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  1. Implementing evidence-based chronic disease prevention with a practice-wide population is challenging in primary care.

    Authors: Mark Fort Harris, Sharon M. Parker, John Litt, Mieke van Driel, Grant Russell, Danielle Mazza, Upali W. Jayasinghe, Jane Smith, Chris Del Mar, Riki Lane and Elizabeth Denney-Wilson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:637
  2. While there is an extensive literature on Health System (HS) strengthening and on the performance of specific HSs, there are few exhaustive syntheses of the challenges HSs are facing worldwide. This paper repo...

    Authors: Federico Roncarolo, Antoine Boivin, Jean-Louis Denis, Rejean Hébert and Pascale Lehoux
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:636
  3. Stroke is a common cause of physical disability but is also strongly associated with cognitive impairment and a risk for future dementia. Despite national clinical guidelines, the service provided for stroke s...

    Authors: Eugene Yee Hing Tang, Christopher Price, Blossom Christa Maree Stephan, Louise Robinson and Catherine Exley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:634
  4. This is the ninth in a series of papers reporting a program of Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) in a local healthcare setting. The disinvestment literature has broadene...

    Authors: Claire Harris, Sally Green, Wayne Ramsey, Kelly Allen and Richard King
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:633
  5. This is the tenth in a series of papers reporting a program of Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) in a local healthcare setting. After more than a decade of research, the...

    Authors: Claire Harris, Sally Green and Adam G. Elshaug
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:632
  6. The growing numbers of seniors worldwide and the need for support and services that follow from a higher standard of living have led to an increased focus on scarce benefits and limited human resources. At the...

    Authors: Guro Wisth Øydgard
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:631
  7. Care-managers are responsible for the public administration of individual healthcare decisions and decide on the volume and content of community healthcare services given to a population. The purpose of this s...

    Authors: Siri Tønnessen, Gøril Ursin and Berit Støre Brinchmann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:630
  8. In Canada, long waiting times for core specialized services have consistently been identified as a key barrier to access. Governments and organizations have responded with strategies for better access manageme...

    Authors: Marie-Pascale Pomey, Nathalie Clavel, Claudia Amar, Juan Carlos Sabogale-Olarte, Claudia Sanmartin, Carolyn De Coster and Tom Noseworthy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:629
  9. In an attempt to deal with the pressures on the health-care system and to guarantee sustainability, changes are needed. This study focuses on a cardiology primary care plus intervention. Primary care plus (PC+...

    Authors: Tessa C.C. Quanjel, Marieke D. Spreeuwenberg, Jeroen N. Struijs, Caroline A. Baan and Dirk Ruwaard
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:628
  10. The importance of effective translation of health research findings into action has been well recognized, but there is evidence to suggest that the practice of knowledge translation (KT) among health researche...

    Authors: Kathryn M. Sibley, Patricia L. Roche, Courtney P. Bell, Beverley Temple and Kristy D.M. Wittmeier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:627
  11. Since in an ageing society more long-term care (LTC) facilities are needed, it is important to understand the main determinants of first-time utilization of (LTC) services.

    Authors: Laurentius C.J. Slobbe, Albert Wong, Robert A. Verheij, Hans A.M. van Oers and Johan J. Polder
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:626
  12. Emergency Department overcrowding has become a global problem and a growing safety and quality concern. Radiology and laboratory turnaround time, ED boarding and increased ED visits are some of the factors tha...

    Authors: Eveline A. Hitti, Ghada R. El-Eid, Hani Tamim, Rana Saleh, Miriam Saliba and Lena Naffaa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:625
  13. Hospital discharge summaries are a key communication tool ensuring continuity of care between primary and secondary care. Incomplete or untimely communication of information increases risk of hospital readmiss...

    Authors: Rajnikant L. Mehta, Bryn Baxendale, Katie Roth, Victoria Caswell, Ivan Le Jeune, Jack Hawkins, Haya Zedan and Anthony J. Avery
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:624
  14. In resource-poor settings, the provision of basic maternity care within health centres is often a challenge. Despite the difficulties, Nepal reduced its maternal mortality ratio by 80% from 850 to an estimated...

    Authors: Sarita Panday, Paul Bissell, Edwin van Teijlingen and Padam Simkhada
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:623
  15. Hospital usage and service demand during an Infectious Disease (ID) outbreak can tax the health system in different ways. Herein we conceptualize hospital surge elements, and lessons learnt from such events, t...

    Authors: Shweta R. Singh, Richard Coker, Hubertus J-M Vrijhoef, Yee Sin Leo, Angela Chow, Poh Lian Lim, Qinghui Tan, Mark I-Cheng Chen and Zoe Jane-Lara Hildon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:622
  16. The reasons for low utilisation of maternal health services in settings where the user-fee removal policy has been implemented continue to generate scholarly debates. Evidence of whether user-fee removal benef...

    Authors: Anthony I. Ajayi and Wilson Akpan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:620
  17. The drive towards patient involvement in health services has been increasingly promoted. The World Health Organisation emphasizes the family’s perspective in comprehensive care. Internationally there is an inc...

