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  1. Antiretroviral drug resistance is becoming increasingly common with the expansion of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment programmes in high prevalence settings. Genotypic resistance testing could have...

    Authors: Richard J Lessells, Katharine E Stott, Justen Manasa, Kevindra K Naidu, Andrew Skingsley, Theresa Rossouw and Tulio de Oliveira
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:116
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  2. Introducing new technology in health care is inevitably a challenge. More knowledge is needed to better plan future telemedicine interventions. Our aim was therefore to explore health care professionals’ exper...

    Authors: Beate-Christin Hope Kolltveit, Eva Gjengedal, Marit Graue, Marjolein M. Iversen, Sally Thorne and Marit Kirkevold
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:134
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  3. Innovative and sustainable programs are required to support the well-being of stroke survivors. Peer support is a potentially low cost way to enhance well-being of recent stroke survivors and the well-being an...

    Authors: Dorothy Kessler, Mary Egan and Lucy-Ann Kubina
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:256
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  4. Although multiple studies have estimated the prevalence of neurological conditions in the general Canadian population, limited research exists regarding the proportion affected with these conditions in non-acu...

    Authors: Oana Danila, John P Hirdes, Colleen J Maxwell, Ruth Ann Marrie, Scott Patten, Tamara Pringsheim and Nathalie Jetté
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:29
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  5. Tuberculosis is the leading infectious cause of death among people living with HIV. Reducing morbidity and mortality from HIV-associated TB requires strong collaboration between TB and HIV services at all leve...

    Authors: Ntandazo Dlatu, Benjamin Longo-Mbenza and Teke Apalata
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:804
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  6. As the number of breast cancer survivors continues to rise, Western populations become more ethnically and socially diverse and healthcare resources become ever-more stretched, follow-up that focuses on monito...

    Authors: Charlotte Tompkins, Karen Scanlon, Emma Scott, Emma Ream, Seeromanie Harding and Jo Armes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:401
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  7. We conducted a national level assessment of the quality of clinical care practice in the Ukrainian healthcare system for two important causes of death and chronic disease conditions. We tested two hypotheses: ...

    Authors: John W Peabody, Jeff Luck, Lisa DeMaria and Rekha Menon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:446
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  8. In 2010 the ‘Polymedication Check’ (PMC), a pharmacist-led medication review, was newly introduced to be delivered independently from the prescriber and reimbursed by the Swiss health insurances. This study ai...

    Authors: Markus Messerli, Eva Blozik, Noortje Vriends and Kurt E. Hersberger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:145
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  9. After Kenya’s decentralization and constitutional changes in 2013, 47 devolved county governments are responsible for workforce planning and recruitment including for doctors/medical officers (MO). Data from t...

    Authors: Yingxi Zhao, Daniel Mbuthia, Joshua Munywoki, David Gathara, Catia Nicodemo, Jacinta Nzinga and Mike English
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:875
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:952

  10. Employees working night shifts are at a greater risk of being overweight or obese. Few studies on obesity and weight gain analyze the years of exposure to night work. The aim of this study was to determine the...

    Authors: Rosane Härter Griep, Leonardo S Bastos, Maria de Jesus Mendes da Fonseca, Aline Silva-Costa, Luciana Fernandes Portela, Susanna Toivanen and Lucia Rotenberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:603
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  11. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provisions, especially Medicaid expansion, are believed to have “spillover effects,” such as boosting participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) among e...

    Authors: Hyunmin Kim, Asos Mahmood, Cyril F. Chang, Noah E. Hammarlund and Aram Dobalian
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:509
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  13. The development of assisted reproduction techniques (ART) has resulted in rapid advances in the treatment of infertility. However, a systematic assessment of ART and its processes and outcomes in China has nev...

    Authors: Yuan-Yuan Fang, Qi-Jun Wu, Tie-Ning Zhang, Tian-Ren Wang, Zi-Qi Shen, Jiao Jiao, Xiao-Guang Shao, Peng Xu, Shuai-Shuai Guo, Yi-Ming Zhou, Xiu-Xia Wang and Da Li
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:873
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  14. In mental health settings, implementation of and adherence to clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) is low. Strategies are needed to overcome barriers and facilitate successful implementation of CPGs into standa...

