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Section edited by Koustuv Dalal and Howard Degenholtz
This section aims to publish studies on healthcare quality practice and improving patient care and its safety. The section also accepts articles on changes in the health status of an individual, group or population resulting from interventions of the health care team.
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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
Research article
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
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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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 aim of the study was to explore the impact of the implementation of an electronic prescribing and medication administration system (ePA) on the safety of medication administration in an inpatient hospital ...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:547
Published on: 9 August 2017
Research article
The Care-Related Quality of Life survey for Chronic Heart Failure (CaReQoL CHF) is a newly developed patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) that measures care-related quality of life in patients diagnosed wit...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:536
Published on: 7 August 2017
Research article
Medication reconciliation is a safety practice to identify medication order discrepancies when patients’ transitions between settings. In nursing homes, registered nurses (RNs) and licensed practical nurses (L...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:531
Published on: 4 August 2017
Research article
The paper aims to review, design and implement a multidimensional performance measurement system for a public research hospital in order to address the complexity of its multifaceted stakeholder requirements a...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:522
Published on: 3 August 2017
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Measuring patient safety culture can provide insight into areas for improvement and help monitor changes over time. This study details the findings of a re-assessment of patient safety culture in a multi-site ...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:516
Published on: 2 August 2017
Research article
Concerns about patient safety and reducing harm have led to a particular focus on initiatives that improve healthcare quality. However Quality Improvement (QI) initiatives have in the past typically faltered b...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:510
Published on: 1 August 2017
Research article
Feedback tools for clinical audit data that compare site-specific results to average performance over all sites can be useful for quality improvement. Proposed tools should be simple and clearly benchmark the ...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:506
Published on: 24 July 2017
Research article
Clinical quality indicators are used to monitor the performance of healthcare services and should wherever possible be based on research evidence. Little is known however about the extent to which indicators i...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:502
Published on: 21 July 2017
Research article
Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is a key concern for people living with cancer and can impair physical functioning and activities of daily living. Evidence-based guidelines for CRF are available, yet inconsistent...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:496
Published on: 18 July 2017
Research article
Intervention toolkits are common products of grant-funded research in public health and primary care settings. Toolkits are designed to address the knowledge translation gap by speeding implementation and diss...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:497
Published on: 18 July 2017
Research article
Burnout among healthcare professionals is one of the key challenges affecting health care practice and quality of care. This systematic review aims to (1) estimate the prevalence of burnout among health care p...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:491
Published on: 17 July 2017
Research article
In the last decade, the number of patients supported by informal caregivers has substantially increased. In the Italian healthcare context, informal caregivers’ experience of care is a new under-recognized con...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:494
Published on: 17 July 2017
Research article
Potential barriers to breast cancer screening adherence include patient satisfaction, as well as pain, feeling obliged to participate, and other concerns that might compromise the level of satisfaction.
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:489
Published on: 14 July 2017
Research article
Swedish nursing home care has undergone a transformation, where the previous virtual public monopoly on providing such services has been replaced by a system of mixed provision. This has led to a rapidly growi...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:487
Published on: 14 July 2017
Research article
Rates of Bordetella pertussis have been increasing in Alberta, Canada despite vaccination programs. Waning immunity from existing acellular component vaccines may be contributing to this. Vaccine effectiveness ca...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:479
Published on: 12 July 2017
Research article
Patient/Person Centred Care (PCC) has achieved widespread attention which resulted in the identification of eight dimensions of PCC: Respect for the patients’ values, preferences and expressed needs; informati...
BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:472
Published on: 11 July 2017
