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  1. The growing cost of health care and lack of specialised staff have set e-Health high on the European political agenda. In a prospective study we evaluated the effect of providing images for remote consultation...

    Authors: Floriana Zennaro, Daniele Grosso, Riccardo Fascetta, Marta Marini, Luca Odoni, Valentina Di Carlo, Daniela Dibello, Francesca Vittoria and Marzia Lazzerini
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:327
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  2. To stimulate quality through choice of provider, patients need to seek and base their decisions on both relevant and reliable information describing providers’ clinical quality. The purpose of this study was f...

    Authors: Caroline Hoffstedt, Magnus Fredriksson and Ulrika Winblad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:559
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  3. Despite tremendous progress in antiretroviral therapy (ART) and access to ART, many patients have advanced human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease (AHD). Patients on AHD, whether initiating ART or providing...

    Authors: Thulani Maphosa, Lise Denoeud-Ndam, Lester Kapanda, Sarah Khatib, Lloyd Chilikutali, Eddington Matiya, Boswell Munthali, Rosalia Dambe, Brown Chiwandira, Bilaal Wilson, Rose Nyirenda, Laywell Nyirenda, Bongani Chikwapulo, Owen Madeira Musopole, Appolinaire Tiam and Leila Katirayi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:244
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  4. The decline of the traditional U.S. shopping mall and a focus on more consumer- centered care have created an opportunity for “medical malls”. Medical malls are defined as former retail spaces repurposed for h...

    Authors: Lori Uscher-Pines, Ateev Mehrotra and Ramya Chari
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:471
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  5. The concept of value-based healthcare is being used worldwide to improve healthcare. The Intervention Selection Toolbox was developed to bridge the gap of value-based healthcare, between insights in outcomes a...

    Authors: Bo Smalbroek, Joanna Vijverberg, Milad Fahim, Lea Dijksman, Douwe Biesma, Anke Smits, Frits van Merode and Paul van der Nat
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:345
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  6. In recent years, value-based healthcare (VBHC) has become one of the most accepted concepts for fixing the ‘broken’ healthcare systems. Numerous hospitals have embraced VBHC and are trying to implement value-b...

    Authors: Kirsten Daniels, Marc B. V. Rouppe van der Voort, Douwe H. Biesma and Paul B. van der Nat
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1271
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  7. Community advisory groups (CAGs) have been shown to be catalysts who bridge the gap between communities and primary health care facilities by sustaining good working relationships through community engagement ...

    Authors: Thoko Ndaba, Myra Taylor and Musawenkosi Mabaso
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:392
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  8. Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Australian women. Providing timely diagnostic assessment services for screen-detected abnormalities is a core quality indicator of the population-based sc...

    Authors: Karen Johnston, Deborah Smith, Robyn Preston, Rebecca Evans, Karen Carlisle, Janet Lengren, Helen Naess, Elizabeth Phillips, Greg Shephard, Lorraine Lydiard, Debbie Lattimore and Sarah Larkins
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1103
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  9. The underlying reasons for differences between clinical practice and systematically developed guidelines vary from one clinical problem to another. It is therefore logical to tailor strategies to support the i...

    Authors: Atle Fretheim, Andrew D Oxman, Shaun Treweek and Arild Bjørndal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2003 3:5
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  10. Risk-adjustment (RA) models are used to account for severity of illness in comparing patient outcomes across hospitals. Researchers specify covariates as main effects, but they often ignore interactions or use...

    Authors: Monika Ray, Sharon Zhao, Sheng Wang, Alex Bohl and Patrick S. Romano
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1419
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  11. Early infant diagnosis (EID) of HIV-exposed and initiation of HIV-positive infants on anti-retroviral therapy (ART) requires a well-coordinated cascade of care. Loss-to-follow-up (LTFU) can occur at multiple s...

    Authors: Lúcia Vieira, Arlete Miloque Mahumane, Manuel Napua, Falume Chale, João Luís Manuel, Jessica Greenberg Cowan, Kenneth Sherr, Rachel R. Chapman and James T. Pfeiffer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:226
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  12. Drug dispensing is a clinical pharmacy service that promotes access to medicines and their rational use. However, there is a lack of evidence for the impact of drug dispensing on patients’ health outcomes. Thu...

