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  1. Difficulties with recruitment pose a major, increasingly recognised challenge to the viability of research. We sought to explore whether a register of volunteers interested in research participation, with data...

    Authors: Aileen Grant, Jenny Ure, Donald J Nicolson, Janet Hanley, Aziz Sheikh, Brian McKinstry and Frank Sullivan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:422
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  2. Adjusted clinical groups (ACG®) have been widely used to adjust resource distribution; however, the relationship with effectiveness has been questioned. The purpose of the study was to measure the relationship...

    Authors: Concepción Violán, Oleguer Plana-Ripoll, Quintí Foguet-Boreu, Bonaventura Bolíbar, Alba Aguado, Ruth Navarro-Artieda, Soledad Velasco-Velasco and Antoni Sicras-Mainar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:421
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  3. Medication errors are a common type of preventable errors in health care causing unnecessary patient harm, hospitalization, and even fatality. Improving communication between providers and between providers an...

    Authors: Nicole A Kitson, Morgan Price, Francis Y Lau and Grey Showler
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:418
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  4. Central venous catheter-associated bloodstream infections in children are an increasingly recognized serious safety problem worldwide, but are often preventable. Central venous catheter bundles have proved eff...

    Authors: Onno Helder, René Kornelisse, Cynthia van der Starre, Dick Tibboel, Caspar Looman, René Wijnen, Marten Poley and Erwin Ista
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:417
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  5. Before 2007, the disability evaluation was based on the medical model in Taiwan. According to the People with Disabilities Rights Protection Act, from 2012 the assessment of a person’s eligibility for disabili...

    Authors: Wen-Ta Chiu, Chia-Feng Yen, Sue-Wen Teng, Hua-Fang Liao, Kwang-Hwa Chang, Wen-Chou Chi, Yen-Ho Wang and Tsan-Hon Liou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:416
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  6. Prior studies of patients leaving hospital against medical advice (AMA) have been limited by not being population-based or assessing only one type of patient.

    Authors: Allen Kraut, Randy Fransoo, Kendiss Olafson, Clare D Ramsey, Marina Yogendran and Allan Garland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:415
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  7. Severe hypertension (SHT) (Blood Pressure, BP ≥ 180/110 mmHg) is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality, yet little is known about how it is managed. The purpose of this study is to examine the m...

    Authors: Blanca Gallego, William B Runciman, Oscar Perez-Concha, Siaw-Teng Liaw, Ric O Day, Adam G Dunn and Enrico Coiera
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:414
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  8. Healthcare technology and quality improvement programs have been identified as a means to influence healthcare costs and healthcare quality in Canada. This study seeks to identify whether the ability to implem...

    Authors: Rajesh K Tyagi, Lori Cook, John Olson and James Belohlav
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:413
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  9. It has been suggested that lay community health workers (LHWs) could play a role in primary and secondary prevention of Mental, Neurological and Substance use (MNS) disorders in low resourced settings. We cond...

    Authors: Byamah Brian Mutamba, Nadja van Ginneken, Lucy Smith Paintain, Simon Wandiembe and David Schellenberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:412
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  10. Retirement migration from northern countries to southern countries is increasing in both Europe and North America, and retiree experiences will impact future migration and health services utilization. We there...

    Authors: Philip D Sloane, Lauren W Cohen, Bryce E Haac and Sheryl Zimmerman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:411
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  11. Rates of chronic disease are escalating around the world. To date health service evaluations have focused on interventions for single chronic diseases. However, evaluations of the effectiveness of new interven...

    Authors: Zephanie Tyack, Kerrie-Anne Frakes, Petrea Cornwell, Suzanne S Kuys, Adrian G Barnett and Steven M McPhail
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:410
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  13. Involving patients in decision-making is an important part of patient-centred care. Research has found a discrepancy between patients’ desire to be involved and their actual involvement in healthcare decision-...

    Authors: Chirk-Jenn Ng, Ping-Yein Lee, Yew-Kong Lee, Boon-How Chew, Julia P Engkasan, Zarina-Ismail Irmi, Nik-Sherina Hanafi and Seng-Fah Tong
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:408
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  14. Pharmaceutical products are an important component of expenditure on public health insurance in the Federal Republic of Germany. For years, German policy makers have regulated public pharmacies in order to lim...

    Authors: Jörg G Heinsohn and Steffen Flessa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:407
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  16. Evidence-based information is a precondition for informed decision-making and participation in health. There are several recommendations and definitions available on the generation and assessment of so called ...

