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  1. Cost-effectiveness acceptability curves (CEACs) describe the probability that a new treatment or intervention is cost-effective. The net benefit regression framework (NBRF) allows cost-effectiveness analysis t...

    Authors: Jeffrey S Hoch, Marie Antoinette Rockx and Andrew D Krahn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2006 6:68
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  2. Ototoxicity monitoring is uncommon in South Africa, despite the increased use of ototoxic medication to manage the burden of disease in the country. The successful implementation of such a protocol requires co...

    Authors: Jessica Paken, Cyril D. Govender, Mershen Pillay and Vikash Sewram
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:791
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  3. Promoting appropriate pharmacotherapy requires understanding the factors that influence how clinicians prescribe medications. While prior work has focused on patient and clinician factors, features of the orga...

    Authors: Hyungjin Myra Kim, Julie Strominger, Kara Zivin, Tony Van and Donovan T. Maust
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:217
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  4. Shortages of antimicrobials lead to treatment failures, increase medical costs, and accelerate the development of antimicrobial resistance. We evaluated the effects of the serious cefazolin shortage in 2019 in...

    Authors: Ryuji Koizumi, Yoshiki Kusama, Yusuke Asai, Gu Yoshiaki, Yuichi Muraki and Norio Ohmagari
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1118
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  5. Given the rising incidence of young-onset colorectal cancer (yCRC) among individuals younger than 50 years old, understanding the economic burden of yCRC is required to inform the delivery of healthcare servic...

    Authors: Ria Garg, Vicki Cheng, Ursula Ellis, Vanay Verma, Helen McTaggart-Cowan, Stuart Peacock, Jonathan M. Loree, Mohsen Sadatsafavi and Mary A. De Vera
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1100
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  6. Men who have sex with men (MSM) are at heightened risk for HIV acquisition, yet they may delay or avoid HIV testing due to intersectional stigma experienced at the healthcare facility (HCF). Few validated scal...

    Authors: Emmanuel A. Oga, Melissa A. Stockton, Gamji R. Abu-Ba’are, Richard Vormawor, Emmanuel Mankattah, Stacy Endres-Dighe, Ryan Richmond, Sangchoon Jeon, Carmen H. Logie, Emma Baning, Khalida Saalim, Kwasi Torpey, Laron E. Nelson and Laura Nyblade
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:647
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  8. Continuity of care is under great pressure during the transition from hospital to outpatient care. Medication changes during hospitalization may be poorly communicated and understood, compromising patient safe...

    Authors: Léa Solh Dost, Giacomo Gastaldi and Marie P. Schneider
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:620
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  9. In many countries exercise prescriptions are used to facilitate physical activity in a sedentary population with or in risk of developing lifestyle diseases. Some studies show a positive effect of exercise pre...

    Authors: Thomas VG Bredahl, Lis Puggaard and Kirsten K Roessler
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:139
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  10. Effective strategies are needed to provide screening and treatment for hepatitis B and C to immigrant groups in the UK at high risk of chronic infection. This study aimed to build an understanding of the knowl...

    Authors: Lorna Sweeney, John A Owiti, Andrew Beharry, Kamaldeep Bhui, Jessica Gomes, Graham R Foster and Trisha Greenhalgh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:97
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  11. The critical role that middle managers play in enacting organisational culture change designed to address unprofessional co-worker behaviours has gone largely unexplored. We aimed to explore middle managers’ p...

    Authors: KL Bagot, E McInnes, R Mannion, RD McMullan, R Urwin, K Churruca, P Hibbert and JI Westbrook
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1012
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  12. Good quality post-abortion-care (PAC) is essential to prevent death and long-term complications following unsafe abortion, especially in countries with restrictive abortion laws. We assessed the PAC given to w...

    Authors: Carukshi Arambepola, Lalini C Rajapaksa and Chandani Galwaduge
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:470
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  13. Rational antibiotic prescribing is crucial to combat antibiotic resistance. Optimal strategies to improve antibiotic use are not known. Strama, the Swedish strategic program against antibiotic resistance, has ...

    Authors: Elina Lampi, Fredrik Carlsson, Pär-Daniel Sundvall, Marcela Jaime Torres, Peter Ulleryd, Christina Åhrén and Gunnar Jacobsson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:895
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Smoking cessation quitlines are an effective yet largely untapped resource for clinician referrals. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of a fax referral system that links community health centers (...

    Authors: Donna Shelley and Jennifer Cantrell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:25
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  15. Measuring work-related stress in a reliable way is important in the development of appropriate prevention and intervention strategies. Especially in multilingual studies the use of comparable and reliable inst...

    Authors: Karin Anne Peter, Christoph Golz, Reto Arthur Bürgin, Matthias Nübling, Christian Voirol, Simeon Joel Zürcher and Sabine Hahn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:608
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  16. Because of their complex clinical presentations and needs frail elderly people require another approach than people who age without many complications. Several inpatient geriatric health services have proven e...

