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  1. Amidst ongoing calls for increased health systems resilience, gaps remain in our understanding of how health systems can reach further into communities to ensure resilient service delivery. Indeed, public heal...

    Authors: Victoria Haldane, Warren Dodd, Amy Kipp, Hannah Ferrolino, Kendall Wilson, Danilo Servano Jr., Lincoln L. Lau and Xiaolin Wei
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1385
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  2. Physiotherapists deliver evidence-based guideline recommended treatments only half of the time to patients with musculoskeletal conditions. Physiotherapists’ behaviour in clinical practice are influenced by ma...

    Authors: Connor Gleadhill, Katarzyna Bolsewicz, Simon R. E. Davidson, Steven J. Kamper, Amanda Tutty, Emma Robson, Priscilla Viana Da Silva, Bruce Donald, Katherine Dooley, Joshua Manvell, Nicole Manvell, Andrew Delbridge and Christopher M. Williams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1382
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  3. Healthcare organizations made major adjustments to deliver care during the COVID pandemic, yet little is known about how these adjustments shaped ongoing quality and safety improvement efforts. We aimed to und...

    Authors: Iva A. Terwilliger, Milisa Manojlovich, Julie K. Johnson, Mark V. Williams and Kevin J. O’Leary
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1379
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  4. Contact tracing (CT) is an important, but resource-intensive tool to control outbreaks of communicable diseases. Under pandemic circumstances, public health services may not have sufficient resources at their ...

    Authors: Y. B. Helms, M. L. Stein, N. Hamdiui, A. van der Meer, R. Baron, R. Eilers, R. Crutzen, M. E. E. Kretzschmar and A. Timen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1378
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  5. Expenses related to employee’s health benefit packages are rising. Hence, organisations are looking for complementary health financing arrangements to provide more financial protection for employees. This stud...

    Authors: Mohammad Bazyar, Minoo Alipouri Sakha, Vladimir Sergeevich Gordeev, Batool Mousavi, Amir Karmi, Reza Maniei, Saeed Attari and Mohammad Ranjbar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1377
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  7. Health-related social needs (HRSN) are associated with higher chronic disease prevalence and healthcare utilization. Health systems increasingly screen for HRSN during routine care. In this study, we compare t...

    Authors: Katherine H. Schiavoni, Kristy Helscel, Christine Vogeli, Anne N. Thorndike, Rebecca E. Cash, Carlos A. Camargo Jr and Margaret E. Samuels-Kalow
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1375
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  8. Effective delivery of health services requires adequate quality in healthcare facilities and easy accessibility to health services physically or virtually. The purpose of this study was to reveal how the quali...

    Authors: Khanh Hung Le, Thi Xuan Phuong La and Markku Tykkyläinen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1374
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  9. Adolescents in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) are facing numerous developmental, sexual and reproductive health (SRH) challenges including exposure to multidimensional violence. Gender-based violence ...

    Authors: Keng-Yen Huang, Manasi Kumar, Sabrina Cheng, Anya Elena Urcuyo and Paul Macharia
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1373
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  10. Dementia is a disease that impacts people with dementia, their families, and the healthcare system. In 2018, the number of people with dementia in the EU, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), and the UK...

    Authors: Tim Schmachtenberg, Jessica Monsees and Jochen René Thyrian
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1372
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  11. Hospital managers are responsible for the delivery of organisational strategy, development of clinical services and maintaining quality standards. There is limited research on hospital managers, in particular ...

    Authors: Kate Grailey, Clare Leon-Villapalos, Eleanor Murray and Stephen J Brett
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1371
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  12. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a catalyst for rapid uptake of virtual care through the use of virtual health resources (VHR). In the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare System, virtual care has been...

    Authors: Jolie N. Haun, Vanessa Panaite, Bridget A. Cotner, Christine Melillo, Hari H. Venkatachalam, Christopher A. Fowler, William Lapcevic, Amy C. Alman, Dustin D. French, Brian Zilka and William Messina
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1370
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  13. Unmet social risks such as housing, food insecurity and safety concerns are associated with adverse health outcomes in adults and children. Experimentation with social needs screening in primary care is curren...