    Authors: Irene Hirschberg, Gabriele Seidel, Daniel Strech, Hilda Bastian and Marie-Luise Dierks
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:405
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  17. Community participation in peripheral public health facilities has in many countries focused on including community representatives in Health Facility Management Committees (HFMCs). In Kenya, HFMC roles are be...

    Authors: Evelyn Waweru, Antony Opwora, Mitsuru Toda, Greg Fegan, Tansy Edwards, Catherine Goodman and Sassy Molyneux
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:404
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  18. Non-cardiac chest pain (NCCP) is a common complaint. Our aim was to present a detailed description of the costs of patients with NCCP compared to patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and Angina Pect...

    Authors: Ghassan Mourad, Jenny Alwin, Anna Strömberg and Tiny Jaarsma
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:403
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  19. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is rising internationally. Patients with diabetes have a higher risk of cardiovascular events accounting for substantial premature morbidity and mortality, and health care exp...

    Authors: Chiung-Jung Jo Wu, Huei-Chuan Sung, Anne M Chang, John Atherton, Karam Kostner, Mary Courtney and Steven M McPhail
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:402
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  20. Physicians, particularly in hospitals, suffer from adverse working conditions. There is a close link between physicians’ psychosocial work environment and the quality of the work they deliver. Our study aimed ...

    Authors: Matthias Weigl, Severin Hornung, Peter Angerer, Johannes Siegrist and Jürgen Glaser
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:401
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  21. We studied the intention of a group of insurance physicians to use the guidelines for depression, and their behaviour in disability assessments. We considered attitude, social norm and self-efficacy, knowledge...

    Authors: Antonius JM Schellart, Feico Zwerver, Johannes R Anema and Allard J van der Beek
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:400
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  22. Re-hospitalization is common among patients with diabetes, and may be related to aspects of health care use. We sought to determine the association between patterns of health care engagement and risk of subseq...

    Authors: Paul E Ronksley, Pietro Ravani, Claudia Sanmartin, Hude Quan, Braden Manns, Marcello Tonelli and Brenda R Hemmelgarn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:399
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  23. Despite the availability of evidence-based guidelines on venous thromboembolism (VTE) prevention clinical audit and research reveals that hospitalised medical patients frequently receive suboptimal prophylaxis...

    Authors: Jed Duff, Abdullah Omari, Sandy Middleton, Elizabeth McInnes and Kim Walker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:398
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  24. Linkage of healthcare services for tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains a major challenge in resource-limited settings. Our operational research aimed to evaluate the linkage betwee...

    Authors: Shinsuke Miyano, Samba Muvuma, Naoko Ishikawa, Hiroyoshi Endo, Charles Msiska and Gardner Syakantu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:397
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  25. Research into nursing-sensitive outcomes using administrative health data has focussed on hospitalised adults. However, we developed algorithms for the identification of 13 paediatric nursing-sensitive outcome...

    Authors: Sally Wilson, Alexandra P Bremner, Yvonne Hauck and Judith Finn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:396
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  26. Telehealth is increasingly used in the care of people with long term conditions. Whilst many studies look at the impacts of the technology on hospital use, few look at how it changes contacts with primary care...

    Authors: Martin Bardsley, Adam Steventon and Helen Doll
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:395
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  27. A positive patient safety culture (PSC) is one of the most critical components to improve healthcare quality and safety. The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPS), developed by the US Agency for He...

    Authors: Yinghui Wu, Shigeru Fujita, Kanako Seto, Shinya Ito, Kunichika Matsumoto, Chiu-Chin Huang and Tomonori Hasegawa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:394
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  28. A tariff modulation mechanisms has been introduced in some Italian regions with the aim of reducing inappropriate admissions and improving quality of care. In response to a regional act, hospitals in Lazio ado...

    Authors: Paola Colais, Luigi Pinnarelli, Danilo Fusco, Marina Davoli, Mario Braga and Carlo A Perucci
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:393
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  29. Tuberculosis (TB) remains major cause of morbidity and mortality due to any one of infectious agent worldwide. In low income countries, Ziehl-Neelsen sputum smear microscopy is the only cost-effective tool for...

    Authors: Pawlos Reji, Getachew Aga and Gemeda Abebe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:392
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  30. The treatment of heart failure (HF) is complex and the prognosis remains serious. A range of strategies is used across health care systems to improve the quality of care for HF patients. We present results fro...