    Authors: Ilan Fischler, Sanaz Riahi, Melanie I. Stuckey and Philip E. Klassen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:372
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  15. 30-day hospital readmissions are an indicator of quality of care; hospitals are financially penalized by Medicare for high rates. Numerous care transition processes reduce readmissions in clinical trials. The ...

    Authors: Jacqueline Pugh, Lauren S. Penney, Polly H. Noël, Sean Neller, Michael Mader, Erin P. Finley, Holly J. Lanham and Luci Leykum
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:189
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  16. Research on discrimination in healthcare settings has primarily focused on health implications of race-based discrimination among ethno-racial minority groups. Little is known about discrimination experiences ...

    Authors: Anna Skosireva, Patricia O’Campo, Suzanne Zerger, Catharine Chambers, Susan Gapka and Vicky Stergiopoulos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:376
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  17. Community-based health insurance has been associated with increased hospitalisation in low-income settings, but with limited analysis of the illnesses for which claims are submitted. A review of claims submitt...

    Authors: Sapna Desai, Tara Sinha, Ajay Mahal and Simon Cousens
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:320
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  18. Medication reconciliation can reduce adverse events associated with prescribing errors at transitions between sites of care. Though a U.S. Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goal since 2006, at present o...

    Authors: Sadie H Sanchez, Sanjum S Sethi, Susan L Santos and Kenneth Boockvar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:290
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  19. Community pharmacies are major contributors to health care systems across the world. Several studies have been conducted to evaluate community pharmacies services in health care. The purpose of this study was ...

    Authors: Jorge Félix, Diana Ferreira, Marta Afonso-Silva, Marta Vargas Gomes, César Ferreira, Björn Vandewalle, Sara Marques, Melina Mota, Suzete Costa, Maria Cary, Inês Teixeira, Ema Paulino, Bruno Macedo and Carlos Maurício Barbosa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:606
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  20. Adverse drug reactions, poor patient adherence and errors, here collectively referred to as medication-related harm (MRH), cause around 2.7-8.0% of UK hospital admissions. Communication gaps between successive...

    Authors: Matthew Reynolds, Mary Hickson, Ann Jacklin and Bryony Dean Franklin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:257
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  21. In 2003, China established a New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NRCMS) for rural residents to alleviate the burden of medical expenses among rural residents. However, its reimbursement for high medical cost...

    Authors: Yang Li, Guangfeng Duan and Linping Xiong
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:809
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  22. Significant health inequities exist around maternal and infant health for Māori, the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand – and in particular around a premature (preterm) delivery. Māori babies are more l...

    Authors: Sara Filoche, Fiona Cram, Angela Beard, Dalice Sim, Stacie Geller, Liza Edmonds, Bridget Robson and Beverley Lawton
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:374
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  23. Decreasing the burden of Tuberculosis (TB) among PLHIV through TB screening is an effective intervention recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). However, after over a decade of implementation in Gh...

    Authors: Solomon A. Narh-Bana, Mary Kawonga, Selase Adjoa Odopey, Frank Bonsu, Latifat Ibisomi and Tobias F. Chirwa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:898
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  24. Many internal migrants during the urbanization process in China are Migrant Parents, the aging group who move to urban areas to support their family involuntarily. They are more vulnerable economically and phy...

    Authors: Chao Ma, Shutong Huo and Hao Chen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1053
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1293

  25. There have been dozens of strikes by health workers in Kenya in the past decade, but there are few studies of their impact on maternal and child health services and outcomes. We conducted a retrospective surve...

    Authors: Michael L. Scanlon, Lauren Y. Maldonado, Justus E. Ikemeri, Anjellah Jumah, Getrude Anusu, Jeffrey N. Bone, Sheilah Chelagat, Joann Chebet Keter, Laura Ruhl, Julia Songok and Astrid Christoffersen-Deb
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:898
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  26. Residential care infrastructure, in terms of the characteristics of the organisation (such as proprietary status, size, and location) and the physical environment, have been found to directly influence residen...

