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  1. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as a serious global public health crisis. In response, 2016, 14 ministries in China, under the leadership of the National Health Commission, collaboratively issued th...

    Authors: Yun Tao, Ying Wang, Yu Zhang, Yong Han, Jiajia Feng, Hong Cheng and Likai Lin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:120
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  2. Heart failure (HF) is an important health problem and guidelines recommend multidisciplinary management. The pharmacist is an important member of the multidisciplinary heart failure team, both in the hospital ...

    Authors: Willem Raat, Pauline Truyts, Justine Gaillaert, Marie Van de Putte, Lorenz Van der Linden, Stefan Janssens, Bert Vaes and Miek Smeets
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:638
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  3. The goal of the Swedish child healthcare system is to reach all children with health-promotive actions and to create equal health opportunities for all children. In that context, an extended home-visit program...

    Authors: Elisabeth Mangrio and Maria Hjortsjö
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:820
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  4. Community-academic partnerships (CAPs) can improve the relevance, sustainability, and uptake of new innovations within the community. However, little is known about what topics CAPs focus on and how their disc...

    Authors: Rebecca Clark, Jessica Gaber, Julie Datta, Samina Talat, Sivan Bomze, Sarah Marentette-Brown, Cherie Gagnon, Doug Oliver, Larkin Lamarche, Pamela Forsyth, Tracey Carr, David Price and Dee Mangin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:606
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  5. The concept of organizational vision has been little explored in the health-care services research literature. To address this knowledge gap in the literature, the present study examines the factors that may p...

    Authors: Terje Slåtten, Gudbrand Lien and Barbara Rebecca Mutonyi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:26
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  6. Healthcare-related adverse events occur because of complex healthcare systems. The patient safety reporting system is a core component of patient safety initiatives in hospitals. However, hospital management o...

    Authors: Daisuke Koike, Masahiro Ito, Akihiko Horiguchi, Hiroshi Yatsuya and Atsuhiko Ota
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:409
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  7. Cross-country comparisons of unofficial payments in the health sector are sparse. In 2002 we conducted a social audit of the health sector of the three Baltic States.

    Authors: Anne Cockcroft, Neil Andersson, Sergio Paredes-Solís, Dawn Caldwell, Steve Mitchell, Deborah Milne, Serge Merhi, Melissa Roche, Elena Konceviciute and Robert J Ledogar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:15
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  8. Ghana introduced a mobile phone-based contribution payment system in its national health insurance scheme (NHIS) in December 2018 to improve the process of enrolment. We evaluated the effect of this digital he...

    Authors: Eric Nsiah-Boateng, Mariam Musah, Collins Danso Akuamoah, Francis Asenso-Boadi, Francis-Xavier Andoh-Adjei and Bernard Okoe Boye
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:239
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  9. Procedures for priority setting need to incorporate both scientific evidence and public values. The aim of this study was to test out a model for priority setting which incorporates both scientific evidence an...

    Authors: Emmanuel Makundi, Lydia Kapiriri and Ole Frithjof Norheim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:152
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  10. The Coordinated medical Care (CoCare) project aimed to improve the quality of medical care in nursing homes by optimizing collaboration between nurses and physicians. We analyze the impact of the CoCare interv...

    Authors: Klaus Kaier, Boris A. Brühmann, Stefan Fetzer, Rieka von der Warth and Erik Farin-Glattacker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:203
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  11. To improve the care for patients with motor neuron disease an e-health innovation for continuous monitoring of disease progression and patients’ well-being (ALS H&C) was implemented in 10 multidisciplinary reh...

    Authors: M. L. Dontje, E. Kruitwagen-van Reenen, E. van Wijk, E. Baars, J. M. A. Visser-Meily and A. Beelen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1389
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  12. In Saskatchewan, Canada, Indigenous cancer care services at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels are intended to improve quality care but can result in a complex, fragmented, and multi-jurisdictional ...

    Authors: Jennifer R. Sedgewick, Anum Ali, Andreea Badea, Tracey Carr and Gary Groot
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:848
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  13. Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a significant health problem in Australia, and disproportionately affects rural Australians. Management of CHF in Australia is heavily centred around the general practitioner ...

