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  1. There is consistent evidence highlighting the mal-distribution of the health workforce between urban and rural and remote regions. To date, addressing this mal-distribution has focused on medicine and nursing ...

    Authors: Saravana Kumar, Esther Jie Tian, Esther May, Rosanne Crouch and Mandy McCulloch
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:105
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  2. Authors in previous studies demonstrated that centralising acute stroke care is associated with an increased chance of timely Intra-Venous Thrombolysis (IVT) and lower costs compared to care at community hospi...

    Authors: Roel D. Freriks, Jochen O. Mierau, Erik Buskens, Elena Pizzo, Gert-Jan Luijckx, Durk-Jouke van der Zee and Maarten M. H. Lahr
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:103
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  3. Having psychologically safe teams can improve learning, creativity and performance within organisations. Within a healthcare context, psychological safety supports patient safety by enabling engagement in qual...

    Authors: Róisín O’Donovan and Eilish McAuliffe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:101
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  4. Falls are a global public health concern. Physiotherapists are a key resource in this context, but there is sparse knowledge about how they perceive their role in the primary care setting. Therefore, the purpo...

    Authors: Sara Cerderbom, Maria Bjerk and Astrid Bergland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:97
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  5. Cross-sectoral care comprises interdisciplinary and coordinated efforts for patients with complex care needs involving various competencies and professions across the primary health care sector, hospital secto...

    Authors: Lisbeth Petersen, Regner Birkelund and Berit Schiøttz-Christensen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:96
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  6. Representing a major threat to both equity and efficiency of health systems, the corrupt practice of informal payments is widely found in developing and transition countries. As informal payments are more like...

    Authors: Ning Liu, Guoxian Bao and Alex Jingwei He
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:95
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  7. Older care home residents frequently attend emergency departments with a high conversion to admissions. For this purpose, a novel Care Home Innovation Programme (CHIP) was introduced with the aim of reducing p...

    Authors: Clarissa Giebel, Debbie Harvey, Asangaedem Akpan and Peter Chamberlain
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:94
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  8. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) with which over 37 million peoples are living is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The rapid expansion of antiretroviral treatment has dramatically ...

    Authors: Getaneh Adissu, Gashaw Andarge Biks and Koku Sisay Tamirat
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:93
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  9. Couples HIV Testing & Counselling (CHTC) service is an approach that may enable more people to be reached and tested for HIV. However, little is known about how couples may use this service and what they think...

    Authors: Tewodros Getachew Hailemariam, Patrick Rawstorne, Mitike Molla Sisay and Sally Nathan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:92
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  10. The rapid increase in pharmaceutical expenditure (PE) has been a main problem of global healthcare reform for decades. Previous studies demonstrated that pharmacists play an indispensable role in controlling P...

    Authors: Ming Wei, Xuemei Wang, Dandan Zhang and Xinping Zhang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:91
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  11. Vietnam has been successful in increasing access to maternal, neonatal, and child health (MNCH) services during last decades; however, little is known about whether the primary MNCH service utilization has bee...

    Authors: Jongho Heo, Seung Yun Kim, Jinseon Yi, Soo-Young Yu, Da Eun Jung, Sangmi Lee, Ju Youn Jung, Hyunsuk Kim, Ngan Do, Hwa-Young Lee, You-Seon Nam, Van Minh Hoang, Ngoc Hoat Luu, Jong-Koo Lee, Thi Giang Huong Tran and Juhwan Oh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:90
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  12. There are increasing calls for developing robust processes of community-based accountability as key components of health system strengthening. However, implementation of these processes have shown mixed result...

    Authors: Rakhal Gaitonde, Miguel San Sebastian and Anna-Karin Hurtig
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:89
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  13. In light of the high prevalence of overweight and obesity among adults and the subsequent stigmatization and health consequences, there is a need to develop effective interventions to support lifestyle change....

    Authors: Elin Salemonsen, Georg Førland, Britt Sætre Hansen and Anne Lise Holm
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:88
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  14. One of the key conceptual challenges in advancing our understanding of how to more effectively sustain innovations in health care is the lack of clarity and agreement on what sustainability actually means. Sev...