    Authors: Tiffany Easton, Rachel Milte, Maria Crotty and Julie Ratcliffe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:226
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  27. Quality of care depends on system, facility, provider, and client-level factors. We aimed at examining structural and process quality of services for sick children and its association with client satisfaction ...

    Authors: Theodros Getachew, Solomon Mekonnen Abebe, Mezgebu Yitayal, Lars Åke Persson and Della Berhanu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:574
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  28. Internationally, policy-makers and health administrators are seeking evidence to inform further integration and optimal utilization of registered nurses (RNs) within primary care teams. Although existing liter...

    Authors: Julia Lukewich, Shabnam Asghari, Emily Gard Marshall, Maria Mathews, Michelle Swab, Joan Tranmer, Denise Bryant-Lukosius, Ruth Martin-Misener, Allison A. Norful, Dana Ryan and Marie-Eve Poitras
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:440
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  29. Data about the impact of chronic kidney disease (CKD) on health care costs in Spain are scarce This study was aimed to evaluate cumulative costs and healthcare utilisation in CKD in Spain.

    Authors: Carlos Escobar, Beatriz Palacios, Unai Aranda, Margarita Capel, Antoni Sicras, Aram Sicras, Antonio Hormigo, Roberto Alcázar, Nicolás Manito and Manuel Botana
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:536
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  30. The internal rural-to-urban migration is one of the major challenges for tuberculosis (TB) control in China. Patient costs incurred during TB diagnosis and treatment could cause access and adherence barriers, ...

    Authors: Liping Lu, Qi Jiang, Jianjun Hong, Xiaoping Jin, Qian Gao, Heejung Bang, Kathryn DeRiemer and Chongguang Yang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:832
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  31. Approximately 150 million people suffer from financial catastrophe annually because of out-of-pocket expenditures (OOPEs) on health. Although the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) of Ghana was designed t...

    Authors: Juliet Okoroh, Samuel Essoun, Anthony Seddoh, Hobart Harris, Joel S. Weissman, Lydia Dsane-Selby and Robert Riviello
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:426
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  32. Adequate access to primary care emergency centers is particularly important in rural areas isolated from urban centers. However, variability in utilization of emergency services located in primary care centers...

    Authors: Belén Sanz-Barbero, Laura Otero-García, Teresa Blasco-Hernández and Miguel San Sebastián
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:368
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  33. Allied health services are core to the improvement in health outcomes for remote and rural residents. Substantial infrastructure has been put into place to facilitate rural work-ready allied health practitione...

    Authors: Anna Moran, Susan Nancarrow, Catherine Cosgrave, Anna Griffith and Rhiannon Memery
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:866
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  34. In the face of health-system constraints, local policymakers and decision-makers face difficult choices about how to implement, expand and institutionalize antiretroviral therapy (ART) services. This scoping r...

    Authors: Yihalem Abebe Belay, Mezgebu Yitayal, Asmamaw Atnafu and Fitalew Agimass Taye
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1431
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  35. As a means of establishing a sustained and fair health care financing system, Ethiopia has planned and ratified a legal framework to introduce a social health insurance program for employees of the formal sect...

    Authors: Melkamu Ayalew Kokebie, Ziyad Ahmed Abdo, Shikur Mohamed and Belayneh Leulseged
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:909
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  36. Historically, efforts to improved healthcare provisions have focussed on learning from and understanding what went wrong during adverse events. More recently, however, there has been a growing interest in seek...

    Authors: Cecilie Haraldseid-Driftland, Heidi Dombestein, Anh Hai Le, Stephen Billett and Siri Wiig
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:890
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  37. Burnout and psychosocial distress are serious and growing issues for healthcare workers (HCWs) and healthcare systems across the globe. Exacerbated by changes in healthcare delivery during and following the Co...

