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  1. Preoperative and hospital-acquired anaemia is common among surgical patients. It is associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality and a strong risk factor for allogeneic blood transfusions with ...

    Authors: Patrick Meybohm, Dania Patricia Fischer, Christof Geisen, Markus Matthias Miller, Christian Friedrich Weber, Eva Herrmann, Bjirn Steffen, Erhard Seifried and Kai Zacharowski
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:576
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  2. Almost one-third of Norwegian women aged 25–69 years invited to have a Pap smear do not attend during the recommended period, and thus constitute a population with high-risk of cervical cancer (CC). Since the ...

    Authors: Mari Nygård, Anne-Kjersti Daltveit, Steinar Ø Thoresen and Jan F Nygård
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:10
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  3. This study included Community Health Workers and their supervisors from HIV clinical care teams who participated in the Healthy Choices intervention program. Healthy Choices is a Motivational Interviewing-based i...

    Authors: Karen MacDonell, Veronica Dinaj-Koci, Juline Koken and Sylvie Naar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1098
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  4. Violence towards staff working in psychiatric inpatient care is a serious problem. The aim of the present study was to explore staff perspectives of serious violent incidents involving psychiatric inpatients t...

    Authors: Veikko Pelto-Piri, Lars-Erik Warg and Lars Kjellin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:362
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  5. In the past two decades, the number of maternity hospitals in Finland has been reduced from 42 to 22. Notwithstanding the benefits of centralization for larger units in terms of increased safety, the closures ...

    Authors: Tiina Huotari, Jarmo Rusanen, Timo Keistinen, Tero Lähderanta, Leena Ruha, Mikko J. Sillanpää and Harri Antikainen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:337
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  6. Social support is important in daily activities of the elderly. This study tests the hypothesis that there is an association between social support and cognitive function among the elderly in a community setting.

    Authors: Shu-Chuan Jennifer Yeh and Yea-Ying Liu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2003 3:9
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  7. Hepatitis B virus birth dose (HepB-BD) vaccination is recommended to reduce mother to infant transmission. We evaluated the HepB-BD status of women who gave birth between 2011 and 2016 (N = 3,583) using the 2015–...

    Authors: August C. T. Anderson, Adam Richards, Kevin Delucchi and Mandana Khalili
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:516
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  8. Studies from both developed and developing countries have demonstrated a considerable fluctuation in the average cost of TB treatment. The objective of this study was to analyze the medical resource utilizatio...

    Authors: Muhammad Atif, Syed Azhar Syed Sulaiman, Asrul Akmal Shafie, Muhammad Asif and Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:353
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  9. There are increasing numbers of total hip replacements (THR) and total knee replacements (TKR) being performed in patients of working age. Providing patients undergoing TKR and THR with return to work advice m...

    Authors: Carol Coole, Paul Baker, Catriona McDaid and Avril Drummond
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:523
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  10. Broad community access to high quality evidence-based primary mental health care is an ongoing challenge around the world. In Australia one approach has been to broaden access to care by funding psychologists ...

    Authors: G Armstrong, G Blashki, L Joubert, R Bland, R Moulding, J Gunn and L Naccarella
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:304
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  11. Recent attempts of active disinvestment (i.e. withdrawal of reimbursement by means of a policy decision) of reimbursed healthcare interventions in the Netherlands have differed in their outcome: some attempts ...

    Authors: Adriënne H. Rotteveel, Mattijs S. Lambooij, Joline J. A. van de Rijt, Job van Exel, Karel G. M. Moons and G. Ardine de Wit
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:298
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  12. Care for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is provided by both family physicians (FP) and specialists. Ideally, patients receive comprehensive and coordinated care from this provider t...

    Authors: J. Tranmer, T. Rotter, D. O’Donnell, D. Marciniuk, M. Green, L. Kinsman and W. Li
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1210
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  13. Experts recommend that clinicians assess motivational factors before initiating care for pediatric obesity. Currently, there are no well-established clinical tools available for assessing motivation in youth w...

