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  1. Lung cancer stage at diagnosis predicts possible curative treatment. In Denmark and the UK, lung cancer patients have lower survival rates than citizens in most other European countries, which may partly be ex...

    Authors: Louise Mahncke Guldbrandt, Morten Fenger-Grøn, Torben Riis Rasmussen, Henry Jensen and Peter Vedsted
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:21
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  2. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing public health threat. Primary care physicians are important inducers of the overuse of antimicrobials and inappropriate prescribing. Augmented reality (AR) might pro...

    Authors: Egui Zhu, Uno Fors and Åsa Smedberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:860
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. Almost all maternal deaths and related morbidities occur in low-income countries. Childbirth supervised by a skilled provider in a health facility is a key intervention to prevent maternal and perinatal morbid...

    Authors: Quraish Sserwanja, David Mukunya, Milton W. Musaba, Joseph Kawuki and Freddy Eric Kitutu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1160
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model is a coordinated-care model that has served as a means to improve several chronic disease outcomes and reduce management costs. However, access to PCMH has not be...

    Authors: Ziyad S Almalki, Nedaa A Karami, Imtinan A Almsoudi, Roaa K Alhasoun, Alaa T Mahdi, Entesar A Alabsi, Saad M Alshahrani, Nourah D Alkhdhran and Tahani M Alotaib
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:744
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Comprehensive policies are becoming common for addressing wicked problems in health and social care. Success of these policies often varies between target organizations. This variation can often be attributed ...

    Authors: Helena Strehlenert, Johan Hansson, Monica Elisabeth Nyström and Henna Hasson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:730
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Monitoring for potentially hazardous prescribing is increasingly important to improve medication safety. Healthcare information technology can be used to achieve this aim, for example by providing access to pr...

    Authors: Mark Jeffries, Denham L. Phipps, Rachel L. Howard, Anthony J. Avery, Sarah Rodgers and Darren M. Ashcroft
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:196
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Recovery in mental health care is complex, highly individual and can be facilitated by a range of professional and non-professional support. In this study we will examine how recovery from mental health proble...

    Authors: Michael Coffey, Ben Hannigan, Alan Meudell, Julian Hunt and Deb Fitzsimmons
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:392
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  8. Globally, female sex workers (FSWs) are considered a key population group due to the high HIV prevalence. Studies show that there are various factors in some contexts that render FSWs marginalised, which limit...

    Authors: Nosipho Faith Makhakhe, Anna Meyer-Weitz, Helen Struthers and James McIntyre
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:746
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. This study aimed to explore barriers to and enablers for future implementation of a draft clinical pathway for anxiety and depression in cancer patients in the Australian context.

    Authors: Nicole M Rankin, Phyllis N Butow, Thida Thein, Tracy Robinson, Joanne M Shaw, Melanie A Price, Kerrie Clover, Tim Shaw and Peter Grimison
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:28
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Trust has been introduced as the cornerstone of the public and health providers’ relation. Public trust in primary health care (PHC) is crucial and must be measured. The aim of this study was to develop and va...

    Authors: Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani, Mostafa farahbakhsh, Jafar Sadegh Tabrizi, Zahra Zare and Mohammad Saadati
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:502
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. Improving the training of physicians about communication skills and patient health literacy (HL) is a major priority that remains an open question. We aimed to examine the effectiveness of communication skills...

    Authors: Seyedeh Belin Tavakoly Sany, Fatemeh Behzhad, Gordon Ferns and Nooshin Peyman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:60
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  12. Family planning can reduce deaths, improve health, and facilitate economic development in resource-limited settings. Yet, modern contraceptive methods are often underused. This mixed-methods study, conducted i...

    Authors: M. Ndayizigiye, M. C. Smith Fawzi, C. Thompson Lively and N.C. Ware
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:209
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  13. Lean is commonly adopted in healthcare to increase quality of care and efficiency. Few studies of Lean involve staff-related outcomes, and few have a longitudinal design. Thus, the aim was to examine the exten...

    Authors: Monica Kaltenbrunner, Lars Bengtsson, Svend Erik Mathiassen, Hans Högberg and Maria Engström
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:652
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  14. Nowadays, a growing literature reveals how patients use informal payments to seek either better treatment or additional services, but little systematic review has been accomplished for synthesizing the main fa...

