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  1. Care coordination tools and toolkits can be challenging to implement. Practice facilitation, an active but expensive strategy, may facilitate toolkit implementation. We evaluated the comparative effectiveness ...

    Authors: Lauren S. Penney, Purnima S. Bharath, Isomi Miake-Lye, Mei Leng, Tanya T. Olmos-Ochoa, Erin P. Finley, Neetu Chawla, Jenny M. Barnard and David A. Ganz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:817
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  2. Heterogeneity in drug access throughout Europe may be influenced by differences in drug-assessment strategies. The EUnetHTA’s assessment core model (EUnetHTA-core) and the EVIDEM’s multicriteria framework are ...

    Authors: David Elvira, Mercè Obach and Caridad Pontes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:814
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  3. The Advanced Access (AA) Model has shown considerable success in improving timely access for patients in primary care settings. As a result, a majority of family physicians have implemented AA in their organiz...

    Authors: Isabelle Gaboury, Mylaine Breton, Kathy Perreault, François Bordeleau, Sarah Descôteaux, Lara Maillet, Catherine Hudon, Yves Couturier, Arnaud Duhoux, Brigitte Vachon, Benoit Cossette, Isabel Rodrigues, Marie-Eve Poitras, Christine Loignon and Helen-Maria Vasiliadis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:812
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  4. Ensuring patients receive an effective dose of therapeutic exercises and activities is a significant challenge for inpatient rehabilitation. My Therapy is a self-management program which encourages independent...

    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 21:811
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:977

  5. Process evaluations have been recommended alongside clinical and economic evaluations to enable an in-depth understanding of factors impacting results. My Therapy is a self-management program designed to augme...

    Authors: Sara L. Whittaker, Nicholas F. Taylor, Keith D. Hill, Christina L. Ekegren and Natasha K. Brusco
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:810
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  6. The scope of care coordination in VA primary care increased with the launch of the Veterans Choice Act, which aimed to increase access through greater use of non-VA Community Care. These changes may have overb...

    Authors: Eric A. Apaydin, Danielle E. Rose, Michael R. McClean, Elizabeth M. Yano, Paul G. Shekelle, Karin M. Nelson and Susan E. Stockdale
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:809
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  7. Delirium, a disorder of consciousness, often occurs for a period of time during hospitalisation. It is characterised by a disturbance of attention or awareness. Hyperactive delirium may lead to accidental remo...

    Authors: Hongyi Tan, Lihua Zhou, Shuang Wu, Qiyu Dong, Liu Yang, Jiao Xu, Sue Zhao, Xiaoshan Wang and Hongzhong Yang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:808
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  8. Medicine purchasing in Chinese public hospitals is decided by the hospital Pharmacy Management Committee (PMC), that is complex, subjective and requires efficient approaches to ensure transparency and consiste...

    Authors: Yun Bao, Bei Gao, Min Meng, Bin Ge, Yan Yang, Chunchun Ding, Bingyin Shi and Limin Tian
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:807
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  9. Huntington’s disease (HD) is a hereditary disease which could have a large impact on patients’ quality of life. As the neurodegenerative disorders progress, HD patients are expected to regularly take follow-up...

    Authors: Huiyi Ke, Xi Cao, Yanyan Song and Li Cao
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:806
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  10. As a response to many years of repetitive budget deficits, Region Dalarna in Sweden started a restructuring process in 2015, and implemented a decommissioning programme to achieve a balanced budget until 2019....

    Authors: Inga-Britt Gustafsson, Ulrika Winblad, Lars Wallin and Mio Fredriksson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:805
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  12. Quality improvement (QI) is used in nursing homes (NH) to implement and sustain improvements in patient outcomes. Little is known about how QI strategies are used in NHs. This lack of information is a barrier ...

    Authors: Mark Toles, Cathleen Colón-Emeric, Elizabeth Moreton, Lauren Frey and Jennifer Leeman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:803
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  13. Proactive integrated virtual healthcare resource (VHR) use can improve efficiency, maximize resource capacity for delivering optimal coordinated care and improve patient outcomes. Proactive integrated VHR use ...

