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  1. An increase in chronic conditions is currently the greatest threat to human health and to the sustainability of health systems. Risk adjustment systems may enable population stratification programmes to be dev...

    Authors: Juan F Orueta, Roberto Nuño-Solinis, Maider Mateos, Itziar Vergara, Gonzalo Grandes and Santiago Esnaola
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:269
  2. Sizwe Tropical Diseases Hospital is the only specialized Hospital for the management of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB and extensively drug-resistant (XDR)-TB cases in Gauteng Province. In South Africa, there is...

    Authors: Deliwe Nkosi, Saskia Janssen, Xavier Padanilam, Rianna Louw, Colin N Menezes and Martin P Grobusch
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:268
  3. The national 10-year Development Programme for the Prevention and Care of Diabetes (DEHKO) was launched in Finland in 2000. The program focused on improving early diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and preventing di...

    Authors: Erja Forssas, Reijo Sund, Kristiina Manderbacka, Martti Arffman, Pirjo Ilanne-Parikka and Ilmo Keskimäki
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:267
  4. With growing emphasis on health systems strengthening in global health, various health facility assessment methods have been used increasingly to measure medicine and commodity availability. However, few studi...

    Authors: Yoonjoung Choi and Paul Ametepi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:266
  5. Patient experience is a key feature of quality improvement in modern health-care delivery. Measuring patient experience is one of several tools used to assess and monitor the quality of health services. This s...

    Authors: Eliza LY Wong, Angela Coulter, Annie WL Cheung, Carrie HK Yam, Eng-Kiong Yeoh and Sian Griffiths
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:265
  6. Limited negotiation around care decisions is believed to undermine collaborative working between parents of children with long-term conditions and professionals, but there is little evidence of how they actual...

    Authors: Veronica M Swallow, Ruth Nightingale, Julian Williams, Heather Lambert, Nicholas JA Webb, Trish Smith, Lucy Wirz, Leila Qizalbash, Laura Crowther and Davina Allen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:264
  7. Patient empowerment is viewed by policy makers and health care practitioners as a mechanism to help patients with long-term conditions better manage their health and achieve better outcomes. However, assessing...

    Authors: Nicola Small, Peter Bower, Carolyn A Chew-Graham, Diane Whalley and Joanne Protheroe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:263
  8. Over the past decade, in the province of Quebec, Canada, the government has initiated two consecutive reforms. These have created a new type of primary healthcare – family medicine groups (FMGs) – and have est...

    Authors: Mylaine Breton, Raynald Pineault, Jean-Frédéric Levesque, Danièle Roberge, Roxane Borgès Da Silva and Alexandre Prud’homme
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:262
  9. Location of practice, such as working in a rural or urban clinic, may influence how physicians communicate with their patients. This exploratory pilot study examines the communication styles used during doctor...

    Authors: Kristen Desjarlais-deKlerk and Jean E Wallace
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:261
  10. A single, standardised measure of victimisation-related (VR) injury admission in hospital administrative datasets could allow monitoring of preventive and response strategies and international comparisons of p...

    Authors: Arturo Gonzalez-Izquierdo, Allison Ward, Melissa O’Donnell, Leah Li, Andreas Roposch, Fiona Stanley and Ruth Gilbert
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:260
  11. England’s extensive NHS patient survey programme has not fulfilled government promises of widespread improvements in patients’ experiences, and media reports of poor nursing care in NHS hospitals are increasin...

    Authors: Rachel Reeves, Elizabeth West and David Barron
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:259
  12. An online health-promoting community (OHPC) has the potential to promote health and advance new means of dialogue between public health representatives and the general public. The aim of this study was to exam...

    Authors: Joakim Ekberg, Toomas Timpka, Marianne Angbratt, Linda Frank, Anna-Maria Norén, Lena Hedin, Emelie Andersen, Elin A Gursky and Boel Andersson Gäre
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:258
  13. In South Africa, providers are trained on post-rape care by a multitude of organisations, resulting in varied knowledge and skills. In 2007, a national training curriculum was developed and piloted in the coun...

    Authors: Ruxana Jina, Rachel Jewkes, Nicola Christofides and Lizle Loots
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:257
  14. Indigenous adults suffer six times more blindness than other Australians but 94% of this vision loss is unnecessary being preventable or treatable. We have explored the barriers and solutions to improve Indige...

    Authors: Mitchell D Anjou, Andrea I Boudville and Hugh R Taylor
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:255
  15. Organizational culture is manifest in patterns of behaviour underpinned by beliefs, values, attitudes and assumptions, which can influence working practices. Cultural factors and working practices have been su...

    Authors: Susan McLaren, Ruth Belling, Moli Paul, Tamsin Ford, Tami Kramer, Tim Weaver, Kimberly Hovish, Zoebia Islam, Sarah White and Swaran P Singh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:254
  16. Thousands of health-related online discussion groups are active world-wide however, very little is known about the purpose and usefulness of such groups. In 2003 an online discussion group called ‘forensic occ...