    Authors: Arefeh Pourtaleb, Mehdi Jafari, Hesam Seyedin and Ali Akhavan Behbahani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:14
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  15. Although there is evidence with respect to the effectiveness of Chronic Care Model (CCM)-based programs in terms of improved patient outcomes, less attention has been given to the effect of high-quality care o...

    Authors: Lotte Vestjens, Jane M. Cramm and Anna P. Nieboer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:496
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. Dispensations of opioid analgesics to patients on opioid agonist therapy (OAT) may increase the risk of overdoses. The current study’s objectives are to investigate the dispensation rates and mean daily doses ...

    Authors: Jørn Henrik Vold, Svetlana Skurtveit, Christer Aas, Kjell Arne Johansson and Lars Thore Fadnes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:668
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  17. Child mortality in the Netherlands declined gradually in the past decades. In total 1130 children and youth aged 0 to 19 years died in 2014 (i.e. 29.4 per 100,000 live births). A better understanding of the ba...

    Authors: Sandra Gijzen, Michaëla I. Hilhorst, Monique P. L’Hoir, Magda M. Boere-Boonekamp and Ariana Need
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:235
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  18. Back pain is an extensive burden to our healthcare system, yet few studies have explored modifiable prognostic factors associated with high costs related to healthcare utilization, especially among older back ...

    Authors: Rikke Munk Killingmo, Alessandro Chiarotto, Danielle A. van der Windt, Kjersti Storheim, Sita M. A. Bierma-Zeinstra, Milada C. Småstuen, Zinajda Zolic-Karlsson, Ørjan N. Vigdal, Bart W. Koes and Margreth Grotle
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:793
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  19. Many governments have made commitments to examine inequalities in healthcare access based on studies assessing the association between several socio-demographic factors and late initiation or fewer prenatal ex...

    Authors: Manuela Chiavarini, Donatella Lanari, Liliana Minelli and Luca Salmasi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:174
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. Medical evaluations of work capacity provide key information for decisions on a claimant’s eligibility for disability benefits. In recent years, the evaluations have been increasingly criticized for low transp...

    Authors: Urban Schwegler, Jessica Anner, Andrea Glässel, Mirjam Brach, Wout De Boer, Alarcos Cieza and Bruno Trezzini
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:361
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  21. Substantial and important benefits flow to all stakeholders, including the service user, when mental health services meaningfully engage with carers and family members. Government policies around the world cle...

    Authors: Darryl Maybery, Irene Casey Jaffe, Rose Cuff, Zoe Duncan, Anne Grant, Melissa Kennelly, Torleif Ruud, Bjorg Eva Skogoy, Bente Weimand and Andrea Reupert
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1073
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  22. Most psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence cause impairment in academic performance. Early interventions in school are thought to reduce the burden of disorder and prevent chronicity of disorder, ...

    Authors: Isabel Boege, Julia Herrmann, Julia Katharina Wolff, Ulrike Hoffmann, Michael Koelch, Marc Kurepkat, Steffen Lütte, Alexander Naumann, Hans Dieter Nolting and Jörg Michael Fegert
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:947
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  23. The overarching goal of health policies is to maximize health and societal benefits. Economic evaluations can play a vital role in assessing whether or not such benefits occur. This paper reviews the applicati...

    Authors: Van Phuong Hoang, Marian Shanahan, Nagesh Shukla, Pascal Perez, Michael Farrell and Alison Ritter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:127
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. Assessing quality of health services, for example through supportive supervision, is essential for strengthening healthcare delivery. Most systematic health facility assessment mechanisms, however, are not sui...

    Authors: Dominick Mboya, Christopher Mshana, Flora Kessy, Sandra Alba, Christian Lengeler, Sabine Renggli, Bart Vander Plaetse, Mohamed A. Mohamed and Alexander Schulze
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:578
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  25. Given the increasing importance of formal home care services in policies dedicated to elder care, there is major interest in studying individuals’ characteristics determining their utilization. The main object...

    Authors: Julien Dupraz, Yves Henchoz and Brigitte Santos-Eggimann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:22
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  26. There is growing interest on the impact of performance-based financing (PBF) on health workers’ motivation and performance. However, the literature so far tends to look at PBF payments in isolation, without re...

