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  1. The purpose of thispaper is to explore the experiences of parents and carers of children with chronic health conditions in accessing healthcare during the Covid-19 pandemic. Children with chronic conditions ty...

    Authors: Dominic Reed, Ingrid Wolfe, Jenny Greenwood and Sapfo Lignou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:530
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  2. Febrile neutropenia associated with some chemotherapy regimens can lead to potentially fatal complications and high health care costs. Administration of pegfilgrastim using an On-Body Injector (OBI) may be mor...

    Authors: María Alejandra Larrarte-González, Mariana Pineda-Posada, Álvaro Andrés Gaitán, Jenny Amaya-Amaya and Kelman Ojeda
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:529
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  3. Emerging Technologies (ETs) have recently acquired great relevance in elderly care. The exceptional experience with SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has emphasized the usefulness of ETs in the assistance and remote monitor...

    Authors: Annachiara Fasoli, Giorgia Beretta, Gabriella Pravettoni and Virginia Sanchini
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:528
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  4. 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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  5. A timely diagnosis is essential for improving breast cancer patients’ survival and designing targeted therapeutic plans. For this purpose, the screening timing, as well as the related waiting lists, are decisi...

    Authors: Annarita Fanizzi, Elisabetta Graps, Domenica Antonia Bavaro, Marco Farella, Samantha Bove, Francesco Campobasso, Maria Colomba Comes, Cristian Cristofaro, Daniele La Forgia, Martina Milella, Serena Iacovelli, Rossella Villani, Rahel Signorile, Alessio De Bartolo, Vito Lorusso and Raffaella Massafra
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:526
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  6. Universal Health Coverage (UHC) aims to ensure universal access to quality healthcare according to health needs. The extent to which population health needs are met should be a key measure for progress on UHC....

    Authors: Alok Ranjan, Sundararaman Thiagarajan and Samir Garg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:525
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  7. Online health communities (OHCs) provide platforms for patients to seek advice from physicians and receive professional suggestions online. It can improve the efficiency of patients’ diagnosis of simple diseas...

    Authors: Qianyao Zhang, Runtong Zhang, Xinyi Lu and Xijing Zhang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:524
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  8. The global outbreak of COVID-19 has created unprecedented havoc among health care workers, resulting in significant psychological strains like insomnia. This study aimed to analyze insomnia prevalence and job ...

    Authors: Farzana Rahman, Koustuv Dalal, Mehedi Hasan, Tariful Islam, Samiha Nahar Tuli, Asma Akter, K M Tanvir, Khairul Islam, Ashikur Rahman, Mohammad Hayatun Nabi, Mohammad Lutfor Rahman and Mohammad Delwer Hossain Hawlader
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:523
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  9. The political instability, economic crisis, and devaluation of the national currency left Lebanese females suffering from a scarcity of oral contraceptive pills (OCPs). Therefore, we aimed to identify the inci...

    Authors: Rania Itani, Hani MJ Khojah, Samar Karout, Rana Abu-Farha, Tareq L. Mukattash, Deema Rahme, Khouloud Housary, Hiam El Achi, Ali O. Safar, Ismail Karam Al Hajj and Abdalla El-Lakany
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:520
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  10. Despite the large volume of scientific evidence on the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated high morbidity and mortality, little is known about the sociocultural disruptions which ensued. The c...

    Authors: Dorothy Takyiakwaa, Derek Anamaale Tuoyire, Susanna Aba Abraham, Elizabeth Ama Agyare, John Oti Amoah, Akosua Agyeiwaa Owusu-Sarpong, Kizito Omona, Dorcas Obiri-Yeboah and David Teye Doku
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:519
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  11. Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of mortality worldwide. In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the prevalence of deaths associated with CVD is higher than the global average, and the incidence...

    Authors: Satish Chandrasekhar Nair, Jayadevan Sreedharan, Karthik Vijayan and Halah Ibrahim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:518
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  12. Community Paramedicine is an evolving community-based model that expands paramedic roles from emergency and transport care to a focus on non-emergent and preventive health services tailored to local community ...

    Authors: Chinyere Mma Okoh, Leticia R. Moczygemba, Whitney Thurman, Carolyn Brown, Christopher Hanson and James O. Baffoe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:516
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  13. The traditional method of taking Chinese Medicine involves creating a decoction by cooking medicinal Chinese herbs. However, this method has become less popular, being replaced by the more convenient method of...

