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  1. Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of mortality among people living with HIV (PLHIV), despite the availability of effective preventive therapy. The TEKO trial is assessing the impact of using a blood test,...

    Authors: Deanna Kerrigan, Carrie Tudor, Katlego Motlhaoleng, Limakatso Lebina, Cokiswa Qomfu, Ebrahim Variava, Sandy Chon, Neil Martinson and Jonathan E. Golub
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:288
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Polish people are the biggest migrant group in the UK and the scholarship shows that they are attentive to their healthcare needs and seek to fulfil them by using various services both within and outside the B...

    Authors: Giuseppe Troccoli, Chris Moreh, Derek McGhee and Athina Vlachantoni
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1316
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  3. Tuberculosis (TB) remains the prime killer disease among infectious diseases. TB control depends on early case detection and treatment in a directly observed treatment short course (DOTS) programme. The succes...

    Authors: Bezawit Temesgen Sima, Tefera Belachew and Fekadu Abebe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:19
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  4. The home and community care sector is one of the fastest growing sectors globally and most prominently in mature industrialized countries. Personal support workers (PSWs) are the largest occupational group in ...

    Authors: Isik U. Zeytinoglu, Margaret Denton, Catherine Brookman, Sharon Davies and Firat K. Sayin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:427
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  5. Older people living in care homes are particularly susceptible to infections and antibiotics are therefore used frequently for this population. However, there is limited information on antibiotic prescribing i...

    Authors: Catherine M. Smith, Haydn Williams, Arnoupe Jhass, Selina Patel, Elise Crayton, Fabiana Lorencatto, Susan Michie, Andrew C. Hayward and Laura J. Shallcross
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:555
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Death certificates (DC) are one of the most important medico-legal documents that physicians work through. DCs are extensively used in health statistics for epidemiological studies, and in health policy planni...

    Authors: Leison Maharjan, Aarzoo Shah, Khagendra Bahadur Shrestha and Gambhir Shrestha
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:507
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  7. The Integrated eDiagnosis Approach (IeDA), centred on an electronic Clinical Decision Support System (eCDSS) developed in line with national Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) guidelines, was im...

    Authors: Sophie Sarrassat, James J. Lewis, Arsene S. Some, Serge Somda, Simon Cousens and Karl Blanchet
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:354
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  8. We aimed to describe healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) and healthcare costs in patients with newly confirmed lupus nephritis (LN) in the United States over a 5-year follow-up period.

    Authors: Christopher F. Bell, Benjamin Wu, Shirley P. Huang, Bernard Rubin, Carlyne M. Averell, Benjamin Chastek and Erin M. Hulbert
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:691
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  9. Ethnic minority groups from Asia and Africa living in Western countries have a higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) than the general population. We aimed to assess ethnic differences in diabetes care by...

    Authors: Anh Thi Tran, Tore Julsrud Berg, Bjørn Gjelsvik, Ibrahimu Mdala, Geir Thue, John Graham Cooper, Kjersti Nøkleby, Tor Claudi, Åsne Bakke, Sverre Sandberg and Anne Karen Jenum
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:904
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  10. Addressing family planning (FP) needs of people living with HIV is an effective response to HIV prevention. Healthy timing and spacing of births help ensure the health and well-being of all women and infants, ...

    Authors: Rajani Pokharel, Geeta Bhattarai, Namuna Shrestha and Sharad Onta
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:836
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  11. Universal health coverage is high on national health agendas of many countries at the moment. Absence of financial hardship is a key component of universal health coverage and should be monitored regularly. Ho...

    Authors: Priyanka Saksena, Thomas Smith and Fabrizio Tediosi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:577
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  12. Addressing the Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) needs of young people remains a big challenge. This study explored experiences and perceptions of young people in Kenya aged 10–24 with regard to their SRH n...

    Authors: Pamela M Godia, Joyce M Olenja, Jan J Hofman and Nynke van den Broek
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:172
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  13. The role of the pharmacist has changed from dispensing medicines, to working with other healthcare professionals to assure appropriate medication therapy management. This study assessed community pharmacists’ ...

    Authors: Dalia EL-Kaffash, Ebtisam Fetohy and Azza Mehanna
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1479
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  14. Social accountability has been emphasised as an important strategy to increase the quality, equity, and responsiveness of health services. In many countries, health facility committees (HFCs) provide the accou...

    Authors: Elsbet Lodenstein, Eric Mafuta, Adolphe C. Kpatchavi, Jean Servais, Marjolein Dieleman, Jacqueline E. W. Broerse, Alpha Amadou Bano Barry, Thérèse M. N. Mambu and Jurrien Toonen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:403
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  15. EU Decision 1082/2013/EU on serious cross-border health threats provides a legal basis for collaboration between EU Member States, and between international and European level institutions on preparedness, pre...

    Authors: John Kinsman, John Angrén, Fredrik Elgh, Maria Furberg, Paola A. Mosquera, Laura Otero-García, René Snacken, Tarik Derrough, Paloma Carrillo Santisteve, Massimo Ciotti and Svetla Tsolova
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:528
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  16. To address the maldistribution of healthcare providers and the shortage of physicians in geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas of the Philippines, the Philippine National Rural Physician Deployment P...

