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  1. The main objective of this research is to identify, categorize, and analyze barriers perceived by physicians to the adoption of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) in order to provide implementers with beneficia...

    Authors: Albert Boonstra and Manda Broekhuis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:231
  2. Primary care nurses play an important role in diabetes care, and were introduced in GP-practice partly to shift care from hospital to primary care. The aim of this study was to assess whether the referral rate...

    Authors: Christel E van Dijk, Robert A Verheij, Johan Hansen, Lud van der Velden, Giel Nijpels, Peter P Groenewegen and Dinny H de Bakker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:230
  3. Antiretroviral treatment services delivered in hospital settings in Africa increasingly lack capacity to meet demand and are difficult to access by patients. We evaluate the effectiveness of nurse led primary ...

    Authors: Ciaran P Humphreys, John Wright, John Walley, Canaan T Mamvura, Kerry A Bailey, Sweetness N Ntshalintshali, Robert M West and Aby Philip
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:229
  4. Many countries have tried to reduce waiting times for health care through formal wait time reduction strategies. Our paper describes views of members of the public about a wait time management initiative - the...

    Authors: Rebecca A Bruni, Andreas Laupacis, Wendy Levinson and Douglas K Martin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:228
  5. The impact of a pediatric rehabilitation service delivery reorganization to improve access to services on parents' and service providers' perception of service quality was evaluated. Child-, family-, service- ...

    Authors: Chantal Camden, Bonnie Swaine, Sylvie Tétreault and Marie-Michèle Brodeur
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:227
  6. Many devices are in use to prevent pressure ulcers, but from most little is known about their effects and costs. One such preventive device is the Australian Medical Sheepskin that has been proven effective in...

    Authors: Patriek Mistiaen, Andre Ament, Anneke L Francke, Wilco Achterberg, Ruud Halfens, Janneke Huizinga and Henri Post
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:226
  7. Taiwan established a system of universal National Health Insurance (NHI) in March, 1995. Today, the NHI covers more than 98% of Taiwan's population and enrollees enjoy almost free access to healthcare with sma...

    Authors: Yue-Chune Lee, Yu-Tung Huang, Yi-Wen Tsai, Shiuh-Ming Huang, Ken N Kuo, Martin McKee and Ellen Nolte
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:225
  8. To maintain the sustainability of public long-term care insurance (LTCI) in Japan, a preventive care policy was introduced in 2006 that seeks to promote active improvement in functional status of elderly peopl...

    Authors: Tomoaki Ishibashi and Naoki Ikegami
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:224
  9. For ethical approval of a multicentre study in Canada, investigators must apply separately to individual Research Ethics Boards (REBs). In principle, the protection of human research subjects is of utmost impo...

    Authors: Hanna Ezzat, Sue Ross, Peter von Dadelszen, Tara Morris, Robert Liston and Laura A Magee
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:223
  10. Out-of-hours care in the primary care setting is rapidly changing and evolving towards general practitioner 'cooperatives' (GPC). GPCs already exist in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Scandinavia, all ...

    Authors: Hilde Philips, Roy Remmen, Paul Van Royen, Marc Teblick, Leo Geudens, Marc Bronckaers and Herman Meeuwis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:222
  11. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between skill mix, patient outcomes, length of stay and service costs in older peoples' intermediate care services in England.

    Authors: Simon Dixon, Billingsley Kaambwa, Susan Nancarrow, Graham P Martin and Stirling Bryan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:221
  12. We hypothesize that a substantial portion of individuals who forgo conventional care in a given year turn to some form of alternative medicine. This study also examines whether individuals who use only alterna...

    Authors: Richard L Nahin, James M Dahlhamer and Barbara J Stussman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:220
  13. Support groups have proved to be effective in reducing the burden on family caregivers of dementia patients. Nevertheless, little is known about the factors that influence utilisation or quality expectations o...

    Authors: Elmar Gräßel, Angelika Trilling, Carolin Donath and Katharina Luttenberger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:219
  14. Using non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) as a case, we used Taiwan's National Health Insurance (NHI) database, to empirically explore the association between policy interventions (price regulation,...

    Authors: Fei-Yuan Hsiao, Yi-Wen Tsai and Weng-Foung Huang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:218
  15. The Brazilian health system is founded on the principle of equity, meaning provision of equal care for equal needs. However, little is known about the impact of health policies in narrowing socioeconomic healt...

    Authors: Célia L Szwarcwald, Paulo RB Souza-Júnior and Giseli N Damacena
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:217
  16. People use emergency department services for a wide variety of health complaints, many of which could be handled outside hospitals. Many frequent readmissions are due to problems with chronic disease and are p...

