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  1. Authors: Siobhan O’Connor, John O’Donoghue, Joe Gallagher and Tiwonge Kawonga
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14(Suppl 2):3323
    Content type: Poster presentation Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 2

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:116

  2. Parents of children and young people with long-term conditions who need to deliver clinical care to their child at home with remote support from hospital-based professionals, often search the internet for care...

    Authors: Ian Carolan, Trish Smith, Andy Hall and Veronica M Swallow
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:292
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. The burden experienced by spouses of patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) may have negative consequences for their physical health. We describe here a method for analyzing United States Medicare records to d...

    Authors: Daniel M Gilden, Joanna M Kubisiak, Kristin Kahle-Wrobleski, Daniel E Ball and Lee Bowman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:291
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. Authors: Terry Haines, Elizabeth Skinner, Deb Mitchell, Lisa O’Brien, Kelly Bowles, Donna Markham, Samantha Plumb, Timothy Chui, Kerry May, Romi Haas, David Lescai, Kathleen Philip and Fiona McDermott
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14(Suppl 2):P53
    Content type: Poster presentation Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 2

  27. Authors: Reinhard Huss, Mahua Das, Bassey Ebenso, Bindiya Rawat, Obinna Onwujekwe, Giuliano Russo, Lucie Blok, Putthasri Weerasak and Tolib Mirzoev
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14(Suppl 2):P27
    Content type: Poster presentation Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 2

  38. Medication reconciliation can reduce adverse events associated with prescribing errors at transitions between sites of care. Though a U.S. Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goal since 2006, at present o...

    Authors: Sadie H Sanchez, Sanjum S Sethi, Susan L Santos and Kenneth Boockvar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:290
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Avoidable hospitalizations (AH) are hospital admissions for diseases and conditions that could have been prevented by appropriate ambulatory care. We examine regional variation of AH in Switzerland and the fac...

    Authors: Claudia Berlin, André Busato, Thomas Rosemann, Sima Djalali and Maud Maessen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:289
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. The prevalence of schizophrenia and depression in the United States is far higher among Medicaid recipients than in the general population. Individuals suffering from mental illness, including schizophrenia an...

    Authors: Gregory D Berg, Shawn Donnelly, Kathleen Warnick, Wendie Medina and Mary Miller
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:288
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. This paper examines the Willingness to Pay (WTP) for a quality-adjusted life year (QALY) expressed by people who attended the healthcare system as well as the association of attitude towards risk and other per...

    Authors: Jesus Martín-Fernández, Elena Polentinos-Castro, Ma Isabel del Cura-González, Gloria Ariza-Cardiel, Victor Abraira, Ana Isabel Gil-LaCruz and Sonia García-Pérez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:287
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. For patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), previous research identified key disease sequelae as important cost drivers and suggested that among users of disease-modifying drugs (DMDs) in 2004, DMDs represented...

    Authors: Cathryn A Carroll, Kathleen A Fairman and Maureen J Lage
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:286
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Chlamydia infections are notified at much higher rates in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people compared to non-Indigenous people. The Australian Collaboration Chlamydia Enhanced Sentinel Surveillanc...

    Authors: James Ward, Jane Goller, Hammad Ali, Anna Bowring, Sophia Couzos, Mark Saunders, Phyllis Yau, John M Kaldor, Margaret Hellard, Rebecca J Guy and Basil Donovan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:285
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Osteoporotic fractures cause a large health burden and substantial costs. This study estimated the expected fracture numbers and costs for the remaining lifetime of postmenopausal women in Germany.

    Authors: Florian Bleibler, Kilian Rapp, Andrea Jaensch, Clemens Becker and Hans-Helmut König
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:284
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Children with medical complexity (CMC) are characterized by substantial family-identified service needs, chronic and severe conditions, functional limitations, and high health care use. Information exchange is...

    Authors: Laura Quigley, Ashley Lacombe-Duncan, Sherri Adams, Charlotte Moore Hepburn and Eyal Cohen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:283
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. The ‘resource readiness’ of health facilities to provide effective services is captured in the structure component of the classical Donabedian paradigm often used for assessment of the quality of care in the h...

    Authors: Naomi Muinga, Philip Ayieko, Charles Opondo, Stephen Ntoburi, Jim Todd, Elizabeth Allen and Mike English
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:282
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. In this article we outline Burden of Treatment Theory, a new model of the relationship between sick people, their social networks, and healthcare services. Health services face the challenge of growing populat...

    Authors: Carl R May, David T Eton, Kasey Boehmer, Katie Gallacher, Katherine Hunt, Sara MacDonald, Frances S Mair, Christine M May, Victor M Montori, Alison Richardson, Anne E Rogers and Nathan Shippee
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:281
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  48. The increasing prevalence of diabetes is associated with increased health care use and costs. Innovations to improve the quality of care, manage the increasing demand for health care and control the growth of ...

    Authors: Amber AWA van der Heijden, Martine C de Bruijne, Talitha L Feenstra, Jacqueline M Dekker, Caroline A Baan, Judith E Bosmans, Sandra DM Bot, Gé A Donker and Giel Nijpels
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:280
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Rabies is the most severe and neglected public health problem in India. Management of animal bite with post exposure prophylaxis is the only existent strategy to prevent rabies related deaths. Cost-effective a...

    Authors: Harshal Salve, Sanjeev Kumar, Rizwan SA, Sanjay K Rai, Shashi Kant and Chandrakant S Pandav
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:278
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Since a decade, low and middle income countries have a rising trend of contracting their primary healthcare services to NGOs. In Pakistan, public sector often lacks capacity to effectively & equitably manage t...

    Authors: Sana Tanzil, Aysha Zahidie, Adeel Ahsan, Ambreen Kazi and Babar Tasneem Shaikh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:277
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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