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  1. During the first year postpartum, about 25 per cent of Swedish women with severe perineal trauma (SPT), i.e., a third- or fourth-degree perineal laceration at childbirth, are unsatisfied with their healthcare ...

    Authors: Katharina Tjernström, Inger Lindberg, Maria Wiklund and Margareta Persson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:610
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  2. Globally, a fifth of the children continue to face chronic undernutrition with a majority of them situated in the Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC). The rising numbers are attributed to aggravating facto...

    Authors: Grace Wothaya Kihagi, Lea-Sophie Hansen, Erick Agure, Erick M.O. Muok, Isabel Mank, Ina Danquah and Raissa Sorgho
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:597
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  3. Large health inequalities exist in the Netherlands among individuals with a high compared to a low socioeconomic position. Worksite health promotion interventions are considered promising to reduce these inequ...

    Authors: Hanneke van Heijster, Jantien van Berkel, Tineke Abma, Cécile R. L. Boot and Emely de Vet
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:196
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  4. This is the fifth in a series of papers reporting Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) in a local healthcare setting. This paper synthesises the findings from Phase One of ...

    Authors: Claire Harris, Kelly Allen, Cara Waller, Sally Green, Richard King, Wayne Ramsey, Cate Kelly and Malar Thiagarajan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:342
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:616

  5. Mental health professionals usually decide patients’ access to inpatient care to ensure the rational and fair distribution of care based on need and prognosis. The purpose of the current study is to investigat...

    Authors: Olav Nyttingnes and Torleif Ruud
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:229
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  6. Secondary prevention is important for reducing both mortality and morbidity of patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). Pharmacists can provide medication and also work on disease management for patients wi...

    Authors: Hongwen Cai, Haibin Dai, Yangmin Hu, Xiaofeng Yan and Huimin Xu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:461
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  7. The purpose of this research is to understand the performance of home healthcare practice in the US. The relationships between home healthcare patient factors and agency characteristics are not well understood...

    Authors: Elizabeth A Madigan and Olivier Louis Curet
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2006 6:18
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  8. Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on communities in fragile and conflict-affected settings may be severe due to reduced access and use of healthcare, as happened during the 2015 Ebola Virus Disease out...

    Authors: M. A. S. Schots, H. L. S. Coleman, G. W. Lutwama, M. Straetemans and E. Jacobs
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1559
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  9. One of the important indices for the efficacy of pre-hospital emergency services is telephone triage. The dispatching team members are faced with many challenges in telephone triage which can adversely affect ...

    Authors: Fateme Mohammadi, Ali Khani Jeihooni, Parisa Sabetsarvestani, Fozieh Abadi and Mostafa Bijani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1195
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  11. 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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  12. Nearly three out of four older people will use the emergency department (ED) during their last year of life. However, most of them do not benefit from palliative care. Providing palliative care is a real chall...

    Authors: Delphine Bourmorck, Benoit Pétré, Marie de Saint-Hubert and Isabelle De Brauwer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:773
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  14. User fees have been shown to constitute a major barrier to the utilisation of health-care, particularly in low-income countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Importantly, such barriers can le...

    Authors: Rishma Maini, Rafael Van den Bergh, Johan van Griensven, Katie Tayler-Smith, Janet Ousley, Daniel Carter, Seb Mhatre, Lara Ho and Rony Zachariah
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:504
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  15. In response to a high number of incoming asylum seekers and refugees (AS&R) in Germany, initial reception centres were established to provide immediate shelter, food and health support. This study evaluates th...

    Authors: Annabelle J. Bockey, Aleš Janda, Cornelia Braun, Anne-Maria Müller, Katarina Stete, Winfried V. Kern, Siegbert R. Rieg and Berit Lange
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:709
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  16. Greater understanding of the variance in the number of consultations per dietetic treatment will increase the transparency of dietetic healthcare. Substantial inter-practitioner variation may suggest a potenti...

