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  1. Staff who plan and organize day center activities may need to observe the attendees’ performance and progression. This led us to develop a tool for that purpose, termed General Occupational Engagement in peopl...

    Authors: Mona Eklund and Ulrika Bejerholm
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:338
  2. In Italy, copayment has changed its nature and it can no longer be simply considered a system to curb inappropriate expenditure. It has become an important form of revenue for public health care provision, but...

    Authors: Paolo Berta, Rosella Levaggi, Gianmaria Martini and Stefano Verzillo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:336
  3. ‘Failure to rescue’ of hospitalized patients with deteriorating physiology on general wards is caused by a complex array of organisational, technical and cultural failures including a lack of standardized team...

    Authors: Christian P. Subbe, John Kellett, Paul Barach, Catriona Chaloner, Hayley Cleaver, Tim Cooksley, Erik Korsten, Eilish Croke, Elinor Davis, Ashley JR De Bie, Lesley Durham, Chris Hancock, Jilian Hartin, Tracy Savijn and John Welch
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:334
  4. Waiting times for hospital appointments, treatment and/or surgery have become a major political and health service problem, leading to national maximum waiting times and policies to reduce waiting times. Quant...

    Authors: Paul R. Ward, Philippa Rokkas, Clinton Cenko, Mariastella Pulvirenti, Nicola Dean, A. Simon Carney and Samantha Meyer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:333
  5. Acute diabetic emergencies are often managed by prehospital Emergency Medical Services (EMS). The projected growth in prevalence of diabetes is likely to result in rising demand for prehospital EMS that are al...

    Authors: Melanie Villani, Arul Earnest, Natalie Nanayakkara, Karen Smith, Barbora de Courten and Sophia Zoungas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:332
  6. The lack of proven efficacy of new healthcare interventions represents a problem for health systems globally. It is partly related to suboptimal implementation processes, leading to poor adoption of new interv...

    Authors: Joana Mora, Miren David Iturralde, Lucía Prieto, Cristina Domingo, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Catalina Martínez-Carazo, Anna Giné March, Daniele De Massari, Tino Martí, Marco Nalin, Francesca Avolio, Jean Bousquet and Esteban de Manuel Keenoy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:331
  7. Thyroid cancer incidence is increasing in the United States (US) and many other countries. The objective of this study was to develop and evaluate algorithms using administrative medical claims data for identi...

    Authors: Donnie Funch, Douglas Ross, Betsey M. Gardstein, Heather S. Norman, Lauren A. Sanders, Atheline Major-Pedersen, Helge Gydesen and David D. Dore
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:330
  8. This is the fourth in a series of papers reporting a program of Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) in a local healthcare setting. Healthcare decision-makers have sought t...

    Authors: Claire Harris, Henry Ko, Cara Waller, Pamela Sloss and Pamela Williams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:329
  9. This is the second in a series of papers reporting a program of Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) in a local healthcare setting. Rising healthcare costs, continuing adva...

    Authors: Claire Harris, Kelly Allen, Richard King, Wayne Ramsey, Cate Kelly and Malar Thiagarajan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:328
  10. Readmission penalties are central to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) efforts to improve patient outcomes and reduce health care spending. However, many clinicians believe that readmission ...

    Authors: Laurent G. Glance, Yue Li and Andrew W. Dick
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:327
  11. High quality sexual health services are needed to improve both individual and public health outcomes. This study set out to explore what is important to patients who visit a sexual health clinic, and examine t...

    Authors: Alison R. Howarth, Sophie Day, Linda Greene and Helen Ward
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:325
  12. Patient empowerment is a key element to improve the results in health, increase satisfaction amongst users and obtain higher treatment compliance. The main objective of this study is to validate the Spanish ve...

    Authors: Paloma Garcimartin, Josep Comin-Colet, Pilar Delgado-Hito, Neus Badosa-Marcé and Anna Linas-Alonso
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:324
  13. This is the first in a series of papers reporting Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE). The SHARE Program is an investigation of concepts, opportunities, methods and implic...

