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  1. The reduction of inequality is a key United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goal (WHO, Human Resources for Health: foundation for Universal Health Coverage and the post-2015 development agenda, 2014; Tran...

    Authors: Beulah Christina van Zyl, Michelle Monique Barnard, Keith Cloete, Amanda Fernandez, Matodzi Mukosi and Richard Denys Pitcher
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:991
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  2. To identify the patterns of antibiotic use and irrational antibiotic prescriptions in primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in Dongcheng District of Beijing, China.

    Authors: Yumiti Taxifulati, Haishaerjiang Wushouer, Mengyuan Fu, Yue Zhou, Kexin Du, Xi Zhang, Yaoyao Yang, Bo Zheng, Xiaodong Guan and Luwen Shi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:832
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  3. In the United States, home-based primary care (HBPC) is increasingly proposed as a means of enabling frail elders to remain at home for as long as possible, while still receiving needed medical care. However, ...

    Authors: Stephen A. Stanhope, Mary C. Cooley, Linda F. Ellington, Gregory P. Gadbois, Andrew L. Richardson, Timothy C. Zeddes and Jay P. LaBine
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:161
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  4. Several reports have linked the 2007–2009 Great Recession in the United States with a slowdown in health care spending and decreased utilization. However, little is known regarding how the recent economic down...

    Authors: Jared Lane K Maeda, Rachel Mosher Henke, William D Marder, Zeynal Karaca, Bernard S Friedman and Herbert S Wong
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:378
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  5. Healthcare professionals engage in discharge planning of people with dementia during hospitalisation, however plans for transitioning the person into community services can be patchy and ineffective. The aim o...

    Authors: Ashley Kable, Lynnette Chenoweth, Dimity Pond and Carolyn Hullick
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:567
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  6. Maternal health service coverage in Kenya remains low, especially in rural areas where 63% of women deliver at home, mainly because health facilities are too far away and/or they lack transport. The objectives...

    Authors: Emily Mwaliko, Raymond Downing, Wendy O’Meara, Dinah Chelagat, Andrew Obala, Timothy Downing, Chrispinus Simiyu, David Odhiambo, Paul Ayuo, Diana Menya and Barasa Khwa-Otsyula
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:212
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  7. Among all cancer patients in the palliative phase, ¾ have reached the age of 65. An aging population will increase the number of people afflicted with cancer, and create challenges for patients, family members...

    Authors: Marianne Fjose, Grethe Eilertsen, Marit Kirkevold and Ellen Karine Grov
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:745
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  8. The study was conducted to determine the clinical and cost effectiveness of enhanced multi-disciplinary teams (EMDTs) vs. ‘usual care’ for the treatment of pressure ulcers in long term care (LTC) facilities in...

    Authors: Anita Stern, Nicholas Mitsakakis, Mike Paulden, Shabbir Alibhai, Josephine Wong, George Tomlinson, Ann-Sylvia Brooker, Murray Krahn and Merrick Zwarenstein
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:83
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  11. The Institute of Medicine reported that more than 1.5 million preventable adverse drug events occur annually in the United States. Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM) is the medication review process to ...

    Authors: Tong Han Chung, Ricardo J. Hernandez, Anaelle Libaud-Moal, Linh K. Nguyen, Lincy S. Lal, J. Michael Swint, Pio Juan Lansangan and Yen-Chi L. Le
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:671
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  12. Hypertensive disorders are a leading cause of mortality and morbidity during pregnancy. Despite multiple national and international clinical guidelines and a plethora of research in the field of optimising man...

    Authors: Amyna Helou, Kay Stewart, Kath Ryan and Johnson George
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1292
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  13. Health systems are facing unprecedented socioeconomic pressures as well as the need to cope with the ongoing strain brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, the reconfiguration of health systems to...

    Authors: Justin Avery Aunger, Ross Millar and Joanne Greenhalgh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:602
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  14. Antenatal care (ANC) is a service that can reduce the incidence of maternal and neonatal deaths when provided by skilled healthcare workers. Patient satisfaction is an important health system responsiveness go...

    Authors: Kate Bergh, Sebawit Bishu and Henock B. Taddese
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:746
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  15. Patient experience surveys are increasingly used to gain information about the quality of healthcare. This paper investigates whether patients who respond before and after reminders to a large national survey ...

    Authors: David N Barron, Elizabeth West, Rachel Reeves and Denise Hawkes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:153
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  16. Improving access to optimal quality of care is a core priority and ambitious health policy goal in spite of impediments, threats and challenges in Palestine. Understanding the factors that may impede quality o...

    Authors: Marwan Mosleh, Yousef Al Jeesh, Koustuv Dalal, Charli Eriksson, Heidi Carlerby and Eija Viitasara
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:406
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  17. The urban population health initiative was designed as a multidisciplinary, multisector programme to address cardiovascular (CV) disease, specifically hypertension and its underlying causes in the cities of Ul...

