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  1. Effective patient-centred health care requires internal participation, which is defined as interprofessional patient-centred teamwork. Many scales are designed for measuring teamwork from the perspective of on...

    Authors: Mirjam Körner and Markus A Wirtz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:374
  2. Field and community evaluation of the routine usage of CD4 T counting platforms is essential in resource-poor countries for efficient and cost-effective monitoring of HIV-infected adults and children attending...

    Authors: Donato Koyalta, Mohammad-Ali Jenabian, Barou Djouater, Noël Djemadji-Oudjeil, Francois-Xavier Mbopi-Keou, Angélique Ndjoyi-Mbiguino and Laurent Bélec
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:373
  3. Evidence on healthcare managers’ experience on operational feasibility of malaria intermittent preventive treatment for malaria during pregnancy (IPTp) using sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) in Africa is system...

    Authors: Godfrey M Mubyazi, Pascal Magnussen, Jens Byskov and Paul Bloch
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:372
  4. The number of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) agencies increases. One component of HTAs are economic aspects. To incorporate economic aspects commonly economic evaluations are performed. A convergence of re...

    Authors: Tim Mathes, Esther Jacobs, Jana-Carina Morfeld and Dawid Pieper
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:371
  5. There is an 80% prevalence of two or more psychiatric symptoms in psychogeriatric patients. Multiple psychiatric symptoms (MPS) have many negative effects on quality of life of the patient as well as on caregi...

    Authors: Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen, Ton JEM Bakker, Maiwenn Al, Jacqueline van der Lee, Hugo J Duivenvoorden, Miel W Ribbe and Robbert Huijsman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:370
  6. Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at risk of acquiring human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) and other infections via exposure to infectious patients’ blood and body fluids. The main objective of this study was to e...

    Authors: Kijakazi O Mashoto, Godfrey M Mubyazi, Emmanuel Makundi, Hussein Mohamed and Hamisi M Malebo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:369
  7. Health system weaknesses in Africa are broadly well known, constraining progress on reducing the burden of both communicable and non-communicable disease (Afr Health Monitor, Special issue, 2011, 14-24), and t...

    Authors: Rachel Jenkins, Caleb Othieno, Stephen Okeyo, Julyan Aruwa, James Kingora and Ben Jenkins
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:368
  8. Performance-based financing is increasingly being applied in a variety of contexts, with the expectation that it can improve the performance of health systems. However, while there is a growing literature on i...

    Authors: Sophie Witter, Jurrien Toonen, Bruno Meessen, Jean Kagubare, György Fritsche and Kelsey Vaughan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:367
  9. Hospital readmissions are serious and costly events, and readmission rates are considered to be an indicator of quality in health care management. Several models to identify patients at risk of unplanned readm...

    Authors: Shu Yun Tan, Lian Leng Low, Yong Yang and Kheng Hock Lee
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:366
  10. To organize tailored healthcare for people with multiple sclerosis (MS), knowledge about patterns in the use of healthcare among subgroups, such as those with depressive symptoms, is essential. Thus, the purpo...

    Authors: Charlotte Ytterberg, Sanna Lundqvist and Sverker Johansson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:365
  11. Adverse drug events (ADEs) are a considerable cause of inhospital morbidity and mortality. Patient flow differs substantially for surgical and nonsurgical patients: surgical patients are subjected to multiple ...

    Authors: Eveline B Boeker, Monica de Boer, Jordy JS Kiewiet, Loraine Lie-A-Huen, Marcel GW Dijkgraaf and Marja A Boermeester
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:364
  12. Hospital-at-home is an accepted alternative for usual hospital treatment for patients with a Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) exacerbation. The introduction of hospital-at-home may lead to changes ...

    Authors: Cecile MA Utens, Lucas MA Goossens, Onno CP van Schayck, Maureen PHM Rutten-vanMölken, Maria W Braken, Loes MGA van Eijsden and Frank WJM Smeenk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:363
  13. The functional split model of consultant psychiatrist care for inpatients has been one of the major service redesign that has occurred in the NHS in the last decade. It is unclear if this new split model offer...

