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  1. In Sweden, older people in residential care had the highest mortality rates, followed by those who received home care, during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Staff working in the care of olde...

    Authors: Lena Marmstål Hammar, Moudud Alam, Caroline Eklund, Anne-Marie Boström and Annica Lövenmark
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1312
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  2. The study aims at investigating the characteristics and the satisfaction determinants of the emerging patient profile. This profile appears to be more demanding and “empowered” compared to the ones traditional...

    Authors: Luca Buccoliero, Elena Bellio, Maria Mazzola and Elisa Solinas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:47
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  3. Medical First Responders (MFRs) in the emergency department SUMMA 112 are tasked with handling the initial management of Mass Casualty Incidents (MCI) and building response capabilities. Training plays a cruci...

    Authors: María Carmen Cardós-Alonso, Miguel Inzunza, Lina Gyllencreutz, Salvador Espinosa, Tatiana Vázquez, Maria Aranzazu Fernandez, Alberto Blanco and Ana María Cintora-Sanz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:745
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  4. Health tourism or treatment tourism is one of threatening fields that causes (added s) increase in prevalence of job stress and illnesses among hospital staff of providing health tourism services (HSPHT). The ...

    Authors: Farhad Hemmati, Fatemeh Dabbaghi and Ghahraman Mahmoudi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:906
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  5. Closely linked to the concept of supportive care, the integrated model of palliative care (PC) implies identifying, assessing and treating physical and psychological suffering as early as needed, irrespective ...

    Authors: Asmaa Janah, Christine Le Bihan-Benjamin, Julien Mancini, Anne-Déborah Bouhnik, Philippe-Jean Bousquet and Marc-Karim Bendiane
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:798
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  6. Our primary objective was to evaluate how the Indigenous Healing and Seeking Safety (IHSS) model impacted residential addiction treatment program completion rates. Our secondary objective was to evaluate healt...

    Authors: K. A. Morin, T. N. Marsh, C. Eshakakogan, J. K. Eibl, M. Spence, G. Gauthier, J. D. Walker, Dean Sayers, Alan Ozawanimke, Brent Bissaillion and D. C. Marsh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1045
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  7. In 2001 Brazilian citizens aged 40 or older were invited to participate in a nationwide population screening program for diabetes. Capillary glucose screening tests and procedures for diagnostic confirmation w...

    Authors: Cristiana M Toscano, Bruce B Duncan, Sotero S Mengue, Carísi Anne Polanczyk, Luciana B Nucci, Adriana Costa e Forti, Cláudio D Fonseca and Maria Inês Schmidt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:189
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  8. New healthcare professions are emerging due to scarce medical resources. The appearance of a new healthcare profession, advanced practice nurses (APNs), has raised questions about how general practitioners int...

    Authors: Charles Goddaert, Pierre-Antoine Gérard, Charlotte Kessler, Mélaine Leblanc, Coralie Barbe, Jan Chrusciel, Clément Cormi and Stéphane Sanchez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1442
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  9. Despite improvement in health outcomes over the past few decades, China still experiences striking rural-urban health inequalities. There is limited research on the rural-urban differences in health system per...

    Authors: Vicky Mengqi Qin, Barbara McPake, Magdalena Z. Raban, Thomas E. Cowling, Riyadh Alshamsan, Kee Seng Chia, Peter C. Smith, Rifat Atun and John Tayu Lee
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:372
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  10. Informal and unregulated rural medical practitioners (RMPs) provide healthcare services to about two-thirds of people in Bangladesh, although their service is assumed to be substandard by qualified providers. ...

    Authors: Hasnat Sujon, Mohammad Habibur Rahman Sarker, Aftab Uddin, Shakila Banu, Mohammod Rafiqul Islam, Md. Ruhul Amin, Md. Shabab Hossain, Md. Fazle Alahi, Mohammad Asaduzzaman, Syed Jafar Raza Rizvi, Mohammad Zahirul Islam and Md. Nazim Uzzaman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1322
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  11. Electronic health records (EHRs) have become a mandated part of delivering health care in the United States. The purpose of this study is to report patient volume before and after the transition to EHR in an a...

