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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
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    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
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  17. 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

  23. 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

  28. 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:

  29. 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
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  30. 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:

  31. 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:

  32. 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:

  33. 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
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  34. 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:

  35. 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
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  36. 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
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  37. 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:

  38. 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:

  39. Risk adjustment is crucial for comparison of outcome in medical care. Knowledge of the external factors that impact measured outcome but that cannot be influenced by the physician is a prerequisite for this ad...

    Authors: Ursula Hahn, Irmingard Neuhann, Stefanie Schmickler and Frank Krummenauer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:279
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  40. 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
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  41. 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:

  42. Disclosure of HIV status supports risk reduction and facilitates access to prevention and care services, but can be inhibited by the fear of negative repercussions. We explored the short and long-term outcomes...

    Authors: Lynn Muhimbuura Atuyambe, Eric Ssegujja, Sarah Ssali, Christopher Tumwine, Nicolate Nekesa, Annette Nannungi, Gery Ryan and Glenn Wagner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:276
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  43. Despite evidence supporting Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) as a strategy to improve pediatric care in countries with high child mortality, its implementation faces challenges related to lack...

    Authors: Anatole Manzi, Hema Magge, Bethany L Hedt-Gauthier, Annie P Michaelis, Felix R Cyamatare, Laetitia Nyirazinyoye, Lisa R Hirschhorn and Joseph Ntaganira
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:275
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  44. Oral anticancer drugs (OADs) allow treating a growing range of cancers. Despite their convenience, their acceptance by healthcare professionals and patients may be affected by medical, economical and organizat...

    Authors: Laure Benjamin, Valérie Buthion, Gwenaëlle Vidal-Trécan and Pascal Briot
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:274
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  45. Public and patient involvement in the different stages of the health technology assessment (HTA) process is increasingly encouraged. The selection of topics for assessment, which includes identifying and prior...

    Authors: Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Bernard Candas, Marie Desmartis, Johanne Gagnon, Daniel La Roche, Marc Rhainds, Martin Coulombe, Mylène Tantchou Dipankui and France Légaré
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:273
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  46. People living in rural and remote locations are disadvantaged in accessing palliative care. This can be attributed to several factors including the role diversity and the low numbers of patients with specific ...

    Authors: Robin A Ray, Ofra Fried and Daniel Lindsay
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:272
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. The purpose of this scoping review was to describe how three tenants of patient-centered care provision: communication, partnership, and health promotion are addressed in patient-centered care models/framework...

    Authors: Marissa K Constand, Joy C MacDermid, Vanina Dal Bello-Haas and Mary Law
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:271
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  48. The quality of care delivered and clinical outcomes of care are of paramount importance. Wide variations in the outcome of emergency care have been suggested, but the scale of variation, and the way in which o...

    Authors: Peter James Edward Holt, Sidhartha Sinha, Baris Ata Ozdemir, Alan Karthikesalingam, Jan Dominik Poloniecki and Matt Merfyn Thompson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:270
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. In 2009, the Chinese Central Communist Party and the China State Council started to implement comprehensive healthcare reforms. The first round of reforms, involving Anhui province, was from 2009 to 2011, and ...

    Authors: Qing Liu, Xin Tian, Jiang Tian and Xinping Zhang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:268
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  50. HIV testing and counseling (HTC) remains critical in the global efforts to reach a goal of universal access to prevention and timely human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment and health care. Routine HIV te...

    Authors: Golda Dokuaa Kwapong, Daniel Boateng, Peter Agyei-Baffour and Ernestina A Addy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:267
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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