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  1. The increased funding and reimbursement for the New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NRCMS) have provided residents in rural China with better access to inpatient services. This research aims to examine the l...

    Authors: Yan Zhang, Yingchun Chen, Xiang Zhang and Liang Zhang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:649
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  2. The assessment of quality of care is an integral part of modern medicine. The referral represents the handing over of care from the general practitioner to the specialist. This study aimed to assess whether an...

    Authors: Henrik Wåhlberg, Per Christian Valle, Siri Malm, Øistein Hovde and Ann Ragnhild Broderstad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:177
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  3. In view of the increasing pressure on the UK’s maternity units, new methods of labour induction are required to alleviate the burden on the National Health Service, while maintaining the quality of care for wo...

    Authors: T. Draycott, H. van der Nelson, C. Montouchet, L. Ruff and F. Andersson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:49
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  4. Promoting safe and efficient transitions of care is critical to reducing readmission rates and associated costs and improving the quality of patient care. A growing body of literature suggests that transitiona...

    Authors: Stefano Landi, Maria Martina Panella and Chiara Leardini
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:46
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  5. Physician dual practice, a combination of public and private practice, has attracted attention due to fear of reduced work supply and a lack of key personnel in the public system, increase in low priority trea...

    Authors: Karl-Arne Johannessen and Terje P Hagen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:299
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  6. One of the major reforms in the health system of any country is the financing reform. Network analysis as a practical method for investigating complex systems allows distinguishing prominent actors in the rela...

    Authors: Rohaneh Rahimisadegh, Mohammad Hossein Mehrolhassani, Mohammad Jafari Sirizi and Somayeh Noori Hekmat
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1552
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  7. Hospital staff experience high level of work stress and they have to find strategies to adapt and react to it. When they perceive emotional exhaustion and job dissatisfaction in response to constant work stres...

    Authors: Arndt Büssing, Zarah Falkenberg, Carina Schoppe, Daniela Rodrigues Recchia and Désirée Poier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:551
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  8. To estimate, prior to finalization of claims, the national monthly numbers of admissions and rates of 30-day readmissions and post-discharge observation-stays for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries hospita...

    Authors: Shu-Xia Li, Yongfei Wang, Sonam D. Lama, Jennifer Schwartz, Jeph Herrin, Hao Mei, Zhenqiu Lin, Susannah M. Bernheim, Steven Spivack, Harlan M. Krumholz and Lisa G. Suter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:733
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  9. Socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with an increased risk of adverse diabetes outcomes. In Switzerland, a country with theoretical universal healthcare coverage, people without health insurance face barr...

    Authors: Yves Jackson, Juan Carlos Lozano Becerra and Marc Carpentier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:540
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  10. Serious mental illness (SMI), which encompasses a set of chronic conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other psychoses, accounts for 3.4 m (7 %) total bed days in the English NHS. The introduc...

    Authors: Rowena Jacobs, Nils Gutacker, Anne Mason, Maria Goddard, Hugh Gravelle, Tony Kendrick and Simon Gilbody
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:439
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  11. 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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  12. Process improvement in healthcare is informed by knowledge from the private sector. Skilled individuals may aid the adoption of this knowledge by frontline care delivery workers through knowledge brokering. Ho...

    Authors: Prue Burns, Graeme Currie, Ian McLoughlin, Tracy Robinson, Amrik Sohal and Helena Teede
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1303
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  13. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are medical conditions or diseases that are non-transmissible. As NCDs are becoming one of major public health problem, providing local description of diseases and injuries is ...

    Authors: Misganu Endriyas, Emebet Mekonnen, Tadele Dana, Kassa Daka, Tebeje Misganaw, Sinafikish Ayele, Mekonnen Shiferaw, Tigist Tessema and Tewodros Getachew
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:520
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  14. Regulatory authorities focus on promoting compliance of hospitals with a variety of external demands. Due to the amount of these external demands, hospitals might prioritise to cope with the external demands. ...

    Authors: Louise H. K. Blume, Nico J. H. W. van Weert, Jamiu O. Busari and Diana Delnoij
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:72
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  15. The overuse of tertiary hospitals and underuse of primary care facilities has been one of the key reasons leading to fast health expenditure increase and health service utilization inequity in China. Recent he...

    Authors: Linxin Liu, Chaojie Liu, Zhanqi Duan, Jingping Pan and Min Yang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:329
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  16. This literature review evaluates the current state of knowledge about the impact of process redesign on the quality of healthcare.

