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  1. Over the last decade, the number of foreign citizens (FCs) in Spain has increased. There is no doubt that their health has become a relevant subject from the point of view of public healthcare. Our study aimed...

    Authors: José M Ramos, Eva M Navarrete-Muñoz, Hector Pinargote, Jaume Sastre, José M Seguí and María J Rugero
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:510
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  2. People with visual disabilities have increased health needs but face worse inequity to preventive health examinations. To date, only a few nationwide studies have analyzed the utilization of preventive adult h...

    Authors: Yueh-Han Hsu, Wen-Chen Tsai and Pei-Tseng Kung
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:509
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  3. Cerebrovascular diseases are the second leading cause of death worldwide and one of the health conditions which demand the highest level of social services. The aim of this study was to estimate the social cos...

    Authors: Juan Oliva-Moreno, Isaac Aranda-Reneo, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto, Almudena González-Domínguez and Álvaro Hidalgo-Vega
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:508
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  4. The economic burden of diseases has become increasingly relevant to policy makers as healthcare expenditure keep rising in the face of limited and competing resources. Buruli ulcer (BU), a neglected but treata...

    Authors: Hannah Brown Amoakoh and Moses Aikins
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:507
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  5. Much of research on household catastrophic medical expenses in China has focused on less developed areas and little is known about this problem in more developed areas. This study aimed to analyse the incidenc...

    Authors: Xiaohong Li, Jay J Shen, Jun Lu, Ying Wang, Mei Sun, Chengyue Li, Fengshui Chang and Mo Hao
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:506
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  6. Resource consumption is a widely used proxy for severity of illness, and is often measured through a case-mix index (CMI) based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs), which is commonly linked to payment. For coun...

    Authors: Walid Ammar, Jade Khalife, Fadi El-Jardali, Jenny Romanos, Hilda Harb, Ghassan Hamadeh and Hani Dimassi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:505
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  7. Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) has reached epidemic levels in the Middle East region. Despite evidence that it improves health outcomes and saves health costs, dietary counseling for T2D remains grossly under-investiga...

    Authors: Mohamad Alameddine, Lara Nasreddine, Nahla Hwalla, Yara Mourad, Hikma Shoaib, Dana Mousa and Farah Naja
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:504
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  8. Training is a critical part of health information technology implementations, but little emphasis is placed on post-implementation training to support day-to-day activities. The goal of this study was to evalu...

    Authors: Christine E Bredfeldt, Elias Bruce Awad, Kenneth Joseph and Mark H Snyder
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:503
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  9. Responsiveness of health care services in low and middle income countries has been given little attention. Despite being introduced over a decade ago in many developing countries, national health insurance sch...

    Authors: Shafiu Mohammed, Justo Lorenzo Bermejo, Aurélia Souares, Rainer Sauerborn and Hengjin Dong
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:502
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  10. The cost to the NHS of missed or inappropriate hospital appointments is considerable. Alternative methods of appointment scheduling might be more flexible to patients’ needs without jeopardising health and ser...

    Authors: Rebecca Whear, Abdul-Kareem Abdul-Rahman, Jo Thompson-Coon, Kate Boddy, Mark G Perry and Ken Stein
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:501
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  11. Although interprofessional practice (IPP) offers the potential to enhance rural health services and provide support to rural clinicians, IPP may itself be problematic due to workforce limitations and service f...

    Authors: Vicki Parker, Karen McNeil, Isabel Higgins, Rebecca Mitchell, Penelope Paliadelis, Michelle Giles and Glenda Parmenter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:500
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  12. Use of teams has shown to be an important factor for organizational performance. However, research has shown that a team has to meet certain criteria and operate in a certain way to realize the potential benef...

    Authors: Anders Kvale Havig, Anders Skogstad, Marijke Veenstra and Tor Inge Romøren
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:499
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  13. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) implemented the Polytrauma System of Care to meet the health care needs of military and veterans with multiple injuries returning from combat operations in Afghanis...

    Authors: Christine A Elnitsky, Elena M Andresen, Michael E Clark, Suzanne McGarity, Carmen G Hall and Robert D Kerns
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:498
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  14. If multiple medical specialties are involved in treatment there is a danger of increasing risks to patient safety. This is due to the need for greater co-ordination and communication with other specialties, le...

    Authors: Rebecca J Baines, Martine C de Bruijne, Maaike Langelaan and Cordula Wagner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:497
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  15. Modern-day health systems are complex, making it difficult to assure continuity of care for older persons with multi-morbidity. One way of intervening in a health system that is leading to fragmented care is b...

