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  1. This paper examines NHS secondary care contracting in England and Wales in a period which saw increasing policy divergence between the two systems. At face value, England was making greater use of market lever...

    Authors: David Hughes, Pauline Allen, Shane Doheny, Christina Petsoulas and Peter Vincent-Jones
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13(Suppl 1):S7
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  2. The article explores the implications of personal budgets within English social care services, which position the individual as market actor. Rooting the research in the broader personalization agenda, the stu...

    Authors: Catherine Needham
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13(Suppl 1):S5
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  3. Historically, primary medical care in the UK has been delivered by general practitioners who are independent contractors, operating under a contract, which until 2004 was subject to little performance manageme...

    Authors: Anna Coleman, Kath Checkland, Imelda McDermott and Stephen Harrison
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13(Suppl 1):S3
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  4. Over the past three decades, a limited range of market like mechanisms have been introduced into the hierarchically structured English National Health Service (‘NHS’), which is a nationally tax funded, budget ...

    Authors: Pauline Allen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13(Suppl 1):S1
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  5. Prevention and treatment of medical issues are the main task of a health service at a youth camp. However, only few reports about organisation and implementation of camp health care are available. This makes i...

    Authors: Ib Jammer, Christina Allansdotter Andersson, Anna Lindholm Olinder, Bo Selander, Anna Elmerfeldt Wallinder and Stefan Rocco Hansson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:187
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  7. Persons with longstanding substance abuse might become increasingly dependent on help by the public, eventually requiring permanent care. In 2006 the municipality of Stavanger established a so-called addiction...

    Authors: Corinna Vossius, Ingelin Testad, Rune Skjæveland and Sverre Nesvåg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:185
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. There is limited evidence of the unmet needs and experiences of adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in the published scientific literature. This study aimed to explore the experiences o...

    Authors: Lauren Matheson, Philip Asherson, Ian Chi Kei Wong, Paul Hodgkins, Juliana Setyawan, Rahul Sasane and Sarah Clifford
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:184
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  9. The problem posed by therapeutic injection is a clinical practice issue that influences health care quality and patient safety. Although sufficient government subsidy was one of the 12 key interventions to pro...

    Authors: Yuqing Tang, Xiaopeng Zhang, Chunyan Yang, Lianping Yang, Hongtao Wang and Xinping Zhang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:183
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  10. Ethnic minority groups have higher prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). We assessed general practitioners’ (GPs’) performance with respect to the pharmacological prev...

    Authors: Anh T Tran, Jørund Straand, Ingvild Dalen, Kåre I Birkeland, Tor Claudi, John G Cooper, Haakon E Meyer and Anne K Jenum
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:182
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. To report results obtained by combining risk sharing tools with post-adoption surveillance mechanisms in order to control quality of care and implement a value-based reimbursement scheme for Neuro-reflexothera...

    Authors: Carlos Campillo-Artero and Francisco M Kovacs
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:181
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. There are significant health status inequalities in Australia between those people living in rural and remote locations and people living in metropolitan centres. Since almost ninety percent of the population ...

    Authors: Timothy A Carey, John Wakerman, John S Humphreys, Penny Buykx and Melissa Lindeman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:178
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  17. Workarounds circumvent or temporarily ‘fix’ perceived workflow hindrances to meet a goal or to achieve it more readily. Behaviours fitting the definition of workarounds often include violations, deviations, pr...

    Authors: Deborah S Debono, David Greenfield, Joanne F Travaglia, Janet C Long, Deborah Black, Julie Johnson and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:175
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  18. In Tanzania, half of all pregnant women access a health facility for delivery. The proportion receiving skilled care at birth is even lower. In order to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, the government ...

    Authors: Lilian T Mselle, Karen Marie Moland, Abu Mvungi, Bjorg Evjen-Olsen and Thecla W Kohi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:174
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  19. Major depressive disorder (MDD) constitutes an important public health problem, as it is highly prevalent in the industrialized world and it is associated with substantial economic consequences for patients, h...

    Authors: Nikos Maniadakis, Georgia Kourlaba, Theodoros Mougiakos, Ioannis Chatzimanolis and Linus Jonsson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:173
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. Whether activity-based financing of hospitals creates incentives to treat more patients and to reduce the length of each hospital stay is an empirical question that needs investigation. This paper examines how...

    Authors: Jun Yin, Hilde Lurås, Terje P Hagen and Fredrik A Dahl
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:172
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  21. The integration of HIV care into primary care services is one of the strategies proposed to increase access to treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS in high HIV burden countries. However, how best to do th...

