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  1. This study compared hospital admission rates among adult patients with schizophrenia who switched to antipsychotic monotherapy with lurasidone or quetiapine.

    Authors: John W. Newcomer, Daisy Ng-Mak, Krithika Rajagopalan and Antony Loebel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:243
  2. During the process of implementation of clinical pharmacy services, internal and external factors may favor or hinder the incorporation of care into the hospital routine. This study aimed to understand the per...

    Authors: Thaciana dos S. Alcântara, Thelma Onozato, Fernando de C. Araújo Neto, Aline S. Dosea, Luiza C. Cunha, Dyego C. S. A. de Araújo, Déborah Pimentel and Divaldo P. Lyra Junior
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:242
  3. Gatekeeper policy, requiring a patient to visit a primary care provider first, and the patient needs to get his or her primary care provider’s referral before seeing a specialist or going to a hospital, has be...

    Authors: Wenzhen Li, Dongming Wang, Yong Gan, Yanfeng Zhou, Yawen Chen, Jing Li, Naomiem Kkandawire, Sai Hu, Yan Qiao and Zuxun Lu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:241
  4. For the last decades, the international community has emphasised the importance of a multisectoral approach to tackle female genital mutilation (FGM/C). While considerable improvement concerning legislations a...

    Authors: R. Elise B. Johansen, Mai Mahgoub Ziyada, Bettina Shell-Duncan, Adriana Marcusàn Kaplan and Els Leye
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:240
  5. The National Health Checks programme aims to reduce the incidence of cardiovascular diseases and health inequalities in England. We assessed equity of uptake and outcomes from NHS Health Checks in general prac...

    Authors: N. Coghill, L. Garside, A. A. Montgomery, G. Feder and J. Horwood
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:238
  6. Beginning in 2012, Lean was introduced to improve health care quality and promote patient-centredness throughout the province of Saskatchewan, Canada with the aim of producing coordinated, system-wide change. ...

    Authors: Donna Goodridge, Masud Rana, Elizabeth L. Harrison, Thomas Rotter, Roy Dobson, Gary Groot, Sonia Udod and Joshua Lloyd
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:237
  7. While many new medications may offer advantages over existing drugs, some newer drugs are reformulations of existing products that provide little innovation or incremental benefit while driving up drug costs. ...

    Authors: Manvi Sharma, Aisha Vadhariya, Michael L. Johnson, Zachary A. Marcum and Holly M. Holmes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:236
  8. Increased patient demand for healthcare services coupled with a shortage of general practitioners necessitates changes in professional roles and service delivery. In 2016, NHS England began a 3-year- pilot stu...

    Authors: Kath Ryan, Nilesh Patel, Wing Man Lau, Hamza Abu-Elmagd, Graham Stretch and Helen Pinney
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:234
  9. Little is known about the contextual factors affecting the uptake of evidence-based chronic disease interventions in the United States and in other countries. This study sought to better understand the context...

    Authors: Elizabeth L. Budd, Anna J. deRuyter, Zhaoxin Wang, Pauline Sung-Chan, Xiangji Ying, Karishma S. Furtado, Tahna Pettman, Rebecca Armstrong, Rodrigo S. Reis, Jianwei Shi, Tabitha Mui, Tahnee Saunders, Leonardo Becker and Ross C. Brownson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:233
  10. In 2009, the European Medicines Agency recommended withdrawal of dextropropoxyphene (DXP); in March 2011 it was withdrawn from the market in France. Up until that time the combination dextropropoxyphene-parace...

    Authors: E. Van Ganse, M. Belhassen, M. Ginoux, E. Chrétien, C. Cornu, C. Ecoffey and F. Aubrun
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:231
  11. Young people living in remote Australian Aboriginal communities experience high rates of sexually transmissible infections (STIs). STRIVE (STIs in Remote communities, ImproVed and Enhanced primary care) was a ...

    Authors: Belinda Hengel, Stephen Bell, Linda Garton, James Ward, Alice Rumbold, Debbie Taylor-Thomson, Bronwyn Silver, Skye McGregor, Amalie Dyda, Janet Knox, Rebecca Guy, Lisa Maher and John Martin Kaldor
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:230
  12. Informal caregivers’ (CGs’) subjective burden is an important aspect of the care situation because it is linked to various outcomes such as health, mortality risk, institutionalization, and caregiving style. T...

    Authors: Anna Pendergrass, Cintia Malnis, Uta Graf, Sabine Engel and Elmar Graessel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:229
  13. Pain assessment and management in advanced and end-stage dementia are challenging; patients are at risk of under-diagnosis, under-assessment and under-treatment. Previous research has highlighted the importanc...