    Authors: Megan Tjasink, Eleanor Keiller, Madison Stephens, Catherine Elizabeth Carr and Stefan Priebe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1059
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  38. The Government of India, made TB notification by private healthcare providers mandatory from May 2012 onwards. The National TB Programme developed a case based web based online reporting mechanism called NIKSH...

    Authors: Sarabjit Singh Chadha, Sharath Burugina Nagaraja, Archana Trivedi, Sachi Satapathy, Devendrappa N M and Karuna Devi Sagili
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:1
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  39. Potentially preventable hospitalizations (PPH) for heart failure (HF) and diabetes mellitus (DM) cost the United States over $14 billion annually. Studies about PPH typically lack patient perspectives, especia...

    Authors: Tetine L. Sentell, Todd B. Seto, Malia M. Young, May Vawer, Michelle L. Quensell, Kathryn L. Braun and Deborah A. Taira
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:300
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  40. Strengthening HIV prevention is imperative given the continued high HIV incidence worldwide. The introduction of oral PrEP as a new biomedical HIV prevention tool can be a potential game changer because of its...

    Authors: Jef Vanhamel, Anke Rotsaert, Thijs Reyniers, Christiana Nöstlinger, Marie Laga, Ella Van Landeghem and Bea Vuylsteke
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:704
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  41. Mental health care transitions are increasingly prioritized given their potential to optimize care delivery and patient outcomes, especially those focused on the transition from inpatient to outpatient mental ...

    Authors: Kelsey S. Dickson, Marisa Sklar, Serena Z. Chen and Bo Kim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:437
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  43. Health systems play key roles in identifying tobacco users and providing evidence-based care to help them quit. Health systems change ? changes to health care processes, policies and financing ? has potential ...

    Authors: Amanda L Jansen, Traci R Capesius, Randi Lachter, Lija O Greenseid and Paula A Keller
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:575
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  44. To facilitate the discussion on the increasing number of total hip replacements (THR) and their effectiveness, we apply a joint evaluation of hospital case costs and health outcomes at the patient level to ena...

    Authors: Matthias Vogl, Rainer Wilkesmann, Christian Lausmann and Werner Plötz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:342
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  45. Few studies have examined the mental health needs of African children and teenagers. Based on this gap, this scoping review aims to identify barriers to mental health services, treatments and services sought, ...

    Authors: Sabine Saade, Annick Parent-Lamarche, Tatiana Khalaf, Sara Makke and Alexander Legg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:348
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:559

  46. Achieving equity in the distribution of health services is one major goal in the health system. This study aimed to determine equality in distributing health human resources (physicians) in the Qazvin Universi...

    Authors: Asghar Nasiri, Hasan Yusefzadeh, Mohammad Amerzadeh, Saeideh Moosavi and Rohollah Kalhor
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1161
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  48. This study contributes to research on the paediatrician shortage by examining occupational identity, job satisfaction and their effects on turnover intention among paediatricians in China.

    Authors: Wanjun Deng, Zhichun Feng, Xinying Yao, Tingting Yang, Jun Jiang, Bin Wang, Lan Lin, Wenhao Zhong and Oudong Xia
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:6
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  49. To describe in detail an innovative program based on telemedicine for semi-automated prioritization of referrals from Primary Care (PC) to Rheumatology, for reproducibility purposes, and to present the results...

    Authors: José María Pego-Reigosa, Carlos Peña-Gil, David Rodríguez-Lorenzo, Irene Altabás-González, Naír Pérez-Gómez, John Henry Guzmán-Castro, Rodrigo Varela-Gestoso, Reyes Díaz-Lambarri, Alberto González-Carreró-López, Olga Míguez-Senra, Julia Bóveda-Fontán, Ángeles Charle-Crespo, Francisco Javier Caramés-Casal, Ceferino Barbazán-Álvarez, Íñigo Hernández-Rodríguez, Francisco Maceiras-Pan…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:60
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  50. Traditional approaches to safety management in health care have focused primarily on counting errors and understanding how things go wrong. Resilient Health Care (RHC) provides an alternative complementary per...

    Authors: Mais Iflaifel, Rosemary H. Lim, Kath Ryan and Clare Crowley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:324
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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