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  1. Paget's disease of bone (PDB) is characterised by focal increases in bone turnover, affecting one or more bones throughout the skeleton. This disrupts normal bone architecture and causes pain, deformity, deafn...

    Authors: Anne L Langston, Marie Johnston, Clare Robertson, Marion K Campbell, Vikki A Entwistle, Theresa M Marteau, Marilyn McCallum and Stuart H Ralston
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2006 6:71
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  2. The prediction of the real-world cost of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) has historically relied on the data from randomized controlled trials (RCT). However, trial conditions do not always reflect the real-worl...

    Authors: Tuhin Maity and Christopher Longo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1231
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  3. Adverse drug events are a frequent cause of emergency department presentations. Administrative data could be used to identify patients presenting with adverse drug events for post-market surveillance, and to c...

    Authors: Corinne M Hohl, Lisa Kuramoto, Eugenia Yu, Basia Rogula, Jürgen Stausberg and Boris Sobolev
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:473
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. Breast-conserving surgery (BCS) followed by radiotherapy is generally the preferred treatment for women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. This study aimed to investigate the proportion of patients who ...

    Authors: Stacey Fisher, He Gao, Yutaka Yasui, Kelly Dabbs and Marcy Winget
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:35
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  5. Evidence suggests that engagement in care (EIC) may be worse in young people living with perinatal HIV (YPLPHIV) compared to adults or children living with HIV. We took a published EIC algorithm for adults wit...

    Authors: Marthe Le Prevost, Deborah Ford, Siobhan Crichton, Caroline Foster, Alasdair Bamford and Ali Judd
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1114
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  6. We aimed to estimate the monetary value of informal care of disabled people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Spain and to identify the main determinants of the time involved in informal car...

    Authors: Luz María Peña-Longobardo, Juan Oliva-Moreno, Álvaro Hidalgo-Vega and Marc Miravitlles
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:101
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  7. This article investigates the hospital costs related to the management of COVID-19 positive patients, requiring a hospitalization (from the positivity confirmation to discharge, including rehabilitation activi...

    Authors: Emanuela Foglia, Lucrezia Ferrario, Fabrizio Schettini, M. Beatrice Pagani, Martina Dalla Bona and Emanuele Porazzi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:991
    Content type: Research Published on:

  8. Prostate cancer disproportionately affects low-income and minority men. This study evaluates the impact of a patient navigation intervention on timeliness of diagnostic resolution and treatment initiation amon...

    Authors: Melissa A Simon, Narissa J Nonzee, June M McKoy, Dachao Liu, Thanh Ha Luu, Peter Byer, Elizabeth A Eklund, Elizabeth A Richey, Zhigang Wu, XinQi Dong and Alfred W Rademaker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:314
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  9. Past studies have found associations between obesity and healthcare costs, however, these studies have suffered from bias due to omitted variables, reverse causality, and measurement error.

    Authors: Christina Hansen Edwards, Gunnhild Åberge Vie and Jonas Minet Kinge
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:396
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  10. Worldwide, socioeconomic differences in health and use of healthcare resources have been reported, even in countries providing universal healthcare coverage. However, it is unclear how large these socioeconomi...

    Authors: Bette Loef, Iris Meulman, Gerrie-Cor M. Herber, Geert Jan Kommer, Marc A. Koopmanschap, Anton E. Kunst, Johan J. Polder, Albert Wong and Ellen Uiters
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:643
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  11. Foot-related diabetes complications reduce individual well-being, increase mortality and results in increased healthcare costs. Despite their notable stress on health services, studies examining the foot compl...

    Authors: Olli Kurkela, Jaakko Nevalainen, Martti Arffman, Jorma Lahtela and Leena Forma
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:559
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  12. Long-term care is often associated with high health care expenditures. In the Netherlands, an ageing population will likely increase the demand for long-term care within the near future. The development of ris...

    Authors: Albert Wong, Rianne Elderkamp-de Groot, Johan Polder and Job van Exel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:110
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  13. Using Andersen’s model of health care seeking behavior, we examined the predisposing, enabling, and need factors associated with mental health service use (MHSU) during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic ...

