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  1. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and return to work are important outcomes in critical care medicine, reaching beyond mortality. Little is known on factors predictive of HRQoL and return to work in criti...

    Authors: Susanne Brandstetter, Frank Dodoo-Schittko, Sebastian Blecha, Philipp Sebök, Kathrin Thomann-Hackner, Michael Quintel, Steffen Weber-Carstens, Thomas Bein and Christian Apfelbacher
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:563
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  2. Health systems could obtain substantial cost savings by providing safe abortion care rather than providing expensive treatment for complications of unsafely performed abortions. This study estimates current he...

    Authors: Janie Benson, Hailemichael Gebreselassie, Maribel Amor Mañibo, Keris Raisanen, Heidi Bart Johnston, Chisale Mhango and Brooke A. Levandowski
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:562
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  3. In order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 4 and 5, the Chinese Government has invested greatly in improving maternal and child health (MCH) with impressive results. However, one of the most im...

    Authors: Zhenghong Ren, Peige Song, Evropi Theodoratou, Sufang Guo and Lin An
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:561
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  4. Health promotion has the potential to empower people to develop or maintain healthy lifestyles. However, previous research has visualised serious health and healthcare inequities associated with ageing, cultur...

    Authors: Qarin Lood, Greta Häggblom-Kronlöf and Synneve Dahlin-Ivanoff
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:560
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  5. Patient portals may lead to enhanced disease management, health plan retention, changes in channel utilization, and lower environmental waste. However, despite growing research on patient portals and their eff...

    Authors: Terese Otte-Trojel, Thomas G. Rundall, Antoinette de Bont, Joris van de Klundert and Mary E. Reed
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:559
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  6. During treatment of patients with Chronic Diseases (CD) the therapist-patient interaction is often intense, and the strategies used during treatment require physiotherapists to assume a coaching role. Uncoveri...

    Authors: Elisah Margretha Buining, Margit K. Kooijman, Ilse C. S. Swinkels, Martijn F. Pisters and Cindy Veenhof
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:558
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  8. Variations in the performance of healthcare organizations may be partly explained by differing “stocks” of intellectual capital (IC), and differing approaches and capacities for leveraging IC. This study synth...

    Authors: Jenna M. Evans, Adalsteinn Brown and G. Ross Baker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:556
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  9. Effective Prevention of Mother to child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) relies heavily on follow-up of HIV-infected women and infants from antenatal, through postnatal, to the end of the breastfeeding period. In U...

    Authors: Zikulah Namukwaya, Linda Barlow-Mosha, Peter Mudiope, Adeodata Kekitiinwa, Joyce Namale Matovu, Ezra Musingye, Jane Ntongo Ssebaggala, Teopista Nakyanzi, Jubilee John Abwooli, Dorothy Mirembe, Juliane Etima, Edward Bitarakwate, Mary Glenn Fowler and Philippa Martha Musoke
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:555
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  10. Previous studies in the US and Canada, have shown the positive impact of early palliative care programs for advanced cancer patients on quality of life (QoL) and even survival time. There has been a lack of si...

    Authors: Gaëlle Vanbutsele, Simon Van Belle, Martine De Laat, Veerle Surmont, Karen Geboes, Kim Eecloo, Koen Pardon and Luc Deliens
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:554
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  11. In order to improve recruitment of patients to the Norwegian diabetes register for adults, a questionnaire was designed to collect data directly from patients. The main aim of this study was to assess the agre...

    Authors: Karianne Fjeld Løvaas, John G. Cooper, Sverre Sandberg, Thomas Røraas and Geir Thue
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:553
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  12. Worldwide cervical cancer is one of the more common forms of carcinoma among women, causing high morbidity and high mortality. Despite being a major health problem in Tanzania, screening services for cervical ...

    Authors: Neema Minja Kileo, Denna Michael, Nyasule Majura Neke and Candida Moshiro
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:552
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  13. It is well established that health consumer opinions should be considered in the design, delivery, and evaluation of health services. However, the opinions of people with chronic conditions and their carers an...