    Authors: Bárbara Pizetta, Lívia Gonçalves Raggi, Kérilin Stancine Santos Rocha, Sabrina Cerqueira-Santos, Divaldo Pereira de Lyra-Jr and Genival Araujo dos Santos Júnior
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:764
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  13. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR) initiated a unique instrument to audit the quality of patient notes and radiotherapy prescriptions. We present our experience collected ove...

    Authors: Bardia Taghavi Bayat, Suki Gill, Shankar Siva, Keen Hun Tai, Michael Lim Joon and Farshad Foroudi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:148
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  14. The quality of a care relationship between a client and a care professional is seen as fundamental if high-quality care is to be delivered. This study reviews studies about the determinants of the quality of t...

    Authors: Aukelien Scheffelaar, Nanne Bos, Michelle Hendriks, Sandra van Dulmen and Katrien Luijkx
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:903
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:456

  15. Quality of work life (QWL) has been found to influence the commitment of health professionals, including nurses. However, reliable information on QWL and turnover intention of primary health care (PHC) nurses ...

    Authors: Mohammed J Almalki, Gerry FitzGerald and Michele Clark
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:314
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  16. Patient engagement (PE) in hospital planning and improvement is widespread, yet we lack evidence of its impact. We aimed to identify benefits and harms that could be used to assess the impact of hospital PE.

    Authors: Natalie N Anderson, Kelly Dong, G. Ross Baker, Lesley Moody, Kerseri Scane, Robin Urquhart, Walter P Wodchis and Anna R Gagliardi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:360
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  17. Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors (PPMVs) play a major role in Nigeria’s health care delivery but regulation and monitoring of their practice needs appreciable improvement to ensure they deliver quality ...

    Authors: Abisoye S. Oyeyemi, Oladimeji Oladepo, Adedayo O. Adeyemi, Musibau A. Titiloye, Sarah M. Burnett and Iorwakwagh Apera
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:567
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  18. Patient-reported data—satisfaction, preferences, outcomes and experience—are increasingly studied to provide excellent patient-centred care. In particular, healthcare professionals need to understand whether a...

    Authors: Raffaella Gualandi, Cristina Masella, Michela Piredda, Matteo Ercoli and Daniela Tartaglini
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:347
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  19. Worldwide, the organisation of diabetes care is changing. As a result general practices and diabetes teams in hospitals are becoming part of new organisations in which multidisciplinary care programs are imple...

    Authors: Marjo JE Campmans-Kuijpers, Lidwien C Lemmens, Caroline A Baan, Kees J Gorter, Jolanda Groothuis, Klementine H van Vuure and Guy EHM Rutten
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:129
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  20. In recent years, coaching has received special attention as a method to improve healthy lifestyle behaviours. The fact that coaching has found its way into healthcare and may provide new ways of engaging the p...

    Authors: Jette Ammentorp, Lisbeth Uhrenfeldt, Flemming Angel, Martin Ehrensvärd, Ebbe B Carlsen and Poul-Erik Kofoed
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:428
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  21. Many interventions aim to improve the transition from ward to community at the time of discharge, with varying success. Guidelines suggest that discharge planning should begin at admission, but in reality this...

    Authors: Natasha Tyler, Nicola Wright, Kyriakos Gregoriou and Justin Waring
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1132
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  22. Despite significant achievements made towards HIV testing, linkage to antiretroviral therapy treatment and viral load suppression, the Sub-Saharan region of Africa continues to be reported to have the highest ...

    Authors: Nkosinothando Chamane, Ropo Ebenezer Ogunsakin and Tivani Phosa Mashamba-Thompson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:624
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  24. 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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  25. Healthcare organisations monitor patient experiences in order to evaluate and improve the quality of care. Because nurses spend a lot of time with patients, they have a major impact on patient experiences. To ...

    Authors: Renate AMM Kieft, Brigitte BJM de Brouwer, Anneke L Francke and Diana MJ Delnoij
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:249
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  26. Quality of work life is a vital factor for health care providers. This study aimed to determine the impact of the education program based on dimensions of quality of work life among emergency medical services ...

