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  1. Patients having forgone healthcare because of the costs involved has become more prevalent in recent years. Certain patient characteristics, such as income, are known to be associated with a stronger demand-re...

    Authors: Benjamin H. Salampessy, France R. M. Portrait, Marianne Donker, Ismail Ismail and Eric J. E. van der Hijden
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:208
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  2. Guidelines based on patient preferences differ from those developed solely by clinicians and may promote patient adherence to guideline recommendations. There is scant evidence on how to develop patient-inform...

    Authors: Jayden Blackwood, Melissa J. Armstrong, Corinna Schaefer, Ian D. Graham, Loes Knaapen, Sharon E. Straus, Robin Urquhart and Anna R. Gagliardi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:458
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  3. Many patients with mental disorders are treated by their general practitioner (GP). Innovative technology-based integrated care models (e.g., mental health specialist video consultations) have been proposed to...

    Authors: Justus Tönnies, Lydia Oeljeklaus, Michel Wensing, Mechthild Hartmann, Hans-Christoph Friederich and Markus W. Haun
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:713
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  4. Although the effectiveness of screening tools for detecting depression in pregnancy has been investigated, there is limited evidence on the cost-effectiveness. This is vital in providing full information to de...

    Authors: Margaret Heslin, Huajie Jin, Kylee Trevillion, Xiaoxiao Ling, Selina Nath, Barbara Barrett, Jill Demilew, Elizabeth G. Ryan, Sheila O’Connor, Polly Sands, Jeannette Milgrom, Debra Bick, Nicky Stanley, Myra S. Hunter, Louise M. Howard and Sarah Byford
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:774
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  5. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a prospective risk assessment tool that has been widely used within the aerospace and automotive industries and has been utilised within healthcare since the early 1...

    Authors: Nada Atef Shebl, Bryony Dean Franklin and Nick Barber
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:150
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  6. Commitments to community participation are common in health policy, yet ways to maximise the input and impact of community representatives in health service delivery and care remain elusive, lack empirical evi...

    Authors: Sally Nathan, Jeffrey Braithwaite and Niamh Stephenson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:154
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  7. The adoption of C-reactive protein point-of-care tests (CRP POCTs) in hospitals varies across Europe. We aimed to understand the factors that contribute to different levels of adoption of CRP POCTs for the man...

    Authors: Juan Emmanuel Dewez, Ruud G. Nijman, Elizabeth J. A. Fitchett, Edmond C. Li, Queena F. Luu, Rebecca Lynch, Marieke Emonts, Ronald de Groot, Michiel van der Flier, Ria Philipsen, Stefanie Ettelt and Shunmay Yeung
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:351
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  8. Late stage at diagnosis of cancer is considered a key predictor factor for a lower survival rate. Knowing and understanding the barriers to an early diagnosis of colorectal cancer is critical in the fight to r...

    Authors: Karen J. Ortiz-Ortiz, Ruth Ríos-Motta, Heriberto Marín-Centeno, Marcia Cruz-Correa and Ana Patricia Ortiz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:344
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  9. Infertility is a long-standing reproductive health issue, which affects both men and women worldwide and it is especially problematic in the Global South. In sub-Saharan Africa, understanding the current avail...

    Authors: Anna Afferri, Haddijatou Allen, Susan Dierickx, Mustapha Bittaye, Musa Marena, Allan Pacey and Julie Balen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1127
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  10. The National Health Service (NHS) Digital Diabetes Prevention Programme (DDPP) is a behaviour change programme for adults in England who are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Four independent provide...

    Authors: Lisa M Miles, Rhiannon E Hawkes and David P French
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:373
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  11. Malnutrition, sarcopenia and cachexia are clinical wasting syndromes characterised by muscle loss. Systematic monitoring by body composition assessment (BCA) is recommended for the diagnosis, treatment and mon...

    Authors: Chloe J. D. Jobber, Shelley A. Wilkinson, Elyssa K. Hughes, Fiona Nave and Barbara S. van der Meij
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:518
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  12. The aim of this study was to identify and summarize how value-based healthcare (VBHC) is conceptualized in the literature and implemented in hospitals. Furthermore, an overview was created of the effects of bo...

