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  1. Parts of New Public Management-reforms of the public sector depend on introduction of market-like mechanisms to manage the sector, like free choice of hospital. However, patients may delegate the choice of hos...

    Authors: Hans O Birk and Lars O Henriksen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:126
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  3. Proximal femur fracture (PFF) is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. The European Quality of Care Pathway (EQCP) study on PFF (NCT00962910) was designed to determine how care pathways (CP) fo...

    Authors: Kris Vanhaecht, Walter Sermeus, Jan Peers, Cathy Lodewijckx, Svin Deneckere, Fabrizio Leigheb, Steven Boonen, An Sermon, Paulo Boto, Rita Veloso Mendes and Massimiliano Panella
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:124
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  4. Cost estimation is a central feature of health economic analyses. The aim of this study was to use a micro-costing approach and a societal perspective to estimate aggregated costs associated with cervical canc...

    Authors: Ju-Fang Shi, Jun-Feng Chen, Karen Canfell, Xiang-Xian Feng, Jun-Fei Ma, Yong-Zhen Zhang, Fang-Hui Zhao, Rong Li, Li Ma, Zhi-Fang Li, Jie-Bin Lew, Yan Ning and You-Lin Qiao
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:123
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  5. We aimed to assess the hospital economic costs of nosocomial multi-drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa acquisition.

    Authors: Eva Morales, Francesc Cots, Maria Sala, Mercè Comas, Francesc Belvis, Marta Riu, Margarita Salvadó, Santiago Grau, Juan P Horcajada, Maria Milagro Montero and Xavier Castells
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:122
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  6. The English National Health Service’s (NHS) Stop Smoking Services (SSSs) constitute one of the most highly developed behavioural support programmes in the world. However, there is significant variation in succ...

    Authors: Máirtín S McDermott, Heather Thomson, Robert West, Jennifer AM Kenyon and Andy McEwen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:121
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  7. Allied Health Professionals today are required, more than ever before, to demonstrate their impact. However, despite at least 20 years of expectation, many services fail to deliver routine outcome measurement ...

    Authors: Edward AS Duncan and Jennifer Murray
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:96
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  8. South Africa’s maternal mortality rate (625 deaths/100,000 live births) is high for a middle-income country, although over 90% of pregnant women utilize maternal health services. Alongside HIV/AIDS, barriers t...

    Authors: Sheetal P Silal, Loveday Penn-Kekana, Bronwyn Harris, Stephen Birch and Diane McIntyre
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:120
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Services for Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) have evolved with the development of independently led outreach Rheumatology Practitioner (RP) clinics in Primary Care (PC). Their clinical and cost effectiveness, compar...

    Authors: Asmaa S Abdelhamid, Janice Mooney, Andrew A Walker, Garry Barton, Alex J MacGregor, David GI Scott and Richard A Watts
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:119
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  10. Social network analysis is an approach to study the interactions and exchange of resources among people. It can help understanding the underlying structural and behavioral complexities that influence the proce...

    Authors: Reza Yousefi-Nooraie, Maureen Dobbins, Melissa Brouwers and Patricia Wakefield
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:118
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  11. Often new arrivals from refugee backgrounds have experienced poor health and limited access to healthcare services. The maternal and child health (MCH) service in Victoria, Australia, is a joint local and stat...

    Authors: Elisha Riggs, Elise Davis, Lisa Gibbs, Karen Block, Jo Szwarc, Sue Casey, Philippa Duell-Piening and Elizabeth Waters
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:117
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  12. Improvements in the quality of health care services are often measured using data present in medical records. Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) contain potentially valuable new sources of health data. However,...

    Authors: Michelle Greiver, Jan Barnsley, Richard H Glazier, Bart J Harvey and Rahim Moineddin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:116
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  13. The study objective was to compare physical function documented in the medical records with interview data, and also to evaluate hospital mortality predictions using pre-admission and on-admission functional s...