    Authors: Ali Panahi-Qoloub, Sima Zohari Anboohi, Malihe Nasiri and Parvaneh Vasli
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:260
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  27. Knowledge mobilisation is a term used in healthcare research to describe the process of generating, sharing and using evidence. ‘Co’approaches, such as co-production, co-design and co-creation, have been propo...

    Authors: Cheryl Grindell, Elizabeth Coates, Liz Croot and Alicia O’Cathain
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:877
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  28. Strengthening primary health care is critical to reducing health inequity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The Audit and Best practice for Chronic Disease Extension (ABCDE) project has facili...

    Authors: Ross Bailie, Damin Si, Cindy Shannon, James Semmens, Kevin Rowley, David J Scrimgeour, Tricia Nagel, Ian Anderson, Christine Connors, Tarun Weeramanthri, Sandra Thompson, Robyn McDermott, Hugh Burke, Elizabeth Moore, Dallas Leon, Richard Weston…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:129
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  29. With respect to patient-centered care, measuring care effects based on patient-relevant outcomes is becoming increasingly important. There is some uncertainty about what outcomes are particularly relevant to p...

    Authors: Christine Kersting, Malte Kneer and Anne Barzel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:596
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  30. The prevalence of both chronic diseases and multi-morbidity increases with longer life spans. As Australia's population ages, the aged care sector is under increasing pressure to ensure that quality aged care ...

    Authors: Yun-Hee Jeon, Nicholas J Glasgow, Teri Merlyn and Emily Sansoni
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:190
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  31. The use of routine immunization data by health care professionals in low- and middle-income countries remains an underutilized resource in decision-making. Despite the significant resources invested in develop...

    Authors: Allison L. Osterman, Jessica C. Shearer and Nicole A. Salisbury
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:672
    Content type: Research Published on:

  32. This document describes two qualitative programmatic case studies documenting experiences implementing digital financial services (DFS) for health with a focus on expanding access to universal health coverage ...

    Authors: David Randolph Wilson, Sherri Haas, Sicco Van Gelder and Regis Hitimana
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1036
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  33. Health-related millennium development goals are off track in most of the countries in the sub-Saharan African region. Lack of access to, and low utilization of essential services and high-impact interventions,...

    Authors: Michael K Mwaniki, Sonali Vaid, Isaac Mwamuye Chome, Dorcas Amolo and Youssef Tawfik
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:416
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  34. Mental illnesses are the leading cause of disability in young people, and lifestyle interventions in young people at risk of mental illness remain a priority. Opportunities to improve nutrition and physical ac...

    Authors: Tamieka Mawer, Katherine Kent, Andrew D. Williams, Courtney J. McGowan, Sandra Murray, Marie-Louise Bird, Sibella Hardcastle and Heather Bridgman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:789
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  35. Measuring and improving outcomes is a central element of value-based health care. However, selecting improvement interventions based on outcome measures is complex and tools to support the selection process ar...

    Authors: Nina Zipfel, A. Stef Groenewoud, Benno J. W. M. Rensing, Edgar J. Daeter, Lea M. Dijksman, Jan-Henk E. Dambrink, Philip J. van der Wees, Gert P. Westert and Paul B. van der Nat
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:232
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  36. Intermediate care was developed in order to bridge acute, primary and social care, primarily for elderly persons with complex care needs. Such bridging initiatives are intended to reduce hospital stays and imp...

    Authors: Thomas Plochg, Diana MJ Delnoij, Tineke F van der Kruk, Tonnie ACM Janmaat and Niek S Klazinga
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2005 5:38
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. Resource-limited countries increasingly depend on quality indicators to improve outcomes within HIV treatment programs, but indicators of program performance suitable for use at the local program level remain ...

    Authors: Aima A Ahonkhai, Ingrid V Bassett, Timothy G Ferris and Kenneth A Freedberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:427
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  38. Insight into quality of healthcare for people with Down Syndrome (DS) is limited. Quality indicators (QIs) can provide this insight. This study aims to find consensus among participants regarding QIs for healt...

