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  1. Recovery after stroke is long-term and demanding. Optimising community-residing stroke survivors’ capability to self-manage their health is integral. Recent systematic reviews have shown that stroke self-manag...

    Authors: Suzanne Hoi Shan Lo, Anne Marie Chang and Janita Pak Chun Chau
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:387
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  2. Care management in primary care can be effective in helping patients with chronic disease improve their health status, however, primary care practices are often challenged with implementation. Further, there a...

    Authors: Jodi Summers Holtrop, Georges Potworowski, Laurie Fitzpatrick, Amy Kowalk and Lee A. Green
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:386
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. As the first objective of caring for patients is to do no harm, patient safety is a priority in delivering clinical care. An essential component of safe care in a clinical department is its safety climate. Saf...

    Authors: Marck HTM Haerkens, Wouter van Leeuwen, J. Bryan Sexton, Peter Pickkers and Johannes G. van der Hoeven
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:385
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  4. Treat-to-target is the recommended strategy for the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and involves regular assessment of disease activity using validated measures and subsequent adjustment of medical the...

    Authors: Alison Bays, Elizabeth Wahl, David I. Daikh, Jinoos Yazdany and Gabriela Schmajuk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:384
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  5. Clinical practice guidelines are widely distributed by medical associations and relied upon by physicians for the best available clinical evidence. International findings report that financial conflicts of int...

    Authors: Adrienne Shnier, Joel Lexchin, Mirna Romero and Kevin Brown
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:383
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  6. Despite the demand for rehabilitation and chronic care services across the life course, policy and care strategies tend to focus on older adults and overlook medically complex younger adult populations. This stud...

    Authors: Kerry Kuluski, Sima Gandhi, Christina Diong, Carolyn Steele Gray and Susan E. Bronskill
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:382
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  7. The precipitous closure of rural maternity services in British Columbia (BC), Canada, and internationally has demanded a reevaluation of how to meet the perinatal surgical needs of rural women in accordance wi...

    Authors: Jude Kornelsen, Kevin McCartney and Kim Williams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:381
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  8. Better communication among field health care teams and points of care, together with investments focused on improving teamwork, individual management, and clinical skills, are strategies for achieving better o...

    Authors: Mario Maia Bracco, Ana Carolina Cintra Nunes Mafra, Alexandre Hannud Abdo, Fernando Antonio Basile Colugnati, Marcello Dala Bernardina Dalla, Marcelo Marcos Piva Demarzo, Ises Abrahamsohn, Aline Pacífico Rodrigues, Ana Violeta Ferreira de Almeida Delgado, Glauber Alves dos Prazeres, José Carlos Teixeira Jr and Silvio Possa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:380
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  9. Reforms in the health-care sector, including the pharmacy sector, can have different rationales. The Swedish pharmacies were prior to 2009 organized in a state-owned monopoly. In 2009, a liberalization of the ...

    Authors: Kristin Wisell, Ulrika Winblad and Sofia Kälvemark Sporrong
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:379
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. The scale and scope of medical tourism have expanded rapidly over the last few decades. Turkey is becoming an important player in this market because of its relatively better service quality and large comparat...

    Authors: M. Said Yildiz and M. Mahmud Khan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:378
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:701

  11. Tinnitus is an increasingly serious problem for health care systems. According to epidemiological data, 7–14 % of outpatients have asked their physician about tinnitus and management strategies. Integrative ou...

    Authors: Thomas Ostermann, Katja Boehm and Martin Kusatz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:377
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  12. During postgraduate training, general practitioners and other specialists must learn how to deliver shared care to patients; however, the development of formal intraprofessional education is often hampered by cur...

    Authors: Loes J. Meijer, Esther de Groot, Mirjam Blaauw-Westerlaken and Roger A. M. J. Damoiseaux
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:376
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. Reablement is a time-limited intervention that aims to support people to regain independence and enable them to resume their daily activities after they return home from an in-patient care setting, or to maint...

    Authors: Rachel Mann, Bryony Beresford, Gillian Parker, Parvaneh Rabiee, Helen Weatherly, Rita Faria, Mona Kanaan, Alison Laver-Fawcett, Gerald Pilkington and Fiona Aspinal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:375
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  14. HIV testing, diagnosis and treatment programs have expanded globally, particularly in resource-limited settings. Diagnosis must be followed by determination of treatment eligibility and referral to care prior ...

    Authors: T. Kompala, A. P. Moll, N. Mtungwa, R. P. Brooks, G. H. Friedland and S. V. Shenoi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:374
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  15. Measuring quality of care is essential to improve primary care. Quality of primary care for patients is usually assessed by patient satisfaction questionnaires. However, patients may not be able to judge quali...

