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  1. Educators who train healthcare students to provide behavioral health services in primary care settings frequently encounter challenges as they work to ensure that students acquire the knowledge and skills to e...

    Authors: Edward J. Alessi, Barbara Caldwell, Anthony S. Zazzarino, Brett Greenfield and Patricia A. Findley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:88
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  2. Despite the myriad benefits of research to patients, professionals, and organisations, fewer than 0.1% of the Allied Health Professions workforce are employed in clinical academic roles. Identified barriers in...

    Authors: Terry Cordrey, Elizabeth King, Emma Pilkington, Katie Gore and Owen Gustafson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:85
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  3. Current research demonstrates that health information technology can improve the efficiency and quality of health services. However, many implementation projects have failed due to behavioural problems associa...

    Authors: C. Metallo, R. Agrifoglio, L. Lepore and L. Landriani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:84
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  4. Authors: José Antonio Orellana Turri, Nana Kwame Anokye, Lionai Lima dos Santos, José Maria Soares Júnior, Edmund Chada Baracat, Marco Aurélio Santo and Flavia Mori Sarti
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:83
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    The original article was published in BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:41

  5. A single-entry model in healthcare consolidates waiting lists through a central intake and allows patients to see the next available health care provider based on the prioritization. This study aimed to examin...

    Authors: Anh Thu Vo, Yanqing Yi, Maria Mathews, James Valcour, Michelle Alexander and Marcel Billard
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:82
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  6. Many professional services were pressed to adopt telepractice in response to the global coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic. The need to adopt a new service delivery approach quickly created different i...

    Authors: Elaine Yuen Ling Kwok, Jessica Chiu, Peter Rosenbaum and Barbara Jane Cunningham
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:81
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  7. Differentiated care strategies are rapidly becoming the norm for HIV care delivery globally. Building upon an interest in tailoring antiretroviral therapy (ART) delivery for client-centered needs, the Ministry...

    Authors: Canada Parrish, Anirban Basu, Paul Fishman, Jean Baptiste Koama, Ermane Robin, Kesner Francois, Jean Guy Honoré, Joëlle Deas Van Onacker and Nancy Puttkammer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:80
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:124

  8. Critically ill patients treated in the intensive care units (ICUs) often suffer from side effects and drug-related problems (DRPs) that can be life-threatening. A way to prevent DRPs and improve drug safety an...

    Authors: Aslınur Albayrak, Bilgen Başgut, Gülbin Aygencel Bıkmaz and Bensu Karahalil
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:79
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  9. General practitioners (GPs) and out-of-hours (OOH) doctors are gatekeepers to acute hospital admissions in many healthcare systems. The aim of the present study was to investigate the whole range of reasons fo...

    Authors: Jesper Blinkenberg, Øystein Hetlevik, Hogne Sandvik, Valborg Baste and Steinar Hunskaar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:78
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  10. The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) is the leading national clinical guideline producer in Scotland. Improved design and dissemination of guidelines produced for the public can empower peopl...

    Authors: Naomi Fearns, Laura Walker, Karen Graham, Norman Gibb and Duncan Service
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:77
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  11. Second medical opinions (SOs) can assist patients in making informed treatment decisions and improve the understanding of their diagnosis. In Germany, there are different approaches to obtain a structured SO p...

    Authors: Nadja Könsgen, Barbara Prediger, Anna Schlimbach, Ana-Mihaela Bora, Simone Hess, Michael Caspers and Dawid Pieper
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:76
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  12. Over 1.7 million episodes of agitation occur annually across the United States in emergency departments (EDs), some of which lead to workplace assaults on clinicians and require invasive methods like physical ...

    Authors: Ambrose H. Wong, Nasim S. Sabounchi, Hannah R. Roncallo, Jessica M. Ray and Rebekah Heckmann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:75
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:193

  13. Families with complex needs face significant challenges accessing and navigating health and social services. For veteran families, these challenges are exacerbated by interactions between military and civilian...

