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  1. Palliative care often requires inter-professional collaboration, offering opportunities to learn from each other. General practitioners often collaborate with specialized palliative home care teams. This study...

    Authors: Peter Pype, Wim Peersman, Johan Wens, Ann Stes, Bart Van den Eynden and Myriam Deveugele
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:501
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  2. Since 2009, 14 assertive community treatment (ACT) teams have started up in Norway. Over 30 % of the patients treated by the ACT teams were subject to community treatment orders (CTOs) at intake. CTOs are lega...

    Authors: Hanne Kilen Stuen, Jorun Rugkåsa, Anne Landheim and Rolf Wynn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:409
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. An understanding of public financial flows to reproductive health (RH) at the country level is key to assessing the extent to which they correspond to political commitments. This is especially relevant for low...

    Authors: Claire Chaumont, Carmen Muhorane, Isabelle Moreira-Burgos, Ndereye Juma and Leticia Avila-Burgos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:446
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  4. To ensure quality of care delivery clinical supervision has been implemented in health services. While clinical supervision of health professionals has been shown to improve patient safety, its effect on other...

    Authors: David A. Snowdon, Sandra G. Leggat and Nicholas F. Taylor
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:786
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  5. Compliance with surgical checklist use remains an obstacle in the context of checklist implementation programs. The theory of planned behaviour was applied to analyse attitudes, perceived behaviour control, an...

    Authors: Anna C. Mascherek, Katrin Gehring, Paula Bezzola and David L. B. Schwappach
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:462
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  6. The medical care chain around Down syndrome (DS) is complex, with many multidisciplinary challenges. The current quality of care is unknown. Outcome-oriented quality indicators have the potential to improve me...

    Authors: Francine A. van den Driessen Mareeuw, Mirjam I. Hollegien, Antonia M. W. Coppus, Diana M. J. Delnoij and Esther de Vries
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:284
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  7. The social gradient in chronic disease (CD) is well-documented, and the ability to effectively self-manage is crucial to reducing morbidity and mortality from CD. This systematic review aimed to assess the mod...

    Authors: Ruth Hardman, Stephen Begg and Evelien Spelten
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:150
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  8. To evaluate the performance of a novel triage system for Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) units built upon an existent clinical prediction rule (CPR) to reduce time to unit arrival, relative to the time of symp...

    Authors: Maximilian B. Bibok, Kristine Votova, Robert F. Balshaw, Mary L. Lesperance, Nicole S. Croteau, Anurag Trivedi, Jaclyn Morrison, Colin Sedgwick and Andrew M. Penn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:142
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  9. Depression is highly prevalent, but knowledge is scarce as to whether increased public awareness and strengthened government focus on mental health have changed how general practitioners (GPs) help their depre...

    Authors: Sabine Ruths, Inger Haukenes, Øystein Hetlevik, Tone Smith-Sivertsen, Stefan Hjørleifsson, Anneli B Hansen, Sharline Riiser, Heidi Marie Meling and Valborg Baste
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:697
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  10. Integration of services for Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) into routine maternal and child health care is promoted as a priority strategy by the WHO to facilitate the implementation ...

    Authors: Jianhong Xia, Shannon Rutherford, Yuanzhu Ma, Li Wu, Shuang Gao, Tingting Chen, Xiao Lu, Xiaozhuang Zhang and Cordia Chu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:117
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  11. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), addressing the high prevalence of mental disorders is a challenge given the limited number and unequal distribution of specialists, as well as scarce resources allo...

    Authors: Jessica Spagnolo, François Champagne, Nicole Leduc, Myra Piat, Wahid Melki, Fatma Charfi and Marc Laporta
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:38
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  12. Limited availability of skilled health providers in developing countries is thought to be an important barrier to achieving maternal and child health-related MDG goals. Little is known, however, about the exte...

    Authors: Edward Okeke, Peter Glick, Amalavoyal Chari, Isa Sadeeq Abubakar, Emma Pitchforth, Josephine Exley, Usman Bashir, Kun Gu and Obinna Onwujekwe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:425
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  13. Patient safety in home healthcare is largely unexplored. No-harm incidents may give valuable information about risk areas and system failures as a source for proactive patient safety work. We hypothesized that...