    Authors: Jolie N. Haun, Bridget A. Cotner, Christine Melillo, Vanessa Panaite, William Messina, Shilpa Patel-Teague and Brian Zilka
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:802
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1072

  14. Selective lamellar corneal transplantation (keratoplasty) has overtaken full thickness penetrating keratoplasty as the graft choice for endothelial failure. Even more recently eye bank prepared tissues are bec...

    Authors: Luca Pagano, Kunal A Gadhvi, Mohit Parekh, Giulia Coco, Hannah J Levis, Diego Ponzin, Stefano Ferrari, Gianni Virgili, Stephen B Kaye, Rhiannon T Edwards and Vito Romano
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:801
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  15. In many healthcare systems, physicians are accustomed to periodically participate in individual performance appraisals to guide their professional development. For the purpose of revalidation, or maintenance o...

    Authors: Elisa Bindels, Benjamin Boerebach, Renée Scheepers, Annemiek Nooteboom, Albert Scherpbier, Sylvia Heeneman and Kiki Lombarts
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:800
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  16. One of the most cost-effective treatments for secondary prevention of stroke and other non-communicable diseases is a long-term medication regimen. However, the complexities of medication adherence extend far ...

    Authors: Jacqueline Xu, Mengxi Zhao, Athina Vrosgou, Natalie Chin Wen Yu, Chelsea Liu, Han Zhang, Chunxi Ding, Noelle Wyman Roth, Yuesong Pan, Liping Liu, Yilong Wang, Yongjun Wang and Janet Prvu Bettger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:799
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  17. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruption to healthcare services globally and has impacted on tuberculosis (TB) patients and TB diagnosis and treatment services both in low- and high-income countries. ...

    Authors: Oluwatosin Nkereuwem, Esin Nkereuwem, Arnauld Fiogbe, Eno E. Usoroh, Abdou K. Sillah, Olumuyiwa Owolabi, Marc Tebruegge, Abdoulie Badjan, Beate Kampmann and Toyin Togun
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:798
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  18. While the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) MOVE! weight management program is effective in helping patients lose weight and is available at every VHA medical center across the United States, reaching patie...

    Authors: Edward J. Miech, Michelle B. Freitag, Richard R. Evans, Jennifer A. Burns, Wyndy L. Wiitala, Ann Annis, Susan D. Raffa, Stephanie A. Spohr and Laura J. Damschroder
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:797
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  20. Understanding the existing barriers to utilization of maternal and newborn health care services can inform improvement of care services in the rural settings in sub-Saharan Africa. However, how unintended preg...

    Authors: George Ayodo, George O. Onyango, Salome Wawire and Nadia Diamond-Smith
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:795
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  21. Cervical cancer is the leading cancer among Ugandan women, contributing to 40 % of all cancer cases recorded in the cancer registry. Having identified the substantial impact of cervical cancer among Ugandan wo...

    Authors: James Henry Obol, Sophia Lin, Mark James Obwolo, Reema Harrison and Robyn Richmond
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:794
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  22. Social support plays a critical role in physical and emotional health, making it an important component of community health worker (CHW) health promotion interventions. Different types of support operate in di...

    Authors: Maia Ingram, Kiera Coulter, Kevin Doubleday, Cynthia Espinoza, Floribella Redondo, Ada M. Wilkinson-Lee, Abby M. Lohr and Scott C. Carvajal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:793
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  23. Healthcare organisations have undergone organisational change to respond to COVID-19. This pandemic has presented challenges for employee adjustment, with impacts on the availability and coordination of human ...

    Authors: Simon Turner, Natalia Niño, Carolina Segura and Natalia Botero-Tovar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:792
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  24. Persons with stroke are susceptible to psychosocial problems, and express disappointment at how health care professionals fail to meet their psychosocial needs following discharge to home. The responsibility o...

