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  1. As a common female pelvic tumor, uterine fibroids remain the leading cause for hysterectomy in China. Hysterectomy provides a good surgical treatment of uterine fibroids, and it guarantees the removal of all u...

    Authors: Jinjuan Yang, Xiaojing Fan, Jianmin Gao, Dan Li, Yongjian Xu and Gang Chen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:252
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  2. Patient medicines helplines provide a means of accessing medicines-related support following hospital discharge. However, it is unknown how many National Health Service (NHS) Trusts currently provide a helplin...

    Authors: Matt Williams, Abbie Jordan, Jenny Scott and Matthew D. Jones
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:868
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  3. There is a wide range of actions an individual could take when sick or injured such as self-care, consulting a traditional healer, or seeking treatment from a private or public health care facility. The specif...

    Authors: Japheth Osotsi Awiti
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:560
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  4. Outpatient follow-up care for stroke survivors is often inadequate and mostly self-organized by the patients themselves. In the German health care system, there are no standard care programs for patients after...

    Authors: Johannes Deutschbein, Ulrike Grittner, Alice Schneider and Liane Schenk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1143
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  5. Health care spending is overwhelmingly concentrated within a very small proportion of the population, referred to as the high-cost users (HCU). To date, research on HCU has been limited in scope, focusing most...

    Authors: Laura C Rosella, Tiffany Fitzpatrick, Walter P Wodchis, Andrew Calzavara, Heather Manson and Vivek Goel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:532
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  6. Tinnitus service provision in the United Kingdom has been investigated from the healthcare provider’s perspective demonstrating considerable regional variation particularly regarding availability of psychologi...

    Authors: Don McFerran, Derek J. Hoare, Simon Carr, Jaydip Ray and David Stockdale
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:110
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  7. Nepal formulated a range of policies related to maternal and neonatal survival, especially after the year 2000. Nevertheless, Nepal’s perinatal mortality remains high, particularly in disadvantaged regions. Po...

    Authors: Mohan Paudel, Sara Javanparast, Gouranga Dasvarma and Lareen Newman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:166
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  8. To describe the key findings and lessons learned from an international pilot study that surveyed spinal cord injury programs in acute and rehabilitation facilities to understand the status of spinal cord injur...

    Authors: Aidin Abedi, Fin Biering-Sørensen, Harvinder S. Chhabra, Julia Maria D’Andréa Greve, Nasser M. Khan, Eerika Koskinen, Kenny Yat Hong Kwan, Nan Liu, James W. Middleton, Sasa Moslavac, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Colleen O’Connell, Jean G. Previnaire, Alpesh Patel, Giorgio Scivoletto, Lisa N. Sharwood…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1565
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  9. The health management information system (HMIS) is an integral component of a strong health care system. Despite its importance for decision-making, the quality of HMIS data remains of concern in low- and midd...

    Authors: Mariame O. Ouedraogo, Madalitso Tolani, Janet Mambulasa, Katie McLaughlin, Diego G. Bassani and Britt McKinnon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:305
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  10. Maternal mortality, which primarily burdens developing countries, reflects the greatest health divide between rich and poor. This is especially pronounced for access to safe abortion services which alone avert...

    Authors: Sushanta K. Banerjee, Rakesh Kumar, Janardan Warvadekar, Vinoj Manning and Kathryn Louise Andersen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:223
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  12. There is a workforce crisis in primary care. Previous research has looked at the reasons underlying recruitment and retention problems, but little research has looked at what works to improve recruitment and r...

    Authors: Puja Verma, John A. Ford, Arabella Stuart, Amanda Howe, Sam Everington and Nicholas Steel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:126
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  13. The transferability of economic evaluation in health care is of increasing interest in today’s globalized environment. Here, we propose a methodology for assessing the variability of data elements in cost eval...

    Authors: Lionel Perrier, Alessandra Buja, Giuseppe Mastrangelo, Patrick Sylvestre Baron, Françoise Ducimetière, Petrus J Pauwels, Carlo Riccardo Rossi, François Noël Gilly, Amaury Martin, Bertrand Favier, Fadila Farsi, Mathieu Laramas, Vincenzo Baldo, Olivier Collard, Dominic Cellier, Jean-Yves Blay…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:537
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  14. The rapid shift in hospital governance in the past few years suggests greater orthopedist involvement in management roles, would have wide-reaching benefits for the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare d...

    Authors: André Côté, Kassim Said Abasse, Maude Laberge, Marie-Hélène Gilbert, Mylaine Breton and Célia Lemaire
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:299
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  15. Swallowing difficulties challenge patient safety due to the increased risk of malnutrition, dehydration and aspiration pneumonia. A theoretically driven study was undertaken to examine the spread and sustainab...

    Authors: Irene Ilott, Kate Gerrish, Sabrina A. Eltringham, Carolyn Taylor and Sue Pownall
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:406
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  16. Falls are major adverse events in hospitals. The appropriateness of using risk assessment instruments for falls in hospitals has recently been questioned, although the research performed in this respect presen...

