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  1. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use - of which naturopathy constitutes a significant proportion - accounts for approximately half of all health consultations and half of out-of-pocket expenditure ...

    Authors: Jon L Wardle, Jon Adams and Chi-Wai Lui
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:185
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  2. In spite of the successes of the community-based health planning and services (CHPS) policy since its inception in the mid-1990s in Ghana, data pertaining to the implementation and use of CHPS facilities in Se...

    Authors: Abraham D. Koyaara, Benjamin Noble Adjei, Eric Adjei Boadu and Edward T. Dassah
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:742
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  3. Many risk factors impact the health of hospital night workers, which can lead to physical and mental health disorders. During the recent period, night hospital workers have been particularly stressed. This stu...

    Authors: Lorraine Cousin Cabrolier, Vincent Di Beo, Fabienne Marcellin, Olivia Rousset Torrente, Véronique Mahe, José Maria Valderas, Olivier Chassany, Patrizia Maria Carrieri and Martin Duracinsky
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:187
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  4. Provider-Initiated HIV Testing and Counseling (PITC) and Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission (PMTCT) are key services for achieving the goal of complete elimination of HIV. However, there is limited evi...

    Authors: Lucresse Corine Fassinou, Hervé Hien, Jean Cyr Yombi, Nicolas Nagot and Fati Kirakoya-Samadoulougou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:757
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  5. Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is an important public health issue in Nepal. Despite the availability of retinal services, people may not access them because of the lack of knowledge about DR and poor referral syst...

    Authors: Ruchi Shrestha, Prerana Singh, Parami Dhakwa, Shailaja Tetali, Tripura Batchu, Pragati Shrestha Thapa, Varun Agiwal and Hira Pant
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:126
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  6. There is widespread interest in measuring healthcare provider attitudes about issues relevant to patient safety (often called safety climate or safety culture). Here we report the psychometric properties, esta...

    Authors: John B Sexton, Robert L Helmreich, Torsten B Neilands, Kathy Rowan, Keryn Vella, James Boyden, Peter R Roberts and Eric J Thomas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2006 6:44
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  7. Hospitals, as complex organizations with clinical, financial, and social functions, face different barriers to providing high-quality and safe services at reasonable costs. Various initiatives have been carrie...

    Authors: Mohammad Ali Jalilvand, Ahmad Reza Raeisi and Nasrin Shaarbafchizadeh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:47
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  8. Hospital clinical pharmacists have been working in many countries for many years and clinical pharmaceutical care have a positive effect on the recovery of patients. In order to evaluate the clinical effective...

    Authors: Guohua Lin, Rong Huang, Jing Zhang, Gaojie Li, Lei Chen and Xiaoyu Xi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:487
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  9. The purpose of this study is to identify which variables –among those commonly available and used in the primary care setting– best predict mortality in a cohort of elderly dependent patients living at home (E...

    Authors: Joan Gené Badia, Alícia Borràs Santos, Joan Carles Contel Segura, Carlos Ascaso Terén, Laura Corredoira González, Ester Limón Ramírez and Pedro Gallo de Puelles
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:316
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  10. Changes in demographics with an older population, the illness panorama with increasing prevalence of non-communicable diseases, and the shift from hospital care to home-based care place demand on primary healt...

    Authors: Mats Eriksson, Karin Blomberg, Eva Arvidsson, Esther Van Poel, Sara Ares-Blanco, Maria Pilar Astier-Peña, Claire Collins, Jonila Gabrani, Neophytos Stylianou, Victoria Tkachenko and Sara Willems
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:737
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  11. Over the past two decades, Tanzania’s burden of non-communicable diseases has grown disproportionately, but limited resources are still prioritized. A trained human resource for health is urgently needed to co...

    Authors: Peter Karoli, Mary Mayige, Gibson Kagaruki, Amani Mori, Edgar Macha, Reuben Mutagaywa, Arafa Momba, Harrieth Peter, Ritha Willilo, Pilly Chillo, Aidan Banduka, Bruno Sunguya, Kaushik Ramaiya, Edna Majaliwa, Stella Malangahe, Renatus Nyarubamba…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:612
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  12. To investigate factors associated with involuntary admissions to hospital pursuant to a social services act of patients with substance use disorder by comparing the socio-demographic characteristics, substance...

