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  1. The Government of Lao Peoples’ Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) has embarked on a path to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) through implementation of four risk-protection schemes. One of these schemes is co...

    Authors: Sarah Alkenbrack, Bart Jacobs and Magnus Lindelow
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:521
  2. To determine whether healthcare resources are allocated fairly, it is helpful to have information on the quality of life (QoL) of patients with Unexplained Physical Symptoms (UPS) and on the costs associated w...

    Authors: Lyonne NL Zonneveld, Mirjam AG Sprangers, Cornelis G Kooiman, Adriaan van ’t Spijker and Jan JV Busschbach
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:520
  3. As resource-limited health systems evolve to address complex diseases, attention must be returned to basic primary care delivery. Limited data exists detailing the quality of general adult and adolescent prima...

    Authors: Ashwin Vasan, Manzi Anatole, Catherine Mezzacappa, Bethany L Hedt-Gauthier, Lisa R Hirschhorn, Fulgence Nkikabahizi, Marc Hagenimana, Aphrodis Ndayisaba, Felix R Cyamatare, Bonaventure Nzeyimana, Peter Drobac and Neil Gupta
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:518
  4. As health systems evolve, it is essential to evaluate their impact on the delivery of health services to socially disadvantaged populations. We evaluated the delivery of primary health services for different s...

    Authors: Simone Dahrouge, William Hogg, Natalie Ward, Meltem Tuna, Rose Anne Devlin, Elizabeth Kristjansson, Peter Tugwell and Kevin Pottie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:517
  5. We lack national and cross-national studies of physicians’ perceptions of quality of patient care, professional autonomy, and job satisfaction to inform clinicians and policymakers. This study aims to compare ...

    Authors: Reidar Tyssen, Karen S Palmer, Ingunn B Solberg, Edgar Voltmer and Erica Frank
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:516
  6. OPTIC is a mixed method Partnership for Health System Improvement (http://​www.​cihr-irsc.​gc.​ca/​e/​34348.​html) study focused on improving care for nursing home ...

    Authors: Robert Colin Reid, Garnet E Cummings, Sarah L Cooper, Stephanie L Abel, Laura J Bissell, Carole A Estabrooks, Brian H Rowe, Adrian Wagg, Peter G Norton, Mike Ertel and Greta G Cummings
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:515
  7. The Australian Government Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) funds an ongoing health promotion based program to improve use of medicines and related health services, which implements interventions that incl...

    Authors: Elizabeth E Roughead, Lisa M Kalisch Ellett, Emmae N Ramsay, Nicole L Pratt, John D Barratt, Vanessa T LeBlanc, Philip Ryan, Robert Peck, Graeme Killer and Andrew L Gilbert
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:514
  8. Timely and appropriate hospital treatment of acute cerebrovascular diseases (stroke and Transient Ischemic Attacks - TIA) improves patient outcomes. Emergency Medical Service (EMS) dispatchers who can identify...

    Authors: Assunta De Luca, Paolo Giorgi Rossi and Guido Francesco Villa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:513
  9. The national survey of parent experiences with inpatient pediatric care contribute to the Norwegian system of health care quality indicators. This article reports on the statistical association between parent ...

    Authors: Erling Solheim and Andrew M Garratt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:512
  10. Health care systems initiating major behavioral health programs often face challenges with variable implementation and uneven patient engagement. One large health care system, Veterans Health Administration (V...

    Authors: Aaron C Del Re, Matthew L Maciejewski and Alex HS Harris
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:511
  11. Over the last decade, the number of foreign citizens (FCs) in Spain has increased. There is no doubt that their health has become a relevant subject from the point of view of public healthcare. Our study aimed...

    Authors: José M Ramos, Eva M Navarrete-Muñoz, Hector Pinargote, Jaume Sastre, José M Seguí and María J Rugero
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:510
  12. People with visual disabilities have increased health needs but face worse inequity to preventive health examinations. To date, only a few nationwide studies have analyzed the utilization of preventive adult h...

    Authors: Yueh-Han Hsu, Wen-Chen Tsai and Pei-Tseng Kung
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:509
  13. Cerebrovascular diseases are the second leading cause of death worldwide and one of the health conditions which demand the highest level of social services. The aim of this study was to estimate the social cos...

    Authors: Juan Oliva-Moreno, Isaac Aranda-Reneo, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto, Almudena González-Domínguez and Álvaro Hidalgo-Vega
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:508
  14. The economic burden of diseases has become increasingly relevant to policy makers as healthcare expenditure keep rising in the face of limited and competing resources. Buruli ulcer (BU), a neglected but treata...

    Authors: Hannah Brown Amoakoh and Moses Aikins
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:507
  15. Much of research on household catastrophic medical expenses in China has focused on less developed areas and little is known about this problem in more developed areas. This study aimed to analyse the incidenc...