    Authors: Jacqueline Tol, Ilse C Swinkels, Peter M Spreeuwenberg, Chantal J Leemrijse, Dinny H de Bakker and Cindy Veenhof
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:317
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  17. Many patients with acute stroke do not receive recommended care in tertiary hospital settings. Allied health professionals have important roles within multidisciplinary stroke teams and influence the quality o...

    Authors: Julie A Luker, Julie Bernhardt, Karen A Grimmer and Ian Edwards
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:193
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  18. Mapping patient and work flow and cost analysis studies can help determine the most efficient and cost effective way of providing health services while still maintaining the best standards of care. This study ...

    Authors: Gayle A Shinder, Pierre Emmanuel Paradis, Marianne Posman, Natalia Mishagina, Marie-Pascale Guay, Dina Linardos and Gerald Batist
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:370
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  19. Prolonged diagnosis intervals occur more often in rare cancers, such as sarcoma. Patients with a delayed diagnosis may require more radical surgery and have a reduced chance of survival. Previous research has ...

    Authors: Rhys Weaver, Moira O’Connor, Richard Carey Smith and Georgia KB Halkett
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:711
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  20. Health-care quality in primary care depends largely on the appropriateness of General Practitioners’ (GPs; Primary Care or Family Physicians) decisions, which may be influenced by how difficult they perceive d...

    Authors: Nicola McCleary, Craig R Ramsay, Jill J Francis, Marion K Campbell and Julia Allan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:621
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  21. Postabortion care (PAC), which is an essential element of emergency obstetric care, is underresearched in Niger. The study aims to assess the availability, readiness, and accessibility of facility-based PAC se...

    Authors: Haley L. Thomas, Souleymane Alzouma, Sani Oumarou, Caroline Moreau and Suzanne O. Bell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1171
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  22. Providing comprehensive and continuous care for patients whose conditions have mental or behavioral components is a central challenge in primary care and an important part of improving universal health coverag...

    Authors: Anneli Farnsworth von Cederwald, Josefine L. Lilja, Nils Hentati Isacsson and Viktor Kaldo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1188
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  23. Ghana’s national tuberculosis (TB) prevalence survey conducted in 2013 showed higher than expected TB prevalence indicating that many people with TB were not being identified and treated. Responding to this, w...

    Authors: Joyce B. Der, Alison D. Grant, Daniel Grint, Clement T. Narh, Frank Bonsu and Virginia Bond
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:368
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  24. In Canada, the prevalence of oral diseases is very high among people on social assistance. Despite great need for dental treatment, many are reluctant to consult dental professionals, arguing that dentists do ...

    Authors: Christophe Bedos, Christine Loignon, Anne Landry, Paul J Allison and Lucie Richard
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:464
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  25. The health system of Bangladesh is haunted by challenges of accessibility and affordability. Despite impressive gains in many health indicators, recent evidence has raised concerns regarding the utilization, q...

    Authors: Tanvir Ahmed, Henry Lucas, Azfar Sadun Khan, Rubana Islam, Abbas Bhuiya and Mohammad Iqbal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:260
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  26. Across healthcare systems, current health policies promote interprofessional teamwork. Compared to single-profession general practitioner care, interprofessional primary healthcare teams are expected to posses...

    Authors: Birgit Abelsen, Kine Pedersen, Hanna Isabel Løyland and Emilie Aandahl
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1327
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  27. Globally, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity placing a huge burden on individuals, families and health systems, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LM...

    Authors: Callum Brindley, Nilmini Wijemunige, Charlotte Dieteren, Judith Bom, Bruno Meessen and Igna Bonfrer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:127
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:233

  28. Patient satisfaction is a relevant prognostic factor in young persons with chronic disease and may be both age and disease specific. To assess health care quality from the patient’s view in young persons with ...

    Authors: Andrea Sadlo, Julia Altevers, Jenny Peplies, Birgit Kaltz, Martin Claßen, Alexandra Bauer, Sibylle Koletzko and Antje Timmer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:97
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  29. There is growing interest in and focus on healthcare services research to identify factors associated with innovation in healthcare organizations. However, previous innovation research has concentrated primari...

