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  1. Liaison psychiatry services provide mental health care for patients in physical healthcare (usually acute hospital) settings including emergency departments. Liaison work involves close collaboration with acut...

    Authors: Keeble Jasmin, Andrew Walker, Elspeth Guthrie, Peter Trigwell, Alan Quirk, Jenny Hewison, Carolyn Czoski Murray and Allan House
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:522
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  3. World Health Organization (WHO) has created an essential list of in-vitro diagnostics. Supply chain management (SCM) is said to be the vehicle that ensures that developed point-of-care (POC) tests reach their ...

    Authors: Desmond Kuupiel, Vitalis Bawontuo, Paul K. Drain, Nonjabulo Gwala and Tivani P. Mashamba-Thompson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:519
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  4. Validated instruments are needed to assess the delivery of patient-centred care (PCC) to people with intellectual disabilities (PWIDs) needing 24-h care in residential settings. Eight dimensions of PCC have be...

    Authors: Jane Murray Cramm and Anna Petra Nieboer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:518
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  5. As health care strives towards the Triple Aim of improved population health, patient experience, and reduced costs, an organization’s readiness for change may be a key factor. The concept refers to the collect...

    Authors: Marie Höjriis Storkholm, Carl Savage, Mesfin Kassaye Tessma, Jannie Dalby Salvig and Pamela Mazzocato
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:517
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  6. Suboptimal healthcare quality may be a barrier to achieving child health improvements, yet little is known about the relationship between provider compliance with evidence-based practices and client behavior c...

    Authors: Adrienne Epstein, Corrina Moucheraud, Haribondhu Sarma, Mahfuzur Rahman, Md. Tariqujjaman, Tahmeed Ahmed, Jeffrey Glenn, Thomas Bossert and Margaret E. Kruk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:516
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  7. Many international health policies recognise the World Health Organization’s (2008) vision that communities should be involved in shaping primary healthcare services. However, researchers continue to debate de...

    Authors: Rachel McEvoy, Edel Tierney and Anne MacFarlane
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:515
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  8. Early Health Technology Assessment (EHTA) is an evolving field in health policy which aims to provide decision support and mitigate risk during early medical device innovation. The clinician is a key stakehold...

    Authors: Vinayak Smith, Ritesh Warty, Amrish Nair, Sathya Krishnan, Joel Arun Sursas, Fabricio da Silva Costa, Beverley Vollenhoven and Euan Morrison Wallace
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:514
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  9. In 2015 the increased migratory pressure in Europe posed additional challenges for healthcare providers. The aim of this study was to inform the development of a “Resource Package” to support European Union (E...

    Authors: Antonio Chiarenza, Marie Dauvrin, Valentina Chiesa, Sonia Baatout and Hans Verrept
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:513
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  10. The synthetic control method (SCM) is a useful tool in providing unbiased analysis on the policy effect in real-world health policy evaluations. Through controlling for a few confounding factors, we aim to app...

    Authors: Xiao Zang, Mengran Zhang, Shihao Wei, Wenxi Tang and Shan Jiang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:512
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  11. Learning Clubs is a multi-component intervention to address the eight common risk factors for women’s health, and infant’s health and development in resource-constrained settings. We are testing in a cluster rand...

    Authors: Jane Fisher, Trang Nguyen, Thach Duc Tran, Ha Tran, Tuan Tran, Stanley Luchters, David Hipgrave, Sarah Hanieh and Beverley-Ann Biggs
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:511
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  12. Blood transfusion is a life-saving intervention. However, the safety of the donor and the recipient is paramount. This study was aimed at determining the blood donation deferral pattern of University of Calaba...

    Authors: Henshaw Uchechi Okoroiwu and Enosakhare Aiyudubie Asemota
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:510
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  13. Community-Directed Interventions (CDI) is a participatory approach for delivery of essential healthcare services at community level. It is based on the values and principles of Primary Health Care (PHC). The C...

    Authors: Peter Makaula, Mathias Funsanani, Kondwani Chidzammbuyo Mamba, Janelisa Musaya and Paul Bloch
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:509
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  14. There is an increase in studies investigating the use of healthcare services prior to suicide. Although studies generally report high usage, there are no previous studies comparing immigrants’ use of primary h...

    Authors: Carine Øien-Ødegaard, Anne Reneflot and Lars Johan Hauge
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:508
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  15. This study provides an empirical test of the reasoned action approach (RAA) socio-cognitive theory with the aim of 1) predicting the intention of public dental health personnel (PDHP) to report suspected child...

    Authors: Ingfrid Vaksdal Brattabø, Ragnhild Bjørknes, Kyrre Breivik and Anne Nordrehaug Åstrøm
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:507
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  16. Emergency department (ED) crowding and prolonged length of stay (LOS) are associated with delays in treatment, adverse outcomes and decreased patient satisfaction. Hospital restructuring and mergers are often ...

    Authors: Ida Mentzoni, Stig Tore Bogstrand and Kashif Waqar Faiz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:506
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  17. The transition of older patients (over 65 years of age) from hospital to their own home is a time when patients are at high risk. No measure currently exists to assess the experience, quality and safety of car...