    Authors: Sue E Kirby, Sarah M Dennis, Upali W Jayasinghe and Mark F Harris
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:216
  17. Australians born in countries where hepatitis B infection is endemic are 6-12 times more likely to develop hepatocellular cancer (HCC) than Australian-born individuals. However, a program of screening, surveil...

    Authors: Monica C Robotin, Melanie Q Kansil, Jacob George, Kirsten Howard, Steven Tipper, Miriam Levy, Nghi Phung and Andrew G Penman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:215
  18. Very early rehabilitation is expected to improve functional outcomes after stroke, although its effectiveness has not been fully evaluated. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between ...

    Authors: Hiroki Matsui, Hideki Hashimoto, Hiromasa Horiguchi, Hideo Yasunaga and Shinya Matsuda
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:213
  19. The Ministry of Health (MOH) launched the National Reproductive Health Policy in 2005, which included recommendations regarding the use of emergency contraceptive pills (ECP). However, ECP have not yet been in...

    Authors: Vanphanom Sychareun, Keokedthong Phongsavan, Visanou Hansana and Alongkone Phengsavanh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:212
  20. The current health care reform in China launched in 2009 tackles the problem of access to appropriate medicines for its 1.3 billion people by focusing on providing essential medicines to all. To provide eviden...

    Authors: Wen Chen, Shenglan Tang, Jing Sun, Dennis Ross-Degnan and Anita K Wagner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:211
  21. During the past three decades, Oman has made significant progress in controlling TB within it's borders. However, the national TB control program elimination target has yet to be reached. This study aims to ex...

    Authors: Abdullah Al-Maniri, Grethe Fochsen, Omar Al-Rawas and Ayesha De Costa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:210
  22. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is the only curative treatment available to severe thalassemic patients. The treatment, however, is very costly, particularly in the context of low and middle inc...

    Authors: Pattara Leelahavarong, Usa Chaikledkaew, Suradej Hongeng, Vijj Kasemsup, Yoel Lubell and Yot Teerawattananon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:209
  23. Physicians experience workplace stress and draw on different coping strategies. The primary goal of this paper is to use interview data to explore physicians' self reported coping strategies. In addition, ques...

    Authors: Jane B Lemaire and Jean E Wallace
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:208
  24. During a four-year action research project (2003-2007), a program targeting all type 2 diabetes patients was implemented in a well-defined geographical region in Belgium. The implementation of the program resu...

    Authors: Patricia Sunaert, Hilde Bastiaens, Frank Nobels, Luc Feyen, Geert Verbeke, Etienne Vermeire, Jan De Maeseneer, Sara Willems and An De Sutter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:207
  25. There is worldwide interest in managing the global burden of long-term conditions. Current health policy places emphasis on self-management and supporting patient participation as ways of improving patient out...

    Authors: Joanne Protheroe, Tom Blakeman, Peter Bower, Carolyn Chew-Graham and Anne Kennedy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:206
  26. Numerous not-for-profit pharmacies have been created to improve access to medicines for the poor, but many have failed due to insufficient financial planning and management. These pharmacies are not well descr...

    Authors: Brenda Waning, Jason Maddix and Lyne Soucy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:205
  27. The study presents a geographical analysis of dental trauma in a population of 12 and 15 year-old school-children, in the city of Curitiba, Brazil (n = 1581), using a database obtained in the period 2005-2006....

    Authors: Max L Carvalho, Samuel J Moysés, Roberto E Bueno, Silvia Shimakura and Simone T Moysés
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:203
  28. In order to address the challenges of an ageing population the Belgian government decided to allocate resources to the creation of geriatric day hospitals (GDHs). Although GDHs are meant to be a strategy to su...

    Authors: Piet Vanden Bussche, Fien Desmyter, Christiane Duchesnes, Valérie Massart, Didier Giet, Jean Petermans, Veerle Vyncke, Nele Ven Den Noortgate and Sara Willems
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:202
  29. Human resource crises in developing countries have been identified as a critical aspect of poor quality and low accessibility in health care. Worker motivation is an important facet of this issue. Specifically...

    Authors: Ahmad Azam Malik, Shelby Suzanne Yamamoto, Aurélia Souares, Zeeshan Malik and Rainer Sauerborn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:201
  30. Health care for cancer patients is primarily shaped by health care professionals. This raises the question to what extent health care professionals are aware of patients' preferences, needs and values.

    Authors: Hester Wessels, Alexander de Graeff, Klaske Wynia, Miriam de Heus, Cas LJJ Kruitwagen, Saskia CCM Teunissen and Emile E Voest
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:198
  31. Although a sizeable budget is available for HIV/AIDS control in Thailand, there will never be enough resources to implement every programme for all target groups at full scale. As such, there is a need to prio...