    Authors: Geoff D. C. Ball, Nicholas D. Spence, Nadia E. Browne, Kathleen O’Connor, Suja Srikameswaran, Joanna Zelichowska, Josephine Ho, Rebecca Gokiert, Louise C. Mâsse, Valerie Carson, Katherine M. Morrison, Jennifer L. Kuk, Nicholas L. Holt, Maryam Kebbe, Nicole D. Gehring, Melody Cesar…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:261
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  14. The purpose of this analysis was to determine whether in office diagnostic needle arthroscopy (Visionscope Imaging System [VSI]) can provide for improved diagnostic assessment and; more cost effective care.

    Authors: Jeffrey D Voigt, Michael Mosier and Bryan Huber
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:203
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  15. Hemophilia care in mainland China has been greatly improved since the establishment of the Hemophilia Treatment Center Collaborative Network of China (HTCCNC), and most of drugs for hemophilia have been covere...

    Authors: Zhengwei Huang, Stephen Nicholas, Yong Yang, Xiaoping Chen, Elizabeth Maitland, Yong Ma and Xuefeng Shi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:230
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  16. Concerns have been raised regarding the reasonableness of using personal health responsibility as a principle or criterion for setting priorities in healthcare. While this debate continues, little is known abo...

    Authors: Gloria Traina and Eli Feiring
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:497
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  17. A patient-centred approach is increasingly the mandate for healthcare delivery, especially with the growing emergence of chronic conditions. A relevant but often overlooked obstacle to delivering person-centre...

    Authors: Mathias WAELLI, Etienne Minvielle, Maria Ximena Acero, Khouloud Ba and Benoit Lalloué
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:256
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  18. In this study, we aimed to analyze the hospitalization costs for immobile patients with hemorrhagic stroke (IHS) or ischemic stroke (IIS) in China and to determine the factors associated with hospitalization c...

    Authors: Hongpeng Liu, Chen Zhu, Jing Cao, Jing Jiao, Baoyun Song, Jingfen Jin, Yilan Liu, Xianxiu Wen, Shouzhen Cheng and Xinjuan Wu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:905
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  19. Within the framework of a prospective cohort study of Swiss medical school graduates, a Career-Success Scale (CSS) was constructed in a sample of young physicians choosing different career paths in medicine. F...

    Authors: Barbara Buddeberg-Fischer, Martina Stamm, Claus Buddeberg and Richard Klaghofer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:120
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  20. Many rural hospitals in Australia and New Zealand do not have an on-site pharmacist. Sessional employment of a local pharmacist offers a potential solution to address the clinical service needs of non-pharmaci...

    Authors: Amy CW Tan, Lynne M Emmerton, H Laetitia Hattingh and Adam La Caze
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:567
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  21. 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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  23. Prevention of diabetes and coronary heart disease (CHD) is possible but identification of at-risk patients for targeting interventions is a challenge in primary care.

    Authors: Marie-France Hivert, Richard W Grant, Peter Shrader and James B Meigs
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:170
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  24. Hospital readmission occurs often and is difficult to predict. Polypharmacy has been identified as a potential risk factor for hospital readmission. However, the overall impact of the number of discharge medic...

    Authors: David Picker, Kevin Heard, Thomas C. Bailey, Nathan R. Martin, Gina N. LaRossa and Marin H. Kollef
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:282
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  26. Behavioural sciences have been shown to support the development of more effective interventions aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles. However, the operationalization of this knowledge seems to be sub-optimal ...

    Authors: Ariane Bélanger-Gravel, Isidora Janezic, Sophie Desroches, Marie-Claude Paquette, Frédéric Therrien, Tracie Barnett, Kim L. Lavoie and Lise Gauvin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:493
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  27. We aimed to establish simplified and quantifiable triage criteria in pediatric emergency care, improving the efficiency of pediatric emergency triage and ensuring patient safety.

