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  1. Musculoskeletal shoulder problems are common after breast cancer treatment. There is some evidence to suggest that early postoperative exercise is safe and may improve shoulder function. We describe the develo...

    Authors: Helen Richmond, Clare Lait, Cynthia Srikesavan, Esther Williamson, Jane Moser, Meredith Newman, Lauren Betteley, Beth Fordham, Sophie Rees, Sarah E. Lamb and Julie Bruce
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:463
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  2. In England, prostate cancer patients report worse experience of care than patients with other cancers. However, no standard measure of patient experience of prostate cancer care is currently available. This pa...

    Authors: Carolyn Tarrant, Richard Baker, Andrew M Colman, Paul Sinfield, Shona Agarwal, John K Mellon, William Steward and Roger Kockelbergh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:199
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. Evaluating hospital efficiency is a process to optimize resource utilization and allocation. This is vital due to hospitals being the largest financial cost in a health system. To limit avoidable uses of hospi...

    Authors: Hamid Ravaghi, Mahnaz Afshari, Parvaneh Isfahani and Victoria D. Bélorgeot
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:830
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:948

  4. Healthcare reforms in many countries have shown a movement from pure payment systems to mixed payment systems. However, there remains an insufficient understanding of how to design better mixed payment systems...

    Authors: Xing Li, Yue Zhang, Xinyuan Zhang, Xinyan Li, Xing Lin and Youli Han
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:870
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  5. Care coordination is crucial to ensure the health of individuals with serious mental illness. The aim of this study was to describe and analyze an inclusive innovation process for coordinating municipal health...

    Authors: Jorunn Nærland Skjærpe, Tatiana Aleksandrovna Iakovleva and Marianne Storm
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:633
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  7. In highly segmented and complex healthcare organizations social capital is assumed to be of high relevance for the coordination of tasks in healthcare. So far, comprehensively validated instruments on social c...

    Authors: Lena Ansmann, Kira Isabel Hower, Markus Antonius Wirtz, Christoph Kowalski, Nicole Ernstmann, Lorna McKee and Holger Pfaff
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:272
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  8. There is an urgent need to understand the determinants (i.e., barriers and facilitators) of de-implementation. The purpose of this study was to develop a comprehensive list of determinants of the de-implementa...

    Authors: Jeanna Parsons Leigh, Emma E. Sypes, Sharon E. Straus, Danielle Demiantschuk, Henry Ma, Rebecca Brundin-Mather, Chloe de Grood, Emily A. FitzGerald, Sara Mizen, Henry T. Stelfox and Daniel J. Niven
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:450
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  9. Rural veterans experience more challenges than their urban peers in accessing primary care services, which can negatively impact their health and wellbeing. The factors driving this disparity are complex and i...

    Authors: Erin S. Kenzie, Mary Patzel, Erik Nelson, Travis Lovejoy, Sarah Ono and Melinda M. Davis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1075
    Content type: Research Published on:

  10. India, the seventh-largest country in the world and the second-most populated faces enormous challenges when it comes to healthcare. The country’s healthcare system was close to collapse due to the detrimental...

    Authors: Eslavath Rajkumar, Aswathy Gopi, Aditi Joshi, Aleena Elizabeth Thomas, N. M. Arunima, Gosetty Sri Ramya, Prachi Kulkarni, P. Rahul, Allen Joshua George, John Romate and John Abraham
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:7
    Content type: Research Published on:

  11. Stroke has always been a severe disease and imposed heavy financial burden on the health system. Equity in patients in regard to healthcare utilization and medical costs are recognized as a significant factor ...

    Authors: Yong Yang, Stephen Nicholas, Elizabeth Maitland, Zhengwei Huang, Xiaoping Chen, Yong Ma and Xuefeng Shi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:425
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. The COVID-19 pandemic has been impacting the need, utilization, and delivery of mental health services with greater challenges being faced by clients and providers. With many clients facing reduced access to s...

    Authors: Lindsay A. Bornheimer, Juliann Li Verdugo, Joshua Holzworth, Fonda N. Smith and Joseph A. Himle
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:718
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. In Norway, admission teams at Community Mental Health Centres (CMHCs) assess referrals from General Practitioners (GPs), and classify the referrals into priority groups according to treatment needs, as defined...