    Authors: Jocelyn G. Lam, Bryan S. Lee and Philip P. Chen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:7
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  12. The World Health Organization (WHO) calls for schistosomiasis endemic countries to integrate schistosomiasis control measures into the primary health care (PHC) services; however, in Tanzania, little is known ...

    Authors: Humphrey Deogratias Mazigo, Cecilia Uisso, Paul Kazyoba and Upendo J. Mwingira
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:529
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  13. Past studies examining the health outcomes of diabetes mellitus (DM) patients found that social determinants of health disparities were associated with variabilities in health outcomes. However, improving acce...

    Authors: Soo-Hoon Lee, Samuel L. Brown and Andrew A. Bennett
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:495
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  14. Health care systems around the world are struggling with limited resources, in relation to the prevailing health care need. An accessible primary care is an important part of the solution for how to provide af...

    Authors: Suzana Holmér, Ann- Charlotte Nedlund, Kristin Thomas and Barbro Krevers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:6
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  15. Saudi Arabia is implementing a comprehensive health system transformation in health services provision, governance, and financing. Given the high burden of non-communicable diseases (NCD), a key objective of t...

    Authors: Maha Alattas, Sarah Gordon, Lora L. Sabin, Fadi El-jardali and Veronika J. Wirtz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:346
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  16. Researchers and policy makers have focussed on the development of indicators to help monitor the success of regionalization, primary care reform and other health sector restructuring initiatives. Certain indic...

    Authors: Denise Cloutier-Fisher, Margaret J Penning, Chi Zheng and Eric-Bené F Druyts
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2006 6:104
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  17. The Ontario Health Team (OHT) model is a form of integrated care that seeks to provide coordinated delivery of care to communities across Ontario, Canada. Primary care is positioned at the heart of the OHT mod...

    Authors: Colleen Grady, Sophy Chan-Nguyen, David Mathies and Nadia Alam
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1113
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  18. Cambodia is a Southeast Asian country and has one the highest rates of maternal and child mortality with inadequate use of maternal healthcare services in the region. The present study aimed to analyse the pro...

    Authors: Donghua Zhou, Zhonghe Zhou, Cheng Yang, Lu Ji, Bishwajit Ghose and Shangfeng Tang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:781
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  19. During the SARS epidemic, healthcare utilization and medical services decreased significantly. However, the long-term impact of SARS on hospital performance needs to be further discussed.

    Authors: Dachen Chu, Ran-Chou Chen, Chia-Yu Ku and Pesus Chou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:228
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  20. Major international differences in heart failure treatment have been repeatedly described, but the reasons for these differences remain unclear. National guideline recommendations might be a relevant factor. T...

    Authors: Heidrun B Sturm, Wiek H van Gilst, Karl Swedberg, FD Richard Hobbs and Flora M Haaijer-Ruskamp
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2005 5:57
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  21. 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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  22. To meet the increasing demand for home healthcare in Japan as the population ages, home care support clinics/hospitals (HCSCs) and enhanced HCSCs were introduced in 2006 and 2012, respectively. This study aime...

    Authors: Yu Sun, Masao Iwagami, Nobuo Sakata, Tomoko Ito, Ryota Inokuchi, Jun Komiyama, Naoaki Kuroda and Nanako Tamiya
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:115
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  23. Antimicrobial resistance is a worldwide challenge for health services and systems alike. To reduce the overuse of antibiotics, multifaceted interventions are often used to achieve sustainable effects. It can b...

    Authors: Annika Queder, Christine Arnold, Michel Wensing and Regina Poß-Doering
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:331
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  24. The Government of Nepal introduced the family-based health insurance program in 2016 to increase financial protection and improve access to health care services. The study aimed to assess factors associated wi...