    Authors: Robin Urquhart, Cynthia Kendell, Evelyn Cornelissen, Laura L. Madden, Byron J. Powell, Glenn Kissmann, Sarah A. Richmond, Cameron Willis and Jackie L. Bender
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:87
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  15. Inpatient palliative care consultation (IPCC) teams have been established to improve care for patients with specialist palliative care (PC) needs throughout all hospital departments. The objective is to explor...

    Authors: Anja Coym, Karin Oechsle, Alena Kanitz, Nora Puls, David Blum, Carsten Bokemeyer and Anneke Ullrich
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:86
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  16. Anxiety and depression are associated with substantial functional impairment. Prompt Mental Health Care (PMHC), the Norwegian adaptation of IAPT is currently piloted across Norway, as a means to improve access...

    Authors: Marit Knapstad, Solbjørg Makalani Myrtveit Sæther, Gunnel Hensing and Otto Robert Frans Smith
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:85
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  17. Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory, demyelinating and neurodegenerative disease that in many cases produces disability, having a high impact in patients’ lives, reducing significantly their qual...

    Authors: Ester Moral Torres, Óscar Fernández Fernández, Pedro Carrascal Rueda, Elena Ruiz-Beato, Elvira Estella Pérez, Rita Manzanares Estrada, Teresa Gómez-García, Margarita Jiménez, Álvaro Hidalgo-Vega and María Merino
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:84
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  18. In Denmark, reporting of tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcome is voluntary and data incomplete. In the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control most recent report presenting data from 2017, only 53.9%...

    Authors: Inge K. Holden, Peter H. Andersen, Christian Wejse, Troels Lillebaek and Isik S. Johansen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:83
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  19. Generic substitution (GS) was introduced in Finland in 2003 and supplemented with a reference price system (RPS) in 2009. Patients play a vital role in the acceptance of GS and the use of less expensive generi...

    Authors: Henriikka Nokelainen, Elina Lämsä, Riitta Ahonen and Johanna Timonen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:82
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  20. This review of scholarly work in health care knowledge translation advances understanding of implementation components that support the complete and timely integration of new knowledge. We adopt a realist appr...

    Authors: K. D. Dryden-Palmer, C. S. Parshuram and W. B. Berta
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:81
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  21. Recently, the Executive Branch and Judiciary in Brazil increased spending due to larger numbers of lawsuits that forced the State to provide health goods and services. This phenomenon, known as health judicial...

    Authors: Virginia Oliveira Chagas, Mércia Pandolfo Provin, Pedro Augusto Prado Mota, Rafael Alves Guimarães and Rita Goreti Amaral
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:80
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  22. High fertility rates and low modern contraceptive use put African youth and adolescents at high risk for health complications, including maternal mortality. Mainstreaming youth-friendly health services (YFHS) ...

    Authors: Janine Barden-O’Fallon, Shara Evans, Chrissie Thakwalakwa, Witness Alfonso and Ashley Jackson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:79
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  23. Good workspace design is key to the quality of work, safety, and wellbeing for workers, yet we lack vital knowledge about optimal hospital design to meet healthcare workforce needs. This study used novel mobil...

    Authors: Frances Rapport, Emilie Francis-Auton, John Cartmill, Tayhla Ryder, Jeffrey Braithwaite and Robyn Clay-Williams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:78
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  24. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted to enhance access to care primarily among nonelderly and low-income populations; however, several provisions addressed key determinants of emergency department (ED) an...

    Authors: SangNam Ahn, Mustafa Hussein, Asos Mahmood and Matthew Lee Smith
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:77
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  25. Interventions targeting community health workers (CHWs) aim to optimise the delivery of health services to underserved rural areas. Whilst interventions are evaluated against their objectives, there remains li...

    Authors: Gavin George, Takunda Mudzingwa and Christiane Horwood
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:76
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  27. Guideline-based processes for the assessment of chest pain are lengthy and resource intensive. The IMProved Assessment of Chest Pain Trial (IMPACT) protocol was introduced in one Australian hospital Emergency ...