    Authors: Adem Sav, Sara S. McMillan, Fiona Kelly, Michelle A. King, Jennifer A. Whitty, Elizabeth Kendall and Amanda J. Wheeler
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:551
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  14. The core objective of any point-of-care (POC) testing program is to ensure that testing will result in an actionable management decision (e.g. referral, confirmatory test, treatment), within the same clinical ...

    Authors: Nora Engel, Gayatri Ganesh, Mamata Patil, Vijayashree Yellappa, Caroline Vadnais, Nitika Pant Pai and Madhukar Pai
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:550
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  15. Back pain is one of the most expensive health complaints. Comparing the economic aspects of back pain interventions may therefore contribute to a more efficient use of available resources. This study reports o...

    Authors: Marielle E. J. B. Goossens, Reina J. A. de Kinderen, Maaike Leeuw, Jeroen R. de Jong, Joop Ruijgrok, Silvia M. A. A. Evers and Johan W. S. Vlaeyen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:549
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  16. Patient safety is a national and international priority with medication safety earmarked as both a prevalent and high-risk area of concern. To date, medication safety research has focused overwhelmingly on ins...

    Authors: Ariella Lang, Marilyn Macdonald, Patricia Marck, Lynn Toon, Melissa Griffin, Tony Easty, Kimberly Fraser, Neil MacKinnon, Jonathan Mitchell, Eddy Lang and Sharon Goodwin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:548
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  17. Evidence-based public health gives public health practitioners the tools they need to make choices based on the best and most current evidence. An evidence-based public health training course developed in 1997...

    Authors: Laura Yarber, Carol A. Brownson, Rebekah R. Jacob, Elizabeth A. Baker, Ellen Jones, Carsten Baumann, Anjali D. Deshpande, Kathleen N. Gillespie, Darcell P. Scharff and Ross C. Brownson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:547
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  18. The UK National Health Service Health Checks programme aims to reduce avoidable cardiovascular deaths, disability and health inequalities in England. However, due to the reported lower uptake of screening in s...

    Authors: Ruth Riley, Nikki Coghill, Alan Montgomery, Gene Feder and Jeremy Horwood
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:546
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  19. Total costs associated with care for older people nearing the end of life and the cost variations related with end of life care decisions are not well documented in the literature. Healthcare utilisation and a...

    Authors: Billingsley Kaambwa, Julie Ratcliffe, Sandra L. Bradley, Stacey Masters, Owen Davies, Craig Whitehead, Catherine Milte, Ian D. Cameron, Tracey Young, Jason Gordon and Maria Crotty
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:545
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  20. Despite research demonstrating the potential effectiveness of Telehomecare for people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Heart Failure, broad-scale comprehensive evaluations are lacking. This artic...

    Authors: Gemma Hunting, Nida Shahid, Yeva Sahakyan, Iris Fan, Crystal R. Moneypenny, Aleksandra Stanimirovic, Taylor North, Yelena Petrosyan, Murray D. Krahn and Valeria E. Rac
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:544
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  21. Low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) have difficulties achieving universal financial protection, which is primordial for universal health coverage. A promising avenue to provide universal financial p...

    Authors: Esther F. Adebayo, Olalekan A. Uthman, Charles S. Wiysonge, Erin A. Stern, Kim T. Lamont and John E. Ataguba
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:543
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  22. Despite the substantially high prevalence of depression, suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among Asian American women who are children of immigrants, little is known about the prevalence of mental health ...

    Authors: Astraea Augsberger, Albert Yeung, Meaghan Dougher and Hyeouk Chris Hahm
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:542
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  23. Increases in population and life expectancy of Americans may result in shortages of endocrinologists by 2020. This study aims to assess variations in geographic accessibility to endocrinologists in the US, by ...

    Authors: Hua Lu, James B. Holt, Yiling J. Cheng, Xingyou Zhang, Stephen Onufrak and Janet B. Croft
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:541
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  24. Online sexual health services are an emerging area of service delivery. Theory of change critically analyses programmes by specifying planned inputs and articulating the causal pathways that link these to anti...

    Authors: Paula Baraitser, Jonathan Syred, Vicki Spencer-Hughes, Chris Howroyd, Caroline Free and Gillian Holdsworth
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:540
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  25. Enhancing accountability in health systems is increasingly emphasised as crucial for improving the nature and quality of health service delivery worldwide and particularly in developing countries. Accountabili...

