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  1. Defining HIV-related stigma (HRS) can be problematic due to structural inequalities, cultural differences, discrimination by health care providers and the limitations of tools measuring stigma for people livin...

    Authors: Bahram Armoon, Peter Higgs, Marie-Josée Fleury, Amir-Hossien Bayat, Ladan Fattah Moghaddam, Azadeh Bayani and Yadollah Fakhri
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1004
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  2. COVID-19 isolated home-dwelling people with dementia (PwD) from home care services, respite care, and daytime activities. We aimed to investigate the consequences of these restrictions on informal (family, fri...

    Authors: Maarja Vislapuu, Renira C. Angeles, Line I. Berge, Egil Kjerstad, Marie H. Gedde and Bettina S. Husebo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1003
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  3. Most studies examining the psychological impact of COVID-19 on healthcare workers (HCWs) have assessed well-being during the initial stages or the peak of the first wave of the pandemic. We aimed to measure th...

    Authors: Joanne M Stubbs, Helen M Achat and Suzanne Schindeler
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1002
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  4. Non-adherence to recommended therapy remains a challenge to achieving optimal clinical outcome with resultant economic implications.

    Authors: Aduke E. Ipingbemi, Wilson O. Erhun and Rasaq Adisa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1000
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  5. Primary healthcare is the main entry to the health care system for most of the population. In 2008, it was estimated that about 26% of the population in Quebec (Canada) did not have a regular family physician....

    Authors: Carine Sandrine Ngo Bikoko Piemeu, Christine Loignon, Émilie Dionne, Andrée-Anne Paré-Plante, Jeannie Haggerty and Mylaine Breton
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:999
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  6. During the SARS-CoV2 pandemic, protection measures, as well as visiting restrictions, had a severe impact on seriously ill and dying patients and their relatives. The study aims to describe the experiences of ...

    Authors: Karlotta Schloesser, Steffen T Simon, Berenike Pauli, Raymond Voltz, Norma Jung, Charlotte Leisse, Agnes van der Heide, Ida J Korfage, Anne Pralong, Claudia Bausewein, Melanie Joshi and Julia Strupp
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:998
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  7. The COVID-19 pandemic has overburdened the healthcare facilities, which demanded the use of alternative and effective methods for delivering healthcare services. The use of telehealth has become a necessity to...

    Authors: Rania Itani, Hani M J Khojah, Fatima Jaffal, Deema Rahme, Lina Karout and Samar Karout
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:997
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  8. People living with dementia account for a large proportion of deaths due to COVID-19. Family carers are faced with making significant and emotive decisions during the pandemic, including decisions about end of...

    Authors: Narin Aker, Emily West, Nathan Davies, Kirsten J. Moore, Elizabeth L. Sampson, Pushpa Nair and Nuriye Kupeli
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:996
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  9. The demographic and social changes associated with population aging and the increasing incidence of chronic diseases underscore the importance of the role of informal carers. The number of informal carers is i...

    Authors: Wilfried GUETS and Lionel PERRIER
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:995
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  10. Effective and safe COVID 19 vaccines have been approved for emergency use since the end of 2020 and countries are actively vaccinating their people. Nevertheless, hesitancy towards the vaccines exist globally.

    Authors: Kenneth Grace Mascarenhas Danabal, Shiva Shankar Magesh, Siddharth Saravanan and Vijayaprasad Gopichandran
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:994
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  11. Burnout among physicians is growing at an exponential rate and many are leaving the profession. Nevertheless, the specific antecedents and intermediary stages involved in predicting their professional turnover...

    Authors: Denis Chênevert, Steven Kilroy, Kevin Johnson and Pierre-Luc Fournier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:993
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  12. Healthcare workers are at a higher risk of COVID-19 infection during care encounters compared to the general population. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) have been shown to protect COVID-19 among healthcare...

    Authors: Jacob Kazungu, Kenneth Munge, Kalin Werner, Nicholas Risko, Andres I. Vecino-Ortiz and Vincent Were
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:992
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  13. The reduction of inequality is a key United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goal (WHO, Human Resources for Health: foundation for Universal Health Coverage and the post-2015 development agenda, 2014; Tran...

