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  1. Smoking during pregnancy is a major public health concern and an NHS priority. In 2010, 26% of UK women smoked immediately before or during their pregnancy and 12% smoked continuously. Smoking cessation suppor...

    Authors: Samantha J Fahy, Sue Cooper, Tim Coleman, Felix Naughton and Linda Bauld
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:107
  2. Safety management systems have been set up in healthcare institutions to reduce the number of adverse events. Safety management systems use a combination of activities, such as identifying and assessing safety...

    Authors: Steffie M van Schoten, Rebecca J Baines, Peter Spreeuwenberg, Martine C de Bruijne, Peter P Groenewegen, Jop Groeneweg and Cordula Wagner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:103
  3. The rapid growth of prescription drug expenditures is a major problem in South Korea. Accordingly, the South Korean government introduced a positive listing system in 2006. They also adopted various price redu...

    Authors: Green Bae, Chanmi Park, Hyejin Lee, Euna Han, Dong-Sook Kim and Sunmee Jang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:100
  4. The Integra Initiative designed, tested, and adapted protocols for peer mentorship in order to improve service providers’ skills, knowledge, and capacity to provide quality integrated HIV and sexual and reprod...

    Authors: Charity Ndwiga, Timothy Abuya, Richard Mutemwa, James Kelly Kimani, Manuela Colombini, Susannah Mayhew, Averie Baird, Ruth Wayua Muia, Jackline Kivunaga and Charlotte E Warren
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:98
  5. Patient satisfaction is a relevant prognostic factor in young persons with chronic disease and may be both age and disease specific. To assess health care quality from the patient’s view in young persons with ...

    Authors: Andrea Sadlo, Julia Altevers, Jenny Peplies, Birgit Kaltz, Martin Claßen, Alexandra Bauer, Sibylle Koletzko and Antje Timmer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:97
  6. Cost studies are paramount for demonstrating how resources have been spent and identifying opportunities for more efficient use of resources. The main objective of this study was to assess the actual dimension...

    Authors: Happiness P Saronga, Els Duysburgh, Siriel Massawe, Maxwell A Dalaba, Germain Savadogo, Pencho Tonchev, Hengjin Dong, Rainer Sauerborn and Svetla Loukanova
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:96
  7. Stroke Care Pathways (SCPs) aim to improve quality of care by providing better access to stroke units, rehabilitation centres, and home care for dependent patients. The objective of this study was to identify ...

    Authors: Kristel Gache, Henri Leleu, Gérard Nitenberg, France Woimant, Marie Ferrua and Etienne Minvielle
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:95
  8. VISION 2020 is a global initiative launched in 1999 to eliminate avoidable blindness by 2020. The objective of this study was to undertake a situation analysis of the Zambian eye health system and assess VISIO...

    Authors: Fiammetta Maria Bozzani, Ulla Kou Griffiths, Karl Blanchet and Elena Schmidt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:94
  9. Systems and processes for prescribing, supplying and administering inpatient medications can have substantial impact on medication administration errors (MAEs). However, little is known about the medication sy...

    Authors: Monsey McLeod, Zamzam Ahmed, Nick Barber and Bryony Dean Franklin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:93
  10. Colorectal cancer is among the leading causes of cancer and cancer-related mortality in the United States. The incidence and mortality associated with CRC can be reduced with preventive screening. Inadequate b...

    Authors: Bruce Pyenson, Charles Scammell and Jonah Broulette
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:92
  11. A well functioning Health Information System (HIS) is crucial for effective and efficient health service delivery. In Tanzania there is a national HIS called Mfumo wa Taarifa za Uendeshaji Huduma za Afya (MTUH...

    Authors: Miriam C Wilms, Osman Mbembela, Helen Prytherch, Peter Hellmold and Rainer Kuelker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:91
  12. Prescription opioid analgesic (POA) utilization has steeply increased globally, yet is far higher in established market economies than elsewhere. Canada features the world’s second-highest POA consumption rate...

    Authors: Benedikt Fischer, Wayne Jones and Jürgen Rehm
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:90
  13. A compelling ethical rationale supports patient engagement in healthcare research. It is also assumed that patient engagement will lead to research findings that are more pertinent to patients’ concerns and di...

    Authors: Juan Pablo Domecq, Gabriela Prutsky, Tarig Elraiyah, Zhen Wang, Mohammed Nabhan, Nathan Shippee, Juan Pablo Brito, Kasey Boehmer, Rim Hasan, Belal Firwana, Patricia Erwin, David Eton, Jeff Sloan, Victor Montori, Noor Asi, Abd Moain Abu Dabrh…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:89
  14. Pre-analytical phase of overall laboratory testing system continues to be the major source of errors that affect patient safety and health care system. One of the activities in this phase is venous blood colle...