    Authors: Martin Atela, Pauline Bakibinga, Remare Ettarh, Catherine Kyobutungi and Simon Cohn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:539
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  26. The level of patient safety and outcomes accomplished depends on the quality of care provided. Previous studies found that nurse-to-patient ratio, practice environment, and nursing education were significant p...

    Authors: Janita P. C. Chau, Suzanne H. S. Lo, K. C. Choi, Eric L. S. Chan, Matthew D. McHugh, Danny W. K. Tong, Angela M. L. Kwok, W. Y. Ip, Iris F. K. Lee and Diana T. F. Lee
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:538
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  27. There is limited information about health care utilisation at the end of life for people in Australia. We describe acute hospital-based services utilisation during the last year of life for all adults (aged 18...

    Authors: David E. Goldsbury, Dianne L. O’Connell, Afaf Girgis, Anne Wilkinson, Jane L. Phillips, Patricia M. Davidson and Jane M. Ingham
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:537
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  28. Service Provision Assessment (SPA) surveys have been conducted to gauge primary health care and family planning clinical readiness throughout East and South Asia as well as sub-Saharan Africa. Intended to prov...

    Authors: Elizabeth F. Jackson, Ayesha Siddiqui, Hialy Gutierrez, Almamy Malick Kanté, Judy Austin and James F. Phillips
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:536
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  29. Many healthcare innovations are not sustained over the long term, wasting costly implementation efforts and often desperately-needed initial improvements. Although there have been advances in knowledge about i...

    Authors: Andrea R. Fleiszer, Sonia E. Semenic, Judith A. Ritchie, Marie-Claire Richer and Jean-Louis Denis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:535
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  30. The Princess Alexandra Hospital Telehealth Centre (PAH-TC) is a project jointly funded by the Australian national government and Queensland Health. It seeks to provide a whole-of-hospital telehealth service us...

    Authors: Melinda Martin-Khan, Farhad Fatehi, Marina Kezilas, Karen Lucas, Leonard C. Gray and Anthony C. Smith
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:534
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  31. Clinical trials supporting the use of therapeutic hypothermia (TH) in the treatment of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) are based on small patient samples and do not reflect the wide variation in patient ...

    Authors: Derek DeLia, Henry E. Wang, Jared Kutzin, Mark Merlin, Jose Nova, Kristen Lloyd and Joel C. Cantor
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:533
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  33. To investigate the average and extrapolated excess length of stay and direct costs of adverse events (AEs) and preventable AEs in Dutch hospitals, and to evaluate patient characteristics associated with excess...

    Authors: Janneke Hoogervorst-Schilp, Maaike Langelaan, Peter Spreeuwenberg, Martine C. de Bruijne and Cordula Wagner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:531
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  35. Adoption of telehealth has been slower than anticipated, and little is known about the service improvements that help to embed telehealth into routine practice or the role of frontline staff in improving adopt...

    Authors: Johanna Taylor, Elizabeth Coates, Bridgette Wessels, Gail Mountain and Mark S. Hawley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:529
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  36. Rotavirus has been identified as the most common pathogen associated with severe diarrhoea. Two effective vaccines against the pathogen have been licensed. However, many countries including Indonesia have yet ...

    Authors: Holly Seale, Mei Neni Sitaresmi, Jarir Atthobari, Anita E. Heywood, Rajneesh Kaur, Raina C. MacIntyre, Yati Soenarto and Retna Siwi Padmawati
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:528
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  37. Decentralization of ART services scaled up significantly with the country wide roll out of option B plus in Uganda. Little work has been undertaken to examine population level access to HIV care particularly i...

    Authors: G. Abongomera, S. Kiwuwa-Muyingo, P. Revill, L. Chiwaula, T. Mabugu, A. Phillips, E. Katabira, V. Musiime, C. Gilks, A. Chan, J. Hakim, R. Colebunders, C. Kityo, D. M. Gibb, J. Seeley and D. Ford
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:527
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  38. Occupational medicine has shifted emphasis from disease treatment to disability rehabilitation and management. Hence, newly developed occupational rehabilitation programs are often generic and multicomponent, ...