    Authors: Anne Opsal, Øistein Kristensen, Tor K Larsen, Gro Syversen, Bakke Elise Aasen Rudshaug, Arne Gerdner and Thomas Clausen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:57
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  13. Social disparities in healthcare persist in the US despite the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. We investigated the causal impact of socioeconomic status on the quality of care in a setting...

    Authors: Hoyune E. Cho, Lu Wang, Jung-Sheng Chen, Mochuan Liu, Chang-Fu Kuo and Kevin C. Chung
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:987
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  14. Adherence to complex drug regimens and polypharmacy are among the challenges of old age, which may negatively affect their motivation to continue drug therapy or lead to incorrect drug consumption. The present...

    Authors: Hossein Poorcheraghi, Reza Negarandeh, Shahzad Pashaeypoor and Javad Jorian
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1192
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  15. It is anticipated that demands on ambulatory HIV services will increase in coming years as a consequence of the increased life expectancy of HIV patients on highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART). Accur...

    Authors: Aline Brennan, Arthur Jackson, Mary Horgan, Colm J Bergin and John P Browne
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:139
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  16. Patient satisfaction studies have explored domains of patient satisfaction, the determinants of domains, and score differences of domains by patient/hospital structural measures but reports on the structure of...

    Authors: Masumi Okuda, Akira Yasuda and Shusaku Tsumoto
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:63
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  17. Evidence-based practice (EBP) is emphasized to increase the quality of care and patient safety. EBP is often described as a process consisting of distinct activities including, formulating questions, searching...

    Authors: Anne-Marie Boström, Ann Rudman, Anna Ehrenberg, Jens Petter Gustavsson and Lars Wallin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:165
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  18. Opioid substitution treatment (OST) populations are aging and have increased mortality and somatic morbidity compared to general populations internationally. While OST patients have poor self-rated physical he...

    Authors: Teodor Vikbladh, Katja Troberg, Anders Håkansson and Disa Dahlman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:971
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  19. For many young people with long term conditions (LTC), transferring from paediatric to adult health services can be difficult and outcomes are often reported to be poor. We report the characteristics and repre...

    Authors: Hannah Merrick, Helen McConachie, Ann Le Couteur, Kay Mann, Jeremy R. Parr, Mark S. Pearce and Allan Colver
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:435
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  20. Like much of the developed world, healthcare costs in Canada are rising. A small proportion of patients account for a large proportion of healthcare spending and much of this spending occurs in acute care sett...

    Authors: Babak Rashidi, Daniel M. Kobewka, David J. T. Campbell, Alan J. Forster and Paul E. Ronksley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:777
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  21. Because individuals with HIV/AIDS often have complex medical and social needs, the impact of housing status on medical service utilization is difficult to isolate from the impact of conditions that may worsen ...

    Authors: Theresa W Kim, Stefan G Kertesz, Nicholas J Horton, Nicole Tibbetts and Jeffrey H Samet
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2006 6:19
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  22. Health care workers have been facing difficulties in coping with the COVID-19 infection from the beginning. The study aimed to compare Quality of Life (QOL) among health care workers (HCWs) with and without pr...

    Authors: Mahfil Ara Rahman, Soumik Kha Sagar, Koustuv Dalal, Sabrina Yesmin Barsha, Tasnim Ara, Md Abdullah Saeed Khan, Shuvajit Saha, Tanjina Sarmin, Mosharop Hossian, Mohammad Hayatun Nabi, Mohammad Lutfor Rahman and Mohammad Delwer Hossain Hawlader
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:823
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  23. Adverse events (AEs) are patient injuries caused by medical care. Previous studies have reported increased mortality rates and prolonged hospital length of stay in patients having an AE. However, these studies...

    Authors: Alan J Forster, Kwadwo Kyeremanteng, Jon Hooper, Kaveh G Shojania and Carl van Walraven
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:259
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  24. To determine whether exempting people (with high health needs and living in areas of high deprivation) from a $5 prescription charge reduces hospital use.