    Authors: Eirini Oikonomou, Eleanor Chatburn, Helen Higham, Jenni Murray, Rebecca Lawton and Charles Vincent
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:505
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  18. Global burden of cardiovascular diseases is alarming which is intricately linked with health literacy. To what extent improvement in health literacy can lower down cardiovascular diseases occurrence has not ye...

    Authors: Maria Nazar, Shahzad Ali Khan, Ramesh Kumar and Assad Hafeez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:504
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  19. There is a call for sexual health services to support young people achieve sexual wellbeing in addition to treating or preventing sexual ill-health. Progress towards realising this ambition is limited. This st...

    Authors: Katie Shearn, Hilary Piercy, Peter Allmark and Julia Hirst
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:503
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  20. Trust has been introduced as the cornerstone of the public and health providers’ relation. Public trust in primary health care (PHC) is crucial and must be measured. The aim of this study was to develop and va...

    Authors: Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani, Mostafa farahbakhsh, Jafar Sadegh Tabrizi, Zahra Zare and Mohammad Saadati
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:502
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  21. Cardiovascular disease remains the most common cause of death. However, effective and timely secondary care contributes to improved quality of life, decreased morbidity and mortality. This study analyzed the m...

    Authors: Mandreker Bahall, Terrence Seemungal, Katija Khan and George Legall
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:501
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  22. Payers and policy makers across the international healthcare market are increasingly using publicly available summary measures to designate providers as “high-performing”, but no consistently-applied approach ...

    Authors: Sangeeta C. Ahluwalia, Cheryl L. Damberg, Ann Haas and Paul G. Shekelle
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:500
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  23. Urinary tract infections (UTI) are one of the most common infections treated in primary care and the emergency department. The RxOUTMAP study demonstrated that management of uncomplicated UTI by community pharmac...

    Authors: Chiranjeev Sanyal, Donald R. Husereau, Nathan P. Beahm, Daniel Smyth and Ross T. Tsuyuki
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:499
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  24. Osteopaths are an integral member of the health care team, playing a pivotal role in the provision of care for patients with musculoskeletal disorders. Osteopaths, like other health care providers, are under i...

    Authors: Matthew J. Leach, Tobias Sundberg, Gary Fryer, Philip Austin, Oliver P. Thomson and Jon Adams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:498
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  25. Amid the current burden of non-communicable (NCD) diseases in Malaysia, there is a growing demand for more efficient service delivery of primary healthcare. A complex intervention is proposed to improve NCD ma...

    Authors: Lee Lan Low, Fathullah Iqbal Ab Rahim, Mohammad Zabri Johari, Zalilah Abdullah, Siti Hajar Abdul Aziz, Nur Ajeerah Suhaimi, Norrafizah Jaafar, Ainul Nadziha Mohd Hanafiah, Yuke Lin Kong, Siti Haniza Mahmud, Mohamad Zaidan Zulkepli, Komathi Perialathan, Norazlin Muharam, Nur Hani Zainudin, Zaikiah Mohd Zin, Norazilah Mohd Roslan…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:497
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  26. Although there is evidence with respect to the effectiveness of Chronic Care Model (CCM)-based programs in terms of improved patient outcomes, less attention has been given to the effect of high-quality care o...

    Authors: Lotte Vestjens, Jane M. Cramm and Anna P. Nieboer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:496
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  27. Individual and organizational factors correlate with perceived barriers to error reporting. Understanding medication administration errors (MAEs) reduces confusion about error definitions, raises perceptions o...

    Authors: Myoung Soo Kim and Chul-Hoon Kim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:495
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  28. World Health Organization (WHO) predicted that there will be a shortfall of skilled healthcare by 2035 with the greatest shortfall in Africa and Southeast Asia due to satisfaction with payment and incentives. ...

    Authors: Hailu Merga and Tilahun Fufa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:494
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  29. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement identifies medication reconciliation as the shared responsibility of nurses, pharmacists, and physicians, where each has a defined role. The study aims to assess the cl...

    Authors: Lamis R. Karaoui, Nibal Chamoun, Jessica Fakhir, Wael Abi Ghanem, Sarah Droubi, Abdul Rahman Diab Marzouk, Nabila Droubi, Hiba Masri and Elsy Ramia
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:493
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  30. This paper reports on a rigorously designed non-masked randomized cluster trial of the childhood survival impact of deploying paid community health workers to provide doorstep preventive, promotional, and cura...

    Authors: Almamy M. Kanté, Amon Exavery, Elizabeth F. Jackson, Tani Kassimu, Colin D. Baynes, Ahmed Hingora and James F. Phillips
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:492
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  31. PRIMEtime CE is a multistate life table model that can directly compare the cost effectiveness of public health interventions affecting diet and physical activity levels, helping to inform decisions about how ...

    Authors: Adam D. M. Briggs, Jane Wolstenholme and Peter Scarborough
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:489
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    The Research article to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:485

  32. Non-communicable diseases are the leading cause of death in England, and poor diet and physical inactivity are two of the principle behavioural risk factors. In the context of increasingly constrained financia...