    Authors: Terje Slåtten, Barbara Rebecca Mutonyi and Gudbrand Lien
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1096
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  30. Embedding patient accommodation need in the electronic health record (EHR) has been proposed as one means to improve health care delivery to patients with disabilities. Accommodation need is not a standard fie...

    Authors: Nancy R. Mudrick, Mary Lou Breslin, Kyrian A. Nielsen and LeeAnn C. Swager
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:958
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  31. The lockdown imposed in France during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc with access to healthcare. From March 2020 onwards, the oncologists of Foch Hospital, like many others at hospitals t...

    Authors: Lucas Huret, Henri-Corto Stoeklé, Asmahane Benmaziane, Philippe Beuzeboc and Christian Hervé
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:703
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  32. Interventions for non-communicable diseases are increasingly implemented and evaluated in sub-Saharan Africa, but little is known about their medium- to long-term sustainability beyond the end of research fund...

    Authors: David Katende, Norah Nalweyiso, Gertrude Nabulime, Kevin Nakuya, Michael Charles Mubiru, Isaac Sekitoleko, Kathy Baisley, Moffat Nyirenda and Heiner Grosskurth
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:970
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  33. Cancer patients who are parents show concerns about their ability to parent following diagnosis, and their adolescent and young adult (AYA) children have a need for improved cancer communication within the fam...

    Authors: X. Skrabal Ross, F.E.J. McDonald, S. Konings, E. Schiena, J. Phipps-Nelson, F. Hodgson and P. Patterson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:472
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  34. Health and welfare technologies (HWT) are becoming increasingly employed in the Nordic countries, and in Sweden in particular. The amount of HWT public procurement is likely increasing at a similar rate, but r...

    Authors: Matt X. Richardson, Sara Landerdahl Stridsberg and Sarah Wamala Andersson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:357
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  35. Persons with a chronic disease are less often employed than healthy persons. If employed, many of them experience problems at work. Therefore, we developed a training programme aimed at job retention. The obje...

    Authors: Inge Varekamp, Gabe de Vries, Annelies Heutink and Frank JH van Dijk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:224
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  36. Persons with severe Multiple Sclerosis (PwsMS) face complex needs and daily limitations that make it challenging to receive optimal care. The implementation and coordination of health care, social services, an...

    Authors: Anne Müller, Fabian Hebben, Kim Dillen, Veronika Dunkl, Yasemin Goereci, Raymond Voltz, Peter Löcherbach, Clemens Warnke and Heidrun Golla
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:453
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  37. Despite many studies evaluating the effectiveness of integrated care, evidence remains inconsistent. There is increasing commentary pointing out the mismatch between the ability to capture the somewhat ‘illusi...

    Authors: Jenny Billings, Simone R. de Bruin, Caroline Baan and Giel Nijpels
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:971
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  38. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act established the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) to penalize hospitals with excessive 30-day hospital readmissions of Medicare enrollees for specific...

    Authors: Lauren E. Birmingham and Willie H. Oglesby
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:31
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  39. Refugees are at an increased risk of developing symptoms of mental disorders but face various structural and socio-cultural barriers to accessing mental health care. The SPIRIT project (Scaling-up Psychologica...

    Authors: Julia Spaaij, Daniela C. Fuhr, Aemal Akhtar, Luisa Casanova, Tobias Klein, Matthis Schick, Sonja Weilenmann, Bayard Roberts and Naser Morina
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:488
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  40. Chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) is complex and often requires multimodal management comprising of both pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments. To inform delivery of CNCP management, it is important ...

    Authors: Ria E. Hopkins, Louisa Degenhardt, Gabrielle Campbell, Sara Farnbach and Natasa Gisev
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1603
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  41. Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is an effective, but also cost-intensive health care intervention for end stage osteoarthritis. This investigation was designed to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of TKA before ve...