    Authors: Crystal Dieleman and Edward AS Duncan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:253
  17. Admission to a nursing home is generally regarded as a stressful time for older people and their carers. Although the choice of home is significant in facilitating a more positive transition, few studies have ...

    Authors: Assumpta Ryan and Hugh McKenna
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:252
  18. The Wagner Model provides a framework that can help to facilitate health system transition towards a chronic care oriented model. Drawing on elements of this framework as well as health policy related to patie...

    Authors: Masoud Mirzaei, Clive Aspin, Beverley Essue, Yun-Hee Jeon, Paul Dugdale, Tim Usherwood and Stephen Leeder
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:251
  19. Remote dwelling Aboriginal infants from northern Australia have a high burden of disease and frequently use health services. Little is known about the quality of infant care provided by remote health services....

    Authors: Sarah J Bar-Zeev, Sue G Kruske, Lesley M Barclay, Naor Bar-Zeev and Sue V Kildea
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:250
  20. Although many studies have identified public preferences for prioritising health care interventions based on characteristics of recipient or care, very few of them have examined the reasons for the stated pref...

    Authors: Jeshika Singh, Louise Longworth, Amanda Baine, Joanne Lord, Shepley Orr and Martin Buxton
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:249
  21. Parathyroidectomy (PTX) is often performed in dialysis patients when medical treatment fails to control secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT). PTX is viewed by many as a cost-containing measure for patients who...

    Authors: Vasily Belozeroff, Kerry Cooper, Gregory Hess and Chun-Lan Chang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:248
  22. Resource allocation is a key challenge for healthcare decision makers. While several case studies of organizational practice exist, there have been few large-scale cross-organization comparisons.

    Authors: Neale Smith, Craig Mitton, Stirling Bryan, Alan Davidson, Bonnie Urquhart, Jennifer L Gibson, Stuart Peacock and Cam Donaldson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:247
  23. Hospital governance increasingly combines management and professional self-governance. This article maps the new emergent modes of control in a comparative perspective and aims to better understand the relatio...

    Authors: Ellen Kuhlmann, Viola Burau, Tiago Correia, Roman Lewandowski, Christos Lionis, Mirko Noordegraaf and Jose Repullo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:246
  24. Federally Qualified Health Centers are expanding to increase access for millions of more Americans with a goal of doubling capacity to serve 40 million people. Health centers provide a lot of behavioral health...

    Authors: Bridget Teevan Burke, Benjamin F Miller, Michelle Proser, Stephen M Petterson, Andrew W Bazemore, Eric Goplerud and Robert L Phillips
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:245
  25. Radical prostatectomy (RP) is a leading treatment option for localised prostate cancer. Although hospital in-patient stays accounts for much of the costs of treatment, little is known about population-level tr...

    Authors: Maria Kelly, Linda Sharp, Fiona Dwane, Tracy Kelleher, Frances J Drummond and Harry Comber
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:244
  26. Achieving high rates of adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in resource-poor settings comprises serious, but different, challenges in both the first months of treatment and during the life-long maintenan...

    Authors: Patrick Boruett, Dorine Kagai, Susan Njogo, Peter Nguhiu, Christine Awuor, Lillian Gitau, John Chalker, Dennis Ross-Degnan, Rolf Wahlström and Göran Tomson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:242
  27. At the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo, the global community agreed to the goal of achieving universal access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and right...

    Authors: Nahid Akbari, Ali Ramezankhani and Mehrnoosh Pazargadi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:241
  28. In countries with gatekeeping and equitable access to general practitioners (GPs), social inequalities in GP-patient interaction could be an important mechanism by which inequalities in access to medical speci...

    Authors: Eirik Vikum, Roar Johnsen and Steinar Krokstad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:240
  29. Although literature has associated geodemographic factors with healthcare service utilization, little is known about how these factors — such as population size, age profile, service accessibility, and educati...

    Authors: Li Tao, Jiming Liu and Bo Xiao
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:239
  30. Evidence suggests that there is a link between inequitable access to healthcare and inequitable distribution of illness. A recent World Health Organization report stated that there is a need for research and p...

    Authors: Samantha B Meyer, Tini CN Luong, Loreen Mamerow and Paul R Ward
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:238
  31. Colposcopy, the key step in the management of women with abnormal Pap smear results, is a visual technique prone to observer variation, which implies the need for prolonged apprenticeship, continuous training,...

    Authors: Lauro Bucchi, Paolo Cristiani, Silvano Costa, Patrizia Schincaglia, Paola Garutti, Priscilla Sassoli de Bianchi, Carlo Naldoni, Oswaldo Olea and Mario Sideri
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:237
  32. Several organizations and individual authors have been proposing quality indicators for the assessment of clinical care in HIV/AIDS patients. Nevertheless, the definition of a consensual core set of indicators...