    Authors: Jasmina Saric, Ann Aerts, Malick Anne, Joseph Barboza, Johannes Boch, Naranjargal Dashdorj, Diana Vaca McGhie, Adela Santana, Jason T. Shellaby, Suely Miya Shiraishi Rollemberg, Mariana Silveira, Peter Steinmann and Daniel Cobos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:16
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  18. 98% of people with surgical conditions living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) do not receive safe, timely and affordable surgical and anesthesia care. Research exploring barriers to receiving care ...

    Authors: Hanna Negussie, Medhanit Getachew, Andualem Deneke, Amezene Tadesse, Ahmed Abdella, Martin Prince, Andrew Leather, Charlotte Hanlon, Chris Willott and Rosie Mayston
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:214
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  19. There is an urgent need to reduce readmission of patients with pneumonia and improve quality of care. To assess the association between hospital resources and quality of care, we examined the effect of number ...

    Authors: Joo Eun Lee, Tae Hyun Kim, Kyoung Hee Cho, Kyu-Tae Han and Eun-Cheol Park
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:393
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  20. The failure of high-income countries, such as Ireland, to achieve a self-sufficient medical workforce has global implications, particularly for low-income, source countries. In the past decade, Ireland has dou...

    Authors: Niamh Humphries, Sophie Crowe and Ruairí Brugha
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:144
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  21. High experienced continuity is known to be associated with lower needs for supportive care and most likely higher quality of life. On this background, the aim of this study was to investigate if patient-experi...

    Authors: Susann Plate, Louise Emilsson, Martin Söderberg, Yvonne Brandberg and Fredrik Wärnberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:127
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  22. The number of independent treatment centres (ITCs) has grown substantially. However, little is known as to whether the volume-quality relationship exists within this sector and whether other possible organisat...

    Authors: Florien Margareth Kruse, M. C. van Nieuw Amerongen, I. Borghans, A. S. Groenewoud, E. Adang and P. P. T. Jeurissen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:853
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  23. Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS) are traditionally used as fall alert systems for older adults, a population that contributes an overwhelming proportion of healthcare costs in the United States. Prev...

    Authors: Stephen Agboola, Sara Golas, Nils Fischer, Mariana Nikolova-Simons, Jorn op den Buijs, Linda Schertzer, Joseph Kvedar and Kamal Jethwani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:282
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  24. Mobile phone text messaging has been shown to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy and to improve communication between patients and health care workers. It is unclear which strategies are most appropri...

    Authors: Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Renee-Cecile Bonono-Momnougui, Lehana Thabane, Charles Kouanfack, Marek Smieja and Pierre Ongolo-Zogo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:441
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  25. Reducing low-value care is a core component of healthcare reforms in many Western countries. A comprehensive and sound set of low-value care measures is needed in order to monitor low-value care use in general...

    Authors: Eline F. de Vries, Jeroen N. Struijs, Richard Heijink, Roy J. P. Hendrikx and Caroline A. Baan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:405
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  26. Interprofessional collaboration improves the quality of medical care, but integration into inpatient workflow has been limited. Identification of systems-based factors promoting or diminishing bedside interpro...

    Authors: Jed D. Gonzalo, Judy Himes, Brian McGillen, Vicki Shifflet and Erik Lehman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:459
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  27. Nurses leaving their jobs and the profession are an issue of international concern, with supply-demand gaps for nurses reported to be widening. There is a large body of existing literature, much of which is al...

    Authors: Mary Halter, Olga Boiko, Ferruccio Pelone, Carole Beighton, Ruth Harris, Julia Gale, Stephen Gourlay and Vari Drennan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:824
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  28. Although hospital-based outpatient quick diagnosis units (QDU) are an increasingly recognized cost-effective alternative to hospitalization for the diagnosis of potentially serious diseases, patient perception...

    Authors: Carmen Sanclemente-Ansó, Albert Salazar, Xavier Bosch, Cristina Capdevila, Amparo Giménez-Requena, Beatriz Rosón-Hernández and Xavier Corbella
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:434
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  29. Chronic conditions and multimorbidity have become one of the main challenges in health care worldwide. However, data on the burden of multimorbidity are still scarce. The purpose of this study is to examine th...

    Authors: Caroline Bähler, Carola A Huber, Beat Brüngger and Oliver Reich
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:23
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  31. Health system responsiveness measures (HSR) the non-health aspect of care relating to the environment and the way healthcare is provided to clients. The study measured the HSR performance and correlates of HIV...

    Authors: Bereket Yakob and Busisiwe Purity Ncama
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:263
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  32. People with serious mental illness die about 20 years earlier than the general population from preventable diseases. Shared-care arrangements between general practitioners and mental health services can improv...

    Authors: Sharon M. Parker, Katrina Paine, Catherine Spooner and Mark Harris
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:977
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  34. In sub-Saharan Africa, there is dearth of trained laboratorians and strengthened laboratory systems to provide adequate and quality laboratory services for enhanced HIV control. In response to this challenge, ...