    Authors: Julia Crilly, Jaimi H. Greenslade, Sara Berndt, Tracey Hawkins and Louise Cullen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:74
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  28. Tumor Boards (TBs) are Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) meetings in which different specialists work together closely sharing clinical decisions in cancer care. The composition is variable, depending on the type o...

    Authors: Maria Lucia Specchia, Emanuela Maria Frisicale, Elettra Carini, Andrea Di Pilla, Danila Cappa, Andrea Barbara, Walter Ricciardi and Gianfranco Damiani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:73
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  29. In the Tigray region of Ethiopia, Health Extension Workers (HEWs) conduct Tuberculosis (TB) screening for all household (HH) contacts. However, there is limited evidence on implementation status of HH contact ...

    Authors: Hailay Gebretnsae, Brhane Gebrekidan Ayele, Tsegay Hadgu, Esayas Haregot, Aregay Gebremedhin, Eyassu Michael, Mebrahtu Abraha, Daniel G. Datiko and Degue Jerene
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:72
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  30. Complexity of care in patients with coronary artery disease is increasing, due to ageing, improved treatment, and more specialised care. Patients receive care from various healthcare providers in many settings...

    Authors: Irene Valaker, Bengt Fridlund, Tore Wentzel-Larsen, Jan Erik Nordrehaug, Svein Rotevatn, Maj-Britt Råholm and Tone M. Norekvål
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:71
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  31. Thyroid disorders are common in the adult German population. Little is known about guideline implementation in clinical practice and the prevalence of diagnostic procedures in ambulatory care. The study aims t...

    Authors: Simone Kiel, Till Ittermann, Henry Völzke, Jean-François Chenot and Aniela Angelow
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:70
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  32. Following a neurological event, people’s long-term health and well-being is hampered by a system that struggles to deliver person-centred communication and coordinated care and fails to harness individual and ...

    Authors: Suzie Mudge, Ann Sezier, Deborah Payne, Greta Smith and Nicola Kayes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:69
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  33. Despite high quality evidence supporting multiple physical and cognitive benefits of community-based exercise for people after stroke, there is little understanding on how to facilitate uptake of these researc...

    Authors: Marie-Louise Bird, William B. Mortenson and Janice J. Eng
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:68
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  34. Globally, hypertension is a leading cause of cardiovascular disease and mortality, with the majority of deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries. Because the burden of hypertension is increasing in...

    Authors: Alma J. Adler, Amos K. Laar, Agnes M. Kotoh, Helena Legido-Quigley, Pablo Perel, Peter Lamptey and Isabelle L. Lange
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:67
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  35. The World Health Organization developed the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) in 2001 and has been in the process of implementing it in clinics since then. Current inter...

    Authors: Masahiko Mukaino, Birgit Prodinger, Shin Yamada, Yuki Senju, Shin-Ichi Izumi, Shigeru Sonoda, Melissa Selb, Eiichi Saitoh and Gerold Stucki
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:66
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  36. The burden of hypertension in many low-and middle-income countries is alarming and requires effective evidence-based preventative strategies that is carefully appraised and accepted by key stakeholders to ensu...

    Authors: Joyce Gyamfi, John P. Allegrante, Juliet Iwelunmor, Olajide Williams, Jacob Plange-Rhule, Sarah Blackstone, Michael Ntim, Kingsley Apusiga, Emmanuel Peprah and Gbenga Ogedegbe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:65
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  37. Hospitals play a vital role in disaster stricken regions. The resilient hospitals will be able to provide essential services to affected people and it can mitigate the risk of injuries during and after disaste...

    Authors: Saeed Fallah-Aliabadi, Abbas Ostadtaghizadeh, Ali Ardalan, Farin Fatemi, Bijan Khazai and Mohammad Reza Mirjalili
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:64
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  38. Potential look-alike, sound-alike (LASA) errors in outpatient and inpatient prescriptions have been widely described worldwide. However, most strategies of reducing drug name confusion have been only focused o...

