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  1. Almost all maternal deaths and related morbidities occur in low-income countries. Childbirth supervised by a skilled provider in a health facility is a key intervention to prevent maternal and perinatal morbid...

    Authors: Quraish Sserwanja, David Mukunya, Milton W. Musaba, Joseph Kawuki and Freddy Eric Kitutu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1160
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  2. Health literacy (HL) has become a subject of major interest in public health worldwide. It is known to be linked to self-efficacy in care use and to global health status, and a non-negligible frequency of prob...

    Authors: Pauline Marie, Nicolas Romain-Scelle, Veronique Potinet, Anne Marie Schott and Marion Douplat
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:493
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  3. It is expected that, by 2020, 15 million new cases of cancer will occur every year in the world, one million of them in Africa. Knowledge of cancer trends in African countries is far from adequate, and improve...

    Authors: Lygia Vieira Lopes, Fernando Miguel, Helga Freitas, António Tavares, Salvador Pangui, Clara Castro, Gonçalo Forjaz Lacerda, Adhemar Longatto-Filho, Elisabete Weiderpass and Lúcio Lara Santos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:471
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  4. Patient participation is important for improving outcomes, respect for self-determination and legal aspects in care. However, how patients with heart failure view participation and which factors may be associa...

    Authors: Lena Näsström, Tiny Jaarsma, Ewa Idvall, Kristofer Årestedt and Anna Strömberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:633
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  5. The purpose of this study was to produce a risk stratification within a population of high-risk patients with multiple chronic conditions who are currently treated under a case management program and to explor...

    Authors: Pablo E. Bretos-Azcona, Eduardo Sánchez-Iriso and Juan M. Cabasés Hita
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:806
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  6. Several emergent circumstances require healthcare providers to recognize the unusual and dangerous and pathogenic agents. An in-depth literature review showed that studies about bioterrorism preparedness among...

    Authors: Abdullah Nofal, Isamme AlFayyad, Nawfal AlJerian, Jalal Alowais, Meshal AlMarshady, Anas Khan, Humariya Heena, Ayah Sulaiman AlSarheed and Amani Abu-Shaheen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:426
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  7. A single-entry model in healthcare consolidates waiting lists through a central intake and allows patients to see the next available health care provider based on the prioritization. This study aimed to examin...

    Authors: Anh Thu Vo, Yanqing Yi, Maria Mathews, James Valcour, Michelle Alexander and Marcel Billard
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:82
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  8. Hospital admissions of patients with chest pain considered as low risk for acute coronary syndrome contribute to increased costs and crowding in the emergency departments. This study aims to estimate the cost-...

    Authors: Tonje R. Johannessen, Sigrun Halvorsen, Dan Atar, John Munkhaugen, Anne Kathrine Nore, Torbjørn Wisløff and Odd Martin Vallersnes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1274
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  9. Since 2005, the healthcare system in Ethiopia has implemented policies to promote the provision of free maternal healthcare services. The primary goal of these policies is to enhance the accessibility of mater...

    Authors: Menen Tilahun Chewaka, Gistane Ayele, Godana Yaya Tessema, Dagne Deresa Dinagde, Hana Tadesse Afework, Bezalem Mekonen Biwota and Habtamu Wana Wada
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:495
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  10. Maternal mortality remains a major health problem in Ethiopia. To generate contextual evidence on the burden and distribution of existing causes and contributing factors for programmatic and individual-level d...

    Authors: Abduilhafiz A. Endris and Tizita Tilahun
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:318
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  11. Drug shortages are a global problem. While extensively studied in the United States, numbers about drug shortages in European countries are scarce. This study aims to collect and present data about drug shorta...

    Authors: Kim Pauwels, Isabelle Huys, Minne Casteels and Steven Simoens
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:438
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  12. Antigen-based lateral flow devices (LFDs) offer the potential of widespread rapid testing. The scientific literature has primarily focused on mathematical modelling of their use and test performance characteri...

    Authors: Patrick Kierkegaard, Massimo Micocci, Anna McLister, John S. P. Tulloch, Paula Parvulescu, Adam L. Gordon and Peter Buckle
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1153
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  13. Ensuring access to healthcare services is a key element to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 3 of “promoting healthy lives and well-being for all” through Universal Health Coverage (UHC). However, in ...