    Authors: Per Arne Holman, Torleif Ruud and Sverre Grepperud
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:162
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. In recent years, there has been growing interest in measuring the efficiency of hospitals in Iran and several studies have been conducted on the topic. The main objective of this paper was to review studies in...

    Authors: Aliasghar A Kiadaliri, Mehdi Jafari and Ulf-G Gerdtham
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:312
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Antenatal care is the care provides for a pregnant mother to improve the health of the mother and her baby. But in the World including Ethiopia still, mothers do not receive the required number of antenatal ca...

    Authors: Yibeltal Alemu Bekele, Tadesse Ejigu Tafere, Amanu Aragaw Emiru and Henok Biresaw Netsere
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:846
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. Video consultations has been suggested to lower the threshold for child and adolescent mental healthcare treatment. This study explores how young people receiving child welfare services experience video consul...

    Authors: Vibeke Krane, Jannike Kaasbøll, Silje L. Kaspersen and Marian Ådnanes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:949
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  17. As the gatekeepers of rural residents’ health, teams of village doctors play a vital role in improving rural residents’ health. However, the high turnover of village doctors, both individually and collectively...

    Authors: Xuewen Zhang, Liyan Bian, Xue Bai, Dezhong Kong, Li Liu, Qing Chen and Ningxiu Li
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:283
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. A crucial component of value-based health care concerns the redesign of organizational structures. In theory, hospital structures should follow value creation: addressing medical conditions for specific groups...

    Authors: Gijs Steinmann, K. Daniels, Fabio Mieris, Diana Delnoij, Hester van de Bovenkamp and Paul van der Nat
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1193
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  19. Hearing aids (HA) is the primary medical intervention aimed to reduce hearing handicap. This study assessed the cost-effectiveness of HA for older adults who were volunteered to be screened for hearing loss in...

    Authors: Palvinder Kaur, Sheue Lih Chong, Palvannan Kannapiran, W.-S. Kelvin Teo, Charis Ng Wei Ling, Chiang Win Weichen, Gan Ruling, Lee Sing Yin, Tang Ying Leng, Soo Ying Pei, Then Tze Kang, Lim Zhen Han, Lin Peizhen, Lynne Lim Hsueh Yee and Pradeep Paul George
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1112
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. Dental care utilization for low income pregnant women is met with challenges in the traditional dentist-centered model of care. County-level measures provide insights for policy and roles for stakeholders that...

    Authors: Mark E. Moss, Andrew Grodner, Ananda P. Dasanayake and Cherry M. Beasley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:61
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Breast cancer (BC) clinical guidelines offer evidence-based recommendations to improve quality of healthcare for patients with or at risk of BC. Suboptimal adherence to recommendations has the potential to neg...

    Authors: Ignacio Ricci-Cabello, Adrián Vásquez-Mejía, Carlos Canelo-Aybar, Ena Niño de Guzman, Javier Pérez-Bracchiglione, Montserrat Rabassa, David Rigau, Ivan Solà, Yang Song, Luciana Neamtiu, Elena Parmelli, Zuleika Saz-Parkinson and Pablo Alonso-Coello
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:920
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. National cancer policies identify the improvement of care coordination as a priority to improve the delivery of health services for people with cancer. Identification of the current barriers to effective cance...

    Authors: Jennifer Walsh, James D Harrison, Jane M Young, Phyllis N Butow, Michael J Solomon and Lindy Masya
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:132
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Recent investment in UK liaison psychiatry services has focused on expanding provision for acute and emergency referrals. Little is known about the experiences of users and providers of these services. The aim...

    Authors: Daniel Romeu, Elspeth Guthrie, Sonia Saraiva, Carolyn Czoski-Murray, Jenny Hewison and Allan House
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:191
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  25. Very early rehabilitation is expected to improve functional outcomes after stroke, although its effectiveness has not been fully evaluated. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between ...

    Authors: Hiroki Matsui, Hideki Hashimoto, Hiromasa Horiguchi, Hideo Yasunaga and Shinya Matsuda
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:213
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. Although person-centred care (PCC) is growing globally in popularity it is often vague and lacks conceptual clarity and definition. The ambiguity stretches from PCC’s underlying philosophical principles and de...