    Authors: Ting-Yu Huang, Wei-Te Huang, Yu-Chuan Lin, Hao-Hsiu Hung, Shi-Chen Ou, Chin-Wei Chang, Hung-En Lin, Ting-Yen Lin, Ching-Wen Chang, Hui-Chun Hung and Sheng-Teng Huang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:514
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  14. COVID-19 pandemic posed a major impact on the availability and affordability of essential medicines. This study aimed to assess the knock-on effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the supply availability of non-c...

    Authors: Zeleke Mekonnen, Tsegaye Melaku, Gudina Terefe Tucho, Mohammed Mecha, Christine Årdal and Marianne Jahre
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:513
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  15. Traditional cardiac rehabilitation programs are centre-based and clinically supervised, with their safety and effectiveness well established. Notwithstanding the established benefits, cardiac rehabilitation re...

    Authors: Sameera Senanayake, Ureni Halahakone, Bridget Abell, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Victoria McCreanor, Steven M. McPhail, Julie Redfern, Tom Briffa and William Parsonage
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:512
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  16. HIV assisted partner services (aPS) is an intervention to improve HIV status awareness among sex and drug-injecting partners of people newly diagnosed with HIV (index clients). Implementation fidelity—the degr...

    Authors: Beatrice Wamuti, Mercy Owuor, Wenjia Liu, David Katz, Harison Lagat, George Otieno, Edward Kariithi, Paul Macharia, Sarah Masyuko, Mary Mugambi, Carey Farquhar and Bryan Weiner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:511
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  17. Newly settled refugee migrants face psychological stressors stemming from pre-, during- and post-migration experiences. In Sweden, mental health promotion is part of the health module in the civic orientation ...

    Authors: Maissa Al-Adhami, Josefin Wångdahl, Raziye Salari and Eva Åkerman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:510
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  18. 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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  19. Quality healthcare services are considered one of the most effective vehicles for healthcare managers to achieve organizational goals. Therefore, this study aimed to combine the findings of comparable studies ...

    Authors: Pouria Farrokhi, Rafat Bagherzadeh, Morteza Arab-Zozani and Ehsan Zarei
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:508
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  20. Various societal developments are currently challenging the ability of European nursing home organizations to meet quality standards. To support nursing home organizations throughout the Netherlands in quality...

    Authors: Paulien Vermunt, Yael Reijmer, Clariska van Biessum, Valerie de Groot, Bellis van den Berg and Henk Nies
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:507
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  21. As many older people spend their time in residential care facilities, the demand for person-centered care (PCC), which affects their quality of life, is increasing. Many residential care facility residents hav...

    Authors: Young-Ran Chin and Hyo Young Lee
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:506
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  22. Adolescents are vulnerable to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) risks yet, have poor utilisation of SRH services due to personal, social, and demographic influences. This study aimed to compare the experien...

    Authors: Irene Ifeyinwa Eze, Chinyere Ojiugo Mbachu, Ifunanya Clara Agu, Ifeyinwa Chizoba Akamike, Godstime Eigbiremolen and Obinna Onwujekwe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:505
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  23. HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake among men who have sex with men (MSM), a group disproportionately impacted by HIV, is not commensurate with need. Settings which reduce or remove barriers to accessing c...

    Authors: Grace Chamberlin, Mairead Day Lopes, Surabhi Iyer, Christina Psaros, Ingrid V. Bassett, Susana Medeiros, Catherine O’Connor and Kevin L. Ard
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:504
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  24. In 2020, the Health Resources and Services Administration’s HIV/AIDS Bureau funded an initiative to promote implementation of rapid antiretroviral therapy initiation in 14 HIV treatment settings across the U.S...

    Authors: Beth Bourdeau, Starley B. Shade, Kimberly A. Koester, Greg M. Rebchook, Wayne T. Steward, Bruce M. Agins, Janet J. Myers, Son H. Phan and Marlene Matosky
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:503
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  25. Telephone hotlines in infectious diseases (ID) are part of antimicrobial stewardship programs designed to provide support and expertise in ID and to control antibiotic resistance. The aim of the study was to c...