    Authors: Marion Coste and Marwân-al-Qays Bousmah
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:263
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  14. According to new estimates, the health care sector will suffer a shortage of physicians in primary and specialty care. In this context, work engagement and burnout are two constructs that have gained attention...

    Authors: FU Jung, E Bodendieck, M Bleckwenn, FS Hussenoeder, M Luppa and SG Riedel-Heller
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:157
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  15. Telephone hotlines in infectious diseases (ID) are part of antimicrobial stewardship programs designed to provide support and expertise in ID and to control antibiotic resistance. The aim of the study was to c...

    Authors: Anna Luce Sette, Patrice François, Philippe Lesprit, Virginie Vitrat, Olivier Rogeaux, Emma Breugnon, Marion Baldeyrou, Véronique Mondain, Bertrand Issartel, Solen Kerneis, Sylvain Diamantis, Delphine Poitrenaud, Bastien Boussat and Patricia Pavese
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:502
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  16. The aim of this analysis was to examine the influence of housing insecurity on diabetes processes of care and self-care behaviors and determine if that relationship varied by employment status or race/ethnicity.

    Authors: Elise Mosley-Johnson, Rebekah J. Walker, Madhuli Thakkar, Jennifer A. Campbell, Laura Hawks, Sarah Pyzyk and Leonard E. Egede
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:61
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  17. Applicability of comprehensive assessment of integrated care services in real world settings is an unmet need. To this end, a Triple Aim evaluation of Hospital at Home (HaH), as use case, was done. As ancillar...

    Authors: Carme Herranz, Rubèn González-Colom, Erik Baltaxe, Nuria Seijas, Maria Asenjo, Maaike Hoedemakers, David Nicolas, Emmanuel Coloma, Joaquim Fernandez, Emili Vela, Isaac Cano, Maureen Rutten-van Mölken, Josep Roca and Carme Hernandez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1133
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  18. The motivation for this study was to investigate how role stress among nurses could affect their job satisfaction and organizational commitment, and whether the job rotation system might encourage nurses to un...

    Authors: Wen-Hsien Ho, Ching Sheng Chang, Ying-Ling Shih and Rong-Da Liang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:8
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  19. Since, at the health system level, there is little research into the possible interrelationships among the various indicators of health, healthcare performance, non-medical determinants of health, and communit...

    Authors: OA Arah and GP Westert
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2005 5:76
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  20. The challenge of implementing evidence into routine clinical practice is well recognised and implementation science offers theories, models and frameworks to promote investigation into delivery of evidence-bas...

    Authors: Stephanie Best, Karin Thursky, Mark Buzza, Marlena Klaic, Sanne Peters, Lisa Guccione, Alison Trainer and Jillian Francis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:338
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  21. Studies on the effect of organizational factors on the involuntary admission of psychiatric patients have been few and yielded inconclusive results. The objective was to examine the importance of type of servi...

    Authors: Lars Henrik Myklebust, Knut Sørgaard and Rolf Wynn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:64
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  22. The SOS-doctors are a network of physicians who perform house-call visits in the areas of Attica and Thessaloniki, Greece.

    Authors: George Theocharis, Spyridon G. Barbas, Theodore Spiropoulos, Petroula E. Stamouli, Dimitrios N. Perdikis and Matthew E. Falagas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:304
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  23. Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is affecting numerous Ethiopian populations regardless of environmental and social status. Diabetic people all over the world are commonly urged to acquire a healthy eating habit, which ...

    Authors: Dureti Tirfessa, Mitsiwat Abebe, Jiregna Darega and Mecha Aboma
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1273
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  24. Timely and appropriate hospital treatment of acute cerebrovascular diseases (stroke and Transient Ischemic Attacks - TIA) improves patient outcomes. Emergency Medical Service (EMS) dispatchers who can identify...

    Authors: Assunta De Luca, Paolo Giorgi Rossi and Guido Francesco Villa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:513
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  25. The Covid-19 pandemic has so far infected more than 30 million people in the world, having major impact on global health with collateral damage. In Mozambique, a public state of emergency was declared at the e...

    Authors: Paulo Henrique das Neves Martins Pires, Cynthia Macaringue, Ahmed Abdirazak, Jaibo Rassul Mucufo, Martins Abudo Mupueleque, David Zakus, Ronald Siemens and Celso Fernando Belo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:860
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  26. In Britain over 39,000 reports were received by the National Patient Safety Agency relating to failures in documentation in 2007 and the UK Health Services Journal estimated in 2008 that over a million hospita...