    Authors: Mulugeta Melkie, Abel Girma and Tsegaye Tsalla
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:88
  15. In England, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) produces guidelines for the management of hypertension. In 2006, the NICE guidelines introduced an ethnic-age group algorithm based on t...

    Authors: Lena Barrera, Craig Leaper, Utz J Pape, Azeem Majeed, Marta Blangiardo and Christopher Millett
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:87
  16. In 2009, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) launched the Primary Healthcare (PHC) accreditation program to improve quality across the continuum of care. The MOPH, with the support of Accreditation C...

    Authors: Fadi El-Jardali, Randa Hemadeh, Maha Jaafar, Lucie Sagherian, Ranime El-Skaff, Reem Mdeihly, Diana Jamal and Nour Ataya
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:86
  17. Organized screening programs are more effective and equitable than opportunistic screening, yet governments face challenges to implement evidence-based programs. The objective of this study was to identify rea...

    Authors: Cecilia S Fabrizio and Christopher M Shea
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:85
  18. Cluster randomized trials are increasingly being used in healthcare evaluation to show the effectiveness of a specific intervention. Care pathways (CPs) are becoming a popular tool to improve the quality of he...

    Authors: Seval Kul, Kris Vanhaecht and Massimiliano Panella
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:84
  19. The study was conducted to determine the clinical and cost effectiveness of enhanced multi-disciplinary teams (EMDTs) vs. ‘usual care’ for the treatment of pressure ulcers in long term care (LTC) facilities in...

    Authors: Anita Stern, Nicholas Mitsakakis, Mike Paulden, Shabbir Alibhai, Josephine Wong, George Tomlinson, Ann-Sylvia Brooker, Murray Krahn and Merrick Zwarenstein
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:83
  20. Recovery post stroke is well documented in the field of stroke rehabilitation. The structure and process of rehabilitation are different between developed and developing countries. The aim of the present study...

    Authors: Anthea Rhoda, Mario Smith, Koen Putman, Ratie Mpofu, Willy DeWeerdt and Liesbet DeWit
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:82
  21. Ambulatory, community-based care for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has been found to be effective in multiple settings with high cure rates. However, little is known about patient preferences arou...

    Authors: Shona Horter, Beverley Stringer, Lucy Reynolds, Muhammad Shoaib, Samuel Kasozi, Esther C Casas, Meggy Verputten and Philipp du Cros
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:81
  22. Atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure (HF) are both common comorbid conditions of elderly patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), but published data on their associated clinical and economic outcomes...

    Authors: Shih-Yin Chen, Concetta Crivera, Michael Stokes, Luke Boulanger and Jeff Schein
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:80
  23. There is conflicting evidence regarding characteristics of patients most likely to have poor outcomes after referral to a multidisciplinary weight loss clinic. The aim of this study was to identify patient cha...

    Authors: Emma Brook, Lauren Cohen, Paul Hakendorf, Gary Wittert and Campbell Thompson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:78
  24. There is general agreement amongst major international policy makers that sustainability is a key component of health interventions in developing countries. However, there is little evidence on the factors ena...

    Authors: Karl Blanchet and Philip James
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:77
  25. The NHS spends billions of pounds annually on repeat prescriptions in primary care, but data on their extent and use is out of date. Understanding the scale of repeat prescribing and for whom it is prescribed ...

    Authors: Duncan R Petty, Arnold G Zermansky and David P Alldred
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:76
  26. The challenge of priority setting (PS) in health care within contexts of severe resource limitations has continued to receive attention. Accountability for Reasonableness (AFR) has emerged as a useful framewor...

    Authors: Joseph M Zulu, Charles Michelo, Carol Msoni, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Jens Byskov and Astrid Blystad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:75
  27. Sleep disorders are very common in the community and are estimated to affect up to 45% of the world’s population. Pharmacists are in a position to give advice and provide appropriate services to individuals wh...

    Authors: Zaswiza Mohamad Noor, Alesha J Smith, Simon S Smith and Lisa M Nissen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:74
  28. Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are a leading cause of morbidity in developed countries and represent a substantial burden on health-care resources. Many countries spent 15% to 20% of their hospital budgets to t...

    Authors: Shi Qing-ping, Jiang Xiao-dong, Ding Feng, Liu Yan, Yu Mei-ling, Zhu Jin-xiu and Zhang Shu-qiang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:73
  29. Health professionals are required to collect data from standardized tests when assessing older patients’ functional ability. Such data provide quantifiable documentation on health outcomes. Little is known, ho...

    Authors: Kariann Krohne, Sandra Torres, Åshild Slettebø and Astrid Bergland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:72
  30. To analyze the association of health care costs with predisposing, enabling, and need factors, as defined by Andersen’s behavioral model of health care utilization, in the German elderly population.

