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  1. Opioid prescriptions for Veterans with low back pain (LBP) persist despite the availability of PT, a lower medical risk treatment option. Patterns of treatment and subsequent healthcare utilization for Veteran...

    Authors: Catherine Schmidt, Matthew Borgia, Tingting Zhang, Perman Gochyyev, Theresa I. Shireman and Linda Resnik
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:275
  2. Administrative claims data are a valuable source for clinical studies; however, the use of validated algorithms to identify patients is essential to minimize bias. We evaluated the validity of diagnostic codin...

    Authors: Takahiro Hirano, Makiko Negishi, Yoshiki Kuwatsuru, Masafumi Arai, Ryozo Wakabayashi, Naoko Saito and Ryohei Kuwatsuru
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:274
  3. The anticipated growth in number of older people with long-term health problems is associated with a greater need for registered nurses. Home care services needs enough nurses that can deliver high quality ser...

    Authors: Guro Hognestad Haaland, Olaug Øygarden, Marianne Storm and Aslaug Mikkelsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:273
  4. The COVID-19 pandemic produced unprecedented demands and rapidly changing evidence and practices within critical care settings. The purpose of this study was to identify factors and strategies that hindered an...

    Authors: Santana Silver, Kayla Christine Jones, Sarah Redmond, Emily George, Sarah Zornes, Amelia Barwise, Aaron Leppin, Yue Dong, Lori A. Harmon, Vishakha K. Kumar, Christina Kordik, Allan J. Walkey and Mari-Lynn Drainoni
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:272
  5. Cardio-metabolic diseases are a major cause of death worldwide, including in Indonesia, where diabetes is one of the most critical diseases for the health system to manage.

    Authors: Hizir Sofyan, Farah Diba, Suryane S. Susanti, Marthoenis Marthoenis, Ichsan Ichsan, Novi Reandy Sasmita, Till Seuring and Sebastian Vollmer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:271
  6. Sentinel events (SEs) can result in severe and unwanted outcomes. To minimize the fear of sentinel events reporting and the occurrence of sentinel events, patient safety culture improvements within healthcare ...

    Authors: Samar Binkheder, Yasser A. Alaska, Alia Albaharnah, Rawan Khalid AlSultan, Nawaf Mubarak Alqahtani, Anas Ahmad Amr, Nawfal Aljerian and Rabab Alkutbe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:270
  7. Individuals experiencing multimorbidity have more complex healthcare needs, use more healthcare services, and access multiple service providers across the healthcare continuum. They also experience higher rate...

    Authors: Amanda Mofina, Jordan Miller, Joan Tranmer, Wenbin Li and Catherine Donnelly
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:269
  8. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 3.1 to reduce maternal mortality. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of India recommends prophylactic...

    Authors: John R. Cook, Kunal Saxena, Catharine Taylor and Jeffrey L. Jacobs
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:267
  9. The role of public health nurses (PHNs) in the community is expected to become increasingly important, along with the promotion of a comprehensive community care system. However, a comprehensive study of all m...

    Authors: Shimpei Kodama, Futoshi Uwatoko and Chihaya Koriyama
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:266
  10. One of the main tasks of the healthcare human resource management is to maintain and retain professional staff. The high level turnover of professional staff may reduce the quality of healthcare service delive...

    Authors: Vahid Ghavami and Seyed Saeed Tabatabaee
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:265
  11. Switzerland has universal coverage via mandatory health insurance that covers a generous basket of health services. In addition to the basic coverage, the insured can buy supplementary insurance for the inpati...

    Authors: Szilvia Altwicker-Hámori and Michael Stucki
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:264
  12. Ensuring access to healthcare services is a key element to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 3 of “promoting healthy lives and well-being for all” through Universal Health Coverage (UHC). However, in ...

    Authors: Marion Coste and Marwân-al-Qays Bousmah
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:263
  13. 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
  14. In the present investigation the results of the outcome and process evaluation of a participatory workplace intervention are reported. The intervention aimed to increase the workers’ self-assessed physical and...

    Authors: Diego Montano, Marco Kuchenbaur and Richard Peter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:260
  15. Contingency measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic limited access to routine prenatal care for pregnant women, increasing the risk of pregnancy complications due to poor prenatal follow-up, especially in those ...

    Authors: María Fernanda Escobar, Juan Carlos Gallego, María Paula Echavarria, Paula Fernandez, Leandro Posada, Shirley Salazar, Isabella Gutierrez and Juliana Alarcon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:259
  16. The improvement of various health outcomes, including the reduction of maternal, neonatal, infant, and child mortality as well as the increased use of maternity and newborn health services, was significantly a...

