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  1. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has recently implemented a comprehensive national program to help veterans who use or experience intimate partner violence (IPV). One important component of this pl...

    Authors: Suzannah K. Creech, Justin K. Benzer, Tracie Ebalu, Christopher M. Murphy and Casey T. Taft
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:582
  2. University students are within the age group at highest risk for acquiring sexually transmitted infections and other negative health outcomes. Despite the availability of sexual health services at university h...

    Authors: Christine Cassidy, Andrea Bishop, Audrey Steenbeek, Donald Langille, Ruth Martin-Misener and Janet Curran
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:581
  3. A substantial degree of variability in practices exists amongst donor hospitals regarding the donor detection, determination of brain death, application of donor management techniques or achievement of donor m...

    Authors: Pieter Hoste, Eric Hoste, Patrick Ferdinande, Koenraad Vandewoude, Dirk Vogelaers, Ann Van Hecke, Xavier Rogiers, Kristof Eeckloo and Kris Vanhaecht
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:580
  4. The practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a deeply-rooted tradition in 30 Sub-Saharan and Middle-East countries which affects approximately 200 million women and girls worldwide. The practice leads to...

    Authors: Alba González-Timoneda, Vicente Ruiz Ros, Marta González-Timoneda and Antonio Cano Sánchez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:579
  5. The first phase of an enterprise risk management (ERM) program is the identification of risks. Accurate identification is essential to a proactive and effective ERM function. The authors identified a lack of s...

    Authors: Ana Paula Beck da Silva Etges, Veronique Grenon, Ming Lu, Ricardo Bertoglio Cardoso, Joana Siqueira de Souza, Francisco José Kliemann Neto and Elaine Aparecida Felix
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:578
  6. Although there are many initiatives to improve maternal health services use, utilization of health facility delivery and postnatal care services is low in Ethiopia. Current evidence at global level showed that...

    Authors: Gedefaw Abeje Fekadu, Getachew Mullu Kassa, Abadi Kidanemariam Berhe, Achenef Asmamaw Muche and Nuradin Abusha Katiso
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:577
  7. Evaluation of integrated care programmes for individuals with multi-morbidity requires a broader evaluation framework and a broader definition of added value than is common in cost-utility analysis. This is po...

    Authors: Maureen Rutten-van Mölken, Fenna Leijten, Maaike Hoedemakers, Apostolos Tsiachristas, Nick Verbeek, Milad Karimi, Roland Bal, Antoinette de Bont, Kamrul Islam, Jan Erik Askildsen, Thomas Czypionka, Markus Kraus, Mirjana Huic, János György Pitter, Verena Vogt, Jonathan Stokes…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:576
  8. Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPIs) are one of the fasting growing racial groups in the United States (US). NHPIs have a significantly higher disease burden than the US population as a whole, yet th...

    Authors: Marie-Rachelle Narcisse, Holly Felix, Christopher R. Long, Teresa Hudson, Nalin Payakachat, Zoran Bursac and Pearl A. McElfish
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:575

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  9. Falls are one of the major health problems in adults with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). Interventions, such as the Otago Exercise Programme (OEP), can reduce falls in community dwelling adults by up to 35%. The c...

    Authors: Siyar Abdulrazaq, Jackie Oldham, Dawn A. Skelton, Terence O’Neill, Luke Munford, Brenda Gannon, Mark Pilling, Chris Todd and Emma K. Stanmore
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:574
  10. Medical tourism is a practice where patients travel internationally to purchase medical services. Medical tourists travel abroad for reasons including costly care, long wait times for care, and limited availab...

    Authors: Carly Jackson, Jeremy Snyder, Valorie A. Crooks and M. Ruth Lavergne
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:573
  11. Health Promoting Hospitals are among the major health promoters of the society. To acquire Health Promoting Hospital (HPH) status, a hospital must self-assess to know their inadequacies and then lay the founda...