    Authors: Susan J Burnett, Vashist Deelchand, Bryony Dean Franklin, Krishna Moorthy and Charles Vincent
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:114
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  27. The intersection between deafness and culture in sub-Saharan African contexts such as Ghana has culminated in restricted access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. While some attention has been g...

    Authors: Wisdom Kwadwo Mprah, Maxwell Peprah Opoku, Juventus Duorinaah and William Nketsia
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1152
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  28. Despite advance in care of people with an ostomy, related complications remain prevalent. The objective of this study was to examine short- and long-term healthcare resource utilization and associated costs af...

    Authors: Eva Carlsson, Annabelle Forsmark, Catarina Sternhufvud, Gina Scheffel, Frederikke B. Andersen and Eva I Persson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:837
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  29. Several factors might contribute to the delay to get cancer care including poor cancer awareness and having barriers to seeking help. This study described these barriers in Gaza and their association with reca...

    Authors: Mohamedraed Elshami, Bettina Bottcher, Mohammed Alkhatib, Iyad Ismail, Khitam Abu-Nemer, Mustafa Hana, Ahmed Qandeel, Ahmed Abdelwahed, Hamza Yazji, Hisham Abuamro, Ghadeer Matar, Ahmed Alsahhar, Ahmed Abolamzi, Obay Baraka, Mahmood Elblbessy, Tahani Samra…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:28
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  30. Despite international treatment guidelines currently advocating oral anticoagulants (OACs) as the only appropriate stroke prevention therapy for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and evidence that OACs ca...

    Authors: Vanessa W. S. Ng, Chung-Wah Siu, Patrick K. C. Chiu, Carolyn P. L. Kng, Elizabeth Jamieson, Ian C. K. Wong and May P. S. Lam
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1084
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  31. Healthcare professionals (HCPs) are increasingly recommended to play an important role in supporting people with chronic disease in work participation. An intervention for HCPs to provide work-related support ...

    Authors: Maarten Butink, Shari Hooper, Annelies Boonen, Vera Baadjou, Tim Boymans, Marieke Pierik and Angelique de Rijk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:325
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  32. Day care is an important service for many people with dementia and their carers. In Ireland, day care services for people with dementia are delivered by a mix of dementia-specific day care centres as well as g...

    Authors: Tom Pierse, Fiona Keogh, Eamon O’Shea and John Cullinan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:476
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  33. The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the ability of healthcare systems to ensure the continuity of health services for patients with non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The issue of remote consultations has emer...

    Authors: Mirdza Kursīte, Inese Stars, Ieva Strēle, Inese Gobiņa, Anda Ķīvīte-Urtāne, Daiga Behmane, Alina Dūdele and Anita Villeruša
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:263
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  34. Depression is one of the key factors contributing to difficulties in one’s ability to work, and serves as one of the major reasons why employees apply for psychotherapy and receive insurance subsidization of t...

    Authors: A. Heissel, J. Bollmann, M. Kangas, K. Abdulla, M. Rapp and A. Sanchez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:593
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  35. Early warning systems (EWS) are most effective when clinicians monitor patients’ vital signs and comply with the recommended escalation of care protocols once deterioration is recognised.

    Authors: Tracy Flenady, Trudy Dwyer, Agnieszka Sobolewska, Danielle Le Lagadec, Justine Connor, Julie Kahl, Tania Signal and Matthew Browne
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:736
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  36. Proton pump inhibitor (PPI) abuse poses an overwhelming threat to the allocation of medical resources and places a heavy burden on global medical expenses. In this study, we put forward our prospective prescri...

    Authors: Xiucong Fan, Danxia Chen, Siwei Bao, Xiaohui Dong, Fang Fang, Rong Bai, Yuyi Zhang, Xiaogang Zhang, Weijun Tang, Yabin Ma and Xiaobo Zhai
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1014
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  38. The growing number of older adults with chronic diseases challenges already strained healthcare systems. Fragmented systems make transitions between healthcare settings demanding, posing risks during transitio...

    Authors: Emelie Ingvarsson, Kristina Schildmeijer, Heidi Hagerman and Catharina Lindberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:571
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  39. High-cost high-need patients are typically defined by risk or cost thresholds which aggregate clinically diverse subgroups into a single ‘high-need high-cost’ designation. Programs have had limited success in ...