    Authors: Marléne Lindblad, Maria Unbeck, Lena Nilsson, Kristina Schildmeijer and Mirjam Ekstedt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:289
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  14. In almost all healthcare systems, no-shows (scheduled appointments missed without any notice from patients) have a negative impact on waiting lists, costs and resource utilization, impairing the quality and qu...

    Authors: Chiara Anna Parente, Domenico Salvatore, Giampiero Maria Gallo and Fabrizio Cipollini
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:185
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  15. Individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid coverage are among the sickest patients in the United States. Prior literature has identified a lack of care coordination or even conflicts of interest bet...

    Authors: Brian K. Chen, Y. Tony Yang and Rachelle Gajadhar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:913
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  16. Reducing the burden of malaria highly depends on access to prompt and effective malaria diagnosis and treatment. The aim of this study was to identify challenges affecting prompt access to effective uncomplica...

    Authors: Larissa Klootwijk, Anthony Emeritus Chirwa, Alinune Nathanael Kabaghe and Michele van Vugt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:735
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  17. This study aims to explore and identify the organizational attributes that contribute to learning and improvement capabilities (L&IC) in healthcare organizations. The authors define learning as a structured up...

    Authors: Kees de Kok, Wilma van der Scheer, Corry Ketelaars and Ian Leistikow
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:585
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  18. Although several diabetes management and control programs are introduced in Iran, rate of using such cares in patients with Type II Diabetic in Ahvaz is low and they show no tendency for receiving free diabete...

    Authors: Mostafa Amini-Rarani, Saeed Karimi and Laleh Gharacheh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1555
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  19. Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health concern in South Africa and TB-related mortality remains unacceptably high. Numerous clinical studies have examined the direct causes of TB-related mortality, but its...

    Authors: Muhammad Osman, Aaron S Karat, Munira Khan, Sue-Ann Meehan, Arne von Delft, Zameer Brey, Salome Charalambous, Anneke C Hesseling, Pren Naidoo and Marian Loveday
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:388
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  20. The availability of low-cost computing and digital telecommunication in the 1980s made telehealth practicable. Telehealth has the capacity to improve healthcare access and outcomes for patients while reducing ...

    Authors: Jonathan Kissi, Caleb Annobil, Nathan Kumasenu Mensah, Joseph Owusu-Marfo, Ernest Osei and Zenobia Wooduwa Asmah
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:567
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  21. There is a growing recognition of multidisciplinary practices as the most rational approach to providing better and more efficient healthcare services. Pharmacists are increasingly integrated into primary care...

    Authors: Karl-Erik Bø, Kjell H. Halvorsen, Anna Yen-Ngoc Le and Elin C. Lehnbom
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:567
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  22. Double-checking medications is a widely used strategy to enhance safe medication administration in oncology, but there is little evidence to support its effectiveness. The proliferated use of double-checking m...

    Authors: D. L. B. Schwappach, Katja Taxis and Yvonne Pfeiffer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:123
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  23. Ageing is continuously increasing the prevalence of patients with chronic conditions, putting pressure on the sustainability of Healthcare Systems. Chronic Care Models (CCM) have been used to address the needs...

    Authors: Fabio Robusto, Lucia Bisceglia, Vito Petrarolo, Francesca Avolio, Elisabetta Graps, Ettore Attolini, Eleonora Nacchiero and Vito Lepore
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:377
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  24. Parents of children and young people with long-term conditions who need to deliver clinical care to their child at home with remote support from hospital-based professionals, often search the internet for care...

    Authors: Ian Carolan, Trish Smith, Andy Hall and Veronica M Swallow
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:292
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  25. The Choosing Wisely campaign has spread to many countries. Methods for developing recommendations are inconsistent. We describe our process of developing such recommendations from a comprehensive national set ...

    Authors: Raija Sipilä, Marjukka Mäkelä and Jorma Komulainen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:638
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  26. Antibiotic resistance (ABR) has become a major public health challenge in most parts of the world including Ghana and is a major threat to gain in bacterial disease control. The role of prescribers in the cont...