    Authors: René JF Melis, Monique IJ van Eijken, George F Borm, Michel Wensing, Eddy Adang, Eloy H van de Lisdonk, Theo van Achterberg and Marcel GM Olde Rikkert
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2005 5:65
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  17. Evidence-based healthcare (EBHC) principles are essential knowledge for patient and consumer (“consumer”) engagement as research and research implementation stakeholders. The aim of this study was to assess wh...

    Authors: Genie Han, Musa Mayer, Joseph Canner, Kristina Lindsley, Reva Datar, Jimmy Le, Annette Bar-Cohen, Janice Bowie and Kay Dickersin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:928
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. The government-led "evidence-based guidelines for cataract treatment" labelled pirenoxine and glutathione eye drops, which have been regarded as the standard care for cataracts in Japan, as lacking evidence of...

    Authors: Miho Sekimoto, Yuichi Imanaka, Nobuko Kitano, Tatsuro Ishizaki and Osamu Takahashi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2006 6:92
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  20. Among all cancers, breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer and the leading cause of mortality among women in developing countries including Palestine. Community pharmacists are trusted and easily accessible...

    Authors: Ramzi Shawahna and Hiba Awawdeh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:429
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  21. Responsiveness is one of the widely used metrics in assessing the performance of healthcare systems. An analysis of the determinants of health care demand and supply and how the Saudi health system responds to...

    Authors: Zlatko Nikoloski, Taghred Alghaith, Christopher H. Herbst, Mariam Hamza, Quds AlSaffer, Mohammed Alluhidan, Di Dong, Reem Alsukait, Latifah Alqasem and Nahar Alazemi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1524
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  22. Studies of the hospital volume-outcome relationship have highlighted that a greater volume activity improves patient outcomes. While this finding has been known for years, most studies to date have failed to d...

    Authors: Marius Huguet, Xavier Joutard, Isabelle Ray-Coquard and Lionel Perrier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:70
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  23. One of the most important challenges facing hospitals is inappropriate admissions and stays the reduction of which can contribute to a decline in healthcare costs without reducing the quality of services. The ...

    Authors: Nasrin Moradi, Kianoosh Moradi, Rafat Bagherzadeh and Aidin Aryankhesal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1538
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  24. The COVID-19 pandemic has inundated the capacity of hospitals across the globe, exhausting resources, and placing extreme burden on health care workers (HCWs). Hospital preparedness during infectious disease o...

    Authors: Yangama Jokwiro, Tracy Urbanavicius, Ainsley M. Robinson, Cathy Scott and Md Rafiqul Islam
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:381
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  25. The new forms of organization of healthcare services entail the development of new clinical practices that are grounded in collaboration. Despite recent advances in research on the subject of collaboration, th...

    Authors: Danielle D'Amour, Lise Goulet, Jean-François Labadie, Leticia San Martín-Rodriguez and Raynald Pineault
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:188
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  27. Academic detailing (AD; also known as educational visiting) facilitates the translation of evidence into practice and has been widely adopted internationally to facilitate practice change. The potential of AD ...

    Authors: Aileen Collier, Debra Rowett, Peter Allcroft, Aine Greene and David C. Currow
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:193
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  29. Critical care nurses (CCNs) are routinely exposed to highly stressful situations, and at high-risk of suffering from work-related stress and developing burnout. Thus, supporting CCN wellbeing is crucial. One a...

    Authors: K. S. Vogt, J. Johnson, R. Coleman, R. Simms-Ellis, R. Harrison, N. Shearman, J. Marran, L. Budworth, C. Horsfield, R. Lawton and A. Grange
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:343
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  30. Little is known about the current status and the changing trends of hospitalization and palliative care consultation of patients with gastric cancer in the United States. The aim of this study was to evaluate ...

    Authors: Moon Kyung Joo, Ji Won Yoo, Zahra Mojtahedi, Pearl Kim, Jinwook Hwang, Ja Seol Koo, Hee-Taik Kang and Jay J. Shen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:20
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  31. Suicide cases in Palestine continue to record a remarkable annual increase, but we lack a comprehensive verified national data collection system of suicide and it is expected that real numbers of attempted/sui...

    Authors: Samah Jabr, Fayez Mahamid, Zaynab Hinnawi and Dana Bdier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1213
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  32. Several rescue therapies have been used in patients with lamivudine (LAM)-resistant chronic hepatitis B (CHB); however, the economic outcome of these therapies is unclear. The object of the current analysis wa...

    Authors: Bin Wu, Jinfang Shen and Huafeng Cheng
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:385
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  33. Diabetes self-management education, a universally recommended component of diabetes care, aims to support self-management in people with type 2 diabetes. However, attendance is low (approx. 10%). Previous rese...

    Authors: Imogen Coningsby, Ben Ainsworth and Charlotte Dack
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:584
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  34. The Four-Hour Rule or National Emergency Access Target policy (4HR/NEAT) was implemented by Australian State and Federal Governments between 2009 and 2014 to address increased demand, overcrowding and access b...