    Authors: Helen-Maria Vasiliadis, Jessica Spagnolo, Marie-Josée Fleury, Jean-Philippe Gouin, Pasquale Roberge, Mary Bartram, Sébastien Grenier, Grace Shen-Tu, Jennifer E. Vena and JianLi Wang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:357
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  14. Health care professionals play a central role in offering reproductive genetic carrier screening but face challenges when integrating the offer into practice. The aim of this study was to design, execute, and ...

    Authors: Stephanie Best, Janet C. Long, Zoe Fehlberg, Natalie Taylor, Louise A. Ellis, Kirsten Boggs and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1276
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  15. Mental health disorders are a global health concern. In Australia, numerous national reports have found that the current mental healthcare system does not adequately meet the needs of Australians with mental i...

    Authors: Erica McIntyre, Tracey Oorschot, Amie Steel, Matthew J Leach, Jon Adams and Joanna Harnett
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1266
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  16. Delayed hospital presentation is a hindrance to the optimum clinical outcome of modern therapies of Myocardial infarction (MI). This study aimed to investigate the significant factors associated with prolonged...

    Authors: Abdur Rafi, Zahidus Sayeed, Papia Sultana, Saw Aik and Golam Hossain
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:633
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  17. Perinatal healthcare professionals (PHCPs) provide essential support to all parents in the perinatal period, including young parents aged 16–24, who are at an increased risk of morbidity and mortality. Little ...

    Authors: Bettina Moltrecht, Simone de Cassan, Elizabeth Rapa, Jeffrey R. Hanna, Clare Law and Louise J. Dalton
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1026
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  18. Over recent years there has been a growth in cancer early diagnosis (ED) research, which requires valid measurement of routes to diagnosis and diagnostic intervals. The Aarhus Statement, published in 2012, pro...

    Authors: Domenica Coxon, Christine Campbell, Fiona M. Walter, Suzanne E. Scott, Richard D. Neal, Peter Vedsted, Jon Emery, Greg Rubin, William Hamilton and David Weller
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:677
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. This paper assesses the impact of effective access on out-of-pocket health payments and catastrophic health expenditure. Effective access cannot be attained unless both health services and financial risk prote...

    Authors: Rocio Garcia-Diaz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1027
    Content type: Research Published on:

  20. Surgical theater (ST) operations planning is a key subject in the healthcare management literature, particularly the scheduling of procedures in operating rooms (ORs). The OR scheduling problem is usually appr...

    Authors: Rafael Calegari, Flavio S. Fogliatto, Filipe R. Lucini, Michel J. Anzanello and Beatriz D. Schaan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:684
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  21. Influenza-like illnesses (ILIs) and lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) cause substantial morbidity and mortality worldwide.

    Authors: Cecilia Trucchi, Chiara Paganino, Andrea Orsi, Daniela Amicizia, Valentino Tisa, Maria Francesca Piazza, Domenico Gallo, Simona Simonetti, Bruno Buonopane, Giancarlo Icardi and Filippo Ansaldi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:585
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. European societies are ageing rapidly and thus health promotion for older people (HP4OP) is becoming an increasingly relevant issue. Crucial here is not only the clinical aspect of health promotion but also it...

    Authors: Stojgniew J. Sitko, Iwona Kowalska-Bobko, Anna Mokrzycka, Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz, Alicja Domagała, Nicola Magnavita, Andrea Poscia, Maciej Rogala, Anna Szetela and Stanisława Golinowska
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16(Suppl 5):327
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 5

  23. Social prescribing is targeted at isolated and lonely patients. Practitioners and patients jointly develop bespoke well-being plans to promote social integration and or social reactivation. Our aim was to inve...

    Authors: Dawn Carnes, Ratna Sohanpal, Caroline Frostick, Sally Hull, Rohini Mathur, Gopalakrishnan Netuveli, Jin Tong, Patrick Hutt and Marcello Bertotti
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:835
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. Physical activity and exercise play a key role in managing Parkinson disease. This study aimed to: 1) determine if physiotherapy supported by telehealth helped people with Parkinson disease (PwP) to adhere to ...

    Authors: Allyson Flynn, Elisabeth Preston, Sarah Dennis, Colleen G. Canning and Natalie E. Allen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:224
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  25. Electronic health record (EHR)-linked clinical decision support (CDS) may impact primary care clinicians’ (PCCs’) clinical care opinions. As part of a clinic cluster-randomized control trial (RCT) testing a ca...

