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

    Authors: İlker Devrim, Mustafa Taha Özkul, İlknur Çağlar, Yeliz Oruç, Nevbahar Demiray, Neryal Tahta and Canan Vergin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:450
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    The original article was published in BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:336

  2. The concept of rapid implementation has emerged in the literature recently, but without a precise definition. Further exploration is required to distinguish the concept’s unique meanings and significance from ...

    Authors: James Smith, Frances Rapport, Tracey A. O’Brien, Stephanie Smith, Vanessa J. Tyrrell, Emily V. A. Mould, Janet C. Long, Hossai Gul, Jeremy Cullis and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:449
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  3. Incidence and prevalence of prostate cancer in Sweden have increased markedly due to prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing. Moreover, new diagnostic tests and treatment technologies are expected to further i...

    Authors: Shuang Hao, Ellinor Östensson, Martin Eklund, Henrik Grönberg, Tobias Nordström, Emelie Heintz and Mark Clements
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:448
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  4. Overactive bladder (OAB) is common and morbid. Medication and diagnosis claims may be specific, but lack sensitivity to identify patients with overactive bladder. We used an “electronic health record (EHR) phe...

    Authors: Jeffrey A. Linder, Joel S. Weissman, Harry Reyes Nieva, Stuart Lipsitz, R. Sterling Haring, Julie DeAngelis, Rita M. Kristy and Kevin R. Loughlin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:447
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  5. The number of people aged 80 years and above is projected to triple over the next 30 years. People in this age group normally have at least two chronic conditions. The impact of multimorbidity is often signifi...

    Authors: Ingvild Lilleheie, Jonas Debesay, Asta Bye and Astrid Bergland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:446
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  6. Health seeking behavior is one of the challenges affecting tuberculosis (TB) control program because of its high risk to prolonged diseases transmission and poor treatment outcome. Although there are few prima...

    Authors: Dinka Fikadu Gamtesa, Habteyes Hailu Tola, Zemedu Mehamed, Ephrem Tesfaye and Ayinalem Alemu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:445
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  7. Anaemia and malaria are both major contributors to maternal and child mortality, and morbidity, with some of the worst outcomes occurring in sub-Saharan Africa. Point of care tests (POCT), if used appropriatel...

    Authors: Tanith Palmer, Abiola O. Aiyenigba, Imelda Bates, Doris Dokua Okyere, Harry Tagbor and Gifty Dufie Ampofo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:444
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  8. Implementing clinical guidelines is challenging. To facilitate uptake, we developed a model of care (BetterBack Model of Care) and an implementation strategy to support management of low back pain in primary c...

    Authors: Karin Schröder, Birgitta Öberg, Paul Enthoven, Alice Kongsted and Allan Abbott
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:443
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  9. Healthcare teams often consist of geographically dispersed members. Virtual worlds can support immersive, high-quality, multimedia interaction between remote individuals; this study investigated use of virtual...

    Authors: Michael J. Taylor, Chiya Shikaislami, Chris McNicholas, David Taylor, Julie Reed and Ivo Vlaev
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:442
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  10. In Nigeria, anecdotes abound that female clients, particularly within northern Nigeria, have gender-based preferences for frontline health workers (FLHWs) who provide healthcare services. This may adversely af...

    Authors: Ekechi Okereke, Godwin Unumeri, Akinwumi Akinola, George Eluwa and Sylvia Adebajo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:441
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  11. Clinical work in the operating room (OR) is considered challenging as it is complex, dynamic, and often time- and resource-constrained. Important characteristics for successful management of complexity include...

    Authors: Camilla Göras, Ulrica Nilsson, Mirjam Ekstedt, Maria Unbeck and Anna Ehrenberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:440
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  13. The concept of Organizational Culture (OC) which refers to the pattern of values, norms, beliefs, attitudes and assumptions may not be articulated through verbal language. However, it shapes the way people beh...

    Authors: Dereje Mesfin, Mirkuzie Woldie, Ayinengida Adamu and Fitsum Bekele
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:438
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  14. Prompt Mental Health Care (PMHC) is the Norwegian adaptation of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT). Thus far, evaluations of PMHC have mostly focused on the effectiveness, rather than on contex...

