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  1. Assessing quality of health services, for example through supportive supervision, is essential for strengthening healthcare delivery. Most systematic health facility assessment mechanisms, however, are not sui...

    Authors: Dominick Mboya, Christopher Mshana, Flora Kessy, Sandra Alba, Christian Lengeler, Sabine Renggli, Bart Vander Plaetse, Mohamed A. Mohamed and Alexander Schulze
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:578
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  2. Unregulated health care aides provide the majority of direct health care to residents in long term care homes. Lower job satisfaction as reported by care aides is associated with increased turnover of staff. T...

    Authors: Stephanie A. Chamberlain, Matthias Hoben, Janet E. Squires and Carole A. Estabrooks
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:577
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  3. Primary Health Care (PHC) is an efficient strategy to improve health outcomes in populations. Nevertheless, studies of technical efficiency in health care have focused on hospitals, with very little on primary...

    Authors: Myriam Ruiz-Rodriguez, Laura A. Rodriguez-Villamizar and Ileana Heredia-Pi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:576
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  4. Cervical cancer is the greatest cause of age-weighted years of life lost in the developing world. Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is associated with a high proportion of cervical cancers, and HPV vaccinat...

    Authors: Joël Ladner, Marie-Hélène Besson, Etienne Audureau, Mariana Rodrigues and Joseph Saba
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:575
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  5. The concept of leadership has been studied in various disciplines and from different theoretical approaches. It is a dynamic concept that evolves over time. There are few studies in our field on managers’ self...

    Authors: Glòria Jodar i Solà, Joan Gené i Badia, Pilar Delgado Hito, M. Antonia Campo Osaba and Jose Luís Del Val García
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:572
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  6. Increases in health care utilization and costs, resulting from the rising prevalence of chronic conditions related to the aging population, is exacerbated by a high level of fragmentation that characterizes he...

    Authors: Xin Wang, Stephen Birch, Weiming Zhu, Huifen Ma, Mark Embrett and Qingyue Meng
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:571
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  7. To allow better assessment of patients’ individual competencies for self-management, the Patient Activation Measure (PAM) has been developed in the USA. Because the American studies have shown the PAM to be a ...

    Authors: Jany Rademakers, Helle Terkildsen Maindal, Aslak Steinsbekk, Jochen Gensichen, Katja Brenk-Franz and Michelle Hendriks
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:570
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  8. The role of community pharmacists is changing globally with pharmacists engaging in more clinically-oriented roles, including in mental health care. Pharmacists’ interventions have been shown to improve mental...

    Authors: Andrea L. Murphy, Ruth Martin-Misener, Stan P. Kutcher, Claire L. O’Reilly, Timothy F. Chen and David M. Gardner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:569
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  9. Improving public accountability is currently high on the global agenda. At the same time, the organisation of health services in low- and middle-income countries is taking place in fragmented institutional lan...

    Authors: Sara Van Belle and Susannah H. Mayhew
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:568
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  11. Innovative strategies are needed to reduce malaria mortality in high burden countries like Nigeria. Given that one of the important reasons for this high malaria mortality is delay in receiving effective treat...

    Authors: Olatunde Adesoro, Constance Shumba, John Kpamor, Jane Achan, Harriet Kivumbi, John Dada, Kolawole Maxwell, James Tibenderana, Madeline Marasciulo, Prudence Hamade, Olusola Oresanya, Joanita Nankabirwa and Ebenezer Baba
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:566
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  12. A patient’s trajectory through the healthcare system affects resource use and outcomes. Data fields in population-based administrative health databases are potentially valuable resources for constructing care ...

    Authors: John Paul Kuwornu, Lisa M. Lix, Jacqueline M. Quail, Xiaoyun Eric Wang, Meric Osman and Gary F. Teare
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:565
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  13. Risks prediction models of 30-day all-cause hospital readmissions are multi-factorial. Severity of illness (SOI) and risk of mortality (ROM) categorized by All Patient Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (APR-DRG...

