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  1. Mobile phone technologies including SMS (short message service) have been used to improve the delivery of health services in many countries. However, data on the effects of mobile health technology on patient ...

    Authors: Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Andreas Lechner, Uta Ferrari, Guenter Froeschl, Dewan Shamsul Alam, Rolf Holle, Jochen Seissler and Louis W Niessen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:586
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  2. Cataract is the leading cause of blindness worldwide, with the greatest burden found in low-income countries. Cataract surgery is a curative and cost-effective intervention. Despite major non-governmental orga...

    Authors: Esmael Habtamu, Zebiba Eshete and Matthew J Burton
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:480
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. Quebec is one of the Canadian provinces with the highest rates of cancer incidence and prevalence. A study by the Rossy Cancer Network (RCN) of McGill university assessed six aspects of the patient experience ...

    Authors: M. P. Pomey, M. de Guise, M. Desforges, K. Bouchard, C. Vialaron, L. Normandin, M. Iliescu-Nelea, I. Fortin, I. Ganache, C. Régis, Z. Rosberger, D. Charpentier, L. Bélanger, M. Dorval, D. P. Ghadiri, M. Lavoie-Tremblay…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:10
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:67

  4. The existing digital healthcare solutions demand a service development approach that assesses needs, experience, and outcomes, to develop high-value digital healthcare services. The objective of this study was...

    Authors: A. Londral, S. Azevedo, P. Dias, C. Ramos, J. Santos, F. Martins, R. Silva, H. Semedo, C. Vital, A. Gualdino, J. Falcão, L. V. Lapão, P. Coelho and J. G. Fragata
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:680
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  5. Successful implementation of digital health systems requires contextually sensitive solutions. Working directly with system users and drawing on implementation science frameworks are both recommended. We sough...

    Authors: S. E. Knowles, A. Ercia, F. Caskey, M. Rees, K. Farrington and S. N. Van der Veer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:706
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  6. Children with medical complexity (CMC) require the expertise of many care providers spanning different disciplines, institutions, and settings of care. This leads to duplicate health records, breakdowns in com...

    Authors: Sherri Adams, Madison Beatty, Clara Moore, Arti Desai, Leah Bartlett, Erin Culbert, Eyal Cohen, Jennifer Stinson and Julia Orkin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:300
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  7. A goal of health workforce planning is to have the most appropriate workforce available to meet prevailing needs. However, this is a difficult task when considering integrated care, as future workforces may re...

    Authors: Gareth H. Rees, Peter Crampton, Robin Gauld and Stephen MacDonell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:429
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  8. In 2005, the Indian government launched the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to improve the quality of and access to rural public health care. Despite these efforts, recent evidence shows that the rural po...

    Authors: Christina May, Katja Roth and Pradeep Panda
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:182
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  9. In 2003 Ghana introduced a social health insurance scheme which resulted in the separation of purchasing of health services by the health insurance authority on the one hand and the provision of health service...

    Authors: Roger A Atinga, Sylvester A Mensah, Francis Asenso-Boadi and Francis-Xavier Andoh Adjei
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:174
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  10. Antenatal ultrasound scan is a widely accepted component of antenatal care. Studies have looked at the relationship between ultrasound scanning and caesarean section (CS) in certain groups of women in China. H...

    Authors: Kun Huang, Fangbiao Tao, Joanna Raven, Liu Liu, Xiaoyan Wu and Shenglan Tang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:93
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  11. This paper measures the impact of introducing a 10% co-payment on secondary care hospitalization costs for Palestine refugees living in Lebanon (PRL) in all UNRWA contracted hospitals, except for the Red Cresc...

    Authors: Sara Valente de Almeida, Gloria Paolucci, Akihiro Seita and Hala Ghattas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:121
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  12. A just culture is regarded as vital for learning from errors and fostering patient safety. Key to a just culture after incidents is a focus on learning rather than blaming. Existing research on just culture is...

