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  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...

    Authors: Anita Shet, Ayesha DeCosta, Elsa Heylen, Suresh Shastri, Sara Chandy and Maria Ekstrand
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:277
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  2. 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...

    Authors: Neeru Gupta, Carla Castillo-Laborde and Michel D Landry
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:276
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  3. 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...

    Authors: Salla Atkins, Simon Lewin, Karin C Ringsberg and Anna Thorson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:275
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  4. 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...

    Authors: André S Fialho, Mónica D Oliveira and Armando B Sá
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:274
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  5. 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 ...

    Authors: Geetha Ranmuthugala, Jennifer J Plumb, Frances C Cunningham, Andrew Georgiou, Johanna I Westbrook and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:273
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  7. 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...

    Authors: Shinsuke Murai, Leizel P Lagrada, Julita T Gaite and Naruo Uehara
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:271
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  8. 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 ...

    Authors: Maria C Raven, Kelly M Doran, Shannon Kostrowski, Colleen C Gillespie and Brian D Elbel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:270
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  9. 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 ...

    Authors: Juan Viñoles, Maía V Ibáñez and Guillermo Ayala
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:269
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  10. 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...

    Authors: Anna R Gagliardi and Mark J Dobrow
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:268
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  11. 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...

    Authors: Jostein Grytten, Lars Monkerud, Terje P Hagen, Rune Sørensen, Anne Eskild and Irene Skau
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:267
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  12. 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...

    Authors: Deogratius Mbilinyi, Marguerite L Daniel and Gro Th Lie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:266
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  13. 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...

    Authors: Jo M Longman, Judy B Singer, Yu Gao, Lesley M Barclay, Megan E Passey, Julie P Pirotta, Kathy E Heathcote, Dan P Ewald, Vahid Saberi, Paul Corben and Geoffrey G Morgan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:265
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  14. 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...

    Authors: Lori A Orlando, Elizabeth R Hauser, Carol Christianson, Karen P Powell, Adam H Buchanan, Blair Chesnut, Astrid B Agbaje, Vincent C Henrich and Geoffrey Ginsburg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:264
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  15. 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...

    Authors: Rutger E Sonneveld, Michel Wensing, Ewald M Bronkhorst, Gert-Jan Truin and Wolter G Brands
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:263
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  16. 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...

    Authors: Hans O Birk, Rikke Gut and Lars O Henriksen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:262
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  18. The relative shortage of physicians in Japan's rural areas is an important issue in health policy. In the 1970s, the Japanese government began a policy to increase the number of medical students and to achieve...

    Authors: Shinichi Tanihara, Yasuki Kobayashi, Hiroshi Une and Ichiro Kawachi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:260
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  20. Surgeries and other procedures can influence the risk of death in hospital. All published scales that predict post-operative death risk require clinical data and cannot be measured using administrative data al...

    Authors: Carl van Walraven, Jenna Wong, Carol Bennett and Alan J Forster
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:258
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  21. Persons with schizophrenia and related disorders may be particularly sensitive to a number of determinants of service use, including those related with illness, socio-demographic characteristics and organizati...

    Authors: Berta Moreno-Küstner, Fermín Mayoral, Fabio Rivas, Pedro Angona, Javier Requena, José M García-Herrera, Desiree Navas, Patricia Moreno, Antoni Serrano-Blanco and Juan A Bellón
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:257
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  22. Various countries are currently implementing a national electronic patient record (n-EPR). Despite the assumed positive effects of n-EPRs, their overall adoption remains low and meets resistance from health ca...

    Authors: Marieke Zwaanswijk, Robert A Verheij, Floris J Wiesman and Roland D Friele
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:256
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  23. As part of its ongoing healthcare reform, the Hong Kong Government introduced a voucher scheme, intended for encouraging older patients to use primary healthcare services in the private sector, thereby, reduci...

