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  1. Despite increased resources over the past few years the coverage of malaria control interventions is still inadequate to reach national and international targets and achieve the full potential of the intervent...

    Authors: Jayne Webster, Daniel Chandramohan and Kara Hanson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10(Suppl 1):S8
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  2. 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
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  3. Millions of individuals with malaria-like fevers purchase drugs from private retailers, but artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), the only effective treatment in regions with high levels of resistanc...

    Authors: Justin M Cohen, Oliver Sabot, Kate Sabot, Megumi Gordon, Isaac Gross, David Bishop, Moses Odhiambo, Yahya Ipuge, Lorrayne Ward, Alex Mwita and Catherine Goodman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10(Suppl 1):S6
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  4. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

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  5. South Africa’s antiretroviral programme is governed by defined national plans, establishing treatment targets and providing funding through ring-fenced conditional grants. However, in terms of the country’s qu...

    Authors: Helen Schneider, David Coetzee, Dingie Van Rensburg and Lucy Gilson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10(Suppl 1):S4
    Content type: Research Published on:

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  6. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

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

  7. The PELICAN Multidisciplinary Team Total Mesorectal Excision (MDT-TME) Development Programme aimed to improve clinical outcomes for rectal cancer by educating colorectal cancer teams in precision surgery and r...

    Authors: Cath Taylor, Joanna M Sippitt, Gary Collins, Chris McManus, Alison Richardson, Jeremy Dawson, Michael Richards and Amanda J Ramirez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:187
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  8. In previous decades a substantial number of community-based studies mostly including dementia cases examined predictors of nursing home admission (NHA) among elderly people. However, no one study has analysed ...

    Authors: Melanie Luppa, Tobias Luck, Herbert Matschinger, Hans-Helmut König and Steffi G Riedel-Heller
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:186
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  9. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use - of which naturopathy constitutes a significant proportion - accounts for approximately half of all health consultations and half of out-of-pocket expenditure ...

    Authors: Jon L Wardle, Jon Adams and Chi-Wai Lui
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:185
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. This paper is a response to the suggestion by Sacristán et al that clinicians can increase their clinical freedom by undertaking individualised economic analyses that demonstrate that interventions, which at a po...

    Authors: Amanda Burls
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:184
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  11. Since Professor Hampton announced the death of clinical freedom in 1983, the increasing influence of Evidence-based Medicine and Health Technology Assessment has contributed to augment the feeling that clinici...

    Authors: José Antonio Sacristán, María Costi, Amparo Valladares and Tatiana Dilla
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:183
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  12. The promotion of care pathways in the recent Governmental health policy reports of Lord Darzi is likely to increase efforts to promote the use of care pathways in the NHS. Evidence on the process of pathway im...

    Authors: Sara Evans-Lacko, Manuela Jarrett, Paul McCrone and Graham Thornicroft
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:182
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  13. Although indicated prevention of depression is available for about 80% of the Dutch population at little or no cost, only a small proportion of those with subthreshold depression make use of these services.

    Authors: Pim Cuijpers, Annemieke van Straten, Lisanne Warmerdam and Marie José van Rooy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:181
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  14. Over the last 30 years options for collecting self-reported data in health surveys and questionnaires have increased with technological advances. However, mode of data collection such as face-to-face interview...

    Authors: Michael R Robling, David K Ingledew, Giles Greene, Adrian Sayers, Chris Shaw, Lesley Sander, Ian T Russell, John G Williams and Kerenza Hood
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:180
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  15. People with mental health problems exhibit smoking rates up to three times that of the general population. Metabolic interactions between hydrocarbon agents in tobacco smoke and some antipsychotic drugs accoun...

    Authors: Lisa McNally and Elena Ratschen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:179
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  16. A principal reason for low use of public health care services is the perception of inferior quality of care. Studying health service user (HSU) experiences with their care and their perception of health servic...

    Authors: Alma Lucila Sauceda-Valenzuela, Veronika J Wirtz, Yared Santa-Ana-Téllez and Maria de la Luz Kageyama-Escobar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:178
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  17. Responsibility loadings determine relative value units of dental services that translate services into a common scale of work effort. The aims of this paper were to elicit responsibility loadings for a subset ...

    Authors: David S Brennan and A John Spencer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:177
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  18. In developed countries, health care utilization among immigrant groups differs where the dominant interpretation is unjustified overutilization due to lack of acculturation. We investigated utilization of pres...

    Authors: Semiha Denktaş, Gerrit Koopmans, Erwin Birnie, Marleen Foets and Gouke Bonsel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:176
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  19. The number of women serving in the United States military increased during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), leading to a subsequent surge in new women Veterans seeking health...