    Authors: Maria Paola Bertone, Mylene Lagarde and Sophie Witter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:286
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. Adolescents face significant barriers to contraception access and utilization that result in adverse health effects of early pregnancy and childbirth. Unsafe abortions continue to occur partly due to failure t...

    Authors: Margarate Nzala Munakampe, Joseph Mumba Zulu and Charles Michelo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:909
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:441

  28. Pastoralist community accounts for a significant portion of the population in Ethiopia. This community is different from majority of the country’s population. Access to TB prevention and control services is un...

    Authors: Abebe Megerso, Negusie Deyessa, Godana Jarso, Robel Tezera and Alemayehu Worku
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:632
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  29. Omphalitis is an important contributor to neonatal mortality in Kenya. Chlorhexidine digluconate 7.1 % w/w (CHX; equivalent to 4 % w/w chlorhexidine) was identified as a life-saving commodity for newborn cord ...

    Authors: Lecia Brown, Alan Martin, Christopher Were, Nandita Biswas, Alexander Liakos, Elena DeAngelis and Lee Alexandra Evitt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1249
    Content type: Research Published on:

  30. Despite a growing number of adolescents and adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), little is known about service needs and barriers to services in this population. Existing research shows that y...

    Authors: Mateusz Płatos and Ewa Pisula
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:587
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  31. Integrating health care across specialized work units has the potential to lower costs and increase quality and access to mental health care. However, a key challenge for healthcare managers is how to develop ...

    Authors: Justin K. Benzer, Irene E. Cramer, James F. Burgess Jr, David C. Mohr, Jennifer L. Sullivan and Martin P. Charns
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:448
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  32. Fifteen counties contribute 98.7% of the maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality in Kenya. The dismal maternal and newborn (MNH) outcomes in these settings are mostly attributable to limited access to ski...

    Authors: Hellen Gatakaa, Elizabeth Ombech, Rogers Omondi, James Otiato, Vincent Waringa, Gordon Okomo, Richard Muga, Moses Ndiritu and Samson Gwer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:914
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  33. A large mental health treatment gap exists among conflict-affected populations, and Syrian refugees specifically. Promising brief psychological interventions for conflict-affected populations exist such as the...

    Authors: Daniela C. Fuhr, Ceren Acarturk, Marit Sijbrandij, Felicity L. Brown, Mark J. D. Jordans, Aniek Woodward, Michael McGrath, Egbert Sondorp, Peter Ventevogel, Zeynep Ikkursun, Rabih El Chammay, Pim Cuijpers and Bayard Roberts
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:801
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  34. Polypharmacy is common in chronic medication users, which increases the risk of drug related problems. A suitable intervention is the clinical medication review (CMR) that was introduced in the Netherlands in ...

    Authors: S. Hogervorst, M.C. Adriaanse, M. Vervloet, M. Teichert, J.J. Beckeringh, L. van Dijk and J.G. Hugtenburg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:575
    Content type: Research Published on:

  35. Obtaining a sample that is representative of the group of interest is of utmost importance in questionnaire studies. In a survey using a state authorized web-portal for citizen communication with authorities, ...

    Authors: Søren Birkeland, Thea Linkhorst, Anders Haakonsson, Michael John Barry and Sören Möller
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:851
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  36. Linked electronic medical records and administrative data have the potential to support a learning health system and data-driven quality improvement. However, data completeness and accuracy must first be asses...

    Authors: Rukia Swaleh, Taylor McGuckin, Denise Campbell-Scherer, Brock Setchell, Peter Senior and Roseanne O. Yeung
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1
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  37. Previous studies have investigated process and structure indicators of nutritional care as well as their use in nursing homes (NHs), but the relative weight of these indicators in predicting the risk of malnut...

    Authors: Guglielmo Bonaccorsi, Francesca Collini, Mariangela Castagnoli, Mauro Di Bari, Maria Chiara Cavallini, Nicoletta Zaffarana, Pasquale Pepe, Alessandro Mugelli, Ersilia Lucenteforte, Alfredo Vannacci and Chiara Lorini
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:223
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  38. Perceived care quality and patient satisfaction have been important care quality indicators in recent decades, and healthcare professionals have been influential on women’s childbirth experience. This study in...