    Authors: Bannin De Witt Jansen, Kevin Brazil, Peter Passmore, Hilary Buchanan, Doreen Maxwell, Sonja J. McIlfatrick, Sharon M. Morgan, Max Watson and Carole Parsons
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:228
  14. Implementation of interventions concerning prevention and health promotion in health care has faced particular challenges resulting in a low frequency and quality of these services. In November 2011, the Swedi...

    Authors: Therese Kardakis, Lars Jerdén, Monica E. Nyström, Lars Weinehall and Helene Johansson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:227
  15. Users of care services are increasingly participating in inspections of the quality of care. In practice, incorporating service users’ views is difficult, as users may have other views on good care than inspec...

    Authors: Suzanne Rutz, Hester van de Bovenkamp, Simone Buitendijk, Paul Robben and Antoinette de Bont
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:226
  16. Delivery of quality healthcare in resource-limited settings is an important, understudied public health priority. Thirty-day (early) hospital readmission is often avoidable and an important indicator of health...

    Authors: Kashmira Satish Chawla, Nora E. Rosenberg, Christopher Stanley, Mitch Matoga, Alice Maluwa, Cecilia Kanyama, Jonathan Ngoma and Mina C. Hosseinipour
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:225
  17. Patient’s satisfaction occurs when patients feel their needs and expectations are being meet by the service delivery they receive in health institutions. The Objective of this research was to assess HIV/AIDS p...

    Authors: Kiflay Gebremariam Atsebeha and Daniel Haile Chercos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:223
  18. The experience of having their new-borns admitted to an intensive care unit (NICU) can be extremely distressing. Subsequent risk of post-incident-adjustment difficulties are increased for parents, siblings, an...

    Authors: Inger Hilde Hagen, Marit Følsvik Svindseth, Erik Nesset, Roderick Orner and Valentina Cabral Iversen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:222
  19. This study examined access to digital technologies, skills and experience, and preferences for using web-based and other digital technologies to obtain health information and advice among older adults in a lar...

    Authors: Nancy P. Gordon and Mark C. Hornbrook
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:220
  20. Home-based care is used in many countries to increase quality of life and limit hospital stay, particularly where public health services are overburdened. Home-based care objectives for HIV/AIDS can include me...

    Authors: Elizabeth M. Wood, Babalwa Zani, Tonya M. Esterhuizen and Taryn Young
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:219
  21. This study aimed to examine the availability, use, and affordability of medicines in urban China following the 2009 Health Care System Reform that included implementation of universal health coverage (UHC).

    Authors: Yunyu Huang, Youfen Jiang, Luying Zhang, Wenhui Mao, Job F. M. van Boven, Maarten J. Postma and Wen Chen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:218
  22. Patient satisfaction is associated with both individual (patients and health workers) and organizational (health facilities) characteristics. This study aimed to establish a link between patient satisfaction a...

    Authors: Change Xiong, Xiao Chen, Xinyuan Zhao and Chaojie Liu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:217
  23. Although depression and alcohol use disorder (AUD) are expected to be common among patients presenting to primary health care setting, there is limited research on prevalence of depression and AUD among people...

    Authors: Nagendra P. Luitel, Emily C. Baron, Brandon A. Kohrt, Ivan H. Komproe and Mark J. D. Jordans
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:215
  24. The STarT-Back-Approach (STarT: Subgroups for Targeted Treatment) was developed in the UK and has demonstrated clinical and cost effectiveness. Based on the results of a brief questionnaire, patients with low bac...

    Authors: Sven Karstens, Pauline Kuithan, Stefanie Joos, Jonathan C. Hill, Michel Wensing, Jost Steinhäuser, Katja Krug and Joachim Szecsenyi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:214
  25. When a patient in a provider network seeks services outside of their community, the community experiences a leakage. Leakage is undesirable as it typically leads to higher out-of-network cost for patient and i...

    Authors: Yuchen Zheng, Kun Lin, Thomas White, Jeremy Pickreign and Gigi Yuen-Reed
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:213
  26. In recent years, an increasing number of states have enacted laws that impose specific requirements for facilities in which abortions are performed. In this study, we sought to understand the processes used to...

    Authors: Nancy F. Berglas and Sarah C. M. Roberts
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:212
  27. The aim of this randomized controlled trial was to evaluate the effect of a ‘supply on demand’-distribution strategy, compared to an ‘unsolicited supply’-distribution strategy, on the use of a care booklet and...

    Authors: Aniek A. O. M. Claassen, Cornelia H. M. van den Ende, Jorit J. L. Meesters, Sanne Pellegrom, Brigitte M. Kaarls-Ohms, Jacoba Vooijs, Gerardine E. M. P. Willemsen-de Mey and Thea P. M. Vliet Vlieland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:211
  28. The role of the “debrief” to address issues related to patient safety and systematic flaws in care is frequently overlooked. In our study, we interview surgical leaders who have developed successful strategies...