    Authors: Kerry Uebel, Andy Guise, Daniella Georgeu, Christopher Colvin and Simon Lewin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:171
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  22. To promote rational drug use in developing countries, it is important to assess drug use pattern using the World Health Organization (WHO) drug use indicators. The aim of this study was to assess the drug pres...

    Authors: Anteneh Assefa Desalegn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:170
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  23. Cancer registries help to decrease the burden of cancers by collecting accurate and complete data. We aimed to measure the completeness of coverage of information recorded between 2000 and 2009 in a cancer reg...

    Authors: Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, Zahra Khosravizadegan, Abbas Rezaianzadeh, Behnam Honarvar, Mohsen Moghadami, Hossein Faramarzi, Mojtaba Mahmoodi, Mahin Farahmand, Seyed Masoom Masoompour and Bahman Nazemzadegan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:169
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  24. Because of the current emphasis and enthusiasm focused on integration of health systems, there is a risk of piling resources into integrated strategies without the necessary systems in place to monitor their p...

    Authors: Heidi W Reynolds and Elizabeth G Sutherland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:168
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  25. Smoking, poor nutrition, risky alcohol use, and physical inactivity are the primary behavioral risks for common causes of mortality and morbidity. Evidence and guidelines support routine clinician delivery of ...

    Authors: Kathleen M McElwaine, Megan Freund, Elizabeth M Campbell, Jenny Knight, Jennifer A Bowman, Emma L Doherty, Paula M Wye, Luke Wolfenden, Christophe Lecathelinais, Scott McLachlan and John H Wiggers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:167
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  26. Despite attempts from the government to improve ante- and perinatal care, Afghanistan has once again been labeled “the worst country in which to be a mom” in Save the Children’s World’s Mothers’ Report. This s...

    Authors: Zuhal Rahmani and Mette Brekke
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:166
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  27. Evidence-based practice (EBP) is emphasized to increase the quality of care and patient safety. EBP is often described as a process consisting of distinct activities including, formulating questions, searching...

    Authors: Anne-Marie Boström, Ann Rudman, Anna Ehrenberg, Jens Petter Gustavsson and Lars Wallin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:165
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  28. Chronic illness is a significant driver of the global burden of disease and associated health care costs. People living with severe chronic illness are heavy users of acute hospital services; better coordinati...

    Authors: Natalie Plant, Kylie-Ann Mallitt, Patrick J Kelly, Tim Usherwood, James Gillespie, Steven Boyages, Stephen Jan, Justin McNab, Beverley M Essue, Kathy Gradidge, Nereus Maranan, David Ralphs, Clive Aspin and Stephen Leeder
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:164
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  29. Specialist health services are often organised on a regionalised basis whereby clinical resources and expertise are concentrated in areas of high population. Through a high volume caseload, regionalised facili...

    Authors: Lauren M Thompson, Nigel R Armfield, Anthony Slater, Christian Mattke, Michele Foster and Anthony C Smith
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:163
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  30. International guidelines recommend that the decision threshold for troponin should be the 99th percentile of a normal population, or, if the laboratory assay is not sufficiently precise at this low level, the lev...

    Authors: Monika M Safford, Gaurav Parmar, Codrin S Barasch, Jewell H Halanych, Stephen P Glasser, David C Goff, Ronald J Prineas and Todd M Brown
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:162
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  31. Autoimmune Hepatitis is a chronic liver disease which affects young people and can result in liver failure leading to death or transplantation yet there is a lack of information on the incidence and prevalence...

    Authors: Fumi Varyani, Timothy Card, Philip Kaye, Guru P Aithal and Joe West
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:161
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  32. Depression is a psychiatric condition that affects approximately one in five U.S. adults in their lifetime. No study that we know of has examined depressive symptoms and health service deficits in rural compar...

    Authors: Krista L Huot, May Nawal Lutfiyya, Michael F Akers, Maria L Amaro, Michael T Swanoski and Sarah K Schweiss
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:160
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  33. Clinical practice guidelines have been developed to assist healthcare practitioners in clinical decision making. Publication of clinical practice guidelines does not automatically lead to their uptake and barr...

    Authors: Philip J van der Wees, Cor AM Zagers, Sara E de Die, Erik JM Hendriks, Maria WG Nijhuis-van der Sanden and Rob A de Bie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:159
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  34. Bridges, brokers and boundary spanners facilitate transactions and the flow of information between people or groups who either have no physical or cognitive access to one another, or alternatively, who have no...

    Authors: Janet C Long, Frances C Cunningham and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:158
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  35. The patterns of health service use by rural and remote residents are poorly understood and under-represented in national surveys. This paper examines professional and non-professional service use for mental he...