    Authors: Xiaohong Li, Jay J Shen, Jun Lu, Ying Wang, Mei Sun, Chengyue Li, Fengshui Chang and Mo Hao
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:506
  16. Resource consumption is a widely used proxy for severity of illness, and is often measured through a case-mix index (CMI) based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs), which is commonly linked to payment. For coun...

    Authors: Walid Ammar, Jade Khalife, Fadi El-Jardali, Jenny Romanos, Hilda Harb, Ghassan Hamadeh and Hani Dimassi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:505
  17. Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) has reached epidemic levels in the Middle East region. Despite evidence that it improves health outcomes and saves health costs, dietary counseling for T2D remains grossly under-investiga...

    Authors: Mohamad Alameddine, Lara Nasreddine, Nahla Hwalla, Yara Mourad, Hikma Shoaib, Dana Mousa and Farah Naja
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:504
  18. Training is a critical part of health information technology implementations, but little emphasis is placed on post-implementation training to support day-to-day activities. The goal of this study was to evalu...

    Authors: Christine E Bredfeldt, Elias Bruce Awad, Kenneth Joseph and Mark H Snyder
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:503
  19. Responsiveness of health care services in low and middle income countries has been given little attention. Despite being introduced over a decade ago in many developing countries, national health insurance sch...

    Authors: Shafiu Mohammed, Justo Lorenzo Bermejo, Aurélia Souares, Rainer Sauerborn and Hengjin Dong
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:502
  20. The cost to the NHS of missed or inappropriate hospital appointments is considerable. Alternative methods of appointment scheduling might be more flexible to patients’ needs without jeopardising health and ser...

    Authors: Rebecca Whear, Abdul-Kareem Abdul-Rahman, Jo Thompson-Coon, Kate Boddy, Mark G Perry and Ken Stein
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:501
  21. Although interprofessional practice (IPP) offers the potential to enhance rural health services and provide support to rural clinicians, IPP may itself be problematic due to workforce limitations and service f...

    Authors: Vicki Parker, Karen McNeil, Isabel Higgins, Rebecca Mitchell, Penelope Paliadelis, Michelle Giles and Glenda Parmenter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:500
  22. Use of teams has shown to be an important factor for organizational performance. However, research has shown that a team has to meet certain criteria and operate in a certain way to realize the potential benef...

    Authors: Anders Kvale Havig, Anders Skogstad, Marijke Veenstra and Tor Inge Romøren
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:499
  23. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) implemented the Polytrauma System of Care to meet the health care needs of military and veterans with multiple injuries returning from combat operations in Afghanis...

    Authors: Christine A Elnitsky, Elena M Andresen, Michael E Clark, Suzanne McGarity, Carmen G Hall and Robert D Kerns
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:498
  24. If multiple medical specialties are involved in treatment there is a danger of increasing risks to patient safety. This is due to the need for greater co-ordination and communication with other specialties, le...

    Authors: Rebecca J Baines, Martine C de Bruijne, Maaike Langelaan and Cordula Wagner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:497
  25. Modern-day health systems are complex, making it difficult to assure continuity of care for older persons with multi-morbidity. One way of intervening in a health system that is leading to fragmented care is b...

    Authors: Markus Gustafsson, Jimmie Kristensson, Göran Holst, Ania Willman and Doris Bohman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:496
  26. In recent years inappropriate and excessive use of clinical laboratory facilities has become a cause of concern and has led to concurrent rise in the laboratory errors and the health care costs. The aim of the...

    Authors: Muhammad Farooq Malik, Dilshad Ahmed Khan, Wafa Munir Ansari and Farooq Ahmad Khan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:495
  27. Poor interprofessional communication in hospital is deemed to cause significant patient harm. Although recognition of this issue is growing, protocols are being implemented to solve this problem without empiri...

    Authors: Merrick Zwarenstein, Kathleen Rice, Lesley Gotlib-Conn, Chris Kenaszchuk and Scott Reeves
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:494
  28. Despite a shift in diabetes care internationally from secondary to primary care, diabetes care in the Republic of Ireland remains very hospital-based. Significant variation in the facilities and resources avai...

    Authors: Máire O’Donnell, Anna de Siún, Monica O’Mullane, Diarmuid Smith, Colin Bradley, Francis M Finucane and Sean F Dinneen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:493
  29. Vending machines and shops located within health care facilities are a source of food and drinks for staff, visitors and outpatients and they have the potential to promote healthy food and drink choices. This ...

    Authors: Colin Bell, Nicole Pond, Lynda Davies, Jeryl Lynn Francis, Elizabeth Campbell and John Wiggers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:492
  30. In 2007–2008, two UK-based organisations, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, published guidelines for the management of care an...

    Authors: Suzanne M Cox, David Cromwell, Tahir Mahmood, Allan Templeton, Benedetta La Corte and Jan van der Meulen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:491
  31. Measures to protect healthcare workers where there is risk of injury or infection from medical sharps became mandatory in the European Union (EU) from May 2013. Our research objective was to estimate the net b...

