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  1. Physiotherapy services are an important part of the primary health care services for children, serving a broad spectrum of children referred from different sources and for a variety of reasons. There is limite...

    Authors: Kari Anne I. Evensen, Siw Sellæg, Anne-Cath Stræte, Anne E. Hansen and Ingebrigt Meisingset
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:16
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:118

  2. Women with previous gestational diabetes have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life. Recommendations therefore urge these women to participate in follow-up screening, 4–12 weeks postpar...

    Authors: Jane Hyldgaard Nielsen, G. J. Melendez-Torres, Torill Alise Rotevatn, Kimberly Peven, Kirsten Fonager and Charlotte Overgaard
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:535
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  3. Drug overuse or drug underuse are the most common causes of adverse drug events and can lead to hospital admissions. Using clinical pharmacists in the emergency department may improve patient safety as they ar...

    Authors: R. N. Rahman, B. Nikolik, M. A. J. de Ridder, A. E. Hoek, M. J. A. Janssen, S. C. E. Schuit, F. Karapinar-Çarkit and P. M. L. A. van den Bemt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1363
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  5. Access to evidence-based psychological treatment is a concern in many parts of the globe due to government-level financial constraints and patient-level barriers. Transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural therapy ...

    Authors: Alexandra Chapdelaine, Helen-Maria Vasiliadis, Martin D. Provencher, Peter J. Norton and Pasquale Roberge
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:596
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  6. Recent research has indicated a seemingly increased propensity for both falls and accelerated bone loss in people living with HIV (PLWH). Physiotherapists play a crucial role in optimising function and quality...

    Authors: Maria Y. Charumbira, Karina Berner and Quinette Louw
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:333
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  7. This study aimed to examine the healthcare-seeking (hospital, primary and preventive care) and healthcare utilisation behaviour of patients with private health insurance (PHI) in Australia. It also aimed to ex...

    Authors: Rezwanul Hasan Rana, Khorshed Alam and Jeff Gow
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:380
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  8. There is a wide range of actions an individual could take when sick or injured such as self-care, consulting a traditional healer, or seeking treatment from a private or public health care facility. The specif...

    Authors: Japheth Osotsi Awiti
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:560
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  9. As a global pandemic, The Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has brought significant challenges to the primary health care (PHC) system. Health professionals are constantly affected by the pandemic’s harmful...

    Authors: Xinru Li, Yiwen Song, Bingqin Hu, Yitong Chen, Peiyao Cui, Yifang Liang, Xin He, Guofeng Yang and Jinghua Li
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1212
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  10. Although the association between mortality and admission to intensive care units (ICU) in the "after hours" (weekends and nights) has been the topic of extensive investigation, the timing of discharge from ICU...

    Authors: Kevin B Laupland, Benoit Misset, Bertrand Souweine, Alexis Tabah, Elie Azoulay, Dany Goldgran-Toledano, Anne-Sylvie Dumenil, Aurélien Vésin, Samir Jamali, Hatem Kallel, Christophe Clec'h, Michael Darmon, Carole Schwebel and Jean-Francois Timsit
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:321
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  11. Personalized Medicine (PM) is one of the main priorities of the research agenda of the European Commission and the focus of the European Coordination and Support Action titled “Integrating China into the Inter...

    Authors: Ilda Hoxhaj, Flavia Beccia, Alisha Morsella, Chiara Cadeddu, Walter Ricciardi and Stefania Boccia
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:517
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  12. Many countries aspiring to achieve universal health coverage struggle with how to ensure health coverage for undocumented migrants. Using a case study of maternal health care in a Thailand-Myanmar border regio...

    Authors: Naomi Tschirhart, Wichuda Jiraporncharoen, Rojanasak Thongkhamcharoen, Kulyapa Yoonut, Trygve Ottersen and Chaisiri Angkurawaranon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1315
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  14. Neurosurgical clinic assesses presence and extent of pathologies of central and peripheral nervous system or disorders affecting the spine, to identify most effective treatment and possible recourse to surgery...