    Authors: Frank Krummenauer, Klaus-Peter Guenther and Stephan Kirschner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:338
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Uganda has one of the highest maternal deaths at a ratio of 336 per 100,000 live births. As Uganda strives to achieve sustainable development goals, appropriate antenatal care is key to reduction of maternal m...

    Authors: Ali Ssetaala, Joan Nabawanuka, Gideon Matovu, Nusula Nakiragga, Judith Namugga, Phiona Nalubega, Henry Lutalo Kaluuma, Kundai Chinyenze, Katrina Perehudoff, Kristien Michielsen, Bernard Bagaya, Matt Price, Noah Kiwanuka and Olivier Degomme
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:901
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  43. Despite ongoing efforts to integrate palliative care into the German healthcare system, challenges persist, particularly in areas where infrastructure does not fully support digital technologies (DT). The incr...

    Authors: Susann May, Anne Gehlhaar, Kerstin Stahlhut, Marcel-Alexander Kamp, Martin Heinze, Matthew Allsop and Felix Muehlensiepen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:702
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  44. To evaluate the effectiveness of a new multifactorial intervention to improve health care for chronic ischemic heart disease patients in primary care. The strategy has two components: a) organizational for the...

    Authors: Domingo Orozco-Beltran, Esther Ruescas-Escolano, Ana Isabel Navarro-Palazón, Alberto Cordero, María Gaubert-Tortosa, Jorge Navarro-Perez, Concepción Carratalá-Munuera, Salvador Pertusa-Martínez, Enrique Soler-Bahilo, Francisco Brotons-Muntó, Jose Bort-Cubero, Miguel Angel Nuñez-Martinez, Vicente Bertomeu-Martinez and Vicente Francisco Gil-Guillen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:293
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  45. Few reports have been published about differences in perspectives on perceived needs among community-residing people with dementia, their family caregivers, and professionals. The aim of this study was to comp...

    Authors: Claudia Miranda-Castillo, Bob Woods and Martin Orrell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:43
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  46. In Australia and other developed countries, chronic illness prevalence is increasing, as are costs of healthcare, particularly hospital-based care. Integrating healthcare and supporting illness management in t...

    Authors: Steven A. Trankle, Tim Usherwood, Penelope Abbott, Mary Roberts, Michael Crampton, Christian M. Girgis, John Riskallah, Yashu Chang, Jaspreet Saini and Jennifer Reath
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:925
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  47. People bypass primary healthcare (PHC) institutions to seek expensive healthcare at high-level hospitals, leading to escalating medical costs and inefficient use of resources. In 2009, China launched nationwid...

    Authors: Yinzi Jin, Jin Xu, Weiming Zhu, Yaoguang Zhang, Ling Xu and Qingyue Meng
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:865
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. This study investigated prognosis among patients under prolonged mechanical ventilation (PMV) through exploring the following issues: (1) post-PMV survival rates, (2) factors associated with survival after PMV...

    Authors: Hsin-Ming Lu, Likwang Chen, Jung-Der Wang, Mei-Chuan Hung, Ming-Shian Lin, Yuan-Horng Yan, Cheng-Ren Chen, Po-Sheng Fan, Lynn Chu Huang and Ken N Kuo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:100
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  49. Health care workers (HCWs) are at high risk of occupational injuries and approximately 10–15% of patients are affected by an adverse event during their hospital stay. There is scarce scientific literature abou...

    Authors: Emma Nilsing Strid, Charlotte Wåhlin, Axel Ros and Susanne Kvarnström
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:511
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. The prevalence of multi-morbidity is increasing globally. Integrated models of care present a potential intervention to improve patient and health system outcomes. However, the intervention components and conc...

    Authors: Anke Rohwer, Ingrid Toews, Jeannine Uwimana-Nicol, John L.Z. Nyirenda, Jean Berchmans Niyibizi, Ann R. Akiteng, Joerg J. Meerpohl, Charlotte M. Bavuma, Tamara Kredo and Taryn Young
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:894
    Content type: Research Published on:
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