The key to the effective management of healthcare wastes is segregation of the waste at the point of generation; no matter what final strategy for treatment and disposal of wastes is selected, it is critical t...
The first aim was to present descriptive data on the frequency of dental visits among older adults in Germany. The second aim was to identify the determinants of the number of dental visits using a longitudina...
Authors: K. Spinler, G. Aarabi, R. Valdez, C. Kofahl, G. Heydecke, H.-H. König and A. Hajek
No validated instruments for the evaluation of patient satisfaction in colposcopy do exist. Therefore, this study reports on the development of a Patient’s Experience and Attitude to Colposcopy questionnaire.
Authors: Victor J. M. Pop, Tirza Wouters, Ruud L. M. Bekkers, Viola R. M. Spek and Jurgen M. J. Piek
‘Cascade training’ or ‘train-the-trainers’ has been widely utilised in the dissemination of information and expertise in health and social care, but with little examination of the work required for optimal del...
Despite a growing number of adolescents and adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), little is known about service needs and barriers to services in this population. Existing research shows that y...
A number of parents in neonatal care are foreign-born and do not speak the local language, which makes communication between healthcare professionals and parents more difficult. Interpreters can be used when l...
Authors: Katarina Patriksson, Helena Wigert, Marie Berg and Stefan Nilsson
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) epidemic is growing rapidly among South African adolescents and young adults (AYA). Although HIV counselling and testing, HIV prevention and treatment options are widely ...
Authors: Philip Smith, Tsidiso Tolla, Rebecca Marcus and Linda-Gail Bekker
Medication safety in cancer patients receiving complex medication regimens is an important problem in various settings. Medication related events, interceptions and interventions are not well described in this...
Authors: Marium Azim, Ahmad Khan, Tahir Mehmood Khan and Mohammad Kamran
In the original publication of this article [1], the first name of the 3rd author is wrong.
Authors: Gregory M. Peterson, Grant Russell, Jan C. Radford, Nick Zwar, Danielle Mazza, Simon Eckermann, Judy Mullan, Marijka J. Batterham, Athena Hammond and Andrew Bonney
Citation:BMC Health Services Research
2019
19:581
Published on: 19 August 2019
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original article was published in BMC Health Services Research
2019
19:529
Care-seeking behavior is widely acknowledged to have strong influences on health outcomes among individuals with chronic conditions including diabetes. Despite its dynamic nature, care seeking behavior are oft...
Authors: Tzu-Ho Tsai, Nicole Huang, I-Feng Lin and Yiing-Jenq Chou
Clean Cut is a six month, multi-modal, adaptive intervention aimed at reducing surgical infections through improving six critical perioperative processes: 1) handwashing/skin preparation, 2) surgical gown/drap...
Authors: Aviva S. Mattingly, Nichole Starr, Senait Bitew, Jared A. Forrester, Tihitena Negussie, Sylvia Bereknyei Merrell and Thomas G. Weiser
Celiac disease (CD) is an autoimmune chronic enteropathy of the small intestine caused by exposure to gluten in genetically predisposed individuals. CD is not easy to diagnose due to its unspecific symptomatol...
Authors: Ricardo Fueyo-Díaz, Rosa Magallón-Botaya, Barbara Masluk, Guillermo Palacios-Navarro, Angela Asensio-Martínez, Santiago Gascón-Santos, Bárbara Olivan-Blázquez and Juan José Sebastián-Domingo
Many countries have implemented standardized cancer patient pathways (CPPs) to reduce waiting times in cancer care and to ensure timely and quick diagnosis as well as treatment. Yet, no studies have explored t...
Authors: Sara Delilovic, Henna Hasson, Mårten Åhström and Mia von Knorring
Affordability and availability of quality medicines to all its citizens has been a key priority area for South Africa since democracy in 1994. In order to introduce transparency in the private market the gover...
Recently, there has been growing interest in providing more tailored, patient-centered care for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Yet it remains unclear which patient characteristics should be ...
Authors: Dorijn F. L. Hertroijs, Martijn C. G. J. Brouwers, Arianne M. J. Elissen, Nicolaas C. Schaper and Dirk Ruwaard
Though much is known about the benefits attributed to medical scribes documenting patient visits (e.g., reducing documentation time for the provider, increasing patient-care time, expanding the roles of licens...
Authors: Jennifer M. Van Tiem, Kenda R. Stewart Steffensmeier, Bonnie J. Wakefield, Greg L. Stewart, Nancy A. Zemblidge, Melissa J. A. Steffen and Jane Moeckli
This study aims to assess the cost-effectiveness and budget impact of adopting sildenafil to the benefits package for the indication of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), compared to beraprost.