    Authors: M.-H. Taghdisi, S. Poortaghi, V. Suri-J, T. Dehdari, M. Gojazadeh and M. Kheiri
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:572
  12. Our research focuses on the co-creation of value in healthcare with reference to a case of hereditary angioedema with C1 inhibitor deficiency (C1-INH-HAE). Our work is mainly based on the concept of value co-c...

    Authors: Rosanna Spanò, Nadia Di Paola, Maria Bova and Alessandro Barbarino
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:571
  13. Complexity science has been introduced in healthcare as a theoretical framework to better understand complex situations. Interdisciplinary healthcare teams can be viewed as Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) by fo...

    Authors: Peter Pype, Fien Mertens, Fleur Helewaut and Demi Krystallidou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:570
  14. Measuring quality in healthcare is vital in evaluating patient outcomes and system performance. The availability of reliable and valid information about the quality of care for patients presenting with rotator...

    Authors: Breda H.F. Eubank, Mark R. Lafave, J. Preston Wiley, David M. Sheps, Aaron J. Bois and Nicholas G. Mohtadi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:569
  15. Partnerships between clinicians and researchers could increase the generalizability of research findings and increase uptake of research results across populations. Yet engaging clinicians in research is chall...

    Authors: Kim M. Unertl, Alecia M. Fair, Jacquelyn S. Favours, Rowena J. Dolor, Duane Smoot and Consuelo H. Wilkins
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:568
  16. Chronic diseases are becoming a huge threat to the Chinese health system. Although the New Round of Medical Reform aims to improve this, the chronic disease management in rural China is still worrying as it re...

    Authors: Shaofan Chen, Bo Burström, Vibeke Sparring and Dongfu Qian
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:567
  17. Severe anaemia (SA) is a common reason for hospitalisation of children in sub-Saharan Africa but the extent to which blood transfusion is used appropriately in the management of severe anemia has hitherto rema...

    Authors: Robert O. Opoka, Andrew S. Ssemata, William Oyang, Harriet Nambuya, Chandy C. John, James K. Tumwine and Charles Karamagi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:566
  18. Investments in settings-based health interventions can include workplaces, however, engaging with businesses and convincing them to take a role can be difficult. Our research investigated the potential for tra...

    Authors: Geraldine Marsh, Virginia Lewis, Jenny Macmillan and Su Gruszin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:565
  19. Childbirth is a momentous event for women and their partners, yet women continue to die in childbirth worldwide, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. To reduce maternal mortality and increase the number of wome...

    Authors: Thecla W. Kohi, Lilian T. Mselle, Justine Dol and Megan Aston
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:564
  20. In 2012, approximately 14 million new cases of cancer were diagnosed. As a result of advances in treatment, screening and prevention programmes the number of people surviving cancer globally is also increasing.

    Authors: Lucy Johnston and Karen Campbell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:563
  21. Leadership has been identified as an influential factor in implementation processes in healthcare organizations. However, the processes through which leaders affect implementation outcomes are largely unknown....

    Authors: Håkan Uvhagen, Henna Hasson, Johan Hansson and Mia von Knorring
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:562
  22. Arua district, in Uganda, hosts some of the largest refugee camps in the country. The estimated prevalence of moderate and severe acute malnutrition in children is higher than the national estimates (10.4 and ...

    Authors: Humphrey Wanzira, Richard Muyinda, Peter Lochoro, Giovanni Putoto, Giulia Segafredo, Henry Wamani and Marzia Lazzerini
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:561
  23. Chronic diseases are generating a major health and societal burden worldwide. Healthy lifestyles, including physical activity (PA), have proven efficacy in the prevention and treatment of many chronic conditio...

    Authors: Anael Barberan-Garcia, Elena Gimeno-Santos, Isabel Blanco, Isaac Cano, Graciela Martínez-Pallí, Felip Burgos, Felip Miralles, Miquel Coca, Serafín Murillo, María Sanz, Alexander Steblin, Marta Ubré, Jaume Benavent, Josep Vidal, Marta Sitges and Josep Roca
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:560
  24. Anxiety disorders are common, yet treatment options in general practice are often limited to medication or CBT. There is a lack of evidence for the effectiveness of exercise in the treatment of anxiety in pati...