    Authors: Erika Louise L. Flores, Edric Matthew R. Manahan, Miguel Paulo B. Lacanilao, Isabella Ma. Beatriz T. Ladaw, Mico Martin B. Mallillin, Nikolai Thadeus Q. Mappatao, Juan Alfonso Leonardia and Veincent Christian F. Pepito
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1201
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  17. Health professionals’ training is a key element to address unhealthy alcohol use in Primary Care (PC). Education about alcohol use can be effective in improving PC provider’s knowledge and skills addressing al...

    Authors: Esperanza Romero-Rodríguez, Luis Ángel Pérula de Torres, Roger Ruiz Moral, José Ángel Fernández García, Juan Manuel Parras Rejano, Ana Roldán Villalobos and Francisco Camarelles Guillem
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:877
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  18. Integrated delivery of primary health care (PHC) services is a health reform recommended for achieving ambitious targets of the Sustainable Development Goals and Universal Health Coverage, responding to growin...

    Authors: N. Leon and H. Xu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:169
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  20. India has the distinction of financing its healthcare mainly through out-of-pocket expenses by individual families contributing to catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment. Nearly 70 % of the expendi...

    Authors: N. S. Prashanth, Maya Annie Elias, Manoj Kumar Pati, Praveenkumar Aivalli, C. M. Munegowda, Srinath Bhanuprakash, S. M. Sadhana, Bart Criel, Maryam Bigdeli and Narayanan Devadasan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:421
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  21. Bangladesh is a highly populous country with three-quarters rural population. Pressing national shortages in health professionals has resulted in high vacancy rates in rural areas. These are compounded by exce...

    Authors: Emmanuel Kwame Darkwa, M. Sophia Newman, Mahmud Kawkab and Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:344
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. The challenge of priority setting (PS) in health care within contexts of severe resource limitations has continued to receive attention. Accountability for Reasonableness (AFR) has emerged as a useful framewor...

    Authors: Joseph M Zulu, Charles Michelo, Carol Msoni, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Jens Byskov and Astrid Blystad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:75
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  23. The Scottish Government’s ambition is to ensure that health services are co-designed with the communities they serve. Crohn’s and Colitis UK and the Scottish Government acknowledged the need to review and upda...

    Authors: Mariyana Schoultz, Leah Macaden and Angus J. M. Watson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:231
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  24. Out- of-pocket health expenditures (OOPs) constitute a significant proportion of total health expenditures in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), leading to an increased likelihood of exposure to fi...

    Authors: Adeyemi Okunogbe, Joel Hähnle, Bosede F. Rotimi, Tanimola M. Akande and Wendy Janssens
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1557
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  25. Analysis of patient mobility in a country not only gives an idea of how the health-care system works, but also can be a guideline to determine the quality of health care and health disparity among regions. Eve...

    Authors: Selman Delil, Rahmi Nurhan Çelik, Sayın San and Murat Dundar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:458
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  26. Influence strategies such as persuasion and interpersonal leverage are used in mental health care to influence patient behaviour and improve treatment adherence. One ethical concern about using such strategies...

    Authors: Emanuele Valenti and Domenico Giacco
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1273
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  27. Data regarding comorbidities of hepatitis C virus infection (HCV) in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) are lacking. The present study aimed to determine the prevalence and risk factors of HCV among Saudi patie...

    Authors: Ebtesam M. Ba-Essa, Eman I. Mobarak and Nasser M. Al-Daghri
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:313
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  28. Assessing of the costs of treating disease is necessary to demonstrate cost-effectiveness and to estimate the budget impact of new interventions and therapeutic innovations. However, there are few comprehensiv...

    Authors: Julieta Corral, Josep Alfons Espinàs, Francesc Cots, Laura Pareja, Judit Solà, Rebeca Font and Josep Maria Borràs
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:70
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  29. NHS Direct, introduced in 1998, has provided 24/7 telephone-based healthcare advice and information to the public in England and Wales. National studies have suggested variation in the uptake of this service a...

    Authors: Erica J Cook, Gurch Randhawa, Shirley Large, Andy Guppy, Angel M Chater and Nasreen Ali
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:487
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  30. The Eastern Cape Province reports among the poorest health service indicators in South Africa with some of its districts standing out as worst performing as regards maternal health indicators. To understand ke...

    Authors: Martina Lembani, Helen de Pinho, Peter Delobelle, Christina Zarowsky, Thubelihle Mathole and Alastair Ager
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:912
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  31. Existing studies analyzing the impact of state concussion laws have found an increase in concussion-related medical encounters post-law, in some instances, such increases were observed during the pre-law perio...

    Authors: Lihong Huang, Lindsay Sullivan and Jingzhen Yang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:898
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  32. Women after a spinal cord injury (SCI), who decide to get pregnant and to become mothers, have special health care service needs. This study aims to identify the perceived service needs of woman with SCI durin...