    Authors: Sushmita Ghimire, Sailaja Ghimire, Pratik Khanal, Reshu Agrawal Sagtani and Sudarshan Paudel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:159
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  25. Relationships between dietitians and other healthcare providers can impact the degree to which patient care is collaborative; inefficient communication can lead to suboptimal care. It takes time for multidisci...

    Authors: Sarah Hewko, Amirah Oyesegun, Samantha Clow and Charlene VanLeeuwen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:25
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  26. Restorative home care services help older people maximise their independence using a multi-dimensional approach. They usually include an exercise program designed to improve the older person’s strength, balanc...

    Authors: Elissa Burton, Gill Lewin, Lindy Clemson and Duncan Boldy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:419
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  27. Self-management in chronic diseases is essential to slowing disease progression and preventing complications. However, empirical research on the associations of critical factors, such as health literacy, socia...

    Authors: Thi Thuy Ha Dinh and Ann Bonner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:923
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  28. Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer in the world, and is associated with significant economic costs for patients and communities. Therefore, the information on the costs of the disease and the identif...

    Authors: Faride Sadat Jalali, Mozhgan Seif, Abdosaleh Jafari, Vahid Zangouri, Khosro Keshavarz and Ramin Ravangard
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1332
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  29. We explored the impact of medical service fee adjustments on the choice of medical treatment for hypertensive patients in Beijing. We hope to provide decision-making reference to promote the realization of hie...

    Authors: Danhui Li, Jia Yang, Jin Li, Ning Zhao, Wensheng Ju and Moning Guo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:928
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  31. Shared decision-making (SDM) in perioperative care, is an organizational approach to instituting sharing of information and decision-making around surgery. It aims at enabling patient autonomy and patient-cent...

    Authors: Amyn Vogel, Camille Guinemer and Daniel Fürstenau
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:197
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  32. Obstetric hemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal mortality, particularly in low resource settings where delays in obtaining definitive care contribute to high rates of death. The non-pneumatic anti-shock ...

    Authors: Janelle Downing, Alison El Ayadi, Suellen Miller, Elizabeth Butrick, Gricelia Mkumba, Thulani Magwali, Christine Kaseba-Sata and James G Kahn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:37
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  33. Screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) is suboptimal, particularly for vulnerable populations. Effective intervention programs are needed to increase screening rates. We used a discrete choice experiment (DCE) ...

    Authors: Michael P Pignone, Trisha M Crutchfield, Paul M Brown, Sarah T Hawley, Jane L Laping, Carmen L Lewis, Kristen Hassmiller Lich, Lisa C Richardson, Florence KL Tangka and Stephanie B Wheeler
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:611
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  34. Health systems around the world are being challenged by an on-going COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic and associated response can have a significant downstream effect on access to routine health care se...

    Authors: Firaol Dandena, Berhanetsehay Teklewold and Dagmawi Anteneh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1105
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  35. Newborn screening (NBS) can prevent inborn errors of metabolism (IEMs), which may cause long-term disability and even death in newborns. However, in China, tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) screening has just s...

    Authors: Mingren Yu, Juan Xu, Xiaohong Song and Jiayue Du
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1039
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  36. We aimed to investigate the association between fragmented cancer care in the early phase after cancer diagnosis and patient outcomes using national insurance claim data.

    Authors: Dong-Woo Choi, Sun Jung Kim, Dong Jun Kim, Yoon-Jung Chang, Dong Wook Kim and Kyu-Tae Han
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1566
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  37. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive fatal neurodegenerative disease. Around half of the population with ALS develop cognitive and/or behavioral impairment. Behavioral changes in persons with A...

    Authors: Lene Klem Olesen, Karen la Cour, Heidi With, Annette Faber Mahoney and Charlotte Handberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:697
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  38. Public health resources are often deployed in developing countries by foreign governments, national governments, civil society and the private health clinics, but seldom in ways that are coordinated within a p...

    Authors: James C Thomas, Heidi Reynolds, Christine Bevc and Ademe Tsegaye
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:22
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  39. This study aimed to investigate, using Andersen’s model of health care utilization, factors associated with COVID-19 testing among adults in nine low- and middle- income countries.