    Authors: Elizabeth Aylett, Nicola Small and Peter Bower
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:559
  25. Pain is a common and distressing symptom in people with cancer, but is under-recognised and under-treated. Australian guidelines for ‘Cancer Pain Management in Adults’ are available on the Cancer Council Austr...

    Authors: Tim Luckett, Jane Phillips, Meera Agar, Lawrence Lam, Patricia M. Davidson, Nicola McCaffrey, Frances Boyle, Tim Shaw, David C. Currow, Alison Read, Annmarie Hosie and Melanie Lovell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:558
  26. Diagnostic imaging has been a part of medicine for the last century. It has been difficult to implement guidelines in this field, and unwarranted imaging has been a frequent problem. Some work has been done to...

    Authors: Ann Mari Gransjøen, Siri Wiig, Kristin Bakke Lysdahl and Bjørn Morten Hofmann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:556
  27. Person-centred health care has widespread recognition, but there are few instruments aimed at measuring the provision of person-centred practice among health care professionals across a range of settings. The ...

    Authors: Pia Cecilie Bing-Jonsson, Paul Slater, Brendan McCormack and Lisbeth Fagerström
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:555
  28. The effective adoption and use of digital and computerized systems and records in hospitals are crucial for increasing the overall quality, safety and outcomes of any national health community. Prior research ...

    Authors: Luigi Lepore, Concetta Metallo, Francesco Schiavone and Loris Landriani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:554
  29. Africa’s health systems rely on services provided by mid-level health workers (MLWs). Investment in their training is worthwhile since they are more likely to be retained in underserved areas, require shorter ...

    Authors: Ian Couper, Sunanda Ray, Duane Blaauw, Gideon Ng’wena, Lucy Muchiri, Eren Oyungu, Akinyinka Omigbodun, Imran Morhason-Bello, Charles Ibingira, James Tumwine, Daphney Conco and Sharon Fonn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:553
  30. Rapidly increasing healthcare costs and the growing burden of non-communicable diseases have increased the out-of-pocket (OOP) spending (63.3% of total health expenditure) in Bangladesh. This increasing OOP sp...

    Authors: Sayem Ahmed, Md. Zahid Hasan, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Farzana Dorin, Marufa Sultana, Ziaul Islam, Andrew J. Mirelman, Clas Rehnberg, Jahangir A. M. Khan and Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:552
  31. Delirium is a well-known complication in cardiac surgery and intensive care unit (ICU) patients. However, in many other settings its prevalence and clinical consequences are understudied. The aims of this stud...

    Authors: Maria Schubert, Roger Schürch, Soenke Boettger, David Garcia Nuñez, Urs Schwarz, Dominique Bettex, Josef Jenewein, Jasmina Bogdanovic, Marina Lynne Staehli, Rebecca Spirig and Alain Rudiger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:550
  32. There is a growing body of evidence that supports the uses of telehealth to monitor and manage people with diabetes at a distance. Despite this, the uptake of telehealth has been low. The objective of this stu...

    Authors: Puikwan A. Lee, Geva Greenfield and Yannis Pappas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:549
  33. Emergency departments handle a large proportion of acute patients. In 2007, it was recommended centralizing the Danish healthcare system and establishing emergency departments as the main common entrance for e...

    Authors: Morten Breinholt Søvsø, Sabina Bay Hermansen, Emil Færk, Tim Alex Lindskou, Marc Ludwig, Jørn Munkhof Møller, Jelena Jonciauskiene and Erika Frischknecht Christensen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:548
  34. The standard 11-days IMCI (Integrated Management of Childhood Illness) training course (standard IMCI) has faced barriers such as high cost to scale up. Distance learning IMCI training program was developed as...