    Authors: Jacob K. Quinton, O. Kenrik Duru, Nicholas Jackson, Arseniy Vasilyev, Dennis Ross-Degnan, Donna L. O’Shea and Carol M. Mangione
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1143
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  40. The introduction of Integrated Care Systems (ICS) in England aimed to increase joint planning and delivery of health and social care, and other services, to better meet the needs of local communities. There is...

    Authors: Christopher J. Gidlow, Lorna Sams, Kim Buckless, Naomi J. Ellis, Helen C. Duffy, Ruth Lambley-Burke, Paul Campbell, Alison Cooke, Krysia Dziedzic, Matthew Brookes, Nachiappan Chockalingam, Pam Devall and Christian Mallen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:264
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  41. Studies of carotid endarterectomy (CEA) require stratification by symptomatic vs asymptomatic status because of marked differences in benefits and harms. In administrative datasets, this classification has bee...

    Authors: Stephen van Gaal, Arshia Alimohammadi, Amy Y. X. Yu, Mohammad Ehsanul Karim, Wei Zhang and Jason M. Sutherland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:379
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  42. Professional subgroups are common and may play a role in aiding professional maturity or impeding professional legitimization. The chiropractic profession in the United States has a long history of diverse int...

    Authors: Jordan A. Gliedt, Stephen M. Perle, Aaron A. Puhl, Sarah Daehler, Michael J. Schneider and Joel Stevans
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1049
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  43. China has made remarkable achievements in poverty alleviation. However, with the change in economic development and age structure, the population stricken by poverty due to medical expenses and disability acco...

    Authors: Jiahui Wang, Xinye Qi, Linghan Shan, Kexin Wang, Xiao Tan, Zheng Kang, Ning Ning, Libo Liang, Lijun Gao, Mingli Jiao, Yu Cui, Yanhua Hao, Qunhong Wu and Ye Li
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:963
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  44. Asking patients/clients what they perceive about the care and treatment they have received is one of the important steps towards improving the quality of health care. In the scientific world, a number of effor...

    Authors: Asefa Adimasu Taddese, Kiros Terefe Gashaye, Henok Dagne and Zewudu Andualem
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:233
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  45. This study explored the effects of an integrated care model for the frail elderly on informal caregivers’ satisfaction with care and support services.

    Authors: Benjamin Janse, Robbert Huijsman and Isabelle Natalina Fabbricotti
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:140
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  46. Home care workers perform physically strenuous tasks, in particular when handling patients with high care demands. Thus, musculoskeletal pain and sick leave is greater in this group than in the general populat...

    Authors: Fredrik Klæboe Lohne, Marius Steiro Fimland, Andreas Holtermann, Svend Erik Mathiassen, Heike Fischer, Trine Minde Gellein and Skender Redzovic
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1490
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  47. Home care services in Norway are provided for free, and municipalities are responsible for their provision to all those in need of them, in accordance with the Act on Municipal Health and Care Services. The co...

    Authors: Solrun G Holm and Ragnhild O Angelsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:439
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  48. Research out of South Africa estimates the total unmet need for care for those with type 2 diabetes mellitus (diabetes) at 80%. We evaluated the care cascade using South Africa’s National Health Laboratory Ser...

    Authors: Alana T. Brennan, Evelyn Lauren, Jacob Bor, Jaya A. George, Kamy Chetty, Koleka Mlisana, Andrew Dai, Siyabonga Khoza, Sydney Rosen, Andrew C. Stokes, Frederick Raal, Patricia Hibberd, Sara M. Alexanian, Matthew P. Fox and Nigel J. Crowther
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1452
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  49. Long-term conditions have a significant impact on individuals, their families, and the health service. As people with these conditions represent a high proportion of hospital admissions, investigating their ex...

    Authors: Paul Hewitson, Alex Skew, Chris Graham, Crispin Jenkinson and Angela Coulter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:33
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  50. Failure to attend the clinic without prior intimation, known as “Did Not Attend” (DNA) is a significant global issue. There have been no published studies attempting to reduce DNA rates in breast clinics. We a...

    Authors: Pasupathy Kiruparan, Nanthesh Kiruparan and Debasish Debnath
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:757
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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