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  1. In the German rehabilitation system, primary care physicians (PCPs), occupational health physicians (OPs), and rehabilitation physicians (RPs) fulfill different distinct functions and roles. While effective co...

    Authors: Jan M. Stratil, Monika A. Rieger and Susanne Voelter-Mahlknecht
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:769
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Zambia’s under-resourced public health system will not be able to deliver on its health-related Millennium Development Goals without a substantial acceleration in mortality reduction. Reducing mortality will d...

    Authors: Jeffrey SA Stringer, Angela Chisembele-Taylor, Carla J Chibwesha, Harmony F Chi, Helen Ayles, Handson Manda, Wendy Mazimba, Linnaea Schuttner, Ntazana Sindano, Frank B Williams, Namwinga Chintu and Roma Chilengi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13(Suppl 2):S7
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 2

  3. Black cisgender and transgender women are disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic compared to women of other racial and ethnic identities. Twelve demonstration sites across the United States are adapti...

    Authors: Serena Rajabiun, Corliss Heath, Angela Wangari Walter, Judith C. Scott, Alicia Downes, Esther Jennings, Howard J. Cabral, Cecilia Flores-Rodriguez and Linda Sprague Martinez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:551
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  4. Guideline adherence in physical therapy is far from optimal, which has consequences for the effectiveness and efficiency of physical therapy care. Programmes to enhance guideline adherence have, so far, been r...

    Authors: Geert M Rutten, Janneke Harting, L Kay Bartholomew, Angelique Schlief, Rob AB Oostendorp and Nanne K de Vries
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:194
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  5. Implementing quality improvement programs that require behavior change on the part of health care professionals and patients has proven difficult in routine care. Significant randomized trial evidence supports...

    Authors: David A Ganz, Elizabeth M Yano, Debra Saliba and Paul G Shekelle
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:206
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated wide-ranging adaptations to the organisation of health systems, and primary care is no exception. This article aims to collate insights on the role of primary care during the...

    Authors: Markus Kraus, Christoph Stegner, Miriam Reiss, Monika Riedel, Anne Sofie Børsch, Karsten Vrangbaek, Morgane Michel, Kathleen Turmaine, Borbála Cseh, Csaba László Dózsa, Roberto Dandi, Angelo Rossi Mori and Thomas Czypionka
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1054
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  7. Patients with headache often seek urgent medical care to treat pain and associated symptoms that do not respond to therapeutic options at home. Urgent Cares (UCs) may be suitable for the evaluation and treatme...

    Authors: Mia T. Minen, Dennique Khanns, Jenny Guiracocha, Annika Ehrlich, Fawad A. Khan, Ashhar S. Ali, Marius Birlea, Niranjan N. Singh, Addie Peretz and I. V. Larry Charleston
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:162
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  8. A large evidence-practice gap exists regarding provision of nutrition to patients following surgery. The aim of this study was to evaluate the processes supporting the implementation of an intervention designe...

    Authors: Megan Rattray, Andrea P. Marshall, Ben Desbrow, Michael von Papen and Shelley Roberts
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:514
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  9. In the literature there are only few empirical studies that analyse the decision makers’ reasoning to contract out health care and social services to private sector. However, the decisions on the delivery patt...

    Authors: Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen, Juhani Lehto and Sari Miettinen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:201
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. It is generally recognised that continuous quality improvement (CQI) programs support development of high quality primary health care systems. However, there is limited evidence demonstrating their system-wide...

    Authors: Veronica Matthews, Gill Schierhout, James McBroom, Christine Connors, Catherine Kennedy, Ru Kwedza, Sarah Larkins, Elizabeth Moore, Sandra Thompson, David Scrimgeour and Ross Bailie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:578
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  11. Routine childhood immunization coverage in Pakistan remains sub-par, in part, due to suboptimal utilization of existing vaccination services. Quality of vaccine delivery can affect both supply and demand for i...

    Authors: Danya Arif Siddiqi, Sara Abdullah, Vijay Kumar Dharma, Tasleem Khamisani, Mubarak Taighoon Shah, Hamidreza Setayesh, Aamir Javed Khan and Subhash Chandir
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:727
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  12. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and American Society for Surgery of the Hand recently proposed three quality measures for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS): Measure 1 - Discouraging routine use of Magn...