    Authors: Sitaporn Youngkong, Rob Baltussen, Sripen Tantivess, Xander Koolman and Yot Teerawattananon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:197
  32. This study investigated the incidence of potentially preventable hospitalisations in the first two years of life among children in the National Health Insurance (NHI) system of Taiwan. It also examined income ...

    Authors: Likwang Chen, Hsin-Ming Lu, Shu-Fang Shih, Ken N Kuo, Chi-Liang Chen and Lynn Chu Huang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:196
  33. This study sought to describe the incidence of transitions into and out of Medicaid, characterize the populations that transition and determine if health insurance instability is associated with changes in hea...

    Authors: Ritesh Banerjee, Jeanette Y Ziegenfuss and Nilay D Shah
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:195
  34. In opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) there are documented treatment differences both between countries and between OMT programmes. Some of these differences have been associated with staff attitudes. The aim ...

    Authors: Linn Gjersing, Helge Waal, John RM Caplehorn, Michael Gossop and Thomas Clausen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:194
  35. Diabetic foot infections are common, serious, and diverse. There is uncertainty about optimal antibiotic treatment, and probably substantial variation in practice. Our aim was to document whether this is the c...

    Authors: Benjamin G Fincke, Donald R Miller, Cindy L Christiansen and Robin S Turpin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:193
  36. Diabetic foot infections are common, serious, and varied. Diagnostic and treatment strategies are correspondingly diverse. It is unclear how patients are managed in actual practice and how outcomes might be im...

    Authors: Benjamin G Fincke, Donald R Miller and Robin Turpin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:192
  37. Medical pluralism (MP) can be defined as the employment of more than one medical system or the use of both conventional and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for health and illness. A population-bas...

    Authors: Chun-Chuan Shih, Yi-Chang Su, Chien-Chang Liao and Jaung-Geng Lin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:191
  38. The prevalence of both chronic diseases and multi-morbidity increases with longer life spans. As Australia's population ages, the aged care sector is under increasing pressure to ensure that quality aged care ...

    Authors: Yun-Hee Jeon, Nicholas J Glasgow, Teri Merlyn and Emily Sansoni
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:190
  39. The primary aim of this study was to develop and psychometrically test a Greek-language instrument for measuring satisfaction with home care. The first empirical evidence about the level of satisfaction with t...

    Authors: Vassilis H Aletras, Arsenis Kostarelis, Maria Tsitouridou, Dimitris Niakas and Anna Nicolaou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:189
  40. Sound policy, resource allocation and day-to-day management decisions in the health sector require timely information from routine health information systems (RHIS). In most low- and middle-income countries, t...

    Authors: David R Hotchkiss, Anwer Aqil, Theo Lippeveld and Edward Mukooyo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:188
  41. The home-management of malaria strategy seeks to improve prompt and effective anti-malarial drug use through the informal sector, with a potential channel being the Private Medicine Retailers (PMRs). Previous ...

    Authors: Timothy Abuya, Abdinasir Amin, Sassy Molyneux, Willis Akhwale, Vicki Marsh and Lucy Gilson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10(Suppl 1):S7

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 10 Supplement 1

  42. Screening tests for cervical cancer are effective in reducing the disease burden. In Thailand, a Pap smear program has been implemented throughout the country for 40 years. In 2008 the Ministry of Public Healt...

    Authors: Jomkwan Yothasamut, Choenkwan Putchong, Teera Sirisamutr, Yot Teerawattananon and Sripen Tantivess
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10(Suppl 1):S5

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 10 Supplement 1

  43. Despite concerns about affordability and sustainability, many models of the lifetime costs of antiretroviral therapy (ART) used in resource limited settings are based on data from small research cohorts, toget...

    Authors: Rory Leisegang, Gary Maartens, Michael Hislop, Leon Regensberg and Susan Cleary
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10(Suppl 1):S3

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 10 Supplement 1

  44. While South Africa spends approximately 7.4% of GDP on healthcare, only 43% of these funds are spent in the public system, which is tasked with the provision of care to the majority of the population including...

    Authors: Susan Cleary and Di McIntyre
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10(Suppl 1):S2

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 10 Supplement 1

  45. Kenya has bold plans for scaling up priority interventions nationwide, but faces major human resource challenges, with a lack of skilled workers especially in the most disadvantaged rural areas.

    Authors: Kethi Mullei, Sandra Mudhune, Jackline Wafula, Eunice Masamo, Michael English, Catherine Goodman, Mylene Lagarde and Duane Blaauw
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10(Suppl 1):S1

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 10 Supplement 1