    Authors: Linn Vathne Lervik, Marit Knapstad and Otto Robert Frans Smith
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:437
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  15. About 20–40% of patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) suffer from depressive disorders (DD) during the course of their illness. Despite the high burden of DD among patients with DM, it is rarely identified and ...

    Authors: Dickens Akena, Elialilia S. Okello, Jane Simoni and Glenn Wagner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:436
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  17. Remote Patient Monitoring Systems (RPMS) based on e-health, Nurse Navigators (NNs) and patient engagement can improve patient follow-up and have a positive impact on quality of care (by limiting adverse events...

    Authors: Marie Ferrua, Etienne Minvielle, Aude Fourcade, Benoît Lalloué, Claude Sicotte, Mario Di Palma and Olivier Mir
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:434
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  18. Globally, injuries cause more than 5 million deaths annually, a similar number to those from HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria combined. In people aged between 5 and 44 years of age trauma is the leading cause of ...

    Authors: Dan Magnus, Santosh Bhatta, Julie Mytton, Elisha Joshi, Emma L. Bird, Sumiksha Bhatta, Sunil Raja Manandhar and Sunil Kumar Joshi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:433
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  19. The Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) can be automatically calculated from the International Classification of Disease (ICD) code. However, the feasibility of this transformation has not been acknowledged, part...

    Authors: Liyi Mo, Zhen Xie, Guohui Liu, Qiang He, Zhiming Mo, Yanhua Wu, Wenji Wang, Feng Ding, Yuanjiang Liao, Li Hao, Chen Lu, Jin Sun, Libin Xu, Yusheng Zhang, Rizwangul Ghappar, Hongwei Peng…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:432
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  20. In England, since 2015, there has been a formal drive to integrate pharmacists into general practice as a new healthcare service. Research efforts have offered insights into how general practice-based professi...

    Authors: Georgios Dimitrios Karampatakis, Nilesh Patel, Graham Stretch and Kath Ryan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:431
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  21. To tackle the issue with the low usage of primary healthcare service in China, it is essential to align resource distribution with the preferences of the community residents. There are few academic researches ...

    Authors: Ming-zhu Jiang, Qiang Fu, Ju-yang Xiong, Xiang-lin Li, Er-ping Jia, Ying-ying Peng and Xiao Shen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:430
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  22. A goal of health workforce planning is to have the most appropriate workforce available to meet prevailing needs. However, this is a difficult task when considering integrated care, as future workforces may re...

    Authors: Gareth H. Rees, Peter Crampton, Robin Gauld and Stephen MacDonell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:429
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  23. In addition to delivering vital health care to millions of patients in the United States, community health centers (CHCs) provide needed health insurance outreach and enrollment support to their communities. W...

    Authors: Brigit Hatch, Carrie Tillotson, Nathalie Huguet, Miguel Marino, Andrea Baron, Joan Nelson, Aleksandra Sumic, Deborah Cohen and Jennifer E. DeVoe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:428
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  24. High-risk patients presenting for surgery require complex decision-making and perioperative management. However, given there is no gold standard for identifying high-risk patients, doing so may be challenging ...

    Authors: Amanda Selwood, Brette Blakely, Siva Senthuran, Paul Lane, John North and Robyn Clay-Williams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:427
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Most interventions to improve patient safety (Patient Safety Practices (PSPs)), are introduced without engaging front-line professionals. Administrative staff, managers and sometimes a few professionals, repre...

    Authors: Connie Dekker - van Doorn, Linda Wauben, Jeroen van Wijngaarden, Johan Lange and Robbert Huijsman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:426
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  26. Fingolimod is an oral multiple sclerosis drug that is considered a specialty drug due to its high cost and safety issues. The Fingolimod Patient Support Program (F-PSP) is a specialty pharmacy service develope...

