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  1. Optimizing access to recanalization therapies in acute ischemic stroke patients is crucial. Our aim was to measure the short and long term effectiveness, at the acute phase and 1 year after stroke, of four set...

    Authors: A. M. Schott, A. Termoz, M. Viprey, K. Tazarourte, C. Della Vecchia, E. Bravant, N. Perreton, N. Nighoghossian, S. Cakmak, S. Meyran, B. Ducreux, C. Pidoux, T. Bony, M. Douplat, V. Potinet, A. Sigal…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:12
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  2. This study contributes to research on the paediatrician shortage by examining occupational identity, job satisfaction and their effects on turnover intention among paediatricians in China.

    Authors: Wanjun Deng, Zhichun Feng, Xinying Yao, Tingting Yang, Jun Jiang, Bin Wang, Lan Lin, Wenhao Zhong and Oudong Xia
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:6
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  3. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) encouraged nonprofit hospitals to collaborate with local public health experts in the conduct of community health needs assessments (CHNAs) for the ...

    Authors: Geri Rosen Cramer, Gary J. Young, Simone Singh, Jean McGuire and Daniel Kim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1
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  4. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Michael E. Ohl, Margaret Carrell, Andrew Thurman, Mark Vander Weg, Teresa Hudson, Michelle Mengeling and Mary Vaughan-Sarrazin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1147
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:315

  5. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Stefania Manetti, Giuseppe Turchetti and Francesco Fusco
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1146
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:955

  6. Acute myocardial infarction (AMI), a major source of morbidity and mortality, is also associated with excess costs. Findings from previous studies were divergent regarding the effect on health care expenditure...

    Authors: Florian Kirsch, Christian Becker, Christoph Kurz, Lars Schwettmann and Anja Schramm
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1145
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  7. Approximately 10% of patients with Covid-19 experience symptoms beyond 3–4 weeks. Patients call this “long Covid”. We sought to document such patients’ lived experience, including accessing and receiving healt...

    Authors: Emma Ladds, Alex Rushforth, Sietse Wieringa, Sharon Taylor, Clare Rayner, Laiba Husain and Trisha Greenhalgh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1144
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  8. Outpatient follow-up care for stroke survivors is often inadequate and mostly self-organized by the patients themselves. In the German health care system, there are no standard care programs for patients after...

    Authors: Johannes Deutschbein, Ulrike Grittner, Alice Schneider and Liane Schenk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1143
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  9. All countries face challenging decisions about healthcare coverage. Malawi has committed to achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030, the timeframe set out by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....

    Authors: Sarah C. Masefield, Alan Msosa and Jean Grugel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1142
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  10. Monitoring patient’s clinical attendance is a crucial means of improving retention in care and treatment programmes. Sickle cell patients’ outcomes are improved by participation in comprehensive care programme...

    Authors: Upendo Masamu, Raphael Z. Sangeda, Daniel Kandonga, Jesca Ondengo, Flora Ndobho, Bruno Mmbando, Siana Nkya, Khadija Msami and Julie Makani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1141
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  11. Dispensing errors, known to result in significant patient harm, are preventable if their nature is known and recognized. However, there is a scarcity of such data on dispensing errors particularly in resource ...

    Authors: R. A. N. Dilsha, H. M. I. P. Kularathne, M. T. M. Mujammil, S. M. M. Irshad and N. R. Samaranayake
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1140
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  12. Person-centered quality for family planning has been gaining increased attention, yet few interventions have focused on this, or measured associations between person-centered quality for family planning and fa...

    Authors: Nadia Diamond-Smith, Claire McDonell, Ananta Basudev Sahu, Kali Prasad Roy and Katie Giessler
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1139
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  13. State Medicaid plans across the United States provide dental insurance coverage to millions of young persons with mental illness (MI), including those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), depr...

