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  1. A new dosing schedule for the oncology immunotherapy pembrolizumab, every 6 weeks (Q6W), has been approved by the U.S. FDA, reducing the frequency of visits to infusion centers. We quantified the time spent by...

    Authors: Raquel Aguiar-Ibáñez, Emilie Scherrer, Dmitri Grebennik, John Cook, Shalini Bagga, Baanie Sawhney, Anvi Khandelwal and Scott A. Soefje
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:136
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  2. To improve the uptake of research into practice, knowledge translation frameworks recommend tailoring implementation strategies to address practice barriers. This study reports our experience pairing the Theor...

    Authors: Elaine Yuen Ling Kwok, Sheila T. F. Moodie, Barbara Jane Cunningham and Janis E. Oram Cardy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:385
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  3. This study aims to analyze whether the rehabilitation of cancer surviving patients (CSPs) can be better organized. The data for this paper consists of focus group interviews (FGIs) with CSPs, general practitio...

    Authors: Thorbjørn H Mikkelsen, Jens Soendergaard, Anders B Jensen and Frede Olesen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:122
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  4. Medical Assessment Units (MAUs) have become a popular model of acute medical care to improve patient flow through timely clinical assessment and patient management. The purpose of this study was to determine t...

    Authors: Sonya Osborne, Helen Cleak, Nicole White, Xing Lee, Anthony Deacon and Julian W M de Looze
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:527
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  5. Internationally Emergency Department (ED) crowding is a significant health services delivery issue posing a major risk to population health. ED crowding affects both the quality and access of health services a...

    Authors: Niamh M. Cummins, Louise A. Barry, Carrie Garavan, Collette Devlin, Gillian Corey, Fergal Cummins, Damien Ryan, Sinead Cronin, Emma Wallace, Gerard McCarthy and Rose Galvin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:471
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  6. There is increasing recognition of the need to focus on the health and well-being of healthcare employees given high rates of burnout and turnover. Employee wellness programs are effective at addressing these ...

    Authors: Omonyêlé L. Adjognon, Adena Cohen-Bearak, Jenesse Kaitz, Barbara G. Bokhour, Leslie Chatelain, Martin P. Charns and David C. Mohr
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:600
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  7. Health worker motivation can potentially affect the provision of health services. The HIV pandemic has placed additional strain on health service provision through the extra burden of increased testing and cou...

    Authors: Deogratius Mbilinyi, Marguerite L Daniel and Gro Th Lie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:266
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  8. Community Health Navigators (CHNs) are members of a patient’s care team that aim to reduce barriers in accessing healthcare. CHNs have been described in various healthcare settings, including chronic disease m...

    Authors: Rachel J. Livergant, Natalie C. Ludlow and Kerry A. McBrien
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:657
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  9. The theory of salutogenesis focuses on resources for health and health-promoting processes. In the context of midwives’ work, this is not well described despite the importance for occupational health and the i...

    Authors: Malin Hansson, Ingela Lundgren, Gunnel Hensing, Anna Dencker, Monica Eriksson and Ing-Marie Carlsson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:312
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  10. Engagement of healthcare providers is one of the World Health Organization strategies devised for prevention and provision of patient centered care for multidrug resistant tuberculosis. The need for current re...

    Authors: Bereket Aberham Lajore, Yitagesu Habtu Aweke, Samuel Yohannes Ayanto and Menen Ayele
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:542
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  11. The use of variable rate intravenous insulin infusion (VRIII) is a complex process that has consistently been implicated in reports of error and consequent harm. Investment in patient safety has focused mainly...

    Authors: Mais Iflaifel, Rosemary Lim, Clare Crowley, Francesca Greco and Rick Iedema
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:545
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  12. People with disabilities and without natural speech often rely on care provided by informal caregivers. The caregiving situation of these informal caregivers has been poorly researched. The objectives of the s...

    Authors: Anna Zinkevich, Sarah Anna Katharina Uthoff, Markus Antonius Wirtz, Jens Boenisch, Stefanie Kalén Sachse, Tobias Bernasconi, Michael Feldhaus and Lena Ansmann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1549
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  13. Understanding the cost of care associated with different kinds of healthcare providers is necessary for informing the policy debates in mixed health-systems like India’s. Existing studies reporting Out of Pock...

    Authors: Samir Garg, Narayan Tripathi, Alok Ranjan and Kirtti Kumar Bebarta
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:838
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  14. The capacity to deliver essential health services has been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly due to lockdown restrictions. Telemedicine provides a safe, efficient, and effective altern...

    Authors: Alicia Victoria G. Noceda, Lianne Margot M. Acierto, Morvenn Chaimek C. Bertiz, David Emmanuel H. Dionisio, Chelsea Beatrice L. Laurito, Girrard Alphonse T. Sanchez and Arianna Maever Loreche
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:277
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  15. Children with medical complexity (CMC) comprise 1% of the paediatric population, but account for over 30% of health service costs. Lack of healthcare integration and coordination for CMC is well-documented. To...