    Authors: Emma Hanmore, Grant Maclaine, Fiona Garin, Alexander Alonso, Nicolas Leroy and Lewis Ruff
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:489
  32. People with HIV are living longer with potent antiretroviral therapy (ART), and HIV is increasingly complicated by other chronic medical comorbidities. The objective of this study was to explore HIV-positive p...

    Authors: Anne K Monroe, Tashi L Rowe, Richard D Moore and Geetanjali Chander
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:488
  33. Strengthening primary care is key to Hong Kong’s ongoing health system reform. Primary care remains unregulated, private sector dominated and financed mainly out-of-pocket. This study sought to examine the ass...

    Authors: Onikepe Owolabi, Zhenzhen Zhang, Xiaolin Wei, Nan Yang, Haitao Li, Samuel YS Wong, Martin CS Wong, Winnie Yip and Sian M Griffiths
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:487
  34. The move towards enhancing teamwork and interprofessional collaboration in health care raises issues regarding the management of professional boundaries and the relationship among health care providers. This q...

    Authors: Kate MacNaughton, Samia Chreim and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:486
  35. Medication reconciliation at admission, transfer and discharge has been designated as a required hospital practice to reduce adverse drug events. However, implementation challenges have resulted in poor hospit...

    Authors: Ari N Meguerditchian, Stanimira Krotneva, Kristen Reidel, Allen Huang and Robyn Tamblyn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:485
  36. This study describes the definitions of wait times and intake processes used by drug and problem gambling treatment agencies in Ontario, Canada, as well as the various strategies employed to ameliorate client ...

    Authors: Rachael V Pascoe, Brian Rush and Nooshin Khobzi Rotondi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:483
  37. Sight loss has wide ranging implications for an individual in terms of education, employment, mobility and mental health. Therefore there is a need for information and support to be provided in eye clinics at ...

    Authors: Hanna Gillespie-Gallery, Ahalya Subramanian and Miriam L Conway
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:482
  38. Prevalence studies usually depend on self-report of disease status in survey data or administrative data collections and may over- or under-estimate disease prevalence. The establishment of a linked data colle...

    Authors: Elizabeth Jean Comino, Duong Thuy Tran, Marion Haas, Jeff Flack, Bin Jalaludin, Louisa Jorm and Mark Fort Harris
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:481
  39. Cataract is the leading cause of blindness worldwide, with the greatest burden found in low-income countries. Cataract surgery is a curative and cost-effective intervention. Despite major non-governmental orga...

    Authors: Esmael Habtamu, Zebiba Eshete and Matthew J Burton
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:480
  40. Global ratings of healthcare by patients are a popular way of summarizing patients’ experiences. Summary scores can be used for comparing healthcare provider performance and provider rankings. As an alternativ...

    Authors: Maarten W Krol, Dolf de Boer, Jany JDJM Rademakers and Diana M Delnoij
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:479
  41. Understanding the relationship between organizational context and research utilization is key to reducing the research-practice gap in health care. This is particularly true in the residential long term care (...

    Authors: Matthias Hoben, Cornelia Mahler, Marion Bär, Sarah Berger, Janet E Squires, Carole A Estabrooks and Johann Behrens
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:478
  42. Ergonomic and work stress interventions rarely show long-term positive effect. The municipality participating in this study received orders from the Norwegian Labour Inspectorate due to an identified unhealthy...

    Authors: Gunn Robstad Andersen and Rolf H Westgaard
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:477
  43. Addressing the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs of young people remains a challenge for most developing countries. This study explored the perceptions and experiences of Health Service Providers (HSP...

    Authors: Pamela M Godia, Joyce M Olenja, Joyce A Lavussa, Deborah Quinney, Jan J Hofman and Nynke van den Broek
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:476
  44. Although research interest in hospital process orientation (HPO) is growing, the development of a measurement tool to assess process orientation (PO) has not been very successful yet. To view a hospital as a s...

    Authors: Pedro D Gonçalves, Marie Louise Hagenbeek and Jan M H Vissers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:475
  45. Health insurance is currently being considered as a mechanism for promoting progress to universal health coverage (UHC) in many African countries. The concept of health insurance is relatively new in Africa, i...

    Authors: Stephen Mulupi, Doris Kirigia and Jane Chuma
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:474
  46. Adverse drug events are a frequent cause of emergency department presentations. Administrative data could be used to identify patients presenting with adverse drug events for post-market surveillance, and to c...

    Authors: Corinne M Hohl, Lisa Kuramoto, Eugenia Yu, Basia Rogula, Jürgen Stausberg and Boris Sobolev
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:473
  47. The decline of the traditional U.S. shopping mall and a focus on more consumer- centered care have created an opportunity for “medical malls”. Medical malls are defined as former retail spaces repurposed for h...

    Authors: Lori Uscher-Pines, Ateev Mehrotra and Ramya Chari
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:471