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  1. In recent years, studies have shown that electronic WOM (eWOM) directly reflects consumers’ post-purchase psychological perception and directly affects repurchase behavior. This information is valued by instit...

    Authors: Po-Chun Lee, Li-Lin Liang, Min-Hsin Huang and Ching-Yuan Huang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1568
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  2. This study aimed to assess predictors of patient safety competency among emergency nurses.

    Authors: Aghil Habibi Soola, Mehdi Ajri-Khameslou, Alireza Mirzaei and Zahra Bahari
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:547
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  3. Indigenous adolescents access primary health care services at lower rates, despite their greater health needs and experience of disadvantage. This systematic review identifies the enablers and barriers to prim...

    Authors: Stephen Harfield, Tara Purcell, Eliza Schioldann, James Ward, Odette Pearson and Peter Azzopardi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:553
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  4. Patient navigators have been introduced across various countries to enable timely access to healthcare services and to ensure completion of diagnosis and follow-up of care. There is an increasing evidence on t...

    Authors: Hannah Budde, Gemma A. Williams, Juliane Winkelmann, Laura Pfirter and Claudia B. Maier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1166
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  5. Patient safety is a worldwide problem, and the patient contribution to mitigate the risk of patient harm is now recognized as a cornerstone to its solution. In order to understand the nature of integrating pat...

    Authors: Ursulla Aho-glele, Khayreddine Bouabida, Allison Kooijman, Ioana Cristina Popescu, Marie Pascale Pomey, Lisa Hawthornthwaite, Jodi Ploquin, Susan Dunn, Patricia Trbovich, Benoit Tétrault, Maiana Regina Gomes de Sousa, Louise Clément and Nelea Lungu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1099
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  6. To describe implementation and first-year screening results of the first Chinese telehealth system for diabetic retinopathy (DR) - the Beixinjing Community Diabetic Retinopathy Telehealth system (BCDRT).

    Authors: Jinjuan Peng, Haidong Zou, Weiwei Wang, Jiong Fu, Bingjie Shen, Xuelin Bai, Xun Xu and Xi Zhang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:250
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  7. Hearing loss can have a negative impact on individuals’ health and engagement with social activities. Integrated approaches that tackle barriers and social outcomes could mitigate some of these effects for coc...

    Authors: Tolesa Bekele Okuba, Reidar P. Lystad, Isabelle Boisvert, Anne McMaugh, Robyn Cantle Moore, Ramya Walsan and Rebecca J. Mitchell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:929
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  8. The term ‘safeguarding’ covers the protection of health, wellbeing and human rights. Effective safeguarding enables people (particularly children, young adults and other vulnerable people) to live free from fe...

    Authors: Duncan Chambers, Anna Cantrell and Andrew Booth
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1241
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  9. Existing evidence suggests that clinician and organisation engagement in research can improve healthcare performance. With the increase in allied health professional (AHP) research activity, it is imperative f...

    Authors: S. Chalmers, J. Hill, L. Connell, S. Ackerley, A. Kulkarni and H. Roddam
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:766
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  10. Uganda clinical guidelines recommend routine screening of pregnant women for intimate partner violence (IPV) during antenatal care (ANC). Healthcare providers play a critical role in identifying IPV during pre...

    Authors: Ronald Anguzu, Laura D. Cassidy, Kirsten M. M. Beyer, Harriet M. Babikako, Rebekah J. Walker and Julia Dickson-Gomez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:283
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  11. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) provide information on hospital risk-adjusted rates for potentially preventable adverse events. Although designed to work ...

    Authors: Laurent G Glance, Yue Li, Turner M Osler, Dana B Mukamel and Andrew W Dick
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:176
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. Behavioral and psychological symptoms of distress in dementia (BPSD) are major drivers of poor quality of life, caregiver burden, institutionalization, and cost of care in nursing homes. The Evidence Integrati...