    Authors: Dorine J. van Staalduinen, Petra van den Bekerom, Sandra Groeneveld, Martha Kidanemariam, Anne M. Stiggelbout and M. Elske van den Akker-van Marle
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:270
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  13. In order to address the challenges of an ageing population the Belgian government decided to allocate resources to the creation of geriatric day hospitals (GDHs). Although GDHs are meant to be a strategy to su...

    Authors: Piet Vanden Bussche, Fien Desmyter, Christiane Duchesnes, Valérie Massart, Didier Giet, Jean Petermans, Veerle Vyncke, Nele Ven Den Noortgate and Sara Willems
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:202
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  14. Risk adjustment and mortality prediction in studies of critical care are usually performed using acuity of illness scores, such as Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II), which emphasize...

    Authors: Susan Quach, Deirdre A Hennessy, Peter Faris, Andrew Fong, Hude Quan and Christopher Doig
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:129
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  15. In sub-Saharan Africa, the availability and accessibility of oral health services are seriously constrained and the provision of essential oral care is limited. Reports from the region show a very low utilizat...

    Authors: Benoît Varenne, Poul Erik Petersen, Florence Fournet, Philippe Msellati, Jean Gary, Seydou Ouattara, Maud Harang and Gérard Salem
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2006 6:164
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  16. Healthcare workers (HCWs) have an increased risk of active and latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) compared to the general population. Despite existing guidelines on the prevention and management of LTBI, lit...

    Authors: Siti Nur Farhana H., Anusha Manoharan, Wen Ming Koh, Manimaran K. and Ee Ming Khoo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:914
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  17. As of 2015, second opinions are legally implemented in Germany. However, empirical results from German second opinion programs are lacking. The aim of this study was to examine several aspects within a populat...

    Authors: Jan Weyerstraß, Barbara Prediger, Edmund Neugebauer and Dawid Pieper
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:237
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  18. Whilst multimorbidity is more prevalent with increasing age, approximately 30% of middle-aged adults (45-64 years) are also affected. Several prescribing criteria have been developed to optimise medication use...

    Authors: Janine A Cooper, Cristín Ryan, Susan M Smith, Emma Wallace, Kathleen Bennett, Caitriona Cahir, David Williams, Mary Teeling, Tom Fahey and Carmel M Hughes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:484
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  19. While COVID-19 affects every walk of human life, it especially implicates healthcare workers at the forefront of the pandemic due to their vulnerable involvement in providing first-line treatment. This study p...

    Authors: Ayu Puspita Ningrum and Malene Missel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:262
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  20. The use of telehealth in the management of care and care delivery has been increasing significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth is an emerging technology used to manage care for patients with card...

    Authors: Ibtisam A. Alarabyat, Nezam Al-Nsair, Intima Alrimawi, Nabeel Al-Yateem, Raed Mohammad Shudifat and Ahmad Rajeh Saifan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:452
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  21. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a serious phenomenon on a global scale that can worsen with the COVID-19 pandemic. The study aimed to understand the perceptions of health professionals about MDR-T...

    Authors: Ludmilla Leidianne Limirio Souza, Felipe Lima dos Santos, Juliane de Almeida Crispim, Regina Célia Fiorati, Sónia Dias, Alexandre Tadashi Inomata Bruce, Yan Mathias Alves, Antônio Carlos Vieira Ramos, Thaís Zamboni Berra, Fernanda Bruzadelli Paulino da Costa, Luana Seles Alves, Aline Aparecida Monroe, Inês Fronteira and Ricardo Alexandre Arcêncio
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1033
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  22. Demand for dialysis treatment exceeds its supply within the Veterans Health Administration (VA), requiring VA to outsource dialysis care by purchasing private sector dialysis for veterans on a fee-for-service ...

    Authors: Virginia Wang, Matthew L Maciejewski, Uptal D Patel, Karen M Stechuchak, Denise M Hynes and Morris Weinberger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:26
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  23. Family focused practice (FFP) is an approach that recognises the inter-related needs of family members and recommends a continuum of activities to support families. While it is recognised that health visitors ...

    Authors: Rachel Leonard, Mark Linden and Anne Grant
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:113
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  24. The COVID-19 pandemic control strategies disrupted the smooth delivery of essential health services (EHS) globally. Limited evidence exists on the health systems lens approach to analyzing the challenges encou...