    Authors: Carrie HK Yam, Su Liu, Olivia HY Huang, EK Yeoh and Sian M Griffiths
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:255
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  24. During 1999-2003, Japan experienced a series of measles epidemics, and in Action Plans to Control Measles and the Future Problems, it was proposed that infants be immunized soon after their one-year birthday.

    Authors: Kenzo Takahashi, Yasushi Ohkusa and Jong-Young Kim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:254
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  25. Population-based patterns of care studies are important for monitoring cancer care but conducting them is expensive and resource-intensive. Linkage of routinely collected administrative health data may provide...

    Authors: David E Goldsbury, David P Smith, Bruce K Armstrong and Dianne L O'Connell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:253
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  26. This study aims to identify the statistical software applications most commonly employed for data analysis in health services research (HSR) studies in the U.S. The study also examines the extent to which info...

    Authors: Allard E Dembe, Jamie S Partridge and Laurel C Geist
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:252
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  27. There are few validated measures of organizational context and none that we located are parsimonious and address modifiable characteristics of context. The Alberta Context Tool (ACT) was developed to meet this ne...

    Authors: Carole A Estabrooks, Janet E Squires, Alison M Hutchinson, Shannon Scott, Greta G Cummings, Sung Hyun Kang, William K Midodzi and Bonnie Stevens
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:251
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  28. To describe implementation and first-year screening results of the first Chinese telehealth system for diabetic retinopathy (DR) - the Beixinjing Community Diabetic Retinopathy Telehealth system (BCDRT).

    Authors: Jinjuan Peng, Haidong Zou, Weiwei Wang, Jiong Fu, Bingjie Shen, Xuelin Bai, Xun Xu and Xi Zhang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:250
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  30. In January 2006, Veterans Affairs (VA) disseminated the MOVE!® Weight Management Program to VA medical centers to address the high prevalence of overweight/obesity. In its second year, MOVE! implementation varied...

    Authors: Laura J Damschroder, David E Goodrich, Claire H Robinson, Carol E Fletcher and Julie C Lowery
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:248
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  31. Interferon-γ release assays (IGRAs) for TB have the potential to replace the tuberculin skin test (TST) in screening for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). The higher per-test cost of IGRAs may be compensat...

    Authors: Albert Nienhaus, Anja Schablon, José Torres Costa and Roland Diel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:247
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  32. Since the shift from a radiographic film-based system to that of a filmless system, the change in radiographic examination costs and costs structure have been undetermined. The activity-based costing (ABC) met...

    Authors: Hiroshi Muto, Yuji Tani, Shigemasa Suzuki, Yuki Yokooka, Tamotsu Abe, Yuji Sase, Takayoshi Terashita and Katsuhiko Ogasawara
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:246
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  33. Normalization Process Theory (NPT) can be used to explain implementation processes in health care relating to new technologies and complex interventions. This paper describes the processes by which we develope...

    Authors: Carl R May, Tracy Finch, Luciana Ballini, Anne MacFarlane, Frances Mair, Elizabeth Murray, Shaun Treweek and Tim Rapley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:245
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  35. Audit and feedback is an established strategy for improving maternal, neonatal and child health. The Perinatal Problem Identification Programme (PPIP), implemented in South African public hospitals in the late...

    Authors: María Belizán, Anne-Marie Bergh, Carolé Cilliers, Robert C Pattinson and Anna Voce
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:243
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  36. Studies have shown that effective discharge planning is one of the key factors related to the quality of inpatient care and unnecessary hospital readmission. The perception and understanding of hospital discha...

    Authors: Eliza LY Wong, Carrie HK Yam, Annie WL Cheung, Michael CM Leung, Frank WK Chan, Fiona YY Wong and Eng-Kiong Yeoh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:242
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  37. Researches to evaluate Primary Health Care performance in TB control in Brazil show that different cities aggregate local specificities in the dynamics of coping with the disease. This study aims to evaluate h...