    Authors: Kwaku Poku Asante, Ellen Abrafi Boamah, Martha Ali Abdulai, Kwame Ohene Buabeng, Emmanuel Mahama, Francis Dzabeng, Edith Gavor, Edith Andrews Annan, Seth Owusu-Agyei and Martha Gyansa-Lutterodt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:422
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  28. There is a paucity of knowledge on the cost of health care services in Ghana. This poses a challenge in the economic evaluation of programmes and inhibits policy makers in making decisions about allocation of ...

    Authors: Maxwell Ayindenaba Dalaba, Patricia Akweongo, Germain Savadogo, Happiness Saronga, John Williams, Rainer Sauerborn, Hengjin Dong and Svetla Loukanova
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:287
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  29. A birth companion is a simple and low-cost intervention that can improve both maternal and newborn health outcomes. The evidence that birth companionship improves labor outcomes and experiences of care has bee...

    Authors: Della Berhanu, Gadise Bekele, Hanna Melesse, Felagot Taddese, Patricia Owira, Griffins Manguro, Oluwatosin Laleye, Zubaida Farouk, Mobolanle Balogun, Anne Hyre, Samuel Mwaura, Osborn Koech Kiptoo, Valentino Muyundo Wabwile, Siraj Mohammed, Konjit Wolde, Dedefo Teno…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1100
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  30. In 2014, 16 women died following female sterilization operations in Bilaspur, a district in central India. In addition to those 16 deaths, 70 women were hospitalized for critical conditions (Sharma, Lancet 384...

    Authors: Abhishek Kumar, Abhishek Gautam, Arnab Dey, Ruhi Saith, Uttamacharya, Pranita Achyut, Vandana Gautam, Dinesh Agarwal, Amit Chakraverty, Arupendra Mozumdar, Kumudha Aruldas, Ravi Verma, Priya Nanda, Suneeta Krishnan and Niranjan Saggurti
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 20:1
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  31. The ATICA study was a Hybrid I type randomized effectiveness-implementation trial that demonstrated effectiveness of a multicomponent mHealth intervention (Up to four SMS messages sent to HPV-positive women, a...

    Authors: Cecilia Straw, Victoria Sanchez-Antelo, Racquel Kohler, Melisa Paolino, Kasisomayajula Viswanath and Silvina Arrossi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:47
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  32. Chronic diseases are a significant public health concern, particularly in older adults. To address the delivery of health care services to optimally meet the needs of older adults with multiple chronic disease...

    Authors: Monika Kastner, Radha Sayal, Doug Oliver, Sharon E. Straus and Lisa Dolovich
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:514
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  33. The diagnosis of motor neurone disease (MND) is known to be challenging and there may be delay in patients receiving a correct diagnosis. This study investigated the referral process for patients who had been ...

    Authors: Susan Baxter and Christopher J. McDermott
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:339
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  34. The provision of rehabilitation differs between developed and developing countries, this could impact on the outcomes of post stroke rehabilitation. The aim of this paper is to present provision of in-patient ...

    Authors: Anthea Rhoda, Natalie Cunningham, Simon Azaria and Gerard Urimubenshi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:423
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  35. The goal of Lean Enterprise Transformation (LET) is to go beyond simply using Lean tools and instead embed Lean principles and practices in the system so that it becomes a fundamental, collective mindset of th...

    Authors: Anita A. Vashi, Barbara Lerner, Tracy H. Urech, Steven M. Asch and Martin P. Charns
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:98
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  36. Improving access to specialty care has been identified as a critical issue in the delivery of health services, especially given an increasing burden of chronic disease. Identifying and addressing problems that...

    Authors: James Greenwood-Lee, Lauren Jewett, Linda Woodhouse and Deborah A. Marshall
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:986
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  37. Competence and attitudes to suicidal behaviour among physicians are important to provide high-quality care for a large patient group. The aim was to study different physicians’ attitudes towards suicidal behav...