    Authors: Hao Wang, Carol Johnson, Richard D. Robinson, Vicki A. Nejtek, Chet D. Schrader, JoAnna Leuck, Johnbosco Umejiego, Allison Trop, Kathleen A. Delaney and Nestor R. Zenarosa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:564
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  14. Microscopic Observation Drug Susceptibility (MODS) and Xpert MTB/Rif (Xpert) are highly sensitive tests for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). This study evaluated the cost effectiveness of utilizing M...

    Authors: Simon Walusimbi, Brendan Kwesiga, Rashmi Rodrigues, Melles Haile, Ayesha de Costa, Lennart Bogg and Achilles Katamba
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:563
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  15. Digital technologies show promise for reversing poor engagement of youth (16–24 years) with mental health services. In particular, mobile and internet based applications with communication capabilities can aug...

    Authors: Simone Orlowski, Sharon Lawn, Ben Matthews, Anthony Venning, Kaisha Wyld, Gabrielle Jones, Megan Winsall, Gaston Antezana, Geoffrey Schrader and Niranjan Bidargaddi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:562
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  16. Addressing evidence-practice gaps in primary care remains a significant public health challenge and is likely to require action at different levels of the health system. Whilst Continuous Quality Improvement (...

    Authors: Gill Schierhout, Veronica Matthews, Christine Connors, Sandra Thompson, Ru Kwedza, Catherine Kennedy and Ross Bailie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:560
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  17. Treatment costs of induced abortion complications can consume a substantial amount of hospital resources. This use of hospitals scarce resources to treat induced abortion complications may affect hospitals’ ca...

    Authors: Patrick G. C. Ilboudo, Giulia Greco, Johanne Sundby and Gaute Torsvik
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:559
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  18. Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has emerged as a major goal for health care delivery in the post-2015 development agenda. It is viewed as a solution to health care needs in low and middle countries with growin...

    Authors: Adam Fusheini and John Eyles
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:558
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  19. Despite increasing evidence for the effectiveness of virtual reality (VR)-based therapy in stroke rehabilitation, few knowledge translation (KT) resources exist to support clinical integration. KT intervention...

    Authors: Danielle Levac, Stephanie M. N. Glegg, Heidi Sveistrup, Heather Colquhoun, Patricia A. Miller, Hillel Finestone, Vincent DePaul, Jocelyn E. Harris and Diana Velikonja
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:557
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  20. The Government of Tajikistan is reforming its health system to make access more equitable. Nonetheless, out-of-pocket expenditures (OPE) remain a key modality for purchasing health care. Drugs remain a major d...

    Authors: Morgane Donadel, Gulzira Karimova, Ruslan Nabiev and Kaspar Wyss
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:556
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  21. Advance cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) decision-making and escalation of care discussions are variable in routine clinical practice. We aimed to explore physician barriers to advance CPR decision-making i...

    Authors: Nicholas Waldron, Claire E. Johnson, Peter Saul, Heidi Waldron, Jeffrey C. Chong, Anne-Marie Hill and Barbara Hayes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:555
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  22. Several countries have launched public reporting systems based on quality indicators (QIs) to increase transparency and improve quality in health care organizations (HCOs). However, a prerequisite to quality i...

    Authors: Mathias Waelli, Marie-Léandre Gomez, Claude Sicotte, Adrian Zicari, Jean-Yves Bonnefond, Philippe Lorino and Etienne Minvielle
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:553
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  23. Understanding the organisational set-up of physiotherapy services across different countries is increasingly important as clinicians around the world use evidence to improve their practice. This also has to be...

    Authors: Kamila Rasova, Jenny Freeman, Patricia Martinkova, Marketa Pavlikova, Davide Cattaneo, Johanna Jonsdottir, Thomas Henze, Ilse Baert, Paul Van Asch, Carme Santoyo, Tori Smedal, Antonie Giæver Beiske, Małgorzata Stachowiak, Mariusz Kovalewski, Una Nedeljkovic, Daphne Bakalidou…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:552
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  24. Quality indicators are increasingly used to measure the quality of care and compare quality across hospitals. In the Netherlands over the past few years numerous hospital quality indicators have been developed...

