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  1. The Chronic Dispensing Unit (CDU) is an out-sourced, public sector centralised dispensing service that has been operational in the Western Cape Province in South Africa since 2005. The CDU dispenses medicines ...

    Authors: Bvudzai Priscilla Magadzire, Bruno Marchal and Kim Ward
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:513
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  2. Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the world’s leading cause of death and their prevalence is rising. Diabetes and hypertension, major risk factors for CVD, are highly prevalent among the urban poor in Africa, ...

    Authors: Marie E. Werner, Steven van de Vijver, Mildred Adhiambo, Thaddaeus Egondi, Samuel O. Oti and Catherine Kyobutungi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:512
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  3. School-located vaccination against influenza (SLV-I) has the potential to improve current suboptimal influenza immunization coverage for U.S. school-aged children. However, little is known about SLV-I’s cost-e...

    Authors: Byung-Kwang Yoo, Sharon G. Humiston, Peter G. Szilagyi, Stanley J. Schaffer, Christine Long and Maureen Kolasa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:511
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  4. Health care organizations need to be responsive to the needs of increasingly diverse patient populations. We compared the contents of six publicly available approaches to organizational responsiveness to diver...

    Authors: Conny Seeleman, Marie-Louise Essink-Bot, Karien Stronks and David Ingleby
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:510
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  5. The prevalence and impact of musculoskeletal conditions are predicted to rapidly escalate in the coming decades. Effective strategies are required to minimise ‘evidence-practice’, ‘burden-policy’ and ‘burden-s...

    Authors: Andrew M. Briggs, Joanne E. Jordan, Robyn Speerin, Matthew Jennings, Peter Bragge, Jason Chua and Helen Slater
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:509
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  7. Death certificates (DC) are one of the most important medico-legal documents that physicians work through. DCs are extensively used in health statistics for epidemiological studies, and in health policy planni...

    Authors: Leison Maharjan, Aarzoo Shah, Khagendra Bahadur Shrestha and Gambhir Shrestha
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:507
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  9. Current German or UK package leaflets do not contain an explicit notice that the listing of side effects does not imply that they are caused by the drug. Causal interpretations by patients and lay people are f...

    Authors: Viktoria Mühlbauer and Ingrid Mühlhauser
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:505
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  10. There are three major models of primary care providers (Community Health Centers, CHCs) in China, i.e., government managed, hospital managed and privately owned CHCs. We performed a systematic review of struct...

    Authors: Haitao Li, Dongfu Qian, Sian Griffiths, Roger Yat-nork Chung and Xiaolin Wei
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:504
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  11. Clinical practice guidelines aim to enhance patient safety by reducing inappropriate variations in practice. Despite considerable efforts to enhance the use of clinical practice guidelines, adherence is often ...

    Authors: Karin Nilsson, Christina Juthberg, Johan Söderberg, Karin Bölenius, Kjell Grankvist, Christine Brulin and Marie Lindkvist
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:503
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  12. Research on inequities in access to health care among asylum-seekers has focused on disparities between asylum-seekers and resident populations, but little attention has been paid to potential inequities in acces...

    Authors: Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Christine Schneider and Stefanie Joos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:502
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  13. There is increasing interest in the role of close-to-community providers in supporting universal health coverage, but questions remain about the best approaches to supporting and motivating these providers, an...

    Authors: Daniel G. Datiko, Mohammed A. Yassin, Olivia Tulloch, Girum Asnake, Tadesse Tesema, Habiba Jamal, Paulos Markos, Luis E. Cuevas and Sally Theobald
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:501
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  14. School screening programs for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) have been discontinued in Canada and elsewhere because they were not considered cost-effective. In communities lacking such programs, we expe...

    Authors: Marie Beauséjour, Lise Goulet, Debbie Ehrmann Feldman, Roxane Borgès Da Silva, Raynald Pineault, Michel Rossignol, Marjolaine Roy-Beaudry and Hubert Labelle
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:500
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  15. From 2010 to 2014, approximately 2 million Pap smears from HIV-infected women were submitted to the South African National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) through the national cervical cancer screening progr...

    Authors: Kathryn Schnippel, Pamela Michelow, Carla J. Chibwesha, Caroline Makura, Naomi Lince-Deroche, Bridgette Goeieman, Masangu Mulongo, Suzette Jordaan and Cynthia Firnhaber
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:499
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  16. Over the last decade, actions following some adverse drug events received major publicity. This study investigated changes in usage patterns of medications in Australia following two examples - rofecoxib marke...

    Authors: Nadia Barozzi, GMEE Geeske Peeters and Susan E. Tett
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:498
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  17. In Mali, where rates of attendance at healthcare facilities remain far below what is needed, three user fee exemption policies were instituted to promote access to care. These related to HIV/AIDS treatment, as...