    Authors: Alex H. S. Harris, Esther L. Meerwijk, Qian Ding, Amber W. Trickey, Andrea K. Finlay, Eric M. Schmidt, Catherine M. Curtin, Erika D. Sears, Teryl K. Nuckols and Robin N. Kamal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:861
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  13. Person-centered care (PCC) emphasize the importance of supporting individuals’ involvement in care provided and self-care. PCC has become more important in chronic care as the number of people living with chro...

    Authors: Emma Granström, Carolina Wannheden, Mats Brommels, Helena Hvitfeldt and Monica E. Nyström
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1108
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  14. Hospital performance quality assessments inform patients, providers, payers, and purchasers in making healthcare decisions. These assessments have been developed by government, private and non-profit organizat...

    Authors: Kelly J. Thomas Craig, Mollie M. McKillop, Hu T. Huang, Judy George, Ekta S. Punwani and Kyu B. Rhee
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:640
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  15. Communication and swallowing disorders are a common consequence of stroke. Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have been created to assist health professionals to put research evidence into clinical practice a...

    Authors: Kathleen A Hadely, Emma Power and Robyn O’Halloran
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:110
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  16. Unresolved medication discrepancies during hospitalization can contribute to adverse drug events, resulting in patient harm. Discrepancies can be reduced by performing medication reconciliation; however, effec...

    Authors: Amanda H Salanitro, Sunil Kripalani, JoAnne Resnic, Stephanie K Mueller, Tosha B Wetterneck, Katherine Taylor Haynes, Jason Stein, Peter J Kaboli, Stephanie Labonville, Edward Etchells, Daniel J Cobaugh, David Hanson, Jeffrey L Greenwald, Mark V Williams and Jeffrey L Schnipper
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:230
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  17. Care for persistent somatic symptoms and functional disorders (PSS/FD) is often fragmented. Collaborative care networks (CCNs) may improve care quality for PSS/FD. Effectiveness likely depends on their functio...

    Authors: Nick Mamo, Lineke M. Tak, Manouk A. W. van de Klundert, Tim C. Olde Hartman, Judith G. M. Rosmalen and Denise J. C. Hanssen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:225
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  18. Leadership has a vital role regarding quality of care in nursing homes. However, few studies have explored upper-level managers’ views on how to assure that residents receive high quality of care. Therefore, t...

    Authors: Brigitte Lalude Asante, Franziska Zúñiga and Lauriane Favez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1090
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  19. 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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  20. Patient-centeredness is a key component of health care quality. However, patient-centered measures of quality have not been developed in injury care. In response to this challenge, we developed the Quality of ...

    Authors: Niklas Bobrovitz, Maria Santana, Theresa Kline, John Kortbeek and Henry T Stelfox
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:98
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  21. Technology for timely feedback of data has the potential to support quality improvement (QI) in health care. However, such technology may pose difficulties stemming from the complex interaction with the settin...

    Authors: Sara Tolf, Johan Mesterton, Daniel Söderberg, Isis Amer-Wåhlin and Pamela Mazzocato
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:816
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. There is noted increase in attention towards implementation of evidence-based interventions in response to the stillbirth burden in low- and middle-income countries including Uganda. Recent results reporting s...

    Authors: Eric Ssegujja and Michelle Andipatin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:715
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  24. The growing adoption of continuous quality improvement (CQI) initiatives in healthcare has generated a surge in research interest to gain a deeper understanding of CQI. However, comprehensive evidence regardin...

    Authors: Aklilu Endalamaw, Resham B Khatri, Tesfaye Setegn Mengistu, Daniel Erku, Eskinder Wolka, Anteneh Zewdie and Yibeltal Assefa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:487
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  25. Several review studies have shown that 3.4% to 16.6% of patients in acute care hospitals experience one or more adverse events. Adverse events (AEs) in hospitals constitute a significant problem with serious c...