    Authors: Claudia Fischer, Hester F. Lingsma, Helen A. Anema, Job Kievit, Ewout W. Steyerberg and Niek Klazinga
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:551
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  25. Physicians’ daily work is increasingly affected by the use of emails, text messages and cell phone calls with their patients. The aim of this study was to describe their use between primary-care physicians and...

    Authors: Jonathan Dash, Dagmar M. Haller, Johanna Sommer and Noelle Junod Perron
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:549
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  26. Recurrent reports from national and international studies show a persistent high prevalence of sickness presence among hospital physicians. Despite the negative consequences reported, we do not know a lot abou...

    Authors: Fay Giæver, Signe Lohmann-Lafrenz and Lise Tevik Løvseth
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:548
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  27. User involvement is increasingly important in developing relevant health care services. The aim of this study was to contribute to a deeper understanding of user involvement and patients’ experiential knowledg...

    Authors: Mirela Slomic, Bjørg Christiansen, Helene L. Soberg and Unni Sveen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:547
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  29. Patients undergoing orthopaedic procedures experience major changes in function and daily routines upon their return home. Discharge summaries are an important communication tool that may play a role in optimi...

    Authors: Christine Soong, Bochra Kurabi, Kathleen Exconde, Faiqa Tajammal and Chaim M. Bell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:545
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  30. Structural violence shapes the health of Indigenous peoples globally, and is deeply embedded in history, individual and institutional racism, and inequitable social policies and practices. Many Indigenous comm...

    Authors: Annette J. Browne, Colleen Varcoe, Josée Lavoie, Victoria Smye, Sabrina T. Wong, Murry Krause, David Tu, Olive Godwin, Koushambhi Khan and Alycia Fridkin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:544
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  31. Uptake of e-health, the use of information communication technologies (ICT) for health service delivery, in allied health appears to be lagging behind other health care areas, despite offering the potential to...

    Authors: Teresa Iacono, Kellie Stagg, Natalie Pearce and Alana Hulme Chambers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:543
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  32. Reimbursement systems provide incentives to health care providers and may drive physician behaviour. This review assesses the impact of reimbursement system on socioeconomic and racial inequalities in access, ...

    Authors: Wenjing Tao, Janne Agerholm and Bo Burström
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:542
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  33. Our objective was to assess the efficiency of treatments in patients with localized prostate cancer, by synthesizing available evidence from European economic evaluations through systematic review.

    Authors: Virginia Becerra, Mónica Ávila, Jorge Jimenez, Laura Cortes-Sanabria, Yolanda Pardo, Olatz Garin, Angels Pont, Jordi Alonso, Francesc Cots and Montse Ferrer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:541
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  34. Socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with an increased risk of adverse diabetes outcomes. In Switzerland, a country with theoretical universal healthcare coverage, people without health insurance face barr...

    Authors: Yves Jackson, Juan Carlos Lozano Becerra and Marc Carpentier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:540
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  35. End-of-life policies are hotly debated in many countries, with international evidence frequently used to support or oppose legal reforms. Existing reviews are limited by their focus on specific practices or se...

    Authors: Yi-Sheng Chao, Antoine Boivin, Isabelle Marcoux, Geneviève Garnon, Nicholas Mays, Pascale Lehoux, Marie-Claude Prémont, Evert van Leeuwen, Raynald Pineault, Jeff Blackmer, Marie-Dominique Beaulieu, Bill Sullivan, Pierre Deschamps, Bernard Grenier, Ann Soden, Robert Delorme…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:539
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  36. Family caregivers provide the stroke survivor with social support and continuity during the transition home from a rehabilitation facility. In this exploratory study we examined family caregivers’ perceptions ...

    Authors: Andrea Ghazzawi, Craig Kuziemsky and Tracey O’Sullivan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:538
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  37. To address the impact of using multiple sources of data in the United States Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) compared to using only one source of data to identify those with neuropsychiatric diagnoses.

    Authors: Sophia Miryam Schüssler-Fiorenza Rose, Dawei Xie, Joel E. Streim, Qiang Pan, Pui L. Kwong and Margaret G. Stineman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:537
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  38. Priority setting and resource allocation in healthcare organizations often involves the balancing of competing interests and values in the context of hierarchical and politically complex settings with multiple...

