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Traditional gender roles result in women lagging behind men in the use of modern technologies, especially in developing countries. Although there is rapid uptake of mobile phone use in Bangladesh, investigatio...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:573
Published on: 18 August 2017
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Very preterm (VPT) children, with a birth weight below 1500 g or delivered before 32 weeks of gestational age, are at increased risk of poorer long-term health outcomes and higher rates of hospitalization in c...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:571
Published on: 17 August 2017
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Management of patients with chronic conditions relies on accurate measurement. It is unknown how transition to the ICD-10 coding system affected reporting of chronic condition rates over time. We measured chro...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:572
Published on: 17 August 2017
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Internationally there has been a growth in the use of publicly funded service markets as a mechanism to deliver health and social services. This has accompanied the emergence of ‘self-directed care’ in a numbe...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:570
Published on: 17 August 2017
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BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:569
Published on: 17 August 2017
The original article was published in BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:528
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Improving quality of care and patient safety practices can strengthen health care delivery systems, improve health sector performance, and accelerate attainment of health-related Sustainability Development Goa...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:568
Published on: 16 August 2017
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In South Korea, people injured in road traffic accidents receive compensation for medical costs through their automobile insurance. However, the automobile insurance system appears to manage health care ineffi...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:567
Published on: 16 August 2017
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Considerable debate exists concerning the effects of antiretroviral therapy (ART) service scale-up on non-HIV services and overall health system performance in sub-Saharan Africa. In this study, we examined wh...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:564
Published on: 16 August 2017
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Studies on data collection and quality of care in Italian family medicine are lacking. The aim of this study was to assess the completeness of data collection of patients with diabetes in a large sample of fam...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:565
Published on: 16 August 2017
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Ontario’s large community hospitals (LCHs) provide care to 65% of the province’s hospitalized patients, yet we know very little about their research activities. By searching for research publications from 2013...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:566
Published on: 16 August 2017
Erratum
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:563
Published on: 16 August 2017
The original article was published in BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:357
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Previous evaluation showed insufficient use of a national guideline for integrated local health policy by Regional Health Services (RHS) in the Netherlands. The guideline focuses on five health topics and incl...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:562
Published on: 15 August 2017
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There is limited real-world data on the economic burden of patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). The objective of this study was to estimate the annual direct and indirect costs o...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:560
Published on: 15 August 2017
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The goals of our study were to describe the types of family accommodation for parents of hospitalized children and to examine their influence on the pediatric hospital experience.
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:561
Published on: 15 August 2017
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Telephone consultation and triage services are increasingly being used to deliver health advice. Availability of high speed internet services in remote areas allows healthcare providers to move from telephone ...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:558
Published on: 14 August 2017
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The impact of untreated syphilis during pregnancy on neonatal health remains a major public health threat worldwide. Given the high prevalence of syphilis during pregnancy in Zambia and Democratic Republic of ...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:556
Published on: 14 August 2017
Study protocol
Falls and fall-related injuries in older adults are associated with great burdens, both for the individuals, the health care system and the society. Previous research has shown evidence for the efficiency of e...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:559
Published on: 14 August 2017
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The English National Health Service (NHS) has significantly extended the supply of evidence based psychological interventions in primary care for people experiencing common mental health problems. Yet despite
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:557
Published on: 14 August 2017
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One of the most difficult issues for care staff is the manifestation of challenging behaviour among residents with dementia. The first step in managing this type of behaviour is analysing its triggers. A struc...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:554
Published on: 14 August 2017
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Hospitals around the world are faced with the issue of boarders in emergency department (ED), patients marked for admission but with no available inpatient bed. Boarder status is known to be associated with de...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:555
Published on: 14 August 2017
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Despite efforts by professional societies to reduce low value care, many reports indicate that unnecessary tests, such as nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), are commonly used in contemporary practice....
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:553
Published on: 11 August 2017
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Hospital staff experience high level of work stress and they have to find strategies to adapt and react to it. When they perceive emotional exhaustion and job dissatisfaction in response to constant work stres...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:551
Published on: 10 August 2017
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The cause of adverse weekend clinical outcomes remains unknown. In 2013, the “NHS Services, Seven Days a Week” project was initiated to improve access to services across the seven-day week. Three years on, we sou...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:552
Published on: 10 August 2017
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Multiple studies have investigated the outcome of integrated care programs for chronically ill patients. However, few studies have addressed the specific role hospitals can play in the downstream collaboration...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:550
Published on: 9 August 2017
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The aim of this study was to assess the frequency of chest pain presentations and the subsequent non-cardiac chest pain diagnoses in an emergency department (ED) over a 3 year period.
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:549
Published on: 9 August 2017