    Authors: Woan Shin Tan, Yew Yoong Ding, Wai Fung Chong, Jam Chin Tay and Jackie Yu-Ling Tan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:115
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Disease management programs, especially those based on the Chronic Care Model (CCM), are increasingly common in the Netherlands. While disease management programs have been well-researched quantitatively and e...

    Authors: Bethany Hipple Walters, Samantha A Adams, Anna P Nieboer and Roland Bal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:114
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  15. Acceptability is a poorly conceptualized dimension of access to health care. Using a study on childhood convulsion in rural Tanzania, we examined social acceptability from a user perspective. The study design ...

    Authors: Angel Dillip, Sandra Alba, Christopher Mshana, Manuel W Hetzel, Christian Lengeler, Iddy Mayumana, Alexander Schulze, Hassan Mshinda, Mitchell G Weiss and Brigit Obrist
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:113
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  16. HIV/AIDS is fast becoming a chronic disease with the advent of antiretroviral drugs, therefore making home based care key in the management of chronically ill HIV/AIDS patient. The objective of this study was ...

    Authors: Amoran Olorunfemi E, Ogunsola Elijah O, Salako Albert O and Alausa Ok O
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:112
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  17. The extent of stroke-related disability typically becomes most apparent after patient discharge to the community. As part of the Irish National Audit of Stroke Care (INASC), a national survey of community-base...

    Authors: Anne Hickey, Frances Horgan, Desmond O’Neill and Hannah McGee
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:111
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  18. Members of the transgender community have identified healthcare access barriers, yet a corresponding inquiry into healthcare provider perspectives has lagged. Our aim was to examine physician perceptions of ba...

    Authors: John W Snelgrove, Amanda M Jasudavisius, Bradley W Rowe, Evan M Head and Greta R Bauer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:110
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  19. Effective clinician-patient communication about health behavior change is one of the most important and most overlooked strategies to promote health and prevent disease. Existing guidelines for specific health...

    Authors: Susan A Flocke, Elizabeth Antognoli, Mary M Step, Sybil Marsh, Theodore Parran and Mary Jane Mason
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:109
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  20. Violence at work is one of the major concerns in health care activities. The aim of this study was to identify the prevalence of physical and non-physical violence in a general health care facility in Italy an...

    Authors: Nicola Magnavita and Tarja Heponiemi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:108
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Previous operational research studies have demonstrated the feasibility of large-scale public sector ART programs in resource-limited settings. However, organizational and structural determinants of quality of...

    Authors: Sarang Deo, Stephanie M Topp, Andrew O Westfall, Matimbo M Chiko, Chibesa S Wamulume, Mary Morris and Stewart Reid
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:106
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  22. A commitment to Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems now constitutes a core part of many governments’ healthcare reform strategies. The resulting politically-initiated large-scale or national EHR endeavors a...

    Authors: Amirhossein Takian, Dimitra Petrakaki, Tony Cornford, Aziz Sheikh and Nicholas Barber
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:105
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  23. Reducing inequalities is one of the priorities of the National Health Service. However, there is no standard system for monitoring inequalities in the care provided by acute trusts. We explore the feasibility ...

    Authors: Katharine M Langford, Alex Bottle, Paul P Aylin and Helen Ward
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:104
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  24. The burden of patients with heart failure on health care systems is widely recognised, although there have been few attempts to quantify individual patterns of care and differences in health service utilisatio...

    Authors: Jane Robertson, Patrick McElduff, Sallie-Anne Pearson, David A Henry, Kerry J Inder and John R Attia
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:103
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  25. Aboriginal Health Workers (AHWs) have a mandate to deliver smoking cessation support to Aboriginal people. However, a high proportion of AHWs are smokers and this undermines their delivery of smoking cessation...

    Authors: Anna P Dawson, Margaret Cargo, Harold Stewart, Alwin Chong and Mark Daniel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:102
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  26. Population health status scores are routinely used to inform economic evaluation and evaluate the impact of disease and/or treatment on health. It is unclear whether the health status in black and minority eth...