    Authors: Janneke E. van Leijen-Zeelenberg, Arianne M. J. Elissen, Kerstin Grube, Arno J. A. van Raak, Hubertus J. M. Vrijhoef, Bernd Kremer and Dirk Ruwaard
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:19
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  17. This systematic review aims to describe the relation between physical inactivity and healthcare costs, by taking into account healthcare costs of physical-inactivity-related diseases (common practice), includi...

    Authors: Marjolein Duijvestijn, G. Ardine de Wit, Paul F. van Gils and G. C. Wanda Wendel-Vos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:572
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  18. Excessive waiting times for cancer elective surgery are a concern in publicly funded healthcare systems. Several countries including Australia have introduced healthcare reforms involving time-based targets an...

    Authors: Khic-Houy Prang, Rachel Canaway, Marie Bismark, David Dunt, Julie A. Miller and Margaret Kelaher
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:129
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  19. Clinical guidelines are an integral part of healthcare. Whilst much progress has been made in ensuring that guidelines are well developed and disseminated, the gap between routine clinical practice and current...

    Authors: Natalie Taylor, Rebecca Lawton, Sally Moore, Joyce Craig, Beverley Slater, Alison Cracknell, John Wright and Mohammed A Mohammed
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:648
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  20. In 2017, 80% of 425 million adults with diabetes worldwide were living in low and middle-income countries. Diabetes affected 6.9 million adults in Bangladesh and accounted for 3% of the country’s total mortali...

    Authors: Farzana Yasmin, Nazmun Nahar, Bilkis Banu, Liaquat Ali, Rainer Sauerborn and Aurélia Souares
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:520
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  21. Clinical registries facilitate medical research by providing ‘real data’. In the past decade, an increasing number of disease registry systems (DRS) have been initiated in Iran. Here, we assessed the quality c...

    Authors: Maryam Barzin, Hamideh Sabbaghi, Sharareh Kamfar, Atena Seifi, Mahmoud Hajipour, Fatemeh Hadavand Siri, Elham Mir-Moeini, Anis Gharajeh, Nasrin Ferdosifard, Mohammadhossein Panahi, Seyed Saeed Hashemi Nazari, Fatemeh Fallah Atatalab and Koorosh Etemad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:726
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  22. The objective of this study was to assess public hospital efficiency, including quality outputs, inefficiency determinants, and changes to efficiency over time, in an Italian region. To achieve this aim, the s...

    Authors: Luca Piubello Orsini, Chiara Leardini, Silvia Vernizzi and Bettina Campedelli
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1281
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  23. Antibiotic treatment options for common infections are diminishing due to the proliferation of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The impact of Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) programs seeking to preserve viable ...

    Authors: Alex Broom, Stefanie Plage, Jennifer Broom, Emma Kirby and Jon Adams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:43
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  24. Segmentation models such as latent class analysis are an increasingly popular approach to inform group-tailored interventions for high-risk complex patients. Multiple studies have identified clinically meaning...

    Authors: Franya Hutchins, Joshua Thorpe, Xinhua Zhao, Hongwei Zhang and Ann-Marie Rosland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1341
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  25. Hospital treatment for hip fracture is complex, often involving sequential episodes for acute orthopaedics, rehabilitation and care of contingent conditions. Most reports of hospital length of stay (LOS) addre...

    Authors: Anthony W Ireland, Patrick J Kelly and Robert G Cumming
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:17
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  26. Community-based health insurance initiatives in low- and middle-income countries encountered a number of sustainability challenges due to their voluntary nature, small risk pools, and low revenue. In Ethiopia,...

    Authors: Mohammed Hussien, Muluken Azage and Negalign Berhanu Bayou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1072
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  27. The elicitation of contact information, notification and testing of sex partners of HIV infected patients (aPS), is an effective HIV testing strategy in low-income settings but may not necessarily be affordabl...

    Authors: Peter Cherutich, Carey Farquhar, Beatrice Wamuti, Felix A. Otieno, Ann Ng’ang’a, Peter Maingi Mutiti, Paul Macharia, Betsy Sambai, David Bukusi and Carol Levin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:721
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  28. The community pharmacy center of the Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine of the Policlinique Médicale Universitaire (PMU), Lausanne, Switzerland developed and implemented an interprofessional ...

    Authors: Mélanie Lelubre, Olivier Clerc, Marielle Grosjean, Karim Amighi, Carine De Vriese, Olivier Bugnon and Marie-Paule Schneider
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:698
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  30. Little is known about the current status and the changing trends of hospitalization and palliative care consultation of patients with gastric cancer in the United States. The aim of this study was to evaluate ...

    Authors: Moon Kyung Joo, Ji Won Yoo, Zahra Mojtahedi, Pearl Kim, Jinwook Hwang, Ja Seol Koo, Hee-Taik Kang and Jay J. Shen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:20
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  31. Stroke has always been a severe disease and imposed heavy financial burden on the health system. Equity in patients in regard to healthcare utilization and medical costs are recognized as a significant factor ...