    Authors: Helena Fridberg, Lars Wallin and Malin Tistad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1160
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  27. The Malaysian Allied Health Profession Act (Act 774) regulates the practice of allied health practitioners in Malaysia, with two described professions viz. allied health profession (AHP) and profession of allied ...

    Authors: L Mageswary Lapchmanan, Duratul Ain Hussin, Naji Arafat Mahat, Aik Hao Ng, Nurul Huda Bani, Salina Hisham, Wai Siew Teh, Mohd Azmarul A Aziz, Saravanakumar Maniam, Pauzilah Dollah, Nur Atiqah Hasbullah, Salini Manimaran, Hazirah Hassan and Farina Zulkernain
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:165
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  28. The home-management of malaria strategy seeks to improve prompt and effective anti-malarial drug use through the informal sector, with a potential channel being the Private Medicine Retailers (PMRs). Previous ...

    Authors: Timothy Abuya, Abdinasir Amin, Sassy Molyneux, Willis Akhwale, Vicki Marsh and Lucy Gilson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10(Suppl 1):S7
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 10 Supplement 1

  29. Ukraine has a high burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). Mental health problems, including alcohol use disorder, are common co-morbidities. One in five DR-TB patients has human immunodeficiency virus ...

    Authors: Tinne Gils, Chinmay Laxmeshwar, Marve Duka, Khachatur Malakyan, Olga Valentinovna Siomak, Vitaly Stephanovich Didik, Natalia Lytvynenko, Yana Terleeva, Dmytri Donchuk and Petros Isaakidis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:890
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Nepal has made a significant improvement in child survival in the last few decades and the involvement of female community health volunteers (FCHVs) has been crucial in such achievement. While there have been ...

    Authors: Hari Krishna Bhattarai, Pratik Khanal, Vishnu Khanal, Kiran Regmi, Narendra Raj Paudel, Liladhar Dhakal and Samikshya Singh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:561
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. There is a dearth of information about health education clinical file audits in the context of completeness of records and demonstrating program-wide competency achievement. We report on the reliability of an ...

    Authors: H. Stephen Injeyan, Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, Sean Abdulla, Ngai Chow, Jocelyn Cox, Anthony Ridding and Craig Jacobs
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:750
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  32. Rabies is the most severe and neglected public health problem in India. Management of animal bite with post exposure prophylaxis is the only existent strategy to prevent rabies related deaths. Cost-effective a...

    Authors: Harshal Salve, Sanjeev Kumar, Rizwan SA, Sanjay K Rai, Shashi Kant and Chandrakant S Pandav
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:278
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. Supervision of healthcare workers improves performance if done in a supportive and objective manner. Regular supervision is a support function of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) strategy an...

    Authors: Charles Njuguna, Mohamed Vandi, James Sylvester Squire, Joseph Sam Kanu, Wilson Gachari, Evans Liyosi, Jane Githuku, Alexander Chimbaru, Ian Njeru, Victor Caulker, Malimbo Mugagga, Stephen Sesay, Ali Ahmed Yahaya, Ambrose Talisuna, Zabulon Yoti and Ibrahima Socé Fall
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1270
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  34. Medication errors are a common type of preventable errors in health care causing unnecessary patient harm, hospitalization, and even fatality. Improving communication between providers and between providers an...

    Authors: Nicole A Kitson, Morgan Price, Francis Y Lau and Grey Showler
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:418
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. Hospital discharge is a complex process encompassing multiple interactions and requiring coordination. To identify potential improvement measures in care transitions for people with complex care needs, intra- ...

    Authors: Ann-Therese Hedqvist, Gesa Praetorius and Mirjam Ekstedt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:851
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. Multimorbidity is a common phenomenon among patients treated in general practices. Key challenges within this group include functional difficulties, polypharmacy, treatment burden, fragmentation of care, reduc...

    Authors: Renate Stemmer, Britta Büchler, Matthias Büttner, Christina Dera-Ströhm, Joachim Klein and Emilio Gianicolo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:501
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  37. Based on the “China Migrants Dynamic Survey-Special investigation on Floating Elderly in 8 megacities in 2015”, the health status and the utilization of medical and health services in floating elderly were des...