    Authors: Mona Duggal, Joseph L Goulet, Julie Womack, Kirsha Gordon, Kristin Mattocks, Sally G Haskell, Amy C Justice and Cynthia A Brandt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:175
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  20. The aim of Clinical Governance (CG) is to the pursuit of quality in health care through the integration of all the activities impacting on the patient into a single strategy.

    Authors: Maria Lucia Specchia, Giuseppe La Torre, Roberta Siliquini, Silvio Capizzi, Luca Valerio, Pierangela Nardella, Alessandro Campana and Walter Ricciardi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:174
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  21. Episodes of Emergency Department (ED) service use among older adults previously have not been constructed, or evaluated as multi-dimensional phenomena. In this study, we constructed episodes of ED service use ...

    Authors: Brian Kaskie, Maksym Obrizan, Elizabeth A Cook, Michael P Jones, Li Liu, Suzanne Bentler, Robert B Wallace, John F Geweke, Kara B Wright, Elizabeth A Chrischilles, Claire E Pavlik, Robert L Ohsfeldt, Gary E Rosenthal and Fredric D Wolinsky,
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:173
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  22. Novel approaches are increasingly employed to address the social determinants of health of children world-wide. Such approaches have included complex social programs involving multiple stakeholders from differ...

    Authors: Kapila Jayaratne, Margaret Kelaher and David Dunt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:172
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  23. In 2003, the government of British Columbia, Canada introduced a universal drug benefit plan to cover drug costs that are high relative to household income. Residents were required to register in order to be e...

    Authors: Vivian W Leong, Steve Morgan, Sabrina T Wong, Gillian E Hanley and Charlyn Black
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:171
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  24. Since 2003 and 2005, National Pilot Medical Financial Assistance Scheme (MFA) has been implemented in rural and urban areas of China to improve the poorest families' accessibility to health services. Local gov...

    Authors: Yanhua Hao, Qunhong Wu, Zhenzhong Zhang, Lijun Gao, Ning Ning, Mingli Jiao and David Zakus
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:170
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  25. The diabetes epidemic is associated with huge human and economic costs, with some groups, such as indigenous populations in industrialised countries, being at especially high risk. Monitoring and improving dia...

    Authors: Damin Si, Ross Bailie, Zhiqiang Wang and Tarun Weeramanthri
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:169
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  26. Research utilization investigators have called for more focused examination of the influence of context on research utilization behaviors. Yet, up until recently, lack of instrumentation to identify and quanti...

    Authors: Greta G Cummings, Alison M Hutchinson, Shannon D Scott, Peter G Norton and Carole A Estabrooks
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:168
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  28. The Resident Assessment Instrument-Minimum Data Set (RAI-MDS) 2.0 is designed to collect the minimum amount of data to guide care planning and monitoring for residents in long-term care settings. These data ha...

    Authors: Alison M Hutchinson, Doris L Milke, Suzanne Maisey, Cynthia Johnson, Janet E Squires, Gary Teare and Carole A Estabrooks
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:166
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  29. While point of care testing (PoCT) for general practitioners is becoming increasingly popular, few studies have investigated whether it represents value for money. This study aims to assess the relative cost-e...

    Authors: Caroline O Laurence, John R Moss, Nancy E Briggs and Justin J Beilby
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:165
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  30. Little is known about drug cost communications of Medicare Part D beneficiaries with chronic conditions such as diabetes. The purpose of this study is to assess Medicare Part D beneficiaries with diabetes' lev...

    Authors: Julie A Schmittdiel, Neil Steers, O Kenrik Duru, Susan L Ettner, Arleen F Brown, Vicki Fung, John Hsu, Elaine Quiter, Chien-Wen Tseng and Carol M Mangione
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:164
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  31. Unqualified/non-registered caregivers (N-R Cs) will continue to play important roles in the mental health services. This study compares levels of burnout and sources of stress among qualified and N-R Cs workin...

    Authors: Knut W Sorgaard, Peter Ryan and Ian Dawson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:163
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  32. It is important that community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes are designed in such a way as to ensure the relevance of the benefit packages to potential clients. Hence, this paper provides an understand...

    Authors: Obinna Onwujekwe, Chima Onoka, Nkoli Uguru, Tasie Nnenna, Benjamin Uzochukwu, Soludo Eze, Joses Kirigia and Amos Petu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:162
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  33. It is a qualitative design study that examines points of divergence and convergence in the perspectives on recovery of 36 participants or 12 triads. Each triad comprising a patient, a family member/friend, a c...