    Authors: Francine A. van den Driessen Mareeuw, Antonia M. W. Coppus, Diana M. J. Delnoij and Esther de Vries
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:694
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  39. The scientific literature continues to advocate interprofessional collaboration (IPC) as a key component of primary care. It is recommended that primary care groups be created and configured to meet the health...

    Authors: Brigitte Vachon, Bruno Désorcy, Michel Camirand, Jean Rodrigue, Louise Quesnel, Claude Guimond, Martin Labelle, Johanne Fournier and Jeremy Grimshaw
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:106
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  40. This study evaluates the feasibility of a nine-month advanced quality-improvement program aimed at enhancing the quality of care provided by primary care physical therapists in the Netherlands. The evaluation ...

    Authors: LSF Smeekens, AC Verburg, MJM Maas, R van Heerde, A van Kerkhof and PJ van der Wees
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:509
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  41. Palliative care (PC) can improve the quality of life of Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients and their carers. However, the impact of PC services on patients with PD remains unclear. This research was conducted t...

    Authors: Yiping Chen, Ru Zhang, Yan Lou, Wei Li and Hui Yang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:215
    Content type: Research Published on:

  42. Indigenous peoples in Canada experience higher rates of diabetes and worse outcomes than non-Indigenous populations in Canada. Strategies are needed to address underlying health inequities and improve access t...

    Authors: Meghan Fournie, Shannon L. Sibbald and Stewart B. Harris
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:462
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  43. As many countries face primary care medical workforce shortages and find it difficult to provide timely and affordable care they seek to find new ways of delivering first point of contact health care through d...

    Authors: Rhian M Parker, Jane L Desborough and Laura E Forrest
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:382
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Public–private partnerships (PPP) are often how health improvement programs are implemented in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). We therefore aimed to systematically review the literature about the aim ...

    Authors: Cassandra B. Iroz, Rohit Ramaswamy, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta and Paul Barach
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:332
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  45. Gynecological malignant patients often have significant psychological and physical problems. The feasibility and generalizability of traditional intervention method is low due to the high time and labor cost, ...

    Authors: Liyuan Sun, Yanling Tao, Shening Zhu and Ke Liu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1052
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  46. Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is a high impact, low technology and cost-effective intervention for the care of preterm and low birth weight newborn. Cote d’Ivoire adopted the intervention and opened the first KMC...

    Authors: Kadidiatou Raïssa Kourouma, Marie Laurette Agbré-Yacé, Daouda Doukouré, Lassina Cissé, Chantière Some-Méazieu, Joseph Ouattara, Akoua Tano-Kamelan and Virginie Konan Kouakou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1211
    Content type: Research Published on:

  47. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive and disabling lung condition with a high mortality. Our research has shown that health care for end-of-life COPD is poorly integrated. The aim of t...

    Authors: Amanda Landers, Suzanne G. Pitama, Suetonia C. Palmer and Lutz Beckert
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1443
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  48. Private small-sized care homes (<50 beds)  have proliferated across China, however, until recently little was known about the characteristics of such institutions, and the challenges and the problems faced by ...

    Authors: Zhang Xiuxiang, Xia Qinghua, Jennifer K. Quint, Ann D. Morgan, Brendan McCormack and Xiubin Zhang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1069
    Content type: Research Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1262

  49. Using patient audio recordings of medical visits to provide clinicians with feedback on their attention to patient life context in care planning can improve health care delivery and outcomes, and reduce costs....

    Authors: Sherry L. Ball, Saul J. Weiner, Alan Schwartz, Lisa Altman, Amy Binns-Calvey, Carolyn Chan, Corinna Falck-Ytter, Meghana Frenchman, Bryan Gee, Jeffrey L. Jackson, Neil Jordan, Benjamin Kass, Brendan Kelly, Nasia Safdar, Cecilia Scholcoff, Gunjan Sharma…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:891
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  50. Collaborative approaches in quality improvement have been promoted since the introduction of the Breakthrough method. The effectiveness of this method is inconclusive and further independent evaluation of the ...

    Authors: Mireille van den Berg, Rianne Frenken and Roland Bal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:175
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:
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