    Authors: Tine K Grimholt, Ole R Haavet, Dag Jacobsen, Leiv Sandvik and Oivind Ekeberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:208
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  38. Accessing cancer treatment requires First Nation peoples living in rural and remote communities to either commute to care, or to relocate to an urban centre for the length or part of the treatment. While Canad...

    Authors: Josée G. Lavoie, Joseph Kaufert, Annette J. Browne and John D. O’Neil
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:402
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. The Alphabet Strategy (AS) is a diabetes care checklist ensuring “important, simple things are done right all the time.” Current audits of diabetes care in developed countries reveal wide variations in quality...

    Authors: James D Lee, Ponnusamy Saravanan, Lakshminarayanan Varadhan, John R Morrissey and Vinod Patel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:467
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  41. Optimally performing tuberculosis (TB) programs are characterized by treatment success rate (TSR) of at least 90%. In rural eastern Uganda, and elsewhere in sub Saharan Africa, TSR varies considerably across d...

    Authors: Jonathan Izudi, Imelda. K. Tamwesigire and Francis Bajunirwe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:979
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  42. Sustainability of cancer care is a crucial issue for health care systems worldwide, even more during a time of economic recession. Low-cost measures are highly desirable to contain and reduce expenditures with...

    Authors: Gianpiero Fasola, Giuseppe Aprile, Luisa Marini, Alessandro Follador, Mauro Mansutti and Manuela Miscoria
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:57
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  43. The structure of long-term care (LTC) for old people has changed: care has been shifted from institutions to the community, and death is being postponed to increasingly old age. The aim of the study was to ana...

    Authors: Leena Forma, Marja Jylhä, Jutta Pulkki, Mari Aaltonen, Jani Raitanen and Pekka Rissanen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:668
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  44. The Covid-19 pandemic affected the performance of Primary Health Care (PHC) worldwide. This study was performed to investigate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the utilization of PHC in Iran.

    Authors: Ramin Rezapour, Abbas Ali Dorosti, Mostafa Farahbakhsh, Saber Azami-aghdash and Ilnaz Iranzad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:404
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  45. Qualitative research on self-management for people with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) has typically reported one-off retrospective accounts of individuals’ strategies. The aim of this research was to identif...

    Authors: Julia Frost, Ruth Garside, Chris Cooper and Nicky Britten
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:348
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  46. The World Health Organization recommends the Maternal and Child Health Handbook (MCH-HB) to promote health service utilization from pregnancy to early childhood. Although many countries have adopted it as a na...

    Authors: Ai Aoki, Keiji Mochida, Michiru Kuramata, Toru Sadamori, Aliza K C Bhandari, Helga Reis Freitas, João Domingos da Cunha, Ketha Rubuz Francisco, Pedro Sapalalo, Lino Tchicondingosse, Olukunmi Omobolanle Balogun, Hirotsugu Aiga and Kenji Takehara
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1071
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  47. Breast cancer accounts for 23% of all cancer cases among women in Kenya. Although breast cancer screening is important, we know little about the factors associated with women’s breast cancer screening utilizat...

    Authors: Roger Antabe, Moses Kansanga, Yujiro Sano, Emmanuel Kyeremeh and Yvonne Galaa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:228
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  48. Rankings from the World Health Organization (WHO) place the US health care system as one of the least efficient among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. Researchers have qu...

    Authors: Bianca K. Frogner, H.E. Frech III and Stephen T. Parente
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:415
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Learning and coping education strategies (LC) was implemented to enhance patient attendance in the cardiac rehabilitation programme. This study assessed the cost-utility of LC compared to standard education (s...

    Authors: Nasrin Tayyari Dehbarez, Vibeke Lynggaard, Ole May and Rikke Søgaard
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:422
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Rates of Bordetella pertussis have been increasing in Alberta, Canada despite vaccination programs. Waning immunity from existing acellular component vaccines may be contributing to this. Vaccine effectiveness ca...

    Authors: Sumana Fathima, Kimberley A. Simmonds, Steven J. Drews, Lawrence W. Svenson, Jeffrey C. Kwong, Salaheddin M. Mahmud, Susan Quach, Caitlin Johnson, Kevin L. Schwartz, Natasha S. Crowcroft and Margaret L. Russell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:479
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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