    Authors: Adam D. M. Briggs, Linda J. Cobiac, Jane Wolstenholme and Peter Scarborough
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:485
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    The Research article to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:489

  33. Resistance to antimalarial drugs resulting from overuse of the medication remains a threat to malaria control and elimination in endemic settings including Ghana. Reliance on clinical signs alone results in pa...

    Authors: Michael Kurubire Anaba, Latifat Ibisomi, Seth Owusu-Agyei, Tobias Chirwa and Rohit Ramaswamy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:491
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  34. The Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture (NHSOPS) questionnaire was developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), particularly as an intervention to raise staff awareness about p...

    Authors: Delphine Teigné, Guillaume Mabileau, Emmanuelle Anthoine, Marion Lucas, Brice Leclère, Leila Moret and Noémie Terrien
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:490
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  35. Australia provides health care services for Indigenous peoples as part of its effort to enhance Indigenous peoples’ wellbeing. However, biomedical frameworks shape Australia’s health care system, often without...

    Authors: Rosalie Schultz, Stephen Quinn, Byron Wilson, Tammy Abbott and Sheree Cairney
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:488
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  36. 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
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  37. At the end of life, about 85–90% of patients can be treated within primary palliative care (PC) provided by general practitioners (GPs). In Germany, there is no structured approach for the provision of PC by G...

    Authors: Kambiz Afshar, Gabriele Müller-Mundt, Katharina van Baal, Sophie Schrader, Birgitt Wiese, Jutta Bleidorn, Stephanie Stiel and Nils Schneider
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:486
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  39. Depression and anxiety are two of the leading causes of disease burden in low-to-middle income coutnries. The World Health Organisation has engaged in a programme of scaling-up mental health services, but sign...

    Authors: Helen Brooks, Irmansyah Irmansyah, Karina Lovell, Ira Savitri, Bagus Utomo, Benny Prawira, Livia Iskandar, Laoise Renwick, Rebecca Pedley, Agustin Kusumayati and Penny Bee
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:484
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  40. Facing the increasing cancer incidence and cancer survivorship, many national strategic cancer plans have identified cancer care coordination as a priority for health service improvement. However, the high var...

    Authors: F. Colombani, M. Sibé, M. Kret, B. Quintard, A. Ravaud and F. Saillour-Glénisson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:483
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  41. Health utility assessments are important for economic evaluations but few instruments have been validated in homeless people with mental illness. We examined the convergent validity of the EuroQol-5 Dimension ...

    Authors: Nicole Kozloff, Andrew D. Pinto, Vicky Stergiopoulos, Stephen W. Hwang, Patricia O’Campo and Ahmed M. Bayoumi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:482
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  42. Theoretical models have sought to comprehend and conceptualise how people seek help from health professionals but it is unclear if such models apply to urgent care. Much previous research does not explain the ...

    Authors: Joanne Turnbull, Catherine Pope, Jane Prichard, Gemma McKenna and Anne Rogers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:481
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  44. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with adverse health effects and increased healthcare utilization. Systems-level interventions have been shown to be effective in identifying and referring survivor...

    Authors: Cari Jo Clark, Martha Wetzel, Lynette M. Renner and Mary E. Logeais
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:479
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  45. Malaria continues to place a high burden on communities due to challenges reaching intervention target levels in Chikwawa District, Malawi. The Hunger Project Malawi is using a health animator approach (HA) to...

    Authors: Blessings N. Kaunda-Khangamwa, Henk van den Berg, Robert S. McCann, Alinune Kabaghe, Willem Takken, Kamija Phiri, Michele van Vugt and Lucinda Manda-Taylor
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:478
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  46. Attention to culture and its impact on health care can improve the quality of care given, add to our understanding of health care among culturally diverse populations, and encourage a more holistic approach to...

    Authors: Nina Sivertsen, Ann Harrington and Mohammad Hamiduzzaman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:477
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  47. The use of medication abortion is increasing rapidly in India, the majority of which is purchased through pharmacies. More information is needed about the quality of services provided by pharmacist about medic...

    Authors: Nadia Diamond-Smith, Joanna Percher, Malvika Saxena, Pravesh Dwivedi and Aradhana Srivastava
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:476
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  48. Measuring and reporting outcome data is fundamental for health care systems to drive improvement. Our electronic health record built a dashboard that allows each primary care provider (PCP) to view real-time p...

    Authors: Patrick A. Twohig, Jaclyn R. Rivington, Douglas Gunzler, Joseph Daprano and David Margolius
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:475
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  49. Although workers’ health surveillance is an important preventive activity, it is not regularly performed. In addition to the occupational physician, the management of occupational health services can also be i...

    Authors: Felicia S. Los, Carel T. J. Hulshof and Judith K. Sluiter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:473
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  50. Since 2014, the Burkina Faso government has made Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) a priority in its strategic plan to fight against malaria among children aged from 3 to 59 months. Very few studies have ...

    Authors: Gountante Kombate, Georges Guiella, Banza Baya, Luc Serme, Alice Bila, Slim Haddad and Abel Bicaba
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:472
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