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Effective interventions to reduce mortality and morbidity in maternal and newborn health already exist. Information about quality and performance of care and the use of critical interventions are useful for sh...
Delay in diagnosis of cancer may worsen prognosis. The aim of this study is to explore patient-, general practitioner (GP)- and system-related delay in the interval from first cancer symptom to diagnosis and t...
Aboriginal peoples globally, and First Nations peoples in Canada particularly, suffer from high rates of type 2 diabetes and related complications compared with the general population. Research into the unique...
As low- and middle-income countries experience economic development, ensuring quality of health care delivery is a central component of health reform. Nevertheless, health reforms in low- and middle-income cou...
Frail older people admitted to acute care hospitals are at risk of a range of adverse outcomes, including geriatric syndromes, although targeted care strategies can improve health outcomes for these patients. ...
Work-related injuries result in considerable morbidity, as well as social and economic costs. Pain associated with these injuries is a complex, contested topic, and narcotic analgesics (NA) remain important tr...
Consumer use of herbal and natural products (H/NP) is increasing, yet physicians are often unprepared to provide guidance due to lack of educational training. This knowledge deficit may place consumers at risk...
A high percentage of cervical cancer cases have not undergone cytological tests within 10 years prior to diagnosis. Different population interventions could improve coverage in the public system, although cost...
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
The massive scale-up of antiretroviral treatment (ART) access worldwide has brought tremendous benefit to populations affected by HIV/AIDS. Optimising HIV care in countries with diverse medical systems is crit...
Human resources for rehabilitation are often a neglected component of health services strengthening and health workforce development. This may be partly related to weaknesses in the available research and evid...
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major contributor to the global burden of disease. In many settings, including South Africa, treatment outcomes remain poor. In contrast, many antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes a...
Recent reforms in Portugal aimed at strengthening the role of the primary care system, in order to improve the quality of the health care system. Since 2006 new policies aiming to change the organization, ince...
Communities of Practice (CoPs) are promoted in the healthcare sector as a means of generating and sharing knowledge and improving organisational performance. However CoPs vary considerably in the way they are ...
Pay-for-performance (P4P) is increasingly implemented in the healthcare system to encourage improvements in healthcare quality. P4P is a payment model that rewards healthcare providers for meeting pre-establis...
The quality of data in national health information systems has been questionable in most developing countries. However, the mechanisms of errors in the case identification process are not fully understood. Thi...
A small percentage of high-risk patients accounts for a large proportion of Medicaid spending in the United States, which has become an urgent policy issue. Our objective was to pilot a novel patient-centered ...
The correct implementation of Ambulatory Surgery must be accompanied by an accurate monitoring of the patient post-discharge state. We fit different statistical models to predict the first hours postoperative ...
Qualitative research has the potential to inform and improve health care decisions but a study based on one year of publications suggests that it is not published in prominent health care journals. A more deta...
There has been a marked increase in the number of Caesarean sections in many countries during the last decades. In several countries, Caesarean sections are carried out in more than 20 per cent of births. Thes...
Health worker motivation can potentially affect the provision of health services. The HIV pandemic has placed additional strain on health service provision through the extra burden of increased testing and cou...
Frequent and potentially avoidable hospital admission amongst older patients with ambulatory care sensitive (ACS) chronic conditions is a major topic for research internationally, driven by the imperative to u...
The CDC's Family History Public Health Initiative encourages adoption and increase awareness of family health history. To meet these goals and develop a personalized medicine implementation science research ag...
Considering the changes in dental healthcare, such as the increasing assertiveness of patients, the introduction of new dental professionals, and regulated competition, it becomes more important that general d...
Research on patients' choice of hospital has focused on inpatients' rather than outpatients' choice of provider. We have investigated Danish outpatients' awareness and utilisation of freedom of choice of provi...
The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of internal marketing on job satisfaction in health services, particularly in public hospitals in Northern Greece.