    Authors: Beulah Christina van Zyl, Michelle Monique Barnard, Keith Cloete, Amanda Fernandez, Matodzi Mukosi and Richard Denys Pitcher
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:991
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  14. Quality improvement (QI) initiatives such as accreditation, public reporting, inspection and pay-for-performance are increasingly being implemented globally. In Flanders, Belgium, a government policy for acute...

    Authors: Astrid Van Wilder, Jonas Brouwers, Bianca Cox, Luk Bruyneel, Dirk De Ridder, Fien Claessens, Kristof Eeckloo and Kris Vanhaecht
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:990
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  15. Factors contributing to decisions to refer children for scheduled appointments at medical paediatric outpatient clinics are not well understood. Our aim was to describe practice-level characteristics associate...

    Authors: Smita Dick, Ryen Crabb, Claire McFaul, Clare MacRae, Philip Wilson and Steve Turner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:989
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  16. Differences in health care utilization by educational level can contribute to inequalities in health. Understanding health care utilization and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of educational groups may ...

    Authors: Marjolein van der Vlegel, Inge Spronk, Joost Oude Groeniger, Hidde Toet, Martien J. M. Panneman, Suzanne Polinder and Juanita A. Haagsma
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:988
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  17. The challenge of including citizen-patient voices in healthcare planning is exacerbated in rural communities by regional variation in priorities and a historical lack of attention to rural healthcare needs. Th...

    Authors: Jude Kornelsen, Christine Carthew, Kayla Míguez, Matilda Taylor, Catherine Bodroghy, Kathryn Petrunia and Delia Roberts
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:987
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  18. Sars-Cov-2 is a novel corona virus associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Remdesivir and Dexamethasone are two treatments that have shown to be effective against the Sars-Cov-2 associated disease...

    Authors: Andrea Carta and Claudio Conversano
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:986
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  19. Cancer care can negatively impact children’s subjective well-being. In this research, well-being refers to patients’ self-perception and encompasses their hospital and care delivery assessment. Playful strateg...

    Authors: Leandro Miletto Tonetto, Valentina Marques da Rosa, Priscila Brust-Renck, Megan Denham, Pedro Marques da Rosa, Craig Zimring, Irini Albanti and Leslie Lehmann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:985
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  20. Inclusive engagement in healthcare policies and decision-making is essential to address the needs of patients and communities, reduce health inequities and increase the accountability of the government. In low...

    Authors: Sarah C. Masefield, Alan Msosa, Florence Kasende Chinguwo and Jean Grugel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:984
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  21. It is estimated that 20–50% of all radiological examinations are of low value. Many attempts have been made to reduce the use of low-value imaging. However, the comparative effectiveness of interventions to re...

    Authors: Elin Kjelle, Eivind Richter Andersen, Lesley J. J. Soril, Leti van Bodegom-Vos and Bjørn Morten Hofmann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:983
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  22. The guiding principle of disability insurance in Switzerland is ‘rehabilitation before pension’. Access to rehabilitation measures to restore, maintain or improve the earning capacity of individuals with disab...

    Authors: Szilvia Altwicker-Hámori
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:982
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  23. Retro-transfers from level 3 to 2 NICUs in Alberta’s regionalization of neonatal care system are essential to ensure the proper utilization of level 3 NICUs for complex neonatal cases. Parents often experience...

    Authors: Aliyah Dosani, Prashanth Murthy, Shafana Kassam, Baldeep Rai and Abhay K. Lodha
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:981
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  24. People with musculoskeletal pain seek more healthcare than the general population, however little is known about the long-term effect on healthcare use. The aim of this study was to examine the consequences of...

    Authors: S. Mose, P. Kent, A. Smith, J. H. Andersen and D. H. Christiansen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:980
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  25. Community health worker (CHW) motivation is an important factor related to health service quality and CHW program sustainability in low- and middle-income countries. Financial and non-financial motivators may ...