    Authors: Trevor Kwan, Benjamin Chua, David Pires, Olivia Feng, Natalie Edmiston and Jo Longman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:5
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  14. Peer support work for substance use disorders is widely implemented in high-income countries. More research is still needed to understand its applicability in settings which have proportionately low budgets al...

    Authors: Nashwa Ibrahim, Abeer Selim, Fiona Ng, Muhamed Kasaby, Amira Mohammed Ali, Rasha Eweida, Doha Almakki, Amna Elaagib and Mike Slade
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1012
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  15. Long-term care services for older adults are characterised by increasing needs and scarce resources. Political strategies have led to the reorganisation of long-term care services, with an increased focus on “...

    Authors: Ann Katrin Blø Pedersen, Marianne Sundlisæter Skinner and Maren Sogstad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:530
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  16. Japan has a high prevalence of adult T-cell leukaemia (ATL), especially in the Kyushu/Okinawa region. Regional differences in prevalence might cause regional differences in physicians’ experiences and the effi...

    Authors: Toshiki Maeda, Akira Babazono, Takumi Nishi, Shinya Matsuda, Kiyohide Fushimi and Kenji Fujimori
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:337
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  17. The translation of person-centred care concepts into practice requires fulfilment of necessary components, including person-centred values and practice held by the employees and having a supportive system. The...

    Authors: Nur Zahirah Balqis-Ali, Pui San Saw, Jailani Anis-Syakira, Weng Hong Fun, Sondi Sararaks, Shaun Wen Huey Lee and Mokhtar Abdullah
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:576
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  18. To reduce the physical burden of caregivers, wearable transfer support robots are highly desirable. Although these robots are reportedly effective for specific tasks in experimental environments, there is litt...

    Authors: Kenji Kato, Tatsuya Yoshimi, Shohei Tsuchimoto, Nobuaki Mizuguchi, Keita Aimoto, Naoki Itoh and Izumi Kondo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:652
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  19. This study aimed to assess the influence factors of the mutual-support willingness and identify the mutual-support needs of elderly living in rural areas of Hunan Province, China.

    Authors: Ke-ru Yao, Xin-hong Yin, Qin Luo, Xi Tang and Xiu-zhu Tan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:302
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  20. Epidemics caused by emerging respiratory viruses are challenging for the health system of most societies, and preparedness of the health system in responding to such epidemics is important. Therefore, the aim ...

    Authors: Hojatolah Najafi, Zahra Kavosi, Mahnaz Rakhshan, Jalal Karimi, Milad Ahmadi Marzale, Mostafa Bijani and Mahmoudreza Peyravi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:776
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  21. Despite caesarean section (CS) being a lifesaving intervention, there is a noticeable gap in providing this service, when necessary, between different population groups within a country. In Burundi, there is l...

    Authors: Sanni Yaya, Betregiorgis Zegeye, Dina Idriss-Wheeler and Gebretsadik Shibre
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:652
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  22. Integrated primary care programs for patients living with chronic pain which are accessible, interdisciplinary, and patient-centered are needed for preventing chronicity and improving outcomes. Evaluation of t...

    Authors: Sara Ahmed, Regina Visca, Amede Gogovor, Owis Eilayyan, Roderick Finlayson, Marie-France Valois and Mark A. Ware
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:611
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  23. Universal access to information for health professionals is a need to achieve “health for all strategy.” A large proportion of the population including health professionals have limited access to health inform...

    Authors: Mulusew Andualem, Gashaw Kebede and Abera Kumie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:534
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  24. Human resources for rehabilitation are often a neglected component of health services strengthening and health workforce development. This may be partly related to weaknesses in the available research and evid...

    Authors: Neeru Gupta, Carla Castillo-Laborde and Michel D Landry
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:276
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  25. Thousands of health-related online discussion groups are active world-wide however, very little is known about the purpose and usefulness of such groups. In 2003 an online discussion group called ‘forensic occ...

    Authors: Crystal Dieleman and Edward AS Duncan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:253
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  26. Since 2015, China has been rolling out the pricing reform for drugs and medical services (PRDMS) in the urban public hospitals in order to reduce drug expenditures and to relieve financial burdens of patients....