    Authors: Segun Bello, Rachel Neill, Ayodele S Jegede, Eniola A. Bamgboye, Mobolaji M. Salawu, Rotimi Felix Afolabi, Charles Nzelu, Ngozi Azodo, Anthony Adoghe, Munirat Ogunlayi, Saudatu Umma Yaradua, William Wang, Anne Liu and Olufunmilayo I. Fawole
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:625
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  25. Patient navigation programs have been launched nationwide in an attempt to reduce racial/ethnic and socio-demographic disparities in cancer care, but few have evaluated outcomes in the prostate cancer setting....

    Authors: Narissa J Nonzee, June M McKoy, Alfred W Rademaker, Peter Byer, Thanh Ha Luu, Dachao Liu, Elizabeth A Richey, Athena T Samaras, Genna Panucci, XinQi Dong and Melissa A Simon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:340
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  26. Yoga is a popular therapy for diabetes but its efficacy is contested. The aim of this study was to explore the feasibility of researching community based yoga classes in Type 2 diabetes with a view to informin...

    Authors: Lana Skoro-Kondza, Sharon See Tai, Ramona Gadelrab, Desanka Drincevic and Trisha Greenhalgh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:33
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  27. Postnatal care in hospital is often provided using defined care pathways, with limited opportunity for more refined and individualised care. We explored whether a tertiary maternity service could provide flexi...

    Authors: Della A Forster, Tracey L Savage, Helen L McLachlan, Lisa Gold, Tanya Farrell, Jo Rayner, Jane Yelland, Bree Rankin and Belinda Lovell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:569
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  28. Like much of the developed world, healthcare costs in Canada are rising. A small proportion of patients account for a large proportion of healthcare spending and much of this spending occurs in acute care sett...

    Authors: Babak Rashidi, Daniel M. Kobewka, David J. T. Campbell, Alan J. Forster and Paul E. Ronksley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:777
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  29. Caring for people with schizophrenia is accompanied by challenges that impact caregiver health. We conducted this study to explore the effect of a Caring Science-Based health promotion program on the sense of ...

    Authors: Shahpar Bagheri, Ladan Zarshenas, Mahnaz Rakhshan, Farkhondeh Sharif, Ebrahim Moghimi Sarani, Zahra Hadian Shirazi and Kathleen Sitzman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:711
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  30. Bangladesh suffers from a lack of healthcare providers. The growing chronic disease epidemic's demand for healthcare resources will further strain Bangladesh's limited healthcare workforce. Little is known abo...

    Authors: John D Parr, Wietze Lindeboom, Masuma A Khanam and Tracey L Pérez Koehlmoos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:309
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  31. Malawi continues to register HIV/AIDS mortality despite increased expansion of ART services and as well as advanced HIV screening as outlined in the 2020 -2025 Malawi National HIV Strategic Plan (NSP). This st...

    Authors: Brany Mithi, Agatha Bula, Lester Kapanda, Fatsani Ngwalangwa and Evanson Z. Sambala
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1015
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  32. Youth healthcare has an important role in promoting a healthy lifestyle in young children in order to prevent lifestyle-related health problems. To aid youth healthcare in this task, a new lifestyle screening ...

    Authors: Anne Krijger, Lieke Schiphof-Godart, Caren Lanting, Liset Elstgeest, Hein Raat and Koen Joosten
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:584
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  33. Reliable and timely laboratory results are crucial for monitoring the Prevention of the Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) cascade, particularly to enable early HIV diagnosis and early intervention. We sough...

    Authors: Jonathan Mwanza, Tanya Doherty, Mwansa Ketty Lubeya, Glenda E. Gray, Wilbroad Mutale and Mary Kawonga
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:753
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  34. The purpose of this study was to compare, from a Chinese societal perspective, the projected health benefits, costs, and cost-effectiveness of adding pneumococcal conjugate heptavalent vaccine (PCV-7) to the r...

    Authors: Datian Che, Hua Zhou, Jinchun He and Bin Wu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:56
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  35. In the rehabilitation ward, many elderly patients require continuous use of medication after a stroke or bone fracture, even after discharge. They are encouraged to self-manage their medications from the time ...