    Authors: Lulu M. Muhe, Nemes Iriya, Felixambrose Bundala, Mary Azayo, Maryam Juma Bakari, Asia Hussein and Theopista John
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:547
  35. Patient-reported outcome (PRO)-based follow-up is a new model of service delivery, where PRO measures are used as the very basis for demand-driven outpatient follow-up in patients with chronic diseases. Adopti...

    Authors: Caroline Trillingsgaard Mejdahl, Liv Marit Valen Schougaard, Niels Henrik Hjollund, Erik Riiskjær and Kirsten Lomborg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:546
  36. In malaria endemic countries of sub-Saharan Africa, many children develop severe anaemia due to previous and current malaria infections. After blood transfusions and antimalarial treatment at the hospital they...

    Authors: Sarah Svege, Blessings Kaunda, Bjarne Robberstad, Thandile Nkosi-Gondwe, Kamija S. Phiri and Siri Lange
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:544
  37. Patient safety culture, i.e. a subset of an organization’s culture, has become an important focus of patient safety research. An organization’s culture consists of many cultures, underscoring the importance of...

    Authors: Marita Danielsson, Per Nilsen, Hans Rutberg and Siw Carlfjord
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:543
  38. Tobacco smoking is extremely prevalent in people with severe mental illness (SMI) and has been recognised as the main contributor to widening health inequalities in this population. Historically, smoking has b...

    Authors: Lisa Huddlestone, Harpreet Sohal, Claire Paul and Elena Ratschen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:542
  39. Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) programs have been taken up widely by Indigenous primary health care (PHC) services in Australia and there has been national policy commitment to support this. However, int...

    Authors: Karen Gardner, Beverly Sibthorpe, Mier Chan, Ginny Sargent, Michelle Dowden and Daniel McAullay
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:541
  40. In 2011 the World Health Organisation recommended that children with a diagnosis of HIV be gradually informed about their HIV status between the ages of 6 and 12 years. However, to date, literature has focused...

    Authors: Fatch W. Kalembo, Garth E. Kendall, Mohammed Ali and Angela F. Chimwaza
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:540
  41. Global strategies recommend a continuum of care for maternal health to improve outcomes and access to care in low and middle income countries (LMICs). South Africa has already set priority interventions along ...

    Authors: Mamothena Carol Mothupi, Lucia Knight and Hanani Tabana
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:539
  42. Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) remain one of the world’s most frequently prescribed medications and there is a growing number of publications on correct versus incorrect use of PPIs worldwide. The objective of ...

    Authors: Hongli Luo, Qingze Fan, Shunlin Xiao and Kun Chen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:537
  43. Research on team effectiveness in healthcare has focussed on whether effective teams yield positive outcomes for patients and on the effectiveness of team interventions to improve performance. Limited understa...

    Authors: U. Cunningham, M. E. Ward, A. De Brún and E. McAuliffe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:536
  44. There are dearth of literature on the capacity of the health system to diagnose and treat HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia. In this study we evaluated the capacity of health facilities for HIV/AIDS care, its spatial distr...

    Authors: Amare Deribew, Sibhatu Biadgilign, Della Berhanu, Atkure Defar, Kebede Deribe, Ephrem Tekle, Kassahun Asheber and Tariku Dejene
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:535
  45. Retail drug shops play a significant role in managing pediatric fevers in rural areas in Uganda. Targeted interventions to improve drug seller practices require understanding of the retail drug shop market and...

    Authors: Chrispus Mayora, Freddy Eric Kitutu, Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho, Stefan Swartling Peterson and Henry Wamani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:532
  46. There is a global drive to promote facility deliveries but unless coupled with concurrent improvement in care quality, it might not translate into mortality reduction for mothers and babies. The World Health O...

    Authors: Alexander Manu, Shams Arifeen, John Williams, Edward Mwasanya, Nabila Zaka, Beth Anne Plowman, Debra Jackson, Priscilla Wobil and Kim Dickson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:531