    Authors: Somayeh Abdolalipour, Shamsi Abbasalizadeh, Sakineh Mohammad-Alizadeh-Charandabi, Fatemeh Abbasalizadeh, Shayesteh Jahanfar, Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi, Kosar Abdollahi and Mojgan Mirghafourvadsnd
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:365
    Content type: Research Published on:

  40. Although new molecular diagnostic tests such as GenoType MTBDRplus and Xpert® MTB/RIF have reduced multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment initiation times, patients’ experiences of diagnosis and trea...

    Authors: Pren Naidoo, Margaret van Niekerk, Elizabeth du Toit, Nulda Beyers and Natalie Leon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:488
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Diabetic macular oedema (DMO) may lead to visual loss and blindness. Several pharmacological treatments are available on the National Health Service (NHS) to United Kingdom patients affected by this condition,...

    Authors: Michal Pochopien, Annette Beiderbeck, Phil McEwan, Richard Zur, Mondher Toumi and Samuel Aballéa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:22
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. There is a lack of practical research frameworks to guide the development of patient decision aids [PtDAs]. This paper described how a PtDA was developed using the International Patient Decision Aids (IPDAS) g...

    Authors: Chirk Jenn Ng, Nigel Mathers, Alastair Bradley and Brigitte Colwell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:503
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. The Global Forum 2015 panel session dialogue entitled “From evidence to policy – thinking outside the box” was held on 26 August 2015 in the Philippines to debate why evidence was not fully translated into pol...

    Authors: Joses Muthuri Kirigia, Charles Ok Pannenborg, Luis Gabriel Cuervo Amore, Hassen Ghannem, Carel IJsselmuiden and Juliet Nabyonga-Orem
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16(Suppl 4):215
    Content type: Debate Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 4

  44. Deinstitutionalisation in Europe has led to the development of community-based accommodation for people with mental health problems. The type, setting, and intensity of support provided vary and the costs are ...

    Authors: Sima Sandhu, Stefan Priebe, Gerard Leavey, Isobel Harrison, Joanna Krotofil, Peter McPherson, Sarah Dowling, Maurice Arbuthnott, Sarah Curtis, Michael King, Geoff Shepherd and Helen Killaspy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:471
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Human resources for health (HRH) shortages are a major limitation to equitable access to healthcare. African countries have the most severe shortage of HRH in the world despite rising communicable and non-comm...

    Authors: Ikechi G. Okpechi, Ijezie I. Chukwuonye, Udeme Ekrikpo, Jean Jacques Noubiap, Yemi R. Raji, Yusuf Adeshina, Samuel Ajayi, Zunaid Barday, Malini Chetty, Bianca Davidson, Emmanuel Effa, Stephen Fagbemi, Cindy George, Andre P. Kengne, Erika S. W. Jones, Hamidu Liman…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:446
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Malaria is a public health hazard globally, with Sub-Saharan Africa accounting for more than 90% of malaria deaths, primarily affecting children under the age of five. In Rwanda, malaria interventions include ...

    Authors: Godelive Umulerwa Gakinahe, Eugene Rutungwa, Francois Mbonyinshuti and Egide Kayitare
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:136
    Content type: Research Published on:

  47. Gastric cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in both sexes worldwide, especially in Eastern Asia. This study aimed to estimate the economic burden of advanced gastric cancer (AGC) in Ta...

    Authors: Jihyung Hong, Yiling Tsai, Diego Novick, Frank Chi-huang Hsiao, Rebecca Cheng and Jen-Shi Chen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:663
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. For decades hospitals have been “vertically” organized, with the risk that specialization leads to fragmented and one-sided views of patient care and treatment that may cause poor communication and coordinatio...

    Authors: C. Abrahamsen, B. Nørgaard, E. Draborg and D. Nielsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:602
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Ward rounds are an important and ubiquitous element of hospital care with a history extending well over a century. Although originally intended as a means of educating medical trainees and junior doctors, over...

    Authors: Paul Perversi, John Yearwood, Emilia Bellucci, Andrew Stranieri, Jim Warren, Frada Burstein, Heather Mays and Alan Wolff
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:643
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a public health problem. Interprofessional collaboration and health promotion interventions such as exercise training, education, and behaviour change are cost e...

    Authors: Sara Lundell, Malin Tistad, Börje Rehn, Maria Wiklund, Åsa Holmner and Karin Wadell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:467
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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