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  1. Postpartum home-based midwifery care is covered by basic health insurance in Switzerland for all families with newborns but must be self-organized. To ensure access for all, Familystart, a network of self-empl...

    Authors: Bettina Schwind, Elisabeth Zemp, Kristen Jafflin, Anna Späth, Monika Barth, Karen Maigetter, Sonja Merten and Elisabeth Kurth
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:375
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. Since some form of dual clinical/public health practice is desirable, this paper explains why their ethics should be combined to influence medical practice and explores a way to achieve that.

    Authors: Jean-Pierre Unger, Ingrid Morales, Pierre De Paepe and Michel Roland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20(Suppl 2):1070
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 2

  3. Nocturnal digital surveillance technologies are being widely implemented as interventions for remotely monitoring elderly populations, and often replace person-based surveillance. Such interventions are often ...

    Authors: Matt X. Richardson, Maria Ehn, Sara Landerdahl Stridsberg, Ken Redekop and Sarah Wamala-Andersson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:622
    Content type: Research Published on:

  4. The COVID-19 pandemic has a disruptive impact on our society. We therefore conducted a population survey to describe: 1) stress, concerns and quality of life 2) access to healthcare and cancelled/delayed healt...

    Authors: Hanne van Ballegooijen, Lucas Goossens, Ralph H. Bruin, Renée Michels and Marieke Krol
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:227
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Patients from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds often face difficulties in accessing health and social care services. This study explored the feasibility and acceptability of involving c...

    Authors: Sabuj Kanti Mistry, Elizabeth Harris, Xue Li and Mark F. Harris
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:476
    Content type: Research Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:918

  6. In recent times, infection prevention and patient safety have become a global health policy priority with thought being given to understanding organisational culture within healthcare, and of its significance ...

    Authors: Julian Hunt, John Gammon, Sharon Williams, Sharon Daniel, Sue Rees and Sian Matthewson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1446
    Content type: Research Published on:

  7. The Malaria Frontline Project (MFP) supported the National Malaria Elimination Program for effective program implementation in the high malaria-burden states of Kano and Zamfara adapting the National Stop Tran...

    Authors: Adefisoye Adewole, Olufemi Ajumobi, Ndadilnasiya Waziri, Amina Abdullahi Umar, Usaini Bala, Saheed Gidado, Gideon Ugbenyo, Edwin Simple, Isaac Igbaver, Adam Attahiru, Charles A. Michael, Belinda Uba, Patrick Nguku, Perpetua Uhomoibhi, Basheer Muhammad, Munira Ismael…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:147
    Content type: Research Published on:

  8. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:248

  9. The Australian Government Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) funds an ongoing health promotion based program to improve use of medicines and related health services, which implements interventions that incl...

    Authors: Elizabeth E Roughead, Lisa M Kalisch Ellett, Emmae N Ramsay, Nicole L Pratt, John D Barratt, Vanessa T LeBlanc, Philip Ryan, Robert Peck, Graeme Killer and Andrew L Gilbert
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:514
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Emergency Department overcrowding has become a global problem and a growing safety and quality concern. Radiology and laboratory turnaround time, ED boarding and increased ED visits are some of the factors tha...

    Authors: Eveline A. Hitti, Ghada R. El-Eid, Hani Tamim, Rana Saleh, Miriam Saliba and Lena Naffaa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:625
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. Australian federal and jurisdictional governments are implementing ambitious policy initiatives intended to improve health care access and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. In this qua...

    Authors: David Peiris, Alex Brown, Michael Howard, Bernadette A Rickards, Andrew Tonkin, Ian Ring, Noel Hayman and Alan Cass
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:369
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. The health system, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is expected to move towards a more people-centered form of healthcare provision by implementing a biopsychosocial (BPS) approach. It’s then important to ...

    Authors: Christian Eboma Ndjangulu Molima, Hermès Karemere, Samuel Makali, Ghislain Bisimwa and Jean Macq
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1238
    Content type: Research Published on:

  13. German social law offers services from various providers and agencies for people with chronic disease or disability. Claiming services requires a high level of information and communication. Dealing with a mul...

