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  1. Abortion is restricted in Uganda, and poor access to contraceptive methods result in unwanted pregnancies. This leaves women no other choice than unsafe abortion, thus placing a great burden on the Ugandan hea...

    Authors: Mandira Paul, Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson, Charles Kiggundu, Rebecka Namugenyi and Marie Klingberg-Allvin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:28
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  2. There is a need to reduce symptoms, exacerbations and improve quality of life for patients with respiratory diseases. Across the world, increasing numbers of nurses are adopting the prescribing role and can po...

    Authors: Nicola Carey, Karen Stenner and Molly Courtenay
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:27
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  3. In Finland diabetologists have long been concerned about the level of diabetes care as the incidence of type 1 diabetes and complicated type 2 diabetes is exceeding the capacity of specialist clinics. We compa...

    Authors: Mikko T Honkasalo, Miika Linna, Timo Sane, Atte Honkasalo and Outi Elonheimo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:26
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  4. Regional rates of hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) are used to compare the availability and quality of ambulatory care but the risk adjustment for population health status is oft...

    Authors: Yves Eggli, Béatrice Desquins, Erol Seker and Patricia Halfon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:25
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  5. As in many countries around the world, there are high expectations on academic health science centres and networks in England to provide high-quality care, innovative research, and world-class education, while...

    Authors: Pavel V Ovseiko, Axel Heitmueller, Pauline Allen, Stephen M Davies, Glenn Wells, Gary A Ford, Ara Darzi and Alastair M Buchan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:24
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  6. Despite limited evidence of its effectiveness, performance-based payments (P4P) are seen by leading policymakers as a potential solution to the slow progress in reaching Millennium Development Goal 5: improved...

    Authors: Victor Chimhutu, Ida Lindkvist and Siri Lange
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:23
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  7. Public health resources are often deployed in developing countries by foreign governments, national governments, civil society and the private health clinics, but seldom in ways that are coordinated within a p...

    Authors: James C Thomas, Heidi Reynolds, Christine Bevc and Ademe Tsegaye
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:22
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  8. The aim of this research was to investigate factors affecting different family members’ decisions regarding the placement of relatives in long-term car (LTC) facilities in Taiwan. The objective was to investig...

    Authors: Ying-Chia Huang, Chiao-Lee Chu, Ching-Sung Ho, Shou-Jen Lan, Chen-Hsi Hsieh and Yen-Ping Hsieh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:21
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  9. The utilisation of good design practices in the development of complex health services is essential to improving quality. Healthcare organisations, however, are often seriously out of step with modern design t...

    Authors: Gyuchan Thomas Jun, Cecily Morrison and P John Clarkson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:20
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  10. Health care professionals, including physicians, are at high risk of encountering workplace violence. At the same time physician turnover is an increasing problem that threatens the functioning of the health c...

    Authors: Tarja Heponiemi, Anne Kouvonen, Marianna Virtanen, Jukka Vänskä and Marko Elovainio
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:19
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  11. Family caregivers provide invaluable support to stroke survivors during their recovery, rehabilitation, and community re-integration. Unfortunately, it is not standard clinical practice to prepare and support ...

    Authors: Jill I Cameron, Gary Naglie, Monique A M Gignac, Mark Bayley, Grace Warner, Theresa Green, Anna Czerwonka, Maria Huijbregts, Frank L Silver, Steve J Phillips and Angela M Cheung
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:18
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  12. This study assessed the validity of the Resident Assessment Instrument Minimum Data Set (RAI-MDS) Version 2.0 for diagnoses of diabetes and comorbid conditions in residents of long-term care facilities (LTCFs).

    Authors: Lisa M Lix, Lin Yan, David Blackburn, Nianping Hu, Verena Schneider-Lindner and Gary F Teare
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:17
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  13. Periodic physical examination is considered helpful in preventing illness and promoting health among the elderly. Limited information is available about the use of annual physical examinations among the elderl...

    Authors: Xi Sun, Yingchun Chen, Xuetao Tong, Zhanchun Feng, Li Wei, Donghua Zhou, Miaomiao Tian, Benyan Lv and Da Feng
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:16
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  14. Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) using sulphurdoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) is one of key malaria control strategies in Africa. Yet, IPTp coverage rates across Africa are still low ...

    Authors: Godfrey M Mubyazi and Paul Bloch
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:15
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  15. Case management interventions have been widely used in the care of frail older people. Such interventions often contain components that may act both independently of each other and interdependently, which make...

    Authors: Magnus Sandberg, Ulf Jakobsson, Patrik Midlöv and Jimmie Kristensson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:14
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  16. Understanding dentists’ capacity to supply dental services over time is a key element in the process of planning for the future. The aim was to identify time trends and estimate age, period and cohort effects ...

