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  1. Admission to an emergency department (ED) is a key vulnerable moment when patients are at increased risk of medication discrepancies and medication histories are an effective way of ensuring that fewer errors ...

    Authors: Jesus Becerra-Camargo, Fernando Martinez-Martinez and Emilio Garcia-Jimenez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:337
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  2. Patients’ views and experiences in healthcare institutions provide a means of assessing the quality of services patients receive from healthcare workers (HCWs). However, the views of patients on the health pro...

    Authors: Herbert I. Melariri, Chester Kalinda and Moses J. Chimbari
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:368
    Content type: Research Published on:

  3. Digital tools for social communication have been deployed in care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic to facilitate social connectedness between older people and their next of kin in a safe manner. This st...

    Authors: Abeer Badawy, Mads Solberg, Aud Uhlen Obstfelder and Rigmor Einang Alnes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:136
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:211

  4. Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) form a significant part of the healthcare workforce and have great potential to improve services through research and research-informed practice. However, there is a lack of ...

    Authors: Jennifer Harris, Kate Grafton and Jo Cooke
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:852
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  5. Integrated care is a model recognised internationally, however, there is limited evidence about its usability in the community. This study aimed to elicit community and provider views about integrated care and...

    Authors: Ann Carrigan, Natalie Roberts, Robyn Clay-Williams, Peter Hibbert, Elizabeth Austin, Diana Fajardo Pulido, Isabelle Meulenbroeks, Hoa Mi Nguyen, Mitchell Sarkies, Sarah Hatem, Katherine Maka, Graeme Loy and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:11
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  6. Drop-out is an important problem in the treatment of substance use disorder. The focus of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of within treatment assessment with feedback directly to patients with ...

    Authors: Veerle Raes, Cor AJ De Jong, Dirk De Bacquer, Eric Broekaert and Jan De Maeseneer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:123
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Low-resource settings are often less capable of responding to and implementing available quality research evidence for public healthcare practice and policy development due to various factors. In most low-reso...

    Authors: Jerry Sigudla and Jeanette E. Maritz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1423
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  8. Community members are stakeholders in hospitals and have a right to participate in the improvement of quality of services rendered to them. Their views are important because they reflect the perspectives of th...

    Authors: Elizeus Rutebemberwa, Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho, Olico Okui, Damien Walker, Aloysius Mutebi and George Pariyo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:146
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Implementation science seeks to enable change, underpinned by theories and frameworks such as the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR). Yet academia and frontline healthcare improvement re...

    Authors: Angela Melder, Tracy Robinson, Ian Mcloughlin, Rick Iedema and Helena Teede
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:234
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  10. Health systems are increasingly attempting to intervene on social adversity as a strategy to improve health care outcomes. To inform health system efforts to screen for social adversity, we sought to explore t...

    Authors: Cara C. Lewis, Salene M. W. Jones, Robert Wellman, Adam L. Sharp, Laura M. Gottlieb, Matthew P. Banegas, Emilia De Marchis and John F. Steiner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1430
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. Like other sectors, the healthcare sector has to deal with the issue of users’ acceptance of IT. In healthcare, different factors affecting healthcare professionals’ acceptance of software applications have be...

    Authors: Claudio Vitari and Roxana Ologeanu-Taddei
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:194
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. Universal health coverage promises equity in access to and quality of health services. However, there is variability in the quality of the care (QoC) delivered at health facilities in low and middle-income cou...

    Authors: Adrien Allorant, Canada Parrish, Gracia Desforges, Ermane Robin, Jean Guy Honore and Nancy Puttkammer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:804
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. Demographic changes are leading to an ageing population in Europe. People are becoming more dependent on digital technologies and health ministries invest increasingly in digitalisation. Societal digital deman...

    Authors: Moonika Raja, Jorunn Bjerkan, Ingjerd G. Kymre, Kathleen T. Galvin and Lisbeth Uhrenfeldt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1157
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Safe and timely access to effective and appropriate medication through primary care settings is a major concern for all countries addressing both acute and chronic disease burdens. Legislation for nurses and o...

    Authors: Sadiq Bhanbhro, Vari M Drennan, Robert Grant and Ruth Harris
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:330
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Expansion of healthcare insurance coverage to bariatric surgeries has led to an increased demand from patients for post-bariatric contouring surgeries. This study examined the relationship between the use of c...

    Authors: Ibrahim Al-Sumaih, Michael Donnelly and Ciaran O’Neill
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:308
    Content type: Research Published on:

  16. Shorter periods of hospitalisation and increasing warfarin use have placed stress on community-based healthcare services to care for patients taking warfarin after hospital discharge, a high-risk period for th...

    Authors: Leanne Stafford, Gregory M Peterson, Luke RE Bereznicki and Shane L Jackson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:16
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  17. Many countries are trying to integrate traditional and complementary medicine (T&CM) into their health care systems. However, it is not easy to integrate T&CM within a given health care system. This study aims...

    Authors: Ji-Eun Park, Junhyeok Yi and Ohmin Kwon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:102
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  18. The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR), introduced in 2009, has the potential to provide a comprehensive understanding of the determinants of implementation-effectiveness of health servi...