    Authors: Lea Remus, Marei Grope, Stella Lemke and Matthias Bethge
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:342
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  14. Information on patient experience and satisfaction with individual physicians could play an important role for performance measures, improved health care and health literacy. Physician rating sites (PRSs) bear...

    Authors: Swantje Reimann and Daniel Strech
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:332
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Patient panel management and community-based care management may be viable strategies for community health centers to improve the quality of diabetes care for vulnerable patient populations. The objective of o...

    Authors: Philip J Van der Wees, Mark W Friedberg, Elena Alcala Guzman, John Z Ayanian and Hector P Rodriguez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:608
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. Efforts to address infant mortality disparities in Ohio have historically been adversely affected by the lack of consistent data collection and infrastructure across the community-based organizations performin...

    Authors: Naleef Fareed, Christine M. Swoboda, John Lawrence, Tyler Griesenbrock and Timothy Huerta
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:4
    Content type: Research Published on:

  17. Patients’ increasing needs and expectations require an overall assessment of hospital performance. Several international agencies have defined performance indicators sets but there exists no unanimous classifi...

    Authors: Elettra Carini, Irene Gabutti, Emanuela Maria Frisicale, Andrea Di Pilla, Angelo Maria Pezzullo, Chiara de Waure, Americo Cicchetti, Stefania Boccia and Maria Lucia Specchia
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1038
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. The PELICAN Multidisciplinary Team Total Mesorectal Excision (MDT-TME) Development Programme aimed to improve clinical outcomes for rectal cancer by educating colorectal cancer teams in precision surgery and r...

    Authors: Cath Taylor, Joanna M Sippitt, Gary Collins, Chris McManus, Alison Richardson, Jeremy Dawson, Michael Richards and Amanda J Ramirez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:187
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. Hospitals, as complex organizations with clinical, financial, and social functions, face different barriers to providing high-quality and safe services at reasonable costs. Various initiatives have been carrie...

    Authors: Mohammad Ali Jalilvand, Ahmad Reza Raeisi and Nasrin Shaarbafchizadeh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:47
    Content type: Research Published on:

  20. Vaccination is one of the most important public health interventions to reduce child mortality and morbidity. In Ethiopia, about 472,000 children die each year by vaccine-preventable diseases. A satisfied moth...

    Authors: Eyasu Tesfaye, Ayal Debie, Fasil Sisay and Tesfahun Zemene Tafere
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1315
    Content type: Research Published on:

  21. Bronchiolitis is the most common reason for hospitalisation in infants. All international bronchiolitis guidelines recommend supportive care, yet considerable variation in practice continues with infants recei...

    Authors: Libby Haskell, Emma J. Tavender, Sharon O’Brien, Catherine L. Wilson, Franz E. Babl, Meredith L. Borland, Rachel Schembri, Francesca Orsini, Elizabeth Cotterell, Nicolette Sheridan, Ed Oakley and Stuart R. Dalziel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1282
    Content type: Research Published on:

  22. Implementation research has emerged as part of evidence-based decision-making efforts to plug current gaps in the translation of research evidence into health policy and practice. While there has been a growin...

    Authors: Chukwudi A. Nnaji, Charles S. Wiysonge, Joseph C. Okeibunor, Thobile Malinga, Abdu A. Adamu, Prosper Tumusiime and Humphrey Karamagi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:414
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. In China, the New Co-operative Medical System (NCMS), a rural health insurance system, has expanded nationwide since 2003. This study aims to describe prenatal care use, content and costs of care in one county...

    Authors: Qian Long, Tuohong Zhang, Elina Hemminki, Xiaojun Tang, Kun Huang, Shengbin Xiao and Rachel Tolhurst
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:301
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. Patient safety is a fundamental component of good quality health care. Checklists have been proposed as a method of improving patient safety. This systematic review, asked "In acute hospital settings, would th...

    Authors: Henry CH Ko, Tari J Turner and Monica A Finnigan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:211
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) provide recommendations for practice, but the proliferation of CPGs issued by multiple organisations in recent years has raised concern about their quality. The aim of this ...

    Authors: G. Castellini, V. Iannicelli, M. Briguglio, D. Corbetta, L. M. Sconfienza, G. Banfi and S. Gianola
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:970
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) can be used by healthcare organisations to inform improvements in service delivery. However, routine collection of PROMs is difficult to achieve across an entire healt...

