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Increasingly, nurse practitioners (NPs) are deployed in teams along with general practitioners (GPs) to help meet the demand for out-of-hours care. The purpose of this study was to explore factors influencing ...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:589
Published on: 23 August 2017
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Preventive health services (PHSs) form part of primary healthcare with the aim of screening to prevent disease. Migrants show significant differences in lifestyle, health beliefs and risk factors compared with...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:588
Published on: 23 August 2017
Research article
In China, increasing attention has been devoted to the patient safety culture within health administrative departments and healthcare organizations. However, no official version of a patient safety culture ass...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:590
Published on: 23 August 2017
Study protocol
Follow-up care after kidney transplantation is performed in transplant centers as well as in local nephrologist’s practices in Germany. However, organized integrated care of these different sectors of the Germ...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:587
Published on: 23 August 2017
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Psychiatric comorbidities are common among patients treated for physical disorders. Attitudes of non-psychiatric doctors toward psychological/psychiatric problems have significant implications for care provisi...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:576
Published on: 22 August 2017
Debate
The past fifteen years have been marked by large-scale change efforts undertaken by healthcare organizations to improve patient safety and patient-centered care. Despite substantial investment of effort and re...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:582
Published on: 22 August 2017
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Patient reported outcome measures are frequently used standard questionnaires or tools designed to collect information from patients regarding their health status and care. Their use enables accurate and relev...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:574
Published on: 22 August 2017
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Diabetes is a significant global public health concern. Poor knowledge of disease and healthcare utilization is associated with worse health outcomes, leading to increasing burden of diabetes in many developin...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:586
Published on: 22 August 2017
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There is a growing emphasis on the need to engage patients in order to improve the quality of health care and improve health outcomes. However, we are still lacking a comprehensive understanding on how differe...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:579
Published on: 22 August 2017
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While health care needs assessments have been conducted among juveniles or adolescents by researchers in developed countries, assessments using an ethics framework particularly in developing countries are lack...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:581
Published on: 22 August 2017
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Chart-stimulated recall (CSR) is a case-based interviewing technique, which is used in the assessment of clinical decision-making in medical education and professional certification. Increasingly, clinical dec...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:583
Published on: 22 August 2017
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Results of associations between process and mortality indicators, both used for the external assessment of hospital care quality or public reporting, differ strongly across studies. However, most of those stud...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:578
Published on: 22 August 2017
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There is no standard treatment pathway for tinnitus patients in the UK. Possible therapies include education and reassurance, cognitive behavioural therapies, modified tinnitus retraining therapy (education an...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:577
Published on: 22 August 2017
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There has been a rapid scale up of HIV services and access to anti-retroviral therapy in Africa over the last 10 years as a result of multilateral donor funding mechanisms. However, in order to continue to exp...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:580
Published on: 22 August 2017
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Continuity of care can bring a wide range of benefits to consumers, providers and health care systems. This study aimed to understand the relationship preferences of primary care patients and their association...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:585
Published on: 22 August 2017
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Substance abuse is a growing, but mostly silent, epidemic among older adults. We sought to analyze the trends in admissions for substance abuse treatment among older adults (aged 55 and older).
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:584
Published on: 22 August 2017
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Over the last decade, the availability and use of mobile phones have grown exponentially globally and in Cambodia. In the Sihanouk Hospital Centre of Hope(SHCH) in Cambodia about half of all tuberculosis patie...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:575
Published on: 22 August 2017
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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
Research article
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
Study protocol
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
Erratum
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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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