    Authors: Liza Behrens, Marie Boltz, Kiernan Riley, Karen Eshraghi, Barbara Resnick, Elizabeth Galik, Jeanette Ellis, Ann Kolanowski and Kimberly Van Haitsma
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1006
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  13. Older adults living in nursing home organizations are eager to get voluntary help, however, their past experiences with voluntary services are not satisfactory enough. To better carry out voluntary services an...

    Authors: Lin Li, Qin Shen and Junxian Wu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:547
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  14. In light of the high prevalence of overweight and obesity among adults and the subsequent stigmatization and health consequences, there is a need to develop effective interventions to support lifestyle change....

    Authors: Elin Salemonsen, Georg Førland, Britt Sætre Hansen and Anne Lise Holm
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:88
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  15. The unprecedented increase in the nurses’ workload is one of the issues affecting the quality and safety of patient care in the Intensive Care Units (ICUs). The electronic nursing handover can share sufficient...

    Authors: Azadeh Tataei, Bahlol Rahimi, Hadi Lotfnezhad Afshar, Vahid Alinejad, Hossein Jafarizadeh and Naser Parizad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:527
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  17. Scarce evidence exists on audit and feedback implementation processes in low-resource health systems. The Integrated District Evidence to Action (IDEAs) is a multi-component audit and feedback strategy designe...

    Authors: Aneth Dinis, Quinhas Fernandes, Bradley H Wagenaar, Sarah Gimbel, Bryan J Weiner, Grace John-Stewart, Ermyas Birru, Stephen Gloyd, Ruth Etzioni, Dorlim Uetela, Isaías Ramiro, Artur Gremu, Orvalho Augusto, Stélio Tembe, Jaime L Mário, Jalilo E Chinai…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:164
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  18. Healthcare outcomes in child, adolescent and maternal in Tanzania are poor, and mostly characterised by fragmentary service provision. In order to address this weakness, digital technologies are sought to be i...

    Authors: Yasini Haroun, Richard Sambaiga, Nandini Sarkar, Ntuli A. Kapologwe, James Kengia, Jafary Liana, Suleiman Kimatta, Johanita James, Vendelin Simon, Fatma Hassan, Romuald Mbwasi, Khadija Fumbwe, Rebecca Litner, Gloria Kahamba and Angel Dillip
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1393
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  19. The diabetes epidemic is associated with huge human and economic costs, with some groups, such as indigenous populations in industrialised countries, being at especially high risk. Monitoring and improving dia...

    Authors: Damin Si, Ross Bailie, Zhiqiang Wang and Tarun Weeramanthri
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:169
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  20. Primary health care is a critical foundation of high-quality health systems. Health facility management has been studied in high-income countries, but there are significant measurement gaps about facility mana...

    Authors: June-Ho Kim, Griffith A. Bell, Asaf Bitton, Eesha V. Desai, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, Fredrick Makumbi, Elizabeth Nabiwemba, Hannah L. Ratcliffe, Fred Wabwire-Mangen, Simon P. S. Kibira and Dan Schwarz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:275
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  21. Medication adherence has been studied in different settings, with different approaches, and applying different methodologies. Nevertheless, our knowledge and efficacy are quite limited in terms of measuring an...

    Authors: Salvatore Pirri, Valentina Lorenzoni and Giuseppe Turchetti
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:688
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Early diagnosis is mandatory for the medical care of children and adolescents with pediatric-onset inflammatory bowel disease (PIBD). International guidelines (‘Porto criteria’) of the European Society for Ped...

    Authors: M. Leiz, M. Knorr, K. Moon, L. Tischler, K. Sohrabi, S. Cantez, J. Däbritz, J. de Laffolie and N. van den Berg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:648
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  23. The National Health Service is reconfiguring health care services in order to meet the increasing challenge of providing care for people with long-term conditions and to reduce the demand on specialised outpat...

    Authors: Lorraine Pollard, Stephen Rogers, Jonathan Shribman, David Sprigings and Paul Sinfield
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:205
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. The recurrence of emerging infectious diseases reminds us that rapid response to related outbreaks require coordinated inter-sectoral/ organizational and trans-disciplinary approaches. This study examined the ...