    Authors: David A. Snowdon, Velandai Srikanth, Richard Beare, Lucy Marsh, Emily Parker, Kim Naude and Nadine E. Andrew
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:94
    Content type: Research Published on:

  27. In order to meet the future challenges posed by ageing populations, new technology, telemedicine and a more personalized healthcare system are needed. Earlier research has shown mobile radiography services to ...

    Authors: Elin Kjelle, Kristin Bakke Lysdahl, Hilde Merete Olerud and Aud Mette Myklebust
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:301
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. The aim of the third WHO challenge released in 2017 was to attain a global commitment to lessen the severity and to prevent medication-related harm by 50% within the next five years. To achieve this goal, comp...

    Authors: Agani Afaya, Kennedy Diema Konlan and Hyunok Kim Do
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1156
    Content type: Research Published on:

  29. Mental healthcare is an important component in societies’ response to mental health problems. Although the World Health Organization highlights availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality of healthc...

    Authors: Malin Axelsson, Viktor Schønning, Claudi Bockting, Ann Buysse, Mattias Desmet, Alexis Dewaele, Theodoros Giovazolias, Dewi Hannon, Konstantinos Kafetsios, Reitske Meganck, Spyridoula Ntani, Kris Rutten, Sofia Triliva, Laura Van Beveren, Joke Vandamme, Simon Øverland…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:605
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Fragmented delivery of health and social services can impact access to high-quality, person-centred care. The goal of system navigation is to reduce barriers to healthcare access and improve the quality of car...

    Authors: Kylie Teggart, Sarah E. Neil-Sztramko, Abbira Nadarajah, Amy Wang, Caroline Moore, Nancy Carter, Janet Adams, Kamal Jain, Penelope Petrie, Aref Alshaikhahmed, Shreya Yugendranag and Rebecca Ganann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:450
    Content type: Research Published on:

  31. In the regulation of healthcare, the subject of patient and family involvement figures increasingly prominently on the agenda. However, the literature on involving patients and families in regulation is still ...

    Authors: Siri Wiig, Suzanne Rutz, Alan Boyd, Kate Churruca, Sophia Kleefstra, Cecilie Haraldseid-Driftland, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Jane O’Hara and Hester van de Bovenkamp
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:616
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. Understanding the resilience of healthcare is critically important. A resilient healthcare system might be expected to consistently deliver high quality care, withstand disruptive events and continually adapt,...

    Authors: Siri Wiig, Karina Aase, Stephen Billett, Carolyn Canfield, Olav Røise, Ove Njå, Veslemøy Guise, Cecilie Haraldseid-Driftland, Eline Ree, Janet E. Anderson and Carl Macrae
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:330
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  33. Disparities in child healthcare service utilization are unacceptably high in Ethiopia. Nevertheless, little is known about underlying barriers to accessing child health services, especially among low socioecon...

    Authors: Hailu Fekadu, Wubegzier Mekonnen, Aynalem Adugna, Helmut Kloos and Damen Hailemariam
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:613
    Content type: Research Published on:

  34. Healthcare professionals are sometimes forced to adjust their work to varying conditions leading to discrepancies between hospital protocols and daily practice. We will examine the discrepancies between protoc...

    Authors: Liselotte M. van Dijk, Meggie D. Meulman, Linda van Eikenhorst, Hanneke Merten, Bernadette C. F. M. Schutijser and Cordula Wagner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1228
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  35. Most health systems provide the most specialized, and presumably also the highest quality of care at a central level. This study assessed parental satisfaction and its determinants in the context of neonatal c...

    Authors: An Thi Binh Nguyen, Ngan Thi Kim Nguyen, Phuc Huu Phan, Peter van Eeuwijk and Günther Fink
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:238
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. Healthcare work is known to be stressful and challenging, and there are recognised links between the psychological health of staff and high-quality patient care. Schwartz Center Rounds® (Rounds) were developed...

    Authors: J. Maben, C. Taylor, E. Reynolds, I. McCarthy and M. Leamy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:709
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. There is a paucity of knowledge on the cost of health care services in Ghana. This poses a challenge in the economic evaluation of programmes and inhibits policy makers in making decisions about allocation of ...