    Authors: Millia Begum, Keith Brown, Anthony Pelosi, Jim Crabb, John McTaggart, Caroline Mitchell, Everett Julyan, Tony Donegan and Michael Gotz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:362
  14. In South Africa, the health service is based on a Primary Health Care (PHC) philosophy with the District Health System (DHS) as the locus of delivery. However eye care services, particularly primary eye care, ...

    Authors: Kovin S Naidoo, Kesi Naidoo, Yashika Maharaj, Prasidh Ramson, Diane Wallace and Reshma Dabideen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:361
  15. An increasing number of falls result in an emergency call and the subsequent dispatch of paramedics. In the absence of physical injury, abnormal physiological parameters or change in usual functional status, i...

    Authors: A Stefanie Mikolaizak, Paul M Simpson, Anne Tiedemann, Stephen R Lord, Gideon A Caplan, Jason C Bendall, Kirsten Howard and Jacqueline CT Close
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:360
  16. Herpes zoster (HZ) is a self-limiting painful skin rash affecting mostly individuals from 50 years of age. The main complication is postherpetic neuralgia (PHN), a long-lasting pain after rash has resolved. A ...

    Authors: Bernhard Ultsch, Felix Weidemann, Thomas Reinhold, Anette Siedler, Gérard Krause and Ole Wichmann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:359
  17. In Ghana’s health delivery services, facilitative supervisory visit (FSV) as a system of management is new. This paper presents the standard evaluation results of FSV, which formed an integral part of the comm...

    Authors: Moses Aikins, Amos Laar, Justice Nonvignon, Samuel Sackey, Takaharu Ikeda, George Woode, Alexis Nang-Beifubah and Frank Nyonator
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:358
  18. Uganda is the last East African country to adopt a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). To lessen the inequitable burden of healthcare spending, health financing reform has focused on the establishment of ...

    Authors: Robert K Basaza, Thomas S O’Connell and Ivana Chapčáková
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:357
  19. Despite well-articulated benefits, the introduction of Nurse Practitioners (NPs) in Australia has been slow. Poorly defined nomenclature relating to advanced practice roles in nursing and variations in such ro...

    Authors: Julie Li, Johanna Westbrook, Joanne Callen, Andrew Georgiou and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:356
  20. The performance management concept is relatively new to the Ugandan health sector. Uganda has been implementing health sector reforms for nearly two decades. The reforms included the introduction of the result...

    Authors: George William Lutwama, Janetta Hendrika Roos and Bethabile Lovely Dolamo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:355
  21. Patient safety has been a priority in primary healthcare in the last years. The prevailing culture is seen as an important condition for patient safety in practice and several tools to measure patient safety c...

    Authors: Natasha J Verbakel, Dorien LM Zwart, Maaike Langelaan, Theo JM Verheij and Cordula Wagner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:354
  22. Maintaining dignity is an important element of end-of-life care and also of the care given in nursing homes. Factors influencing personal dignity have been studied from both nursing home residents’ and staff’s...

    Authors: Mariska G Oosterveld-Vlug, H Roeline W Pasman, Isis E van Gennip, Dick L Willems and Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:353
  23. Clinical practice guidelines have been developed to improve the quality of health care. However, adherence to current monomorbidity-focused, mono-disciplinary guidelines may result in undesirable effects for p...

    Authors: Eva Blozik, Hendrik van den Bussche, Felix Gurtner, Ingmar Schäfer and Martin Scherer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:352
  24. Organizational context is recognized as an important influence on the successful implementation of research by healthcare professionals. However, there is relatively little empirical evidence to support this w...

    Authors: Janet E Squires, Carole A Estabrooks, Shannon D Scott, Greta G Cummings, Leslie Hayduk, Sung Hyun Kang and Bonnie Stevens
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:351
  25. During the 90s, Greece has been transformed to a host country for immigrants mostly from the Balkans and Eastern European Countries, who currently constitute approximately 9% of the total population. Despite t...