    Authors: Angela M. Maguire, Julieann Keyser, Kelly Brown, Daniel Kivlahan, Madeline Romaniuk, Ian R. Gardner and Miriam Dwyer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:74
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  14. Government-sponsored health insurance schemes (GSHIS) aim to improve access to and utilization of healthcare services and offer financial protection to the population. India’s Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Ja...

    Authors: Anurag Saxena, Mayur Trivedi, Zubin Cyrus Shroff and Manas Sharma
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:73
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  15. To be able to make informed choices based on their individual preferences, patients need to be adequately informed about treatment options and their potential outcomes. This implies that studies measure the ef...

    Authors: Christine Kersting, Julia Hülsmann, Klaus Weckbecker and Achim Mortsiefer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:72
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  16. Guidelines and practice standards exist to communicate the conduct and behaviour expected of health care professionals and ensure consistent quality practice. It is important that they describe behaviours expl...

    Authors: Deanna Mill, Amy Page, Jacinta Johnson, Kenneth Lee, Sandra M. Salter, Liza Seubert, Rhonda Clifford and Danielle D’Lima
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:71
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  17. Studies of the hospital volume-outcome relationship have highlighted that a greater volume activity improves patient outcomes. While this finding has been known for years, most studies to date have failed to d...

    Authors: Marius Huguet, Xavier Joutard, Isabelle Ray-Coquard and Lionel Perrier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:70
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  18. HIV assisted partner services (aPS), or provider notification and testing for sexual and injecting partners of people diagnosed with HIV, is shown to be safe, effective, and cost-effective and was scaled up wi...

    Authors: Beatrice Wamuti, Monisha Sharma, Edward Kariithi, Harison Lagat, George Otieno, Rose Bosire, Sarah Masyuko, Mary Mugambi, Bryan J. Weiner, David A. Katz, Carey Farquhar and Carol Levin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:69
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  19. In 2015, Oregon’s Medicaid program implemented a performance improvement project to reduce high-dose opioid prescribing across its 16 coordinated care organizations (CCOs). The objective of this study was to e...

    Authors: Daniel M. Hartung, Jonah Geddes, Sara E. Hallvik, P. Todd Korthuis, Luke Middleton, Gillian Leichtling, Christi Hildebran and Hyunjee Kim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:68
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  21. The COVID–19 pandemic has challenged the capacity of healthcare systems around the world and can potentially compromise healthcare utilization and health outcomes among non-COVID–19 patients.

    Authors: SangNam Ahn, Seonghoon Kim and Kanghyock Koh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:66
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  22. Balanced Scorecard (BSC) has been implemented for three decades to evaluate and improve the performance of organizations. To the best of the researchers’ knowledge, no previous systematic review has performed ...

    Authors: Faten Amer, Sahar Hammoud, Haitham Khatatbeh, Szimonetta Lohner, Imre Boncz and Dóra Endrei
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:65
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:170

  24. Recent patent losses for antiretroviral drugs (ARV) have led to the debate of cost-saving through the replacement of patented drugs with generic drugs. The split of recommended single-tablet regimens (STR) int...

    Authors: Matthäus Lottes, Viviane Bremer, Christof Prugger, Christian Kollan and Daniel Schmidt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:63
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  25. Disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) are the cornerstone of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment. However, the full benefits of DMARDs are often not realized because many patients are sub-optimally a...

    Authors: M. J. H. Voshaar, B. J. F. van den Bemt, M. A. F. J. van de Laar, A. M. van Dulmen and J. E. Vriezekolk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:62
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  26. The aim of this analysis was to examine the influence of housing insecurity on diabetes processes of care and self-care behaviors and determine if that relationship varied by employment status or race/ethnicity.

