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  1. Health policy in the UK and elsewhere is prioritising patient empowerment and patient evaluations of healthcare. Patient reported outcome measures now take centre-stage in implementing strategies to increase p...

    Authors: Marion McAllister, Graham Dunn, Katherine Payne, Linda Davies and Chris Todd
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:157
  2. Funders of medical research the world over are increasingly seeking, in research assessment, to complement traditional output measures of scientific publications with more outcome-based indicators of societal ...

    Authors: Pavel V Ovseiko, Alis Oancea and Alastair M Buchan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:478
  3. Quality indicators are standardized, evidence-based measures of health care quality. Currently, there is no basic set of quality indicators for chiropractic care published in peer-reviewed literature. The goal...

    Authors: Robert Vining, Jennifer Smith, Brian Anderson, Zachary Almquist and Danveshka Wong
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:65
  4. Accreditation is viewed as a reputable tool to evaluate and enhance the quality of health care. However, its effect on performance and outcomes remains unclear. This review aimed to identify and analyze the ev...

    Authors: Mohammed Hussein, Milena Pavlova, Mostafa Ghalwash and Wim Groot
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1057
  5. This article addresses the role of audit and feedback (A&F) to support change behaviour and quality improvement work in healthcare organisations. It contributes to the sparse literature on primary care centre ...

    Authors: Anna H. Glenngård and Anders Anell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:663
  6. Today, due to the complex environment and rapidly changing of health industry, hospitals should optimize their organizational performance to achieve a competitive advantage. One of the important factors for ac...

    Authors: Ebrahim Nafari and Behrooz Rezaei
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:363
  7. Racial/ethnic minorities have higher incidence and mortality rates of liver cancer, or hepatocellular carcinoma, than non-Hispanic Whites. As such, the Washington-Baltimore Metropolitan Area Hepatitis B Virus ...

    Authors: Daisy Le, Min Jeong Jeon, Annie Coriolan Ciceron, Y. Tony Yang, Jane Pan, Hee-Soon Juon and Sherrie F. Wallington
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:707
  8. Large numbers of vulnerable patients are in need of palliative cancer and dementia care. However, a wide gap exists between the knowledge of best practices in palliative care and their use in everyday clinical...

    Authors: Jasper van Riet Paap, Myrra Vernooij-Dassen, Rose-Marie Dröes, Lukas Radbruch, Kris Vissers and Yvonne Engels
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:396
  9. Short-term medical missions (STMMs) are a well-established means of providing health care to the developing world. Despite over 250 million dollars and thousands of volunteer hours dedicated to STMMs, there is...

    Authors: Jesse Maki, Munirih Qualls, Benjamin White, Sharon Kleefield and Robert Crone
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:121
  10. The Implementation Leadership Scale (ILS) was developed to assess leadership behavior with regard to being proactive, knowledgeable, supportive, or perseverant in implementing evidence-based practices (EBPs). ...

    Authors: Sara Söling, Holger Pfaff, Ute Karbach, Lena Ansmann and Juliane Köberlein-Neu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1065
  11. Healthcare accreditation standards are advocated as an important means of improving clinical practice and organisational performance. Standard development agencies have documented methodologies to promote open...

    Authors: David Greenfield, Marjorie Pawsey, Reece Hinchcliff, Max Moldovan and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:329
  12. Various societal developments are currently challenging the ability of European nursing home organizations to meet quality standards. To support nursing home organizations throughout the Netherlands in quality...

    Authors: Paulien Vermunt, Yael Reijmer, Clariska van Biessum, Valerie de Groot, Bellis van den Berg and Henk Nies
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:507
  13. A quality framework for hospital-based physiotherapy is lacking. This study aims to design a framework, building on the currently available literature, to improve the quality of hospital-based physiotherapy.

    Authors: Rudi A. Steenbruggen, Marjo J. M. Maas, Thomas J. Hoogeboom, Paul L. P. Brand and Philip J. van der Wees
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:34
  14. Over the last decade healthcare management and managers have increasingly been in focus in public debate. The purpose of the present study was to gain a deeper understanding of how prolonged, unfavorable media...

    Authors: Maria Wramsten Wilmar, Gunnar Ahlborg Jr, Christian Jacobsson and Lotta Dellve
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:8
  15. The majority of people with dementia are cared for by their family members. However, family carers are often unprepared for their caring roles, receiving less education and support compared with professional c...

    Authors: Lily Xiao, Ying Yu, Julie Ratcliffe, Rachel Milte, Claudia Meyer, Michael Chapman, Langduo Chen, Shahid Ullah, Alison Kitson, Andre Queiroz De Andrade, Elizabeth Beattie, Henry Brodaty, Sue McKechnie, Lee-Fay Low, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Craig Whitehead…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:762
  16. The science of measuring and reporting on the performance of healthcare systems is rapidly evolving. In the past decade, across many jurisdictions, organisations tasked with monitoring progress towards reform ...

