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  1. The quality of nursing homes (NHs) has attracted a lot of interest in recent years and is one of the most challenging issues for policy-makers. Nutritional care should be considered an important variable to be...

    Authors: Chiara Lorini, Barbara Rita Porchia, Francesca Pieralli and Gugliemo Bonaccorsi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:43
  2. External change agents can play an essential role in healthcare organizational change efforts. This systematic review examines the role that external change agents have played within the context of multifacete...

    Authors: Esra Alagoz, Ming-Yuan Chih, Mary Hitchcock, Randall Brown and Andrew Quanbeck
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:42
  3. Previous studies have disagreed on whether patients who receive primary care from federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) have different utilization patterns than patients who receive care elsewhere. Our ob...

    Authors: Tara A. Lavelle, Adam J. Rose, Justin W. Timbie, Claude M. Setodji, Suzanne G. Wensky, Katherine D. Giuriceo, Mark W. Friedberg, Rosalie Malsberger and Katherine L. Kahn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:41
  4. Under the National Health Mission (NHM) of India, Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) offers conditional cash transfer and support services to pregnant women to use institutional delivery care facilities. This study ...

    Authors: Adyya Gupta, Jasmine Fledderjohann, Hanimi Reddy, V. R. Raman, David Stuckler and Sukumar Vellakkal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:40
  5. Service readiness of health facilities is an integral part of providing comprehensive quality healthcare to the community. Comprehensive assessment of general and service-specific (i.e. child immunization) rea...

    Authors: Md. Shajedur Rahman Shawon, Gourab Adhikary, Md. Wazed Ali, Md. Shamsuzzaman, Shahabuddin Ahmed, Nurul Alam, Katya A. Shackelford, Alexander Woldeab, Stephen S. Lim, Aubrey Levine, Emmanuela Gakidou and Md. Jasim Uddin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:39
  6. The accuracy of clinical coding is crucial in the assignment of Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) codes, especially if the hospital is using Casemix System as a tool for resource allocations and efficiency monit...

    Authors: S. A. Zafirah, Amrizal Muhammad Nur, Sharifa Ezat Wan Puteh and Syed Mohamed Aljunid
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:38
  7. This paper aims to identify factors that influence the capacity of women to voice their concerns regarding maternal health services at the local level.

    Authors: Eric M. Mafuta, Tjard De Cock Buning, Didier L. Lolobi, Papy M. Mayala, Thérèse N. M. Mambu, Patrick K. Kayembe and Marjolein A. Dieleman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:37
  8. There is an increased interest in improving the physical health of people with mental illness. Little is known about implementing health promotion interventions in adult mental health organisations where many ...

    Authors: Viola Burau, Kathrine Carstensen, Mia Fredens and Marius Brostrøm Kousgaard
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:36
  9. In many countries, clinical pharmacists are part of health care teams that work to optimize drug therapy and ensure patient safety. However, in Sweden, clinical pharmacy services (CPSs) in hospital settings ha...

    Authors: Charlotta Vinterflod, Maria Gustafsson, Sofia Mattsson and Gisselle Gallego
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:35
  10. The treatment of somatosensory loss in the upper limb after stroke has been historically overshadowed by therapy focused on motor recovery. A double-blind randomized controlled trial has demonstrated the effec...

    Authors: Liana S. Cahill, Natasha A. Lannin, Yvonne Y. K. Mak-Yuen, Megan L. Turville and Leeanne M. Carey
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:34
  11. Several frameworks now exist to guide intervention development but there remains only limited evidence of their application to health interventions based around use of mobile phones or devices, particularly in...

    Authors: Kirsten Bobrow, Andrew Farmer, Nomazizi Cishe, Ntobeko Nwagi, Mosedi Namane, Thomas P. Brennan, David Springer, Lionel Tarassenko and Naomi Levitt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:33
  12. Significant effort has been directed at developing prediction tools to identify patients at high risk of unplanned hospital readmission, but it is unclear what these tools add to clinicians’ judgment. In our s...

    Authors: William Dwight Miller, Kimngan Nguyen, Sitaram Vangala and Erin Dowling
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:32
  13. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act established the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) to penalize hospitals with excessive 30-day hospital readmissions of Medicare enrollees for specific...

    Authors: Lauren E. Birmingham and Willie H. Oglesby
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:31
  14. Undocumented migrants face particular challenges in accessing healthcare services in many European countries. The aim of this study was to systematically review the academic literature on the utilization of he...

    Authors: Marjolein Winters, Bernd Rechel, Lea de Jong and Milena Pavlova
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:30
  15. Prescription opioids have been linked to over half of the 28,000 opioid overdose deaths in 2014. High rates of prescription opioid non-medical use have continued despite nearly all states implementing large-sc...

    Authors: Morhaf Al Achkar, Shaun Grannis, Debra Revere, Palmer MacKie, Meredith Howard and Sumedha Gupta
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:29
  16. High-quality care delivery for frail older persons, many of whom have multiple complex needs, is among the greatest challenges faced by healthcare systems today. The Chronic Care Model (CCM) may guide quality ...