    Authors: Claire Harris, Sally Green, Wayne Ramsey, Kelly Allen and Richard King
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:323
  14. Research in patient safety is an important area of health services research and is a national priority. It is challenging to investigate rare occurrences, explore potential causes, and account for the complex,...

    Authors: Jeanne-Marie Guise, Matthew Hansen, William Lambert and Kerth O’Brien
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:322
  15. Patients’ satisfaction is an indicator of the quality of healthcare services. Its measurement involves developing and validating complex instruments. The purpose of this study was to validate a scale for measu...

    Authors: Mauricio Sanabria-Arenas, Julia Tobón- Marín, María Claudia Certuche-Quintana and Ricardo Sánchez-Pedraza
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:321
  16. Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) has the country’s highest incidence and prevalence of kidney disease. Indigenous people from remote areas suffer the heaviest disease burden. Concerns regarding cost and sus...

    Authors: Gillian Gorham, Kirsten Howard, Samantha Togni, Paul Lawton, Jaquelyne Hughes, Sandawana William Majoni, Sarah Brown, Sue Barnes and Alan Cass
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:320
  17. The inequality in health outcomes between Indigenous (Throughout the paper, the term Indigenous will be used to represent both Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander Australians.) and non-Indigenous...

    Authors: Jessica Conway, George Tsourtos and Sharon Lawn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:319
  18. Delayed hospital discharge (also known as Alternate Level of Care or ALC) is a global health care quality issue with negative implications for people (e.g., functional decline) and the health care system (e.g....

    Authors: Kerry Kuluski, Jennifer Im and Mary McGeown
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:318
  19. In Brazil, community health workers have gathered monthly information on people with disabilities to maintain the Primary Care Information System since 1998; however, few studies have used this database for sc...

    Authors: Fernando Rocha Lucena Lopes, Karolinne Souza Monteiro, Thalita Figueiredo, Thyago da Costa Wanderley, Thiago de Almeida Pequeno, Shirley Lima and Silvana Santos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:317
  20. Prevention interventions for people living with HIV/AIDS are an important component of HIV programs. We report the results of a pilot evaluation of a four-hour, clinic-based training for healthcare providers i...

    Authors: Christopher G. Kemp, Julia de Kadt, Erushka Pillay, Jennifer M. Gilvydis, Evasen Naidoo, Jessica Grignon and Marcia R. Weaver
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:316
  21. The goal of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act is to eliminate differences in insurance coverage between behavioral health and general medical care. The law requ...

    Authors: Susan H. Busch, Emma E. Mcginty, Elizabeth A. Stuart, Haiden A. Huskamp, Teresa B. Gibson, Howard H. Goldman and Colleen L. Barry
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:315
  22. Urinary tract infection (UTI) as the most common healthcare-associated infection accounts for up to 36% of all healthcare-associated infections. Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) accounts for...

    Authors: Vicki Parker, Michelle Giles, Laura Graham, Belinda Suthers, Wendy Watts, Tony O’Brien and Andrew Searles
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:314
  23. Good progress is being made towards universal access to contraceptives, however stock-outs still jeopardize progress. A seldom considered but important building block in optimizing supply management is the deg...

    Authors: Heleen Vermandere, Anna Galle, Sally Griffin, Málica de Melo, Lino Machaieie, Dirk Van Braeckel and Olivier Degomme
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:313
  24. Evidence to inform communication between emergency department clinicians and public health agencies is limited. In the context of diverse, emerging public health incidents, communication is urgent, as emergenc...

    Authors: Yasmin Khan, Sarah Sanford, Doug Sider, Kieran Moore, Gary Garber, Eileen de Villa and Brian Schwartz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:312
  25. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence, perpetrators and factors associated with workplace violence against nurses in public secondary health care facilities from two health regions in the Gambia.

    Authors: Ebrima J. Sisawo, Saide Yacine Y. Arsène Ouédraogo and Song-Lih Huang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:311
  26. The success of ‘treatment as prevention’ (TasP) to control HIV relies on the uptake of testing across priority population groups. Innovative strategies including; rapid HIV testing (RHT) in community and outre...