    Authors: Marta Menegatti, Nunzia Del Villano, Alba Scerrati, Francesco Travaglini, Luca Ricciardi, Giorgio Lofrese, Michele Alessandro Cavallo and Pasquale De Bonis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:137
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  16. Access to healthcare is a poorly defined construct, with insufficient understanding of differences in facilitators and barriers between US urban versus rural specialty care. We summarize recent literature and ...

    Authors: Melissa E. Cyr, Anna G. Etchin, Barbara J. Guthrie and James C. Benneyan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:974
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  17. Ultrasound (US) can be used for many perioperative procedures, but evidence is lacking as to its frequency of use and barrier of application. The objectives of this survey were to determine i) how often US gui...

    Authors: J. Chui, R. Lavi, A. F. Hegazy, P. M. Jones, R. Arellano, H. Yang and D. Bainbridge
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:214
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  18. Climatic conditions and seasonal trends can affect population health, but typically, we consider the effect of climate on the epidemiology of communicable diseases. However, climate can also have an effect on ...

    Authors: Briana Stone, Júlia Sambo, Talata Sawadogo-Lewis and Timothy Roberton
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:950
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. People with substance use disorders smoke cigarettes at much higher rates than the general population in the United States and are disproportionately affected by tobacco-related diseases. Many substance use tr...

    Authors: Anastasia Rogova, Isabel Martinez Leal, Maggie Britton, Tzuan A. Chen, Lisa M. Lowenstein, Bryce Kyburz, Kathleen Casey, Kim Skeene, Teresa Williams and Lorraine R. Reitzel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:201
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  20. Research for evidence-based interventions and strategies for implementation continues. Yet there is a continued shortage of qualified health care staff while stress and burnout are common. Health care professi...

    Authors: My Säfström and Ulrika Löfkvist
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:107
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  21. Randomized controlled trial evidence supports a restrictive strategy of red blood cell (RBC) transfusion, but significant variation in clinical transfusion practice persists. Patient characteristics other than...

    Authors: Nareg H Roubinian, Edward L Murphy, Bix E Swain, Marla N Gardner, Vincent Liu and Gabriel J Escobar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:213
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  22. Australian preventive health strategy outlines the importance of preconception health in improving health in the community, across multiple generations and places primary and community healthcare services as a...

    Authors: Amie Steel, Harriet Gibson, Jon Adams and Danielle Schoenaker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:93
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  23. Despite being fundamental to the health and well-being of women, menstrual health is often overlooked as a health priority and access to menstrual health education, products, and support is limited. Consequent...

    Authors: Mandikudza Tembo, Jenny Renju, Helen A. Weiss, Ethel Dauya, Nancy Gweshe, Precious Ndlovu, Portia Nzombe, Chido Dziva Chikwari, Constancia Vimbayi Mavodza, Constance R. S. Mackworth-Young, Rashida A. Ferrand and Suzanna C. Francis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:421
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  24. New medicines are increasingly being identified as efficacious across multiple indications. The impact of current pricing and reimbursement policies on launch decisions across these indications remains unclear.

    Authors: Mackenzie Mills, Daniel Michaeli, Aurelio Miracolo and Panos Kanavos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:150
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  25. 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.

    Authors: Pernille Gabel, Mette Bach Larsen, Pernille Bjørnholt Nielsen, Dorte Brandt Svendstrup and Berit Andersen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:489
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  26. A substantial proportion of young people with Complex Chronic Conditions (CCCs) experience some degree of discontinuation of follow-up care, which is an umbrella term to describe a broken chain of follow-up. D...

    Authors: Sandra Skogby, Ewa-Lena Bratt, Bengt Johansson, Philip Moons and Eva Goossens
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1343
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  27. Social inequalities in complications associated with diabetes mellitus persist. As a primary care sensitive condition (PCSC), this association could be related to differential access to primary care. Our objec...

    Authors: Rachel McKay, Laurence Letarte, Alexandre Lebel and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:131
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  28. Registered Nurses (RNs) play an important role in caring for patients suffering from cancer pain. A lack of knowledge regarding pain management and the RNs’ own perception of cancer pain could act as barriers ...

