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  1. The measurement of consumer satisfaction is an essential part of the assessment of health care services in terms of service quality and health care system responsiveness. Studies across Europe have described v...

    Authors: Tetiana Stepurko, Milena Pavlova and Wim Groot
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:342
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  2. The intersection of HIV-related health outcomes and problem substance use has been well documented. New York City continues to be a focal point of the U.S. HIV epidemic. In 2011, the NYC Department of Health a...

    Authors: Aimee N. C. Campbell, Don Des Jarlais, Cooper Hannah, Sarah Braunstein, Susan Tross, Laura Kersanske, Christine Borges, Martina Pavlicova, Kevin Jefferson, Howard Newville, Laurel Weaver and Margaret Wolff
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:341
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  3. Persons with disability are often marginalised and excluded from international development efforts. This case study reviews the success of Uttarakhand Cluster of development NGOs in changing organisational beh...

    Authors: Nathan Grills, Jubin Varghese, Nicole Hughes, Tamara Jolly and Robert Kumar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:338
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  4. Examining determinants of antenatal care (ANC) is important to stimulate equitable distribution of ANC across Europe. This study (1) compares ANC utilisation in Belgium and the Netherlands and (2) identifies p...

    Authors: Jana Vanden Broeck, Esther Feijen-de Jong, Trudy Klomp, Koen Putman and Katrien Beeckman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:337
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  5. Healthcare providers-related disparities in adherence to the treatment plan among lymphoma patients are found even in a universal healthcare system, but the mechanism remains unclear. We investigated the assoc...

    Authors: S. Lamy, C. Bettiol, P. Grosclaude, G. Compaci, G Albertus, C. Récher, J. C. Nogaro, F. Despas, G. Laurent and C. Delpierre
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:336
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  6. In China, most people tend to use hospitals rather than health centers for their primary care generally due to the perception that quality of care provided in the hospital setting is superior to that provided ...

    Authors: Ruwei Hu, Yu Liao, Zhicheng Du, Yuantao Hao, Hailun Liang and Leiyu Shi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:335
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  7. The past decade has seen an increased number of state-civil society partnerships in the global Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) response of many countries. However, t...

    Authors: Martin Hushie, Cephas N. Omenyo, Jacob J. van den Berg and Michelle A. Lally
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:332
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  9. Several countries have increased patients’ abilities to choose their health care providers, frequently under the assumption that patients are themselves the best agents to make such decisions. In parallel, nat...

    Authors: Emma Wahlstedt and Björn Ekman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:325
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  10. We aimed to synthesize the evidence of a causal effect and draw inferences about whether Canadian primary care reforms improved health system performance based on measures of health service utilization, proces...

    Authors: Renee Carter, Bruno Riverin, Jean-Frédéric Levesque, Geneviève Gariepy and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:324
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  11. Why issues get on the policy agenda, move into policy formulation and implementation while others drop off in the process is an important field of enquiry to inform public social policy development and impleme...

    Authors: Augustina Koduah, Han van Dijk and Irene Akua Agyepong
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:323
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  12. Barriers to depression treatment among Hispanic populations include persistent stigma, inadequate doctor patient communication (DPC) and resultant sub-optimal use of anti-depressant medications. Stigma is prim...

    Authors: Katherine Sanchez, Brittany H. Eghaneyan and Madhukar H. Trivedi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:322
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  13. Swedish youth clinics constitute one of the most comprehensive and consolidated examples of a nationwide network of health care services for young people. However, studies evaluating their ‘youth-friendliness’...

    Authors: Isabel Goicolea, Monica Christianson, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Bruno Marchal, Miguel San Sebastian and Maria Wiklund
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:321
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  14. Despite the multiple physical and psychological health consequences associated with human trafficking, there is little evidence-based guidance available for health providers on assessing and meeting the health...

    Authors: Stacey Hemmings, Sharon Jakobowitz, Melanie Abas, Debra Bick, Louise M. Howard, Nicky Stanley, Cathy Zimmerman and Sian Oram
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:320
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  15. Silent-members are members of a medical health plan who submit no claims for healthcare services in a benefit year despite 12 months of continuous-enrollment. This study was conducted to evaluate the future ex...

    Authors: Trudy Millard Krause, Elifnur Yay Donderici, Cecilia Ganduglia Cazaban and Luisa Franzini
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:319
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  17. National health insurance schemes (NHIS) in developing countries and perhaps in developed countries as well is a considered a pro-poor intervention by helping to bridge the financial burden of access to qualit...

    Authors: Joshua Amo-Adjei, Prince Justin Anku, Hannah Fosuah Amo and Mavis Osei Effah
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:317
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  18. Primary care reforms should be supported by high-quality evidence across the entire life cycle of research. Front-line healthcare providers play an increasing role in implementation research. We recently evalu...

