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  1. Since 2009, the Chinese government has been reforming the healthcare system and has committed to reinforcing increased use of primary care. To date, however, the Chinese healthcare system is still heavily reli...

    Authors: Zhuojun Luo, Yuanzhu Ma, Naiqi Ke, Shuyi Xu, Ruwei Hu, Nan Hu and Li Kuang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:313
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. Treatment of stroke patients in stroke units has increased and studies have shown improved outcomes. However, a large share of patients in Germany is still treated in hospitals without stroke unit. The effects...

    Authors: Christoph Pross, Elke Berger, Martin Siegel, Alexander Geissler and Reinhard Busse
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:880
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. S1 Health literacy and health education in adolescence

    Authors: Catarina Cardoso Tomás, Emanuel Oliveira, D. Sousa, M. Uba-Chupel, G. Furtado, C. Rocha, A. Teixeira, P. Ferreira, Celeste Alves, Stefan Gisin, Elisabete Catarino, Nelma Carvalho, Tiago Coucelo, Luís Bonfim, Carina Silva, Débora Franco…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16(Suppl 3):200
    Content type: Meeting Abstracts Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 3

  5. Over the six-year period from 2014 to 2020, the network supported 6,223 surgeries at seven hospitals, established a fistula training center, trained ... 96% of women in a community setting reported that they were...

    Authors: Lindsey Pollaczek, Alison M. El Ayadi and Habiba C. Mohamed
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:280
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  6. An uncontrolled before–after study based on federal-level data including the number of hospitals performing TKA, and TKA cases from the external hospital quality assurance programme in Germany (2004–2017 ... ). B...

    Authors: Werner de Cruppé, Annette Ortwein, Rike Antje Kraska and Max Geraedts
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1109
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  7. Medical internship is a key transition point in medical training from student to independent (junior) doctor. The national Regional Training Hubs (RTH) policy began across Australia in late 2017, which aims to...

    Authors: Matthew McGrail, Torres Woolley, Janani Pinidiyapathirage, Kath Paton, Deborah Smith, Kay Brumpton and Peta-Ann Teague
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:236
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  8. An increase in regionalization of obstetric services is being observed worldwide. This study investigated factors associated with the closure of obstetric units in hospitals in Germany and aimed to examine the...

    Authors: Jan Hoffmann, Till Dresbach, Carsten Hagenbeck and Nadine Scholten
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:342
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  9. The global financial crisis and the economic and financial adjustment programme (EFAP) forced the Portuguese government to adopt austerity measures, which also included the health sector. The aim of this study...

    Authors: Gonçalo F. Augusto, Sara S. Dias, Alexandre V. Abrantes and Maria R. O. Martins
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:303
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Hospitals, as complex organizations with clinical, financial, and social functions, face different barriers to providing high-quality and safe services at reasonable costs. Various initiatives have been carrie...

    Authors: Mohammad Ali Jalilvand, Ahmad Reza Raeisi and Nasrin Shaarbafchizadeh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:47
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  11. Globally, road traffic collisions (RTCs) are a common cause of death and disability. Although many countries, including Ireland, have road safety and trauma strategies, the impact on rehabilitation services is...

    Authors: Áine Carroll, Prasanth Sukumar and Aisling O’Keeffe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:175
    Content type: Research Published on:

  12. Between 2014 and 2016, use of CPOE increased more ... . Larger clinics and those affiliated with multi-hospital health systems were more likely to have reported use of CPOE. We found no difference ... specialty c...

    Authors: Shira H. Fischer, Robert S. Rudin, Yunfeng Shi, Paul Shekelle, Alejandro Amill-Rosario, Dennis Scanlon and Cheryl L. Damberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:836
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. In contrast to public facilities of which 92.7% reported data in the DHIS2 system during the ... .3% of the private facilities used the reporting system. At the national level, completeness of facility reporting ...

    Authors: Pierre Muhoza, Roger Tine, Adama Faye, Ibrahima Gaye, Scott L. Zeger, Abdoulaye Diaw, Alioune Badara Gueye, Almamy Malick Kante, Andrea Ruff and Melissa A. Marx
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:18
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  14. 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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  15. A number of private and public companies calculate and publish proprietary hospital patient safety scores based on publicly available quality measures initially reported by the U.S. federal government. This st...

    Authors: Scott Alan Smith, Naomi Yount and Joann Sorra
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:143
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. The appropriateness of psychotropic prescriptions in the elderly is a major quality-of-care challenge at hospital. Quality indicators have been developed to prevent inappropriate psychotropic prescriptions. We...

    Authors: Aurélie Petit-Monéger, Vianney Jouhet, Frantz Thiessard, Driss Berdaï, Pernelle Noize, Véronique Gilleron, Guillaume Caridade, Louis-Rachid Salmi and Florence Saillour-Glénisson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:272
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. Value-based healthcare (VBHC) is a promising strategy to increase patient value. For a successful implementation of VBHC, intensive collaborations between organizations and integrated care delivery systems are...