    Authors: Erica L. Stockbridge, Eleena Dhakal, Stacey B. Griner, Abiah D. Loethen, Joseph F. West, Joseph W. Vera and Karabi Nandy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1138
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  14. Training is a common and cost-effective way of trying to improve quality of care in low- and middle-income countries but studies of contextual factors for the successful translation of increased knowledge into...

    Authors: Jesper Kjærgaard, Thomas Nørrelykke Nissen, Elvira Isaeva, Nguyen Nhat Quynh, Susanne Reventlow, Stine Lund, Talant Sooronbaev, Pham Le An, Marianne Stubbe Østergaard, Jim Stout and Anja Poulsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1137
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  15. Despite a recognized need for midwives to provide post abortion care, there exist barriers preventing them from integrating lifesaving skills such as manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) into practice. This collabor...

    Authors: Kirsty M. Bourret, Sylvie Larocque, Amélie Hien, Carol Hogue, Kalum Muray, Aurélie Thethe Lukusa and Abel Minani Ngabo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1136
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  16. Government procurement of elderly care services from market-oriented private providers has become an important way to respond to the growing demands of elderly care. However, the government cannot accurately i...

    Authors: Huan Song, Sihang Yu and Tao Sun
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1135
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  17. No studies, particularly quantitative analyses, have been conducted regarding the workload of village doctors in the National Essential Public Health Services (NEPHS) program and differences in service deliver...

    Authors: Delu Yin, Tao Yin, Huiming Yang, Lihong Wang and Bowen Chen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1134
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  18. The transition process from the family home to independent living for young adults with profound intellectual disability (PID) becomes delayed. Those families face challenges that exceed those of typical famil...

    Authors: Eirik Roos and Erik Søndenaa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1133
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  19. A new two-year Post University Specialty Training (PUST) programme in family medicine was introduced to improve the quality of postgraduate speciality medical education in Tajikistan. Postgraduate education of...

    Authors: Jari Kempers, Leah F. Bohle, Alexandra Topa, Greta Ross, Zukhra Kasymova, Shakhlo Yarbaeva, Cristina Rotaru and Helen Prytherch
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1132
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  20. Strong relations between medicine and public health have long been advocated. Today, professional medical practice assumes joint clinical/public health objectives:

    • GPs are ...

    Authors: Jean-Pierre Unger, Ingrid Morales, Pierre De Paepe and Michel Roland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20(Suppl 2):1073
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 2

  21. Since the 1980s, markets have turned increasingly to intangible goods – healthcare, education, the arts, and justice. Over 40 years, the authors investigated healthcare commoditisation to produce policy knowle...

    Authors: Jean-Pierre Unger, Ingrid Morales and Pierre De Paepe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20(Suppl 2):1072
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 2

  22. Professional knowledge aims at improving practice. It reduces uncertainty in decision-making, improves effectiveness in action and relevance in evaluation, stimulates reflexivity, and subjects practice to ethi...

    Authors: Jean-Pierre Unger, Ingrid Morales and Pierre De Paepe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20(Suppl 2):1071
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 2

  23. Since some form of dual clinical/public health practice is desirable, this paper explains why their ethics should be combined to influence medical practice and explores a way to achieve that.

    Authors: Jean-Pierre Unger, Ingrid Morales, Pierre De Paepe and Michel Roland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20(Suppl 2):1070
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 2

  25. Revisiting professionalism, both as a medical ideal and educational topic, this paper asks whether, in the rise of artificial intelligence, healthcare commoditisation and environmental challenges, a rationale ...

    Authors: Jean-Pierre Unger, Ingrid Morales, Pierre De Paepe and Michel Roland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20(Suppl 2):1068
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 2

  26. Ethical medical practice requires managing health services to promote professionalism and secure accessibility to care. Commercially financed and industrially managed services strain the physicians’ clinical a...