    Authors: Yingying Zhao, Liqing He, Juan Hu, Jing Zhao, Mingxuan Li, Lisha Huang, Qiu Jin, Lan Wang and Jianxiong Wang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1154
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  28. The care organization of persons with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) varies by country according to the health care system. This study used a large sample of French individuals with sev...

    Authors: Karine Baumstarck, Ilyes Hamouda, Marie-Anastasie Aim, Any Beltran Anzola, Sherezad Khaldi-Cherif, Agnès Felce, Kim Maincent, Katia Lind, Pascal Auquier, Thierry Billette de Villemeur and Marie-Christine Rousseau
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:99
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  29. Disparities in uninsured emergency department (ED) use are well documented. However, a comprehensive analysis evaluating how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may have reduced racial and ethnic disparities is lack...

    Authors: Benjamin Ukert and Theodoros V. Giannouchos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1302
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  30. This study aimed to determine the magnitude of and factors associated with out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) during the first prenatal clinic visit among pregnant women in Anuradhapura district, Sri Lanka, whic...

    Authors: Sajaan Praveena Gunarathne, Nuwan Darshana Wickramasinghe, Thilini Chanchala Agampodi, Indika Ruwan Prasanna and Suneth Buddhika Agampodi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:974
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  31. COVID-19 vaccine was launched in India on January 16, 2021. There is a paucity of robust evidence from qualitative studies on the acceptability and expectations of potential recipients from the COVID-19 vaccin...

    Authors: Mohit N. Makwana, Hiren J. Shekhda and Mihir P. Rupani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:386
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  32. Undernourished children in low- and middle-income countries remain at elevated risk of death following hospital discharge, even when treated during hospitalisation using World Health Organisation recommended g...

    Authors: Rita Wanjuki Njeru, Md. Fakhar Uddin, Scholastica Mutheu Zakayo, Gladys Sanga, Anderson Charo, Md. Aminul Islam, Md. Alamgir Hossain, Mary Kimani, Mercy Kadzo Mwadhi, Michael Ogutu, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Tahmeed Ahmed, Judd L. Walson, James A. Berkley, Caroline Jones, Sally Theobald…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1234
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  33. The COVID-19 pandemic presented a myriad of challenges for the health workforce around the world due to its escalating demand on service delivery. A motivated health workforce is critical to effectual emergenc...

    Authors: Suzanne N. Kiwanuka, Ziyada Babirye, Steven N. Kabwama, Andrew K. Tusubira, Susan Kizito, Rawlance Ndejjo, Marc Bosonkie, Landry Egbende, Berthold Bondo, Mala Ali Mapatano, Ibrahima Seck, Oumar Bassoum, Mamadou MM Leye, Issakha Diallo, Olufunmilayo I. Fawole, Segun Bello…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:422
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  34. Tanzania is among the sub-Saharan African countries facing a tremendous increase in the burden of type 2 diabetes mellitus. In order to provide diabetes health care services, the government has established dia...

    Authors: Mariam J. Munyogwa, Reuben William, Stephen M. Kibusi and Nyasiro S. Gibore
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:527
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  35. Databases of medical claims can be valuable resources for cardiovascular research, such as comparative effectiveness and pharmacovigilance studies of cardiovascular medications. However, claims data do not inc...

    Authors: Evan L Thacker, Paul Muntner, Hong Zhao, Monika M Safford, Jeffrey R Curtis, Elizabeth Delzell, Vera Bittner, Todd M Brown and Emily B Levitan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:195
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  36. The advent of all-oral regimens for the management of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) makes the implementation of community-based directly observed therapy (CB-DOT) a possibility for this group of p...

    Authors: Rita Makabayi-Mugabe, Joseph Musaazi, Stella Zawedde-Muyanja, Enock Kizito, Hellen Namwanje, Philip Aleu, Danielle Charlet, Debora B. Freitas Lopez, Haley Brightman, Stavia Turyahabwe and Abel Nkolo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:154
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  38. Outpatient services in the UK, and in particular outpatient neurology services, are under considerable pressure with an ever-increasing gap between capacity and demand. To improve services, we first need to un...