    Authors: Aline Bourdin, Julie Dubois, Rose-Anna Foley, Myriam Schluep, Olivier Bugnon and Jérôme Berger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:425
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  27. More alternatives have become available for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in low- and middle-income countries. Because of increasing demands, governments are now facing a problem of limited affordabili...

    Authors: Daniela Moye-Holz, Margaret Ewen, Anahi Dreser, Sergio Bautista-Arredondo, Rene Soria-Saucedo, Jitse P. van Dijk, Sijmen A. Reijneveld and Hans V. Hogerzeil
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:424
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  28. When healthcare professionals’ workloads are greater than available resources, care activities can be missed, omitted or delayed, potentially leading to adverse patient outcomes. Prioritisation, a precursor to...

    Authors: Kristiana Ludlow, Kate Churruca, Virginia Mumford, Louise A. Ellis and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:423
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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

    Authors: Lise Husby Høvik, Kari Hanne Gjeilo, Stian Lydersen, Claire M. Rickard, Benedikte Røtvold, Jan Kristian Damås, Erik Solligård and Lise Tuset Gustad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:422
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:636

  30. The indications for general anesthesia (GA) in obstetric settings, which are determined in consideration of maternal and fetal outcome, could be affected by local patterns of clinical practice grounded in uniq...

    Authors: Takamitsu Ikeda, Atsuko Kato, Masahiko Bougaki, Yuko Araki, Takuya Ohata, Seiichiro Kawashima, Yousuke Imai, Jun Ninagawa, Koji Oba, Kyungho Chang, Kanji Uchida and Yoshitsugu Yamada
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:421
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  31. Interventions aimed at improving accessing of health care services, including HIV testing, remain a priority in global HIV eradication efforts. Grassroot Soccer Zimbabwe (GRSZ) is an adolescent health organisa...

    Authors: Mayibongwe Louis Mzingwane, Greanious Alfred Mavondo, Fennie Mantula, Claudinos Mapfumo, Calleta Gwatiringa, Bhekimpilo Moyo, Primrose Dube and Cynthia Nombulelo Chaibva
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:420
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  32. The Improved assessment of chest pain trial (IMPACT) protocol is an accelerated strategy for the risk stratification and management of patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with chest pain. This...

    Authors: Jaimi H. Greenslade, Ariel Ho, Tracey Hawkins, William Parsonage, Julia Crilly and Louise Cullen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:419
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  33. To improve the effectiveness of interventions targeting non-adherence in older adults, a systematic approach to intervention design is required. The content of complex interventions and design decisions are of...

    Authors: D. E. Patton, C. Ryan and C. M. Hughes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:418
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  34. The definition of community health outreach to promote the health of vulnerable populations depends heavily on the particulars of the given health project and community. There is no consistency in the definiti...

    Authors: Hye Young Shin, Ka Young Kim and Purum Kang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:417
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  35. Citizen-led accountability initiatives are a critical strategy for redressing the causes of health inequalities and promoting better health system governance. A growing body of evidence points to the need for ...

    Authors: Alison Hernández, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Isabel Goicolea, Miguel San Sebastián, Fernando Jerez, Francisco Hernández-Rodríguez and Walter Flores
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:416
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  37. Non-communicable disease (NCD) care in Sub-Saharan Africa is challenging due to barriers including poverty and insufficient health system resources. Local culture and context can impact the success of interven...

    Authors: Claudia L. Leung, Mackenzie Naert, Benjamin Andama, Rae Dong, David Edelman, Carol Horowitz, Peninah Kiptoo, Simon Manyara, Winnie Matelong, Esther Matini, Violet Naanyu, Sarah Nyariki, Sonak Pastakia, Thomas Valente, Valentin Fuster, Gerald S. Bloomfield…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:415
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:738

  38. Tuberculosis (TB) control programmes rely heavily on laboratories to support both clinical care and public health. Qualified personnel with adequate technical and managerial skills comprise an integral compone...

    Authors: Philomena Raftery, Csaba Ködmön, Marieke J. van der Werf and Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:413
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  39. In many low- and middle-income countries, insufficient human resources limit access to oral health services. Shifting clinical tasks to less specialized health professionals, such as community health workers, ...