    Authors: Ryohei Suzuki, Takako Uchiya, Ayumi Nakamura, Naoki Okubo, Takamasa Sakai, Masaaki Takahashi, Mariko Kaneko, Ikuko Aiba and Fumiko Ohtsu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:292
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  36. Patient safety in home healthcare is largely unexplored. No-harm incidents may give valuable information about risk areas and system failures as a source for proactive patient safety work. We hypothesized that...

    Authors: Marléne Lindblad, Maria Unbeck, Lena Nilsson, Kristina Schildmeijer and Mirjam Ekstedt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:289
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  37. The move towards enhancing teamwork and interprofessional collaboration in health care raises issues regarding the management of professional boundaries and the relationship among health care providers. This q...

    Authors: Kate MacNaughton, Samia Chreim and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:486
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  38. Changes in pharmacy models of care, services and funding have been occurring internationally, moving away from the traditional dispensing role to more extended patient-facing roles utilising pharmacists’ clini...

    Authors: Janet McDonald, Caroline Morris, Megan Pledger, Phoebe Dunn, Ausaga Fa’asalele Tanuvasa, Kirsten Smiler and Jacqueline Cumming
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1147
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  40. To cope with shortages of equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic, we established a nonprofit end-to-end system to identify, validate, regulate, manufacture, and distribute 3D-printed medical equipment. Here we...

    Authors: Ferran Fillat-Gomà, Sergi Coderch-Navarro, Laia Martínez-Carreres, Núria Monill-Raya, Toni Nadal-Mir, Cristina Lalmolda, Manel Luján, Candelaria de Haro and Lluís Blanch
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1035
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  41. Multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) are integral to healthcare provision. However, healthcare has historically adopted a hierarchical power structure meaning some voices within the MDT have more influence than othe...

    Authors: Lisa Rogers, Aoife De Brún and Eilish McAuliffe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:419
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  42. The growing demands for multidisciplinary cancer survivorship care require new approaches to address the needs of people living after a cancer diagnosis. Good Life–Cancer Survivorship is a self-management supp...

    Authors: Lahiru Russell, Rebecca McIntosh, Carina Martin, Wee Kheng Soo and Anna Ugalde
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:440
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  43. 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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  44. Prehabilitation services assist patients in preparing for surgery, yet access to these services are often limited by geographical factors. Enabling rural and regional patients to access specialist surgical pre...

    Authors: Jamie L. Waterland, Rani Chahal, Hilmy Ismail, Catherine Sinton, Bernhard Riedel, Jill J. Francis and Linda Denehy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:443
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  45. Access to healthcare in remote areas is difficult and telehealth could be a promising avenue if accepted by the population. The aim of this study is to assess social acceptance and population confidence in tel...

    Authors: Thomas G Poder, Christian A Bellemare, Suzanne K Bédard and Renald Lemieux
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:72
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  46. Across the United States, sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy rates are alarmingly high among youth. Schools, due to their proximity and access to youth, can increase student access to sex...

    Authors: Emily Leung, Kathryn J. Wanner, Lindsay Senter, Amanda Brown and Dawn Middleton
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:292
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  47. A systematic analysis of trauma deaths is a step towards trauma quality improvement in Indian hospitals. This study estimates the magnitude of preventable trauma deaths in five Indian hospitals, and uses a pee...

    Authors: Nobhojit Roy, Deepa Kizhakke Veetil, Monty Uttam Khajanchi, Vineet Kumar, Harris Solomon, Jyoti Kamble, Debojit Basak, Göran Tomson and Johan von Schreeb
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:142
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  48. Patient safety culture is defined as a product of individual and group values, attitudes, perceptions, competencies, and patterns of behavior that determine the commitment to, and the style and proficiency of,...

    Authors: Ryosuke Hayashi, Shigeru Fujita, Shuhei Iida, Yoji Nagai, Yoshiko Shimamori and Tomonori Hasegawa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:310
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  49. While point of care testing (PoCT) for general practitioners is becoming increasingly popular, few studies have investigated whether it represents value for money. This study aims to assess the relative cost-e...

    Authors: Caroline O Laurence, John R Moss, Nancy E Briggs and Justin J Beilby
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:165
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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