    Authors: Irene Lizano-Díez, Carlos Figueiredo-Escribá, M. Ángeles Piñero-López, Cecilia F. Lastra, Eduardo L. Mariño and Pilar Modamio
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:63
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  39. Emergency departments (EDs) in rural and remote areas face challenges in delivering accessible, high quality and efficient services. The objective of this pilot study was to test the feasibility and relevance ...

    Authors: Richard Fleet, Catherine Turgeon-Pelchat, Mélanie Ann Smithman, Hassane Alami, Jean-Paul Fortin, Julien Poitras, Jean Ouellet, Jocelyn Gravel, Marie-Pierre Renaud, Gilles Dupuis and France Légaré
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:62
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Patient-centred care is an essential component of quality of health care. We hypothesize that integration of a mental health care package into versatile first-line health care services can strengthen patient p...

    Authors: Abdoulaye Sow, Jeroen De Man, Myriam De Spiegelaere, Veerle Vanlerberghe and Bart Criel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:61
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  41. Improving the training of physicians about communication skills and patient health literacy (HL) is a major priority that remains an open question. We aimed to examine the effectiveness of communication skills...

    Authors: Seyedeh Belin Tavakoly Sany, Fatemeh Behzhad, Gordon Ferns and Nooshin Peyman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:60
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Shared Decision-making (SDM), a medical decision-making model, was popularized in the late 1980s in reaction to then predominate paternalistic decision-making, aiming to better meet the needs of patients. Exte...

    Authors: Tamara Waldron, Tracey Carr, Linda McMullen, Gill Westhorp, Vicky Duncan, Shelley-May Neufeld, Lori-Ann Bandura and Gary Groot
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:59
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  43. Since the advent of democracy, the South African government has been putting charters, policies, strategies and plans in place in an effort to strengthen public health system performance and enhance service de...

    Authors: B. Malakoane, J. C. Heunis, P. Chikobvu, N. G. Kigozi and W. H. Kruger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:58
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. To assess the effects of a motivational interviewing (MI)-based patient empowerment program (PEP) on type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) patient self-management compared to traditional diabetes health education.

    Authors: Zhe Li, Qingqi Chen, Jingya Yan, Wei Liang and William C. W. Wong
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:57
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  45. Medication use process in the emergency department (ED) can be challenging and the risk for medication error (ME) to occur is high. In Malaysia, several studies on ME have been conducted in various hospital se...

    Authors: Zayyanu Shitu, Myat Moe Thwe Aung, Tuan Hairulnizam Tuan Kamauzaman and Ab Fatah Ab Rahman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:56
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. First-line nurse managers are central to quality improvement work when changing work practices into better patient outcomes. Quality improvement collaboratives have been adopted widely to support quality manag...

    Authors: Berit Mosseng Sjølie, Trude Anita Hartviksen and Terese Bondas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:55
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  47. Falls in hospitals remain a major challenge to patient safety. All hospitalised adults are at risk of falling during their inpatient stay, though this risk is not always realised by patients and clinicians. Th...

    Authors: L. Shaw, D. Kiegaldie and M. E. Morris
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:54
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  48. In the original publication of this article [1], the authors missed that reverse coding was necessary for the item “Do you work separate from your colleagues?” before calculating the scale ‘social relations’. ...

    Authors: Anke Wagner, Monika A. Rieger, Tanja Manser, Heidrun Sturm, Juliane Hardt, Peter Martus, Constanze Lessing and Antje Hammer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:53
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:53

  49. Although the importance of care coordination (CC) is well-recognized, cancer patients often receive poorly coordinated care across varied care settings and different oncology providers. Efforts to improve canc...

    Authors: Izumi Okado, Kevin Cassel, Ian Pagano and Randall F. Holcombe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:52
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Most maternal health programs in low- and middle- income countries estimate gestational age to provide appropriate antenatal care at the correct times throughout the pregnancy. Although various gestational dat...

    Authors: Isabel Fulcher, Kaya Hedt, Stella Marealle, Jalia Tibaijuka, Omar Abdalla, Rachel Hofmann, Erica Layer, Marc Mitchell and Bethany Hedt-Gauthier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:50
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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