    Authors: Randi Martinsen, Gabriele Kitzmüller, Margrete Mangset, Kari Kvigne, Anne Svelstad Evju, Berit Arnesveen Bronken, Line Kildal Bragstad, Ellen Gabrielsen Hjelle, Unni Sveen and Marit Kirkevold
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:791
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  25. We aimed to address the paucity of information describing the treatable burden of disease associated with severe aortic stenosis (AS) within Australia’s ageing population.

    Authors: Geoff Strange, Gregory M. Scalia, David Playford and Stewart Simon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:790
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  26. This study, undertaken in Rwanda, aimed to investigate health professionals’ experiences and views on the following topics: current clinical guidelines for ultrasound from second trimester at the clinic, regio...

    Authors: Ingrid Mogren, Joseph Ntaganira, Jean Paul Semasaka Sengoma, Sophia Holmlund, Rhonda Small, Lan Pham Thi, Hussein Lesio Kidanto, Matilda Ngarina, Cecilia Bergström and Kristina Edvardsson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:789
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  27. Approximately 50 % of the population in Uganda seeks health care from private facilities but there is limited data on the quality of care for malaria in these facilities. This study aimed to document the knowl...

    Authors: Humphrey Wanzira, Daniel Tumwine, Patrick Bukoma, Alan Musiime, Juliet Biculu, Tom Ediamu, Samuel Gudoi, James K. Tibenderana, Ronald Mulebeke, Rebecca Nantanda and Jane Achan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:788
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  28. Post-apartheid, South Africa adopted an inclusive education system that was intended to be free of unfair discrimination. This qualitative study examines the experiences and perceptions of racial discriminatio...

    Authors: Tshepo Nelson Maake, Bernadette Theresa Millar, Lloyd Denzil Christopher and Navindhra Naidoo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:787
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  29. Older cardiac patients are at high risk of readmission and mortality. Transitional care interventions (TCIs) might contribute to the prevention of adverse outcomes. The Cardiac Care Bridge program was a random...

    Authors: Patricia Jepma, Corine H. M. Latour, Iris H. J. ten Barge, Lotte Verweij, Ron J. G. Peters, Wilma J. M. Scholte op Reimer and Bianca M. Buurman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:786
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  30. The purpose of this study was to develop and administer surveys that assess patient and family caregiver experiences with care transitions and examine the psychometric properties of the surveys. The surveys we...

    Authors: Joann Sorra, Katarzyna Zebrak, Deborah Carpenter, Theresa Famolaro, John Rauch, Jing Li, Terry Davis, Huong Q. Nguyen, Megan McIntosh, Suzanne Mitchell, Karen B. Hirschman, Carol Levine, Jessica Miller Clouser, Jane Brock and Mark V. Williams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:785
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  31. Clients must recall information from contraceptive counseling sessions to properly use their chosen method. Client recall in community-based settings is challenging given the public nature of these events and ...

    Authors: Rebecca E. Rosenberg, Pierre Z. Akilimali, Julie H. Hernandez and Jane T. Bertrand
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:784
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  32. The planning, resourcing, implementation and monitoring of new programmes by district health managers is integral for success and sustainability. Ethiopia introduced the Community-Based Newborn Care programme ...

    Authors: Della Berhanu, Iram Hashmi, Joanna Schellenberg and Bilal Avan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:783
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  34. Oral surgery referrals from NHS dental practices are rising, increasing the pressures on available hospital resources. We assess if an electronic referral system with consultant or peer (general dental practit...

    Authors: Harry Hill, Stephen Birch, Martin Tickle, Iain Petty and Joanna Goldthorpe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:781
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  35. Vaccines are an important tool to limit the health and economic damage of the Covid-19 pandemic. Several vaccine candidates already provided promising effectiveness data, but it is crucial for an effective vac...

    Authors: Neele Leithäuser, Johanna Schneider, Sebastian Johann, Sven O. Krumke, Eva Schmidt, Manuel Streicher and Stefan Scholz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:780
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  36. A Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) is a drug safety program for certain medications with serious safety concerns required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of manufacturers to implem...

    Authors: Linda Huynh, Gita A. Toyserkani and Elaine H. Morrato
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:779
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  38. Policies target networks of providers who treat people with mental illnesses, but little is known about the empirical structures of these networks and related variation in patient care. The goal of this paper ...