    Authors: Anna Luce Sette, Patrice François, Philippe Lesprit, Virginie Vitrat, Olivier Rogeaux, Emma Breugnon, Marion Baldeyrou, Véronique Mondain, Bertrand Issartel, Solen Kerneis, Sylvain Diamantis, Delphine Poitrenaud, Bastien Boussat and Patricia Pavese
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:502
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  26. Multimorbidity is a common phenomenon among patients treated in general practices. Key challenges within this group include functional difficulties, polypharmacy, treatment burden, fragmentation of care, reduc...

    Authors: Renate Stemmer, Britta Büchler, Matthias Büttner, Christina Dera-Ströhm, Joachim Klein and Emilio Gianicolo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:501
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  27. Survival for children with sickle cell disease (SCD) has improved significantly. However, patients with SCD still encounter several impediments to accessing adequate healthcare. Rural and medically underserved...

    Authors: Seethal A. Jacob, Jillian Bouck, Roua Daas, Meghan Drayton Jackson, Julia E. LaMotte and Aaron E. Carroll
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:500
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  28. Hospital at home (HaH) provides acute healthcare services in patients’ homes instead of traditional in-patient care. Research has reported positive outcomes for patients and reduced costs. Although HaH has dev...

    Authors: Lillian Karlsen, Bente Prytz Mjølstad, Bjarte Bye Løfaldli and Anne-Sofie Helvik
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:499
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  29. Using a validated instrument to measure palliative care (PC) educational needs of health professionals is an important step in understanding how best to educate a well-versed PC workforce within a national hea...

    Authors: Rebecca L. Edwards, Marie Bakitas, Peng Li, Dingle Spence, Eulalia Kahwa, Mark Stoltenberg, Nataliya V. Ivankova, Kaesha Thomas, Kammar Segree, Syed Matthew Kodilinye and Adelais Markaki
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:498
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  30. Venous access devices commonly used in clinical practice for long-term chemotherapy of breast cancer include central venous catheters (CVCs), peripherally inserted central venous catheters (PICCs), and implant...

    Authors: Na Chen, Qing Yang, Yin Feng Li, Qin Guo, De Yu Huang and Jia Ling Peng
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:497
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  31. To explore the impact of COVID-19 on the implementation of bundled interventions to improve the engagement and retention of Black women in HIV care.

    Authors: Linda Sprague Martinez, Judith C. Scott, Melanie Rocco, Serena Rajabiun, Cecilia Flores Rodriguez, Ramona Cummings, Erin McKinney-Prupis, Malika Minott, Joy Walker-Jones, Alicia Downes and Angela Wangari Walter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:496
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  32. Severe overcrowding of emergency departments (EDs) impacts the quality of healthcare. One factor of this overcrowding is precariousness, but it has rarely been considered a key factor in designing intervention...

    Authors: Riwan Naït Salem, Michel Rotily, Themistoklis Apostolidis, Sophie Odena, Aurore Lamouroux, Célia Chischportich, Nicolas Persico and Pascal Auquier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:495
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  33. Mental health and substance use disorders disproportionately affect people with HIV (PWH), and may have been exacerbated during COVID-19. The Promoting Access to Care Engagement (PACE) trial was designed to as...

    Authors: Alexandra N. Lea, Tory M. Levine, Thibaut Davy-Mendez, Amy Leibowitz, Andrea Altschuler, Jason Flamm, C. Bradley Hare, Mitchell N. Luu, Michael J. Silverberg and Derek D. Satre
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:494
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  34. Behavioural sciences have been shown to support the development of more effective interventions aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles. However, the operationalization of this knowledge seems to be sub-optimal ...

    Authors: Ariane Bélanger-Gravel, Isidora Janezic, Sophie Desroches, Marie-Claude Paquette, Frédéric Therrien, Tracie Barnett, Kim L. Lavoie and Lise Gauvin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:493
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  35. The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on healthcare systems around the world, and lack of resources, lack of adequate preparedness and infection control equipment have been highlighted as common challenges....

    Authors: Camilla Seljemo, Siri Wiig, Olav Røise and Eline Ree
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:492
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  36. Measuring the safety culture in Healthcare is an important step in improving patient safety. One of the most commonly used instruments to measure the safety climate is the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ)....

    Authors: Teodor Pevec, Tit Albreht and Eva Turk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:491
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  37. Although primary health care (PHC) has been proven to be effective in preventing and treating chronic diseases, the visits rate of PHC institutions is still not ideal. Some patients initially express a willing...