    Authors: Xiangqun Ju, David S Brennan and A John Spencer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:13
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  17. Blood samples are usually collected daily from different collection points, such hospitals and health centers, and transported to a core laboratory for testing. This paper presents a project to improve the col...

    Authors: Alex Grasas, Helena Ramalhinho, Luciana S Pessoa, Mauricio GC Resende, Imma Caballé and Nuria Barba
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:12
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  19. The period following hospital discharge is a vulnerable time for patients when errors and poorly coordinated care are common. Suboptimal care transitions for patients admitted with cardiovascular conditions ca...

    Authors: Abby G Meyers, Amanda Salanitro, Kenneth A Wallston, Courtney Cawthon, Eduard E Vasilevskis, Kathryn M Goggins, Corinne M Davis, Russell L Rothman, Liana D Castel, Katharine M Donato, John F Schnelle, Susan P Bell, Jonathan S Schildcrout, Chandra Y Osborn, Frank E Harrell and Sunil Kripalani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:10
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  20. The assessment of the quality of mammography services delivered in organized breast cancer screening programs should include measures centered on women’s perceptions. The objective of this study was to develop...

    Authors: Isabelle Bairati, Stéphane Turcotte, Geneviève Doray, France Belleau and Louise Grégoire
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:9
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  21. Over the last decade healthcare management and managers have increasingly been in focus in public debate. The purpose of the present study was to gain a deeper understanding of how prolonged, unfavorable media...

    Authors: Maria Wramsten Wilmar, Gunnar Ahlborg Jr, Christian Jacobsson and Lotta Dellve
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:8
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  22. Achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of improving maternal health has become a focus in recent times for the majority of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Ghana’s maternal mortality is still high ind...

    Authors: Emmanuel Banchani and Eric Y Tenkorang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:7
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Statins are among the most commonly prescribed drugs worldwide in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases and their effectiveness is largely acknowledged. The consumption of statins increased four-fold durin...

    Authors: Gianfranco Damiani, Bruno Federico, Angela Anselmi, Caterina Bianca Neve Aurora Bianchi, Giulia Silvestrini, Lanfranco Iodice, Pierluigi Navarra, Roberto Da Cas, Roberto Raschetti and Walter Ricciardi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:6
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  24. Carers provide extended and often unrecognized support to people with cancer. The aim of this study is to test the hypothesis that excessive carer burden is modifiable through a telephone outcall intervention ...

    Authors: Patricia M Livingston, Richard H Osborne, Mari Botti, Cathy Mihalopoulos, Sean McGuigan, Leila Heckel, Kate Gunn, Jacquie Chirgwin, David M Ashley and Melinda Williams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:5
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  25. Continuity in the context of healthcare refers to the perception of the client that care has been connected and coherent over time. For over a decade professionals providing maternity and child and family heal...

    Authors: Kim Psaila, Virginia Schmied, Cathrine Fowler and Sue Kruske
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:4
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  26. The duration between first symptom and a cancer diagnosis is important because, if shortened, may lead to earlier stage diagnosis and improved cancer outcomes. We have previously developed a tool to measure th...

    Authors: Richard D Neal, Sadia Nafees, Diana Pasterfield, Kerenza Hood, Maggie Hendry, Simon Gollins, Matthew Makin, Nick Stuart, Jim Turner, Ben Carter, Clare Wilkinson, Nefyn Williams and Mike Robling
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:3
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  27. The gap between research and practice or policy is often described as a problem. To identify new barriers of and facilitators to the use of evidence by policymakers, and assess the state of research in this ar...

    Authors: Kathryn Oliver, Simon Innvar, Theo Lorenc, Jenny Woodman and James Thomas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:2
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  28. Knowledge regarding the best approaches to improving the quality of healthcare and their implementation is lacking in many resource-limited settings. The Medical Department of Kamuzu Central Hospital in Malawi...

    Authors: Josephine Nana Afrakoma Agyeman-Duah, Antje Theurer, Charles Munthali, Noor Alide and Florian Neuhann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:1
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  29. Crack use is prevalent across the Americas, and specifically among marginalized urban street drug users in Brazil. Crack users commonly feature multiple physical and mental health problems, while low rates of ...

    Authors: Marcelo Santos Cruz, Tarcisio Andrade, Francisco I Bastos, Erotildes Leal, Neilane Bertoni, Lara Lipman, Chantal Burnett and Benedikt Fischer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:536
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  30. Patient-Physician language discordance occurs when the patient and physician lack proficiency in the same language(s). Previous literature suggests language discordant clinical encounters compromise patient qu...

    Authors: Jennifer Sears, Kamran Khan, Chris I Ardern and Hala Tamim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:535
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  31. Universal access to information for health professionals is a need to achieve “health for all strategy.” A large proportion of the population including health professionals have limited access to health inform...