    Authors: Marta Aranda-Gallardo, Margarita Enriquez de Luna-Rodriguez, Maria J. Vazquez-Blanco, Jose C. Canca-Sanchez, Ana B. Moya-Suarez and Jose M. Morales-Asencio
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:277
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  17. Medical disputes have become a serious issue in China. A crisis cannot usually be predicted and managed through a cost–benefit strategy; therefore, researchers believe that prevention is better than containmen...

    Authors: Ping Xu, Zhenlin Fan, Ting Li, Lijie Wang, Qingwen Sun, Xia Du, Bin Lian and Lulu Zhang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:5
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  18. An in-depth understanding of how organizational culture is experienced by health workers (HWs), and influences their decisions to leave their jobs is a fundamental, yet under-examined, basis for forming effect...

    Authors: Constance Sibongile Shumba, Karina Kielmann and Sophie Witter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:809
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  19. In the context of the volume of mixed- and multi-methods studies in health services research, the present study sought to develop an appraisal tool to determine the methodological and reporting quality of such...

    Authors: Reema Harrison, Benjamin Jones, Peter Gardner and Rebecca Lawton
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:144
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  20. Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is a highly prevalent condition that has substantial impact on patients, the healthcare system and society. Pain management services (PMS), which aim to address the complex nature ...

    Authors: Saja H. AlMazrou, Rachel A. Elliott, Roger D. Knaggs and Shiekha S. AlAujan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:194
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  21. Patients’ reported opinions of the health system need to be understood in order to provide patient-centered care. We investigated determinants of women’s ratings of the quality of care during their most recent...

    Authors: Elysia Larson, Sabrina Hermosilla, Angela Kimweri, Godfrey M Mbaruku and Margaret E Kruk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:483
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  22. Acute diabetic emergencies are often managed by prehospital Emergency Medical Services (EMS). The projected growth in prevalence of diabetes is likely to result in rising demand for prehospital EMS that are al...

    Authors: Melanie Villani, Arul Earnest, Natalie Nanayakkara, Karen Smith, Barbora de Courten and Sophia Zoungas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:332
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  23. A recent survey of avoidable blindness in Varamin District, Iran, identified moderately high levels of visual impairment (10%) and blindness (1.5%) in people >50 years. This study aimed to define current provi...

    Authors: Marzieh Katibeh, Karl Blanchet, Shadi Akbarian, Sara Hosseini, Hamid Ahmadieh and Matthew J Burton
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:140
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  25. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, (ICF) provides a unified, international standardized framework for describing and classifying health and health-related functioning and d...

    Authors: Jan-Rickard Norrefalk and Elisabeth Svensson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:187
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  26. Private practitioners are the preferred first point of care in a majority of low and middle-income countries and in this position, best placed for the surveillance of diseases. However their contribution to ro...

    Authors: Revati K. Phalkey, Carsten Butsch, Kristine Belesova, Marieke Kroll and Frauke Kraas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:599
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  28. Despite the adoption of various policies and strategies in recent decades, the Iranian health system has not succeeded in protecting households against catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) and impoverishment...

    Authors: Maryam Hedayati, Iravan Masoudi Asl, Mohammadreza Maleki, Ali Akbar Fazaeli and Salime Goharinezhad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:445
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  29. Despite an official policy of exemption from health care costs, pregnant women in Niger still face some out-of-pocket costs (OPC) in addition to time costs when they attend antenatal care (ANC) services. We ai...

    Authors: Césaire T. Ouédraogo, Stephen A. Vosti, K. Ryan Wessells, Charles D. Arnold, M. Thierno Faye and Sonja Y. Hess
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:47
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  30. Infertility remains a global reproductive health burden with the highest prevalence in low and middle-income countries. In sub-Saharan Africa, the ability to procreate holds great societal importance. Couples,...

    Authors: Haddy Bittaye, Jason P. Mooney, Anna Afferri, Julie Balen and Vanessa Kay
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:203
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  31. Guidelines based on patient preferences differ from those developed solely by clinicians and may promote patient adherence to guideline recommendations. There is scant evidence on how to develop patient-inform...

    Authors: Jayden Blackwood, Melissa J. Armstrong, Corinna Schaefer, Ian D. Graham, Loes Knaapen, Sharon E. Straus, Robin Urquhart and Anna R. Gagliardi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:458
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  32. Patient education on pharmacological treatment could reduce readmissions. Our objective was to carry out a pharmacist intervention focused on providing information about high-risk medications to chronic patien...

    Authors: Andrea Lázaro Cebas, José Manuel Caro Teller, Carmen García Muñoz, Carlos González Gómez, José Miguel Ferrari Piquero, Carlos Lumbreras Bermejo, José Antonio Romero Garrido and Juana Benedí González
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:167
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  33. Public reporting of institution- and individual-level performance data has recently become a popular topic in the health care field. This study (1) evaluated the perceptions of general practitioners on the pub...

    Authors: Xin Du, Xinping Zhang and Yuqing Tang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:641
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  34. Our objective was to assess the efficiency of treatments in patients with localized prostate cancer, by synthesizing available evidence from European economic evaluations through systematic review.