    Authors: Ritu Shrivastava, Richard Poxon, Erin Rottinghaus, Leyya Essop, Victoria Sanon, Zawadi Chipeta, Elsie van-Schalkwyk, Phuti Sekwadi, Pelagia Murangandi, Shon Nguyen, Josh Devos, Shanna Nesby-Odell, Thomas Stevens, Farouk Umaru, Alex Cox, Andrea Kim…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:22
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  36. Improvement of coordination of all health and social care actors in the patient pathways is an important issue in many countries. Health Information (HI) technology has been considered as a potentially effecti...

    Authors: Florence Saillour-Glénisson, Sylvie Duhamel, Emmanuelle Fourneyron, Laetitia Huiart, Jean Philippe Joseph, Emmanuel Langlois, Stephane Pincemail, Viviane Ramel, Thomas Renaud, Tamara Roberts, Matthieu Sibé, Frantz Thiessard, Jerome Wittwer and Louis Rachid Salmi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:297
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  37. Strong international commitment and the widespread use of antiretroviral therapy have led to higher longevity for people living with human immune deficiency virus (HIV). Text messaging interventions have been ...

    Authors: Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Sara Mursleen, Lyubov Lytvyn, Marek Smieja, Lisa Dolovich and Lehana Thabane
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:33
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  38. Since December 2010, a nationwide real-time medication surveillance program has been implemented in Korea to prevent potential adverse drug reactions. Our goal was to evaluate physicians’ and pharmacists’ sati...

    Authors: Sun Mi Shin, Hong-Ah Kim, Inmyung Song, Ha-Lim Jeon and Ju-Young Shin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:805
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  39. Frequent emergency department (FED) visits by cancer patients represent a significant burden to the health system. This study identified determinants of FED in recently hospitalized cancer patients, with a par...

    Authors: Siyana Kurteva, Robyn Tamblyn and Ari N. Meguerditchian
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:887
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  40. In sub-Saharan Africa, universal health coverage (UHC) reforms have often adopted a technocratic top-down approach, with little attention being paid to the rural communities’ perspective in identifying context...

    Authors: Gilbert Abotisem Abiiro, Grace Bongololo Mbera and Manuela De Allegri
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:234
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  41. Health systems are complex, consisting of multiple interacting structures and actors whose effective coordination is paramount to enhancing health system goals. Health sector coordination is a potential source...

    Authors: Lizah Nyawira, Rebecca G Njuguna, Benjamin Tsofa, Anita Musiega, Joshua Munywoki, Kara Hanson, Andrew Mulwa, Sassy Molyneux, Isabel Maina, Charles Normand, Julie Jemutai and Edwine Barasa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:355
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  43. The purpose of this research is to generate new evidence on the economic consequences of multimorbidity on households in terms of out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures and their implications for catastrophic OOP ex...

    Authors: Anup Karan, Habib Hasan Farooqui, Suhaib Hussain, Mohammad Akhtar Hussain, Sakthivel Selvaraj and Manu Raj Mathur
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1151
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  44. Pharmacists are recognized as one of the most accessible healthcare providers and are licensed to advise patients on drugs and health products including dietary and herbal supplements (DHSs). The objective of ...

    Authors: Jeremy Y. Ng, Umair Tahir and Simran Dhaliwal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:499
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  45. The aim of this study is to develop, apply and evaluate an economics-based framework to assist commissioners in their management of finite resources for local dental services. In April 2006, Primary Care Trust...

    Authors: Richard D Holmes, Jimmy Steele, Catherine E Exley and Cam Donaldson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:138
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  46. In-patient suicide prevention is a high priority in many countries, but its practice remains poorly understood. Patients in a suicidal crisis who receive psychiatric care can provide valuable insight into unde...

    Authors: Siv Hilde Berg, Kristine Rørtveit and Karina Aase
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:73
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  47. Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health problem. The emerging epidemic of multi- and extensively drug-resistant (M/XDR) TB further imperils health workers, patients and public health. Health facilities...

    Authors: Kassahun Tamir, Belaynew Wasie and Muluken Azage
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:359
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  48. Individuals discharged from inpatient psychiatry units have the highest readmission rates of all hospitalized patients. These readmissions are often due to unmet need for mental health care compounded by limit...

    Authors: Ejemai Eboreime, Reham Shalaby, Wanying Mao, Ernest Owusu, Wesley Vuong, Shireen Surood, Kerry Bales, Frank P. MacMaster, Diane McNeil, Katherine Rittenbach, Arto Ohinmaa, Suzette Bremault-Phillips, Carla Hilario, Russ Greiner, Michelle Knox, Janet Chafe…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:332
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  50. Primary care workload is high and increasing in the United Kingdom. We sought to examine the association between rates of primary care consultation and outcomes in England.

    Authors: Sarah Lay-Flurrie, Edouard Mathieu, Clare Bankhead, Brian D. Nicholson, Rafael Perera-Salazar, Tim Holt, F. D. Richard Hobbs and Chris Salisbury
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:219
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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