    Authors: Paulo Sousa, António Sousa Uva, Florentino Serranheira, Carla Nunes and Ema S Leite
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:311
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  26. With increasing recognition of the quality and safety issues in residential aged care, there is an urgent need to better understand what skills senior managers require to deliver on the spectrum of leadership ...

    Authors: Nathan Dawes and Stephanie M. Topp
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:667
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  27. Conceptualization of quality of care – in terms of what individuals, groups and organizations include in their meaning of quality, is an unexplored research area. It is important to understand how quality is c...

    Authors: Siri Wiig, Karina Aase, Christian von Plessen, Susan Burnett, Francisco Nunes, Anne Marie Weggelaar, Boel Anderson-Gare, Johan Calltorp and Naomi Fulop
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:478
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  28. P.Re.Val.E. is the most comprehensive comparative evaluation program of healthcare outcomes in Lazio, an Italian region, and the first Italian study to make health provider performance data available to the pu...

    Authors: Danilo Fusco, Anna P Barone, Chiara Sorge, Mariangela D'Ovidio, Massimo Stafoggia, Adele Lallo, Marina Davoli and Carlo A Perucci
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:25
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  29. Hospitals undertake numerous initiatives searching to improve the quality of care they provide, but these efforts are often disappointing. Current models guiding improvement tend to undervalue the tensional na...

    Authors: Francisco G. Nunes, Glenn Robert, Anne Marie Weggelaar-Jansen, Siri Wiig, Karina Aase, Anette Karltun and Naomi J. Fulop
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:658
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  30. Middle Managers (MMs) are thought to play a pivotal role as knowledge brokers (KBs) in healthcare organizations. However, the role of MMs who function as KBs (MM KBs) in health care is under-studied. Research ...

    Authors: Faith Boutcher, Whitney Berta, Robin Urquhart and Anna R. Gagliardi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:11
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  32. Scaling up continuous quality improvement (CQI) processes could be key in achieving the 95:95:95 cascade and global HIV targets. This paper describes the experiences and outcomes related to implementing CQI pr...

    Authors: Peter Memiah, Josephine Tlale, Mope Shimabale, Sarah Nzyoka, Patience Komba, Jackson Sebeza, Adesina Tina and Violet Makokha
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:711
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  35. Open Disclosure (OD) is open and timely communication about harmful events arising from health care with those affected. It is an entitlement of service-users and an aspect of their recovery, as well as an imp...

    Authors: Mary Adams, Julie Hartley, Natalie Sanford, Alexander Edward Heazell, Rick Iedema, Charlotte Bevan, Maria Booker, Maureen Treadwell and Jane Sandall
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:285
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  36. Unprofessional behaviour among hospital staff is common. Such behaviour negatively impacts on staff wellbeing and patient outcomes. Professional accountability programs collect information about unprofessional...

    Authors: Kate Churruca, Johanna Westbrook, Kathleen L Bagot, Ryan D McMullan, Rachel Urwin, Neil Cunningham, Rebecca Mitchell, Peter Hibbert, Neroli Sunderland, Erwin Loh and Natalie Taylor
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:584
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  37. The Manyata program is a quality improvement initiative for private healthcare facilities in India which provided maternity care services. Under this initiative, technical assistance was provided to selected f...

    Authors: Tapas Sadasivan Nair, Parvez Memon, Sanjay Tripathi, Ashish Srivastava, Meshach Sunny Kujur, Deepti Singh, Parag Bhamare, Vikas Yadav, Vineet Kumar Srivastava, Suranjeen Prasad Pallipamula, Gulnoza Usmanova and Somesh Kumar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:802
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  38. In 2017, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) started developing a methodological framework for a guideline-based quality assurance (QA) scheme to improve cancer quality of care. During the fi...

    Authors: Elena Parmelli, Miranda Langendam, Thomas Piggott, Jan Adolfsson, Elie A. Akl, David Armstrong, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Romina Brignardello-Petersen, Markus Follmann, Zbigniew Leś, Joerg J. Meerpohl, Luciana Neamtiu, Amir Qaseem, Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Zuleika Saz-Parkinson, Philip J. van der Wees…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:173
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  39. The aim of the present study was to assess the performance of three primary care-led initiatives providing structured care to patients with Type 2 diabetes in Ireland, a country with minimal incentives to prom...