    Authors: Mary E. Brindle, Natalie Henrich, Andrew Foster, Stanley Marks, Michael Rose, Robert Welsh and William Berry
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:210
  29. Proper implementation of evidence-based interventions is necessary for their full impact to be realized. However, the majority of research to date has overlooked facilitators and barriers existing outside the ...

    Authors: Dennis P. Watson, Erin L. Adams, Sarah Shue, Heather Coates, Alan McGuire, Jeremy Chesher, Joanna Jackson and Ogbonnaya I. Omenka
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:209
  30. Hypertension (HT) is a major risk factor, and accessible and effective HT screening services are necessary. The effective coverage framework is an assessment tool that can be used to assess health service perf...

    Authors: Kulpimol Charoendee, Jiruth Sriratanaban, Wichai Aekplakorn and Piya Hanvoravongchai
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:208
  31. In most health systems, Community Health Workers (CHWs) identify and screen for severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in the community. This study aimed to investigate the potential of integrating SAM identification...

    Authors: J. L. Alvarez Morán, G. B. Franck Alé, P. Charle, N. Sessions, S. Doumbia and S. Guerrero
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:207
  32. Despite strong evidence for beta-blockers and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI) or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) in chronic heart failure (CHF), they have been under-utilised especially in ...

    Authors: Chong Chyn Chua, Anastasia Hutchinson, Mark Tacey, Sumit Parikh, Wen Kwang Lim and Craig Aboltins
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:206
  33. Perinatal depression is common in low and middle income countries (LAMICs). Task sharing interventions have been implemented to treat perinatal depression in these settings, as a way of dealing with staff shor...

    Authors: Memory Munodawafa, Sumaya Mall, Crick Lund and Marguerite Schneider
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:205
  34. Population-based patterns of care studies are important for trauma care but conducting them is expensive and resource-intensive. Linkage of routinely collected administrative health data may provide an efficie...

    Authors: Jane Wu, Steven G. Faux, Christopher J. Poulos and Ian Harris
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:204
  35. Children and young people (CYP) with learning disabilities (LD) are a vulnerable population with increased risk of abuse and accidental injury and whose parents have reported concerns about the quality, safety...

    Authors: Kate Oulton, Faith Gibson, Lucinda Carr, Angela Hassiotis, Carey Jewitt, Charlotte Kenten, Jessica Russell, Mark Whiting, Irene Tuffrey-Wijne and Jo Wray
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:203
  36. In special circumstances, establishing public private partnerships for malaria elimination may achieve targets faster than the state sector acting by itself. Following the end of the separatist war in Sri Lank...

    Authors: Deepika Fernando, Pandu Wijeyaratne, Rajitha Wickremasinghe, Rabindra R. Abeyasinghe, Gawrie N. L. Galappaththy, Renu Wickremasinghe, M. Hapugoda, W. A. Abeywickrema and Chaturaka Rodrigo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:202
  37. Research in criminology and social-psychology supports the idea that visible signs of disorder, both physical and social, may perpetuate further disorder, leading to neighborhood incivilities, petty violations...

    Authors: Kate Churruca, Louise A. Ellis and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:201
  38. A growing number of Local Authorities (LAs) have introduced integrated wellness services as part of efforts to deliver cost effective, preventive services that address the social determinants of health. This s...

    Authors: M. Cheetham, P. Van der Graaf, B. Khazaeli, E. Gibson, A. Wiseman and R. Rushmer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:200
  39. The aim of this study was to develop a tool to support health workers’ ability to identify patients’ multidimensional health literacy strengths and challenges. The tool was intended to be suitable for administ...

    Authors: Jonathan O’Hara, Melanie Hawkins, Roy Batterham, Sarity Dodson, Richard H. Osborne and Alison Beauchamp
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:199
  40. The method, Swedish Physical Activity on Prescription (SPAP), has been launched in Swedish healthcare to promote physical activity for prevention and treatment of lifestyle related health disorders. Despite sc...

    Authors: Catharina Gustavsson, Maria Nordqvist, Kristina Bröms, Lars Jerdén, Lena V. Kallings and Lars Wallin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:196
  41. The purpose of this correspondence is to describe how the positive-deviance approach can be used to translate evidence into practice, based on successive studies conducted in Ethiopia. In earlier studies, it w...

    Authors: Yibeltal Assefa, Peter S. Hill, Helmut Kloos, Gorik Ooms and Wim Van Damme
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:193
  42. Complexity thinking is increasingly being embraced in healthcare, which is often described as a complex adaptive system (CAS). Applying CAS to healthcare as an explanatory model for understanding the nature of...

    Authors: Sobia Khan, Ashley Vandermorris, John Shepherd, James W. Begun, Holly Jordan Lanham, Mary Uhl-Bien and Whitney Berta
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:192