    Authors: Pauline Norris, Kim Cousins, Simon Horsburgh, Shirley Keown, Marianna Churchward, Ariyapala Samaranayaka, Alesha Smith and Carlo Marra
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:31
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:243

  25. Indigenous Australians experience significant socioeconomic disadvantage and healthcare disparity compared to non-Indigenous Australians. A retrospective cohort study to describe the association between rates ...

    Authors: Tim Cheok, Morgan Berman, Richard Delaney-Bindahneem, Matthew Phillip Jennings, Linda Bray, Ruurd Jaarsma, Pradeep Mathew Poonnoose, Kanishka Williams and Narlaka Jayasekera
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:874
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  26. The aim of this study is to describe the adherence to the Bedside Pediatric Early Warning System (BedsidePEWS) escalation protocol in children admitted to hospital wards in a large tertiary care children’s hos...

    Authors: Orsola Gawronski, Federico Ferro, Corrado Cecchetti, Marta Ciofi Degli Atti, Immacolata Dall’Oglio, Emanuela Tiozzo and Massimiliano Raponi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:852
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  28. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are common and associated with many illnesses. Most physicians do not routinely screen for ACEs. We aimed to determine if screening is related to knowledge or medical speci...

    Authors: Robert G. Maunder, Jonathan J. Hunter, David W. Tannenbaum, Thao Lan Le and Christine Lay
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:314
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  29. In 2019–2020, with National Cancer Institute funding, seven implementation laboratory (I-Lab) partnerships between scientists and stakeholders in ‘real-world’ settings working to implement evidence-based inter...

    Authors: Gina R. Kruse, Erica Hale, Justin E. Bekelman, Jennifer E. DeVoe, Rachel Gold, Peggy A. Hannon, Thomas K. Houston, Aimee S. James, Ashley Johnson, Lisa M. Klesges and Andrea L. Nederveld
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:174
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  31. The knowledge on emergency obstetric care (EmOC) is limited in Kenya, where only partial data from sub-national studies exist. The EmOC process indicators have also not been integrated into routine health mana...

    Authors: Elizabeth Echoka, Yeri Kombe, Dominique Dubourg, Anselimo Makokha, Bjørg Evjen-Olsen, Moses Mwangi, Jens Byskov, Øystein Evjen Olsen and Richard Mutisya
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:113
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  32. The Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care plus is used in order to assess whether provided care is congruent with the Chronic Care Model, according to patients. The purpose of this study was to correlate ...

    Authors: Maria Malliarou, Christina Desikou, Eleni Lahana, Styliani Kotrotsiou, Theodosios Paralikas, Athanasios Nikolentzos, Evangelia Kotrotsiou and Pavlos Sarafis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:543
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  33. Chronic diseases represent a major challenge for health care and social services. A number of people with chronic diseases require more services due to characteristics that increase their vulnerability. Given ...

    Authors: Maud-Christine Chouinard, Catherine Hudon, Marie-France Dubois, Pasquale Roberge, Christine Loignon, Éric Tchouaket, Martin Fortin, Éva-Marjorie Couture and Maxime Sasseville
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:49
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  34. Return on Investment (ROI) is increasingly being used to evaluate financial benefits from healthcare Quality Improvement (QI). ROI is traditionally used to evaluate investment performance in the commercial fie...

    Authors: S’thembile Thusini, Maria Milenova, Noushig Nahabedian, Barbara Grey, Tayana Soukup, Kia-Chong Chua and Claire Henderson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1492
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1567

  35. Emerging evidence suggests that access to chiropractic care may reduce the likelihood of initiating an opioid prescription for spinal pain; however, the impact of chiropractic care for patients already prescri...

    Authors: Peter C. Emary, Amy L. Brown, Mark Oremus, Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Douglas F. Cameron, Jenna DiDonato and Jason W. Busse
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1313
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  36. The prevention of recurrent hospitalizations in the frail elderly requires the implementation of high-intensity interventions such as case management. In order to be practically and financially sustainable, th...

    Authors: Sarah J Crane, Ericka E Tung, Gregory J Hanson, Stephen Cha, Rajeev Chaudhry and Paul Y Takahashi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:338
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  37. During the COVID-19 pandemic, youth mental health and substance use services rapidly moved to virtual modalities to meet social distancing requirements. It is important to understand youth attitudes toward and...