    Authors: Eva van Baarle, Laura Hartman, Sven Rooijakkers, Iris Wallenburg, Jan-Willem Weenink, Roland Bal and Guy Widdershoven
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1035
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  13. An aging population, rise in chronic illnesses, increase in life expectancy and shift towards care being provided at the community level are trends that are collectively creating an urgency to advance hospice ...

    Authors: Allison M Williams, Valorie A Crooks, Kyle Whitfield, Mary-Lou Kelley, Judy-Lynn Richards, Lily DeMiglio and Sarah Dykeman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:147
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  14. Based on positive findings from a randomized controlled trial, Kaiser Permanente's national executive leadership group set an expectation that all Kaiser Permanente and partner hospitals would implement a cons...

    Authors: Richard Della Penna, Helene Martel, Esther B Neuwirth, Jennifer Rice, Marta I Filipski, Jennifer Green and Jim Bellows
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:245
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  15. Measurement-Based Care (MBC) is the routine administration of measures, clinicians’ review of the feedback and discussion of the feedback with their clients, and collaborative evaluation of the treatment plan....

    Authors: Maartje A. M. S. van Sonsbeek, Giel J. M. Hutschemaekers, Jan W. Veerman, Ad Vermulst and Bea G. Tiemens
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:326
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  16. Comparing inpatient fall rates can serve as a benchmark for quality improvement. To improve the comparability of performance between hospitals, adjustments for patient-related fall risk factors that are not mo...

    Authors: Niklaus S Bernet, Irma HJ Everink, Jos MGA Schols, Ruud JG Halfens, Dirk Richter and Sabine Hahn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:225
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  18. According to the Chronic Care Model, productive interactions are crucial to patient outcomes. Despite productive interactions being at the heart of the Model, however, it is unclear what constitutes such an in...

    Authors: N. M. H. Kromme, C. T. B. Ahaus, R. O. B. Gans and H. B. M. van de Wiel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:191
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  19. Access to outpatient mental healthcare can be challenging for patients. In Germany, a national structural reform was implemented in 2017 to accelerate and enhance access to outpatient psychotherapy and reduce ...

    Authors: Regina Poß-Doering, Martin Hegelow, Milena Borchers, Mechthild Hartmann, Johannes Kruse, Hanna Kampling, Gereon Heuft, Carsten Spitzer, Beate Wild, Joachim Szecsenyi and Hans-Christoph Friederich
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1204
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1294

  20. There is uncertainty about the best approaches for advanced airway management (AAM) and the effectiveness of adrenaline treatments in Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). This study aimed to evaluate whether...

    Authors: Yu Wang, Qun Zhang, Guang Bo Qu, Fang Fang, Xiao Kang Dai, Liang Xi Yu and Hong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:546
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  21. One practice in healthcare implementation is patient engagement in quality improvement and systems redesign. Implementers in healthcare systems include clinical leadership, middle managers, quality improvement...

    Authors: Eva N. Woodward, Andrea Isabel Melgar Castillo, Gala True, Cathleen Willging and JoAnn E. Kirchner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:29
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  23. We studied the intention of a group of insurance physicians to use the guidelines for depression, and their behaviour in disability assessments. We considered attitude, social norm and self-efficacy, knowledge...

    Authors: Antonius JM Schellart, Feico Zwerver, Johannes R Anema and Allard J van der Beek
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:400
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  24. Credible evidence has established a link between the level of patient safety culture in healthcare environments and patient outcomes. Patient safety culture in the operating room has received scant attention d...

    Authors: Arinze D.G. Nwosu, Edmund Ossai, Francis Ahaotu, Okechukwu Onwuasoigwe, Adaobi Amucheazi and Irene Akhideno
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1445
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  25. The proliferation of mHealth solutions and eRecord systems is inevitable in developing countries, and ensuring their bi-directional interoperability is essential. Interoperability has been described as the abi...

    Authors: Kagiso Ndlovu, Maurice Mars and Richard E. Scott
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1103
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  26. Self-management interventions consist of multiple components to support people in the management of medical, emotional, and behavioural aspects of their condition, and aim to improve quality of life, function,...