    Authors: Daniel J. Erchick, Nitin K. Agrawal, Subarna K. Khatry, Joanne Katz, Steven C. LeClerq, Bhola Rai, Mark A. Reynolds and Luke C. Mullany
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:412
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  40. Operating under constrained budgets, payers and providers globally face challenges in enabling appropriate and sustainable access to new medicines. Among payer initiatives aiming to improve preparedness of hea...

    Authors: Love Linnér, Irene Eriksson, Marie Persson and Björn Wettermark
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:410
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  41. Diabetes is one of the leading causes of poor health and high care costs in Ukraine. To prevent diabetes complications and alleviate the financial burden of diabetes care on patients, the Ukrainian government ...

    Authors: Robyn Margaret Stuart, Olga Khan, Romesh Abeysuriya, Tetyana Kryvchun, Viktor Lysak, Alla Bredikhina, Nina Durdykulyieva, Volodymyr Mykhailets, Elvira Kaidashova, Olena Doroshenko, Zara Shubber, David Wilson, Feng Zhao and Nicole Fraser-Hurt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:409
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  42. In pediatrics, communication often occurs through an intermediary such as a caregiver. The goal of this study is to assess caregiver communication expectations and determine if meeting expectations influences ...

    Authors: Tyler Lee, Julie Cui, Hinette Rosario, Didja Hilmara, Kate Samuelson, Emery C. Lin, Victoria A. Miller and Henry C. Lin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:408
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  43. Community-based diabetes management is known to be an important strategy for global diabetes control. In China, community-based diabetes management care, including regular blood glucose tests and guidance on m...

    Authors: Jingjing Yao, Haipeng Wang, Jia Yin, Di Shao, Xiaolei Guo, Qiang Sun and Xiao Yin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:407
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  44. Improving access to optimal quality of care is a core priority and ambitious health policy goal in spite of impediments, threats and challenges in Palestine. Understanding the factors that may impede quality o...

    Authors: Marwan Mosleh, Yousef Al Jeesh, Koustuv Dalal, Charli Eriksson, Heidi Carlerby and Eija Viitasara
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:406
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  45. To discriminatively evaluate the cost-saving effects of a disease management program for diabetic nephropathy patients through care process rectification and, subsequently, improved health outcomes.

    Authors: Hiroyuki Kawaguchi, Michiko Moriyama and Hideki Hashimoto
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:403
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  46. Respiratory diseases are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in Uganda, but there is little attention and capacity for management of chronic respiratory diseases in the health programmes. This ...

    Authors: Rebecca Nantanda, Gerald Kayingo, Rupert Jones, Frederik van Gemert and Bruce J. Kirenga
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:402
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  47. Patients with low health literacy experience difficulty in understanding their medications leading to worse health outcomes. Pharmacists need to use formal assessment tools to be able to identify these patient...

    Authors: Sara Chan, Sean P. Spina, Dalyce M. Zuk and Karen Dahri
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:401
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  48. Physician turnover is a concern in many health care systems globally. A better understanding of physicians’ reasons for leaving their job may inform organisational policies to retain key personnel. The aim of ...

    Authors: Pål E. Martinussen, Jon Magnussen, Karsten Vrangbæk and Jan C. Frich
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:400
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  49. In 2018, the Japanese medical reimbursement system was revised to introduce a fee for the implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship (AS) fee for pediatric patients. The purpose of this study was to evalua...

    Authors: Yuichi Muraki, Yoshiki Kusama, Masaki Tanabe, Kayoko Hayakawa, Yoshiaki Gu, Masahiro Ishikane, Daisuke Yamasaki, Tetsuya Yagi and Norio Ohmagari
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:399
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  50. Aboriginal women experience disproportionately higher rates of cervical cancer mortality yet are less likely to participate in screening for early detection. This study sought to determine whether a community-...

    Authors: Tegan Dutton, Jo Marjoram, Shellie Burgess, Laurinne Montgomery, Anne Vail, Nichole Callan, Sunil Jacob, David Hawkes, Marion Saville and Jannine Bailey
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:398
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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