    Authors: Emanuel Catumbela, Victor Certal, Alberto Freitas, Carlos Costa, António Sarmento and Altamiro da Costa Pereira
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:236
  33. Most patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) spend 5–7 days in hospital even though only 4.5% will develop serious complications during this time. In particular, the group of patients with incidentally diagnosed...

    Authors: June Palmer, George Bozas, Andrew Stephens, Miriam Johnson, Ged Avery, Lorcan O’Toole and Anthony Maraveyas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:235
  34. Physician collaboration, which evolves among physicians during the course of providing healthcare services to hospitalised patients, has been seen crucial to effective patient outcomes in healthcare organisati...

    Authors: Shahadat Uddin, Liaquat Hossain, Jafar Hamra and Ashraful Alam
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:234
  35. Community participation is increasingly seen as a pre-requisite for successful health service uptake. It is notoriously difficult to assess participation and little has been done to advance tools for the asses...

    Authors: Leonard Baatiema, Morten Skovdal, Susan Rifkin and Catherine Campbell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:233
  36. While Switzerland invests a lot of money in its healthcare system, little is known about the quality of care delivered. The objective of this study was to assess the quality of care provided to patients with d...

    Authors: Isabelle Peytremann-Bridevaux, Julie Bordet and Bernard Burnand
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:232
  37. A comprehensive model of the relationships among different shared decision-making related constructs and their effects on patient-relevant outcomes is largely missing. Objective of our study was the developmen...

    Authors: Lars P Hölzel, Levente Kriston and Martin Härter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:231
  38. Unresolved medication discrepancies during hospitalization can contribute to adverse drug events, resulting in patient harm. Discrepancies can be reduced by performing medication reconciliation; however, effec...

    Authors: Amanda H Salanitro, Sunil Kripalani, JoAnne Resnic, Stephanie K Mueller, Tosha B Wetterneck, Katherine Taylor Haynes, Jason Stein, Peter J Kaboli, Stephanie Labonville, Edward Etchells, Daniel J Cobaugh, David Hanson, Jeffrey L Greenwald, Mark V Williams and Jeffrey L Schnipper
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:230
  39. Patient safety culture is an important measure in assessing the quality of health care. There is a growing recognition of the need to establish a culture of hospital focused on patient safety. This study explo...

    Authors: Yanli Nie, Xuanyue Mao, Hao Cui, Shenghong He, Jing Li and Mingming Zhang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:228
  40. Home care (HC) is a critical component of the ongoing restructuring of healthcare in Canada. It impacts three dimensions of healthcare delivery: primary healthcare, chronic disease management, and aging at hom...

    Authors: Diane M Doran, John P Hirdes, Regis Blais, G Ross Baker, Jeff W Poss, Xiaoqiang Li, Donna Dill, Andrea Gruneir, George Heckman, Hélène Lacroix, Lori Mitchell, Maeve O’Beirne, Nancy White, Lisa Droppo, Andrea D Foebel, Gan Qian…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:227
  41. Auditing of patient safety aims at early detection of risks of adverse events and is intended to encourage the continuous improvement of patient safety. The auditing should be an independent, objective assuran...

    Authors: Mirelle Hanskamp-Sebregts, Marieke Zegers, Wilma Boeijen, Gert P Westert, Petra J van Gurp and Hub Wollersheim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:226
  42. Tools to support clinical or patient decision-making in the treatment/management of a health condition are used in a range of clinical settings for numerous preference-sensitive healthcare decisions. Their imp...

    Authors: Darren Flynn, Gary A Ford, Lynne Stobbart, Helen Rodgers, Madeleine J Murtagh and Richard G Thomson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:225
  43. Primary care provision is important in the delivery of health care but many countries face primary care workforce challenges. Increasing demand, enlarged workloads, and current and anticipated physician shorta...

    Authors: Mary Halter, Vari Drennan, Kaushik Chattopadhyay, Wilfred Carneiro, Jennifer Yiallouros, Simon de Lusignan, Heather Gage, Jonathan Gabe and Robert Grant
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:223
  44. Long travel distances limit the utilisation of health services. We wanted to examine the relationship between the utilisation of a Norwegian out-of-hours service and the distance from the municipality populati...

    Authors: Guttorm Raknes, Elisabeth Holm Hansen and Steinar Hunskaar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:222
  45. The majority of curative health care is organized in hospitals. As in most other countries, the current 94 hospital locations in the Netherlands offer almost all treatments, ranging from rather basic to very c...

    Authors: David Ikkersheim, Marit Tanke, Gwendy van Schooten, Niels de Bresser and Hein Fleuren
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:220