    Authors: Laurence Touré
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15(Suppl 3):S8
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 3

  18. The use of mixed methods (combining quantitative and qualitative data) is developing in a variety of forms, especially in the health field. Our own research has adopted this perspective from the outset. We hav...

    Authors: Valéry Ridde and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15(Suppl 3):S7
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 3

  19. This article analyzes the historical background of the institutionalization of user fees and their subsequent abolition in West Africa. Based on a narrative review, we present the context that frames the diffe...

    Authors: Valéry Ridde
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15(Suppl 3):S6
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 3

  20. Free healthcare obviously works when a partner from abroad supplies a health centre or a health district with medicines and funding on a regular basis, provides medical, administrative and managerial training,...

    Authors: Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, Aïssa Diarra, Félix Yaouaga Koné, Maurice Yaogo and Roger Zerbo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15(Suppl 3):S5
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 3

  21. Our research programme on fee exemption policies in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger involved sensitive topics with strong ideological and political connotations for the decision-makers, for health-workers, and fo...

    Authors: Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15(Suppl 3):S4
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 3

  22. This research on user fee removal in three African countries is located at the interface of public policy analysis and health systems research. Public policy analysis has gradually become a vast and multifacet...

    Authors: Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan and Valéry Ridde
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15(Suppl 3):S3
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 3

  23. During the last ten years, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have opted for selective user fee exemption policies, while remaining within the general framework of cost recovery. But they have each developed their o...

    Authors: Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan and Valéry Ridde
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15(Suppl 3):S2
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 3

  24. When user fee exemptions were introduced for children under five years of age in Niger, front-line staff in the health system were not consulted in advance, and various obstacles seriously hindered the policy'...

    Authors: Aïssa Diarra and Abdoulaye Ousseini
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15(Suppl 3):S1
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 3

  26. Clinical networks have been established to improve patient outcomes and processes of care by implementing a range of innovations and undertaking projects based on the needs of local health services. Given the ...

    Authors: Elizabeth McInnes, Mary Haines, Amanda Dominello, Deanna Kalucy, Asmara Jammali-Blasi, Sandy Middleton and Emily Klineberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:497
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  27. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic, progressive condition where the primary treatment goal is to maintain control of glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c). In order for healthcare decision makers to ensure pa...

    Authors: M. Charokopou, P. McEwan, S. Lister, L. Callan, K. Bergenheim, K. Tolley, R. Postema, R. Townsend and M. Roudaut
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:496
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  28. Point-of-care (POC) screening for HIV and syphilis using rapid testing was implemented in indigenous communities in the triple-border area of the Brazilian Amazon. We describe the context of the early introduc...

    Authors: Carole Zen Ruffinen, Meritxell Sabidó, Ximena Pamela Díaz-Bermúdez, Marcus Lacerda, David Mabey, Rosanna W. Peeling and Adele Schwartz Benzaken
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:495
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  29. Patients with chronic conditions and multiple comorbidities represent a growing challenge for health care globally. Improved coordination of care is considered essential for providing more effective and cost-e...

    Authors: Fiona Webster, Onil Bhattacharyya, Aileen Davis, Rick Glazier, Joel Katz, Paul Krueger, Ross Upshur, Albert Yee and Lynn Wilson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:494
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  31. Self-rated health is a subjective measure that has been related to indicators such as mortality, morbidity, functional capacity, and the use of health services. In Spain, there are few longitudinal studies ass...

    Authors: Nayara Tamayo-Fonseca, Andreu Nolasco, Jose A. Quesada, Pamela Pereyra-Zamora, Inmaculada Melchor, Joaquin Moncho, Julia Calabuig and Carmen Barona
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:492
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  32. This paper critically reviews published tools and indicators currently used to measure maternity care performance within Europe, focusing particularly on whether and how current approaches enable systematic ap...

    Authors: Ramón Escuriet, Joanna White, Katrien Beeckman, Lucy Frith, Fatima Leon-Larios, Christine Loytved, Ans Luyben, Marlene Sinclair and Edwin van Teijlingen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:491
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  33. Despite an increase in mental health innovations designed to increase service user and carer involvement in services, there is evidence that service users and carers are still relatively marginalised. This stu...

    Authors: Helen Brooks, Caroline Sanders, Karina Lovell, Claire Fraser and Anne Rogers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:490
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  34. Private health insurance in South Korea mainly functions as supplementary and complementary health insurance that compensates for insufficient coverage by National Health Insurance. However, full private cover...

    Authors: Young Choi, Jae-Hyun Kim, Ki-Bong Yoo, Kyoung Hee Cho, Jae-Woo Choi, Tae Hoon Lee, Woorim Kim and Eun-Cheol Park
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:489
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  35. Although new molecular diagnostic tests such as GenoType MTBDRplus and Xpert® MTB/RIF have reduced multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment initiation times, patients’ experiences of diagnosis and trea...