    Authors: Edwine W. Barasa, Susan Cleary, Mike English and Sassy Molyneux
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:536
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  39. Despite public health care being free at the point of delivery in Timor-Leste, wealthier patients access hospital care at nearly twice the rate of poorer patients. This study seeks to understand the barriers d...

    Authors: Jennifer A. Price, Ana I. F. Sousa Soares, Augustine D. Asante, Joao S. Martins, Kate Williams and Virginia L. Wiseman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:535
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  40. Despite best evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of increased intensity of exercise after stroke, current levels of therapy continue to be below those required to optimise motor recovery. We developed and...

    Authors: Louise A. Connell, Naoimh E. McMahon, Sarah F. Tyson, Caroline L. Watkins and Janice J. Eng
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:534
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  41. The pressing need to reduce burgeoning poor safety measures affecting millions worldwide has alerted World Health Assembly to set-up mechanisms to increase patient safety. In response to such needs, World Heal...

    Authors: Ahmed Al-Mandhari, Ibrahim Al-Zakwani, Samir Al-Adawi, Samra Al-Barwani and Lakshmanan Jeyaseelan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:533
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  42. Community-based primary mental health care is recommended in low and middle-income countries. The Brazilian Health System has been restructuring primary care by expanding its Family Health Strategy. Due to men...

    Authors: Karen Athié, Alice Lopes do Amaral Menezes, Angela Machado da Silva, Monica Campos, Pedro Gabriel Delgado, Sandra Fortes and Christopher Dowrick
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:532
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  43. Networks of clinical experts are increasingly being implemented as a strategy to improve health care processes and outcomes and achieve change in the health system. Few are ever formally evaluated and, when th...

    Authors: Bernadette Bea Brown, Mary Haines, Sandy Middleton, Christine Paul, Catherine D’Este, Emily Klineberg and Elizabeth Elliott
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:531
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  44. Mathematical capacity planning methods that can take account of variations in patient complexity, admission rates and delayed discharges have long been available, but their implementation in complex pathways s...

    Authors: Thomas Monks, David Worthington, Michael Allen, Martin Pitt, Ken Stein and Martin A. James
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:530
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  45. Free and charitable clinics are a critical part of America’s healthcare safety net. Although informatics tools have the potential to mitigate many of the organizational and service-related challenges facing th...

    Authors: Arielle M. Fisher, Michael Q. Ding, Harry Hochheiser and Gerald P. Douglas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:529
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  46. Thailand has reformed its healthcare to ensure fairness and universality. Previous reports comparing the fairness among the 3 main healthcare schemes, including the Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS), the Civil S...

    Authors: Sirirat Anutrakulchai, Pisaln Mairiang, Cholatip Pongskul, Kaewjai Thepsuthammarat, Chitranon Chan-on and Bandit Thinkhamrop
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:528
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  47. Private sector medicine outlets are an important provider of health services across the developing world, and are an untapped means of distributing and selling vaccines outside of childhood immunization progra...

    Authors: Julius Ho, Gladys Odhiambo, Lucy W. Meng’anyi, Rosemary M. Musuva, Joseph M. Mule, Zakayo S. Alaly, Maurice R. Odiere, Pauline N. Mwinzi and Lisa Ganley-Leal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:527
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  48. Peer interventions involving prisoners in delivering peer education and peer support in a prison setting can address health need and add capacity for health services operating in this setting. This paper repor...

    Authors: Jane South, James Woodall, Karina Kinsella and Anne-Marie Bagnall
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:525
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  49. The Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) measures social care related quality of life (SCRQoL) and can be used to measure outcomes and demonstrate impact across different social care settings. This explo...

    Authors: Ann-Marie Towers, Nick Smith, Sinead Palmer, Elizabeth Welch and Ann Netten
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:523
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  50. The consequences of annual influenza outbreaks are often underestimated by the general public. Influenza poses a serious public health threat around the world, particularly for the most vulnerable populations....

    Authors: Angela Jackson-Lee, Neil G. Barr and Glen E. Randall
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:522
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