    Authors: Yuwei Fu, Weiwei Lin, Yuan Yang, Ranran Du and Dongping Gao
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:438
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. The identification of dyadic subgroups of individuals living with dementia and their informal caregivers can help to design effective tailored support. In a previous German study, we identified six dementia dy...

    Authors: Henrik Wiegelmann, Karin Wolf-Ostermann, Niels Janssen, Hein van Hout, Janet L. MacNeil Vroomen and Farhad Arzideh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:482
    Content type: Research Published on:

  39. The Advanced Geriatric Nurse role recently has been introduced into Norway’s primary healthcare system, and our study’s purpose was to examine the implementation of models of care developed for Advanced Geriat...

    Authors: Konstantinos Antypas and Marit Kirkevold
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:749
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. In May 2021, the Irish public health service was the target of a cyber-attack. The response by the health service resulted in the widespread removal of access to ICT systems. While services including radiology...

    Authors: Gemma Moore, Zuneera Khurshid, Thérèse McDonnell, Lisa Rogers and Orla Healy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1112
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. Managed care programs in the US are becoming a preferred alternative among low-income individuals in the US. Every year during open enrollment, seniors can enroll in Medicare Advantage (MA) or switch MA plans....

    Authors: Maricruz Rivera-Hernandez, Kristy L. Blackwood, Marquisele Mercedes and Kyle A. Moody
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:146
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. There is momentum internationally to improve coordination of complex care pathways. Robust evaluations of such interventions are scarce. This paper evaluates the cost-utility of cancer care coordinators for st...

    Authors: Tony Blakely, Lucie Collinson, Giorgi Kvizhinadze, Nisha Nair, Rachel Foster, Elizabeth Dennett and Diana Sarfati
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:306
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Despite the increased deployment and added value of Advanced Practitioner Physiotherapy (APP) in musculoskeletal care internationally, APP is not yet widely accepted within Dutch primary care. This may be due ...

    Authors: Sylvia Pellekooren, Marianne Donker, Eddy Reijnders, Lamyae Boutalab, Raymond Ostelo, Maurits van Tulder and Annelies Pool-Goudzwaard
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:529
    Content type: Research Published on:

  45. The theory and practice of safety promotion has traditionally focused on the safety of individuals. This study also includes systems, environments, and organizations. Safety promotion programmes are designed t...

    Authors: Cecilia Nordqvist, Toomas Timpka and Kent Lindqvist
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:4
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. In Bangladesh, sexually transmitted infection (STI) services are available for all populations in public health facilities. However, STI services for key populations (KPs) at risk of HIV need specifically desi...

    Authors: Gorkey Gourab, Golam Sarwar, Mohammad Niaz Morshed Khan, A M Rumayan Hasan, Samira Dishti Irfan, Tarit Kumar Saha, Lima Rahman, A. K. M. Masud Rana and Sharful Islam Khan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:979
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1076

  47. Access to emergency and essential surgical care is still unmet and accessibility is disproportionately inequitable in Ethiopia and other low-and middle-income countries. The aim of this study was to assess sur...

    Authors: Berhane Redae Meshesha, Manuel Kassaye Sibhatu, Hassen Mohammed Beshir, Wuletaw Chane Zewude, Desalegn Bekele Taye, Edlawit Mesfin Getachew, Kassa Haile Merga, Tsegaye Hailu Kumssa, Endawoke Amsalu Alemayue, Akililu Alemu Ashuro, Mulatu Biru Shagre and Senedu Bekele Gebreegziabher
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:973
    Content type: Research Published on:

  49. Ethical medical practice requires managing health services to promote professionalism and secure accessibility to care. Commercially financed and industrially managed services strain the physicians’ clinical a...

    Authors: Jean-Pierre Unger, Ingrid Morales, Pierre De Paepe and Michel Roland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20(Suppl 2):1067
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 2

  50. Indigenous people who use unregulated drugs (IPWUD) face significant barriers to care, including sparse availability of culturally safe health services. Integrating Indigenous traditional and cultural treatmen...

    Authors: Alexa Norton, Fahmida Homayra, Courtney Defriend, Brittany Barker, Louise Meilleur, Kanna Hayashi and Bohdan Nosyk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:266
    Content type: Research Published on:
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