Authors: Oktavia Lilyasari, Yusuf Subekti, Nur Atika, Lucia Kris Dinarti, Septiara Putri, Cicih Opitasari, Anggita Bunga Anggraini, Thanaporn Bussabawalai and Yot Teerawattananon
The study evaluates Performance Measures (PMs) for Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA): The percentage of patients with new onset JIA with at least one visit to a pediatric rheumatologist in the first year of ...
Authors: Claire E.H. Barber, Lisa M. Lix, Diane Lacaille, Deborah A. Marshall, Kristine Kroeker, Susanne Benseler, Marinka Twilt, Heinrike Schmeling, Cheryl Barnabe, Glen S. Hazlewood, Vivian Bykerk, Joanne Homik, J. Carter Thorne, Jennifer Burt, Dianne Mosher, Steven Katz…
The use of psychotropic substances is controlled in most parts of the world due to their potential of abuse and addiction. Diazepam is one of the psychotropic substances which can be dispensed in community pha...
Authors: Wigilya Padili Mikomangwa, Nassoro A. Madende, Manase Kilonzi, Hamu Joseph Mlyuka, Pacifique Ndayishimiye, Alphonce Ignace Marealle and Ritah Mutagonda
The focus of the community anti-retroviral therapy Group model is on drug refill, adherence and support groups. However, laboratory services are completely neglected in this model, and stable patient still hav...
Authors: Mpanji Siwingwa, Selestine H. Nzala, Bornwell Sikateyo and Wilbroad Mutale
Ensuring financial protection of the community against health care expenditures is one of the fundamental goals of the health system. Catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) occurs when out-of-pocket health exp...
Authors: Mohammad Hassan Kazemi-galougahi, Elham Dadgar, Zahra Kavosi and Reza Majdzadeh
Primary care doctors have a gatekeeper function in many healthcare systems, and strategies to reduce emergency hospital admissions often focus on general practitioners’ (GPs’) and out-of-hours (OOH) doctors’ r...
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) peoples face major health disadvantage across many conditions. Recording of patients’ Indigenous status in general practice records supports equita...
Authors: Belinda K. Ford, Marlene Kong, James S. Ward, Jane S. Hocking, Christopher K. Fairley, Basil Donovan, Rebecca Lorch, Simone Spark, Matthew Law, John Kaldor and Rebecca Guy
Long waiting times result in low satisfaction. Although several methods are used to shorten the actual waiting time (AWT) in large hospitals of China, the outpatients still have a long actual waiting time. Thi...
Families play an important role meeting the care needs of individuals who require assistance due to illness and/or disability. Yet, without adequate support their own health and wellbeing can be compromised. T...
Authors: Kristina M. Kokorelias, Monique A. M. Gignac, Gary Naglie and Jill I. Cameron
Community health workers, known as Village Health Teams (VHTs) in Uganda, play a central role in increasing access to community-based health services. The objective of this research is to explore tensions that...
Authors: Samantha Perry, Cynthia D. Fair, Sahai Burrowes, Sarah Jane Holcombe and Robert Kalyesubula
To assess the level of awareness, knowledge and help-seeking attitudes and behaviours in relation to mental health conditions (MHCs) and associations with socio-demographic characteristics of a rural district ...
Authors: Mohammed Nazim Uddin, Sunil Bhar and Fakir M Amirul Islam
Bronchiectasis in children is an important, but under-researched, chronic pulmonary disorder that has negative impacts on health-related quality of life. Despite this, it does not receive the same attention as...
Authors: Yolanda G. Lovie-Toon, Keith Grimwood, Catherine A. Byrnes, Vikas Goyal, Greta Busch, I. Brent Masters, Julie M. Marchant, Helen Buntain, Kerry-Ann F. O’Grady and Anne B. Chang
Implementing adequate strategies to assess the value of health services plays a central role in the effort to deal with the financial pressures faced by health care systems worldwide. This study aimed to under...
Authors: Brayan V. Seixas, François Dionne, Tania Conte and Craig Mitton
To date, there is little information on the sustainability of family planning (FP) service quality after completion of a donor-funded program. This paper examines the sustainability of the Nigerian Urban Repro...
Authors: Ilene S. Speizer, Lisa M. Calhoun, Courtney McGuire, Peter M. Lance, Caroline Heller and David K. Guilkey
Some of the advantages of implementing electronic emergency department information systems (EDIS) are improvements in data availability and simplification of statistical evaluations of emergency department (ED...