    Authors: Jean-Frederic Levesque and Kim Sutherland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:23
  17. Despite the great confidence of Western governments in the principles of New Public Management (NPM) and its ability to stimulate “healthcare entrepreneurship”, it is unclear how policies seeking to reform hea...

    Authors: Martijn Pieter van der Steen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1349
  18. Based on practices in commercial organizations and public services, healthcare organizations are using service charters to inform patients about the quality of service they can expect and to increase patient-c...

    Authors: Jean-Pierre Thomassen, Kees Ahaus and Steven Van de Walle
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:141
  19. Over the past decade, in the province of Quebec, Canada, the government has initiated two consecutive reforms. These have created a new type of primary healthcare – family medicine groups (FMGs) – and have est...

    Authors: Mylaine Breton, Raynald Pineault, Jean-Frédéric Levesque, Danièle Roberge, Roxane Borgès Da Silva and Alexandre Prud’homme
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:262
  20. Hospital accreditation (HA) is an external evaluation of a hospital’s structures, processes and results by an independent professional accreditation body using pre-established optimum standards. The Iranian ho...

    Authors: Ali Mohammad Mosadeghrad and Fatemeh Ghazanfari
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:879
  21. Researchers are increasingly required to describe the impact of their work, e.g. in grant proposals, project reports, press releases and research assessment exercises. Specialised impact assessment studies can...

    Authors: Shyama Kuruvilla, Nicholas Mays, Andrew Pleasant and Gill Walt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2006 6:134
  22. More than 50% of Africa’s population lives in rural areas, which have few professional health workers. South Africa has adopted task shifting health care to Community Health Workers (CHWs) to achieve the Susta...

    Authors: Linnea Stansert Katzen, Mark Tomlinson, Joan Christodoulou, Christina Laurenzi, Ingrid le Roux, Venetia Baker, Nokwanele Mbewu, Karl W. le Roux and Mary Jane Rotheram Borus
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:594
  23. To assess the quality of integrated diabetes care, we should be able to follow the patient throughout the care path, monitor his/her care process and link them to his/her health outcomes, while simultaneously ...

    Authors: Veerle Buffel, Katrien Danhieux, Philippe Bos, Roy Remmen, Josefien Van Olmen and Edwin Wouters
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1257

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  24. Implementing evidence-based chronic disease prevention with a practice-wide population is challenging in primary care.

    Authors: Mark Fort Harris, Sharon M. Parker, John Litt, Mieke van Driel, Grant Russell, Danielle Mazza, Upali W. Jayasinghe, Jane Smith, Chris Del Mar, Riki Lane and Elizabeth Denney-Wilson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:637
  25. Maternal deaths reviews are proposed as one strategy to address high maternal mortality in low and middle-income countries, including Tanzania. Review of maternal deaths relies on comprehensive documentation o...

    Authors: Ali Said, Andrea B. Pembe, Siriel Massawe, Claudia Hanson and Mats Malqvist
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:52
  26. In an attempt to discern lessons to improve future pandemic responses, this study measured the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on essential public health services (EPHSs) related to primary health care (PHC) ...

    Authors: Christo Heunis, Perpetual Chikobvu, Michel Muteba, Gladys Kigozi-Male, Michelle Engelbrecht and Providence Mushori
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1244
  27. Kenya’s new constitution passed in 2010 recognizes the right of quality care resulting in the devolution of health service delivery to the sub-national units called counties in 2013. However, the health system...

    Authors: T. Chelagat, G. Kokwaro, J. Onyango and J. Rice
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:144
  28. In the scientific literature, many studies describe the application of lean methodology in the hospital setting. Most of the articles focus on the results rather than on the approach adopted to introduce the l...

    Authors: Angelo Rosa, Giuliano Marolla, Federico Lega and Francesco Manfredi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:889
  29. In 2009, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) launched the Primary Healthcare (PHC) accreditation program to improve quality across the continuum of care. The MOPH, with the support of Accreditation C...

    Authors: Fadi El-Jardali, Randa Hemadeh, Maha Jaafar, Lucie Sagherian, Ranime El-Skaff, Reem Mdeihly, Diana Jamal and Nour Ataya
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:86
  30. The number of nongovernmental organizations working on AIDS has grown. There is great diversity ... the Department of Health; and to develop a comprehensive proposal for measurable and agreed upon core quality ev...

    Authors: Anna Berenguera, Enriqueta Pujol-Ribera, Concepció Violan, Amparo Romaguera, Rosa Mansilla, Albert Giménez, Carlos Ascaso and Jesús Almeda
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:176
  31. In 2017, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) started developing a methodological framework for a guideline-based quality assurance (QA) scheme to improve cancer quality of care. During the fi...

    Authors: Elena Parmelli, Miranda Langendam, Thomas Piggott, Jan Adolfsson, Elie A. Akl, David Armstrong, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Romina Brignardello-Petersen, Markus Follmann, Zbigniew Leś, Joerg J. Meerpohl, Luciana Neamtiu, Amir Qaseem, Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Zuleika Saz-Parkinson, Philip J. van der Wees…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:173
  32. Technology for timely feedback of data has the potential to support quality improvement (QI) in health care. However, such technology may pose difficulties stemming from the complex interaction with the settin...

