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  1. Skilled health care is essential for the mother's and newborn's health and well-being during pregnancy, labor, and the postpartum period. This study aimed to analyze women's knowledge, attitudes, and practices...

    Authors: Sali Suleman Hassen and Mesfin Esayas Lelisho
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1318
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  2. Roles for United States (US)-based community pharmacists in caring for persons with chronic conditions have greatly expanded. The Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC) was developed to assess pat...

    Authors: Omolola A. Adeoye-Olatunde, Naomi Pratt, David D. Kim, Evan Schmidt and Margie E. Snyder
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:355
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  3. Health systems in low and middle income countries are struggling to improve efficiency in the functioning of health units of which workforce is one of the most critical building blocks. In India, Rogi Kalyan S...

    Authors: Bhuputra Panda, Harshad P. Thakur and Sanjay P. Zodpey
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16(Suppl 6):550
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 6

  4. Previous studies on vaccination coverage in developing countries focus on individual- and community-level barriers to routine vaccination mostly in rural settings. This paper examines health system barriers to...

    Authors: Juliet N Babirye, Ingunn MS Engebretsen, Elizeus Rutebemberwa, Juliet Kiguli and Fred Nuwaha
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:111
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  5. The Kenyan Ministry of Health- Department of Standards and Regulations sought to operationalize the Kenya Quality Assurance Model for Health. To this end an integrated quality management system based on valida...

    Authors: Michael Marx, Christine Nitschke, Maureen Nafula, Mabel Nangami, Marc Brodowski, Irmgard Marx, Helen Prytherch, Charles Kandie, Irene Omogi, Friederike Paul-Fariborz and Joachim Szecsenyi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:246
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  6. Although opioid agonist therapy is effective in treating opioid use disorders (OUD), retention in opioid agonist therapy is suboptimal, in part, due to quality of care issues. Therefore, we sought to describe ...

    Authors: Laura Beamish, Zach Sagorin, Cole Stanley, Krista English, Rana Garelnabi, Danielle Cousineau, Rolando Barrios and Jan Klimas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:663
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  7. In 2010, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation in Sierra Leone launched their Free Health Care Initiative (FHCI) for pregnant and lactating mothers and children under-5. Despite an increase in the update of se...

    Authors: Frédérique Vallières, Emma Louise Cassidy, Eilish McAuliffe, Brynne Gilmore, Allieu S. Bangura and Joseph Musa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:258
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  8. Health literacy refers to an individual’s ability to find, understand and use health information in order to promote and maintain health. An individual’s health literacy may also be influenced by the way healt...

    Authors: Rebecca L. Jessup, Richard H. Osborne, Alison Beauchamp, Allison Bourne and Rachelle Buchbinder
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:134
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  9. Adolescents and young adults are a diverse patient population with unique healthcare needs including sensitive and confidential services. Many clinics serving this population began offering telemedicine during...

    Authors: Angela Barney, Sabrina Mendez-Contreras, Nancy K. Hills, Sara M. Buckelew and Marissa Raymond-Flesch
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:680
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  10. Healthcare for adolescents receives little attention in low-income countries globally despite their large population share in these settings, the importance of disease prevention at these ages for later life o...

    Authors: Joshua Krohn, Mamadou Bountogo, Lucienne Ouermi, Ali Sie, Till Baernighausen and Guy Harling
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1080
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  11. Older persons living with HIV (PLWH) need routine healthcare to manage HIV and other comorbidities. This mixed methods study investigated digital equity, constituted as access, use and quality, of HIV and spec...

    Authors: Abigail Baim-Lance, Matthew Angulo, Mary Ann Chiasson, Helen-Maria Lekas, Rachel Schenkel, Jason Villarreal, Anyelina Cantos, Christine Kerr, Aarthi Nagaraja, Michael T. Yin and Peter Gordon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:609
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  13. In recent years, value-based healthcare (VBHC) has become one of the most accepted concepts for fixing the ‘broken’ healthcare systems. Numerous hospitals have embraced VBHC and are trying to implement value-b...