    Authors: Lotte Vestjens, Jane M. Cramm and Anna P. Nieboer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:28
  17. Participation in regular physical activity holds key benefits for cancer survivors, yet few cancer survivors meet physical activity recommendations. This study aimed to develop and pilot test a mHealth app ref...

    Authors: Camille E. Short, Amy Finlay, Ilea Sanders and Carol Maher
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:27
  18. Although digital technologies can mitigate the burdens of home healthcare services caused by an ageing population that lives at home longer with complex health problems, research on the impacts and consequence...

    Authors: Sigrid Nakrem, Marit Solbjør, Ida Nilstad Pettersen and Hanne Hestvik Kleiven
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:26
  19. In childcare centres, temporary exclusion of ill children, if their illness poses a risk of spread of harmful diseases to others, is a central approach to fight disease transmission. However, not all ill child...

    Authors: Benjamin Sticher, Julia Bielicki and Christoph Berger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:25
  20. The amount of time spent living with disease greatly influences elderly people’s wellbeing, disability and healthcare costs, but differs by disease, age and sex.

    Authors: Riaan Botes, Karin M. Vermeulen, Janine Correia, Erik Buskens and Fanny Janssen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:24
  21. There is an important need to evaluate whether rehabilitation services effectively address the needs of minority culture populations with North America’s increasingly diverse population. The objective of this ...

    Authors: Viviane Grandpierre, Victoria Milloy, Lindsey Sikora, Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Roanne Thomas and Beth Potter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:23
  22. The length of stay (LOS) strongly influences anorexia nervosa (AN) inpatient weight outcomes. Hence, understanding the predictors of LOS is highly relevant. However, the existing evidence is inconsistent and t...

    Authors: D. Kästner, B. Löwe, A. Weigel, B. Osen, U. Voderholzer and A. Gumz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:22
  23. Falls are a major socio-economic problem among residential aged care (RAC) populations resulting in high rates of injury including hip fracture. Guidelines recommend that multifactorial prevention strategies a...

    Authors: Jacqueline Francis-Coad, Christopher Etherton-Beer, Caroline Bulsara, Nicole Blackburn, Paola Chivers and Anne-Marie Hill
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:21
  24. Inpatient care for children with severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) is expensive, with inpatient charges averaging over $70,000 per case (Hospital Inpatient, Children Only, National Statistics. Diagnoses– cl...

    Authors: Steven W. Howard, Zidong Zhang, Paula Buchanan, Stephanie L. Bernell, Christine Williams, Lindsey Pearson, Michael Huetsch, Jeff Gill and Jose A. Pineda
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:20
  25. Training health professionals in culturally sensitive medical interviewing has been widely promoted as a strategy for improving intercultural communication and for helping clinicians to consider patients’ soci...

    Authors: Melissa Dominicé Dao, Sophie Inglin, Sarah Vilpert and Patricia Hudelson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:19
  26. Falls are a common adverse event in both elderly inpatients and patients admitted to rehabilitation units. The Hendrich Fall Risk Model II (HIIFRM) has been already tested in all hospital wards with high fall ...

    Authors: Isabella Campanini, Stefano Mastrangelo, Annalisa Bargellini, Agnese Bassoli, Gabriele Bosi, Francesco Lombardi, Stefano Tolomelli, Mirco Lusuardi and Andrea Merlo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:18
  27. The recent scale-up of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services has rapidly accelerated antiretroviral therapy (ART) uptake among pregnant and postpartum women in sub-Saharan Africa. ...

    Authors: Abby DiCarlo, Ruby Fayorsey, Masila Syengo, Duncan Chege, Martin Sirengo, William Reidy, Juliana Otieno, Jackton Omoto, Mark P. Hawken and Elaine J. Abrams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:17
  28. To reduce unnecessary ambulatory gastroenterology (GI) visits and increase access to GI care, San Francisco Health Network gastroenterologists and primary care providers implemented guidelines in 2013 that dis...

    Authors: Daniel Selvig, Justin L. Sewell, Delphine S. Tuot and Lukejohn W. Day
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:16
  29. A rapid increase of Medicaid expenditures has been a serious concern, and housing stability has been discussed as a means to reduce Medicaid costs. A program evaluation of a New York City supportive housing pr...

    Authors: Sungwoo Lim, Qi Gao, Elsa Stazesky, Tejinder P. Singh, Tiffany G. Harris and Amber Levanon Seligson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:15
  30. More than 1 in 7 patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the United States are unaware of their serostatus despite recommendations of US agencies that all adults through age 65 be screene...

    Authors: Colleen Kershaw, Jessica L. Taylor, Gary Horowitz, Diane Brockmeyer, Howard Libman, Gila Kriegel and Long Ngo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:14
  31. Universal health coverage (UHC) is important in terms of improving access to quality health care while protecting households from the risk of catastrophic health spending and impoverishment. However, progress ...

    Authors: Vincent Okungu, Jane Chuma, Stephen Mulupi and Diane McIntyre
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:13
  32. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Hospital Quality Alliance began collecting and reporting United States hospital performance in the treatment of pneumonia and heart failure in 2008. ...