    Authors: Abayneh Tamene, Dansamo Tediso and Achamyelesh Gebretsadik
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:258
  17. Current outcomes for mental illness are widely regarded as poor. Since the introduction of psychotropic medications in the mid 1950’s, previous psychosocial practices were minimized in favor of medication focu...

    Authors: Ann Chapleau, Jennifer Harrison, Stephen Love and David Sherman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:257
  18. The mismatch between the global burden of surgical disease and global health funding for surgical illness exacerbates disparities in surgical care access worldwide. Amidst competing priorities, governments nee...

    Authors: Obieze Nwanna–Nzewunwa, Esther Agwang, Melissa Carvalho, Mary-Margaret Ajiko, Rasheedat Oke, Christopher Yoon, Mohamed M Diab, Fred Kirya, Elliot Marseille, Catherine Juillard and Rochelle A. Dicker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:256
  19. Various vaccines have been developed and distributed worldwide to control and cope with COVID-19 disease. To ensure vaccines benefit the global community, the ethical principles of beneficence, justice, non-ma...

    Authors: Habib Jalilian, Mahdi Amraei, Elnaz Javanshir, Khosro Jamebozorgi and Farzad Faraji-Khiavi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:255
  20. Person-centered maternity care (PCMC) has become a priority in the global health discourse on quality of care due to the high prevalence of disrespectful and lack of responsive care during facility-based child...

    Authors: Patience A. Afulani, Jaffer Okiring, Raymond A. Aborigo, Jerry John Nutor, Irene Kuwolamo, John Baptist K. Dorzie, Sierra Semko, Jason A. Okonofua and Wendy Berry Mendes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:254
  21. Emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic created unexpected challenges for health care workers. The global and national supply chain system was disrupted, and affected infection, prevention and control (IPC) practic...

    Authors: Bright Orji, Elizabeth Oliveras, Bartholomew Odio, Charity Anoke, Herbert Onuoha, Emmanuel Ugwa, Madeleine Howard, Ibrahim Idris, Edima Akpan, Festus Okoh, Chinyere Nwani, Oniyire Adetiloye, Nwankwo Lawrence, Chioma Oduenyi, Emmanuel Ogharu, Joseph Enne…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:253
  22. The Coronavirus disease (a highly infectious viral disease) quickly swept across the globe in 2020, causing mortality and severe respiratory illnesses. It quickly affected businesses and publicly provided serv...

    Authors: Amina M. Al Marzouqi, Michael Ekubu Otim, Leena S. Kehail and Ramsha A. Kamal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:252
  23. Since the start of the AIDS outbreak, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has infected about 84.2 million people, and approximately 40.1 million people have died due to AIDS-related diseases. So, this study...

    Authors: Tahmineh Reshadat-Hajiabad, Alireza Khajavi, Ali Mohammad Hosseinpour, Amin Bojdy, Amir Hashemi-Meshkini and Mehdi Varmaghani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:251
  24. The detrimental impact of Covid-19 has led to an urgent need to support the wellbeing of UK National Health Service and care workers. This research develops an online diary to support the wellbeing of staff in...

    Authors: Garry Elvin, Zeyneb Kurt, Angela Kennedy, Petia Sice, Lee Walton and Paras Patel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:250
  25. As people live longer, they are at increased risk for chronic diseases and disability. Self-management is a strategy to improve health outcomes and quality of life of those who engage in it. This study sought ...

    Authors: Amélie Gauthier-Beaupré, Craig Kuziemsky, Bruno J. Battistini and Jeffrey W. Jutai
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:248
  26. China’s primary health care system has undergone major changes since the new round of medical reform in 2009, but the current status of primary health care institution service efficiency is still unsatisfactor...

    Authors: Kangni Mei, Ruxin Kou, Yuqing Bi, Yuzhuo Liu, Jingwen Huang and Wei Li
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:247
  27. Evidence on the health impacts of social conditions has led US healthcare systems to consider identifying and addressing social adversity—e.g. food, housing, and transportation insecurity—in care delivery sett...

    Authors: Benjamín Aceves, Emilia De Marchis, Vishalli Loomba, Erika M. Brown and Laura M. Gottlieb
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:246
  28. Malnutrition in elderly institutionalized patients is a significant challenge associated with adverse health outcomes. The ‘MyFood’ decision support system was designed to prevent and treat malnutrition and ha...