    Authors: Rachel E. Massar, Carolyn A. Berry and Margaret M. Paul
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1369
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  15. In recent years, programmed cell death protein-1 inhibitors, including sintilimab, have significantly prolonged the overall survival time of patients with unresectable or metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma (H...

    Authors: Ting Zhou, Xintian Wang, Yingdan Cao, Lan Yang, Zijing Wang, Aixia Ma and Hongchao Li
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1367
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  16. Medicine shortages are often described in plain numbers, suggesting all shortages have a uniform impact. However, some shortages have a direct and serious effect on patients and need a prompt reaction from sta...

    Authors: Doerine J. Postma, Peter A. G. M. De Smet, Kim Notenboom, Hubert G. M. Leufkens and Aukje K. Mantel-Teeuwisse
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1366
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  17. The aim of our study was to analyze the use of interpreter services and improve communication during health encounters with families with limited language proficiency (LLP) at the pediatric emergency departmen...

    Authors: Sina Buser, Noemi Gessler, Myriam Gmuender, Ursula Feuz, Anne Jachmann, Jabeen Fayyaz, Kristina Keitel and Julia Brandenberger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1365
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1550

  18. Primary health care (PHC) is widely perceived to be the backbone of health care systems. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, PHC has not only provided primary medical services, but also served as a grassroots netw...

    Authors: Xuechen Xiong, Victor Jing Li, Bo Huang and Zhaohua Huo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1364
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  19. Drug overuse or drug underuse are the most common causes of adverse drug events and can lead to hospital admissions. Using clinical pharmacists in the emergency department may improve patient safety as they ar...

    Authors: R. N. Rahman, B. Nikolik, M. A. J. de Ridder, A. E. Hoek, M. J. A. Janssen, S. C. E. Schuit, F. Karapinar-Çarkit and P. M. L. A. van den Bemt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1363
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  20. Digitalization has been recognized as an efficient and cost-effective solution to address the increasing need for care due to the ageing population and the rise in people with dementia. This has subsequently i...

    Authors: Aber Sharon Kagwa, Hanne Konradsen and Zarina Nahar Kabir
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1362
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  21. The Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home-visiting program (MECSH) is a structured nurse-delivered program designed to address health inequities experienced by families experiencing significant adversity. Th...

    Authors: Kie Kanda, Stacy Blythe, Rebekah Grace, Emma Elcombe and Lynn Kemp
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1361
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  22. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only impacted intensive care units, but all healthcare services generally. This PsyGipo2C project specifically investigates how psychiatry and mental health professionals have bee...

    Authors: Hélène Kane, Jade Gourret Baumgart, Emmanuel Rusch, Jocelyn Deloyer, Claudio Fuenzalida, Gabriela Kelemen, Marek Krzystanek, Donatella Marazziti, Margarita Moraitou, Merja Reunanen, Rexhaj Shyhrete, Johannes Thome, Wim Verwaest, Laurence Fond-Harmant and Frédéric Denis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1360
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  23. To inform healthcare planning and resourcing, population-level information is required on the use of health services among young people with a mental disorder. This study aims to identify the health service us...

    Authors: Rebecca J Mitchell, Anne McMaugh, Reidar P Lystad, Cate M Cameron and Olav Nielssen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1359
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  24. Youth peer support, as a practice that aligns youth engagement and participatory approaches, has become increasingly popular in the context of youth mental health services. However, there is a need for more ev...

    Authors: Tanya Halsall, Mardi Daley, Lisa Hawke, Joanna Henderson and Kimberly Matheson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1358
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  25. Herd immunity is necessary to contain the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Vaccination is the fastest and safest pandemic control strategy. Healthcare workers (HCWs) are essential in providing vac...

    Authors: Samar Tharwat, Dalia Kamal Nassar, Mohammed Kamal Nassar, Ahmed Mohammed Saad and Fatma Hamdy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1357
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  26. Documentation of older people’s end-of-life care should cover the care given and provide an overview of their entire situation. Older people approaching the end of life often have complex symptoms, live with b...