    Authors: Anne Nakano, Søren Paaske Johnsen, Birgitte Lidegaard Frederiksen, Marie Louise Svendsen, Carsten Agger, Inge Schjødt and Kenneth Egstrup
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:391
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  32. The European Union (EU) Migrant-Friendly Hospital (MFH) Initiative, introduced in 2002, promotes the adoption of care approaches adapted to meet the service needs of migrants. However, for paediatric hospitals...

    Authors: Fabienne N Jaeger, Ligia Kiss, Mazeda Hossain and Cathy Zimmerman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:389
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  33. Patient preferences derived from an assessment of values can help inform the design of screening programs, but how best to do so, and whether such preferences differ cross-nationally, has not been well-examine...

    Authors: Kirsten Howard, Alison T Brenner, Carmen Lewis, Stacey Sheridan, Trisha Crutchfield, Sarah Hawley, Matthew E Nielsen and Michael P Pignone
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:388
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  34. The setting of realistic performance-based financing rewards necessitates not just knowledge of health workers’ salaries, but of the revenue that accrues from their additional income-generating activities. Thi...

    Authors: Ngozi Akwataghibe, Dulani Samaranayake, Christophe Lemiere and Marjolein Dieleman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:387
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  35. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a significant global health problem, especially in China. Chronic liver disease affects health related quality of life (HRQOL). The intervention method to improve HRQOL in ...

    Authors: Jianqian Chao, Long Song, Hua Zhang, Liguo Zhu, Lin Tian, Hui Jin and Pei Liu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:386
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  36. The growing population living with chronic conditions calls for efficient healthcare-planning and effective care. Implementing disease-management-programmes is one option for responding to this demand. Knowled...

    Authors: Margrethe Smidth, Morten Bondo Christensen, Morten Fenger-Grøn, Frede Olesen and Peter Vedsted
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:385
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  37. Employees in emergency primary care centres (EPCC) have raised personal safety as an issue. Despite a high risk of experiencing workplace violence at EPCCs in Norway, knowledge regarding applied preventive mea...

    Authors: Tone Morken and Ingrid H Johansen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:384
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  38. Community engagement (CE) is becoming relevant in health research activities; however, models for CE in health research are limited in developing countries. The Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC) conducts ...

    Authors: Kwaku Poku Asante, Charlotte Tawiah Agyemang, Charles Zandoh, Jacob Saah, Lawrence Gyabaa Febir, Casimir Kabio Donlebo and Seth Owusu-Agyei
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:383
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  39. Primary healthcare in Sweden has undergone widespread reforms in recent years, including freedom of choice regarding provider, freedom of establishment and increased privatisation. The key aims of the reforms ...

    Authors: Andy Maun, Kerstin Nilsson, Carina Furåker and Jörgen Thorn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:382
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  40. The cost of dental care may be a barrier to regular dental attendance with the proportion of the Australian population avoiding or delaying care due to cost increasing since 1994. This paper explores the exten...

    Authors: Sergio Chrisopoulos, Liana Luzzi and David S Brennan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:381
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  41. In the intensive care unit (ICU), checklists can be used to support the delivery of quality and consistent clinical care. While studies have reported important benefits for clinical checklists in this context,...

    Authors: Karena M Conroy, Doug Elliott and Anthony R Burrell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:380
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  42. Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in all age groups worldwide. It may be classified as mild/moderate or severe, the latter usually requiring hospitalisation. ...

    Authors: Gereltuya Dorj, Delia Hendrie, Richard Parsons and Bruce Sunderland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:379
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  43. Industry partnerships can help leverage resources to advance HIV/AIDS vaccine research, service delivery, and policy advocacy goals. This often involves capacity building for international and local non-govern...

    Authors: Taryn Vian, Sayaka Koseki, Frank G Feeley and Jennifer Beard
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:378
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  44. Evidence suggests that copy-pasted components of electronic notes may not reliably reflect the care delivered. Federal agencies have raised concerns that such components may be used to justify inappropriately ...

    Authors: Mary Zhang, Maria Shubina, Fritha Morrison and Alexander Turchin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:377
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  45. Job satisfaction of staff is an essential outcome variable in research when describing the work environment of successful hospitals. Numerous studies have evaluated the topic, but few previous studies have ass...

    Authors: Tarja Kvist, Raija Mäntynen and Katri Vehviläinen-Julkunen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:376
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  46. In a demand oriented health care system based on managed competition, health insurers have incentives to become prudent buyers of care on behalf of their enrolees. They are allowed to selectively contract care...

    Authors: Romy E Bes, Sonja Wendel, Emile C Curfs, Peter P Groenewegen and Judith D de Jong
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:375
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  47. 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
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  48. 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
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  49. 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
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  50. 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
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