    Authors: Joshua Breslau, Beth Dana, Harold Pincus, Marcela Horvitz-Lennon and Luke Matthews
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:777
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  39. Outpatient department visits per individual for each year are one of the core indicators of healthcare delivery to assess accessibility or quality of services. In addition, this study aimed to assess health se...

    Authors: Hiwot Abera Areru, Mesay Hailu Dangisso and Bernt Lindtjørn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:776
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  40. Preparedness efforts for a COVID-19 outbreak required redesign and implementation of a perioperative workflow for the management of obstetric patients. In this report we describe factors which influenced rapid...

    Authors: Liana Zucco, Nadav Levy, Yunping Li, Toni Golen, Scott A. Shainker, Philip E. Hess and Satya Krishna Ramachandran
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:775
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:833

  41. The rapid increase in the use of home mechanical ventilation (HMV) for people with chronic respiratory failure poses extreme challenges for the healthcare system. People on HMV have complex care needs and requ...

    Authors: Hanna Klingshirn, Laura Gerken, Katharina Hofmann, Peter Ulrich Heuschmann, Kirsten Haas, Martha Schutzmeier, Lilly Brandstetter, Jutta Ahnert, Thomas Wurmb, Maximilian Kippnich and Bernd Reuschenbach
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:774
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  42. Psychological safety is the shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking. Its presence improves innovation and error prevention. This evidence synthesis had 3 objectives: explore the curre...

    Authors: K. E. Grailey, E. Murray, T. Reader and S. J. Brett
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:773
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  43. Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is diagnosed during pregnancy, and women with a history of GDM are at a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Prevention strategies focused on lifestyle...

    Authors: Winifred Ekezie, Helen Dallosso, Ponnusamy Saravanan, Kamlesh Khunti and Michelle Hadjiconstantinou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:772
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  44. 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

  45. A large proportion of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are treatable within primary health care (PHC) settings in a cost-effective manner. However, the utilization of PHCs for NCD care is comparatively low in ...

    Authors: Manoj Kumar Pati, Upendra Bhojani, Maya Annie Elias and Prashanth N. Srinivas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:770
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  46. Despite international guidelines providing evidence-based recommendations on appropriate management of infants with bronchiolitis, wide variation in practice occurs. This results in infants receiving care of n...

    Authors: Libby Haskell, Emma J. Tavender, Catherine L. Wilson, Sharon O’Brien, Franz E. Babl, Meredith L. Borland, Elizabeth Cotterell, Nicolette Sheridan, Ed Oakley and Stuart R. Dalziel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:769
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  47. Residents’ preference for primary health care (PHC) determined their utilization of PHC. This study aimed to assess the determinants of PHC service preference among the residents and the trend in PHC service p...

    Authors: Guangsheng Wan, Xiaolin Wei, Hui Yin, Zhiwang Qian, Tingting Wang and Lina Wang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:768
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  48. Hypertension accounts for the greatest burden of disease worldwide, yet hypertension awareness and control rates are suboptimal, especially within low- and middle-income countries. Guidelines can enable consis...

    Authors: Amelia Kataria Golestaneh, Jonathan M Clarke, Nicholas Appelbaum, Carmen Rodriguez Gonzalvez, Arun P Jose, Richu Philip, Neil R Poulter and Thomas Beaney
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:767
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  49. The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to overwhelm the capacity of a vulnerable healthcare system in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). We aimed to evaluate the availability of personal protective equipment (...

    Authors: Osaid Alser, Heba Alghoul, Zahra Alkhateeb, Ayah Hamdan, Loai Albarqouni and Kiran Saini
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:766
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  50. Broadband access has been highlighted as a national policy priority to improve access to care in rural communities.

    Authors: Jacob K. Quinton, Michael K. Ong, Sitaram Vangala, Anna Tetleton-Burns, Ashley Webb, Catherine Sarkisian, Alejandra Casillas, Preeti Kakani, Maria Han and Claude J. Pirtle
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:765
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