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  1. Hospitals in European countries apply a wide range of quality improvement strategies. Knowledge of the effectiveness of these strategies, implemented as part of an overall hospital quality improvement system, ...

    Authors: Oliver Groene, Niek Klazinga, Cordula Wagner, Onyebuchi A Arah, Andrew Thompson, Charles Bruneau and Rosa Suñol
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:281
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  2. Most randomized controlled trials of interventions designed to promote cancer screening, particularly those targeting poor and minority patients, enroll selected patients. Relatively little is known about the ...

    Authors: Kevin Fiscella, Amanat Yosha, Samantha K Hendren, Sharon Humiston, Paul Winters, Pat Ford, Starlene Loader, Raymond Specht, Shirley Pope, Amna Adris and Steven Marcus
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:280
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  3. How hospital health care personnel perceive safety climate has been assessed in several countries by using the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety (HSOPS). Few studies have examined safety climate factors in sur...

    Authors: Arvid S Haugen, Eirik Søfteland, Geir E Eide, Monica W Nortvedt, Karina Aase and Stig Harthug
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:279
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  4. As in most fields of health care, societal and political changes encourage suppliers of long-term care to put their clients at the center of care and service provision and become more responsive towards client...

    Authors: Carolien de Blok, Katrien Luijkx, Bert Meijboom and Jos Schols
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:278
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  5. Ensuring that evidence based medicine reaches patients with diabetes in the US and internationally is challenging. The chronic care model includes evidence based management practices which support evidence bas...

    Authors: Anne Frølich, Jim Bellows, Bo Friis Nielsen, Per Bruun Brockhoff and Martin Hefford
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:277
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  6. Delivering good quality primary care for patients with chronic conditions has the potential to reduce non-elective hospital admissions. Practice nurse staffing levels in England have been linked to attainment ...

    Authors: Peter Griffiths, Trevor Murrells, Dalia Dawoud and Simon Jones
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:276
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  7. Fever is a common reason for attending primary health facilities in Vietnam. Response of health care providers to patients with fever commonly consists of making a presumptive diagnosis and proposing correspon...

    Authors: Hoang L Phuong, Tran TT Nga, Phan T Giao, Le Q Hung, Tran Q Binh, Nguyen V Nam, Nico Nagelkerke and Peter J de Vries
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:275
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  8. Home healthcare services are important in aging societies worldwide. The present nationwide study of health insurance data examined the utilization and delivery patterns, including diagnostic indications, for ...

    Authors: Hsiao-Ting Chang, Hsiu-Yun Lai, I-Hsuan Hwang, Mei-Man Ho and Shinn-Jang Hwang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:274
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  9. Empirical evidence demonstrates that informal patient payments are an important feature of many health care systems. However, the study of these payments is a challenging task because of their potentially ille...

    Authors: Tetiana Stepurko, Milena Pavlova, Irena Gryga and Wim Groot
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:273
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  10. Considerable attention has been given by policy makers and researchers to the human resources for health crisis in Africa. However, little attention has been paid to quantifying health facility-level trends in...

    Authors: Aisling Walsh, Phillimon Ndubani, Joseph Simbaya, Patrick Dicker and Ruairí Brugha
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:272
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  11. This study focused on the manager role in the manager-physician relationship, considered from the manager perspective. The aim was to understand how top executives in Swedish healthcare regard management of ph...

    Authors: Mia von Knorring, Angelique de Rijk and Kristina Alexanderson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:271
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  12. Cervical cancer is one of the top causes of cancer morbidity and mortality in Colombia despite the existence of a national preventive program. Screening coverage with cervical cytology does not explain the lac...

    Authors: Luz Angela Chocontá-Piraquive, Nelson Alvis-Guzman and Fernando De la Hoz-Restrepo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:270
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  13. Utilization of specialty care may not be a discrete, isolated behavior but rather, a behavior of sequential movements within the health care system. Although patients may often visit their primary care physici...

    Authors: Chioun Lee, Stephanie L Ayers, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, Jemima A Frimpong, Patrick A Rivers and Sam S Kim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:269
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  14. A cross-national comparison of Belgian and Dutch childbearing women allows us to gain insight into the relative importance of pain acceptance and personal control in pain relief in 2 maternity care models. Alt...

    Authors: Wendy Christiaens, Mieke Verhaeghe and Piet Bracke
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:268
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  15. Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission (PMTCT) is still the most effective intervention in combating new HIV infections. In 2008, revised national PMTCT guidelines that incorporated new policies on HIV...

    Authors: Alemnesh H Mirkuzie, Sven Gudmund Hinderaker and Odd Mørkve
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:267
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  18. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death globally. Community pharmacist intervention studies have demonstrated clinical effectiveness for improving several leading individual CVD risk factors...