    Authors: Elise Mosley-Johnson, Rebekah J. Walker, Madhuli Thakkar, Jennifer A. Campbell, Laura Hawks, Sarah Pyzyk and Leonard E. Egede
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:61
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  27. To describe in detail an innovative program based on telemedicine for semi-automated prioritization of referrals from Primary Care (PC) to Rheumatology, for reproducibility purposes, and to present the results...

    Authors: José María Pego-Reigosa, Carlos Peña-Gil, David Rodríguez-Lorenzo, Irene Altabás-González, Naír Pérez-Gómez, John Henry Guzmán-Castro, Rodrigo Varela-Gestoso, Reyes Díaz-Lambarri, Alberto González-Carreró-López, Olga Míguez-Senra, Julia Bóveda-Fontán, Ángeles Charle-Crespo, Francisco Javier Caramés-Casal, Ceferino Barbazán-Álvarez, Íñigo Hernández-Rodríguez, Francisco Maceiras-Pan…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:60
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  28. Veterans increasingly utilize both the Veteran’s Health Administration (VA) and non-VA hospitals (dual-users). Dual-users are at increased risk of fragmented care and adverse outcomes and often do not receive ...

    Authors: Heidi Sjoberg, Wenhui Liu, Carly Rohs, Roman A Ayele, Marina McCreight, Ashlea Mayberry and Catherine Battaglia
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:59
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  29. Residential homes provide accommodation and assistance with personal care only and are not required to have registered nurses on site. However, their residents often have a combination of comorbidity, polyphar...

    Authors: Anna Steel, Helen Hopwood, Elizabeth Goodwin and Elizabeth L. Sampson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:58
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  30. Large system transformation in health systems is designed to improve quality, outcomes and efficiency. Using empirical data from a longitudinal study of national policy-driven transformation of maternity servi...

    Authors: Beck Taylor, Alistair Hewison, Fiona Cross-Sudworth and Kevin Morrell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:57
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  31. Despite evidence on peer navigation’s association with positive HIV outcomes, such as engagement in HIV care and antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation, the mechanisms through which peer navigation may influe...

    Authors: Tahilin Sanchez Karver, Clare Barrington, Yeycy Donastorg, Martha Perez, Hoisex Gomez, Kathleen R. Page, David Celentano, Katherine Clegg Smith and Deanna Kerrigan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:56
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  32. Spotting and light vaginal bleeding are common and usually harmless symptoms in early pregnancy. Still, vaginal bleeding may be the first sign of an abortion and often causes distress to pregnant women and lea...

    Authors: Swaathi Kiritharan, Mille Vang Johanson, Martin Bach Jensen, Janus Nikolaj Laust Thomsen, Camilla Aakjær Andersen and Cathrine Elgaard Jensen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:55
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  33. Although many success stories exist of Village Health Workers (VHWs) improving primary health care, critiques remain about the medicalisation of their roles in disease-specific interventions. VHWs are placed a...

    Authors: Yoriko Masunaga, Joan Muela Ribera, Fatou Jaiteh, Daniel H. de Vries and Koen Peeters Grietens
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:54
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  34. Traditional and complementary medicine (T&CM) is commonly used among cancer patients worldwide. Cancer patients in Norway mainly visit T&CM providers in addition to conventional health care services. It is not...

    Authors: Kiwumulo Nakandi, Dana Mora, Trine Stub and Agnete E. Kristoffersen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:53
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  36. Implementation of private elements, including private insurances, in public healthcare system is now common in many countries, and its impacts have been well studied. Little, however, is known about the motive...

    Authors: Tal Michael, Dani Filc and Nadav Davidovitch
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:51
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  37. Quality improvement is an international priority, and health organisations invest heavily in this endeavour. Little, however, is known of the role and perspectives of Quality Improvement Managers who are respo...

    Authors: Adeel Akmal, Nataliya Podgorodnichenko, Tim Stokes, Jeff Foote, Richard Greatbanks and Robin Gauld
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:50
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  38. Health care is a complex economic and social system, which combines market elements and public and social interest. This combination in Brazil, like systems in China and United States of America, is operationa...