    Authors: Marit B. Rise, Sigmund Ø. Gismervik, Roar Johnsen and Marius S. Fimland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:526
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  39. Increasing demand for hospital services by older people is a major concern for Australian health care providers. To date there has been little in-depth research that encompasses contextual and systems factors ...

    Authors: Richard L. Reed, Linda Isherwood and David Ben-Tovim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:525
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  40. An increasing number of short-term medical missions (STMMs) are being dispatched to provide humanitarian healthcare; however, extensive investigations on how recipient patients perceive STMMs are lacking. The ...

    Authors: Yi-Hao Weng, Hung-Yi Chiou, Chi-Cheng Tu, Say-Tsung Liao, Patience Thulile Bhembe, Chun-Yuh Yang and Ya-Wen Chiu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:524
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  41. Although the research in health seeking behavior has been evolving, its concept remains ambiguous. Concept clarification, as a central basis of developing knowledge, plays an undeniable role in the formation o...

    Authors: Sarieh Poortaghi, Afsaneh Raiesifar, Parisa Bozorgzad, Samad E. J. Golzari, Soroor Parvizy and Forough Rafii
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:523
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  42. South Africa has proposed the implementation of a maximum logistics fee paid by pharmaceutical manufacturers to wholesalers and distributors. However very little knowledge exists of the effects, unintended or ...

    Authors: Varsha Bangalee and Fatima Suleman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:522
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  43. Despite the high burden of cardiovascular diseases in Arab countries, little is known about cardiac rehabilitation (CR) delivery. This study assessed availability, and CR program characteristics in the Arab Wo...

    Authors: Karam I. Turk-Adawi, Carmen Terzic, Birna Bjarnason-Wehrens and Sherry L. Grace
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:521
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  44. Male circumcision (MC) reduces the risk of female-to-male transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). MC has not been practiced as a disease prevention measure in Thailand probably be...

    Authors: Kriengkrai Srithanaviboonchai, Boonlure Pruenglampoo, Kanittha Thaikla, Namtip Srirak, Jiraporn Suwanteerangkul, Jiraporn Khorana, Richard M. Grimes, Deanna E. Grimes, Vipa Danthamrongkul, Suchada Paileeklee and Uraiwan Pattanasutnyavong
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:520
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  45. With a pending need to identify potential means to improved quality of care, national quality registries (NQRs) are identified as a promising route. Yet, there is limited evidence with regards to what hinders ...

    Authors: Ann Catrine Eldh, Mio Fredriksson, Sofie Vengberg, Christina Halford, Lars Wallin, Tobias Dahlström and Ulrika Winblad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:519
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  46. Patient financial burden with chronic disease poses significant health risks, yet it remains outside the scope of clinical visits. Little is known about how physicians perceive their patients’ health-related f...

    Authors: Minal R. Patel, Khooshbu S. Shah and Meagan L. Shallcross
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:518
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  47. Even though Swedish national guidelines for stroke care (SNGSC) have been accessible for nearly a decade access to stroke rehabilitation in out-patient health care vary considerably. In order to aid future int...

    Authors: Susanne Palmcrantz, Malin Tistad, Ann Catrine Eldh, Lotta Widén Holmqvist, Anna Ehrenberg, Göran Tomson, Christina B. Olsson and Lars Wallin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:517
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  48. Poor adherence to medication regimens increases adverse outcomes for patients with Type 2 diabetes. Improving medication adherence is a growing priority for clinicians and health care systems. We examine the d...

    Authors: Francesca Brundisini, Meredith Vanstone, Danielle Hulan, Deirdre DeJean and Mita Giacomini
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:516
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  49. In fiscal year (FY) 2008, 133,658 patients were provided services within substance use disorders treatment programs (SUDTPs) in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system. To improve the e...

    Authors: Jinwoo J. Im, Ross D. Shachter, John W. Finney and Jodie A. Trafton
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:515
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  50. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with the highest maternal mortality ratio estimated at 846 deaths per 100,000 live births. Innovative strategies such as socia...

    Authors: Eric M. Mafuta, Marjolein A. Dieleman, Lisanne M. Hogema, Paul N. Khomba, François M. Zioko, Patrick K. Kayembe, Tjard de Cock Buning and Thérèse N. M. Mambu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:514
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