    Authors: Kirsten Daniels, Marc B. V. Rouppe van der Voort, Douwe H. Biesma and Paul B. van der Nat
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1271
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  14. Advance care planning (ACP) involves discussions about patient and families’ wishes and preferences for future healthcare respecting autonomy, improving quality of care, and reducing overtreatment. The Medical...

    Authors: Anastasia A. Mallidou, Coby Tschanz, Elisabeth Antifeau, Kyoung Young Lee, Jenipher Kayuni Mtambo and Holly Heckl
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1186
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  15. Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of global mortality. Among the CVDs, acute vascular events (AVE) mainly ischemic heart diseases and stroke are the largest contributors. To achieve 25% redu...

    Authors: Shyfuddin Ahmed, Muhammad Ashique Haider Chowdhury, Md. Alfazal Khan, Nafisa Lira Huq and Aliya Naheed
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:47
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  16. The Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) measures social care related quality of life (SCRQoL) and can be used to measure outcomes and demonstrate impact across different social care settings. This explo...

    Authors: Ann-Marie Towers, Nick Smith, Sinead Palmer, Elizabeth Welch and Ann Netten
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:523
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  17. Despite its popularity, the effectiveness of audit and feedback in support quality improvement efforts is mixed. While audit and feedback-related research efforts have investigated issues relating to feedback ...

    Authors: Daniel J. Wagner, Janet Durbin, Jan Barnsley and Noah M. Ivers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:803
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  18. Effective stakeholder engagement in health research is increasingly being recognised and promoted as an important pathway to closing the gap between knowledge production and its use in health systems. However,...

    Authors: Genevie Fernandes, Siân Williams, Peymané Adab, Nicola Gale, Corina de Jong, Jaime Correia de Sousa, KK Cheng, Chunhua Chi, Brendan G. Cooper, Andrew P. Dickens, Alexandra Enocson, Amanda Farley, Kate Jolly, Sue Jowett, Maka Maglakelidze, Tamaz Maghlakelidze…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:66
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  19. Pathways into care-homes have been under-researched. Individuals who move-in to a care-home from hospital are clinically distinct from those moving-in from the community. However, it remains unclear whether th...

    Authors: G. Ciminata, J. K. Burton, T. J Quinn and C. Geue
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:281
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  20. South Africa’s maternal mortality rate (625 deaths/100,000 live births) is high for a middle-income country, although over 90% of pregnant women utilize maternal health services. Alongside HIV/AIDS, barriers t...

    Authors: Sheetal P Silal, Loveday Penn-Kekana, Bronwyn Harris, Stephen Birch and Diane McIntyre
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:120
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  21. Legal requirements for quality assurance in German rehabilitation hospitals include comparisons of providers. Objective is to describe and to compare outcome quality of care offered by three hospitals providin...

    Authors: Dieter Melchart, Anne Wessel, Ronald Brand, Stefan Hager and Wolfgang Weidenhammer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:13
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  22. Public reporting of hospital quality is to enable providers, patients and the public to make comparisons regarding the quality of care and thus contribute to informed decisions. It stimulates quality improveme...

    Authors: Silke Auras, Werner de Cruppé, Karl Blum and Max Geraedts
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:378
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  23. International studies report that nurse clinics improve healing rates for the leg ulcer population. However, these studies did not necessarily deliver similar standards of care based on evidence in the treatme...

    Authors: Margaret B Harrison, Ian D Graham, Karen Lorimer, Elizabeth VandenKerkhof, Maureen Buchanan, Phil S Wells, Tim Brandys and Tadeusz Pierscianowski
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:243
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  24. Financing healthcare through out-of-pocket (OOP) payment is a major barrier in accessing healthcare for the poor people. The Health Economics Unit (HEU) of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the gove...

    Authors: Md. Zahid Hasan, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Gazi Golam Mehdi, Jahangir A. M. Khan, Ziaul Islam, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury and Sayem Ahmed
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:885
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  25. Residents’ preference for primary health care (PHC) determined their utilization of PHC. This study aimed to assess the determinants of PHC service preference among the residents and the trend in PHC service p...