    Authors: Tereza CS Villa, Antônio Ruffino-Netto, Lucia M Scatena, Rubia LP Andrade, Maria EF Brunello, Jordana A Nogueira, Pedro F Palha, Lenilde D Sá, Marluce MA Assis, Silvia HF Vendramini, Aline A Monroe, Ricardo A Arcêncio and Tiemi Arakawa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:241
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  38. Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) is a cause of hospital mortality and managing its morbidity is associated with significant expenditure. Uptake of evidenced based guideline recommendations intended to prevent VTE ...

    Authors: Nicola H Chapman, Steven P Lazar, Margaret Fry, Marissa N Lassere and Beng H Chong
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:240
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  39. Globally, almost 4 million newborns die during the first 4 weeks of life every year. By increased use of evidence-based knowledge in the healthcare system a large proportion of these neonatal deaths could be p...

    Authors: Lars Wallin, Mats MÃ¥lqvist, Nguyen T Nga, Leif Eriksson, Lars-Ã…ke Persson, Dinh P Hoa, Tran Q Huy, Duong M Duc and Uwe Ewald
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:239
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  40. Patient safety has been a priority for many societies and health care systems in the last decades. Identification of preventable risks and aversion of potentially unsafe situations and fatal complications in m...

    Authors: Vasilios Raftopoulos, Nicos Savva and Maria Papadopoulou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:238
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  42. Risperidone long-acting injection (LAI) is mostly administered twice weekly to people with schizophrenia by nurses at community mental health centres (CMHC) or through mobile outreach visits. This study estima...

    Authors: Andrew Dalton, Tim Lambert, Rudolf Schrover, Judy Hertel and Dell Kingsford Smith
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:236
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  43. Throughout China, a growing number of physicians are leaving or intending to depart from their organizations owing to job dissatisfaction. Little information is available about the role of occupational burnout...

    Authors: Yimin Zhang and Xueshan Feng
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:235
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  44. Empirical evidence on how ownership type affects the quality and cost of medical care is growing, and debate on these topics is ongoing. Despite the fact that the private sector is a major provider of hospital...

    Authors: Elias Kondilis, Magda Gavana, Stathis Giannakopoulos, Emmanouil Smyrnakis, Nikolaos Dombros and Alexis Benos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:234
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  45. Pain is one of the most frequent problems among patients diagnosed with cancer. Despite the availability of effective pharmacological treatments, this group of patients often receives less than optimal treatme...

    Authors: Gunilla Borglin, Markus Gustafsson and Hans Krona
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:233
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  46. Direct-to-consumer (DTC) marketing of pharmaceuticals is controversial, yet effective. Little is known relating patterns of medication use to patient responsiveness to DTC.

    Authors: Nicholas J Dieringer, Lisa Kukkamma, Grant W Somes and Ronald I Shorr
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:232
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  47. While it is recommended that records are kept between primary care providers (PCPs) and specialists during patient transitions from hospital to community care, this communication is not currently standardized....

    Authors: Jonathan Yee, Karen Unsworth, Neville Suskin, Robert D Reid, Veronica Jamnik and Sherry L Grace
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:231
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  48. Almost all studies of pathologic fractures have been conducted based on patients with tumours and hospital-based data; however, in the present study, a nationwide epidemiological survey of pathologic fractures...

    Authors: Yi-Hui Lee, Yuan-Nian Hsu, I-Liang Yu, Dinh-Van Phan, Pesus Chou, Chien-Lung Chan and Nan-Ping Yang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:230
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  49. Community participation has been emphasized internationally as a way of enhancing accountability, as well as a means to enhance health goals in terms of coverage, access and effective utilization. In rural hea...

    Authors: Catherine Goodman, Antony Opwora, Margaret Kabare and Sassy Molyneux
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:229
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  50. In a manner similar to the television action hero MacGyver, health services researchers need to respond to the pressure of unpredictable demands and constrained time frames. The results are often both innovati...

    Authors: Roshan Perera and Helen J Moriarty
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:226
    Content type: Debate Published on:
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