    Authors: Supa Pengid, Karl Peltzer, Edlaine Faria de Moura Villela, Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo, Ching Sin Siau, Won Sun Chen, Suzanna A. Bono, Isareethika Jayasvasti, M. Tasdik Hasan, Rhoda K. Wanyenze, Mina C. Hosseinipour, Housseini Dolo, Philippe Sessou, John D. Ditekemena and Robert Colebunders
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:265
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  40. The extent to which a genomic test will be used in practice is affected by factors such as ability of the test to correctly predict response to treatment (i.e. sensitivity and specificity of the test), invasiv...

    Authors: Mehdi Najafzadeh, Karissa M Johnston, Stuart J Peacock, Joseph M Connors, Marco A Marra, Larry D Lynd and Carlo A Marra
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:454
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  41. Physicians who perform unsafe practices and harm patients may be disciplined. In Norway, there are five types of disciplinary action, ranging from a warning for the least serious examples of malpractice to los...

    Authors: Martin B. Harbitz, Per Steinar Stensland and Birgit Abelsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:324
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  42. Patient safety in a healthcare setting is now a major global concern. Millions of people suffer disabling injuries or death directly related to medical care errors, particularly in developing countries. Eviden...

    Authors: Tezeta Ayanaw, Eshetu Abera Worede, Mekuriaw Alemayehu, Walelegn Worku, Giziew Abere and Bikes Destaw Betew
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:765
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  43. Strong growth in graduate supply from health, welfare and care courses across Australia may bode well for easing rural workforce shortages. However, little is known about the employment opportunities available...

    Authors: Belinda Jessup, Fiona Proudfoot, Merylin Cross and Tony Barnett
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:652
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  44. Responsiveness of physicians is the social actions that physicians do to meet the legitimate expectations of service seekers. Since there is no such scale, this study aimed at developing one for measuring resp...

    Authors: Taufique Joarder, Ilias Mahmud, Malabika Sarker, Asha George and Krishna Dipankar Rao
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:753
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Geriatric health is a neglected and under-explored area internationally and in Pakistan. We aimed to ascertain the expectations of the geriatric patients from their physicians and the factors associated with p...

    Authors: Taimur Saleem, Umair Khalid and Waris Qidwai
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:205
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Physical activity rates in cancer survivors continue to be low despite the known benefits and availability of evidence-based programs. LIVESTRONG at the Y is a national community-based physical activity progra...

    Authors: Jamie M. Faro, Kristin M. Mattocks, Dalton Mourao, Catherine S. Nagawa, Stephenie C. Lemon, Bo Wang, Sarah L. Cutrona and Rajani S. Sadasivam
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:358
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  47. In South Africa (SA), patients with kidney failure can be on either haemodialysis (HD), which is performed by a healthcare professional in a hospital thrice weekly; or peritoneal dialysis (PD), which can perfo...

    Authors: Kotulo Moalosi, Mncengeli Sibanda, Amanj Kurdi, Brian Godman and Moliehi Matlala
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1119
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  48. Consensus techniques have been used previously to create explicit criteria to prioritize cataract extraction; however, the appropriateness of the intervention was not included explicitly in previous studies. W...

    Authors: José M Quintana, Antonio Escobar and Amaia Bilbao
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2006 6:24
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Continuous electroencephalography (cEEG) is increasingly utilized in hospitalized patients to detect and treat seizures. Epidemiologic and observational studies using administrative datasets can provide insigh...

    Authors: Marta Fernandes, M. Brandon Westover and Sahar F. Zafar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1234
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  50. The social network of the core members of elderly care service social organizations could affect the performance of the organization, while studies concerning its related factors are limited. We aimed to explo...

    Authors: Zhengsheng Wang, Xingxi Zhang, Liu Liu, Ling Tang, Ying Zhu, Zhongliang Bai and Ren Chen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1147
    Content type: Research Published on:
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