    Authors: Guangsheng Wan, Xiaolin Wei, Hui Yin, Zhiwang Qian, Tingting Wang and Lina Wang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:768
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  26. General practitioners (GPs) play an important role in end-of-life care due to their proximity to the patient’s dwelling-place and their contact to relatives and other care providers.

    Authors: Rieke Schnakenberg, Adrian Goeldlin, Christina Boehm-Stiel, Markus Bleckwenn, Klaus Weckbecker and Lukas Radbruch
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:22
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  27. Despite growing interest in monitoring improvements in quality of care, data on service quality in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) is limited. While health systems researchers have hypothesized ...

    Authors: Ashley Sheffel, Emily Carter, Scott Zeger and Melinda K. Munos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1109
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  28. Limited financial and geographic access to primary care can adversely influence chronic disease outcomes. We examined variation in awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemi...

    Authors: Raegan W Durant, Gaurav Parmar, Faisal Shuaib, Anh Le, Todd M Brown, David L Roth, Martha Hovater, Jewell H Halanych, James M Shikany, Ronald J Prineas, Tandaw J Samdarshi and Monika M Safford
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:208
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  29. Readmissions are costly and have implications for quality of care. Studies have been reported to support effects of transitional care programs in reducing hospital readmissions and enhancing clinical outcomes....

    Authors: Frances Kam Yuet Wong, June Chau, Ching So, Stanley Ku Fu Tam and Sarah McGhee
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:479
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  31. Measuring quality in healthcare is vital in evaluating patient outcomes and system performance. The availability of reliable and valid information about the quality of care for patients presenting with rotator...

    Authors: Breda H.F. Eubank, Mark R. Lafave, J. Preston Wiley, David M. Sheps, Aaron J. Bois and Nicholas G. Mohtadi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:569
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  32. Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral for Treatment (SBIRT) is an effective approach for managing alcohol and other drug misuse in primary care; however, uptake into routine care has been limited. Uptake...

    Authors: Ginetta Salvalaggio, Kathryn Dong, Christine Vandenberghe, Scott Kirkland, Kelsey Mramor, Taryn Brown, Marliss Taylor, Robert McKim, Greta G Cummings and T Cameron Wild
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:108
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  33. We previously developed a Quality Improvement (QI) Return-on-Investment (ROI) conceptual framework for large-scale healthcare QI programmes. We defined ROI as any monetary or non-monetary value or benefit deri...

    Authors: S’thembile Thusini, Maria Milenova, Noushig Nahabedian, Barbara Grey, Tayana Soukup and Claire Henderson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1083
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  34. While HIV Testing Services (HTS) have increased, many South Africans have not been tested. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the top cause of death worldwide. Integrated NCD-HTS could be a strategy to contr...

    Authors: Kathryn L. Hopkins, Khuthadzo E. Hlongwane, Kennedy Otwombe, Janan Dietrich, Mireille Cheyip, Nompumelelo Khanyile, Tanya Doherty and Glenda E. Gray
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:404
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  35. In the United States (US), Medicaid capitated managed care costs are controlled by optimizing patients’ healthcare utilization. Adults in capitated plans utilize primary care providers (PCP) more than emergenc...

    Authors: Therese L. Canares, Ari Friedman, Jonathan Rodean, Rebecca R. Burns, Deena Berkowitz, Matt Hall, Elizabeth Alpern and Amanda Montalbano
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:532
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  36. Smoking remains the leading cause of preventable illness and mortality in the United States. Individuals with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) have smoking rates higher than that of others and fewer indivi...

    Authors: Jamie Peterson, Allan V Prochazka and Catherine Battaglia
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:46
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  37. The Resident Assessment Instrument-Minimum Data Set (RAI-MDS) 2.0 is designed to collect the minimum amount of data to guide care planning and monitoring for residents in long-term care settings. These data ha...