    Authors: Soowhan Lah, Emily L. Wilson, Sarah Beesley, Iftach Sagy, James Orme, Victor Novack and Samuel M. Brown
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:12
  33. Organizational context plays a critical role in the implementation of evidence-based interventions. Implementation research to date has focused largely on internal, rather than external, context. This paper pr...

    Authors: Alison B. Hamilton, Brian S. Mittman, Danielle Campbell, Craig Hutchinson, Honghu Liu, Nicholas J. Moss and Gail E. Wyatt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:11
  34. In fragile and war-affected setting such as South Sudan, a combination of physical environmental, socioeconomic factors and healthcare’s characteristic contributes to higher rates of home delivery attended by ...

    Authors: Ngatho S. Mugo, Michael J. Dibley, Eliaba Yona Damundu and Ashraful Alam
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:10
  35. Drug markets are very complex and, while many new drugs are registered each year, little is known about what drives the prescription of these new drugs. This study attempts to lift the veil from this important...

    Authors: Anne Decollogny, Romain Piaget-Rossel, Patrick Taffé and Yves Eggli
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:9
  36. Mortality data are essential for many aspects of everyday public health practices at both national and international levels. Despite the current developments in various aspects of the medical field, the appare...

    Authors: Jamal A. S. Qaddumi, Zaher Nazzal, Allam Yacoub and Mahmoud Mansour
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:8
  37. Trained healthcare workers are an essential resource for effective health systems. However, healthcare workers’ perspective on healthcare, the challenges they face to provide quality health services, and oppor...

    Authors: Fabienne N. Jaeger, Mahamat Bechir, Moumini Harouna, Daugla D. Moto and Jürg Utzinger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:7
  38. Quantitative studies have demonstrated several factors predictive of readmissions to intensive care. Clinical decision tools, derived from these factors have failed to reduce readmission rates. The purpose of ...

    Authors: Uchenna R. Ofoma, Yue Dong, Ognjen Gajic and Brian W. Pickering
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:6
  39. Patients with prolonged length of hospital stay (LOS) not only increase their risks of nosocomial infections but also deny other patients access to inpatient care. Hepatobiliary (HPB) malignancies have some of...

    Authors: Siu Yin Lee, Soo-Hoon Lee, Jenny H. H. Tan, Howard S. L. Foo, Phillip H. Phan, Alfred W. C. Kow, Sein Lwin, Penelope M. Y. Seah and Siti Zubaidah Mordiffi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:5
  40. Too-low body mass index (BMI), HbA1c% or cholesterol levels predicts poor survival. This study investigates whether e-mails about these low values, improve health of people older than 75 years.

    Authors: Nir Tsabar, Yan Press, Johanna Rotman, Bracha Klein, Yonatan Grossman, Maya Vainshtein-Tal and Sophia Eilat-Tsanani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:4
  41. To investigate the relationship between hospital volume activities and the survival for Epithelial Ovarian Carcinoma (EOC) patients in France.

    Authors: Marius Huguet, Lionel Perrier, Olivia Bally, David Benayoun, Pierre De Saint Hilaire, Dominique Beal Ardisson, Magali Morelle, Nathalie Havet, Xavier Joutard, Pierre Meeus, Philippe Gabelle, Jocelyne Provençal, Céline Chauleur, Olivier Glehen, Amandine Charreton, Fadila Farsi…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:3
  42. Hand hygiene and aseptic techniques are essential preventives in combating hospital-acquired infections. However, implementation of these strategies in the operating room remains suboptimal. There is a paucity...

    Authors: Annette Erichsen Andersson, Maria Frödin, Lisen Dellenborg, Lars Wallin, Jesper Hök, Brigid M. Gillespie and Ewa Wikström
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:2
  43. Partnerships in public health form an important component of commissioning and implementing services, in England and internationally. In this research, we examine the views of staff involved in a City-wide hea...

    Authors: Rebecca Johnson, Amy Grove and Aileen Clarke
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:1
  44. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease with a high socioeconomic impact. The aim of this study was to assess healthcare resources utilization and costs in a sample of patients with MS.

    Authors: Antoni Sicras-Mainar, Elena Ruíz-Beato, Ruth Navarro-Artieda and Jorge Maurino
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:854
  45. Although patient engagement is internationally recognized as a core quality indicator of healthcare systems, no report has yet explored patient engagement in Saudi Arabia. Thus, we explored patients’ experienc...

    Authors: Mohamad Al-Tannir, Fahad AlGahtani, Amani Abu-Shaheen, Sawsan Al-Tannir and Isamme AlFayyad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:853
  46. China is reforming the way it finances health care as it moves towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) after the failure of market-oriented mechanisms for health care. Improving financing equity is a major pol...

    Authors: Mingsheng Chen, Andrew J. Palmer and Lei Si
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:852
  47. Dengue fever is rapidly expanding geographically, with about half of the world’s population now at risk. Among the various diagnostic options, rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are convenient and prompt, but limit...

    Authors: Jacqueline Kyungah Lim, Neal Alexander and Gian Luca Di Tanna
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:850