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  1. There is a need for information and healthcare support for the fertility desires and contraceptive needs of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in order to provide safer conception support for sero-discordant coupl...

    Authors: Cecilia Milford, Mags Beksinska, Ross Greener, Jacqueline Pienaar, Letitia Rambally Greener, Zonke Mabude and Jennifer Smit
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:509
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  2. Asylum evaluations are highly specialized medico-legal encounters to collect physical or mental health evidence for use in immigration proceedings. Although the field of asylum medicine is growing, access to t...

    Authors: Ranit Mishori, Kathryn Hampton, Hajar Habbach, Elsa Raker, Anjali Niyogi and Dona Murphey
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:508
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  4. Hospitalisations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSC) cause harm to users and to health systems, as these events are potentially avoidable. In 2009, Portugal was hit by an economic and financial cri...

    Authors: Cristina Loureiro da Silva, João Victor Rocha and Rui Santana
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:506
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  5. From 2014 to 17, a large-scale project, ‘The User-involving Hospital’, was implemented at a Danish university hospital. Research highlights leadership as crucial for the outcome of change processes in general ...

    Authors: Kathrine Håland Jeppesen, Kirsten Frederiksen, Marianne Johansson Joergensen and Kirsten Beedholm
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:505
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  6. The spiritual aspect of care is an often neglected resource in pain therapies. The aim of this study is to identify commonalities and differences in chronic pain patients’ (CPP) and health care professionals’ ...

    Authors: Joël Perrin, Nina Streeck, Rahel Naef, Michael Rufer, Simon Peng-Keller and Horst Rettke
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:504
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  7. The long-term consequences of childhood cancer have received increasing attention due to the growing number of survivors over the past decades. However, insurance hardships of survivors are mostly unknown. Thi...

    Authors: Manya Jerina Hendriks, Erika Harju, Katharina Roser, Marcello Ienca and Gisela Michel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:503
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  8. There is a growing understanding that empowerment of interprofessional personnel is linked to job satisfaction levels and quality of care, but little is known about empowerment in the context of cancer care. T...

    Authors: Mervi Siekkinen, Liisa Kuokkanen, Hannele Kuusisto, Helena Leino-Kilpi, Päivi Rautava, Maijastiina Rekunen, Laura Seppänen, Minna Stolt, Leena Walta and Virpi Sulosaari
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:502
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  10. The level of outpatient satisfaction plays a significant role in improving the quality and utilization of healthcare services. Patient satisfaction gives providers insights into various aspects of services inc...

    Authors: Weicun Ren, Lei Sun, Clifford Silver Tarimo, Quanman Li and Jian Wu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:500
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  11. Pharmacists are recognized as one of the most accessible healthcare providers and are licensed to advise patients on drugs and health products including dietary and herbal supplements (DHSs). The objective of ...

    Authors: Jeremy Y. Ng, Umair Tahir and Simran Dhaliwal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:499
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  12. Health Management Information System (HMIS) is a set of data regularly collected at health care facilities to meet the needs of statistics on health services. This study aimed to determine the utilisation of H...

    Authors: Leonard E. G. Mboera, Susan F. Rumisha, Doris Mbata, Irene R. Mremi, Emanuel P. Lyimo and Catherine Joachim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:498
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  13. Stroke is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Visual impairments (VIs) affect 60% of stroke survivors, and have negative consequences for rehabilitation and post-stroke life. VIs after stroke are often ov...

    Authors: Torgeir S. Mathisen, Grethe Eilertsen, Heidi Ormstad and Helle K. Falkenberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:497
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  14. To evaluate the performance of medical service for patients with breast cancer in Henan Province, China, using diagnosis related groups (DRGs) indicators and to provide data to inform practices and policies fo...

    Authors: Xinkui Liu, Furong Liu, Lin Wang, MengFan Wu, LinPeng Yang and Le Wei
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:496
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  15. Past studies examining the health outcomes of diabetes mellitus (DM) patients found that social determinants of health disparities were associated with variabilities in health outcomes. However, improving acce...