    Authors: Alison M Hutchinson, Doris L Milke, Suzanne Maisey, Cynthia Johnson, Janet E Squires, Gary Teare and Carole A Estabrooks
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:166
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  38. Since 1994, Brazil has developed a primary care system based on multidisciplinary teams which include not only a physician and a nurse, but also 4–6 lay community health workers. This system now consists of 26...

    Authors: Erno Harzheim, Bruce B Duncan, Airton T Stein, Carlo RH Cunha, Marcelo R Goncalves, Thiago G Trindade, Mônica MC Oliveira and Maria Eugênia B Pinto
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2006 6:156
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  39. Because of critical shortage of physician anaesthesiologists, the government of Tanzania adopted a task shifting strategy for provision of anaesthesia services. This paper describes the results of an operation...

    Authors: E. Kweyamba, AS Nyamtema, JC LeBlanc, A. Shayo, RB George, H. Scott, O. Kilume, J. Bulemela, Z. Abel and G. Mtey
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1001
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  40. In Australia, maternity care is available through universal coverage and a parallel, competitive private health insurance system. Differences between sectors in antenatal and intrapartum care and associated ou...

    Authors: Wendy Brodribb, Maria Zadoroznyj, Michelle Nesic, Sue Kruske and Yvette D Miller
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:14
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  41. The study examined the relationship between health insurance coverage and access to needed healthcare including preventive, primary, and tertiary care among Chinese adult population.

    Authors: De-Chih Lee, Jing Wang, Leiyu Shi, Caroline Wu and Gang Sun
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:140
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  42. The German Innovation Fund supports projects that aim to improve healthcare through integration and intersectoral collaboration. As is typical for collaborative innovation projects, partners often pursue diffe...

    Authors: Malte Haring, Juliane Schiller, Martin Gersch and Volker Amelung
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1292
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  43. Individuals dually-enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid (dual eligibles) are disproportionately sicker, have higher health care costs, and are hospitalized more often for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACS...

    Authors: N. Loren Oh, Andrew J. Potter, Lindsay M. Sabik, Amal N. Trivedi, Fredric Wolinsky and Brad Wright
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:927
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  44. Promoting safe and efficient transitions of care is critical to reducing readmission rates and associated costs and improving the quality of patient care. A growing body of literature suggests that transitiona...

    Authors: Stefano Landi, Maria Martina Panella and Chiara Leardini
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:46
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:248

  45. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) affects health care services. Our aim was to assess health care disruptions, treatment interruptions, and telemedicine reception regarding autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARD...

    Authors: Faisal Parlindungan, Sumariyono Sumariyono, Rudy Hidayat, Suryo Anggoro Kusumo Wibowo, Anna Ariane, Johanda Damanik, Abirianty Priandani Araminta and Khadijah Cahya Yunita
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:451
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  46. Despite global efforts to increase health workforce capacity through training and guidelines, challenges remain in bridging the gap between knowledge and quality clinical practice and addressing health system ...

    Authors: Anatole Manzi, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, Kenneth Sherr, Cindy Chirwa, Colin Baynes and John Koku Awoonor-Williams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17(Suppl 3):831
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 3

  47. Barely a decade after introduction of Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), significant successes have been recorded in universal access to basic healthcare services. However, sustainability of the ...

    Authors: Robert Kaba Alhassan, Edward Nketiah-Amponsah, Nicole Spieker, Daniel Kojo Arhinful and Tobias F. Rinke de Wit
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:192
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  48. Out-of-pocket payments for healthcare remain a significant health financing challenge in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), preventing women from using maternal health services. There is a paucity of empirical literatu...

    Authors: Richard Gyan Aboagye, Joshua Okyere, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Betregiorgis Zegeye, Hubert Amu and Sanni Yaya
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:181
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  50. Understanding physician perspectives on the intersection of race and genomics in clinical decision making is critical as personalized medicine and genomics become more integrated in health care services. There...

    Authors: Vence L Bonham, Sherrill L Sellers and Sam Woolford
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:456
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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