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  1. Medical tourism is the term that describes patients’ international travel with the intention of seeking medical treatment. Some medical tourists go abroad for orthopaedic surgeries, including hip and knee resu...

    Authors: Valorie A Crooks, Keri Cameron, Vera Chouinard, Rory Johnston, Jeremy Snyder and Victoria Casey
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:417
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  2. Delivering health services to dense populations is more practical than to dispersed populations, other factors constant. This engenders the hypothesis that population density positively affects coverage rates ...

    Authors: Michael Hanlon, Roy Burstein, Samuel H Masters and Raymond Zhang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:416
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  3. Although primary health care (PHC) is a key component of all health care systems, services are not always readily available, accessible or affordable. This systematic review examines effective strategies to en...

    Authors: Elizabeth Jean Comino, Gawaine Powell Davies, Yordanka Krastev, Marion Haas, Bettina Christl, John Furler, Anthony Raymont and Mark F Harris
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:415
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  4. The transition between acute care and community care represents a vulnerable period in health care delivery. The vulnerability of this period has been attributed to changes to patients’ medication regimens dur...

    Authors: Barbara M Okoniewska, Maria J Santana, Jayna Holroyd-Leduc, Ward Flemons, Maeve O’Beirne, Deborah White, Fiona Clement, Alan Forster and William A Ghali
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:414
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  5. Many health systems in Africa are funded primarily through out-of-pocket payments. Out-of-pocket payments prevent people from seeking care, can result to catastrophic health spending and lead to impoverishment...

    Authors: Jane Chuma and Thomas Maina
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:413
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  6. In 2006, the Parliament of Burkina Faso passed a policy to reduce the direct costs of obstetric services and neonatal care in the country’s health centres, aiming to lower the country’s high national maternal ...

    Authors: Amal Ben Ameur, Valéry Ridde, Aristide R Bado, Marie-Gloriose Ingabire and Ludovic Queuille
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:412
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. The ‘Doctors to the Barrios’ (DTTB) Program was launched in 1993 in response to the shortage of doctors in remote communities in the Philippines. While the Program has attracted physicians to work in such area...

    Authors: Juan Alfonso Leonardia, Helen Prytherch, Kenneth Ronquillo, Rodel G Nodora and Andreas Ruppel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:411
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  33. Elderly patients are potentially more vulnerable to prolonged hospital stay as they frequently require additional resources to facilitate their discharge. In an acute hospital setting, we aimed to quantify and...

    Authors: Muhammad Umair Majeed, Dean Thomas Williams, Rachel Pollock, Farhat Amir, Martin Liam, Keen S Foong and Chris J Whitaker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:410
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  34. While more and more West African countries are implementing public user fees exemption policies, there is still little knowledge available on this topic. The long time required for scientific production, combi...

    Authors: Valéry Ridde, Ludovic Queuille, Yamba Kafando and Émilie Robert
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:409
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  35. There are concerns that proton pump inhibitors (PPI) are being over prescribed in both primary and secondary care. This study aims to establish potential cost savings in a community drug scheme for a one year ...

    Authors: Caitriona Cahir, Tom Fahey, Lesley Tilson, Conor Teljeur and Kathleen Bennett
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:408
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  36. There are no empirically-grounded criteria or tools to define or benchmark the quality of outpatient clinical documentation. Outpatient clinical notes document care, communicate treatment plans and support pat...

    Authors: Janice L Hanson, Mark B Stephens, Louis N Pangaro and Ronald W Gimbel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:407
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  38. The increasing prevalence of multiple chronic conditions has accentuated the importance of coordinating and integrating health care services. Patients with better continuity of care (COC) have a lower utilizat...

    Authors: Chien-Lung Chan, Huey-Jen You, Hsin-Tsung Huang and Hsien-Wei Ting
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:405
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  39. Population based studies show that guidelines are underused. Surveys of international guideline developers found that many do not implement their guidelines. The purpose of this research was to interview guide...

    Authors: Anna R Gagliardi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:404
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  40. To investigate organisational factors influencing the implementation challenges of redesigning services for people with long term conditions in three locations in England, using remote care (telehealth and tel...

    Authors: Jane Hendy, Theopisti Chrysanthaki, James Barlow, Martin Knapp, Anne Rogers, Caroline Sanders, Peter Bower, Robert Bowen, Ray Fitzpatrick, Martin Bardsley and Stanton Newman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:403
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  41. Despite numerous studies evaluating the benefits of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) in primary scene responses, little information exists on the scope of HEMS activities in Australia. We describe ...

    Authors: Colman B Taylor, Bette Liu, Eleanor Bruce, Brian Burns, Stephen Jan and John Myburgh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:402
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  43. The optimal setting and content of primary health care rehabilitation of older people is not known. Our aim was to study independence, institutionalization, death and treatment costs 18 months after primary ca...

    Authors: Inger Johansen, Morten Lindbak, Johan K Stanghelle and Mette Brekke
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:400
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  45. The search for a reliable, valid and cost-effective comorbidity risk adjustment method for outcomes research continues to be a challenge. The most widely used tool, the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) is limi...

    Authors: Adesuwa B Olomu, William D Corser, Manfred Stommel, Yan Xie and Margaret Holmes-Rovner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:398
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Studies that compare Indigenous Australian and non-Indigenous patients who experience a cardiac event or chest pain are inconclusive about the reasons for the differences in-hospital and survival rates. The ad...

    Authors: Yvette L Roe, Christopher J Zeitz and Bronwyn Fredericks
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:397
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  47. To reduce avoidable hospital readmissions, effective discharge planning and appropriate post discharge support care are key requirements. This study is a 3-staged process to develop, pretest and pilot a framew...

    Authors: Carrie HK Yam, Eliza LY Wong, Annie WL Cheung, Frank WK Chan, Fiona YY Wong and Eng-kiong Yeoh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:396
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Case management has been applied in community aged care to meet frail older people’s holistic needs and promote cost-effectiveness. This systematic review aims to evaluate the effects of case management in com...

    Authors: Emily Chuanmei You, David Dunt, Colleen Doyle and Arthur Hsueh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:395
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. While translation of evidence into health policy and practice is recognised as critical to optimising health system performance and health-related outcomes for consumers, mechanisms to effectively achieve thes...

    Authors: Andrew M Briggs, Peter Bragge, Helen Slater, Madelynn Chan and Simon CB Towler
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:394
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  50. Healthcare obtained abroad may conflict with care received in the country of residence. A special concern for immigrants has been raised as they may have stronger links to healthcare services abroad. Our objec...

    Authors: Signe Smith Nielsen, Suzan Yazici, Signe Gronwald Petersen, Anne Leonora Blaakilde and Allan Krasnik
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:390
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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