    Authors: Shiyin Wu, Shanshan Du, Ruimei Feng, Wenbin Liu and Weimin Ye
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:490
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  39. Refugees are at an increased risk of developing symptoms of mental disorders but face various structural and socio-cultural barriers to accessing mental health care. The SPIRIT project (Scaling-up Psychologica...

    Authors: Julia Spaaij, Daniela C. Fuhr, Aemal Akhtar, Luisa Casanova, Tobias Klein, Matthis Schick, Sonja Weilenmann, Bayard Roberts and Naser Morina
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:488
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  40. The COVID-19 pandemic has presented various challenges, one of which is the discovery that after the acute episode, around 30% of patients experience persistent symptoms or develop new ones, now known as long ...

    Authors: Souhir Chelly, Sourour Rouis, Olfa Ezzi, Asma Ammar, Sami Fitouri, Asma Soua, Ines Fathallah, Mansour Njah and Mohamed Mahjoub
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:487
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  41. Healthcare cost is increasing rapidly in Singapore. Moving towards a value-based healthcare framework enables a sustainable health system. The National University Hospital (NUH) implemented the Value Driven Ou...

    Authors: Jian Ming Hoong, Brent Gibbons, Benedict Loh, Clement Tan and Cynthia Chen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:486
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  42. During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was considerable uncertainty surrounding epidemiological and clinical aspects of SARS-CoV-2. Governments around the world, starting from varying levels o...

    Authors: Peter U. Eze, Nicholas Geard, Christopher M. Baker, Patricia T. Campbell and Iadine Chades
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:485
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  43. The aims of this research were to provide a better understanding of the specific evidence needs for assessment of clinical and cost-effectiveness of cell and gene therapies, and to explore the extent that the ...

    Authors: Michael Drummond, Oriana Ciani, Giulia Fornaro, Claudio Jommi, Eva Susanne Dietrich, Jaime Espin, Jean Mossman and Gerard de Pouvourville
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:484
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  44. During the COVID-19 pandemic, health care had to find new ways to care for patients while reducing infection transmission. The role of telemedicine role has grown exponentially.

    Authors: Morag Tolvi, Lotta-Maria Oksanen, Lasse Lehtonen, Ahmed Geneid, Pia Männikkö, Hellevi Ruokonen, Anna Majander, Susan Arminen and Leena-Maija Aaltonen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:483
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  45. The identification of dyadic subgroups of individuals living with dementia and their informal caregivers can help to design effective tailored support. In a previous German study, we identified six dementia dy...

    Authors: Henrik Wiegelmann, Karin Wolf-Ostermann, Niels Janssen, Hein van Hout, Janet L. MacNeil Vroomen and Farhad Arzideh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:482
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  46. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to evaluate the course of self-reported mental distress and quality of life (QoL) of physicians, working in the outpatient care (POC). Outcomes were compared with a co...

    Authors: Sabine Mogwitz, Christian Albus, Petra Beschoner, Yesim Erim, Franziska Geiser, Lucia Jerg-Bretzke, Eva Morawa, Susann Steudte-Schmiedgen, Gloria-Beatrice Wintermann and Kerstin Weidner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:481
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  47. Health service utilisation changes across the life-course and may be influenced by contextual factors at different times. There is some evidence that men engage less with preventive health services, including ...

    Authors: Koen Simons, Owen Bradfield, Matthew J. Spittal and Tania King
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:480
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  48. Norwegian municipalities had diverse strategies for handling tasks related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The emergency primary health care services were involved to different extents. The aim of this study was to ...

    Authors: Vivian Midtbø, Ingrid Hjulstad Johansen and Steinar Hunskaar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:479
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  49. The increasing number of chronic diseases consumes a large amount of health resources and puts a huge burden on health service system. The integrated management of chronic diseases in Sanming City aims to impr...

    Authors: Li Teng, Yue Dai, Tao Peng, Yuan Su, Lingyi Pan and Yueping Li
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:477
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  50. The hospital environment is very dynamic and faces many internal and external changes. Healthcare knowledge and technology are developing at a swift pace. This study investigated the relationship between succe...

    Authors: Shoaib Rafiei, Mohammad Mehrtak, Mohammad Amerzadeh, Sima Rafiei, Saeideh Moosavi and Rohollah Kalhor
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:474
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