    Authors: Xiaoxi Zhang, Hongyu Lai, Lidan Zhang, Jiangjiang He, Bo Fu and Chunlin Jin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1058
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  27. Dementia is a global public health priority. The World Health Organization adopted a Global Action Plan on Dementia, with dementia awareness a priority. This study examined the knowledge, attitudes, and self-c...

    Authors: Bich Diep Pham, Bao Giang Kim, Adrian Esterman, Henry Brodaty, Susan Kurrle, Thanh Binh Nguyen, Trong Hung Nguyen, Elizabeth Roughead, Ladson Hinton, Thu Ha Dang, Thi Diem Huong Nguyen, Kham Tran, Maria Crotty, Duc Du and Tuan Anh Nguyen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:86
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  28. Healthcare systems, like the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), need policies and procedures for delivering care to special populations including those with environmental exposure concerns. Despite being ...

    Authors: Katharine Bloeser, Justin M. Kimber, Susan L. Santos, Chana B. Krupka and Lisa M. McAndrew
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:241
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  29. Sulfur Mustard (SM) is a chemical warfare agent that has serious short-term and long-term effects on health. Thousands of Iranians were exposed to SM during the eight-year Iran-Iraq conflict and permanently i...

    Authors: Seyed-Morteza Hosseini-Shokouh, Mostafa Ghanei, Batool Mousavi, Hassan Bagheri, Mohammadkarim Bahadori, Mohammad Meskarpour-Amiri and Parisa Mehdizadeh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1406
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  30. The UK’s “Getting It Right First Time” programme recommends that management of people with fibromyalgia should centre on primary care. However, it remains unclear as to how best to organise health systems to d...

    Authors: Nicky Wilson, Marcus J. Beasley, Catherine Pope, Debra Dulake, Laura J. Moir, Rosemary J. Hollick and Gary J. Macfarlane
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:989
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  31. As outpatient chemotherapy treatment increases, cancer patients receiving chemotherapy spend more time at home. In addition, since the types of chemotherapy are gradually expanding, it will be essential to pre...

    Authors: Cheolkyung Sin, Hyeyeong Kim, Hyeon-Su Im, Minsu Ock and Su-Jin Koh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:922
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  32. Patients with heart failure (HF) and colorectal cancer (CRC) are prone to comorbidity, a high rate of readmission, and complex healthcare needs. Self-care for people with HF and CRC after hospitalisation can b...

    Authors: Marianne Storm, Ingvild Margreta Morken, Rosalynn C. Austin, Oda Nordfonn, Hege Bjøkne Wathne, Kristin Hjorthaug Urstad, Bjørg Karlsen, Ingvild Dalen, Kari Hanne Gjeilo, Alison Richardson, Glyn Elwyn, Edvin Bru, Jon Arne Søreide, Hartwig Kørner, Rune Mo, Anna Strömberg…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:18
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  33. Effective referral of maternity cases, which cannot be managed at the primary healthcare level, with detailed referral forms is important for reducing possible delays in the provision of higher-level healthcar...

    Authors: Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Roberta Mensima Amoah, Carolyne Njue, Nguyen Toan Tran and Angela Dawson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:347
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  34. Transgender, or trans, people experience a number of barriers to accessing gender-affirming healthcare and have a range of barriers and facilitators to primary care and specialist services, commonly citing dis...

    Authors: Talen Wright, Emily Jay Nicholls, Alison J Rodger, Fiona M Burns, Peter Weatherburn, Roger Pebody, Leanne McCabe, Aedan Wolton, Mitzy Gafos and T. Charles Witzel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:609
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  35. Incidence and prevalence of prostate cancer in Sweden have increased markedly due to prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing. Moreover, new diagnostic tests and treatment technologies are expected to further i...

    Authors: Shuang Hao, Ellinor Östensson, Martin Eklund, Henrik Grönberg, Tobias Nordström, Emelie Heintz and Mark Clements
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:448
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  36. The UK Equality Act 2010 requires providers of health services to make changes or ‘reasonable adjustments’ to their practices in order to protect disabled people from discrimination or disadvantage when access...

    Authors: Stuart Read, Pauline Heslop, Sue Turner, Victoria Mason-Angelow, Nadine Tilbury, Caroline Miles and Chris Hatton
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:931
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. The rationale of our study was that the World Health Organization’s (WHO) definition of health from 1947 which includes “… complete physical, mental and social wellbeing…” does not fit the current societal viewpo...