    Authors: June Alisson Westarb Cruz, Maria Alexandra Viegas Cortez da Cunha, Thyago Proença de Moraes, Sandro Marques, Felipe Francisco Tuon, Arivelton Loeschke Gomide and Gisele de Paula Linhares
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:49
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  39. In Norway, an annual tender system for the prescription of biologic and targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (b/tsDMARDs) has been used since 2007. This study aimed to explore annual b/tsDM...

    Authors: Alen Brkic, Andreas P. Diamantopoulos, Espen Andre Haavardsholm, Bjørg Tilde Svanes Fevang, Lene Kristin Brekke, Liz Loli, Camilla Zettel, Erik Rødevand, Gunnstein Bakland, Pawel Mielnik and Glenn Haugeberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:48
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  41. The aim of this work was to develop a National Evaluation Framework to facilitate the standardization of delivery, quality, reporting, and evaluation of diabetes education and support programs delivered throug...

    Authors: Jenny Louise Olson, Becky White, Helen Mitchell, Jennifer Halliday, Timothy Skinner, Deborah Schofield, Jennifer Sweeting and Natasha Watson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:46
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  42. Much of spatial access research measures the proximity to health service locations. We advance this research by focusing on whether health service funding is within walkable reach of neighborhoods with high ha...

    Authors: Julia Koschinsky, Nicole P. Marwell and Raed Mansour
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:45
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  44. Ethiopia Population-based HIV Impact Assessment findings showed that in Addis Ababa, only 65.2% of people living with HIV (PLHIV) know their status. We present the enhanced HIV/AIDS data management and systema...

    Authors: Dereje Habte, Samuel Zemenfeskudus, Mulugeta Endale, Mohammed Zeidan, Daniel Getachew, Dejene Woldemichael, Aklilu S. Wesene, Esayas Teklebirhan, Fitsum Eyayu, Raey Zewdie, Daniel Yirga, Worknesh Amdino, Zenebe Melaku and Sisay A. Abayneh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:43
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  45. The costs associated with the treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD) are understudied in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). We evaluated the cost of treating SCD-related acute complications and the potent...

    Authors: Clarisse Lobo, Patricia Moura, Delaine Fidlarczyk, Jane Duran, Roberto Barbosa, Thais Oliveira, Emilia Matos do Nascimento, Nickhill Bhakta and Jane S. Hankins
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:42
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  46. The increasing burden of obesity generates significant socioeconomic impacts for individuals, populations, and national health systems worldwide. The literature on impacts and cost-effectiveness of obesity-rel...

    Authors: José Antonio Orellana Turri, Nana Kwame Anokye, Lionai Lima dos Santos, José Maria Soares Júnior, Edmund Chada Baracat, Marco Aurélio Santo and Flavia Mori Sarti
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:41
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:83

  47. Childhood vaccination is an important public health intervention but there is limited information on coverage, trends, and determinants of vaccination completion in Uganda at the regional level. We examined tr...

    Authors: Gerald Okello, Jonathan Izudi, Immaculate Ampeire, Frehd Nghania, Carine Dochez and Niel Hens
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:40
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  49. Patients with back pain are often in contact with 2–4 hospital departments when receiving a back pain diagnosis and treatment. This complicates the entire clinical course description. There is, currently, no m...

    Authors: Maria Iachina, Olav S. Garvik, Pernille S. Ljungdalh, Mette Wod and Berit Schiøttz-Christensen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:36
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  50. Nursing home residents have high medical care needs. Their medical care utilization is, however, lower compared to community-dwelling elderly and varies widely among nursing homes. This study quantified the ut...

    Authors: Jonas Czwikla, Annika Schmidt, Maike Schulz, Ansgar Gerhardus, Guido Schmiemann, Karin Wolf-Ostermann, Daniel Gand, Anna-Carina Friedrich, Falk Hoffmann and Heinz Rothgang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:35
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