    Authors: Dirk Heider, Herbert Matschinger, Heiko Müller, Kai-Uwe Saum, Renate Quinzler, Walter Emil Haefeli, Beate Wild, Thomas Lehnert, Hermann Brenner and Hans-Helmut König
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:71
  31. Obesity is a pervasive problem and a popular subject of academic assessment. The ability to take advantage of existing data, such as administrative databases, to study obesity is appealing. The objective of ou...

    Authors: Billie-Jean Martin, Guanmin Chen, Michelle Graham and Hude Quan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:70
  32. Obesity in Canada is a growing concern, but little is known about the available services for managing obesity in adults. Our objectives were to (a) survey and describe programs dedicated to weight management a...

    Authors: Marie-Michèle Rosa Fortin, Christine Brown, Geoff DC Ball, Jean-Pierre Chanoine and Marie-France Langlois
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:69
  33. For more than two decades, integration of team-based approaches in primary care, including physicians, advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants (APRN/PA), have been recommended for improvin...

    Authors: Alexandria A Smith, Deanna Kepka and K Robin Yabroff
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:68
  34. The routine use of patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) aims to compare providers as regards the clinical need of their patients and their outcome. Simple methods of estimating recruitment rates based on ...

    Authors: Andrew Hutchings, Jenny Neuburger, Jan van der Meulen and Nick Black
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:66
  35. Global neonatal mortality remains unacceptably high. Health workers who attend to prenatal and postnatal mothers need to be knowledgeable in preventive and curative care for pregnant women and their newborn ba...

    Authors: Richard Mangwi Ayiasi, Bart Criel, Christopher Garimoi Orach, Elizabeth Nabiwemba and Patrick Kolsteren
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:65
  36. Studies on the effect of organizational factors on the involuntary admission of psychiatric patients have been few and yielded inconclusive results. The objective was to examine the importance of type of servi...

    Authors: Lars Henrik Myklebust, Knut Sørgaard and Rolf Wynn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:64
  37. There is little evidence of service user preferences to guide the commissioning and improvement of services that support life after stroke. We report the first investigation of patients’ and family carers’ pre...

    Authors: Christopher R Burton, Emily Fargher, Catrin Plumpton, Gwerfyl W Roberts, Heledd Owen and Eryl Roberts
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:63
  38. Emergency department (ED) use is costly, and especially frequent among publicly insured populations in the US, who also disproportionately encounter financial (cost/coverage-related) and non-financial/practica...

    Authors: Nathan D Shippee, Tetyana P Shippee, Erik P Hess and Timothy J Beebe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:62
  39. Advocating the need to adopt more self-management policies has brought with it an increasing demand for information about living with and making decisions about long-term conditions, with a significant potenti...

    Authors: Anne Kennedy, Anne Rogers, Christian Blickem, Gavin Daker-White and Robert Bowen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:60
  40. Implementation of World Health Organization case management guidelines for serious childhood illnesses remains a challenge in hospitals in low-income countries. Facilitators of and barriers to implementation o...

    Authors: Grace W Irimu, Alexandra Greene, David Gathara, Harrison Kihara, Christopher Maina, Dorothy Mbori-Ngacha, Dejan Zurovac, Santau Migiro and Mike English
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:59
  41. Mental health problems are often transmitted from one generation to the next. This knowledge has led to changes in Norwegian legislation, making it mandatory to assess whether or not patients have children, an...

    Authors: Camilla Lauritzen, Charlotte Reedtz, Karin TM Van Doesum and Monica Martinussen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:58
  42. Sustainability of cancer care is a crucial issue for health care systems worldwide, even more during a time of economic recession. Low-cost measures are highly desirable to contain and reduce expenditures with...

    Authors: Gianpiero Fasola, Giuseppe Aprile, Luisa Marini, Alessandro Follador, Mauro Mansutti and Manuela Miscoria
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:57
  43. The purpose of this study was to compare, from a Chinese societal perspective, the projected health benefits, costs, and cost-effectiveness of adding pneumococcal conjugate heptavalent vaccine (PCV-7) to the r...

    Authors: Datian Che, Hua Zhou, Jinchun He and Bin Wu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:56
  44. Therapy for stroke prevention in older persons with atrial fibrillation (AF) is underutilized despite evidence to support its effectiveness. To prevent stroke in this high-risk population, antithrombotic treat...

    Authors: Beata Bajorek, Parker Magin, Sarah Hilmer and Ines Krass
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:55
  45. A growing number of countries legislate for nurses to have medication prescribing authority although it is a contested issue. The UK is one of these countries, giving authority to nurses with additional qualif...

    Authors: Vari M Drennan, Robert L Grant and Ruth Harris
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:54