    Authors: Kevin P Mc Namara, Johnson George, Sharleen L O'Reilly, Shane L Jackson, Gregory M Peterson, Helen Howarth, Michael J Bailey, Gregory Duncan, Peta Trinder, Elizabeth Morabito, Jill Finch, Stephen Bunker, Edward Janus, Jon Emery and James A Dunbar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:264
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  19. Medical spending on psychiatric hospitalization has been reported to impose a tremendous socio-economic burden on many developed countries with public health insurance programmes. However, there has been no in...

    Authors: Woojin Chung
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:263
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  20. One year after the introduction of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to support diagnostic imaging at our hospital, clinicians had faster and better access to radiology reports and images; direct ...

    Authors: Petter Hurlen, Truls Østbye, Arne S Borthne and Pål Gulbrandsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:262
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  21. There has been a considerable increase in the need for psychiatric services for adolescents. Primary health care practitioners have a major role in detecting, screening and helping these adolescents. An interv...

    Authors: Eila Laukkanen, Jukka J Hintikka, Jari Kylmä, Virve Kekkonen and Mauri Marttunen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:261
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  22. Health workers' counselling practices are essential to improve infant feeding practices. This paper will assess how infant feeding counselling was done and experienced by counsellors and mothers in Eastern Uga...

    Authors: Lars T Fadnes, Ingunn Marie S Engebretsen, Karen Marie Moland, Jolly Nankunda, James K Tumwine and Thorkild Tylleskär
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:260
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  23. In the UK many people with cancer and their carers do not have easy access to the welfare benefits to which they are entitled adding further strain to the process of dealing with cancer. It is estimated that n...

    Authors: Suzanne Moffatt, Emma Noble and Catherine Exley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:259
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  24. Massive efforts in Canada have been made to renew primary healthcare. However, although early evaluations of initiatives and research on certain aspects of the reform are promising, none have examined the link...

    Authors: Jeannie Haggerty, Martin Fortin, Marie-Dominique Beaulieu, Catherine Hudon, Christine Loignon, Michel Préville and Danièle Roberge
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:258
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  25. The Mental Health Country Profile is a tool that was generated by the International Mental Health Policy and Services Project to inform policy makers, professionals and other key stakeholders about important i...

    Authors: Maria Niemi, Huong T Thanh, Tran Tuan and Torkel Falkenberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:257
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  26. Clinical practice guidelines recommend colonoscopies at regular intervals for colorectal cancer (CRC) survivors. Using data from a large, multi-regional, population-based cohort, we describe the rate of survei...

    Authors: Talya Salz, Morris Weinberger, John Z Ayanian, Noel T Brewer, Craig C Earle, Jennifer Elston Lafata, Deborah A Fisher, Bryan J Weiner and Robert S Sandler
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:256
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  27. Older adults with multiple chronic illnesses are at risk for worsening functional and medical status and hospitalization. Home telemonitoring may help slow this decline. This protocol of a randomized controlle...

    Authors: Paul Y Takahashi, Gregory J Hanson, Jennifer L Pecina, Robert J Stroebel, Rajeev Chaudhry, Nilay D Shah and James M Naessens
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:255
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  28. Studies carried out in developing countries have indicated that training courses in newborn resuscitation are efficacious in teaching local birth attendants how to properly utilize simple resuscitation devices...

    Authors: Vincenzo Zanardo, Alphonse Simbi, Massimo Micaglio, Francesco Cavallin, Leon Tshilolo and Daniele Trevisanuto
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:254
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  29. Benchmarking is one of the methods used in business that is applied to hospitals to improve the management of their operations. International comparison between hospitals can explain performance differences. A...

    Authors: Wineke AM van Lent, Relinde D de Beer and Wim H van Harten
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:253
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  30. In Greece there is lack of large epidemiological studies regarding morbidity and mortality in primary health care. The aim of the present study was to estimate the prevalence and morbidity of the most common d...

    Authors: Markos Minas, Nikolaos Koukosias, Elias Zintzaras, Konstantinos Kostikas and Konstantinos I Gourgoulianis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:252
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  31. Although store-and-forward teledermatology is increasingly becoming popular, evidence on its effects on efficiency and costs is lacking. The aim of this study, performed in addition to a clustered randomised t...

    Authors: Nina Eminović, Marcel G Dijkgraaf, Rosanne M Berghout, Astrid H Prins, Patrick JE Bindels and Nicolette F de Keizer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:251
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  33. Long waiting times and large caseloads are a challenge to children's therapy services internationally. Research in hospital-based healthcare indicates that waiting times are a function of throughput, and that ...

    Authors: Niina Kolehmainen, Graeme MacLennan, Jillian J Francis and Edward AS Duncan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:249
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  35. Pay-for-performance (P4P) is one of the primary tools used to support healthcare delivery reform. Substantial heterogeneity exists in the development and implementation of P4P in health care and its effects. T...