    Authors: Cecilie Varsi, Lene Frost Andersen, Gunhild Tellebon Koksvik, Frida Severinsen and Mari Mohn Paulsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:245
  29. Quality improvement collaboratives (QICs) are used extensively to implement quality improvement in healthcare, and current research is demonstrating positive yet varying evidence. To interpret the effectivenes...

    Authors: Kathrine Carstensen, Anne Mette Kjeldsen, Stina Lou and Camilla Palmhøj Nielsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:241
  30. While South Africa’s national HIV program is the largest in the world, it has yet to reach the UNAIDS 95–95-95 targets. To reach these targets, the expansion of the HIV treatment program may be accelerated thr...

    Authors: L. C. Long, S. Girdwood, K. Govender, G. Meyer-Rath and J. Miot
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:240
  31. 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
  32. Even with all the care taken during the production process, the pharmaceutical industries are still subject to manufacturing medicines with quality deviations, generating commercialized products without the re...

    Authors: Cristiani Lopes Capistrano Gonçalves Oliveira, Virgínia Freire Machado, Heitor de Freitas Tavares, Gabriel Lucas Marques Ribeiro and Paulo Sérgio Dourado Arrais
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:238
  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
  34. Previous studies showed that same-hospital readmission is associated with better outcomes than different-hospital readmission. However, little is known about whether readmission to the same care unit (same-car...

    Authors: Yi-Chin Pu, Hsiao-Chen Chou, Chun-Ta Huang and Wang-Huei Sheng
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:236
  35. Authors: Melissa Stillman, Simon P. S. Kibira, Solomon Shiferaw, Fredrick Makumbi, Assefa Seme, Elizabeth A. Sully, Lilian Ha and Margaret Giorgio
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:235

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  36. Cervical cancer (CC) is nearly always caused by persistent human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. It is the most common cancer among women living with HIV (WLWH) and is the leading cause of cancer-related death...

    Authors: Ivana Di Salvo, Dorcas Mnzava, Giovanni Jacopo Nicoletti, Elizabeth Senkoro, Robert C. Ndege, Dorothy J. Huang, Nathalia Tobias Makunja, George I. Kassiga, Andreas M. Kaufmann, Maja Weisser and André B. Kind
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:234
  37. Resilience is often referred to when assessing the ability of health systems to maintain their functions during unexpected events. Primary healthcare forms the basis for the health system and thus its resilien...

    Authors: Soila Karreinen, Henna Paananen, Laura Kihlström, Kristiina Janhonen, Moona Huhtakangas, Marjaana Viita-aho and Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:233
  38. Multimorbidity-the simultaneous occurrence of two or more chronic Non-Communicable Diseases) in an individual is increasing globally and challenging health systems. Although individuals living with multimorbid...

    Authors: Fantu Abebe Eyowas, Marguerite Schneider, Shitaye Alemu and Fentie Ambaw Getahun
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:232
  39. While processes of adoption and the impacts of various health technologies have been extensively studied by health services and policy researchers, the influence of policy makers’ governing styles on these pro...

    Authors: Lena Saleh, Gillian Parker, Michael Stevenson and Fiona A. Miller
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:231
  40. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, teleconsultations (TCs) have become common practice for many chronic conditions, including osteoporosis. While satisfaction with TCs among patients increases in times of emergency...

    Authors: Benedetta Pongiglione, Flaminia Carrone, Alessandra Angelucci, Gherardo Mazziotti and Amelia Compagni
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:230
  41. Two most important factors determining treatment success in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) are adequate medication compliance and molecular monitoring albeit still being suboptimal. The CMyLife platform is an ...

    Authors: Lynn Verweij, Geneviève I. C. G. Ector, Yolba Smit, Bas van Vlijmen, Bert A. van der Reijden, Rosella P. M. G. Hermens and Nicole M. A. Blijlevens
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:228
  42. There is limited evidence in the literature on the long-term effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of treatments for Acute Severe Ulcerative Colitis (ASUC). The study aimed to perform decision analytic model-ba...

    Authors: Mohammed Fasihul Alam, Mirella Longo, David Cohen, Sam Groves, Laith Alrubaiy, Hayley A. Hutchings, Alan Watkins, Shaji Sebastain and John G. Williams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:226
  43. Ontario Health Teams (OHTs) are an integrated care system introduced in Ontario, Canada in 2019 after the 14 Local Health Integrated Networks (LHINs) were dissolved. The objective of this study is to give an o...

    Authors: Claire Sethuram, Tess McCutcheon and Clare Liddy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:225