    Authors: Soo-Hoon Lee, Samuel L. Brown and Andrew A. Bennett
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:495
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  16. Chronic pain presents a significant burden for both federal health care systems designed to serve combat Veterans in the United States (i.e., the Military Health System [MHS] and Veterans Health Administration...

    Authors: Rachel Sayko Adams, Esther L. Meerwijk, Mary Jo Larson and Alex H. S. Harris
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:494
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  17. Improving health outcomes for Indigenous people by providing person-centred, culturally safe care is a crucial challenge for the health sector, both in Australia and internationally. Many cancer providers and ...

    Authors: Emma V. Taylor, Marilyn Lyford, Michele Holloway, Lorraine Parsons, Toni Mason, Sabe Sabesan and Sandra C. Thompson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:493
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  18. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) funded demonstration project to evaluate financial incentives for nursing facilities providing care for 6 clinical conditions to reduce potentially avoidable ho...

    Authors: Justin Blackburn, Casey P. Balio, Jennifer L. Carnahan, Nicole R. Fowler, Susan E. Hickman, Greg A. Sachs, Wanzhu Tu and Kathleen T. Unroe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:492
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  19. Care guidelines for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) recommend an integrated approach for holistic, flexible, and tailored interventions. Continuity of care is also emphasised. However,...

    Authors: Wendy Hartford, Sevinj Asgarova, Graham MacDonald, Mary Berger, Sayra Cristancho and Laura Nimmon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:491
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  20. A chronic state of imbalance between effort and reward can affect sleep quality. However, few studies have explored the relationship between variables in the work-related stress (the effort-reward imbalance mo...

    Authors: Xuexue Deng, Ronghua Fang and Yaoting Cai
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:490
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  21. Nigeria has one of the largest Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) epidemics in the world. Addressing the epidemic of HIV in such a high-burden country has necessitated responses of a multidimensional nature. H...

    Authors: David Akeju, Nerissa Nance, Andrea Salas-Ortiz, Ayoola Fakunmoju, Idoteyin Ezirim, Adejumoke G. Oluwayinka, Omoregie Godpower and Sergio Bautista-Arredondo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:489
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  22. Improving the quality of primary healthcare provision is a key goal in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, to develop effective quality improvement interventions, we first need to be able to accu...

    Authors: Navneet Aujla, Temitope Ilori, Achiaka Irabor, Abimbola Obimakinde, Eme Owoaje, Olufunke Fayehun, Motunrayo M. Ajisola, Sinmisola O. Bolaji, Samuel I. Watson, Timothy P. Hofer, Akinyinka Omigbodun and Richard J. Lilford
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:488
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  23. Apart from a person’s physical functioning, the early identification of social context indicators which affect patient outcomes - such as environmental and psychosocial issues - is key for high quality and com...

    Authors: Shauni Van Doren, Kirsten Hermans and Anja Declercq
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:487
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  24. Appropriate health-seeking practices may have a positive influence on child survival, particularly when practiced by kin caregivers of children who are below the age of 5 years. While literature has shown that...

    Authors: Khuthala Mabetha, Nicole C. De Wet-Billings and Clifford O. Odimegwu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:486
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  25. Several studies have reported inadequate levels of quality of care in the Ethiopian health system. Facility characteristics associated with better quality remain unclear. Understanding associations between pat...

    Authors: Catherine Arsenault, Bereket Yakob, Tizta Tilahun, Tsinuel Girma Nigatu, Girmaye Dinsa, Mirkuzie Woldie, Munir Kassa, Peter Berman and Margaret E. Kruk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:485
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  26. Supportive care needs survey short form has a total of 34 items that have 5 domains that measure the unmet needs of cancer patients. It is important to validate this tool since there are differences in culture...