    Authors: Pieter Van Herck, Delphine De Smedt, Lieven Annemans, Roy Remmen, Meredith B Rosenthal and Walter Sermeus
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:247
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  36. Implementation of linkage to HIV care programs in the U.S. is poorly described in the literature despite the central role of these programs in delivering clients from HIV testing facilities to clinical care si...

    Authors: Jason Craw, Lytt Gardner, Amber Rossman, DeAnn Gruber, O'Donnell Noreen, Diana Jordan, Richard Rapp, Cathy Simpson and Karen Phillips
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:246
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  37. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has implemented the CMS-Hierarchical Condition Category (CMS-HCC) model to risk adjust Medicare capitation payments. This study intends to assess the perfor...

    Authors: Pengxiang Li, Michelle M Kim and Jalpa A Doshi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:245
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  38. Type 2 Diabetes mellitus (T2DM) affects persons of all ages, while also placing heavy economic burdens on national economies and healthcare systems. The study aims to investigate the determinants of direct med...

    Authors: Weibing Wang, Chaowei Fu, Haijing Zhuo, Jianfeng Luo and Biao Xu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:244
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  39. Malawi is reassessing its HIV prevention strategy in the light of a limited reduction in the epidemic. No community based incidence studies have been carried out in Malawi, so estimates of where new infections...

    Authors: Kenneth Maleta and Cameron Bowie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:243
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  40. Existing studies concerning the health care use of homeless people describe higher utilisation rates for hospital-based care and emergency care, and lower rates for primary care by homeless people compared to ...

    Authors: Evelyn Verlinde, Tine Verdée, Mieke Van de Walle, Bruno Art, Jan De Maeseneer and Sara Willems
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:242
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  41. Physicians are often unable to eat and drink properly during their work day. Nutrition has been linked to cognition. We aimed to examine the effect of a nutrition based intervention, that of scheduled nutritio...

    Authors: Jane B Lemaire, Jean E Wallace, Kelly Dinsmore, Adriane M Lewin, William A Ghali and Delia Roberts
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:241
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  42. Although previous studies proved that the implementation of mentoring program is beneficial for enhancing the nursing skills and attitudes, few researchers devoted to exploring the impact of mentoring function...

    Authors: Rhay-Hung Weng, Ching-Yuan Huang, Wen-Chen Tsai, Li-Yu Chang, Syr-En Lin and Mei-Ying Lee
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:240
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  43. It is well known that physicians' night-call duty may cause impaired performance and adverse effects on subjective health, but there is limited knowledge about effects on sleep duration and recovery time. In r...

    Authors: Birgitta Malmberg, Göran Kecklund, Björn Karlson, Roger Persson, Per Flisberg and Palle Ørbaek
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:239
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  45. Herpes zoster (HZ) is a painful disease affecting a considerable part of the elderly. Programmatic HZ vaccination of elderly people may considerably reduce HZ morbidity and its related costs, but the extent of...

    Authors: Alies van Lier, Albert Jan van Hoek, Wim Opstelten, Hein J Boot and Hester E de Melker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:237
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  46. Calculating the Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) from medical records is a time-consuming and expensive process. The objectives of this study are to 1) measure agreement between medical record and claims data ...

    Authors: Hyun-Ju Seo, Seok-Jun Yoon, Sang-Il Lee, Kun Sei Lee, Young Ho Yun, Eun-Jung Kim and In-Hwan Oh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:236
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  47. For the treatment of depression in diabetes patients, it is important that depression is recognized at an early stage. A screening method for depression is the patient health questionnaire (PHQ-9). The aim of ...

    Authors: Kirsten M van Steenbergen-Weijenburg, Lars de Vroege, Robert R Ploeger, Jan W Brals, Martijn G Vloedbeld, Thiemo F Veneman, Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen, Frans FH Rutten, Aartjan TF Beekman and Christina M van der Feltz-Cornelis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:235
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  48. Safety activities have been initiated at many hospitals in Taiwan, but little is known about the safety culture at these hospitals. The aims of this study were to verify a safety culture survey instrument in C...

    Authors: Wui-Chiang Lee, Hwei-Ying Wung, Hsun-Hsiang Liao, Chien-Ming Lo, Fei-Ling Chang, Pa-Chun Wang, Angela Fan, Hsin-Hsin Chen, Han-Chuan Yang and Sheng-Mou Hou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:234
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  49. Telehealth is the delivery of health care at a distance, using information and communication technology. The major rationales for its introduction have been to decrease costs, improve efficiency and increase a...

    Authors: Victoria A Wade, Jonathan Karnon, Adam G Elshaug and Janet E Hiller
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:233
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  50. Compliance represents a major determinant for the effectiveness of pharmacotherapy. Compliance reports summarising electronically compiled compliance data qualify healthcare needs and can be utilised as part o...

    Authors: Oliver Schwalbe, Christian Scheerans, Ines Freiberg, Andrea Schmidt-Pokrzywniak, Andreas Stang and Charlotte Kloft
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:232
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