    Authors: Sue Bertschy, Szilvia Geyh, Jürgen Pannek and Thorsten Meyer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:234
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  33. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) enabled millions of people to gain coverage that was expected to improve access to healthcare services. However, it is unclear the extent of the policy’s impact on Federally Quali...

    Authors: Angelo Ercia
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:920
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  34. This study evaluated the Health Works (HWs) nutritional counselling skills and information shared with caregivers. This was a cross-sectional study in which an observation checklist was used to examine Growth ...

    Authors: Christiana Nsiah-Asamoah, Kingsley Kwadwo Asare Pereko and Freda Dzifa Intiful
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:817
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  35. In Mali, where rates of attendance at healthcare facilities remain far below what is needed, three user fee exemption policies were instituted to promote access to care. These related to HIV/AIDS treatment, as...

    Authors: Laurence Touré
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15(Suppl 3):S8
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 3

  36. The COVID-19 pandemic caused delays in care-seeking due to fears of infection and decreased healthcare access globally. These delays have been linked in some countries to COVID-19 perceptions, decreased income...

    Authors: Natalie E. Conboy, Andre Nickow, John Koku Awoonor-Williams and Lisa R. Hirschhorn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:785
    Content type: Research Published on:

  37. The few existing studies on herpes labialis among health care workers have been predominantly among non-dental health care workers. The purpose of this study was to determine Nigerian dental health care provid...

    Authors: Clement Chinedu Azodo and Agnes O. Umoh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:383
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  38. Chronic diseases are becoming a huge threat to the Chinese health system. Although the New Round of Medical Reform aims to improve this, the chronic disease management in rural China is still worrying as it re...

    Authors: Shaofan Chen, Bo Burström, Vibeke Sparring and Dongfu Qian
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:567
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  39. Personal support services enable many individuals to stay in their homes, but there are no standard ways to classify need for functional support in home and community care settings. The goal of this project wa...

    Authors: Chi-Ling Joanna Sinn, Aaron Jones, Janet Legge McMullan, Nancy Ackerman, Nancy Curtin-Telegdi, Leslie Eckel and John P. Hirdes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:775
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. No instruments, to our knowledge, exist to assess leadership competency in existing and emerging allied health professional (AHP) leaders. This paper describes the development and preliminary exploration of th...

    Authors: Hui-Gek Ang, Jeremy Meng-Yeow Koh, Jeffrey Lee and Yong-Hao Pua
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:64
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Disparities in health persist even in high-income countries, and healthcare systems do not reach disadvantaged families as needed. A number of home-visiting interventions in high-income countries offering peer...

    Authors: Per Kåks and Mats Målqvist
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:682
    Content type: Review Published on:

  43. Birth registration provides the basis for population data. Previous studies have examined that collaboration between the health sector and civil registration can help improve birth registration rate. However, ...

    Authors: Clara Siagian, Wenny Wandasari, Feri Sahputra and Santi Kusumaningrum
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:889
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Diabetes self-management education (DSME) is an effective intervention for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM); nevertheless, patient participation in this type of programme is low. Implementation of...

    Authors: Emmanuel Allory, Hélène Lucas, Arnaud Maury, Ronan Garlantezec, Candan Kendir, Anthony Chapron and Laure Fiquet
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:855
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  45. The National Organization for Healthcare Provision (EOPYY) originates from the recent reform in Greek healthcare, aiming amidst economic predicament, at the rationalization of health expenditure and reactivati...

    Authors: Nikos Polyzos, Stefanos Karakolias, Costas Dikeos, Mamas Theodorou, Catherine Kastanioti, Kalomira Mama, Periklis Polizoidis, Christoforos Skamnakis, Charalampos Tsairidis and Eleutherios Thireos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:583
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Despite the adoption of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act in 1972, access to safe abortion services remains limited in India. Awareness of the legality of abortion also remains low, leading many women t...

    Authors: Sushanta K Banerjee, Kathryn L Andersen, Traci L Baird, Bela Ganatra, Sangeeta Batra and Janardan Warvadekar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:227
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. In the context of ever-growing health expenditure and limited resources, economic evaluations aid in making evidence-informed policy decisions. Cost-utility analysis (CUA) is often used, and CUA data synthesis...

    Authors: Bhavani Shankara Bagepally, Usa Chaikledkaew, Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk, John Attia and Ammarin Thakkinstian
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:202
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  49. Access to specialty care remains a challenge for primary care providers and patients. Implementation of electronic referral and/or consultation (eCR) systems provides an opportunity for innovations in the deli...

    Authors: Delphine S. Tuot, Kiren Leeds, Elizabeth J. Murphy, Urmimala Sarkar, Courtney R. Lyles, Tekeshe Mekonnen and Alice Hm Chen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:568
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. The incidence and mortality rates of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in China have recently increased. This study performed a long-term economic evaluation of the first-line treatment strategi...

    Authors: Yuan Hong, Xichuang Chen, Yuanquan Hong, Xingfang Xiao, Yan Wang, Xiaohong You, Jingyi Mi, Tao Zhou, Panpan Zheng and Zhihu Huang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1355
    Content type: Research Published on:
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