    Authors: Megan Armstrong, Kate Walters, Nathan Davies, Danielle Nimmons, Jennifer Pigott, Joy Read and Anette Schrag
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:92
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  27. There is a global emphasis on engaging community health volunteers (CHVs) in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) to reach to the vast underserved populations that live in rural areas. Retention of CHVs in ...

    Authors: Adelaide M Lusambili, Njeri Nyanja, Sophie Vusha Chabeda, Marleen Temmerman, Lucy Nyaga, Jerim Obure and Anthony Ngugi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:642
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  28. Healthcare teams often consist of geographically dispersed members. Virtual worlds can support immersive, high-quality, multimedia interaction between remote individuals; this study investigated use of virtual...

    Authors: Michael J. Taylor, Chiya Shikaislami, Chris McNicholas, David Taylor, Julie Reed and Ivo Vlaev
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:442
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  29. To improve the effectiveness and efficiency of health service provision in China, the National Health Commission has emphasised that training of all health service managers is essential. However, the implement...

    Authors: Zhanming Liang, Peter Howard, Jian Wang, Min Xu and Mei Zhao
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:281
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  30. The aim was to evaluate the effect of a 12-month individualized health coaching intervention by telephony on clinical outcomes.

    Authors: Kristiina Patja, Pilvikki Absetz, Anssi Auvinen, Kari Tokola, Janne Kytö, Erja Oksman, Risto Kuronen, Timo Ovaska, Kari Harno, Mikko Nenonen, Tom Wiklund, Raimo Kettunen and Martti Talja
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:147
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  32. Long length of stays (LOS) in emergency departments (ED) negatively affect quality of care. Ordering of inappropriate diagnostic tests contributes to long LOS and reduces quality of care. One strategy to chang...

    Authors: Welmoed K. van Deen, Edward S. Cho, Kathryn Pustolski, Dennis Wixon, Shona Lamb, Thomas W. Valente and Michael Menchine
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:270
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  33. Patient safety culture, i.e. a subset of an organization’s culture, has become an important focus of patient safety research. An organization’s culture consists of many cultures, underscoring the importance of...

    Authors: Marita Danielsson, Per Nilsen, Hans Rutberg and Siw Carlfjord
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:543
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  34. It is a qualitative design study that examines points of divergence and convergence in the perspectives on recovery of 36 participants or 12 triads. Each triad comprising a patient, a family member/friend, a c...

    Authors: Sylvie Noiseux, Denise Tribble St-Cyr, Ellen Corin, Pierre-Luc St-Hilaire, Raymond Morissette, Claude Leclerc, Danielle Fleury, Luc Vigneault and Francine Gagnier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:161
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  35. Healthcare systems are overloaded and changing. In response to growing demands on the healthcare systems, new models of healthcare delivery are emerging. Community paramedicine is a novel approach in which par...

    Authors: Julia van Vuuren, Brodie Thomas, Gina Agarwal, Sean MacDermott, Leigh Kinsman, Peter O’Meara and Evelien Spelten
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:29
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  36. This project aimed to optimize communication strategies to support family communication about familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) and improve cascade testing uptake among at-risk relatives. Individuals and fami...

    Authors: Gemme Campbell-Salome, Laney K. Jones, Nicole L. Walters, Kelly M. Morgan, Andrew Brangan, Ilene G. Ladd, Mary P. McGowan, Katherine Wilemon, Tara J. Schmidlen, Emilie Simmons, Marci L. B. Schwartz, Megan N. McMinn, Eric Tricou, Alanna K. Rahm, Catherine D. Ahmed and Amy C. Sturm
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:340
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  37. The NHS is facing substantial pressures to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Optimising workforce modelling is a fundamental component of the recovery plan. The Clinically Lead workforcE and Activity Redesig...

    Authors: Evelyn J. Corner, Matthew Camilleri, Shruti Dholakia, Charlotte Gredal, Tina Hansen, John Jeans, Marie LeNovere, Jacqueline Mallender, Alex Monkhouse, Claire Purkiss, Tai Ken Ting, Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Stephen Welfare, Danny Wood and James Wood
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:366
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  38. This study evaluated the effects of community engagement through social accountability on service users’ values, attitudes and interactions. We conducted a pre–post study of the community and provider driven s...