    Authors: Melanie Calvert, Helen Duffy, Nick Freemantle, Russell Davis, Gregory YH Lip and Paramjit Gill
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:101
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  27. This study investigated prognosis among patients under prolonged mechanical ventilation (PMV) through exploring the following issues: (1) post-PMV survival rates, (2) factors associated with survival after PMV...

    Authors: Hsin-Ming Lu, Likwang Chen, Jung-Der Wang, Mei-Chuan Hung, Ming-Shian Lin, Yuan-Horng Yan, Cheng-Ren Chen, Po-Sheng Fan, Lynn Chu Huang and Ken N Kuo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:100
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  28. A four-year action research study was conducted across the Australian Capital Territory health system to strengthen interprofessional collaboration (IPC) though multiple intervention activities.

    Authors: Jeffrey Braithwaite, Mary Westbrook, Peter Nugus, David Greenfield, Joanne Travaglia, William Runciman, A Ruth Foxwell, Rosalie A Boyce, Timothy Devinney and Johanna Westbrook
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:99
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  29. Neonatal hearing screening (NHS) has been routinely offered as a vital component of early childhood care in developed countries, whereas such a screening program is still at the pilot or preliminary stage as r...

    Authors: Li-Hui Huang, Luo Zhang, Ruo-Yan Gai Tobe, Fang-Hua Qi, Long Sun, Yue Teng, Qing-Lin Ke, Fei Mai, Xue-Feng Zhang, Mei Zhang, Ru-Lan Yang, Lin Tu, Hong-Hui Li, Yan-Qing Gu, Sai-Nan Xu, Xiao-Yan Yue…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:97
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  30. General practitioners (GP) in rural areas of Germany are struggling to find successors for their private practices. Telemonitoring at home offers an option to support remaining GPs and specialists in ambulator...

    Authors: Claudia Terschüren, Monika Mensing and Odile CL Mekel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:95
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  31. The General Medical Services primary care contract for the United Kingdom financially rewards performance in 19 clinical areas, through the Quality and Outcomes Framework. Little is known about how best to det...

    Authors: Robert Fleetcroft, Nicholas Steel, Richard Cookson, Simon Walker and Amanda Howe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:94
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  32. Antenatal ultrasound scan is a widely accepted component of antenatal care. Studies have looked at the relationship between ultrasound scanning and caesarean section (CS) in certain groups of women in China. H...

    Authors: Kun Huang, Fangbiao Tao, Joanna Raven, Liu Liu, Xiaoyan Wu and Shenglan Tang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:93
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  33. Severe shortages of qualified health workers and geographical imbalances in the workforce in many low-income countries require the national health sector management to closely monitor and address issues relate...

    Authors: Nils Gunnar Songstad, Karen Marie Moland, Deodatus Amadeus Massay and Astrid Blystad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:92
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  34. We investigated the impact that variations in the frequency of readmissions had upon a hospital's standardised mortality ratio (HSMR). An adapted HSMR model was used in the study. Our calculations were based o...

    Authors: Wim F van den Bosch, Peter Spreeuwenberg and Cordula Wagner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:91
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  35. The number of people surviving colorectal cancer has doubled in recent years. While much of the literature suggests that most people return to near pre-diagnosis status following surgery for colorectal cancer,...

    Authors: Deborah Fenlon, Alison Richardson, Julia Addington-Hall, Peter Smith, Jessica Corner, Jane Winter and Claire Foster
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:90
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  36. Multimorbidity is a phenomenon with high burden and high prevalence in the elderly. Our previous research has shown that multimorbidity can be divided into the multimorbidity patterns of 1) anxiety, depression...

    Authors: Ingmar Schäfer, Heike Hansen, Gerhard Schön, Susanne Höfels, Attila Altiner, Anne Dahlhaus, Jochen Gensichen, Steffi Riedel-Heller, Siegfried Weyerer, Wolfgang A Blank, Hans-Helmut König, Olaf von dem Knesebeck, Karl Wegscheider, Martin Scherer, Hendrik van den Bussche and Birgitt Wiese
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:89
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  38. Although acute hospitals offer a twenty-four hour seven day a week service levels of staffing are lower over the weekends and some health care processes may be less readily available over the weekend. Whilst i...