    Authors: V. P. van Druten, E. A. Bartels, D. van de Mheen, E. de Vries, A. P. M. Kerckhoffs and L. M. W. Nahar-van Venrooij
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:389
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  39. There is sufficient and consistent international evidence of issues reported by nurses working in single-bed room environments, requiring a design that is not only comfortable for patients but meets nurses wor...

    Authors: Lynette Cusack, Rebecca Munt, Naomi Verdonk, Tim Schultz and Jill Maben
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:81
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  40. Patients with chronic diseases should meet with their primary care doctor regularly to facilitate proactive care. Little is known about what factors are associated with more regular follow-up.

    Authors: Adam J. Rose, Wiessam Abu Ahmad, Faige Spolter, Maram Khazen, Avivit Golan-Cohen, Shlomo Vinker, Ilan Green, Ariel Israel and Eugene Merzon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:456
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  41. Given the extent and priority of urinary symptoms there is little evidence available to inform service provision in relation to the long term effects of interventions. This study aims to determine the long ter...

    Authors: Kate S Williams, Dawn Coleby, Keith R Abrams, David A Turner, Christine Shaw, R Philip Assassa, Nicola J Cooper, Madeleine MK Donaldson and Catherine W McGrother
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:58
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  42. Germany has the highest per capita health care spending among EU member states, but its hospitals face pressure to generate profits independently due to the government’s withdrawal of investment cost coverage....

    Authors: Christoph Lüdemann, Maike Gerken and Marcel Hülsbeck
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:310
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  43. Diabetes has emerged as one of the most serious health issues of the twenty-first century. Diabetes and its complications expose individuals and their families to catastrophic healthcare costs, which have a se...

    Authors: Addisu Bogale Zawudie, Dawit Wolde Daka, Dejene Teshome and Meskerem Seboka Ergiba
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1398
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  44. Real world evidence (RWE) is becoming more frequently used in technology appraisals (TAs). This study sought to explore the use and acceptance of evidence from primary care databases, a key source of RWE in th...

    Authors: Thomas P. Leahy, Sreeram Ramagopalan and Cormac Sammon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:675
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  45. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is the process by which microbes evolve mechanisms to survive the medicines designed to destroy them i.e. antimicrobials (AMs). Despite being a natural process, AMR is being hast...

    Authors: Ayuska Parajuli, Lidis Garbovan, Basudev Bhattarai, Abriti Arjyal, Sushil Baral, Paul Cooke, Sophia Latham, Dani J. Barrington, Jessica Mitchell and Rebecca King
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:57
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  46. Traditional cardiac rehabilitation programs are centre-based and clinically supervised, with their safety and effectiveness well established. Notwithstanding the established benefits, cardiac rehabilitation re...

    Authors: Sameera Senanayake, Ureni Halahakone, Bridget Abell, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Victoria McCreanor, Steven M. McPhail, Julie Redfern, Tom Briffa and William Parsonage
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:512
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  47. Policymakers advocate extended residence in private homes as people age, rather than relocation to long-term care facilities. Consequently, it is expected that older people living in their own homes will be fr...

    Authors: I. V. Kristinsdottir, P. V. Jonsson, I. Hjaltadottir and K. Bjornsdottir
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1177
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  48. Developed in 2019, the Community Rapid Intervention Service (CRIS) is a community intervention service aiming to prevent hospital admissions. CRIS provides a response within two hours to patients with sub-acut...

    Authors: Alice Moult, Dereth Baker, Helen Twohig, Matthew Missen, Zafar Iqbal, Helen Duffy and Zoe Paskins
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:844
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  49. Case payment mechanisms have become the principal means of remunerating hospitals in most developed countries. Our purpose was to analyse the reimbursement for different types of tissue transfer in five Europe...

    Authors: Oliver Lotter, William Arthur Townley, Philipp Gonser, Hans-Eberhard Schaller and Sebastian Hoefert
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:427
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  50. Late cancellations of physical examination has severe impact on the operations of a physical examination center since it is often too late to fill vacancy. A booking control policy that considers overbooking i...

    Authors: Te-Wei Ho, Ling-Chieh Kung, Hsin-Ya Huang, Jui-Fen Lai and Han-Mo Chiu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1254
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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