    Authors: Petros Galanis, Panayiota Sourtzi, Thalia Bellali, Mamas Theodorou, Ioanna Karamitri, Olga Siskou, Giorgos Charalambous and Daphne Kaitelidou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:350
  26. Worldwide, there has been a marked increase in the number of inguinal and femoral hernia repairs performed as day surgery procedures. This study aimed to outline the epidemiology of the procedures for repairin...

    Authors: Mario Saia, Domenico Mantoan, Alessandra Buja, Chiara Bertoncello, Tatjana Baldovin, Chiara Zanardo, Giampietro Callegaro and Vincenzo Baldo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:349
  27. Urgent referral for suspected cancer was implemented in Denmark on 1 April 2008 to reduce the secondary care interval (i.e. the time interval from the general practitioner’s first referral of a patient to seco...

    Authors: Mette Bach Larsen, Rikke Pilegaard Hansen, Dorte Gilså Hansen, Frede Olesen and Peter Vedsted
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:348
  28. Improving patient safety has become a major focus of clinical care and research over the past two decades. An institution’s patient safety climate represents an essential component of ensuring a safe environme...

    Authors: Natalie Zimmermann, Kaspar Küng, Susan M Sereika, Sandra Engberg, Bryan Sexton and René Schwendimann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:347
  29. There are few published health technology assessments that have included the impact of a disease or treatment on caregivers’ health related quality of life (HRQL). The objectives of this study were to explore ...

    Authors: Sarah Acaster, Rodolphe Perard, Deven Chauhan and Andrew J Lloyd
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:346
  30. The Zambian Defence Force (ZDF) is working to improve the quality of services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) at its health facilities. This study evaluates the impact of an intervention...

    Authors: Young Mi Kim, Maureen Chilila, Hildah Shasulwe, Joseph Banda, Webby Kanjipite, Supriya Sarkar, Eva Bazant, Cyndi Hiner, Maya Tholandi, Stephanie Reinhardt, Joyce Chongo Mulilo and Adrienne Kols
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:345
  31. Aging of the population in all western countries will challenge Emergency Departments (ED) as old patients visit these health services more frequently and present with special needs. The aim of this study is t...

    Authors: Sarah Vilpert, Hélène Jaccard Ruedin, Lionel Trueb, Stéfanie Monod-Zorzi, Bertrand Yersin and Christophe Büla
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:344
  32. Good quality spatial data on Family Physicians or General Practitioners (GPs) are key to accurately measuring geographic access to primary health care. The validity of computed associations between health outc...

    Authors: Soumya Mazumdar, Paul Konings, Danielle Butler and Ian Stewart McRae
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:343
  33. Heart failure (HF) is a frequent condition in the elderly and mortality is high. This study sought to describe the profile of those providing care in the community and their needs.

    Authors: Patricia M Davidson, Amy P Abernethy, Phillip J Newton, Katherine Clark and David C Currow
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:342
  34. Delirium is a common complication for older people in hospital. Evidence suggests that delirium incidence in hospital may be reduced by about a third through a multi-component intervention targeted at known mo...

    Authors: Mary Godfrey, Jane Smith, John Green, Francine Cheater, Sharon K Inouye and John B Young
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:341
  35. The performance of comorbidity measures for predicting mortality in chronic disease populations and using ICD-9 diagnosis codes in administrative health data has been investigated in several studies, but less ...

    Authors: Lisa M Lix, Jacqueline Quail, Opeyemi Fadahunsi and Gary F Teare
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:340
  36. Increasing incidences of cancer combined with prolonged survival have raised the need for developing community based rehabilitation. The objectives of the analysis were to describe and interpret the key issues...

    Authors: Karen la Cour and Malcolm P Cutchin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:339
  37. Professional networks are used increasingly in health care to bring together members from different sites and professions to work collaboratively. Key players within these networks are known to affect network ...

    Authors: Janet C Long, Frances C Cunningham, Peter Carswell and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:338
  38. Admission to an emergency department (ED) is a key vulnerable moment when patients are at increased risk of medication discrepancies and medication histories are an effective way of ensuring that fewer errors ...