    Authors: Lisa D. Hawke, Natasha Y. Sheikhan, Karen MacCon and Joanna Henderson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:340
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  38. Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) adoption is an important strategy to help improve primary care quality within Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) community health centers (CHC), but evidenc...

    Authors: Nathaniel Bell, Rebecca Wilkerson, Kathy Mayfield-Smith and Ana Lòpez-De Fede
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:980
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  39. Increased survival from traumatic injury has led to a higher demand for follow-up care when patients are discharged from hospital. It is currently unclear how follow-up care following major trauma is provided ...

    Authors: Elizabeth Wake, Jamie Ranse, Don Campbell, Belinda Gabbe and Andrea P. Marshall
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:630
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  40. Adverse events (AEs) that occur in hospitals remain a challenge worldwide, and especially in intensive care units (ICUs) where they are more likely to occur. Monitoring of AEs can provide insight into the stat...

    Authors: Mohamed Ayoub Tlili, Wiem Aouicha, Nikoloz Gambashidze, Asma Ben Cheikh, Jihene Sahli, Matthias Weigl, Ali Mtiraoui, Souad Chelbi, Houyem Said Laatiri and Manel Mallouli
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:77
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  41. The prevalence of modern contraception use is higher in Kenya than in most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The uptake has however slowed down in recent years, which, among other factors, has been attributed t...

    Authors: Katherine Tumlinson, Laura E. Britton, Emilia Goland, Stephanie Chung, Brooke W. Bullington, Caitlin R. Williams, Debborah Muthoki Wambua, Dickens Otieno Onyango and Leigh Senderowicz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:74
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  42. The “Triple Aim” – provision of a better care experience and improved population health at a lower cost – may be theoretically sound, but paradoxical in practice as it forces together the logics of management ...

    Authors: Marie Höjriis Storkholm, Pamela Mazzocato, Mairi Savage and Carl Savage
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:98
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  43. People who inject drugs (PWID) use healthcare services, including primary care, at a disproportionately high rate. We investigated key correlates of general practitioner (GP) related service utilisation within...

    Authors: Dhanya Nambiar, Mark Stoové and Paul Dietze
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:308
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  44. To create and validate a methodology to assign a severity level to an episode of COVID-19 for retrospective analysis in claims data.

    Authors: Trudy Millard Krause, Raymond Greenberg, Lopita Ghosh, Joseph S. Wozny, Regina M. Hansen and Caroline Schaefer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:402
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  45. Super-utilizers with 4 or more admissions per year frequently receive low-quality care and disproportionately contribute to healthcare costs. Inpatient care fragmentation (admission to multiple different hospi...

    Authors: Zach Kaltenborn, Koushik Paul, Jonathan D Kirsch, Michael Aylward, Elizabeth A. Rogers, Michael T. Rhodes and Michael G. Usher
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:338
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  46. In resource-poor settings, where health systems are frequently stretched to their capacity, access to emergency care is often limited. Triage systems have been proposed as a tool to ensure efficiency and optim...

    Authors: Temmy Sunyoto, Rafael Van den Bergh, Pola Valles, Reinaldo Gutierrez, Latifa Ayada, Rony Zachariah, Abdi Yassin, Sven Gudmund Hinderaker and Anthony D Harries
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:531
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  48. Children's exposure to secondhand smoke is associated with increased morbidity. We estimated Medicaid expenditures for children living with smokers compared to those living with no smokers in the United States.

    Authors: Douglas E Levy, Nancy A Rigotti and Jonathan P Winickoff
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:125
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Healthcare obtained abroad may conflict with care received in the country of residence. A special concern for immigrants has been raised as they may have stronger links to healthcare services abroad. Our objec...

    Authors: Signe Smith Nielsen, Suzan Yazici, Signe Gronwald Petersen, Anne Leonora Blaakilde and Allan Krasnik
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:390
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Transportation barriers limit access to cancer care services and contribute to suboptimal clinical outcomes. Our objectives were to describe the frequency of Veterans reporting and the factors associated with ...

    Authors: Shelley A. Jazowski, Isabelle P. Sico, Jennifer H. Lindquist, Valerie A. Smith, Hayden B. Bosworth, Susanne Danus, Dawn Provenzale, Michael J. Kelley and Leah L. Zullig
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:332
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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