    Authors: Virginia Becerra, Mónica Ávila, Jorge Jimenez, Laura Cortes-Sanabria, Yolanda Pardo, Olatz Garin, Angels Pont, Jordi Alonso, Francesc Cots and Montse Ferrer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:541
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  36. Total costs associated with care for older people nearing the end of life and the cost variations related with end of life care decisions are not well documented in the literature. Healthcare utilisation and a...

    Authors: Billingsley Kaambwa, Julie Ratcliffe, Sandra L. Bradley, Stacey Masters, Owen Davies, Craig Whitehead, Catherine Milte, Ian D. Cameron, Tracey Young, Jason Gordon and Maria Crotty
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:545
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  37. We studied the relationship between physician organization (PO) care management capabilities and inpatient utilization in order to identify PO characteristics or capabilities associated with low inpatient bed-...

    Authors: Thomas J Sheehy and N Marcus Thygeson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:582
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  38. Provision of critical care in rural areas is challenging due to geographic distance, smaller facilities, generalist skill mix and population characteristics. Internationally, the amalgamation telemedicine and ...

    Authors: Kimberley Dean, Cynthia Chang, Erin McKenna, Shannon Nott, Amanda Hunter, Julie A. Tall, Madeline Setterfield, Bridget Addis and Emma Webster
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:100
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  39. Systematic attempts to identify best practices for reducing hospital readmissions have been limited without a comprehensive framework for categorizing prior interventions. Our research aim was to categorize pr...

    Authors: Robert E Burke, Ruixin Guo, Allan V Prochazka and Gregory J Misky
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:423
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  40. National quality registries (NQRs) purportedly facilitate quality improvement, while neither the extent nor the mechanisms of such a relationship are fully known. The aim of this case study is to describe the ...

    Authors: Ann Catrine Eldh, Mio Fredriksson, Christina Halford, Lars Wallin, Tobias Dahlström, Sofie Vengberg and Ulrika Winblad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:354
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  41. The enlargement of the European Union since 2004 has led to an increase in the number of Eastern European migrants living in the UK. The health of this group is under-researched though some mixed evidence show...

    Authors: Hannah Madden, Jane Harris, Christian Blickem, Rebecca Harrison and Hannah Timpson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:604
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  42. We report an economic analysis of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) care and treatment in Indonesia to assess the options and limitations of costs reduction, improving access, and scaling up services.

    Authors: Adiatma Y. M. Siregar, Noor Tromp, Dindin Komarudin, Rudi Wisaksana, Reinout van Crevel, Andre van der Ven and Rob Baltussen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:440
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  43. Economic considerations and the requirement to ensure the quality, safety and integration of research with health and social care provision have given rise to local developments of collaborative organisational...

    Authors: Sabi Redwood, Emer Brangan, Verity Leach, Jeremy Horwood and Jenny L. Donovan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:201
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  44. Improving child survival for HIV-infected children remains an important health agenda. We present progress regarding care and treatment services to HIV infected children in Tanzania.

    Authors: G Somi, M Majigo, J Manyahi, J Nondi, J Agricola, V Sambu, J Todd, A Rwebembera, N Makyao, A Ramadhani and MIN Matee
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:540
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  45. Community care has recently been restructured with the development of Community Health Centres (CHCs), forcing a general rethink on the survival of previous organizational solutions adopted to reduce inappropr...

    Authors: Cristina Ugolini, Anna Caterina Leucci, Lucia Nobilio and Gianfranco Bertè
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:807
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  46. Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the largest of the seven emirates in terms of land mass and population. Abu Dhabi emirate has three different geographical regions: the Central Ca...

    Authors: Marília Silva Paulo, Tom Loney and Luís Velez Lapão
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:725
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  47. Results-based financing (RBF) has been introduced in many countries across Africa and a growing literature is building around the assessment of their impact. These studies are usually quantitative and often si...

    Authors: Matthieu Antony, Maria Paola Bertone and Olivier Barthes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:204
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  48. The importance of long term rehabilitation for people with stroke is increasingly evident, yet it is not known whether such services can be materialised in countries with limited community resources. In this s...

    Authors: Nor Azlin Mohd Nordin, Noor Azah Abd Aziz, Aznida Firzah Abdul Aziz, Devinder Kaur Ajit Singh, Nor Aishah Omar Othman, Saperi Sulong and Syed Mohamed Aljunid
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:118
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  49. Within its reform efforts, the Government of Tajikistan is embracing the essential role of primary health care (PHC) in decreasing out of pocket (OOP) expenditures and increasing equity in access to health ser...

    Authors: Fabienne B. Fischer, Zulfira Mengliboeva, Gulzira Karimova, Nasrullo Abdujabarov, Helen Prytherch and Kaspar Wyss
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:546
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  50. Team-based approaches to research capacity building (RCB) may be an efficient means to promote allied health research participation and activity. In order to tailor such interventions, a clearer understanding ...

    Authors: Rachel J. Wenke, Sharon Mickan and Leanne Bisset
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:114
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