    Authors: Jean-Pierre Unger, Ingrid Morales, Pierre De Paepe and Michel Roland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20(Suppl 2):1067
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 2

  27. Medicines are one of the most common healthcare interventions, yet evidence shows patients often do not receive the information they want about their medicines. This affects their adherence and healthcare enga...

    Authors: Amy Hai Yan Chan, Trudi Aspden, Kim Brackley, Hannah Ashmore-Price and Michelle Honey
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1131
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  28. Anganwadi Workers (AWWs) are a group of 1.4 million community health workers that operate throughout rural India as a part of the Integrated Child Development Services program. AWWs are responsible for dissemi...

    Authors: Anoop Jain, Dilys M. Walker, Rasmi Avula, Nadia Diamond-Smith, Lakshmi Gopalakrishnan, Purnima Menon, Sneha Nimmagadda, Sumeet R. Patil and Lia C. H. Fernald
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1130
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  29. Management of Life-threatening Emergency (LTE) patients in urban and rural areas is an important challenge, which can affect pre-hospital mortality rate. Therefore, Non-hospital Health Center (NHHC) must be pr...

    Authors: Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani, Mehrdad Amir-Behghadami, Masoumeh Gholizadeh, Ali Janati and Farzad Rahmani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1129
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  30. Malaria incidence has plateaued in Sub-Saharan Africa despite Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention’s (SMC) introduction. Community health workers (CHW) use a door-to-door delivery strategy to treat children with S...

    Authors: André Lin Ouédraogo, Julie Zhang, Halidou Tinto, Innocent Valéa and Edward A. Wenger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1128
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  31. Chinese government launched a pilot study on public long-term care insurance (LTCI) recently. Guangzhou is one of the fifteen pilot cities, officially started providing LTCI in August 2017. An in-depth analysi...

    Authors: Jialan Wu, Siman Chen, Huangliang Wen, Yayan Yi and Xiaoyan Liao
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1127
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  33. Using the example of secondary prophylaxis of myocardial infarction (MI), our aim was to establish a framework for assessing cost consequences of compliance with clinical guidelines; thereby taking cost trajec...

    Authors: Viktor von Wyl, Agne Ulyte, Wenjia Wei, Dragana Radovanovic, Oliver Grübner, Beat Brüngger, Caroline Bähler, Eva Blozik, Holger Dressel and Matthias Schwenkglenks
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1125
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  34. Interprofessional education in childhood cancer is a multifaceted field involving multiple healthcare professionals with general and specialised knowledge and skills. Complex treatment, care and rehabilitation...

    Authors: Martha Krogh Topperzer, Marianne Hoffmann, Hanne Bækgaard Larsen, Susanne Rosthøj, Jacob Nersting, Louise Ingerslev Roug, Peter Pontoppidan, Liv Andrés-Jensen, Birgitte Lausen, Kjeld Schmiegelow and Jette Led Sørensen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1124
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  35. Broken windows theory (BWT) proposes that visible signs of crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour – however minor – lead to further levels of crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour. While we acknowledge ...

    Authors: Louise A. Ellis, Kate Churruca, Yvonne Tran, Janet C. Long, Chiara Pomare and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1123
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  36. Retina sub-specialists provide much of the retina related eye care across Canada. In the province of Alberta, 18 retina sub-specialists work across six different offices. The purpose of this study was to asses...

    Authors: Tyler Henry, Mathew Palakkamanil, Yazid N. Al Hamarneh and Matthew T. S. Tennant
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1122
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. Poor patient experiences during delivery leads to delayed presentation at facilities and contributes to poor maternal health outcomes. Person-centered maternity care (PCMC) is a key component of quality. Impro...

    Authors: Dominic Montagu, Katie Giessler, Michelle Kao Nakphong, Cathy Green, Kali Prosad Roy, Ananta Basudev Sahu, Kovid Sharma and May Sudhinarset
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1121
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  38. Rural hospitals face unique challenges to adopting Enhanced Recovery protocols after colorectal surgical procedures. There are few examples of successful implementation in the United States, and fewer yet of p...