    Authors: Tsion Afework, Abigiya Wondimagegnehu, Natnael Alemayehu, Eva Johanna Kantelhardt and Adamu Addissie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:484
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  27. There seems to be a consensus that a vision for an organization is a valuable thing for organizations to have. However, research on organizational vision has predominantly been studied from a leadership perspe...

    Authors: Terje Slåtten, Barbara Rebecca Mutonyi and Gudbrand Lien
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:483
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  28. Most of the resilience scales were developed for the non-medical population, therefore the purpose of this study was developing and validating a resilience scale for medical professionals – namely Medical Prof...

    Authors: Mardhati Ab Rahman, Muhamad Saiful Bahri Yusoff, Nurhanis Syazni Roslan, Jamilah Al-Muhammady Mohammad and Anisa Ahmad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:482
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  29. The Conversation, Understand, Replace, Experts and evidence-based treatment (CURE) project aims to provide a comprehensive offer of both pharmacotherapy and specialist support for tobacco dependence to all smo...

    Authors: Angela Wearn, Anna Haste, Catherine Haighton, Verity Mallion and Angela M. Rodrigues
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:481
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  30. Chronic care involves multiple activities that can be performed by individuals and healthcare staff as well as by other actors and artifacts, such as eHealth services. Thus, chronic care management can be view...

    Authors: Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz, Marta Roczniewska, Karin Pukk Härenstam, Klas Karlgren, Henna Hasson, Sivan Menczel and Carolina Wannheden
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:480
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  31. In some cases of diseases, such as infectious, neurological and chronic ones prevention and treatment is complex. Therefore, a single medical specialty alone cannot effectively manage treatment of patients due...

    Authors: Hakimeh Hazrati, Seyed Kamran Soltani Arabshahi, Shoaleh Bigdeli, Mozhgan Behshid and Zohreh Sohrabi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:479
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  32. The quality of the discharge process and effective care transitions between settings of care are critical to minimize gaps in patient care and reduce hospital readmissions. Few studies have explored which care...

    Authors: Maurice C. Johnson Jr, Helen Liu, Joann Sorra, Jane Brock, Brianna Gass, Jing Li, Jessica Miller Clouser, Karen Hirschman, Deborah Carpenter, Huong Q. Nguyen and Mark V. Williams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:478
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  33. Yemen that has been devastated by war is facing various challenges to respond to the recent potential outbreaks and other public health emergencies due to lack of proper strategies and regulations, which are e...

    Authors: Hanan Noman, Fekri Dureab, Iman Ahmed, Abdulwahed Al Serouri, Taha Hussein and Albrecht Jahn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:477
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:677

  34. Global health agendas have in common the goal of contributing to population health outcome improvement. In theory therefore, whenever possible, country level policy and program agenda setting, formulation and ...

    Authors: Irene Akua Agyepong, Fredline A. O. M’Cormack-Hale, Hannah Brown Amoakoh, Abigail N. C. Derkyi-Kwarteng, Theresa Ethel Darkwa and Wallace Odiko-Ollennu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:476
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  35. Baseline imbalances, skewed costs, the correlation between costs and effects, and missing data are statistical challenges that are often not adequately accounted for in the analysis of cost-effectiveness data....

    Authors: Elizabeth N. Mutubuki, Mohamed El Alili, Judith E. Bosmans, Teddy Oosterhuis, Frank J. Snoek, Raymond W. J. G. Ostelo, Maurits W. van Tulder and Johanna M. van Dongen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:475
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  36. Truly patient-centred care needs to be aligned with what patients consider important, and is highly desirable in the first 24 h of an acute admission, as many decisions are made during this period. However, th...