    Authors: Raphaël Tièche, Bruno R. da Costa and Sven Streit
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:373
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  16. In mental health settings, implementation of and adherence to clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) is low. Strategies are needed to overcome barriers and facilitate successful implementation of CPGs into standa...

    Authors: Ilan Fischler, Sanaz Riahi, Melanie I. Stuckey and Philip E. Klassen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:372
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  20. Overcrowding in emergency departments is a global issue, which places pressure on the shrinking workforce and threatens the future of high quality, safe and effective care. Healthcare reforms aimed at tackling...

    Authors: Kim Manley, Anne Martin, Carolyn Jackson and Toni Wright
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:368
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  21. Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations (PPH) are hospital admissions for conditions which are preventable with timely and appropriate outpatient care being Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) admiss...

    Authors: Julián Librero, Berta Ibañez-Beroiz, Salvador Peiró, M. Ridao-López, Clara L. Rodríguez-Bernal, Francisco J. Gómez-Romero and Enrique Bernal-Delgado
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:367
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  22. Motivated human resource is the key to improve health system performance and retention of health workers. There is scanty literature on measuring motivation of health workers in India. Thus, the objective of t...

    Authors: Jaya Prasad Tripathy, Sonu Goel and Ajay M. V. Kumar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:366
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  23. 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:

  24. Waiting lists for treatment are common in outpatient and community services, Existing methods for managing access and triage to these services can lead to inequities in service delivery, inefficiencies and div...

    Authors: Katherine E. Harding, Jennifer J. Watts, Leila Karimi, Mary O’Reilly, Bridie Kent, Michelle Kotis, Sandra G. Leggat, Jackie Kearney and Nicholas F. Taylor
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:364
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  25. There is an urgent need for the development of simple communication tools that convey the strengths, assets, and healthcare needs of people living with dementia. A Healthcare Passport may improve communication...

    Authors: Gerard Leavey, Aine Abbott, Max Watson, Stephen Todd, Vivien Coates, Sonja McIlfactrick, Brendan McCormack, Bethany Waterhouse-Bradley and Emma Curran
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:363
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  26. We know little about how procurement of a high-risk medical device (HRMD) affects clinical practice and outcomes. In health systems in high-income countries, and specifically those that maintain a national art...

    Authors: Myriam Lingg, Kaspar Wyss and Luis Durán-Arenas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:362
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  27. Compared to patients with cancer, heart failure patients are seldom candidates for palliative care. Numerous studies have investigated reasons why heart failure patients do not receive palliative care; however...

    Authors: Jeanette Ziehm, Erik Farin, Jonas Schäfer, Kathrin Woitha, Gerhild Becker and Stefan Köberich
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:361
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  28. Reorganisation of healthcare services into networks of clinical experts is increasing as a strategy to promote the uptake of evidence based practice and to improve patient care. This is reflected in significan...

    Authors: Bernadette Bea Brown, Cyra Patel, Elizabeth McInnes, Nicholas Mays, Jane Young and Mary Haines
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:360
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  29. Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health problem. The emerging epidemic of multi- and extensively drug-resistant (M/XDR) TB further imperils health workers, patients and public health. Health facilities...

    Authors: Kassahun Tamir, Belaynew Wasie and Muluken Azage
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:359
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  30. A significant proportion of children admitted to a hospital in a South African sub-district in 2010 were severely malnourished and - when concurrently HIV positive - were not correctly initiated on antiretrovi...

    Authors: Claire van Deventer, Glenn Robert and Anne Wright
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:358
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  31. The assessment of adverse events from a patient-centered view includes patient-reported adverse outcomes. An adverse outcome refers to any suboptimal outcome experienced by the patient; when adverse outcomes are ...

    Authors: Okoniewska Barbara, Santana Maria Jose, Holroyd-Leduc Jayna, Flemons Ward, O’Beirne Maeve, White Deborah, Ocampo Wrochelle, William A. Ghali and Alan J. Forster
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:357
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:563

  32. The randomized, double-blind CANTATA-SU (CANagliflozin Treatment And Trial Analysis Sulfonyl Urea) clinical trial compared the use of canagliflozin (100 mg or 300 mg) and maximally tolerated glimepiride (6–8 m...

    Authors: Charmi A. Patel, Robert A. Bailey, Ujjwala Vijapurkar, Gary Meininger and Lawrence Blonde
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:356
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. In the last few years several indices and tools, aimed at identifying frail subjects in various care settings have been developed. However, to date none of them has been incorporated into usual practice in the...