    Authors: Ingrid Nyborg, Lars Johan Danbolt and Marit Kirkevold
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:619
  18. Patient participation and goal setting appear to be difficult in daily physiotherapy practice, and practical methods are lacking. An existing patient-specific instrument, Patient-Specific Complaints (PSC), was...

    Authors: Anita Stevens, Albère Köke, Trudy van der Weijden and Anna Beurskens
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:618
  19. The Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programme is an approach to the perioperative care of patients which aims to improve outcomes and speed up recovery after surgery. Although the evidence base appears ...

    Authors: Georgia Herbert, Eileen Sutton, Sorrel Burden, Stephen Lewis, Steve Thomas, Andy Ness and Charlotte Atkinson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:617
  20. Authors: Claire Harris, Kelly Allen, Cara Waller, Sally Green, Richard King, Wayne Ramsey, Cate Kelly and Malar Thiagarajan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:616

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  21. Increasing numbers of blood tests are being ordered in primary care settings and the swift and accurate communication of test results is central to providing high quality care. The process of testing and resul...

    Authors: Ian J. Litchfield, Louise M. Bentham, Richard J. Lilford, Richard J. McManus, Ann Hill and Sheila Greenfield
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:615
  22. Telephone triage and advice services (TTAS) are increasingly being implemented around the world. These services allow people to speak to a nurse or general practitioner over the telephone and receive assessmen...

    Authors: Rebecca Lake, Andrew Georgiou, Julie Li, Ling Li, Mary Byrne, Maureen Robinson and Johanna I. Westbrook
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:614
  23. The Scottish Medicines Consortium evaluates new drugs for use in the National Health Service in Scotland. Reforms in 2014 to their evaluation process aimed to increase patient access to new drugs for end-of-li...

    Authors: Liz Morrell, Sarah Wordsworth, Howell Fu, Sian Rees and Richard Barker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:613
  24. Incorporating behavioral health care into patient centered medical homes is critical for improving patient health and care quality while reducing costs. Despite documented effectiveness of behavioral health in...

    Authors: Kara Zivin, Benjamin F. Miller, Bruce Finke, Asaf Bitton, Perry Payne, Edith C. Stowe, Ashok Reddy, Timothy J. Day, Pauline Lapin, Janel L. Jin and Laura L. Sessums
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:612
  25. The initial days of a Medicare-covered skilled nursing facility (SNF) stay may have no cost-sharing or daily copayments depending on beneficiaries’ enrollment in traditional Medicare or Medicare Advantage. Som...

    Authors: Laura M. Keohane, Regina C. Grebla, Momotazur Rahman, Dana B. Mukamel, Yoojin Lee, Vincent Mor and Amal Trivedi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:611
  26. Psychosocial job stressors, such as low control and high demands, have been found to influence the health and wellbeing of doctors. However, past research in this area has relied on cross-sectional data, which...

    Authors: Allison Milner, Katrina Witt, Matthew J. Spittal, Marie Bismark, Melissa Graham and Anthony D. LaMontagne
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:609
  27. Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are common tools in policy and clinical practice informing clinical decisions at the bedside, governance of health facilities, health insurer and government spending, and pa...

    Authors: Tamara Kredo, Amber Abrams, Taryn Young, Quinette Louw, Jimmy Volmink and Karen Daniels
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:608
  28. Many register studies make use of information about permanent nursing home residents. Statistics Denmark (StatD) identifies nursing home residents by two different indirect methods, one based on reports from t...

    Authors: Anna Bebe, Anni Brit Sternhagen Nielsen, Tora Grauers Willadsen, Jens Søndergaard, Volkert Siersma, Dagný Rós Nicolaisdóttir, Jakob Kragstrup and Frans Boch Waldorff
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:607
  29. Community pharmacies are major contributors to health care systems across the world. Several studies have been conducted to evaluate community pharmacies services in health care. The purpose of this study was ...

    Authors: Jorge Félix, Diana Ferreira, Marta Afonso-Silva, Marta Vargas Gomes, César Ferreira, Björn Vandewalle, Sara Marques, Melina Mota, Suzete Costa, Maria Cary, Inês Teixeira, Ema Paulino, Bruno Macedo and Carlos Maurício Barbosa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:606
  30. Health literacy is an important concept associated with participation in preventive health initiatives, such as falls prevention programs. A comprehensive health literacy measurement tool, appropriate for this...

    Authors: Rebecca L. Morris, Sze-Ee Soh, Keith D. Hill, Rachelle Buchbinder, Judy A. Lowthian, Julie Redfern, Christopher D. Etherton-Beer, Anne-Marie Hill, Richard H. Osborne, Glenn Arendts and Anna L. Barker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:605
  31. The enlargement of the European Union since 2004 has led to an increase in the number of Eastern European migrants living in the UK. The health of this group is under-researched though some mixed evidence show...