    Authors: Jeffrey Glenn, Corrina Moucheraud, Denise Diaz Payán, Allison Crook, James Stagg, Haribondhu Sarma, Tahmeed Ahmed, Adrienne Epstein, Sharmin Khan Luies, Mahfuzur Rahman, Margaret E. Kruk and Thomas J. Bossert
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:979
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  26. The coexistence of chronic diseases among people with stroke is common. However, little is known about the extent of incremental healthcare expenditures associated with having physically and psychologically ch...

    Authors: Ji Zhang, Suhang Song, Yang Zhao, Gaoting Ma, Yinzi Jin and Zhi-Jie Zheng
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:978
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  27. Authors: Natasha K. Brusco, Christina L. Ekegren, Nicholas F. Taylor, Keith D. Hill, Annemarie L. Lee, Lisa Somerville, Natasha A. Lannin, Derick Wade, Rania Abdelmotaleb, Libby Callaway, Sara L. Whittaker and Meg E. Morris
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:977
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    The original article was published in BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:811

  28. To analyze the temporal evolution of the pattern of hospital use in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.

    Authors: Margareth Crisóstomo Portela, Claudia Cristina de Aguiar Pereira, Sheyla Maria Lemos Lima, Carla Lourenço Tavares de Andrade and Mônica Martins
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:976
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  29. Screening in primary care for unmet individual social needs (e.g., housing instability, food insecurity, unemployment, social isolation) is critical to addressing their deleterious effects on patients’ health ...

    Authors: Connor Drake, Heather Batchelder, Tyler Lian, Meagan Cannady, Morris Weinberger, Howard Eisenson, Emily Esmaili, Allison Lewinski, Leah L. Zullig, Amber Haley, David Edelman and Christopher M. Shea
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:975
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  30. This study aimed to determine the magnitude of and factors associated with out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) during the first prenatal clinic visit among pregnant women in Anuradhapura district, Sri Lanka, whic...

    Authors: Sajaan Praveena Gunarathne, Nuwan Darshana Wickramasinghe, Thilini Chanchala Agampodi, Indika Ruwan Prasanna and Suneth Buddhika Agampodi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:974
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  31. Recently, the parent-tailored telephone based smoking cessation counseling program ‘Smoke-free Parents’ was shown to be effective in helping parents to quit smoking. To implement this program in child healthca...

    Authors: Tessa Scheffers-van Schayck, Bethany Hipple Walters, Roy Otten and Marloes Kleinjan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:973
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  33. Many stakeholders are involved in the complicated process of policy making in integrated early childhood development (IECD). In other words, there are many challenges for IECD policy making in developing count...

    Authors: Omolbanin Atashbahar, Ali Akbari Sari, Amirhossein Takian, Alireza Olyaeemanesh, Efat Mohamadi and Sayyed Hamed Barakati
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:971
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  34. To bridge the physical distance between parents and children during a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) stay, webcams are used in few German NICUs. They allow parents to view their infant even when they cann...

    Authors: Alinda Reimer, Laura Mause, Jan Hoffmann, Pauline Mantell, Johanne Stümpel, Till Dresbach and Nadine Scholten
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:970
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  35. The South African government is implementing National Health Insurance (NHI) as a monopsony health care financing mechanism to drive the country towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Strategic purchasing, w...

    Authors: S D Murphy and S Moosa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:969
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  36. We propose a mathematical model formulated as a finite-horizon Markov Decision Process (MDP) to allocate capacity in a radiology department that serves different types of patients. To the best of our knowledge...

    Authors: Rodolfo Benedito Zattar da Silva, Flávio Sanson Fogliatto, André Krindges and Moiseis dos Santos Cecconello
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:968
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  37. New drugs including cancer drugs and orphan drugs are becoming increasingly more expensive. Risk sharing arrangements (RSAs) could manage the risk based on both financial impact and the health outcome of new d...