    Authors: Mohammed A Mohammed, Khesh S Sidhu, Gavin Rudge and Andrew J Stevens
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:87
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  39. Online social networking and personally controlled health management systems (PCHMS) offer a new opportunity for developing innovative interventions to prevent diseases of public health concern (e.g., influenz...

    Authors: Annie YS Lau, Vitali Sintchenko, Jacinta Crimmins, Farah Magrabi, Blanca Gallego and Enrico Coiera
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:86
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  40. Functional decline in community-dwelling older persons is associated with the loss of independence, the need for hospital and nursing-home care and premature death. The effectiveness of multifactorial interven...

    Authors: Jacqueline J Suijker, Bianca M Buurman, Gerben ter Riet, Marjon van Rijn, Rob J de Haan, Sophia E de Rooij and Eric P Moll van Charante
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:85
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  41. Fall prevention programs for hospitalized patients have had limited success, and the effect of programs on decreasing total falls and fall-related injuries is still inconclusive. This exploratory multi-hospita...

    Authors: Huey-Ming Tzeng, Marita G Titler, David L Ronis and Chang-Yi Yin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:84
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Although the management of sarcoma is improving, non adherence to clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) remains high, mainly because of the low incidence of the disease and the variety of histological subtypes. ...

    Authors: Lionel Perrier, Alessandra Buja, Giuseppe Mastrangelo, Antonella Vecchiato, Paolo Sandonà, Françoise Ducimetière, Jean-Yves Blay, François Noël Gilly, Carole Siani, Pierre Biron, Dominique Ranchère-Vince, Anne-Valérie Decouvelaere, Philippe Thiesse, Christophe Bergeron, Angelo Paolo Dei Tos, Jean-Michel Coindre…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:82
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. The ability to sustain comprehensive primary health care (PHC) services in the face of change is crucial to the health of rural communities. This paper illustrates how one service has proactively managed chang...

    Authors: Penny Buykx, John S Humphreys, Rachel Tham, Leigh Kinsman, John Wakerman, Adel Asaid and Kathy Tuohey
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:81
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  45. There is a global need to assess physicians' professional performance in actual clinical practice. Valid and reliable instruments are necessary to support these efforts. This study focuses on the reliability a...

    Authors: Karlijn Overeem, Hub C Wollersheim, Onyebuchi A Arah, Juliette K Cruijsberg, Richard PTM Grol and Kiki MJMH Lombarts
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:80
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  46. Appropriateness of physician workforce greatly influences the quality of healthcare. When facing the crisis of physician shortages, the correction of manpower always takes an extended time period, and both the...

    Authors: Tsuen-Chiuan Tsai, Misha Eliasziw and Der-Fang Chen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:79
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  47. Many critical treatment decisions are based on the medical history of patients with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Discrepancies between the medical history documented by a health professional and the patie...

    Authors: Chete Eze-Nliam, Kellie Cain, Kasey Bond, Keith Forlenza, Rachel Jankowski, Gina Magyar-Russell, Gayane Yenokyan and Roy C Ziegelstein
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:78
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. The impact of developments in colorectal cancer surgery on length-of-stay (LOS) and re-admission have not been well described. In a population-based analysis, we investigated predictors of LOS and emergency re...

    Authors: Maria Kelly, Linda Sharp, Fiona Dwane, Tracy Kelleher and Harry Comber
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:77
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  49. In 2006, the Dutch hospital market was reformed to create a more efficient delivery system through managed competition. To allow competition on quality, patient experiences were measured using the Consumer Qua...

    Authors: David E Ikkersheim and Xander Koolman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:76
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  50. Sub-Saharan African populations are growing in many European countries. Data on the health of these populations are rare. Additionally, many sub-Saharan African migrants are confronted with issues of low socio...

    Authors: Linda Boateng, Mary Nicolaou, Henriëtte Dijkshoorn, Karien Stronks and Charles Agyemang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:75
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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