    Authors: Hannah Madden, Jane Harris, Christian Blickem, Rebecca Harrison and Hannah Timpson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:604
  32. For decades hospitals have been “vertically” organized, with the risk that specialization leads to fragmented and one-sided views of patient care and treatment that may cause poor communication and coordinatio...

    Authors: C. Abrahamsen, B. Nørgaard, E. Draborg and D. Nielsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:602
  33. The development of new-growth communities of Latino immigrants in southern states has challenged the traditional health and social service infrastructure. An interprofessional team of service providers, Latino...

    Authors: Kim Larson, Holly F. Mathews, Essie Torres and C. Suzanne Lea
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:601
  34. Formularies often employ restriction policies to reduce pharmacy costs. Pregabalin, an alpha-2-delta ligand, is approved for treatment of fibromyalgia (FM); neuropathic pain (NeP) due to postherpetic neuralgia...

    Authors: Brett R. Stacey, Jonathan Liss, Regina Behar, Alesia Sadosky, Bruce Parsons, Elizabeth T. Masters and Patrick Hlavacek
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:600
  35. Private practitioners are the preferred first point of care in a majority of low and middle-income countries and in this position, best placed for the surveillance of diseases. However their contribution to ro...

    Authors: Revati K. Phalkey, Carsten Butsch, Kristine Belesova, Marieke Kroll and Frauke Kraas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:599
  36. Poor access to affordable insulin results in serious and needless complications and premature deaths for those with diabetes who need this essential medicine. To help address this issue, we assessed insulin av...

    Authors: Chenxi Liu, Xinping Zhang, Chaojie Liu, Margaret Ewen, Zinan Zhang and Guoqin Liu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:597
  37. Current acute care surgical practices do not focus on the unique needs of older adults. Adverse outcomes in older patients result from a complex interrelationship between baseline vulnerability and insults exp...

    Authors: Heather M. Hanson, Lindsey Warkentin, Roxanne Wilson, Navtej Sandhu, Susan E. Slaughter and Rachel G. Khadaroo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:596
  38. The purpose of this situation analysis was to explore the views of health and non-health professionals working with women of childbearing age on current and future delivery of preconception care in one Nationa...

    Authors: Ashley Goodfellow, John Frank, John McAteer and Jean Rankin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:595
  39. The South African Triage Scale (SATS) was developed to facilitate patient triage in emergency departments (EDs) and is used by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in low-resource environments. The aim was to determ...

    Authors: Jacques Massaut, Pola Valles, Arnold Ghismonde, Claudinette Jn Jacques, Liseberth Pierre Louis, Abdulmutalib Zakir, Rafael Van den Bergh, Lunick Santiague, Rose Berly Massenat and Nathalie Edema
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:594
  40. Facilitation is a widely used implementation method in quality improvement. Reviews reveal a variety of understandings of facilitation and facilitator roles. Research suggests that facilitation interventions s...

    Authors: Tina Drud Due, Thorkil Thorsen, Frans Boch Waldorff and Marius Brostrøm Kousgaard
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:593
  41. This study presents a descriptive synthesis of Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s (KRI) primary care system, which is undergoing comprehensive primary care reforms within the context of a cross-cutting structural econ...

    Authors: Ali R. Shukor, Niek S. Klazinga and Dionne S. Kringos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:592
  42. This paper identifies and describes measures of constructs relevant to the adoption or implementation of innovations (i.e., new policies, programs or practices) at the organizational-level. This work is intend...

    Authors: Jennifer D. Allen, Samuel D. Towne Jr, Annette E. Maxwell, Lisa DiMartino, Bryan Leyva, Deborah J Bowen, Laura Linnan and Bryan J. Weiner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:591
  43. In China, increasing attention has been devoted to the patient safety culture within health administrative departments and healthcare organizations. However, no official version of a patient safety culture ass...

    Authors: Ying Cui, Xiuming Xi, Jinsheng Zhang, Jiang Feng, Xiaoxiao Deng, Ang Li and Jianxin Zhou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:590
  44. Increasingly, nurse practitioners (NPs) are deployed in teams along with general practitioners (GPs) to help meet the demand for out-of-hours care. The purpose of this study was to explore factors influencing ...

    Authors: Mieke van der Biezen, Michel Wensing, Lusine Poghosyan, Regi van der Burgt and Miranda Laurant
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:589
  45. Preventive health services (PHSs) form part of primary healthcare with the aim of screening to prevent disease. Migrants show significant differences in lifestyle, health beliefs and risk factors compared with...

    Authors: Aldo Rosano, Marie Dauvrin, Sandra C. Buttigieg, Elena Ronda, Jean Tafforeau and Sonia Dias
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:588
  46. Follow-up care after kidney transplantation is performed in transplant centers as well as in local nephrologist’s practices in Germany. However, organized integrated care of these different sectors of the Germ...

    Authors: L Pape, M de Zwaan, U Tegtbur, F Feldhaus, JK Wolff, L Schiffer, C Lerch, N Hellrung, V Kliem, G Lonnemann, HD Nolting and M Schiffer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:587