    Authors: Roberto Forero, Shizar Nahidi, Josephine de Costa, Daniel Fatovich, Gerry FitzGerald, Sam Toloo, Sally McCarthy, David Mountain, Nick Gibson, Mohammed Mohsin and Wing Nicola Man
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:82
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  35. A research culture in health care organisations is associated with improved healthcare performance. Allied health (AH) students undertake research training as part of their professional degree qualifications. ...

    Authors: Rebecca L. Angus, H. Laetitia Hattingh and Kelly A. Weir
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:143
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  36. This study aimed to reveal the effects of the connectedness of primary health care (PHC) workers in social networks on their job burnout.

    Authors: Yiqing Mao, Hang Fu, Zhanchun Feng, Da Feng, Xiaoyu Chen, Jian Yang and Yuanqing Li
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:557
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. Excess gestational weight gain (GWG) is associated with short-term perinatal complications and longer term cardiometabolic risks for mothers and their babies. Dietitian counselling and weight gain monitoring f...

    Authors: Susan de Jersey, Nina Meloncelli, Taylor Guthrie, Hilary Powlesland, Leonie Callaway, Angela T. Chang, Shelley Wilkinson, Tracy Comans and Elizabeth Eakin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:589
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  38. Self-referral to inpatient treatment (SRIT) is built on user participation and patient autonomy. SRIT was conducted for patients with severe mental disorders in a Norwegian Community Mental Health Centre. The ...

    Authors: Inger Elise Opheim Moljord, Kine Gabrielsen Stensvåg, Vidar Halsteinli and Marit By Rise
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1310
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  39. To date, little is known about the sustainability and scalability of MyDiabetesPlan, an eHealth innovation designed to facilitate shared decision-making within diabetes care. To avoid the possibility of its short...

    Authors: Arani Sivakumar, Rachel Y. Pan, Angel Wang, Dorothy Choi, Ali Ben Charif, Monika Kastner, France Légaré and Catherine H. Yu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:630
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  40. Workplace violence (WPV) among nurses has become an increasingly serious public health issue worldwide. Investigating the status quo and characteristics of WPV among nurses in different time periods can help h...

    Authors: Jianzheng Cai, Ziyu Qin, Haifang Wang, Xiaoqing Zhao, Weixia Yu, Sisi Wu, Ying Zhang and Yalan Wang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1220
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  41. As a means of establishing a sustained and fair health care financing system, Ethiopia has planned and ratified a legal framework to introduce a social health insurance program for employees of the formal sect...

    Authors: Melkamu Ayalew Kokebie, Ziyad Ahmed Abdo, Shikur Mohamed and Belayneh Leulseged
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:909
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  42. Due to the aging population, the need for home care services is increasing in most Western countries, including Norway. However, the highly physical nature of this job could contribute to make recruiting and r...

    Authors: Ingeborg Frostad Liaset, Marius Steiro Fimland, Andreas Holtermann, Svend Erik Mathiassen and Skender Redzovic
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:667
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  43. Though child mortality has dropped remarkably, it is considerably high in South Asia. Across the globe, 5.2 million children under 5 years of age died in 2019, and India accounts for a significant portion of t...

    Authors: Tulasi Malini Maharatha and Umakant Dash
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:881
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. This study aimed to reflect on scientific experts’ and executive stakeholders’ opinions on how charitable organizations can participate in the health care system properly and cope with problems, challenges, st...

    Authors: Raana Gholamzadeh Nikjoo, Yegane Partovi and Nasrin Joudyian
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:181
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. The compounded effect of a migratory background and ageing increases the risk of unequal medical treatment opportunities. The aim of this article is to investigate the social determinants of barriers to health...

    Authors: Nuriiar Safarov, Laura Kemppainen, Sirpa Wrede and Anne Kouvonen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:252
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  47. Lower respiratory tract infections like acute bronchitis, exacerbated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and community-acquired pneumonia are often unnecessarily treated with antibiotics, mainly because of ...

    Authors: Philipp Schuetz, Mirjam Christ-Crain, Marcel Wolbers, Ursula Schild, Robert Thomann, Claudine Falconnier, Isabelle Widmer, Stefanie Neidert, Claudine A Blum, Ronald Schönenberger, Christoph Henzen, Thomas Bregenzer, Claus Hoess, Martin Krause, Heiner C Bucher, Werner Zimmerli…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:102
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  49. The previous “one-size-fits-all” practice in resource allocation can no longer adapt to the spatial variation in population and health needs. This study aimed to investigate the spatially heterogeneous effect ...

    Authors: Wanchun Xu, Zijing Pan, Liang Zhang and Shan Lu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:160
    Content type: Research Published on:

  50. One of the most cost-effective treatments for secondary prevention of stroke and other non-communicable diseases is a long-term medication regimen. However, the complexities of medication adherence extend far ...

    Authors: Jacqueline Xu, Mengxi Zhao, Athina Vrosgou, Natalie Chin Wen Yu, Chelsea Liu, Han Zhang, Chunxi Ding, Noelle Wyman Roth, Yuesong Pan, Liping Liu, Yilong Wang, Yongjun Wang and Janet Prvu Bettger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:799
    Content type: Research Published on:
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