    Authors: Dennis van Veghel, Mohamed Soliman-Hamad, Daniela N. Schulz, Bernard Cost, Timothy A. Simmers and Lukas R. C. Dekker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:494
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. Identifying factors that influence sustained implementation of hospital-based interventions is key to ensuring evidence-based best practice is maintained across the NHS. This study aimed to identify, appraise ...

    Authors: Julie Cowie, Avril Nicoll, Elena D. Dimova, Pauline Campbell and Edward A. Duncan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:588
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  20. 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

  21. We established multivariate regression models in which 30-day risk-adjusted readmission rates were the dependent variables and patients’ perceptions of the responsiveness of the hospital staff and communication (...

    Authors: Lianping Yang, Chaojie Liu, Cunrui Huang and Dana B. Mukamel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:50
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Long-term conditions have a significant impact on individuals, their families, and the health service. As people with these conditions represent a high proportion of hospital admissions, investigating their ex...

    Authors: Paul Hewitson, Alex Skew, Chris Graham, Crispin Jenkinson and Angela Coulter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:33
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. In-hospital mortality from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is widely used in international comparisons as an indicator of health system performance. Because of the high risk of early death after AMI, interna...

    Authors: Ulrike Nimptsch, Thomas Mansky and Reinhard Busse
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:593
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  24. Despite the success of stroke rehabilitation services, differences in service utilization exist. Some patients with stroke may travel across regions to receive necessary care prescribed by their physician. It ...

    Authors: Julianna M. Dean, Kimberly Hreha, Ickpyo Hong, Chih-Ying Li, Daniel Jupiter, John Prochaska and Timothy Reistetter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:176
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  25. As healthcare systems strive for efficiency, hospital “length of stay outliers” have the potential to significantly impact a hospital’s overall utilization. There is a tendency to exclude such “outlier” stays ...

    Authors: Andrew H. Hughes, David Horrocks Jr, Curtis Leung, Melissa B. Richardson, Ann M. Sheehy and Charles F. S. Locke
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:940
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  26. In Denmark, reporting of tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcome is voluntary and data incomplete. In the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control most recent report presenting data from 2017, only 53.9%...

    Authors: Inge K. Holden, Peter H. Andersen, Christian Wejse, Troels Lillebaek and Isik S. Johansen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:83
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  27. Hospital clinical pharmacists have been working in many countries for many years and clinical pharmaceutical care have a positive effect on the recovery of patients. In order to evaluate the clinical effective...

    Authors: Guohua Lin, Rong Huang, Jing Zhang, Gaojie Li, Lei Chen and Xiaoyu Xi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:487
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  28. In 2010, national guidelines were published in Ireland recommending more sensitive criteria for the diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM). The criteria were based on the 2008 Hyperglycemia and Adver...

    Authors: Léan E. McMahon, Eimer G. O’Malley, Ciara M. E. Reynolds and Michael J. Turner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:795
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. The development of routines regarding medication is important to avoid medication-related harm. Medication review and medication reports have earlier been found to be effective, but their implementation is not...

    Authors: Siw Carlfjord, Eva Malmberg and Carina Skoglund
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:867
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. We undertook input-oriented data envelopment analysis to estimate technical efficiency of 78 general hospitals using data abstracted from the Annual Health Sector Performance Reports for 2012/13, 2014/15 and 2016...

    Authors: Rogers Ayiko, Paschal N. Mujasi, Joyce Abaliwano, Dickson Turyareeba, Rogers Enyaku, Robert Anguyo, Walter Odoch, Pauline Bakibinga and Tom Aliti
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:916
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  31. We analyzed data from 1856 long-term care wards extracted from the 2014 Annual Report for Functions of Medical Institutions in Japan. ... daily living using cluster analysis, and compared hospital/ward characteri...

    Authors: Ayumi Igarashi, Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani, Kojiro Morita, Hiroki Matsui, Claudia K.Y. Lai and Hideo Yasunaga
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:655
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  32. The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in March 2010, introduced payment-reduction penalties on acute care hospitals with higher...

    Authors: Souvik Banerjee, Michael K. Paasche-Orlow, Danny McCormick, Meng-Yun Lin and Amresh D. Hanchate
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:338
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  33. Governments, funders and hospital managers around the world are looking for ways to address the continual growth in expenditure by reducing the level of waste in the healthcare delivery system and improving th...

    Authors: Jane Evans, Sandra G. Leggat and Danny Samson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:237
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  34. This review aims to synthesise evidence on the economic impact of psychological interventions and therapies when applied to a broad range of physical health conditions.

    Authors: Leeanne Nicklas, Mairi Albiston, Martin Dunbar, Alan Gillies, Jennifer Hislop, Helen Moffat and Judy Thomson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1131
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  35. Patient information sharing between hospitals and community pharmacies is generally insufficient. Since August 2013, the pharmacy department of Kyoto University Hospital has initiated and mediated a collaborat...