    Authors: Melissa L. Harry, Ella A. Chrenka, Laura A. Freitag, Daniel M. Saman, Clayton I. Allen, Stephen E. Asche, Anjali R. Truitt, Heidi L. Ekstrom, Patrick J. O’Connor, Jo Ann M. Sperl-Hillen, Jeanette Y. Ziegenfuss and Thomas E. Elliott
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:38
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  26. Depression is highly prevalent, but knowledge is scarce as to whether increased public awareness and strengthened government focus on mental health have changed how general practitioners (GPs) help their depre...

    Authors: Sabine Ruths, Inger Haukenes, Øystein Hetlevik, Tone Smith-Sivertsen, Stefan Hjørleifsson, Anneli B Hansen, Sharline Riiser, Heidi Marie Meling and Valborg Baste
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:697
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  27. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. Stable health insurance is often associated with better chronic disease care and outcomes. Racial/ethnic health disparities in outcomes are prevalent and may be associated with insurance instability, particula...

    Authors: Nancy R. Kressin, Norma Terrin, Amresh D. Hanchate, Lori Lyn Price, Alejandro Moreno-Koehler, Amy LeClair, Jillian Suzukida, Sucharita Kher and Karen M. Freund
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:216
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  29. The World Health Organization has advocated for the integration of dental care into the primary healthcare (PHC) setting, including oral urgent treatment (OUT). However, the knowledge necessary for OUT impleme...

    Authors: Danielle Viana Ribeiro Ramos, João Luiz Miraglia, Camila Nascimento Monteiro, Danielle Borchardt, Leonardo Tribis, Thais Paragis Sanchez, Daiana Bonfim, Danielle da Costa Palacio, Maria da Luz Rosário de Souza and Marília Jesus Batista de Brito Mota
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1012
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. We see a growing number of older adults receiving long-term care in industrialized countries. The Healthcare Utilization Model by Andersen suggests that individual need characteristics influence utilization. T...

    Authors: Lena Dorin, Suzi C Turner, Lea Beckmann, Jörg große Schlarmann, Andreas Faatz, Sabine Metzing and Andreas Büscher
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:233
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  31. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has led to changes in how healthcare is delivered. Here, through the administration of surveys, we evaluated telehealth use and views in US intensive care units (ICUs) during the...

    Authors: Sarah E. Nelson, Jon Steuernagle, Leo Rotello, Paul Nyquist, Jose I. Suarez and Wendy Ziai
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:797
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  32. Urgent referral for suspected cancer was implemented in Denmark on 1 April 2008 to reduce the secondary care interval (i.e. the time interval from the general practitioner’s first referral of a patient to seco...

    Authors: Mette Bach Larsen, Rikke Pilegaard Hansen, Dorte Gilså Hansen, Frede Olesen and Peter Vedsted
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:348
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. In Canada, access to palliative care is a growing concern, particularly in rural communities. These communities have constrained health care services and accessing local palliative care can be challenging. The...

    Authors: Nadine Schuurman, Michael E. Martin, Valorie A. Crooks and Ellen Randall
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:168
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. Effective teamwork has been recognised as a major contributor to safe patient care in surgery. Previous research has highlighted the importance of adaptive coordination for effective performance in acute care ...

    Authors: Jasmina Bogdanovic, Juliana Perry, Merlin Guggenheim and Tanja Manser
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:128
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. Falls during hospitalization harbor both clinical and financial outcomes. The modified Morse fall scale [MMFS] is widely used for an in-hospital risk-of-fall assessment. Nevertheless, the majority of patients ...

    Authors: Irina Gringauz, Yael Shemesh, Amir Dagan, Irina Israelov, Dana Feldman, Naama Pelz-Sinvani, Dan Justo and Gad Segal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:721
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. Diabetes mellitus is a public health challenge worldwide, and roughly 25 % of patients with diabetes in developing countries will develop at least one foot ulcer during their lifetime. The gravest outcome of a...

    Authors: María Kathia Cárdenas, Andrew J. Mirelman, Cooper J. Galvin, María Lazo-Porras, Miguel Pinto, J. Jaime Miranda and Robert H. Gilman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:483
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Since the mid-1990s, a growing number of North Korean defectors have been arriving in South Korea, many of whom have various somatic and mental disorders. The health status of defectors is an important predict...