    Authors: Lisa A. Wozniak, Allison Soprovich, Sandra Rees, Steven T. Johnson, Sumit R. Majumdar and Jeffrey A. Johnson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:316
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  20. Human resources are a major cost driver in childhood pneumonia case management. Introduction of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV-13) in Malawi can lead to savings on staff time and salaries due to...

    Authors: Fiammetta Maria Bozzani, Matthias Arnold, Timothy Colbourn, Norman Lufesi, Bejoy Nambiar, Gibson Masache and Jolene Skordis-Worrall
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:314
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  21. Data regarding comorbidities of hepatitis C virus infection (HCV) in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) are lacking. The present study aimed to determine the prevalence and risk factors of HCV among Saudi patie...

    Authors: Ebtesam M. Ba-Essa, Eman I. Mobarak and Nasser M. Al-Daghri
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:313
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  22. Medications to treat and prevent chronic disease have substantially reduced morbidity and mortality; however, their diffusion has been uneven. Little is known about prescribing of chronic disease medications b...

    Authors: Zachary A. Marcum, Johanna E. Bellon, Jie Li, Walid F. Gellad and Julie M. Donohue
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:312
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  23. Antimicrobial stewardship programs have been widely introduced in hospitals as a response to increasing antimicrobial resistance. Although such programs are commonly used, the long-term effects on antimicrobia...

    Authors: Peter Lanbeck, Gunnel Ragnarson Tennvall and Fredrik Resman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:311
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  24. Social support has been identified as a significant factor in the recovery of individuals with musculoskeletal injury (MSI). However, relatively limited research has examined the mechanisms through which socia...

    Authors: Khic-Houy Prang, Janneke Berecki-Gisolf and Sharon Newnam
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:310
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  25. The programme for fiscal consolidation in Greece has led to income decrease and several changes in health policy. In this context, this study aims to assess how economic crisis affected unmet healthcare needs ...

    Authors: Dimitris Zavras, Athanasios I. Zavras, Ilias-Ioannis Kyriopoulos and John Kyriopoulos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:309
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  26. Job satisfaction is an important predictor of an individual’s intention to leave the workplace. It is increasingly being used to consider the retention of health workers in low-income countries. However, the d...

    Authors: Neha Batura, Jolene Skordis-Worrall, Rita Thapa, Regina Basnyat and Joanna Morrison
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:308
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  27. As part of an electronic dashboard operated by Public Health Wales, senior managers at hospitals in Wales report daily “escalation” scores which reflect management opinion on the pressure a hospital is experie...

    Authors: NJ Walker, HC Van Woerden, V Kiparoglou and Y Yang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:307
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  29. Scoping studies (or reviews) are a method used to comprehensively map evidence across a range of study designs in an area, with the aim of informing future research practice, programs and policy. However, no u...

    Authors: Kelly K. O’Brien, Heather Colquhoun, Danielle Levac, Larry Baxter, Andrea C. Tricco, Sharon Straus, Lisa Wickerson, Ayesha Nayar, David Moher and Lisa O’Malley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:305
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  30. Sickle cell disease (SCD) constitutes a major public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Newborn screening and early subsequent clinical intervention can reduce early mortality and increase life expect...

    Authors: Andreas Kuznik, Abdulrazaq G. Habib, Deogratias Munube and Mohammed Lamorde
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:304
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  32. Mental health service users have high rates of medical co-morbidity but frequently experience problems accessing and transitioning between tertiary medical and primary care services. The aim of this study was ...

    Authors: Kate Cranwell, Meg Polacsek and Terence V. McCann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:302
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  33. In the context of an implementation research project aiming at improving use of HIV and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for female sex workers (FSWs), a broad situational analysis was conducted i...

    Authors: Yves Lafort, Osvaldo Jocitala, Balthazar Candrinho, Letitia Greener, Mags Beksinska, Jenni A. Smit, Matthew Chersich and Wim Delva
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:301
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  34. Potentially preventable hospitalizations (PPH) for heart failure (HF) and diabetes mellitus (DM) cost the United States over $14 billion annually. Studies about PPH typically lack patient perspectives, especia...

    Authors: Tetine L. Sentell, Todd B. Seto, Malia M. Young, May Vawer, Michelle L. Quensell, Kathryn L. Braun and Deborah A. Taira
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:300
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  35. There is currently limited evidence regarding the extent Real World Evidence (RWE) has directly impacted the health and social care systems. The aim of this review is to identify national guidelines or guidanc...