    Authors: Miwa Hinata, Kikuko Miyazaki, Hiroshi Okada and Takeo Nakayama
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:487
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is now recognized as a major threat to public health, and surveillance of AMR is essential for successful containment. In 2000, Japan Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (JANIS) C...

    Authors: Atsuko Tsutsui and Satowa Suzuki
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:799
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. Since October 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has penalized 25% of U.S. hospitals with the highest rates of hospital-acquired conditions under the Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Progr...

    Authors: Olga A. Vsevolozhskaya, Karina C. Manz, Pierre M. Zephyr and Teresa M. Waters
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:131
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  38. Evaluating hospital efficiency is a process to optimize resource utilization and allocation. This is vital due to hospitals being the largest financial cost in a health system. To limit avoidable uses of hospi...

    Authors: Hamid Ravaghi, Mahnaz Afshari, Parvaneh Isfahani and Victoria D. Bélorgeot
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:830
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:948

  39. The National Health Insurance (NHI) was implemented in Indonesia in 2014, and cardiovascular diseases are one of the diseases that have overburdened the healthcare system. However, data concerning the relation...

    Authors: Nurul Qalby, Dian S. Arsyad, Andriany Qanitha, Maarten J. Cramer, Yolande Appelman, Dara R. Pabittei, Pieter A. Doevendans, Idar Mappangara and Akhtar Fajar Muzakkir
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:284
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  40. Many LMICs have implemented Publicly Funded Health Insurance (PFHI) programmes to improve access and financial protection. The national PFHI scheme implemented in India for a decade has been recently modified ...

    Authors: Samir Garg, Sayantan Chowdhury and T. Sundararaman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:1004
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  41. In South Korea, people injured in road traffic accidents receive compensation for medical costs through their automobile insurance. However, the automobile insurance system appears to manage health care ineffi...

    Authors: Kyoung Won Shin, Hyo Jung Lee, Chung Mo Nam, Ki Tae Moon and Eun-Cheol Park
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:567
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Public reporting has been considered effective in reducing health care costs by mitigating information asymmetry in the market as payers have incorporated publicly available information mandates into pay-for-p...

    Authors: Ahreum Han, Keon-Hyung Lee and Jongsun Park
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1321
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  43. Japan's medical education system produces 9,000 graduates annually. Despite the government's implementation of several strategies, including increasing the number of doctors trained, the country still struggle...

    Authors: Kazuki Kimura, Kazuo Inoue, Takahito Ando and Masanori Ito
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1404
    Content type: Research Published on:

  44. Decision-makers increasingly consider patient-reported outcomes as important measures of care quality. Studies on the importance of work-place social capital–a collective work-place resource–for the experience...

    Authors: Alice Clark, Thim Prætorius, Eszter Török, Ulla Arthur Hvidtfeldt, Peter Hasle and Naja Hulvej Rod
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:534
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. The indications for general anesthesia (GA) in obstetric settings, which are determined in consideration of maternal and fetal outcome, could be affected by local patterns of clinical practice grounded in uniq...

    Authors: Takamitsu Ikeda, Atsuko Kato, Masahiko Bougaki, Yuko Araki, Takuya Ohata, Seiichiro Kawashima, Yousuke Imai, Jun Ninagawa, Koji Oba, Kyungho Chang, Kanji Uchida and Yoshitsugu Yamada
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:421
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Presenteeism is a behavior in which an employee is physically present at work with reduced performance due to illness or other reasons. Hospital doctors and nurses are more inclined to exhibit presenteeism tha...

    Authors: Juliana Nga Man Lui, Ellie Bostwick Andres and Janice Mary Johnston
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:985
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Number of falls and near falls, occurred from January 2014 to March 2015, was collected through the incident reporting web-system implemented in the hospital’s intranet. We reported whether the fall risk was asse...

    Authors: Greta Castellini, Antonia Demarchi, Monica Lanzoni and Silvana Castaldi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:656
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  48. The Hospital Value Based Purchasing Program (HVBP) in the United States, announced in 2010 and implemented since 2013 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), introduced payment penalties and b...

    Authors: Souvik Banerjee, Danny McCormick, Michael K. Paasche-Orlow, Meng-Yun Lin and Amresh D. Hanchate
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:921
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. To increase patient safety, so-called Critical Incident Reporting Systems (CIRS) were implemented. For Austria, no data are available on how CIRS is used within a healthcare facility. Therefore, the aim of thi...

    Authors: Gerald Sendlhofer, Peter Schweppe, Ursula Sprincnik, Veronika Gombotz, Karina Leitgeb, Peter Tiefenbacher, Lars-Peter Kamolz and Gernot Brunner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:412
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Second Victim Programs (SVPs) provide support for healthcare providers involved in a near-miss, medical error, or adverse patient outcomes. Little is known about existence and structure of SVPs in top performi...

    Authors: Ruby Marr, Anupama Goyal, Martha Quinn and Vineet Chopra
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1330
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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