    Authors: Jesus Becerra-Camargo, Fernando Martinez-Martinez and Emilio Garcia-Jimenez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:337
  39. Primary health care is recognised as an integral part of a country’s health care system. Measuring hospitalisations, that could potentially be avoided with high quality and accessible primary care, is one indi...

    Authors: Odette R Gibson, Leonie Segal and Robyn A McDermott
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:336
  40. Few studies have investigated the relationships between HIV-related knowledge, fear of contagion in dental environments and Oral Impacts on Daily Performance (OIDP) among dental patients. Our objectives were t...

    Authors: Elwalid F Nasir, Mihaela C Marthinussen and Anne N Åstrøm
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:335
  41. Assistive Technologies, defined as “electrical or mechanical devices designed to help people recover movement” have demonstrated clinical benefits in upper-limb stroke rehabilitation. Stroke services are becom...

    Authors: Sara Demain, Jane Burridge, Caroline Ellis-Hill, Ann-Marie Hughes, Lucy Yardley, Lisa Tedesco-Triccas and Ian Swain
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:334
  42. Community-based health care planning and regulation necessitates grouping facilities and areal units into regions of similar health care use. Limited research has explored the methodologies used in creating th...

    Authors: Paul L Delamater, Ashton M Shortridge and Joseph P Messina
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:333
  43. A Swedish version of the USA Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality“Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture” (S-HSOPSC) wasdeveloped to be used in both hospitals and primary care. Two new dimensionswith ...

    Authors: Mats Hedsköld, Karin Pukk-Härenstam, Elisabeth Berg, Marion Lindh, Michael Soop, John Øvretveit and Magna Andreen Sachs
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:332
  44. The pharmaceutical industry invests heavily in promotion, and it uses a variety of promotional strategies to influence physicians’ prescribing decisions. Within this context, medical representatives (MRs) are ...

    Authors: Mahmoud Abdullah Al-Areefi, Mohamed Azmi Hassali and Mohamed Izham b Mohamed Ibrahim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:331
  45. Discharge Against Medical Advice (DAMA) from hospital is associated with adverse outcomes and is considered an indicator of the responsiveness of hospitals to the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...

    Authors: Judith M Katzenellenbogen, Frank M Sanfilippo, Michael ST Hobbs, Matthew W Knuiman, Dawn Bessarab, Angela Durey and Sandra C Thompson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:330
  46. In most Western countries, the referral letter forms the basis for establishing the priority of patients for specialised health care and for the coordination of care between the services. To be able to define ...

    Authors: Miriam Hartveit, Olav Thorsen, Eva Biringer, Kris Vanhaecht, Benedicte Carlsen and Aslak Aslaksen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:329
  47. Person-centeredness is increasingly advocated in the literature as a gold-standard, best practice concept in health services for older people. This concept describes care that incorporates individual and multi...

    Authors: Anita Nilsson, Marie Lindkvist, Birgit H Rasmussen and David Edvardsson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:327
  48. Despite a high prevalence of disability, Aboriginal Australians access disability services in Australia less than non-Aboriginal Australians with a disability. The needs of Aboriginal children with disability ...

    Authors: Michelle DiGiacomo, Patricia Delaney, Penelope Abbott, Patricia M Davidson, Joanne Delaney and Frank Vincent
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:326
  49. Patient safety can be increased by improving the organization of care. A tool that evaluates the actual organization of care, as perceived by multidisciplinary teams, is the Care Process Self-Evaluation Tool (...

    Authors: Deborah Seys, Svin Deneckere, Walter Sermeus, Eva Van Gerven, Massimiliano Panella, Luk Bruyneel, Timothy Mutsvari, Rafaela Camacho Bejarano, Seval Kul and Kris Vanhaecht
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:325
  50. Stakeholder roles in the application of evidence are influenced by context, the nature of the evidence, the policy development process, and stakeholder interactions. Past research has highlighted the role of s...

    Authors: Juliet Nabyonga Orem, Bruno Marchal, DavidKaawa Mafigiri, Freddie Ssengooba, Jean Macq, Valeria Campos Da Silveira and Bart Criel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:324