    Authors: Marjan Mirzania, Elham Shakibazadeh and Mahnaz Ashoorkhani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1118
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  25. In the last decades the presence of social inequalities in diabetes care has been observed in multiple countries, including Spain. These inequalities have been at least partially attributed to differences in d...

    Authors: Ignacio Ricci-Cabello, Antonio Olry de Labry–Lima, Julia Bolívar-Muñoz, Guadalupe Pastor-Moreno, Clara Bermudez-Tamayo, Isabel Ruiz-Pérez, Fermín Quesada-Jiménez, Enrique Moratalla-López, Susana Domínguez-Martín, Ana M de los Ríos-Álvarez, Pilar Cruz-Vela, Miguel A Prados-Quel and José A López-De Hierro
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:433
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  26. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. Like in many other low- and middle-income countries, the recent development of an HIV epidemic in Vietnam has led to a growing need for prevention, treatment, care, and support services for people living with ...

    Authors: Ha Nguyen Pham, Myroslava Protsiv, Mattias Larsson, Hien Thi Ho, Daniel H de Vries and Anna Thorson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:474
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  28. HIV linkage and retention rates in sub-Saharan Africa remain low. The objective of this study was to explore perceived health facility barriers to linkage and retention in an HIV care program in western Kenya.

    Authors: Juddy Wachira, Violet Naanyu, Becky Genberg, Beatrice Koech, Jacqueline Akinyi, Regina Kamene, Samson Ndege, Abraham M Siika, Sylvester Kimayo and Paula Braitstein
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:646
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  29. Australia has one of the lowest perinatal morbidity and mortality rates in the world, however a cluster of perinatal deaths at a regional health service in the state of Victoria in 2015 led to state-wide refor...

    Authors: Stefanie A Zugna, Helen L McLachlan, Meabh Cullinane, Michelle Newton and Della A Forster
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:8
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  30. Decision-making in child and youth mental health (CYMH) care requires recommendations that are developed through an efficient and effective method and are based on credible knowledge. Credible knowledge is inf...

    Authors: J Michael Van Adel, Jennifer Dunn Geier, Adrienne Perry and Jo-Ann M Reitzel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:60
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  31. Competition-promoting reforms and economic incentives are increasingly being introduced worldwide to improve the performance of healthcare delivery. This study considers such a reform which was initiated in 20...

    Authors: Fanny Goude, Sverre A. C. Kittelsen, Henrik Malchau, Maziar Mohaddes and Clas Rehnberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:387
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  32. The number of nongovernmental organizations working on AIDS has grown. There is great diversity in the type of activities and population groups that have been targeted. The purposes of this study are: to descr...

    Authors: Anna Berenguera, Enriqueta Pujol-Ribera, Concepció Violan, Amparo Romaguera, Rosa Mansilla, Albert Giménez, Carlos Ascaso and Jesús Almeda
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:176
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. Even with all the care taken during the production process, the pharmaceutical industries are still subject to manufacturing medicines with quality deviations, generating commercialized products without the re...

    Authors: Cristiani Lopes Capistrano Gonçalves Oliveira, Virgínia Freire Machado, Heitor de Freitas Tavares, Gabriel Lucas Marques Ribeiro and Paulo Sérgio Dourado Arrais
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:238
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  34. Benchmarking is one of the methods used in business that is applied to hospitals to improve the management of their operations. International comparison between hospitals can explain performance differences. A...

    Authors: Wineke AM van Lent, Relinde D de Beer and Wim H van Harten
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:253
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. Successfully introducing and maintaining care innovations may depend on the interplay between care setting, the intervention and specific circumstances. We studied the factors influencing the introduction and ...

    Authors: Marijke Boorsma, Eveliene Langedijk, Dinnus HM Frijters, Giel Nijpels, Tom Elfring and Hein PJ van Hout
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:8
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  36. In the Netherlands in 2006, a health insurance system reform took place in which regulated competition between insurers and providers is key. In this context, the government placed greater emphasis on patients...