    Authors: Allyson J. Mutch, Chi-Wai Lui, Judith Dean, Limin Mao, Jime Lemoire, Joseph Debattista, Chris Howard, Andrea Whittaker and Lisa Fitzgerald
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:310
  27. The Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) has nine scales that each measure an aspect of the multidimensional construct of health literacy. All scales have good psychometric properties. However, it is the interp...

    Authors: Melanie Hawkins, Stephen D Gill, Roy Batterham, Gerald R Elsworth and Richard H Osborne
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:309
  28. Introduction of a health insurance scheme is one of the ways to enhance access to health care services and to protect individuals from catastrophic health expenditures. Little is known on the influence of soci...

    Authors: Ntuli A. Kapologwe, Gibson B. Kagaruki, Albino Kalolo, Mariam Ally, Amani Shao, Manoris Meshack, Manfred Stoermer, Amena Briet, Karin Wiedenmayer and Axel Hoffman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:308
  29. Despite the rapid adoption of the World Health Organization’s 2013 guidelines, children continue to be infected with HIV perinatally because of sub-optimal adherence to the continuum of HIV care in maternal an...

    Authors: Marcel Yotebieng, Frieda Behets, Bienvenu Kawende, Noro Lantoniaina Rosa Ravelomanana, Martine Tabala and Emile W. Okitolonda
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:306
  30. This paper explores the perspectives of health care providers regarding the use of 7.1% Chlorhexidine Digluconate (CHX) gel that releases 4% chlorhexidine for newborn umbilical cord care under a managed access...

    Authors: Angela Muriuki, Francis Obare, Bill Ayieko, Dennis Matanda, Kenneth Sisimwo and Brian Mdawida
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:305
  31. Administrative claims of United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) beneficiaries have long been used in non-experimental research. While CMS performs in-house checks of these claims, littl...

    Authors: Charles E. Leonard, Colleen M. Brensinger, Young Hee Nam, Warren B. Bilker, Geralyn M. Barosso, Margaret J. Mangaali and Sean Hennessy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:304
  32. Patients with chronic illnesses are often required to take lifelong medication to alleviate symptoms and prevent disease progression. Many patients find it difficult to adhere to prescribed medication for vari...

    Authors: Boitshoko Kobue, Shirra Moch and Jennifer Watermeyer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:303
  33. In Gujarat, India, a state led public private partnership scheme to promote facility birth named Chiranjeevi Yojana (CY) was implemented in 2005. Institutional birth is provided free of cost at accredited private...

    Authors: Sandul Yasobant, Hemant Deepak Shewade, Kranti Suresh Vora, Kristi Sidney Annerstedt, Petros Isaakidis, Nishith B. Dholakia and Dileep V. Mavalankar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:302
  34. Authors: Hemant Deepak Shewade, Arun M. Kokane, Akash Ranjan Singh, Manoj Verma, Malik Parmar, Ashish Chauhan, Sanjay Singh Chahar, Manoj Tiwari, Sheeba Naz Khan, Vivek Gupta, Jaya Prasad Tripathy, Mukesh Nagar, Sanjai Kumar Singh, Pradeep Kumar Mehra and Ajay M. V. Kumar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:301

    The original article was published in BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:249

  35. The economic burden of asthma, which relates to the degree of control, is €5 billion annually in Italy. Pharmacists could help improve asthma control, reducing this burden. This study aimed to evaluate the eff...

    Authors: Andrea Manfrin, Michela Tinelli, Trudy Thomas and Janet Krska
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:300
  36. Older fallers constitute a large proportion of ambulance work, and as many as 25% are not transported to hospital following paramedic assessment. The objective of this study was to explore the decision making ...

    Authors: Paul Simpson, Ric Thomas, Jason Bendall, Bill Lord, Stephen Lord and Jacqueline Close
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:299
  37. Currently, China is in the process of medical and health care reform, and the establishment of primary medical and health services covering urban and rural residents is an important aspect of this process. Stu...