    Authors: Levi Smucker, Jennifer Victory, Melissa Scribani, Luis Oceguera and Raul Monzon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1120
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  39. To increase bed capacity and resources, hospitals have postponed elective surgeries, although the financial impact of this decision is unknown. We sought to report elective surgical case distribution, associat...

    Authors: Joseph E. Tonna, Heidi A. Hanson, Jessica N. Cohan, Marta L. McCrum, Joshua J. Horns, Benjamin S. Brooke, Rupam Das, Brenna C. Kelly, Alexander John Campbell and James Hotaling
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1119
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  40. Doing “more” in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. It is important to identify the supplier-induced demand (SID) of health care. This study aims to test SID hypothesi...

    Authors: Yafei Si, Zhongliang Zhou, Min Su, Han Hu, Zesen Yang and Xi Chen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1118
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Michel D. Landry, Mohamad Alameddine, Tiago S. Jesus, Saydeh Sassine, Elie Koueik and Sudha R. Raman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1117
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1040

  42. With an increasing number of women delivering in healthcare facilities in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), healthcare workers’ hand hygiene compliance on labour wards is pivotal to preventing infection...

    Authors: Giorgia Gon, Mícheál de Barra, Lucia Dansero, Stephen Nash and Oona M. R. Campbell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1116
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  43. Co-production and co-design approaches to quality improvement (QI) efforts are gaining momentum in healthcare. Yet, these approaches can be challenging, not least when it comes to patient involvement. The aim ...

    Authors: Carolina Bergerum, Agneta Kullén Engström, Johan Thor and Maria Wolmesjö
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1115
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  44. Around 50 million people worldwide are diagnosed with dementia and this number is due to triple by 2050. The majority of persons with dementia receive care and support from their family, friends or neighbours,...

    Authors: Joseba Wulff, Agneta Malmgren Fänge, Connie Lethin and Carlos Chiatti
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1114
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  45. Previous studies on the persistence of child and adolescent mental healthcare do not consider the role of time-invariant individual characteristics. Estimating persistence of healthcare using standard linear m...

    Authors: Hermien H. Dijk, Roel D. Freriks, Rob J.M. Alessie and Jochen O. Mierau
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1113
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  46. Elder abuse in nursing homes is a complex multifactorial problem and entails various associations across personal, social, and organisational factors. One way leaders can prevent abuse and promote quality and ...

    Authors: Janne Myhre, Susan Saga, Wenche Malmedal, Joan Ostaszkiewicz and Sigrid Nakrem
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1111
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  47. Non-communicable diseases account for a growing proportion of deaths in Armenia, which require early detection to achieve disease control and prevent complications. To increase rates of screening, demand-side ...

    Authors: Estelle Gong, Adanna Chukwuma, Emma Ghazaryan and Damien de Walque
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1110
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  48. In 2004, the Federal Joint Committee, supreme decision-making body in German healthcare, introduced minimum volume requirements (MVRQs) as a quality instrument. Since then, MVRQs were implemented for seven hos...

    Authors: Werner de Cruppé, Annette Ortwein, Rike Antje Kraska and Max Geraedts
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1109
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  49. Person-centered care (PCC) emphasize the importance of supporting individuals’ involvement in care provided and self-care. PCC has become more important in chronic care as the number of people living with chro...

    Authors: Emma Granström, Carolina Wannheden, Mats Brommels, Helena Hvitfeldt and Monica E. Nyström
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1108
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  50. Anemia is a risk factor for adverse outcomes, which can be aggravated by unnecessary phlebotomies. In blood culture testing, up to 30 ml of blood can be withdrawn per sample, even though most manufacturers rec...

    Authors: Katrin Steiner, Joanna Baron-Stefaniak, Alexander M. Hirschl, Wolfgang Barousch, Birgit Willinger and David M. Baron
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1105
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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