    Authors: Victoria Boydell, Petrus S. Steyn, Joanna Paula Cordero, Ndema Habib, My Huong Nguyen, Dela Nai, Donat Shamba, Kamil Fuseini, Sigilbert Mrema and James Kiarie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:957
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  39. Crew resource management (CRM) has the potential to enhance patient safety in intensive care units (ICU) by improving the use of non-technical skills. However, CRM evaluation studies in health care are inconcl...

    Authors: Peter F Kemper, Martine de Bruijne, Cathy van Dyck and Cordula Wagner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:304
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  40. Evidence-based practice aims to achieve better health outcomes in the community. It relies on high quality research to inform policy and practice; however research in primary health care continues to lag behin...

    Authors: Xanthe Golenko, Susan Pager and Libby Holden
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:276
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  41. Medication errors (MEs) in hospitals decrease patient satisfaction, increase hospital mortality, lower hospital productivity, and increase in the costs of the health system. This study was conducted to determi...

    Authors: Parvaneh Isfahani, Aliyeh Bazi, Samira Alirezaei, Somayeh Samani, Mohammad Sarani, Fatemeh Boulagh, Mahdieh Poodineh Moghadam and Mahnaz Afshari
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:743
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  42. 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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  43. The inspiration for the present assessment of the nutritional care of medical patients is puzzlement about the divide that exists between the theoretical knowledge about the importance of the diet for ill pers...

    Authors: Karin O Lassen, Jens Olsen, Edvin Grinderslev, Filip Kruse and Merete Bjerrum
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2006 6:7
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  44. To qualitatively explore physiotherapists’ experiences and acceptability of implementing ‘Making Every Contact Count Healthy Conversation Skills’ (MECC HCS) in routine practice with patients with musculoskelet...

    Authors: Amelia Parchment, Wendy Lawrence, Em Rahman, Nick Townsend, Elaine Wainwright and David Wainwright
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1125
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  45. The work of developing clinical practice guidelines began just a little more than ten years ago in China. Up to now, there have been few studies about them.

    Authors: Zhi-hong Zheng, Shu-qi Cui, Xiao-qin Lu, David Zakus, Wan-nian Liang, Fang Huang, Xiao-na Cao, Ya-li Zhao, Xiao-xia Peng, Ke-qin Rao and Jing Wu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:218
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  46. Discussions of health system resilience and emergency management often highlight the importance of coordination and partnership across government and with other stakeholders. However, both coordination and par...

    Authors: Kate Gooding, Maria Paola Bertone, Giulia Loffreda and Sophie Witter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1441
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  47. Uninsured and underinsured patients face specialty care access disparities that prevent them from obtaining the care they need and negatively impact their health and well-being. We aimed to understand how maki...

    Authors: Lauren Bifulco, Lynsey Grzejszczak, Idiana Velez, Tracy Angelocci and Daren Anderson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1133
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  48. Measuring the caregivers' satisfaction is vital for the effectiveness of childcare. Children admitted to pediatric wards require special hospital situations, a bespoke approach from the medical team, and the p...

    Authors: Mohammed Beshir, Tsion Tilahun, Diriba Fufa Hordofa, Gersam Abera, Workineh Tesfaye, Kumale Tolesa Daba, Netsanet Workineh, Samson Nadew Woldeyesus, Tilahun Fufa Debela and Elias Ali Yesuf
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1058
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  50. As part of the implementation of its mission “to integrate hygiene activities into healthcare”, the general directorate of health conducted in 2018 with its technical structures, an evaluation of the implement...

    Authors: Doumbia Mariamou Cissé, Essis Esme Marie Laure, Koné Atioumounan Blaise, N’gbesso N’gbesso Jean Paul, Mbengue Valérie Gbonon, Cissé Raïssa Adja Mayaka, Gagne Doh Eugénie, Dagnan N’cho Simplice, Kouadio Luc Philippe and Samba Mamadou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:870
    Content type: Research Published on:
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