Authors: Benjamin Lucas, Peter Schladitz, Wiebke Schirrmeister, Gerald Pliske, Felix Walcher, Martin Kulla and Dominik Brammen
Male partner involvement has been shown to increase mothers’ uptake of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) and improve maternal and infant HIV treatment outcomes. Currently, male involvem...
Authors: Patience A. Muwanguzi, Louise K. Nassuna, Joachim G. Voss, Joanita Kigozi, Alex Muganzi, Tom Denis Ngabirano, Nelson Sewankambo and Damalie Nakanjako
Employees insured in pension insurance, who are incapable of working due to ill health, are entitled to a disability pension. To assess whether an individual meets the medical requirements to be considered as ...
Authors: André Strahl, Christian Gerlich, Georg W. Alpers, Jörg Gehrke, Annette Müller-Garnn and Heiner Vogel
Adverse drug events (ADEs) that occur during hospitalization are an ongoing medical concern. Systematic strategies for ADE identification are lacking. The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential to ide...
Authors: Nils Kuklik, Jürgen Stausberg, Marjan Amiri and Karl-Heinz Jöckel
Historically, governmental hospital organisation consisted in a heterogeneous distribution of staff and a fragmented logistical organisation without cross-functionality or sharing of resources between departme...
Authors: Isabelle Briatte, Caroline Allix-Béguec, Gérard Garnier and Mercédès Michel
As the effect of opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) on overdose mortality varies both between and within countries, treatment programs need to be evaluated in different treatment settings and over time within ...
Authors: Anne Bukten, Marianne Riksheim Stavseth and Thomas Clasuen
Ethiopia is one of five countries that account for half of the world’s 2.6 million newborn deaths. A quarter of neonatal deaths in Ethiopia are caused by birth asphyxia. Understanding different dimensions of t...
Authors: Wasihun Andualem Gobezie, Patricia Bailey, Emily Keyes, Ana Lorena Ruano and Habtamu Teklie
During pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium, women receive care from a range of health professionals, particularly midwives. To assess the current situation of maternity care for women with physical disabiliti...
Authors: Martina König-Bachmann, Christoph Zenzmaier and Barbara Schildberger
Providing safe care helps to reduce mortality, morbidity, length of hospital stay and cost. Patient safety is highly linked to attitudes of health care providers, where those with more positive attitudes achie...
Authors: Nasser Ibrahim Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon Khalil Abu-El-Noor, Yousef Zuheir Abuowda, Maha Alfaqawi and Bettina Böttcher
The awareness of diabetes mellitus (DM) and its complications, especially diabetic retinopathy (DR), is the key to reducing their burden. This study aimed to assess both the awareness of diabetic outpatients a...
Analysis of Medicare data is often used to determine epidemiology, healthcare utilization and effectiveness of disease treatments. We were interested in whether Medicare data could be used to estimate prevalen...
Authors: Shawn P. E. Nishi, Jie Zhou, Young-Fang Kuo, Gulshan Sharma and James Goodwin
Effective hand hygiene is one of the most important measures for protecting nursing home residents from nosocomial infections. Infections with multi-resistant bacteria’s, associated with healthcare, is a known...
Healthcare middle managers play a central role in reducing harm, improving patient safety, and strengthening the quality of healthcare. The aim of this systematic review was to identify the present knowledge a...
Authors: Trude Anita Hartviksen, Jessica Aspfors and Lisbeth Uhrenfeldt
Emergency Medical call-takers working in Emergency Medical Communication Centers (EMCCs) are addressing complex and potentially life threatening problems. The call-takers have to make fast decisions, respondin...
Authors: Ann-Chatrin Leonardsen, Helge Ramsdal, Theresa M. Olasveengen, Jon E. Steen-Hansen, Fredrik Westmark, Andreas E. Hansen and Camilla Hardeland
In most developing countries, healthcare cost is mainly paid at the time of sickness and out-of-pocket at the point of service delivery which potentially could inhibit access. The total economic cost of illness f...
Presenteeism is the employee behaviour of physically attending work with reduced performance due to illness or for other reasons. Nurses are four times more likely to exhibit presenteeism compared to other occ...
Authors: Juliana Nga Man Lui and Janice Mary Johnston
The raising of disability and chronic illness burden among European population is calling for a new paradigm of care, focused on primary health care interventions. Engage-In-Caring is a novel multicomponent in...
Authors: E. Guida, S. Barello, A. Corsaro, M. C. Galizi, F. Giuffrida, G. Graffigna and G. Damiani