    Authors: Marina Sjöberg, Birgit H. Rasmussen, Anna-Karin Edberg and Ingela Beck
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1356
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  27. Chronic pain is a highly prevalent health problem especially in rural regions. There is a dearth of comprehensive pain management programs particularly in rural areas.

    Authors: Hadi Shojaei, Shehnaz Fatima Lakha, Ashley Lyon, Mark Halabecki, Mary Donaghy and Angela Mailis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1355
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  28. Despite significant achievements in the prevention and control of NCDs in Iran, these conditions are still the biggest challenges to Iran's healthcare system and are estimated to account for 78.1 percent of al...

    Authors: Yegane Partovi, Mostafa Farahbakhsh, Jafar Sadegh Tabrizi, Kamal Gholipour, Ahmad Koosha, Jabreil Sharbafi and Andrew Wilson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1354
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  29. A proactive approach to delivering care using virtual resources, while reducing in-person contact, is needed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Authors: Jolie N. Haun, Vanessa Panaite, Bridget A. Cotner, Christine Melillo, Hari H. Venkatachalam, Christopher A. Fowler, Brian Zilka and William Messina
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1353
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  30. NHS ambulance service staff are at risk of poor physical and mental wellbeing because of the likelihood of encountering stressful and traumatic incidents. While reducing sickness absence and improving wellbein...

    Authors: Viet-Hai Phung, Kristy Sanderson, Gary Pritchard, Fiona Bell, Kelly Hird, Paresh Wankhade, Zahid Asghar and Niro Siriwardena
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1352
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  31. In most low- and middle-income countries, health facility regulation is fragmented, ineffective and under-resourced. The Kenyan Government piloted an innovative regulatory regime involving Joint Health Inspect...

    Authors: Timothy Chege, Francis Wafula, Eric Tama, Irene Khayoni, Dosila Ogira, Njeri Gitau and Catherine Goodman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1351
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  32. The global COVID-19 pandemic necessitated rapid adoption of remote provision across child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). The study aimed to understand young people’s, parents’/carers’, and prof...

    Authors: Joanne Worsley, Shaima Hassan, Lisa Nolan and Rhiannon Corcoran
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1350
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  33. Many countries implementing pro-poor reforms to expand subsidized health care, especially for the poor, recognize that high-quality healthcare, and not just access alone, is necessary to meet the Sustainable D...

    Authors: Manon Haemmerli, Augustine Asante, Dwidjo Susilo, Aryana Satrya, Rifqi Abdul Fattah, Qinglu Cheng, Soewarta Kosen, Danty Novitasari, Gemala Chairunnisa Puteri, Eviati Adawiyah, Andrew Hayen, Lucy Gilson, Anne Mills, Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Stephen Jan, Hasbullah Thabrany…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1349
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  34. Total healthcare expenditures are concentrated among a small number of patients. To date, studies on the concentration of health care expenditures in developing countries are limited, mainly focusing on concen...

    Authors: Qiuyan Fan, Jian Wang, Stephen Nicholas and Elizabeth Maitland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1348
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  35. People with chronic diseases have contact with several different professionals across hospital wards, municipality services and general practice and often experience lack of coherence. The purpose was to explo...

    Authors: Helle Feddersen, Jens Søndergaard, Lena Andersen, Bettina Munksgaard and Jette Primdahl
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1347
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  36. Taiwan is predicted to become a super-aged society by 2025, and primary health centers (PHCs) are set to play a crucial role in the care of older adults. The Taiwanese government has developed an age-friendly ...

    Authors: Chen-I Shih, Tuey-Wen Hung, Wei Chen, Hui-Fei Yang, Shu-Li Chia, Yung-Hung Chang and Sheng-Yu Fan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1346
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  37. Studies of the treatment of patients in-hospital with a specific diagnosis show that physicians with a subspecialisation relevant to this diagnosis can provide a better quality of care. However, studies includ...

    Authors: Øyvind Berg, Ulf Hurtig and Aslak Steinsbekk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1345
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  38. To optimize appointment systems, it is necessary to assess their users’ perspectives. This study aims to determine the use of various appointment systems among patients in academic outpatient centers and to in...