    Authors: Itziar Vergara, Francisco Rivas-Ruiz, Kalliopi Vrotsou, Eugenio Contreras-Fernández, Teresa Téllez-Santana, Mónica Machón, Ana Isabel Díez Ruiz, Yolanda de Mesa Berenguer, Andoni Bueno, Jazmina Núñez, M Carmen Saucedo Figueredo, Alonso Montiel-Luque, M Antonia Nava del Val, Raúl Quirós-López, Estefanía Carrasco and Gabor Abellan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:354
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  35. In 2012 the Norwegian Coordination Reform was implemented. The main motivation was to encourage municipalities to expand local, primary health care services. From 2012 to 2014, under the Municipal Co-Financing...

    Authors: Lars C. Monkerud and Trond Tjerbo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:353
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  36. Women living with HIV are vulnerable to a variety of psychosocial barriers that limit access and adherence to treatment. There is little evidence supporting interventions for improving access and treatment adh...

    Authors: Nancy R. Reynolds, Veena Satyanarayana, Mona Duggal, Meiya Varghese, Lauren Liberti, Pushpendra Singh, Mohini Ranganathan, Sangchoon Jeon and Prabha S. Chandra
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:352
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  37. Health services utilization by Veterans following release may be different than the general population as the result of occupational conditions, requirements and injuries. This study provides the first longitu...

    Authors: Alice B. Aiken, Alyson L. Mahar, Paul Kurdyak, Marlo Whitehead and Patti A. Groome
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:351
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  39. Nurse-Family Partnership is a nurse home visitation program that aims to improve the lives of young mothers and their children. The program focuses on women who are parenting for the first time and experiencin...

    Authors: Nicole L. A. Catherine, Andrea Gonzalez, Michael Boyle, Debbie Sheehan, Susan M. Jack, Kaitlyn A. Hougham, Lawrence McCandless, Harriet L. MacMillan and Charlotte Waddell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:349
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  40. The high financial burden of avoidable hospitalizations has led to an increase of the study of hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC). There is limited information on the impact of se...

    Authors: Inês Dantas, Rui Santana, João Sarmento and Pedro Aguiar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:348
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is considered a multisystem disease, in which comorbidities feature prominently. COPD guidelines recommend holistic assessment and management of relevant comorbid d...

    Authors: Belinda Cochrane, Jann Foster, Robert Boyd and Evan Atlantis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:347
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  42. The implementation of research findings is not a straightforward matter. There are substantive and recognised gaps in the process of translating research findings into practice and policy. In order to overcome...

    Authors: Tomas de Brún, Mary O’Reilly-de Brún, Catherine A. O’Donnell and Anne MacFarlane
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:346
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  43. Late stage at diagnosis of cancer is considered a key predictor factor for a lower survival rate. Knowing and understanding the barriers to an early diagnosis of colorectal cancer is critical in the fight to r...

    Authors: Karen J. Ortiz-Ortiz, Ruth Ríos-Motta, Heriberto Marín-Centeno, Marcia Cruz-Correa and Ana Patricia Ortiz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:344
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. CD4 testing is, and will remain an important part of HIV treatment and care in low and middle income countries (LMICs). We report the findings of a systematic review assessing acceptability and feasibility of ...

    Authors: Minh D. Pham, Paul A. Agius, Lorena Romero, Peter McGlynn, David Anderson, Suzanne M. Crowe and Stanley Luchters
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:343
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  45. Problem gambling and homelessness are recognized as important public health concerns that significantly impact individuals, their friends and families, communities and broader society. We aimed to explore the ...

    Authors: Sara J. T. Guilcher, Sarah Hamilton-Wright, Wayne Skinner, Julia Woodhall-Melnik, Peter Ferentzy, Aklilu Wendaferew, Stephen W. Hwang and Flora I. Matheson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:340
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (lupus) is a chronic autoimmune disease that can impact any organ system and result in life-threatening complications. African-Americans are at increased risk for morbidity and mor...

    Authors: Edith M. Williams, Kate Lorig, Saundra Glover, Diane Kamen, Sudie Back, Anwar Merchant, Jiajia Zhang and James C. Oates
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:339
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  47. Use of Shared Decision-Making (SDM) and Decision Aids (DAs) has been encouraged but is not regularly implemented in primary care. The Office-Guidelines Applied to Practice (Office-GAP) intervention is an appli...

    Authors: Adesuwa Olomu, William Hart-Davidson, Zhehui Luo, Karen Kelly-Blake and Margaret Holmes-Rovner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:334
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. The prevalence of diabetes among adults in Mexico has increased markedly from 6.7 % in 1994 to 14.7 % in 2015. Although the main diabetic complications can be prevented or delayed with timely and effective pri...

    Authors: David G. Lugo-Palacios, John Cairns and Cynthia Masetto
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:333
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Integrated care services are considered a vital strategy for improving the Triple Aim values for people with chronic kidney disease. However, a solid scholarly explanation of how to develop, implement and eval...

    Authors: Pim P. Valentijn, Claus Biermann and Marc A. Bruijnzeels
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:330
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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