    Authors: Sylvie Noiseux, Denise Tribble St-Cyr, Ellen Corin, Pierre-Luc St-Hilaire, Raymond Morissette, Claude Leclerc, Danielle Fleury, Luc Vigneault and Francine Gagnier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:161
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  35. Physicians are encouraged to counsel obese patients to lose weight, but studies measuring the quality of physicians' counseling are rare. We sought to describe the quality of physicians' obesity counseling and...

    Authors: Melanie Jay, Colleen Gillespie, Sheira Schlair, Scott Sherman and Adina Kalet
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:159
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  36. Our objectives were to examine temporal changes in HbA1c and lipid levels over a 10-year period and to identify predictors of metabolic control in a longitudinal patient cohort.

    Authors: Karen J Blumenthal, Mary E Larkin, Gail Winning, David M Nathan and Richard W Grant
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:158
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  37. The English National Stroke Strategy suggests that there is a need to improve the response of patients and witnesses to the symptoms of acute stroke to increase rapid access to specialist care. We wished to re...

    Authors: Jan Lecouturier, Madeleine J Murtagh, Richard G Thomson, Gary A Ford, Martin White, Martin Eccles and Helen Rodgers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:157
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  38. In 2004 an allocation formula for primary care services was introduced in England and Wales so practices would receive equitable pay. Modifications were made to this formula to enable local health authorities ...

    Authors: Gwion Rhys, Hendrik J Beerstecher and Claire L Morgan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:156
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  39. Against the background of a decreasing number of general practitioners (GPs) in rural regions in Germany, the AGnES-concept (AGnES = GP-supporting, community-based, e-health-assisted, systemic intervention) su...

    Authors: Neeltje van den Berg, Claudia Meinke, Melanie Matzke, Romy Heymann, Steffen Fleßa and Wolfgang Hoffmann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:155
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  41. There has been an increase in 'risk sharing' schemes for pharmaceuticals between healthcare institutions and pharmaceutical companies in Europe in recent years as an additional approach to provide continued co...

    Authors: Jakub Adamski, Brian Godman, Gabriella Ofierska-Sujkowska, Bogusława Osińska, Harald Herholz, Kamila Wendykowska, Ott Laius, Saira Jan, Catherine Sermet, Corrine Zara, Marija Kalaba, Roland Gustafsson, Kristina Garuolienè, Alan Haycox, Silvio Garattini and Lars L Gustafsson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:153
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  43. Although the community health service system is now established in China, the utilisation of the community health service institutions is low due to the lack of a gate-keeping role of the primary health servic...

    Authors: Jing Xu, Wenxin Wang, Yongbin Li, Juan Zhang, Milena Pavlova, Hua Liu, Ping Yin and Zuxun Lu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:151
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  45. Patients' satisfaction is an important indicator for quality of care. Measuring healthcare quality and improving patient satisfaction have become increasingly prevalent, especially among healthcare providers a...

    Authors: Ghizlane Soufi, Jihane Belayachi, Salma Himmich, Samir Ahid, Mehdi Soufi, Aicha Zekraoui and Redouane Abouqal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:149
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. An aging population, rise in chronic illnesses, increase in life expectancy and shift towards care being provided at the community level are trends that are collectively creating an urgency to advance hospice ...

    Authors: Allison M Williams, Valorie A Crooks, Kyle Whitfield, Mary-Lou Kelley, Judy-Lynn Richards, Lily DeMiglio and Sarah Dykeman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:147
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Medicine access is an important goal of medicine policy; however the evaluation of medicine access is a subject under conceptual and methodological development. The aim of this study was to describe quantitati...

    Authors: Vera Maria V Paniz, Anaclaudia G Fassa, Maria de Fátima S Maia, Marlos R Domingues and Andréa D Bertoldi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:146
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  49. In recent decades immigration to Norway from Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe has increased rapidly. The aim of this study was to assess the quality of care for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients from the...

    Authors: Anh T Tran, Lien M Diep, John G Cooper, Tor Claudi, Jørund Straand, Kåre Birkeland, Wibeche Ingskog and Anne K Jenum
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:145
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  50. Different models exist to provide HIV/STI services for most-at-risk populations (MARP). Along the Tete traffic corridor in Mozambique, linking Malawi and Zimbabwe, a night clinic opening between 4 and 10 PM wa...

    Authors: Yves Lafort, Diederike Geelhoed, Luisa Cumba, Carla das Dores Mosse Lázaro, Wim Delva, Stanley Luchters and Marleen Temmerman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:144
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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