    Authors: Fatemeh Bagheri, Farzaneh Behnam, Zahra Galavi and Leila Ahmadian
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1344
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  39. The 'Cost of Health Services in India (CHSI)' is the first large scale multi-site facility costing study to incorporate evidence from a national sample of both private and public sectors at different levels of...

    Authors: Akashdeep Singh Chauhan, Lorna Guinness, Pankaj Bahuguna, Maninder Pal Singh, Vipul Aggarwal, Kavitha Rajsekhar, Surbhi Tripathi and Shankar Prinja
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1343
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  40. Designing implementation programs that effectively integrate complex healthcare innovations into complex settings is a fundamental aspect of knowledge translation. We describe the development of a conceptually...

    Authors: Karen Dryden-Palmer, Whitney B. Berta and Christopher S. Parshuram
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1342
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  41. Segmentation models such as latent class analysis are an increasingly popular approach to inform group-tailored interventions for high-risk complex patients. Multiple studies have identified clinically meaning...

    Authors: Franya Hutchins, Joshua Thorpe, Xinhua Zhao, Hongwei Zhang and Ann-Marie Rosland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1341
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  43. Since 2021, pharmacists in Poland have been authorised to administer vaccinations against COVID-19, which is of particular significance in the efforts towards preventing the spread of the pandemic. The primary...

    Authors: Piotr Merks, Anna Kowalczuk, Alexandre Wong, Kevin Chung, Urszula Religioni, Dariusz Świetlik, Katarzyna Rotmans-Plagens, Jameason Cameron, Katarina Fehir Sola, Justyna Kazmierczak, Eliza Blicharska, Regis Vaillancourt and Agnieszka Neumann-Podczaska
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1339
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  44. The Normalization MeAsure Development (NoMAD) is a brief quantitative tool based on the Normalization Process Theory (NPT), which can measure the implementation process of new technologies and complex interven...

    Authors: Mengyao Jiang, Qing Wang, Tracy Finch, Dongli She, Yujun Zhou, Yuet Foon Chung, Jie Chen and Lin Han
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1338
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  45. Arabic-speaking refugees are the largest group of refugees arriving in the United States since 2008, yet little is known about their rates of healthcare access, utilization, and satisfaction after the end of t...

    Authors: Ali Elreichouni, Sarah Aly, Kaitlin Maciejewski, Islam Salem, Noah Ghossein, M. Salah Mankash, James Dziura and Hani Mowafi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1337
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  46. PrEP literacy is influenced by many factors including the types of information available and how it is interpreted. The level of PrEP literacy may influence acceptability and uptake.

    Authors: Rujeko Samanthia Chimukuche, Rachel Kawuma, Nteboheleng Mahapa, Smanga Mkhwanazi, Nishanta Singh, Samantha Siva, Eugene Ruzagira and Janet Seeley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1336
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  47. Very few studies have evaluated physician participation in screening tests and vaccinations. The aim was to evaluate attitudes and actual practice of screening tests and vaccinations among hospital-based physi...

    Authors: Sameeh Eltalakat, Berjas Abu Gariba, Roni Peleg, Daniel Kaplan and Yulia Treister‑Goltzman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1335
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1461

  48. The morbidity and mortality of chronic diseases are increasing worldwide. The literature confirms that the prevention and control of chronic disease necessitates a robust primary health care system with a comp...

    Authors: Tshewang Lhadon and Nithra Kitreerawutiwong
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1334
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  49. Doctors, including junior doctors, are vulnerable to greater levels of distress and mental health difficulties than the public. This is exacerbated by their working conditions and cultures. While this vulnerab...

    Authors: Johanna Spiers, Farina Kokab, Marta Buszewicz, Carolyn A. Chew-Graham, Alice Dunning, Anna K. Taylor, Anya Gopfert, Maria van Hove, Kevin Rui-Han Teoh, Louis Appleby, James Martin and Ruth Riley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1333
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  50. The Norwegian colorectal cancer (CRC) screening programme started in May 2022. Inequities in uptake of CRC screening is a concern, and we expect that immigrants are at risk of non-uptake. Immigrants from Polan...

    Authors: Sameer Bhargava, Elżbieta Czapka, Solveig Hofvind, Maria Kristiansen, Esperanza Diaz and Paula Berstad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1332
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