    Authors: Bo-Ram Wang, Young Dae Kwon, Wootack Jeon and Jin-Won Noh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:90
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Advance Care Planning (ACP) enables healthcare professionals to embrace the important process where patients think about their values in life and goals for health care, and discuss their future health care pre...

    Authors: Sarah Jeong, Tomiko Barrett, Se Ok Ohr, Peter Cleasby, Ryan Davey and Michael David
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:303
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. To develop a healthcare environment that is congruent with diversity among care providers and care recipients and to eliminate ethnic discrimination, it’s important to map out and assess caregivers’ awareness ...

    Authors: Azita Emami and Jalal Safipour
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:145
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. The national 10-year Development Programme for the Prevention and Care of Diabetes (DEHKO) was launched in Finland in 2000. The program focused on improving early diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and preventing di...

    Authors: Erja Forssas, Reijo Sund, Kristiina Manderbacka, Martti Arffman, Pirjo Ilanne-Parikka and Ilmo Keskimäki
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:267
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Despite the wide availability of prenatal screening and diagnosis, a number of studies have reported no decrease in the rate of babies born with Down syndrome. The objective of this study was to investigate th...

    Authors: Evelyne E Muggli, David McCloskey and Jane L Halliday
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2006 6:109
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Family Presence During Invasive Procedures (FPDI) generates controversy among healthcare professionals. Twibell and her team designed an instrument that measured nurses’ Risk-Benefit and Self-Confidence percep...

    Authors: Eva de Mingo-Fernández, Ángel Belzunegui-Eraso, Guillermina Medina-Martín, Roser Cuesta-Martínez, Raquel Tejada-Musté and María Jiménez-Herrera
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1583
    Content type: Research Published on:

  44. Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common bacterial infections. Despite this burden, there are few studies of the costs of UTIs. The objective of this study was to determine the costs of UTIs i...

    Authors: M. François, T. Hanslik, B. Dervaux, Y. Le Strat, C. Souty, S. Vaux, S. Maugat, C. Rondet, M. Sarazin, B. Heym, B. Coignard and L. Rossignol
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:365
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Internationally, point prevalence surveys are the main source of antibiotic use data in residential aged care (RAC). Our objective was to describe temporal trends in antibiotic use and antibiotics flagged for ...

    Authors: M. Z. Raban, K. E. Lind, R. O. Day, L. Gray, A. Georgiou and J. I. Westbrook
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:883
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. One in 6 patients with low back pain (LBP) presenting to emergency departments (EDs) are subsequently admitted to hospital each year, making LBP the ninth most common reason for hospital admission in Australia...

    Authors: Giovanni Ferreira, Marina Lobo, Bethan Richards, Michael Dinh and Chris Maher
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:835
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  47. It is anticipated that demands on ambulatory HIV services will increase in coming years as a consequence of the increased life expectancy of HIV patients on highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART). Accur...

    Authors: Aline Brennan, Arthur Jackson, Mary Horgan, Colm J Bergin and John P Browne
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:139
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  48. Competing demands for operative resources may affect time to hip fracture surgery. We sought to determine the time to hip fracture surgery by variation in demand in Canadian hospitals.

    Authors: Katie J. Sheehan, Boris Sobolev, Pierre Guy, Jason D. Kim, Lisa Kuramoto, Lauren Beaupre, Adrian R. Levy, Suzanne N. Morin, Jason M. Sutherland and Edward J. Harvey
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:935
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. In urban Australia, patients with serious and continuing illnesses make frequent use of hospital emergency department (ED) services. However, the risk factors for hospital utilisation among the broad populatio...

    Authors: Kylie-Ann Mallitt, Patrick Kelly, Natalie Plant, Tim Usherwood, James Gillespie, Steven Boyages, Stephen Jan and Stephen Leeder
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:136
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Mining is a global industry and contributes significantly to international economies. This study seeks to compare the patterns of psychological distress, job demand-control, and associated characteristics betw...

    Authors: Asare-Doku Winifred, Rich Louise Jane, Kelly Brian, Kwesi Amponsah-Tawiah and James Carole
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:322
    Content type: Research Published on:
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