    Authors: Stephanie Hodgson, Kirsten Noack, Ashleigh Griffiths and Michael Hodgins
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:504
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  16. In spite of the successes of the community-based health planning and services (CHPS) policy since its inception in the mid-1990s in Ghana, data pertaining to the implementation and use of CHPS facilities in Se...

    Authors: Abraham D. Koyaara, Benjamin Noble Adjei, Eric Adjei Boadu and Edward T. Dassah
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:742
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  18. Doing “more” in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. It is important to identify the supplier-induced demand (SID) of health care. This study aims to test SID hypothesi...

    Authors: Yafei Si, Zhongliang Zhou, Min Su, Han Hu, Zesen Yang and Xi Chen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1118
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  19. Nearly 50% of Canadians are overweight and their number is increasing rapidly. The majority of obese subjects are treated by primary care physicians (PCPs) who often feel uncomfortable with the management of o...

    Authors: Jean-Patrice Baillargeon, André Carpentier, Denise Donovan, Martin Fortin, Andrew Grant, Judith Simoneau-Roy, Denise St-Cyr-Tribble, Mariane Xhignesse and Marie-France Langlois
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:163
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  20. While involving users in healthcare decision-making has become increasingly common and important, there is a lack of knowledge about how to best design community-based health screening programs. Reviews of met...

    Authors: David Brain, Amarzaya Jadambaa and Sanjeewa Kularatna
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1079
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  21. People with problems in functioning following severe injury or illness often need multiple and combined interventions in their rehabilitation processes. In these processes, communication and collaboration betw...

    Authors: Randi Skumsnes, Hilde Thygesen and Karen Synne Groven
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1353
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  22. To comprehend the relationship between various indicators of health service equity and patients’ health expenditure poverty in different regions of China, identify areas where equity in health service is lacki...

    Authors: Shaoliang Tang, Ling Yao, Chaoyu Ye, Zhengjun Li, Jing Yuan, Kean Tang and David Qian
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:718
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  23. Prompted by recent shocks and stresses to health systems globally, various studies have emerged on health system resilience. Our aim is to describe how health system resilience is operationalised within empiri...

    Authors: Samantha Copeland, Saba Hinrichs-Krapels, Federica Fecondo, Esteban Ralon Santizo, Roland Bal and Tina Comes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1297
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  24. In the United States, value-based purchasing has created the need for healthcare systems to prospectively identify patients at risk for high healthcare utilization beyond a physical therapy episode for musculo...

    Authors: Trevor A. Lentz, Jason M. Beneciuk and Steven Z. George
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:648
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  25. Outpatient follow-up care for stroke survivors is often inadequate and mostly self-organized by the patients themselves. In the German health care system, there are no standard care programs for patients after...

    Authors: Johannes Deutschbein, Ulrike Grittner, Alice Schneider and Liane Schenk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1143
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  26. Advance Care Planning (ACP) is an emerging strategy to ensure that well-reflected, meaningful and clearly documented treatment preferences are available and respected when critical decisions about life-sustain...

    Authors: Jürgen in der Schmitten, Sonja Rothärmel, Christine Mellert, Stephan Rixen, Bernard J Hammes, Linda Briggs, Karl Wegscheider and Georg Marckmann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:14
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  27. An essential medicine (EM) system has been implemented in China to reduce patients’ financial burden and to make the use of drugs more rational. This study aims to evaluate the current state of the EM system i...

    Authors: Wen-yuan Zhang, Ying-ran Li, Yun-jing Li, Xue-qin Li, Wei-guo Zhao and Rong-zhi Lu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:98
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  28. Telerehabilitation, i.e. rehabilitation at a distance using Information and Communication Technology (ICT), is a promising avenue for improving health among people with neurological diseases or older adults wh...

    Authors: Lucian Bezuidenhout, Conran Joseph, Charlotte Thurston, Anthea Rhoda, Coralie English and David Moulaee Conradsson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:555
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  29. Granting dispensing pharmacists the authority to prescribe has significant implications for pharmaceutical and health human resources policy, and quality of care. Despite the growing number of jurisdictions th...

    Authors: Michael R Law, Steven G Morgan, Sumit R Majumdar, Larry D Lynd and Carlo A Marra
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:313
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  30. Person-centeredness is increasingly advocated in the literature as a gold-standard, best practice concept in health services for older people. This concept describes care that incorporates individual and multi...

    Authors: Anita Nilsson, Marie Lindkvist, Birgit H Rasmussen and David Edvardsson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:327
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  31. People with severe mental illness (SMI) are at greater risk of earlier mortality due to physical health problems including cardiovascular disease (CVD). There is limited work exploring whether physical health ...

    Authors: Suzan Hassan, Samira Heinkel, Alexandra Burton, Ruth Blackburn, Tayla McCloud, Jamie Ross, David Osborn and Kate Walters
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:753
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  32. Despite a growing understanding of the effectiveness of bereavement interventions and the groups that benefit most from them, we know little about the cost-effectiveness of bereavement interventions.

    Authors: Simone Onrust, Filip Smit, Godelief Willemse, Jan van den Bout and Pim Cuijpers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:128
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  33. To meet the complex needs of healthcare delivery, the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MOHLTC) introduced Physician Assistants (PAs) into the Ontario health care system in 2006 with the goal of helping t...