    Authors: Maxwell Ayindenaba Dalaba, Patricia Akweongo, Germain Savadogo, Happiness Saronga, John Williams, Rainer Sauerborn, Hengjin Dong and Svetla Loukanova
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:287
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Routine Health Information Systems data should be used in a systematic and institutionalised manner to support the making of plans, the monitoring of plans and in supportive supervision. To explore to what ext...

    Authors: Elaine Byrne and Arthur Heywood
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1049
    Content type: Research Published on:

  40. Online interventions have the advantages of being widely available, accessible, comfortable, cost effective, and they can provide tailored information and support. Despite these benefits, the effects of specif...

    Authors: Hee Sun Kang, Hyun-Kyung Kim, Seong Man Park and Jung-Hee Kim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:167
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. To explore factors that influence and to identify initiatives to improve the recognition, reporting and resolution of device-related incidents.

    Authors: Julie Polisena, Anna Gagliardi and Tammy Clifford
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:220
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Maternal and neonatal mortality in Uganda remain persistently high. While utilisation of maternal health services has been shown to reduce the risk of maternal death, little is known about the inequalities in ...

    Authors: Phiona Atuhaire, Elizabeth Kiracho-Ekirapa and John Mutenyo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:800
    Content type: Research Published on:

  43. Little research attention has been given to attempts to implement organisational initiatives to improve quality of care for mental health care, where there is a high level of indeterminacy and clinical judgeme...

    Authors: Linda Gask, Anne Rogers, Stephen Campbell and Rod Sheaff
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:63
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. The choice of what patient outcomes are included in clinical quality registries is crucial for comparable and relevant data collection. Ideally, a uniform outcome framework could be used to classify the outcom...

    Authors: Antero Vanhala, Anna-Rosa Lehto, Anu Maksimow, Paulus Torkki and Sanna-Maria Kivivuori
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:806
    Content type: Research Published on:

  45. Peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVCs) account for a mean of 38% of catheter associated bloodstream infections (CABSI) with Staphylococcus aureus, which are preventable if deficiencies in best practice are addr...

    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 2019 19:636
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:422

  46. Antenatal care (ANC) reduces maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality directly through the detection and treatment of pregnancy-related illnesses, and indirectly through the detection of women at increas...

    Authors: Leonardo Chavane, Mario Merialdi, Ana Pilar Betrán, Jennifer Requejo-Harris, Eduardo Bergel, Alicia Aleman, Mercedes Colomar, Maria Luisa Cafferata, Alicia Carbonell, Beatrice Crahay, Therese Delvaux, Diederike Geelhoed, Metin Gülmezoglu, Celsa Regina Malapende, Armando Melo, My Huong Nguyen…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:228
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  47. Older inpatients are at high risk of hospital-associated complications, particularly delirium and functional decline. These can be mitigated by consistent attention to age-friendly care practices such as early...

    Authors: Alison M. Mudge, Prue McRae, Adrienne Young, Irene Blackberry, Karen Lee-Steere, Sally Barrimore, Tara Quirke and Gillian Harvey
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:668
    Content type: Research Published on:

  48. The Covid-19 pandemic provided new challenges and opportunities for patients and healthcare providers while accelerating the trend of digital healthcare transformation. This study explores the perspectives of ...

    Authors: Grazia Antonacci, Elisabetta Benevento, Sveva Bonavitacola, Lorella Cannavacciuolo, Emanuela Foglia, Giulia Fusi, Elisabetta Garagiola, Cristina Ponsiglione and Alessandro Stefanini
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1115
    Content type: Research Published on:

  49. There is a need for scalable clinician education in rational medication prescribing and rational ordering of pathology and imaging to help improve patient safety and enable more efficient utilisation of health...

    Authors: Christine Metusela, Judy Mullan, Conrad Kobel, Joel Rhee, Marijka Batterham, Stephen Barnett and Andrew Bonney
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1346
    Content type: Research Published on:

  50. Participation in cardiac rehabilitation in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) remains underutilised. Digital educational programmes, as part of cardiac rehabilitation, are emerging as a means of incre...

    Authors: Jenny Danielsbacka, Caroline Feldthusen and Maria Bäck
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1017
    Content type: Research Published on:
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