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Section edited by Stefano Bonacina, Marie Pierre Gagnon and Holly Lanham
This section aims to publish studies looking at how health care is planned, organized and structured, including in terms of relationships among personnel or departments, as well as research on the provision of healthcare to an individual, group, population or community.
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
Research article
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
Research article
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
Research article
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
Research article
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
Research article
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
Research article
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
Research article
The HIV epidemic has triggered the development of new health institutions with a special focus on HIV care. The role of these relatively new institutions within the health systems of low-income countries like ...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:548
Published on: 9 August 2017
Research article
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
Hypothesis
In several health systems of advanced countries, reforms have changed primary care in the last two decades. The literature has assessed the effects of a variety of interventions and individual factors on the b...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:543
Published on: 8 August 2017
Research article
The UK National Health Service Emergency Departments (ED) have recently faced increasing attendance rates. This study investigated associations of general practice and practice population characteristics with ...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:546
Published on: 8 August 2017
Research article
The UK National Health Service provides Stop Smoking Services for pregnant women (SSSP) but there is a lack of evidence concerning how these are best organised. This study investigates influences on services’ ...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:545
Published on: 8 August 2017
Research article
Most countries face an ageing population, increasing chronic diseased, and constrictions on budget for providing health services. Involving patients in their own care by allowing them access to their patient d...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:534
Published on: 7 August 2017
Research article
Dementia is an irreversible chronic disease with wide-ranging effects on patients’, caregivers’ and families’ lives. Hospitalizations are significant events for people with dementia. They tend to have poorer o...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:530
Published on: 4 August 2017
Research article
Hysterectomy is among the most common surgeries performed on U.S. women. For benign conditions, minimally invasive hysterectomy is recommended, whenever permitted by clinical indication and previous surgery hi...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:526
Published on: 4 August 2017
Research article
The introduction of innovative models of healthcare does not necessarily mean that they become embedded in everyday clinical practice. This study has two aims: first, to analyse deliberate and emergent strateg...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:527
Published on: 4 August 2017
Research article
Health systems must transition from catering primarily to acute conditions, to meet the increasing burden of chronic disease and multimorbidity. Case management is a popular method of integrating care, seeking...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:521
Published on: 3 August 2017
Research article
The purpose of this study is to understand health care provider barriers to referring patients to Medical Fitness Center Facilities within an affiliated teaching hospital system using referral of diabetic serv...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:520
Published on: 3 August 2017
Research article
Rural residents have poorer oral health and more limited access to dental services than their city counterparts. In rural communities, health care professionals often work in an extended capacity due to the ne...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:515
Published on: 1 August 2017
Research article
The health literacy skills required by individuals to interact effectively with health services depends on the complexity of those services, and the demands they place on people. Public health and social servi...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:513
Published on: 1 August 2017