    Authors: Kristen E. Burrows, Julia Abelson, Patricia A. Miller, Mitchell Levine and Meredith Vanstone
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:365
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. Child maltreatment, due to its high prevalence and often long-lasting (health and/or psycho-social) consequences, is one of the main reasons for global health inequalities. The medical field offers many opport...

    Authors: Anna Maier, Jörg M. Fegert and Ulrike Hoffmann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:571
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  35. Nursing homes are under strong pressure to provide good care to the residents. In Norway, municipalities have applied the ‘Joy-of-Life-Nursing-Home’ strategy to increase a health-promoting perception that focu...

    Authors: Beate André, Kjersti Grønning, Frode F. Jacobsen and Gørill Haugan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:771
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1028

  36. Patient engagement is seen as a necessary component in achieving the triple aim of improved population health, improved experience of care, and lower per capita health care costs. While there has been a substa...

    Authors: Gennaro Di Tosto, Jennifer L. Hefner, Daniel M. Walker, Megan E. Gregory, Ann Scheck McAlearney and Cynthia J. Sieck
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:846
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  37. The aim of this study was to identify the range of ways that safety net hospitals (SNHs) have been empirically operationalized in the literature and determine the extent to which patterns could be identified i...

    Authors: Jennifer L. Hefner, Tory Harper Hogan, William Opoku-Agyeman and Nir Menachemi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:278
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  38. The world population is ageing rapidly. Rehabilitation is one of the most effective health strategies for improving the health and functioning of older persons. An understanding of the current provision of reh...

    Authors: Vanessa Seijas, Roxanne Maritz, Satish Mishra, Renaldo M Bernard, Patricia Fernandes, Viola Lorenz, Barbara Machado, Ana María Posada, Luz Helena Lugo-Agudelo, Jerome Bickenbach and Carla Sabariego
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:123
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:193

  39. Low and middle-income countries remain disproportionately affected by high rates of child mortality. Clinical practice guidelines are essential clinical tools supporting implementation of effective, safe, and ...

    Authors: Mashudu Mthethwa, Nyanyiwe Masingi Mbeye, Emmanuel Effa, Dachi Arikpo, Ntombifuthi Blose, Amanda Brand, Moriam Chibuzor, Roselyn Chipojola, Solange Durao, Ekpereonne Esu, Idriss Ibrahim Kallon, Gertrude Kunje, Suzgika Lakudzala, Celeste Naude, Trudy D. Leong, Simon Lewin…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:221
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  40. Ascertaining the causes for deaths occurring outside health facilities is a significant problem in many developing countries where civil registration systems are not well developed or non-functional. Standardi...

    Authors: C. Chabila Mapoma, Brian Munkombwe, Chomba Mwango, Bupe Bwalya Bwalya, Audrey Kalindi and N. Philimon Gona
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:408
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  42. Several health care systems internationally have implemented protocolised sepsis recognition and treatment bundles for children to improve outcomes, as recommended by the Surviving Sepsis Campaign. Successful ...

    Authors: Amanda Harley, Luregn J. Schlapbach, Paula Lister, Debbie Massey, Patricia Gilholm and Amy N. B. Johnston
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1161
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  44. Administrative data is often used to identify patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), yet the validity of this approach is unclear. We sought to develop a predictive model utilizing adminis...

    Authors: Colin R Cooke, Min J Joo, Stephen M Anderson, Todd A Lee, Edmunds M Udris, Eric Johnson and David H Au
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:37
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Assessing women’s perceptions of the care they receive is crucial for evaluating the quality of maternity care. Women’s perceptions are influenced by the care received during pregnancy, labour and birth, and t...

    Authors: Elham Jafari, Mohammad Asghari-Jafarabadi, Mojgan Mirghafourvand and Sakineh Mohammad-Alizadeh-Charandabi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:619
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  47. In England the National Health Service (NHS) is not allowed to impose ‘blanket bans’ on treatments, but local commissioners produce lists of ‘low value’ procedures that they will normally not fund. Breast surg...

    Authors: Jill Russell, Deborah Swinglehurst and Trisha Greenhalgh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:413
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Documentation of older people’s end-of-life care should cover the care given and provide an overview of their entire situation. Older people approaching the end of life often have complex symptoms, live with b...

    Authors: Marina Sjöberg, Birgit H. Rasmussen, Anna-Karin Edberg and Ingela Beck
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1356
    Content type: Research Published on:

  49. Depressive disorder is currently one of the most burdensome disorders worldwide. Evidence-based treatments for depressive disorder are already available, but these are used insufficiently, and with less positi...

    Authors: Marjoliek A IJff, Klaas ML Huijbregts, Harm WJ van Marwijk, Aartjan TF Beekman, Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen, Frans F Rutten, Jürgen Unützer and Christina M van der Feltz-Cornelis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:34
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  50. Pharmacy service is an essential part of a healthcare system. The profession of pharmacy is well recognized and is practiced to its full potential in developed countries however, it is underutilized in develop...

    Authors: Nabeel Khan, Ken McGarry, Atta Abbas Naqvi, Muhammad Shahid Iqbal and Zaki Haider
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:610
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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