    Authors: Markus Gustafsson and Gunilla Borglin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:328
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  29. Blood shortage is a persistent problem affecting Taiwan’s health-care system. The theory of planned behavior (TPB) has been commonly used in studies of health advocacy. The purpose of this study was to develop...

    Authors: Yu-Han Liao, Kung-Pei Tang, Chih-Yu Chou, Chien-Feng Kuo and Shin-Yi Tsai
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:973
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  30. In response to COVID-19’s first wave, provincial governments rapidly implemented several public health directives, including isolation measures and care facility visitor restrictions, which profoundly affected...

    Authors: Maria Cherba, Laura Funk, Erin Scott, Bora Salman, Andrea Rounce, Corey Mackenzie, Kelli Stajduhar, Carren Dujela, Marian Krawczyk and S. Robin Cohen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1330
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  31. Due to more elderly and patients with complex illnesses, there is an increasing pressure on the healthcare system. General practice especially feels this pressure as being the first point of contact for the pa...

    Authors: Josefine Graabaek Mikkelsen, Natasha Lee Sørensen, Camilla Hoffmann Merrild, Martin Bach Jensen and Janus Laust Thomsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:335
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  32. Many countries are developing health financing mechanisms to pursue the goal of universal coverage. In China, a rural health insurance system entitled New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) is being developed s...

    Authors: Baorong Yu, Qingyue Meng, Charles Collins, Rachel Tolhurst, Shenglan Tang, Fei Yan, Lennart Bogg and Xiaoyun Liu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:116
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  33. Shared decision-making (SDM) between patients and healthcare professionals (HCPs) is a key component of patient-centred care. To implement SDM in clinical practice and to evaluate its effects, it is helpful to...

    Authors: Anja Lindig, Pola Hahlweg, Eva Christalle, Anik Giguere, Martin Härter, Olaf von dem Knesebeck and Isabelle Scholl
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:541
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  34. The population of patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive breast cancer (BC) who develop central nervous system (CNS) metastases is growing. Treatment strategies in this populati...

    Authors: Sandrine Baffert, Paul Cottu, Youlia M Kirova, Florence Mercier, Cécile Simondi, Thomas Bachelot, Emilie Le Rhun, Christelle Levy, Maya Gutierrez, Nicolas Madranges, Cristian Moldovan, Bruno Coudert, Dominique Spaëth, Daniel Serin, François-Emery Cotté, Laure Benjamin…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:456
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  35. Diabetes mellitus is a known risk factor for infection. Pay for Performance (P4P) program is designed to enhance the comprehensive patient care. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of the P4P progr...

    Authors: Yi-Fang Wu, Mei-Yen Chen, Tien-Hsing Chen, Po-Chang Wang, Yun-Shing Peng and Ming-Shyan Lin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:78
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  36. In order to improve the health of people with Type 1 diabetes in developing countries, a clear analysis of the constraints to insulin access and diabetes care is needed. We developed a Rapid Assessment Protoco...

    Authors: David Beran, John S Yudkin and Maximilian de Courten
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2006 6:17
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  37. Health care services internationally are refocussing care delivery towards patient centred, integrated care that utilises effective, efficient and innovative models of care to optimise patient outcomes and sys...

    Authors: Maha Pervaz Iqbal, Elizabeth Manias, Laurel Mimmo, Stephen Mears, Briony Jack, Liz Hay and Reema Harrison
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:952
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. We sought to examine the association of psychosocial working conditions with concerns to have made important medical errors and to identify possible intermediate factors in this relationship.

    Authors: Viola Mambrey, Peter Angerer and Adrian Loerbroks
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1501
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  39. The demographic and social changes associated with population aging and the increasing incidence of chronic diseases underscore the importance of the role of informal carers. The number of informal carers is i...

    Authors: Wilfried GUETS and Lionel PERRIER
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:995
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  40. Nordic countries excel in cancer care, but studies on uptake, costs, or managed entry agreements of cancer medicines have not been conducted recently. The aim of this study was to examine the uptake and availa...