    Authors: Sara Tolf, Johan Mesterton, Daniel Söderberg, Isis Amer-Wåhlin and Pamela Mazzocato
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:816
  33. Heightened fiscal constraints, increases in the chronic disease burden and in consumer expectations are among several factors contributing to the global interest in evidence-informed health policy. The present...

    Authors: Francesca C. Grace, Carla S. Meurk, Brian W. Head, Wayne D. Hall, Meredith G. Harris and Harvey A. Whiteford
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:374
  34. HIV patients face considerable acute and chronic healthcare needs and battling the HIV epidemic remains of the utmost importance. By focusing on health outcomes in relation to the cost of care, value-based hea...

    Authors: Sebastian Vermeersch, Rémy P. Demeester, Nathalie Ausselet, Steven Callens, Paul De Munter, Eric Florence, Jean-Christophe Goffard, Sophie Henrard, Patrick Lacor, Peter Messiaen, Agnès Libois, Lucie Seyler, Françoise Uurlings, Stefaan J. Vandecasteele, Eric Van Wijngaerden, Jean-Cyr Yombi…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:13
  35. Interorganizational networks in healthcare do not always attain their goals. Existing models outline the factors that could explain poor network performance: governance; structure; and the alignment of profess...

    Authors: Galina van der Weert, Katarzyna Burzynska and Joris Knoben
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:923
  36. The creation of Local Health Care Cooperatives (LHCCs) in Scotland in 1999 was typical of attempts to encourage voluntary integration and co-operation between health care providers. One of the three stated obj...

    Authors: Gary McLean and Matt Sutton
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:104
  37. The transition to electronic health records offers the potential for big data to drive the next frontier in healthcare improvement. Yet there are multiple barriers to harnessing the power of data. The Learning...

    Authors: Joanne Enticott, Alison Johnson and Helena Teede
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:200
  38. Comparing inpatient fall rates can serve as a benchmark for quality improvement. To improve the comparability of performance between hospitals, adjustments for patient-related fall risk factors that are not mo...

    Authors: Niklaus S Bernet, Irma HJ Everink, Jos MGA Schols, Ruud JG Halfens, Dirk Richter and Sabine Hahn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:225
  39. Rural communities throughout Australia are experiencing demographic ageing, increasing burden of chronic diseases, and de-population. Many are struggling to maintain viable health care services due to lack of ...

    Authors: Rachel Tham, John S Humphreys, Leigh Kinsman, Penny Buykx, Adel Asaid and Kathy Tuohey
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:52
  40. First Nations people experience racism in society and in the healthcare system. This study aimed to document emergency care providers’ perspectives on care of First Nations patients. First Nations research par...

    Authors: Patrick McLane, Leslee Mackey, Brian R. Holroyd, Kayla Fitzpatrick, Chyloe Healy, Katherine Rittenbach, Tessy Big Plume, Lea Bill, Anne Bird, Bonnie Healy, Kristopher Janvier, Eunice Louis and Cheryl Barnabe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:804
  41. Sepsis affects 1.7 million patients in the US annually, is one of the leading causes of mortality, and is a major driver of US healthcare costs. African American/Black and LatinX populations experience higher ...

    Authors: Erika L. Linnander, Adeola Ayedun, Dowin Boatright, Kupiri Ackerman-Barger, Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Natasha Ray, Brita Roy, Steven Simpson and Leslie A. Curry
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:975
  42. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are expected to “revolutionise” healthcare. However, despite their promises, their integration within healthcare organisations and systems remains limited. The objecti...

    Authors: Hassane Alami, Pascale Lehoux, Chrysanthi Papoutsi, Sara E. Shaw, Richard Fleet and Jean-Paul Fortin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:701
  43. Guidelines and quality indicators (for example as part of a quality assurance scheme) aim to improve health care delivery and health outcomes. Ideally, the development of quality indicators should be grounded ...

    Authors: Miranda W. Langendam, Thomas Piggott, Monika Nothacker, Arnav Agarwal, David Armstrong, Tejan Baldeh, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Carolina Castro Martins, Andrea Darzi, Itziar Etxeandia, Ivan Florez, Jan Hoving, Samer G. Karam, Thomas Kötter, Joerg J. Meerpohl, Reem A. Mustafa…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:875
  44. With current policy in healthcare research, in the United Kingdom and internationally, focused on development of research excellence in individuals and teams, building capacity for implementation and translati...

    Authors: Anne Whitworth, Shona Haining and Helen Stringer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:287
  45. Changing people’s behaviour by giving advice and instruction, as traditionally provided in healthcare consultations, is usually ineffective. Healthy Conversation Skills (HCS) training enhances health professio...

    Authors: Jenna L. Hollis, Lucy Kocanda, Kirsty Seward, Clare Collins, Belinda Tully, Mandy Hunter, Maralyn Foureur, Wendy Lawrence, Lesley MacDonald-Wicks and Tracy Schumacher
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:880