    Authors: Pavani Rangachari, Swapandeep S. Mushiana and Krista Herbert
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1450
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  19. There is an observable, growing trend toward tailoring support programs – in addition to medical treatment – more closely to individuals to help improve patients’ health status. The segmentation model develope...

    Authors: Sjaak Bloem, Joost Stalpers, Edward A. G. Groenland, Kees van Montfort, W. Fred van Raaij and Karla de Rooij
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:726
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:476

  20. People living with chronic conditions and physical disabilities face many challenges accessing healthcare services. In Lebanon, in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic and concomitant economic crisis further exacerbate...

    Authors: Lea Chaiban, Aicha Benyaich, Sally Yaacoub, Haya Rawi, Claudia Truppa and Marco Bardus
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:593
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  21. Generic medicines substitution is an important means to control rapid growth of pharmaceutical expenditures for the healthcare system in China. Acceptance and utilization of generic medicines is highly influen...

    Authors: Jinghan Qu, Wei Zuo, Roxane L. Took, Kenneth W. Schafermeyer, Stephanie Lukas, Shaohong Wang, Liping Du, Xin Liu, Yang Gao, Jiantao Li, Hui Pan, Xiaoli Du, Dan Mei and Bo Zhang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1069
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  22. Primary Health Centers (PHCs) are crucial in providing primary and secondary level healthcare services in rural India. Despite immense efforts and huge funding, a very small proportion of deliveries are carrie...

    Authors: Akif Mustafa, Chander Shekhar and Neha Shri
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1210
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  23. Individuals with psychotic disorders experience widespread treatment failures and risk early death. Sweden’s largest department specializing in psychotic disorders sought to improve patients’ health by develop...

    Authors: Andreas Gremyr, Christopher Holmberg, Johan Thor, Ulf Malm, Boel Andersson Gäre and Ann-Christine Andersson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1599
    Content type: Research Published on:

  24. Despite facing a dual burden of HBV and HIV, Africa lacks experience in offering integrated care for HIV and HBV. To contextualize individual and group-level feasibility and acceptability of an integrated HIV/...

    Authors: Joan Nankya Mutyoba, Claude Wandera, David Ejalu, Emmanuel Seremba, Rachel Beyagira, Jacinto Amandua, Kaggwa Mugagga, Andrew Kambugu, Alex Muganzi, Philippa Easterbrook and Ponsiano Ocama
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:59
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  25. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is the primary mode of treatment for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). It slows disease progression and reduces the spread of infection. HIV treatment is also known to require a ...

    Authors: Michael Lahai, Sally Theobald, Haja R. Wurie, Sulaiman Lakoh, Patrick O. Erah, Mohamed Samai and Joanna Raven
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1327
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  26. Post-stroke visual impairment (VI) is a common but under-recognized care challenge. Common manifestations of post-stroke VI include: diplopia, homonymous hemianopia, oscillopsia secondary to nystagmus, and vis...

    Authors: Kiran Pohar Manhas, Katelyn Brehon, Jennis Jiang, Karim F. Damji and Fiona Costello
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:58
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  27. Nigeria has a high burden of Tuberculosis (TB) including Drug-resistant Tuberculosis (DR-TB) and hearing loss. Despite several efforts directed toward its control, many patients fail to respond to treatment, h...

    Authors: Sani Ibrahim Muhammad, Ejemai Amaize Eboreime, Vivian Ifeoma Ogbonna, Iliyasu Zubairu and Latifat Ibisomi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:142
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. Assessment of the costs of care associated with chronic upper-limb spasticity following stroke in Australia and the potential benefits of adding intensive upper limb rehabilitation to botulinum toxin-A are key...

    Authors: Rachel Milte, Julie Ratcliffe, Louise Ada, Coralie English, Maria Crotty and Natasha A. Lannin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:478
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  29. The increasing burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has become a major challenge globally, including in Indonesia. Understanding the readiness of primary health care facilities is necessary to confront the c...

    Authors: Dian Sidik Arsyad, Esliana Fitrida Hamsyah, Nurul Qalby, Andriany Qanitha, Jan Westerink, Maarten J. Cramer, Frank L. J. Visseren, Pieter A. Doevendans and Ansariadi Ansariadi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1112
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  30. Involving a patient’s relatives is a complex endeavour, especially in emergency departments (EDs). Generally, relatives are recognized as vital partners in health care, but in-depth knowledge on how these fami...

    Authors: Susanne Nissen Sagoo and Regine Grytnes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1086
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  32. The current climate of rising health care costs has led many health insurance programs to limit benefits, which may be problematic for children needing specialty care. Findings from pediatric primary care may ...

    Authors: Asheley Cockrell Skinner and Michelle L Mayer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:194
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. 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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  34. 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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  35. Antenatal care (ANC) is a service that can reduce the incidence of maternal and neonatal deaths when provided by skilled healthcare workers. Patient satisfaction is an important health system responsiveness go...

    Authors: Kate Bergh, Sebawit Bishu and Henock B. Taddese
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:746
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  36. Youth mental health is a major health concern in almost every country. Mental health accounts for about 13% of the global burden of disease in the 10-to-19-year age group. Still there are significant gaps betw...