    Authors: Aafke Victoor, Roland D Friele, Diana MJ Delnoij and Jany JDJM Rademakers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:441
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Community Health Workers (CHWs) are an important human resource in improving community malaria intervention coverages and success in reducing malaria incidence has been attributed to them. However, despite thi...

    Authors: Helen Mwiinga Chipukuma, Hikabasa Halwiindi, Joseph Mumba Zulu, Steven Chifundo Azizi and Choolwe Jacobs
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:612
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Auditing of patient safety aims at early detection of risks of adverse events and is intended to encourage the continuous improvement of patient safety. The auditing should be an independent, objective assuran...

    Authors: Mirelle Hanskamp-Sebregts, Marieke Zegers, Wilma Boeijen, Gert P Westert, Petra J van Gurp and Hub Wollersheim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:226
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  40. Subcutaneous (SC) versus intravenous (IV) administration is advantageous in terms of patient convenience and hospital efficiency. This study aimed to compare the effect of optimizing the processes involved in ...

    Authors: María Reyes Abad-Sazatornil, Ainhoa Arenaza, Juan Bayo, Jesus García Mata, José María Guinea De Castro, Josefa León, Javier Letellez, Virginia Reguero, Carmen Martínez Chamorro and Antonio Salar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:320
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. The main aim was to investigate the effect of using two brief feedback scales in mental health out-patient treatment six weeks after starting treatment, compared to treatment as usual. Hypotheses were that use...

    Authors: Marit By Rise, Lasse Eriksen, Hilde Grimstad and Aslak Steinsbekk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:348
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. The “gatekeepers” for residents’ health are their family doctors. The implementation of contracted services provided by family doctors is conducive to promoting hierarchical diagnosis and treatment and achievi...

    Authors: Songyi Liu, Wenqi Meng, Qianqian Yu, Haibo Peng, Xiaoli Jiang, Zixin Li, Wenqiang Yin, Zhongming Chen, Dongping Ma and Kui Sun
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1534
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  43. Engagement in care is important for people living with HIV (PLH) to achieve optimal outcomes. Several strategies have been developed to improve client flow through the HIV care cascade, specifically targeting ini...

    Authors: Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Saranee Fernando, Chloe Lee, Maureen Owino, Cynthia Youssef and M. Elizabeth Snow
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:48
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  44. Despite the demonstrated need to increase screening mammography utilization and strong evidence that mail and telephone outreach to women can increase screening, most managed care organizations have not adopte...

    Authors: Mary E Costanza, Roger Luckmann, Mary Jo White, Milagros C Rosal, Caroline Cranos, George Reed, Robin Clark, Susan Sama and Robert Yood
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:145
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  45. Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of mortality in India. India has rolled out Comprehensive Primary Health Care (CPHC) reforms including population based screening for hypertension and diabe...

    Authors: Devaki Nambiar, Soumyadeep Bhaumik, Anita Pal and Rajani Ved
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1077
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  48. Unmet social risks such as housing, food insecurity and safety concerns are associated with adverse health outcomes in adults and children. Experimentation with social needs screening in primary care is curren...

    Authors: Rachel E. Massar, Carolyn A. Berry and Margaret M. Paul
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1369
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  49. The Ministry of Public Health in Lebanon is in the process of converting the surveillance reporting from a cumbersome paper-based system to a web-based electronic platform (DHIS-2) to have real-time informatio...

    Authors: Dalal Youssef, Ayat Yaghi, Abbas Jouny, Linda Abou-Abbas, Houssam Chammaa and Nada Ghosn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:395
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  50. Strengthening leadership and management is important for building an effective and efficient health system. This paper presents the findings from a L&M capacity building initiative which was implemented as par...

    Authors: Gail Tomblin Murphy, Godfrey Mtey, Angelo Nyamtema, John LeBlanc, Janet Rigby, Zabron Abel and Lilian Teddy Mselle
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1129
    Content type: Research Published on:
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