    Authors: Markus Gustafsson, Jimmie Kristensson, Göran Holst, Ania Willman and Doris Bohman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:496
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  16. In recent years inappropriate and excessive use of clinical laboratory facilities has become a cause of concern and has led to concurrent rise in the laboratory errors and the health care costs. The aim of the...

    Authors: Muhammad Farooq Malik, Dilshad Ahmed Khan, Wafa Munir Ansari and Farooq Ahmad Khan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:495
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  17. Poor interprofessional communication in hospital is deemed to cause significant patient harm. Although recognition of this issue is growing, protocols are being implemented to solve this problem without empiri...

    Authors: Merrick Zwarenstein, Kathleen Rice, Lesley Gotlib-Conn, Chris Kenaszchuk and Scott Reeves
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:494
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  18. Despite a shift in diabetes care internationally from secondary to primary care, diabetes care in the Republic of Ireland remains very hospital-based. Significant variation in the facilities and resources avai...

    Authors: Máire O’Donnell, Anna de Siún, Monica O’Mullane, Diarmuid Smith, Colin Bradley, Francis M Finucane and Sean F Dinneen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:493
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  19. Vending machines and shops located within health care facilities are a source of food and drinks for staff, visitors and outpatients and they have the potential to promote healthy food and drink choices. This ...

    Authors: Colin Bell, Nicole Pond, Lynda Davies, Jeryl Lynn Francis, Elizabeth Campbell and John Wiggers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:492
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  20. In 2007–2008, two UK-based organisations, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, published guidelines for the management of care an...

    Authors: Suzanne M Cox, David Cromwell, Tahir Mahmood, Allan Templeton, Benedetta La Corte and Jan van der Meulen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:491
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  22. Measures to protect healthcare workers where there is risk of injury or infection from medical sharps became mandatory in the European Union (EU) from May 2013. Our research objective was to estimate the net b...

    Authors: Emma Hanmore, Grant Maclaine, Fiona Garin, Alexander Alonso, Nicolas Leroy and Lewis Ruff
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:489
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  23. People with HIV are living longer with potent antiretroviral therapy (ART), and HIV is increasingly complicated by other chronic medical comorbidities. The objective of this study was to explore HIV-positive p...

    Authors: Anne K Monroe, Tashi L Rowe, Richard D Moore and Geetanjali Chander
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:488
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  24. Strengthening primary care is key to Hong Kong’s ongoing health system reform. Primary care remains unregulated, private sector dominated and financed mainly out-of-pocket. This study sought to examine the ass...

    Authors: Onikepe Owolabi, Zhenzhen Zhang, Xiaolin Wei, Nan Yang, Haitao Li, Samuel YS Wong, Martin CS Wong, Winnie Yip and Sian M Griffiths
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:487
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  25. The move towards enhancing teamwork and interprofessional collaboration in health care raises issues regarding the management of professional boundaries and the relationship among health care providers. This q...

    Authors: Kate MacNaughton, Samia Chreim and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:486
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  26. Medication reconciliation at admission, transfer and discharge has been designated as a required hospital practice to reduce adverse drug events. However, implementation challenges have resulted in poor hospit...

    Authors: Ari N Meguerditchian, Stanimira Krotneva, Kristen Reidel, Allen Huang and Robyn Tamblyn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:485
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  28. This study describes the definitions of wait times and intake processes used by drug and problem gambling treatment agencies in Ontario, Canada, as well as the various strategies employed to ameliorate client ...

    Authors: Rachael V Pascoe, Brian Rush and Nooshin Khobzi Rotondi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:483
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  29. Sight loss has wide ranging implications for an individual in terms of education, employment, mobility and mental health. Therefore there is a need for information and support to be provided in eye clinics at ...

    Authors: Hanna Gillespie-Gallery, Ahalya Subramanian and Miriam L Conway
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:482
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  30. Prevalence studies usually depend on self-report of disease status in survey data or administrative data collections and may over- or under-estimate disease prevalence. The establishment of a linked data colle...

    Authors: Elizabeth Jean Comino, Duong Thuy Tran, Marion Haas, Jeff Flack, Bin Jalaludin, Louisa Jorm and Mark Fort Harris
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:481
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  31. Cataract is the leading cause of blindness worldwide, with the greatest burden found in low-income countries. Cataract surgery is a curative and cost-effective intervention. Despite major non-governmental orga...

    Authors: Esmael Habtamu, Zebiba Eshete and Matthew J Burton
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:480
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  32. Global ratings of healthcare by patients are a popular way of summarizing patients’ experiences. Summary scores can be used for comparing healthcare provider performance and provider rankings. As an alternativ...