    Authors: Linda Richter Sundberg, Anne Gotfredsen, Monica Christianson, Maria Wiklund, Anna-Karin Hurtig and Isabel Goicolea
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:322
    Content type: Research Published on:

  37. There is growing interest in the use of reliable evidence for health decision-making among low-and middle-income countries. Ghana has deployed DHIMS2 to replace the previously existing manual data harmonizatio...

    Authors: Eliezer Ofori Odei-Lartey, Rebecca Kyerewaa Dwommoh Prah, Edward Apraku Anane, Harry Danwonno, Stephaney Gyaase, Felix Boakye Oppong, Godwin Afenyadu and Kwaku Poku Asante
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:514
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Diagnosis by computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is important for patient care. However, the geographic distribution and utilisation of these machines in countries with limited resour...

    Authors: Moe Khaing, Yu Mon Saw, Thet Mon Than, Aye Myat Mon, Su Myat Cho, Thu Nandar Saw, Tetsuyoshi Kariya, Eiko Yamamoto and Nobuyuki Hamajima
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:742
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. In resource-poor settings, where health systems are frequently stretched to their capacity, access to emergency care is often limited. Triage systems have been proposed as a tool to ensure efficiency and optim...

    Authors: Temmy Sunyoto, Rafael Van den Bergh, Pola Valles, Reinaldo Gutierrez, Latifa Ayada, Rony Zachariah, Abdi Yassin, Sven Gudmund Hinderaker and Anthony D Harries
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:531
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Nepal’s Female Community Health Volunteer (FCHV) program has been described as an exemplary public-sector community health worker program. However, despite its merits, the program still struggles to provide hi...

    Authors: Dan Schwarz, Ranju Sharma, Chhitij Bashyal, Ryan Schwarz, Ashma Baruwal, Gregory Karelas, Bibhusan Basnet, Nirajan Khadka, Jesse Brady, Zach Silver, Joia Mukherjee, Jason Andrews and Duncan Smith-Rohrberg Maru
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:473
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Sichuan Province is an agricultural and economically developing province in western China. To understand practices of prescribing medications for outpatients in rural township health centers is important for t...

    Authors: Qian Jiang, Bo Nancy Yu, Guiying Ying, Jiaqiang Liao, Huaping Gan, James Blanchard and Juying Zhang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:324
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Home visiting programs have been developed aimed at improving the health and independent functioning of older people. Also, they intend to reduce hospital and nursing home admission and associated cost. A subs...

    Authors: Ans Bouman, Erik van Rossum, Patricia Nelemans, Gertrudis IJM Kempen and Paul Knipschild
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:74
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Migrant families’ transnational ties (i.e., connections to their countries of origin) may contribute to their hardships and/or may be a source of resiliency. A care approach that addresses these transnational ...

    Authors: Lisa Merry, Sarah Fredsted Villadsen, Veronik Sicard and Naomie Lewis-Hibbert
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:778
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. This study assessed patient satisfaction and its associated factors among male drug-using inmates utilizing a prison detention clinic in Taiwan. A cross-sectional design and structured questionnaire were emplo...

    Authors: Fang-Chun Hsieh, Lan-Ping Lin, Te-Pin Wu, Shang-Wei Hsu, Chao-Ying Lai and Jin-Ding Lin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1255
    Content type: Research Published on:

  45. Patient satisfaction is considered as a product of two psychological processes, a cognitive one, including expectations and perceptions, and an emotional one resulting from the congruence between expectation a...

    Authors: Miguel A. Fernández-Ortega, Arturo Juárez-Flores, Gustavo A. Olaiz-Fernández, Daniel A. Muñiz-Salinas and Omar Rodríguez-Mendoza
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:189
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. Diabetes is the third most common chronic condition in childhood and poor glycaemic control leads to serious short-term and life-limiting long-term complications. In addition to optimal medical management, it ...

    Authors: Rachel McNamara, Mike Robling, Kerenza Hood, Kristina Bennert, Susan Channon, David Cohen, Elizabeth Crowne, Helen Hambly, Kamila Hawthorne, Mirella Longo, Lesley Lowes, Rebecca Playle, Stephen Rollnick and John W Gregory
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:36
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  47. Despite the growing literature on the efficiency and productivity of the Chinese healthcare system, less attention has been given to examining the undesirable outputs linked to healthcare services, including e...

    Authors: Jinna Yu, Zhen Liu, Tingting Zhang, Assem Abu Hatab and Jing Lan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:673
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. The influence of environmental factors in shaping behaviour is becoming increasingly prominent in public health policy, but whether health promotion strategies use this knowledge is unknown. Health promotion i...

    Authors: Chris Keyworth, Pauline A Nelson, Christopher EM Griffiths, Lis Cordingley and Chris Bundy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:215
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  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. Healthcare providers across all clinical practice settings are progressively relying and adapting information communication technologies to perform their professional activities. In this era of technology, hea...

    Authors: Kirubel Biruk Shiferaw, Binyam Chakilu Tilahun and Berhanu Fikadie Endehabtu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1021
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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