    Authors: Sheena Mc Hugh, Paul Marsden, Carmel Brennan, Katie Murphy, Celine Croarkin, Joe Moran, Velma Harkins and Ivan J Perry
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:348
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  40. Referral management centres (RMC) for elective referrals are designed to facilitate the primary to secondary care referral path, by improving quality of referrals and easing pressures on finite secondary care ...

    Authors: Ally Xiang, Helen Smith, Paul Hine, Katy Mason, Stefania Lanza, Anna Cave, Jonathan Sergeant, Zoe Nicholson and Peter Devlin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:310
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  41. Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) are recognized as an important indicator of high quality care and person-centeredness. PREMs are increasingly adopted for paediatric care, but there is little publi...

    Authors: Ilaria Corazza, Kendall Jamieson Gilmore, Francesca Menegazzo and Valts Abols
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:93
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  42. Obstructive sleep apnea is common among rural Veterans, however, access to diagnostic sleep testing, sleep specialists, and treatment devices is limited. To improve access to sleep care, the Veterans Health Ad...

    Authors: Francesca M. Nicosia, Bhavika Kaul, Annette M. Totten, Molly C. Silvestrini, Katherine Williams, Mary A. Whooley and Kathleen F. Sarmiento
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:77
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. A principal reason for low use of public health care services is the perception of inferior quality of care. Studying health service user (HSU) experiences with their care and their perception of health servic...

    Authors: Alma Lucila Sauceda-Valenzuela, Veronika J Wirtz, Yared Santa-Ana-Téllez and Maria de la Luz Kageyama-Escobar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:178
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. A key characteristic of healthcare systems that deliver high quality and cost performance in a sustainable way is a systematic approach to capacity and capability building for quality improvement. The aim of t...

    Authors: Peter D. Hibbert, Martin Basedow, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Louise K. Wiles, Robyn Clay-Williams and Robert Padbury
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:588
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Niger demonstrates high fertility and low contraceptive use that are typical in much of the West and Central African region. The government of Niger has committed to increasing modern contraceptive use as part...

    Authors: Ilene S. Speizer, Hachimou Amani, Jennifer Winston, Souleymane Amadou Garba, Amelia Maytan-Joneydi, Illiassou Chaibou Halidou, Lisa M. Calhoun and Abdoul Moumouni Nouhou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1075
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. Understanding of Long COVID has advanced through patient-led initiatives. However, research about barriers to accessing Long COVID services is limited. This study aimed to better understand the need for, acces...

    Authors: Katelyn Brehon, Maxi Miciak, Pam Hung, Shu-Ping Chen, Kadija Perreault, Anne Hudon, Marguerite Wieler, Simone Hunter, Lance Hoddinott, Mark Hall, Katie Churchill, Darren A. Brown, Cary A. Brown, Geoffrey Bostick, Kate Skolnik, Grace Lam…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1396
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  47. Quality indicators (QI) are used in health care to measure quality of service and performance improvement. Health care professionals and organizations caring for patients with injuries need information regardi...

    Authors: Henry T Stelfox, Jamie M Boyd, Sharon E Straus and Anna R Gagliardi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:31
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  48. Immigrant women use less effective contraceptive methods and have a higher risk of unintended pregnancies. Maternal health care services offer a central opportunity to strengthen contraceptive services, especi...

    Authors: Helena Kilander, Maja Weinryb, Malin Vikström, Kerstin Petersson and Elin C. Larsson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:556
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  49. Healthcare technology and quality improvement programs have been identified as a means to influence healthcare costs and healthcare quality in Canada. This study seeks to identify whether the ability to implem...

    Authors: Rajesh K Tyagi, Lori Cook, John Olson and James Belohlav
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:413
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Pharmaceutical companies in Africa need to invest in both facilities and quality management systems to achieve good manufacturing practice (GMP) compliance. Compliance to international GMP standards is importa...

    Authors: Chimezie Anyakora, Obinna Ekwunife, Faith Alozie, Mopa Esuga, Jonathan Ukwuru, Steve Onya and Jude Nwokike
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:665
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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