    Authors: Maarten W Krol, Dolf de Boer, Jany JDJM Rademakers and Diana M Delnoij
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:479
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  33. Understanding the relationship between organizational context and research utilization is key to reducing the research-practice gap in health care. This is particularly true in the residential long term care (...

    Authors: Matthias Hoben, Cornelia Mahler, Marion Bär, Sarah Berger, Janet E Squires, Carole A Estabrooks and Johann Behrens
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:478
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  34. Ergonomic and work stress interventions rarely show long-term positive effect. The municipality participating in this study received orders from the Norwegian Labour Inspectorate due to an identified unhealthy...

    Authors: Gunn Robstad Andersen and Rolf H Westgaard
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:477
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  35. Addressing the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs of young people remains a challenge for most developing countries. This study explored the perceptions and experiences of Health Service Providers (HSP...

    Authors: Pamela M Godia, Joyce M Olenja, Joyce A Lavussa, Deborah Quinney, Jan J Hofman and Nynke van den Broek
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:476
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  36. Although research interest in hospital process orientation (HPO) is growing, the development of a measurement tool to assess process orientation (PO) has not been very successful yet. To view a hospital as a s...

    Authors: Pedro D Gonçalves, Marie Louise Hagenbeek and Jan M H Vissers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:475
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  37. Health insurance is currently being considered as a mechanism for promoting progress to universal health coverage (UHC) in many African countries. The concept of health insurance is relatively new in Africa, i...

    Authors: Stephen Mulupi, Doris Kirigia and Jane Chuma
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:474
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  38. Adverse drug events are a frequent cause of emergency department presentations. Administrative data could be used to identify patients presenting with adverse drug events for post-market surveillance, and to c...

    Authors: Corinne M Hohl, Lisa Kuramoto, Eugenia Yu, Basia Rogula, Jürgen Stausberg and Boris Sobolev
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:473
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  40. 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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  41. Population-based funding formulae act as an important means of promoting equitable health funding structures. To evaluate how policy makers in different jurisdictions construct health funding formulae and buil...

    Authors: Erin Penno, Robin Gauld and Rick Audas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:470
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  42. The importance of complexity in health care policy-making and interventions, as well as research and evaluation is now widely acknowledged, but conceptual confusion reigns and few applications of complexity co...

    Authors: Bruno Marchal, Sara Van Belle, Vincent De Brouwere and Sophie Witter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:469
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  43. Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) type is an important distinction to be made in both clinical and health care research context, as it determines the treatment of the patient as well as affecting outcomes. The...

    Authors: Roxana Alexandrescu, Alex Bottle, Brian Jarman and Paul Aylin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:468
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  44. Increased life expectancy and the accompanying prevalence of chronic conditions have led to the focus and delivery of health care migrating from the hospital and into people’s homes. While previous studies hav...

    Authors: Ross Thomson, Jennifer L Martin and Sarah Sharples
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:467
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  45. Primary health care (PHC) is widely regarded as essential for preventing and treating ill health. However, the evidence on whether improved PHC reduces hospitalisations has been mixed. This study examines the ...

    Authors: Yuejen Zhao, Jo Wright, Steven Guthridge and Paul Lawton
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:466
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  47. In Canada, the prevalence of oral diseases is very high among people on social assistance. Despite great need for dental treatment, many are reluctant to consult dental professionals, arguing that dentists do ...

    Authors: Christophe Bedos, Christine Loignon, Anne Landry, Paul J Allison and Lucie Richard
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:464
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  48. Phlebotomy performed with poor adherence to venous blood specimen collection (VBSC) guidelines jeopardizes patient safety and may lead to patient suffering and adverse events. A first questionnaire study demon...

    Authors: Karin Bölenius, Marie Lindkvist, Christine Brulin, Kjell Grankvist, Karin Nilsson and Johan Söderberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:463
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  49. Secondary prevention is important for reducing both mortality and morbidity of patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). Pharmacists can provide medication and also work on disease management for patients wi...

    Authors: Hongwen Cai, Haibin Dai, Yangmin Hu, Xiaofeng Yan and Huimin Xu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:461
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  50. Most maternal deaths take place during labour and within a few weeks after delivery. The availability and utilization of emergency obstetric care facilities is a key factor in reducing maternal mortality; howe...

    Authors: Meseret Girma, Yaliso Yaya, Ewenat Gebrehanna, Yemane Berhane and Bernt Lindtjørn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:459
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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