    Authors: Jessie O. Oyinlola, Jennifer Campbell and Antonis A. Kousoulis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:299
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  36. Research on guideline implementation strategies has mostly been conducted in settings which differ significantly from a nursing home setting and its transferability to the nursing home setting is therefore lim...

    Authors: Heinz Diehl, Birgitte Graverholt, Birgitte Espehaug and Hans Lund
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:298
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  37. Hospital discharge is a vulnerable transitional stage in patient care. This qualitative study investigated the views of healthcare professionals and patients about the threats to safe hospital discharge with a...

    Authors: Justin Waring, Simon Bishop and Fiona Marshall
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:297
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  38. To assess both qualitatively and quantitatively the impact of Public Reporting (PR) on clinical outcomes, we carried out a systematic review of published studies on this topic.

    Authors: Paolo Campanella, Vladimir Vukovic, Paolo Parente, Adela Sulejmani, Walter Ricciardi and Maria Lucia Specchia
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:296
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  39. Perinatal mental illness is a common and important public health problem, especially in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). This study aims to explore the barriers and facilitators, as well as perceptions...

    Authors: Juliet E. M. Nakku, Elialilia S. Okello, Dorothy Kizza, Simone Honikman, Joshua Ssebunnya, Sheila Ndyanabangi, Charlotte Hanlon and Fred Kigozi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:295
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  40. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic progressive condition affecting the central nervous system. Progression of MS results in increased level of disability and most patients will eventually experience some deg...

    Authors: E. Jones, J. Pike, T. Marshall and X. Ye
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:294
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  41. Hepatitis B vaccination was introduced into the Expanded Program of Immunization in Colombia in 1992, in response to WHO recommendations on hepatitis B immunization. Colombia is a low endemic country for Hepat...

    Authors: Luz Angela Choconta-Piraquive, Fernando De la Hoz-Restrepo and Carlos Arturo Sarmiento-Limas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:293
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  42. In 2009, Chinese government launched a new healthcare reform, one of the key points of which is to establish National Essential Medicine System (NEMS). Hospital pharmacists are directly related to the implemen...

    Authors: Qian Shen, Caijun Yang, Jie Chang, Lina Wu, Wenwen Zhu, Bing Lv, Dan Ye, Shimin Yang and Yu Fang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:292
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  43. Treatment services to patients with substance use disorders (SUDs), including those mandated to treatment, needs to be evaluated and evidence based. The Norwegian Municipal Health Care Act calls for mandated t...

    Authors: Adrian R. Pasareanu, John-Kåre Vederhus, Anne Opsal, Øistein Kristensen and Thomas Clausen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:291
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  44. Health systems throughout the world, whether in developed or developing countries, are struggling with the challenge of how to manage health-care delivery in conditions of resource constraint. The availability...

    Authors: Beyene Wondafrash Ademe, Bosena Tebeje and Ashagre Molla
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:287
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  45. There is growing interest on the impact of performance-based financing (PBF) on health workers’ motivation and performance. However, the literature so far tends to look at PBF payments in isolation, without re...

    Authors: Maria Paola Bertone, Mylene Lagarde and Sophie Witter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:286
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  46. Previous studies have found a high prevalence of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among survivors of human trafficking. European countries are required to assist trafficked people in their ...

    Authors: Maria Cary, Siân Oram, Louise M. Howard, Kylee Trevillion and Sarah Byford
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:284
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  47. In India, the Revised National TB control programme (RNTCP) offers free diagnosis and treatment for tuberculosis (TB), based on the Directly Observed Treatment Short course (DOTS) strategy. We conducted a qual...

    Authors: Vijayashree Yellappa, Pierre Lefèvre, Tullia Battaglioli, Devadasan Narayanan and Patrick Van der Stuyft
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:283
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  48. Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness globally, and treatment involves considerable cost to stakeholders in healthcare. However, there is infrequent availability of cost information and patte...

    Authors: Stephen Ocansey, Samuel Kyei, Ama Diafo, Kwabena Nkansah Darfor, Samuel Bert Boadi-Kusi and Peter B. Aglobitse
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:282
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  49. There is growing evidence that teamwork in hospitals is related to both patient outcomes and clinician occupational well-being. Furthermore, clinician well-being is associated with patient safety. Despite cons...

    Authors: Annalena Welp and Tanja Manser
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:281
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  50. The aim of our study was to investigate the impact of a new organization of our emergency department (ED) on patients’ mortality and management delays.

    Authors: Pierre-Géraud Claret, Xavier Bobbia, Sylvia Olive, Christophe Demattei, Justin Yan, Robert Cohendy, Paul Landais and Jean Emmanuel de la Coussaye
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:279
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