    Authors: Kati Sarnola, Hanna Koskinen, Katariina Klintrup, Cecilie Astrup and Terhi Kurko
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1437
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  41. Conventional cognitive interventions to reduce medication errors have been found to be less effective as behavioural change does not always follow intention change. Nudge interventions, which subtly steer one’...

    Authors: Keng Sheng Chew, Say Keat Ooi, Noor Fareen Abdul Rahim, Shirly Siew-Ling Wong, Vanitha Kandasamy and Shin-Shin Teo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1310
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  42. The treatment gap for epilepsy is considerable in low and middle-income countries. In the Lao PDR it is estimated at over 90%. Health workers play a significant role in bridging the gap between people with epi...

    Authors: Aina Harimanana, Phetvongsinh Chivorakul, Vimalay Souvong, Pierre-Marie Preux and Hubert Barennes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:41
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. While increasing attention is placed on using evidence-based decision making (EBDM) to improve public health, there is little research assessing the current EBDM capacity of the public health workforce. Public...

    Authors: Julie A Jacobs, Paula F Clayton, Cassandra Dove, Tanya Funchess, Ellen Jones, Ghazala Perveen, Brandon Skidmore, Victor Sutton, Sarah Worthington, Elizabeth A Baker, Anjali D Deshpande and Ross C Brownson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:57
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Estimates place the number of refugees in Nairobi over 100,000. The constant movement of refugees between countries of origin, refugee camps, and Nairobi poses risk of introduction and transmission of communic...

    Authors: Abdinoor Haji Mohamed, Warren Dalal, Raymond Nyoka, Heather Burke, Jamal Ahmed, Erick Auko, Wilbert Shihaji, Irene Ndege, Robert F Breiman and Rachel B Eidex
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:200
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Older cardiac patients are at high risk of readmission and mortality. Transitional care interventions (TCIs) might contribute to the prevention of adverse outcomes. The Cardiac Care Bridge program was a random...

    Authors: Patricia Jepma, Corine H. M. Latour, Iris H. J. ten Barge, Lotte Verweij, Ron J. G. Peters, Wilma J. M. Scholte op Reimer and Bianca M. Buurman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:786
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  46. Community-based health programmes have been a cornerstone of primary care in Laos for decades. The study presented here aimed to document prospects for the development of current programmes, considering percep...

    Authors: Marco Liverani, Khampheng Phongluxa, Koukeo Phommasone, Rusheng Chew, Arjun Chandna, Tiengkham Pongvongsa, Mayfong Mayxay, Sengchanh Kounnavong, Elizabeth Ashley and Yoel Lubell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:55
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  47. It is the responsibility of healthcare regulators to ensure healthcare professionals remain fit for practice in healthcare settings. If there are concerns about an individual healthcare professional they may u...

    Authors: Jill Maben, Linda Hoinville, Dawn Querstret, Cath Taylor, Magdalena Zasada and Ruth Abrams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:839
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Opioid agonist treatment (OAT) for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) has a convincing evidence base, although variable retention rates suggest that it may not be beneficial for all. One of the options to...

    Authors: Lars Henrik Myklebust, Desiree Eide, Espen A. Arnevik, Omid Dadras, Silvana De Pirro, Rune Ellefsen, Lars T. Fadnes, Morten Hesse, Timo L. Kvamme, Francesca Melis, Ann Oldervoll, Birgitte Thylstrup, Linda E.C. Wusthoff and Thomas Clausen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:398
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  49. The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted individuals, society, and healthcare organisations worldwide. Recent international research suggests that concerns, needs, and experiences of healthcare workers (H...

    Authors: Sarah L. McGuinness, Owen Eades, Shannon Zhong, Sharon Clifford, Jane Fisher, Helen L. Kelsall, Maggie Kirkman, Grant Russell, Helen Skouteris and Karin Leder
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:596
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  50. The pharmaceutical industry plays a key role in drug discovery and is considered useful regards to informing the health care workers health care workers about new medicines. Investigations concerning health ca...

    Authors: Tafadzwa Collins Semu, Bernard Ngara and Tinashe Mudzviti
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1337
    Content type: Research Published on:
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