    Authors: Weinan Dong, Qingyu Zhang, Chunsheng Yan, Wanling Fu and Linlin Xu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:298
  38. Improvement of coordination of all health and social care actors in the patient pathways is an important issue in many countries. Health Information (HI) technology has been considered as a potentially effecti...

    Authors: Florence Saillour-Glénisson, Sylvie Duhamel, Emmanuelle Fourneyron, Laetitia Huiart, Jean Philippe Joseph, Emmanuel Langlois, Stephane Pincemail, Viviane Ramel, Thomas Renaud, Tamara Roberts, Matthieu Sibé, Frantz Thiessard, Jerome Wittwer and Louis Rachid Salmi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:297
  39. The organization of long-term care is one of the main challenges of public health and health policies in Europe and worldwide, especially in terms of care concepts for people with dementia. In Austria and the ...

    Authors: Stefanie Auer, Elisabeth Linsmayer, Anna Beránková, Patrick Pascher, Bernadette Firlinger, Doris Prischl, Paulina Ratajczak, Edith Span and Iva Holmerova
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:296

    The Data note to this article has been published in BMC Research Notes 2019 12:463

  40. Accessibility and availability are important characteristics of efficient and effective primary healthcare systems. Currently, timely access to a family physician is a concern in Canada. Adverse outcomes are a...

    Authors: Dominique Ansell, James A. G. Crispo, Benjamin Simard and Lise M. Bjerre
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:295
  41. We evaluated a facilitation strategy to help clinical sites likely to experience challenges implement evidence-based Primary Care-Mental Health Integration (PC-MHI) care models within the context of a Departme...

    Authors: Mona J. Ritchie, Louise E. Parker, Carrie N. Edlund and JoAnn E. Kirchner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:294
  42. In the UK young people attending child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) are required to move on, either through discharge or referral to an adult service, at age 17/18, a period of increased risk ...

    Authors: Valerie Dunn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:293
  43. Malnutrition is highly prevalent in hospitalized patients and results in a worsened clinical course as well as an increased length of stay, mortality, and costs. Therefore, simple nutrition screening systems, ...

    Authors: José Pablo Suárez-Llanos, Néstor Benítez-Brito, Laura Vallejo-Torres, Irina Delgado-Brito, Adriá Rosat-Rodrigo, Carolina Hernández-Carballo, Yolanda Ramallo-Fariña, Francisca Pereyra-García-Castro, Juan Carlos-Romero, Nieves Felipe-Pérez, Jennifer García-Niebla, Eduardo Mauricio Calderón-Ledezma, Teresa de Jesús González-Melián, Ignacio Llorente-Gómez de Segura and Manuel Ángel Barrera-Gómez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:292
  44. In South Africa, a new primary health care (PHC) re-engineering initiative aims to scale up the provision of community-based care (CBC). A central element in this initiative is the use of outreach teams compri...

    Authors: Lydia Hangulu and Olagoke Akintola
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:290
  45. Personalized medicine has the potential to allow patients to receive drugs specific to their individual disease, and to increase the efficiency of the healthcare system. There is currently no comprehensive ove...

    Authors: Antonello Di Paolo, François Sarkozy, Bettina Ryll and Uwe Siebert
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:289
  46. Observational studies are used to measure the effectiveness of an intervention in non-experimental, real world scenarios at the population level and are recognised as an important component of the evidence pyr...

    Authors: Emma Gray, David J. Pasta, Suzanne Norris and Aisling O’Leary
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:288
  47. Team-based chronic care models have not been widely adopted in community settings, partly due to their varying effectiveness in randomized control trials, implementation challenges, and concerns about physicia...

    Authors: Laura Panattoni, Lily Hurlimann, Caroline Wilson, Meg Durbin and Ming Tai-Seale
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:286
  48. Home-based carers (HBCs) play a critical role in ensuring the success of the primary health care re-engineering strategy in South Africa. Their role includes ensuring improved access to and delivery of primary...

    Authors: Justin G. Engelbrecht, Mabjala R. Letsoalo and Admire C. Chirowodza
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:285