schmidt

Healthcare professionals’ perceptions on barriers and facilitators to DMARD use in rheumatoid arthritis

Disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) are the cornerstone of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment. However, the full benefits of DMARDs are often not realized because many patients are sub-optimally a...

Authors: M. J. H. Voshaar, B. J. F. van den Bemt, M. A. F. J. van de Laar, A. M. van Dulmen and J. E. Vriezekolk

Relationship between housing insecurity, diabetes processes of care, and self-care behaviors

The aim of this analysis was to examine the influence of housing insecurity on diabetes processes of care and self-care behaviors and determine if that relationship varied by employment status or race/ethnicity.

Authors: Elise Mosley-Johnson, Rebekah J. Walker, Madhuli Thakkar, Jennifer A. Campbell, Laura Hawks, Sarah Pyzyk and Leonard E. Egede

Analysis of the implementation of an innovative IT solution to improve waiting times, communication with primary care and efficiency in Rheumatology

To describe in detail an innovative program based on telemedicine for semi-automated prioritization of referrals from Primary Care (PC) to Rheumatology, for reproducibility purposes, and to present the results...

Authors: José María Pego-Reigosa, Carlos Peña-Gil, David Rodríguez-Lorenzo, Irene Altabás-González, Naír Pérez-Gómez, John Henry Guzmán-Castro, Rodrigo Varela-Gestoso, Reyes Díaz-Lambarri, Alberto González-Carreró-López, Olga Míguez-Senra, Julia Bóveda-Fontán, Ángeles Charle-Crespo, Francisco Javier Caramés-Casal, Ceferino Barbazán-Álvarez, Íñigo Hernández-Rodríguez, Francisco Maceiras-Pan…

Optimizing care coordination to address social determinants of health needs for dual-use veterans

Veterans increasingly utilize both the Veteran’s Health Administration (VA) and non-VA hospitals (dual-users). Dual-users are at increased risk of fragmented care and adverse outcomes and often do not receive ...

Authors: Heidi Sjoberg, Wenhui Liu, Carly Rohs, Roman A Ayele, Marina McCreight, Ashlea Mayberry and Catherine Battaglia

Multidisciplinary residential home intervention to improve outcomes for frail residents

Residential homes provide accommodation and assistance with personal care only and are not required to have registered nurses on site. However, their residents often have a combination of comorbidity, polyphar...

Authors: Anna Steel, Helen Hopwood, Elizabeth Goodwin and Elizabeth L. Sampson

Transformational Change in maternity services in England: a longitudinal qualitative study of a national transformation programme ‘Early Adopter’

Large system transformation in health systems is designed to improve quality, outcomes and efficiency. Using empirical data from a longitudinal study of national policy-driven transformation of maternity servi...

Authors: Beck Taylor, Alistair Hewison, Fiona Cross-Sudworth and Kevin Morrell

Exploring peer navigation and support in the quality of HIV care experiences of female sex workers in the Dominican Republic

Despite evidence on peer navigation’s association with positive HIV outcomes, such as engagement in HIV care and antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation, the mechanisms through which peer navigation may influe...

Authors: Tahilin Sanchez Karver, Clare Barrington, Yeycy Donastorg, Martha Perez, Hoisex Gomez, Kathleen R. Page, David Celentano, Katherine Clegg Smith and Deanna Kerrigan

A cost-minimisation analysis of performing point-of-care ultrasonography on patients with vaginal bleeding in early pregnancy in general practice: a decision analytical model

Spotting and light vaginal bleeding are common and usually harmless symptoms in early pregnancy. Still, vaginal bleeding may be the first sign of an abortion and often causes distress to pregnant women and lea...

Authors: Swaathi Kiritharan, Mille Vang Johanson, Martin Bach Jensen, Janus Nikolaj Laust Thomsen, Camilla Aakjær Andersen and Cathrine Elgaard Jensen

Village health workers as health diplomats: negotiating health and study participation in a malaria elimination trial in The Gambia

Although many success stories exist of Village Health Workers (VHWs) improving primary health care, critiques remain about the medicalisation of their roles in disease-specific interventions. VHWs are placed a...

Authors: Yoriko Masunaga, Joan Muela Ribera, Fatou Jaiteh, Daniel H. de Vries and Koen Peeters Grietens

Conventional health care service utilization among cancer survivors that visit traditional and complementary providers in the Tromsø study: a cross-sectional study

Traditional and complementary medicine (T&CM) is commonly used among cancer patients worldwide. Cancer patients in Norway mainly visit T&CM providers in addition to conventional health care services. It is not...

Authors: Kiwumulo Nakandi, Dana Mora, Trine Stub and Agnete E. Kristoffersen

The impact of current smoking, regular drinking, and physical inactivity on health care-seeking behavior in China

People with lifestyle behaviors, such as current smoking, regular drinking, and physical inactivity, may experience a lack of or delayed health care, leading to severe sickness and higher health care expenditu...

Authors: Changle Li and Jing Sun

What motivates physicians to propose private services in a mixed private-public healthcare system? A mixed methods study

Implementation of private elements, including private insurances, in public healthcare system is now common in many countries, and its impacts have been well studied. Little, however, is known about the motive...

Authors: Tal Michael, Dani Filc and Nadav Davidovitch

What makes an effective Quality Improvement Manager? A qualitative study in the New Zealand Health System

Quality improvement is an international priority, and health organisations invest heavily in this endeavour. Little, however, is known of the role and perspectives of Quality Improvement Managers who are respo...

Authors: Adeel Akmal, Nataliya Podgorodnichenko, Tim Stokes, Jeff Foote, Richard Greatbanks and Robin Gauld

Exploring drug cost and disease outcome in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with biologic and targeted synthetic DMARDs in Norway in 2010–2019 – a country with a national tender system for prescription of costly drugs

In Norway, an annual tender system for the prescription of biologic and targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (b/tsDMARDs) has been used since 2007. This study aimed to explore annual b/tsDM...

Authors: Alen Brkic, Andreas P. Diamantopoulos, Espen Andre Haavardsholm, Bjørg Tilde Svanes Fevang, Lene Kristin Brekke, Liz Loli, Camilla Zettel, Erik Rødevand, Gunnstein Bakland, Pawel Mielnik and Glenn Haugeberg

Benefits, risks, and cost-effectiveness of COVID-19 self-tests from a consumer’s perspective

The aim of this study is to quantify the health benefits, risks, and cost-effectiveness of COVID-19 self-tests from a consumer’s perspective in Germany.

Authors: Afschin Gandjour