    Authors: Eva S. van den Ende, Bo Schouten, Marjolein N. T. Kremers, Tim Cooksley, Chris P. Subbe, Immo Weichert, Louise S. van Galen, Harm R. Haak, John Kellett, Jelmer Alsma, Victoria Siegrist, Mark Holland, Erika F. Christensen, Colin A. Graham, Ling Yan LEUNG, Line E. Laugesen…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:474
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:586

  37. Elder abuse is prevalent and associated with morbidity but often goes unnoticed in health care. Research on the health care response to victims calls for valid measurements. This article describes the developm...

    Authors: Johanna Simmons, Marika Wenemark and Mikael Ludvigsson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:473
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  38. The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility of implementing and evaluating essential interventions for the management of hypertension and prevention of cardiovascular disease in primary healthcare i...

    Authors: Dylan Collins, Laura Inglin, Tiina Laatikainen, Mekhri Shoismatuloeva, Dilorom Sultonova, Bunafsha Jonova, Katoyon Faromuzova, Marifat Abdullaeva, Maisara Otambekova and Jill L. Farrington
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:472
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  39. The numbers of people who are on sick leave due to mental health problems, such as exhaustion disorder, are increasing in Sweden. One of the most affected groups is healthcare professionals. In order to develo...

    Authors: Carita Håkansson and Annika Lexén
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:471
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  40. Health organization research is experiencing a strong refocus on employees’ individual innovative behavior (IIB), revealing that many of the influential factors at work remain uncertain. Hence, this study empi...

    Authors: Barbara Rebecca Mutonyi, Terje Slåtten and Gudbrand Lien
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:470
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  41. To conduct a pilot study on an alternative model for the provision of respiratory therapies in sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (SAHS) by internalizing the service with the purchase, monitoring and control of con...

    Authors: Demetrio Gonzalez-Vergara, Sergio Marquez-Pelaez, Jose David Alfonso-Arias, Julia Perez-Ramos, Jose Luis Rojas-Box and Manuel Aumesquet-Nosea
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:469
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  42. Prediction of the necessary capacity of beds by ward type (e.g. ICU) is essential for planning purposes during epidemics, such as the COVID− 19 pandemic. The COVID− 19 taskforce within the Ghent University hos...

    Authors: Mieke Deschepper, Kristof Eeckloo, Simon Malfait, Dominique Benoit, Steven Callens and Stijn Vansteelandt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:468
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  43. It was estimated that over a billion people have a disability and around 110 to 190 million experienced significant difficulties in functioning. Similarly, there were over 5 million and 32,630 individuals with...

    Authors: Nebiyou Dagnachew, Solomon Getnet Meshesha and Zelalem Tilahun Mekonen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:467
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  45. Self-admission to psychiatric inpatient treatment is an innovative approach to healthcare rationing, based on reallocation of existing resources rather than on increased funding. In self-admission, patients wi...

    Authors: Mattias Strand, Cynthia M. Bulik, Sanna A. Gustafsson and Elisabeth Welch
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:465
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  47. South Africa is home to 7.7 million people living with HIV and supports the largest antiretroviral therapy (ART) program worldwide. Despite global investment in HIV service delivery and the parallel challenge ...

    Authors: Lingrui Liu, Sarah Christie, Maggie Munsamy, Phil Roberts, Merlin Pillay, Sheela V. Shenoi, Mayur M. Desai and Erika L. Linnander
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:463
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:549

  49. Multidisciplinary team meeting (MDM) processes differ according to clinical setting and tumour site. This can impact on decision making. This study aimed to evaluate the translation of MDM recommendations into...

    Authors: Shalini K. Vinod, Nisali T. Wellege, Sara Kim, Kirsten J. Duggan, Mirette Ibrahim and Jesmin Shafiq
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:461
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  50. Thousands of neonatal deaths are expected to be averted by introducing the Early Essential Newborn Care (EENC) in the Western Pacific Region. In Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), the government adopt...

    Authors: Sayaka Horiuchi, Sommana Rattana, Bounnack Saysanasongkham, Outhevanh Kounnavongsa, Shogo Kubota, Mariko Inoue and Kazue Yamaoka
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:460
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:605

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