    Authors: Pren Naidoo, Margaret van Niekerk, Elizabeth du Toit, Nulda Beyers and Natalie Leon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:488
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  36. Patients often wait to have urgent or emergency surgery. The number of operating rooms (ORs) needed to minimize waiting time while optimizing resources can be determined using queuing theory and computer simul...

    Authors: Joseph M. O’Brien Antognini, Joseph F. Antognini and Vijay Khatri
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:487
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  37. As economic considerations become more important in healthcare reimbursement, decisions about the further development of medical innovations need to take into account not only medical need and potential clinic...

    Authors: Alina Brandes, Moritz F. Sinner, Stefan Kääb and Wolf H. Rogowski
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:486
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  38. Pulse oximetry could potentially contribute to self-monitoring. NHS Lothian’s ‘Light Touch’ service provided COPD patients with a self-management plan based on symptoms and oximetry. The service was overseen (...

    Authors: Michele MacNab, Siew Hwa Lee, Lucy McCloughan, Janet Hanley, Brian McKinstry and Hilary Pinnock
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:485
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  39. Although hemophilia has a potentially high economic impact, there are no published estimates of healthcare costs for this disease in Portugal. The aim of this study was to evaluate costs of treatment and hospi...

    Authors: Patrícia Rocha, Manuela Carvalho, Manuela Lopes and Fernando Araújo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:484
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  40. Diabetes mellitus is a public health challenge worldwide, and roughly 25 % of patients with diabetes in developing countries will develop at least one foot ulcer during their lifetime. The gravest outcome of a...

    Authors: María Kathia Cárdenas, Andrew J. Mirelman, Cooper J. Galvin, María Lazo-Porras, Miguel Pinto, J. Jaime Miranda and Robert H. Gilman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:483
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  41. The existence and magnitude of socio-economic inequalities in health-seeking behaviours for child curative care in Egypt and mechanisms underlying these associations have not been comprehensively assessed. Thi...

    Authors: Lenka Benova, Oona M. R. Campbell and George B. Ploubidis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:482
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  42. There is little evidence as to why or why not insurees decide to seek medical services. Steps prior to the entry of the insuree into the professional health care system have not been sufficiently examined and ...

    Authors: Julia Eckert, Marcel Lichters, Silke Piedmont, Bodo Vogt and Bernt-Peter Robra
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:481
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  43. The national strategy for treatment of chronic diseases - including MS - and changes in the Swedish welfare system, call for analyses of the use of, and patient satisfaction with, care in a long-term perspecti...

    Authors: Charlotte Chruzander, Sverker Johansson, Kristina Gottberg, Ulrika Einarsson, Jan Hillert, Lotta Widén Holmqvist and Charlotte Ytterberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:480
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  44. Over the past two decades, mental health reform in Australia has received unprecedented government attention. This study explored how five policy levers (organisation, regulation, community education, finance ...

    Authors: Francesca C. Grace, Carla S. Meurk, Brian W. Head, Wayne D. Hall, Georgia Carstensen, Meredith G. Harris and Harvey A. Whiteford
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:479
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  45. As the overwhelming surgical burden of injury and disease steadily increases, disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries, adequate surgical and trauma care systems are essential. Yet, little...

    Authors: Marquise Kouo-Ngamby, Fanny Nadia Dissak-Delon, Isabelle Feldhaus, Catherine Juillard, Kent A. Stevens and Martin Ekeke-Monono
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:478
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  46. Overall, men are less likely than women to seek health care services for mental health problems, but differences between genders in higher age groups are equivocal. The aim of the current study was to investig...

    Authors: Anne Helen Hansen and Anne Høye
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:477
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  47. Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global public health problem which affects poorest individuals the worst. A high proportion of patients incur ‘catastrophic costs’ which have been shown to result in severe financi...

    Authors: Jason Madan, Knut Lönnroth, Samia Laokri and Stephen Bertel Squire
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:476
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  48. Patient participation is an important aspect of healthcare quality and may be one way to improve the quality of transitional care for older patients. Research reveals minimal awareness about patient participat...

    Authors: Dagrunn Nåden Dyrstad, Ingelin Testad and Marianne Storm
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:475
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  49. Although chiropractors in the United States (US) have long suggested that their approach to managing spine pain is less costly than other health care providers (HCPs), it is unclear if available evidence suppo...

    Authors: Simon Dagenais, O’Dane Brady, Scott Haldeman and Pran Manga
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:474
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  50. In the last decade, almost every low- or middle-income country in the world has expressed support for universal health coverage (UHC). While at the beginning of the UHC movement, country strategies focused on ...

    Authors: Sarah Alkenbrack, Kara Hanson and Magnus Lindelow
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:473
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