    Authors: Fran Biggin, Quinta Ashcroft, Timothy Howcroft, Jo Knight and Hedley Emsley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1208
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  39. The Australian federal government introduced private health insurance incentive policy reforms in 2000 that increased the uptake of private health insurance in Australia. There is currently a lack of evidence ...

    Authors: Shauna Trafalski, Tom Briffa, Joseph Hung, Rachael E Moorin, Frank Sanfilippo, David B Preen and Kristjana Einarsdóttir
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:280
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  40. People with HIV (PWH) have complex needs, and those with limited health literacy consistently have poorer HIV-related knowledge and health outcomes. One strategy to facilitate better outcomes for PWH is the in...

    Authors: Christina E. Freibott, Linda S. Sprague Martinez, Serena Rajabiun and Mari-Lynn Drainoni
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1254
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  41. It is known that drug shortages represent a major challenge for all stakeholders involved in the process, but there is little evidence regarding insights into patients′ awareness and perspectives. This study a...

    Authors: Darija Kuruc Poje, Domagoj Kifer, Isabelle Huys, Joao Miranda, Helena Jenzer, Nenad Miljković, Torsten Hoppe-Tichy, Marcin Bochniarz, Roberto Frontini, David G Schwartz, Vesna Vujić-Aleksić, Lana Nežić, Eleni Rinaki, Leonidas Tzimis, Kim Green, Jelena Jovanić…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:689
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  42. Literature has shown that dissemination of guidelines alone is insufficient to ensure that guideline recommendations are incorporated into every day clinical practice.

    Authors: Sarah E Hetrick, Andrew Thompson, Kally Yuen, Sue Finch and Alexandra G Parker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:178
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  43. As healthcare systems around the world are facing increasing physician shortages, more physicians are migrating from low to high income countries. As an illustrative case of international migration of physicia...

    Authors: Elie A Akl, Nancy Maroun, Stella Major, Bechara Chahoud and Holger J Schünemann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:49
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  44. Implementation and uptake of health technology assessment for evaluating medical devices require including aspects that different stakeholders consider relevant, beyond cost and effectiveness. However, the inv...

    Authors: Liliana Freitas, Ana C. L. Vieira, Mónica D. Oliveira, Helena Monteiro and Carlos A. Bana e Costa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:593
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  45. Adolescents’ Mental Healthcare (MHC) is influenced by numerous factors, and adolescents occasionally seek professional help for mental health (MH) issues. These factors become more complex within low-middle-in...

    Authors: Zainab Mubeen, Zafar Fatmi, Waqas Hameed and Muhammad Asim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:157
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  46. In July 2008, Ghana introduced a ‘free’ maternal health care policy (FMHCP) through the national health insurance scheme (NHIS) to provide comprehensive antenatal, delivery and post-natal care services to preg...

    Authors: John Azaare, Gifty Apiung Aninanya, Kasim Abdulai, Francis Adane, Robert Bagngmen Bio and Martin Hushie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:207
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  47. Despite the professional and academic relevance of the Brazilian oral pathology diagnostic laboratories, no information about their usage profile is available in the English literature. The objective of the pr...

    Authors: Karla Rachel Oliveira e Silva, Ana Luísa Lara Siqueira, Patrícia Carlos Caldeira, Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães de Abreu and Maria Cássia Ferreira de Aguiar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:653
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  48. China has initiated a medical pricing reform to combat the overuse of drugs and relieve the financial burden of patients. This paper aims to analyze the effect of medical pricing reform on revenue structure an...

    Authors: Mengling Liu, Mingyuan Jia, Qian Lin, Jiawei Zhu and Dong Wang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:385
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  49. Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) negatively impacts the wellbeing of girls and women throughout their lifecycle. In Somalia, FGM/C prevalence is nearly universal (98%) among females aged 15–49 years, ...

    Authors: Mohamed Yussuf, Dennis J. Matanda and Richard A. Powell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:200
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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