    Authors: Yong Yang, Stephen Nicholas, Elizabeth Maitland, Zhengwei Huang, Xiaoping Chen, Yong Ma and Xuefeng Shi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:425
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  32. Male partner participation in antenatal care (ANC) is important and contributes to better maternal and neonatal birth outcomes. Studies have been conducted to explore male participation in ANC and barriers to ...

    Authors: Hamalambo Muloongo, Doreen Sitali, Joseph Mumba Zulu, Alice Ngoma Hazemba and Oliver Mweemba
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:463
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  33. In Norway, a government reform has recently been introduced to enhance coordination between primary and secondary care. This paper examines the effects of two newly introduced measures to improve the coordinat...

    Authors: Antonella La Rocca and Thomas Hoholm
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:149
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  34. With few exceptions the International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes for diagnoses and official coding guidelines do not distinguish pre-existing conditions from complications or comorbidit...

    Authors: Karen Triep, Thomas Beck, Jacques Donzé and Olga Endrich
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:23
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  35. Although remote home monitoring (RHM) has the capacity to prevent exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), evidence regarding its effectiveness remains unclear. The objectiv...

    Authors: Fernanda Inagaki Nagase, Tania Stafinski, Melita Avdagovska, Michael K. Stickland, Evelyn Melita Etruw and Devidas Menon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:646
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  36. 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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  38. The relationship between the scope and intensity of quality improvement (QI) activities and hospital performance remains unclear. This study investigated the relationship between performance, external environm...

    Authors: Kuo-Piao Chung and Tsung-Hsien Yu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:327
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  40. Burkina Faso has undertaken major reforms, the cornerstone of which has been the decentralization of the health system to increase access to primary healthcare and to increase the effectiveness, efficiency, fi...

    Authors: Hilaire Zon, Milena Pavlova and Wim Groot
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:148
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  41. Practicing safe behavior regarding patients is an intrinsic part of a physician’s ethical and professional standards. Despite this, physicians practice behaviors that run counter to patient safety, including p...

    Authors: Erik Renkema, Manda Broekhuis and Kees Ahaus
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:38
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  42. South Africa has a high burden of perinatal deaths in spite of the availability of evidence-based interventions. The majority of preventable perinatal deaths occur in district hospitals and are mainly related ...

    Authors: Ntombifikile Maureen Nkwanyana and Anna Silvia Voce
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:731
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  43. Patients undergoing surgery for bowel cancer now have a routine screening test to assess their genetic predisposition to this and other cancers (Lynch syndrome). A result indicating a high risk should trigger ...

    Authors: Janet C. Long, Deborah Debono, Rachel Williams, Elizabeth Salisbury, Sharron O’Neill, Elizabeth Eykman, Jordan Butler, Robert Rawson, Kim-Chi Phan-Thien, Stephen R. Thompson, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Melvin Chin and Natalie Taylor
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:904
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  44. In assessing quality of care in developing countries, retrospectively collected data are usually used given their availability. Retrospective data however suffer from such biases as recall bias and non-respons...

    Authors: Paul Mwaniki, Philip Ayieko, Jim Todd and Mike English
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:312
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  45. The primary objective was to describe the total direct inpatient costs among solid tumor and lymphoma patients with chemotherapy-induced febrile neutropenia (FN) and the factors that were associated with highe...

    Authors: Xiao Jun Wang, Mabel Wong, Li Yang Hsu and Alexandre Chan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:434
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  48. In many health systems, specialist services for critically ill children are typically regionalised or centralised. Studies have shown that high-risk paediatric patients have improved survival when managed in s...

    Authors: Nigel R Armfield, Mark G Coulthard, Anthony Slater, Julie McEniery, Mark Elcock, Robert S Ware, Paul A Scuffham, Mark E Bensink and Anthony C Smith
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:546
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  49. Little is known about adverse events (AEs) in pediatric patients. Record review is a common methodology for identifying AEs, but in pediatrics the record review tools generally have limited focus. The aim of t...

    Authors: Maria Unbeck, Synnöve Lindemalm, Per Nydert, Britt-Marie Ygge, Urban Nylén, Carina Berglund and Karin Pukk Härenstam
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:655
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  50. This was a secondary analysis of a recent population-based clinical trial cohort (ClinicalTrials.​gov...ID: NCT01575145), with cohort membership determined by self-reported 7 day point prevalence abstinence at 6 m...

    Authors: Margaret B. Nolan, Bijan J. Borah, James P. Moriarty and David O. Warner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:924
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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