    Authors: Boram Lee, Eun-Young Bae, SeungJin Bae, Hyun-Jin Choi, Kyung-Bok Son, Young-Sil Lee, Suhyun Jang and Tae-Jin Lee
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:967
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  38. This research analyzed the Sixth Five-Year Economic, Social, and Cultural Development Plan of the Islamic Republic of Iran (6NPD) to shed light on how the plan addresses the Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

    Authors: Mahdi Mahdavi and Haniye Sadat Sajadi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:966
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  39. Managing older people in the emergency department remains a challenge. We aimed to identify the factors influencing the care quality of older patients in the emergency department, to fine-tune future intervent...

    Authors: Isabelle De Brauwer, Pascale Cornette, William D’Hoore, Vincent Lorant, Franck Verschuren, Frédéric Thys and Isabelle Aujoulat
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:965
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  40. Type 2 diabetes (T2D), with its prevalence and disability-causing nature, is a challenge for primary health care. Most patients with T2D are multimorbid, i.e. have one or more long-term diseases in addition to...

    Authors: Eveliina Heikkala, Ilona Mikkola, Jari Jokelainen, Markku Timonen and Maria Hagnäs
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:964
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  41. Many countries, including Canada, have introduced primary care reforms to improve health system functioning and value. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between receiving care from inter...

    Authors: Wissam Haj-Ali, Brian Hutchison, Rahim Moineddin, Walter P. Wodchis and Richard H. Glazier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:963
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  42. The need for home care workers (HCWs) is rapidly growing in Norway due to the increasingly growing elderly population. HCWs are exposed to a number of occupational hazards and physically demanding work tasks. ...

    Authors: Sunniva Grønoset Grasmo, Ingeborg Frostad Liaset and Skender Elez Redzovic
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:962
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  43. Early detection and management of poverty-related disorders is a recommended pediatric practice; however, little is known about variations of practice between pediatric primary care physicians and subspecialis...

    Authors: Yonit Lax, Eleanor Bathory and Sandra Braganza
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:956
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  46. Coverage with the third dose of diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus-containing vaccine (DPT3) is a widely used measure of the performance of routine immunization systems. Since 2015, data reported by Ethiopia’s healt...

    Authors: Bob Pond, Abebe Bekele, Sandra Mounier-Jack, Habtamu Teklie and Theodros Getachew
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21(Suppl 1):587
    Content type: Case study Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 21 Supplement 1

  47. Routine health facility data are a critical source of local monitoring of progress and performance at the subnational level. Uganda has been using district health statistics from facility data for many years. ...

    Authors: Geraldine Agiraembabazi, Jimmy Ogwal, Christine Tashobya, Rornald Muhumuza Kananura, Ties Boerma and Peter Waiswa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21(Suppl 1):512
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 21 Supplement 1

  48. Household survey data are frequently used to measure reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) service utilisation in low and middle income countries. However, these surveys are typ...

    Authors: Kristine Nilsen, Natalia Tejedor-Garavito, Douglas R. Leasure, C. Edson Utazi, Corrine W. Ruktanonchai, Adelle S. Wigley, Claire A. Dooley, Zoe Matthews and Andrew J. Tatem
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21(Suppl 1):370
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 21 Supplement 1

  49. Monitoring medically certified causes of death is essential to shape national health policies, track progress to Sustainable Development Goals, and gauge responses to epidemic and pandemic disease. The combina...

    Authors: Trust Nyondo, Gisbert Msigwa, Daniel Cobos, Gregory Kabadi, Tumaniel Macha, Emilian Karugendo, Joyce Mugasa, Geofrey Semu, Francis Levira, Carmen Sant Fruchtman, James Mwanza, Isaac Lyatuu, Martin Bratschi, Claud J. Kumalija, Philip Setel and Don de Savigny
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21(Suppl 1):214
    Content type: Case study Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 21 Supplement 1

  50. Achievement of successful health outcomes depends on evidence-based programming and implementation of effective health interventions. Routine Health Management Information System is one of the most valuable da...

    Authors: Ravi Prakash, Bidyadhar Dehury, Charu Yadav, Anand Bhushan Tripathi, Chhavi Sodhi, Huzaifa Bilal, N. Vasanthakumar, Shajy Isac, B. M. Ramesh, James Blanchard and Ties Boerma
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21(Suppl 1):196
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 21 Supplement 1

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