    Authors: David Perkins, Jeffrey Fuller, Brian J Kelly, Terry J Lewin, Michael Fitzgerald, Clare Coleman, Kerry J Inder, John Allan, Dinesh Arya, Russell Roberts and Richard Buss
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:157
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  37. Patient-centred care emerged in the late 1960s as a framework to guide providers and decision-makers towards the provision of more effective health care and better outcomes. An important body of literature has...

    Authors: Josée G Lavoie, Sabrina T Wong, Meck Chongo, Annette J Browne, Martha LP MacLeod and Cathy Ulrich
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:155
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  38. Commitments to community participation are common in health policy, yet ways to maximise the input and impact of community representatives in health service delivery and care remain elusive, lack empirical evi...

    Authors: Sally Nathan, Jeffrey Braithwaite and Niamh Stephenson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:154
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is common and leads to significant morbidity and mortality. Although screening with fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) or endoscopy has been shown to decrease CRC mortality, screening ra...

    Authors: David W Baker, Tiffany Brown, David R Buchanan, Jordan Weil, Kenzie A Cameron, Lauren Ranalli, M Rosario Ferreira, Quinn Stephens, Kate Balsley, Shira N Goldman and Michael S Wolf
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:153
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  40. In Taiwan, the policy of catastrophic illness certificates has benefited some populations with specific diseases, but its effect on the use of medical services and the sequence of public health has not been ex...

    Authors: Yang Nan-Ping, Lee Yi-Hui, Chung Chi-Yu, Hsu Jin-Chyr, Yu I-Liang, Chang Nien-Tzu and Chan Chien-Lung
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:152
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  41. Catheter associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is one of the most commonly acquired health care associated infections within the United States. We examined the implementation of an initiative to prevent C...

    Authors: Molly Harrod, Christine P Kowalski, Sanjay Saint, Jane Forman and Sarah L Krein
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:151
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  42. The purpose of the analysis was to develop a health economic model to estimate the costs and health benefits of alternative National Health Service (NHS) service configurations for people with longer-term depr...

    Authors: Jonathan Tosh, Ben Kearns, Alan Brennan, Glenys Parry, Thomas Ricketts, David Saxon, Alexis Kilgarriff-Foster, Anna Thake, Eleni Chambers and Rebecca Hutten
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:150
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  43. In Burkina Faso, Ghana and Tanzania strong efforts are being made to improve the quality of maternal and neonatal health (MNH) care. However, progress is impeded by challenges, especially in the area of human ...

    Authors: Helen Prytherch, Moubassira Kagoné, Gifty A Aninanya, John E Williams, Deodatus CV Kakoko, Melkidezek T Leshabari, Maurice Yé, Michael Marx and Rainer Sauerborn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:149
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  44. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR) initiated a unique instrument to audit the quality of patient notes and radiotherapy prescriptions. We present our experience collected ove...

    Authors: Bardia Taghavi Bayat, Suki Gill, Shankar Siva, Keen Hun Tai, Michael Lim Joon and Farshad Foroudi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:148
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Referral rates of general practitioners (GPs) are an important determinant of secondary care utilization. The variation in these rates across GPs is considerable, and cannot be explained by patient morbidity a...

    Authors: Unni Ringberg, Nils Fleten, Trygve S Deraas, Toralf Hasvold and OlavHelge Førde
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:147
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  46. In the Canadian context, health care services are governed by the Canada Health Act, which ensures that primary care doctors, specialists, hospitals and dental surgeries are covered through provincial health i...

    Authors: Daniel W Harrington, Kathi Wilson, Mark Rosenberg and Scott Bell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:146
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  47. To develop a healthcare environment that is congruent with diversity among care providers and care recipients and to eliminate ethnic discrimination, it’s important to map out and assess caregivers’ awareness ...

    Authors: Azita Emami and Jalal Safipour
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:145
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  48. Recent initiatives within an Australia public healthcare service have seen a focus on increasing the research capacity of their workforce. One of the key initiatives involves encouraging clinicians to be resea...

    Authors: Emma Finch, Petrea Cornwell, Elizabeth C Ward and Steven M McPhail
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:144
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Older recently widowed women are faced with increased health risks and chronic conditions associated not only with bereavement, but also, older age. Loss and grief, adjusting to living alone, decreased income,...

    Authors: Michelle DiGiacomo, Joanne Lewis, Marie T Nolan, Jane Phillips and Patricia M Davidson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:143
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  50. GP led walk-in centres were established in the UK in 2009. Around 150 such clinics were initially planned to open. Their purpose is to provide a primary health care service to complement the urgent care servic...

    Authors: Mubashir Arain, Jon Nicholl and Mike Campbell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:142
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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