    Authors: Mulusew Andualem, Gashaw Kebede and Abera Kumie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:534
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  32. Improved prevention and management of vascular disease is a global priority. Non-health care professionals (such as, ‘lay health workers’ and ‘peer support workers’) are increasingly being used to offer teleph...

    Authors: Nicola Small, Christian Blickem, Tom Blakeman, Maria Panagioti, Carolyn A Chew-Graham and Peter Bower
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:533
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  33. Medical barriers refer to unnecessary policies or procedures imposed by health care providers that are not necessarily medically advised; these restrictions impede clients’ access to family planning (FP). This...

    Authors: Lisa M Calhoun, Ilene S Speizer, Rajiv Rimal, Pooja Sripad, Nilesh Chatterjee, Pranita Achyut and Priya Nanda
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:532
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  34. Patient-centered care ideally considers patient preferences, values and needs. However, it is unclear if policies such as wait time strategies for hip and knee replacement surgery (TJR) are patient-centred as ...

    Authors: Fiona Webster, Anthony V Perruccio, Richard Jenkinson, Susan Jaglal, Emil Schemitsch, James P Waddell, Samantha Bremner, Melanie Hammond Mobilio, Viji Venkataramanan and Aileen M Davis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:531
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  35. The health care quality improvement movement is a complex enterprise. Implementing clinical quality initiatives requires attitude and behaviour change on the part of clinicians, but this has proven to be diffi...

    Authors: Wendy Lipworth, Natalie Taylor and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:530
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  36. Bearing in mind the increasing health expenses and their weight in the Portuguese gross domestic product, it is of the utmost importance to evaluate the performance of Primary Health Care providers taking into...

    Authors: Cláudia Ferreira, Rui C Marques and Paulo Nicola
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:529
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  37. Internationally, key health care reform elements rely on improved integration of care between the primary and secondary sectors. The objective of this systematic review is to synthesise the existing published ...

    Authors: Caroline Nicholson, Claire Jackson and John Marley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:528
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  38. The aim of this study was to assess the cost-effectiveness of administering magnesium sulphate to patients in whom preterm birth at < 32+0 weeks gestation is either imminent or threatened for the purpose of fetal...

    Authors: Celeste D Bickford, Laura A Magee, Craig Mitton, Marie Kruse, Anne R Synnes, Diane Sawchuck, Melanie Basso, Vyta M Senikas and Peter von Dadelszen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:527
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  39. Many households in sub-Saharan Africa utilize the private sector as a primary source of treatment for malaria episodes. Expanding access to effective treatment in private drug shops may help reduce incidence o...

    Authors: Peter S Larson, Prashant Yadav, Sarah Alphs, Jean Arkedis, Julius Massaga, Oliver Sabot and Jessica L Cohen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:526
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains a major health concern for Aboriginal Australians. A key component of RHD control is prevention of recurrent acute rheumatic fever (ARF) using long-term secondary prophyla...

    Authors: Anna P Ralph, Marea Fittock, Rosalie Schultz, Dale Thompson, Michelle Dowden, Tom Clemens, Matthew G Parnaby, Michele Clark, Malcolm I McDonald, Keith N Edwards, Jonathan R Carapetis and Ross S Bailie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:525
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  41. Globalization has facilitated the employability of doctors almost anywhere in the world. In recent years, the migration of doctors seems to have increased. However, we lack studies on doctors’ migration from d...

    Authors: Ingunn Bjarnadóttir Solberg, Kristinn Tómasson, Olaf Aasland and Reidar Tyssen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:524
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  42. There is co-morbidity between parental depression and childhood conduct disorder. The Incredible Years (IY) parenting programmes reduce both conduct disorder in children and depression in their parents. Recent...

    Authors: Joanna M Charles, Tracey J Bywater, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Judy Hutchings and Lu Zou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:523
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  43. Chemotherapy administration is a high-risk process. Aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency, type, preventability, as well as potential and actual severity of outpatient chemotherapy prescribing errors...

    Authors: Marianna Aita, Ornella Belvedere, Elisa De Carlo, Laura Deroma, Federica De Pauli, Lorena Gurrieri, Angela Denaro, Loris Zanier and Gianpiero Fasola
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:522
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  44. 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
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  45. 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
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  46. China in 2009 committed to reach universal health coverage by promoting three forms of health insurance; NCMS for the rural population, UEBMI for formally employed urban residents and URBMI for other urban res...

    Authors: Chiyu Ye, Shengnan Duan, Yuan Wu, Huimei Hu, Xiaofang Liu, Hua You, Linghao Wang, Lennart Bogg and Hengjin Dong
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:519
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  47. 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
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  48. 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
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  49. 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
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  50. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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