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  1. In Japan, the crude mortality rate of colorectal cancer is the second highest among men and highest among women by site. We aimed to calculate the social burden of colorectal cancer using the cost of illness (...

    Authors: Kunichika Matsumoto, Yosuke Hatakeyama, Kanako Seto, Ryo Onishi, Koki Hirata, Yinghui Wu and Tomonori Hasegawa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:888
  2. Frequent emergency department (FED) visits by cancer patients represent a significant burden to the health system. This study identified determinants of FED in recently hospitalized cancer patients, with a par...

    Authors: Siyana Kurteva, Robyn Tamblyn and Ari N. Meguerditchian
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:887
  3. Studies that analyze the temporal trend and spatial clustering of medical education indicators are scarce, especially in developing countries such as Brazil. This analysis is essential to subsidize more equita...

    Authors: Rafael Alves Guimarães, Ana Luísa Guedes de França e Silva, Marizélia Ribeiro de Souza, Adriana Moura Guimarães, Marcos Eduardo de Souza Lauro, Alessandra Vitorino Naghettini, Heliny Carneiro Cunha Neves, Fernanda Paula Arantes Manso, Cândido Vieira Borges Júnior, Alessandra Rodrigues Moreira de Castro, Victor Gonçalves Bento and Pablo Leonardo Mendes da Cruz Lima
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:882
  4. There are ongoing efforts to eliminate juvenile detention in King County, WA. An essential element of this work is effectively addressing the health needs of youth who are currently detained to improve their w...

    Authors: Madeline Borges, Lois Schipper, George Gonzalez, Sean Goode, Dorene Hersh, Do-Quyen Pham, Ben Kaplan, Keshet Ronen, Kenneth Sherr and Sarah Gimbel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:881
  5. Healthcare leaders play an important and complex role in managing and handling the dual responsibility of both Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) for workers and quality and patient safety (QPS). There is a ...

    Authors: Malin Rosell Magerøy, Geir Sverre Braut, Carl Macrae and Siri Wiig
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:880
  6. There is an international move towards greater integration of health and social care to cope with the increasing demand on services.. In Scotland, legislation was passed in 2014 to integrate adult health and s...

    Authors: Marissa Collins, Micaela Mazzei, Rachel Baker, Alec Morton, Lucy Frith, Keith Syrett, Paul Leak and Cam Donaldson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:879
  7. The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has placed a great burden on Taiwan’s health care system. It has also had a great impact on other public health issues, including cancer screening. Delayed canc...

    Authors: Chih-Hsuan Su, Pi-Shan Hsu and Chu-Sheng Lin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:878
  8. In many high-income countries, COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities. Barriers to engaging with essential health messaging has contributed to difficu...

    Authors: Kara Dickson, Craig Aboltins, Janet Pelly and Rebecca Leigh Jessup
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:877
  9. Opioid overdose death rates are increasing for adults aged 55 and older, with especially high rates in large urban areas. In parallel, admissions to treatment programs for older adults using illicit substances...

    Authors: Maryann Mason, Lori Ann Post and Rahul Aggarwal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:876
  10. After Kenya’s decentralization and constitutional changes in 2013, 47 devolved county governments are responsible for workforce planning and recruitment including for doctors/medical officers (MO). Data from t...

    Authors: Yingxi Zhao, Daniel Mbuthia, Joshua Munywoki, David Gathara, Catia Nicodemo, Jacinta Nzinga and Mike English
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:875

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:952

  11. Indigenous Australians experience significant socioeconomic disadvantage and healthcare disparity compared to non-Indigenous Australians. A retrospective cohort study to describe the association between rates ...

    Authors: Tim Cheok, Morgan Berman, Richard Delaney-Bindahneem, Matthew Phillip Jennings, Linda Bray, Ruurd Jaarsma, Pradeep Mathew Poonnoose, Kanishka Williams and Narlaka Jayasekera
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:874
  12. Persons in need of services from different care providers in the health and welfare system often struggle when navigating between them. Connecting and coordinating different health and welfare providers is a c...

    Authors: Nicoline Vackerberg, Ann- Christine Andersson, Anette Peterson and Anette Karltun
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:873
  13. Refugee healthcare workers (HCWs) can make important contributions in host countries, particularly in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has exacerbated existing shortages of frontline HCWs. Howe...

    Authors: Andrew Ghobrial, Diana Rayes, Ammar Sabouni, Yamama Bdaiwi, Saad Janoudi, Natasha Howard and Aula Abbara
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:872
  14. There are several tools to assess functional and physical status in critical ill patients. These tools can guide rehabilitation strategies in Intensive care units (ICU). However, they are not standardized, and...

    Authors: Juliana S. F. dos Santos, Gabriely A. G. Silva, Nubia M. F. V. Lima, Lucien P. Gualdi, Diego de S. Dantas and Íllia N. D. F. Lima
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:871
  15. As part of the implementation of its mission “to integrate hygiene activities into healthcare”, the general directorate of health conducted in 2018 with its technical structures, an evaluation of the implement...

    Authors: Doumbia Mariamou Cissé, Essis Esme Marie Laure, Koné Atioumounan Blaise, N’gbesso N’gbesso Jean Paul, Mbengue Valérie Gbonon, Cissé Raïssa Adja Mayaka, Gagne Doh Eugénie, Dagnan N’cho Simplice, Kouadio Luc Philippe and Samba Mamadou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:870
  16. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic required an immediate response to the healthcare challenges it posed. This study was conducted to identify actions that helped healthcare professionals to overcome the ini...

    Authors: Eva Gil-Hernández, Andrea Falaschi, Irene Carrillo, Viviana Rodríguez, María Belén Peralta Roca, Ezequiel García-Elorrio and José Joaquín Mira
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:869
  17. Health facility preparedness is essential for delivering quality maternal and newborn care, minimizing morbidity and mortality by addressing delays in seeking skilled care, reaching appropriate facilities, and...

    Authors: James Orwa, Marleen Temmerman, Lucy Nyaga, Kennedy Mulama and Stanley Luchters
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:868
  18. Language discordance occurs in healthcare when staff and service users do not share proficiency in the same language. It is a global phenomenon impacting on the quality of health services, as person-centred pr...

    Authors: M. C. Ramafikeng and E. Marshall
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:867
  19. Organisational readiness is recognised as a key factor impacting the successful translation of research findings into practice. Within psycho-oncology, measuring organisational readiness and understanding fact...

    Authors: Mona M. Faris, Heather L. Shepherd, Phyllis N. Butow, Patrick Kelly, Sharon He, Nicole Rankin, Lindy Masya and Joanne Shaw
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:866
  20. Pay for performance (P4P) schemes provide financial incentives or facilities to health workers based on the achievement of predetermined performance goals. Various P4P programs have been implemented around the...

    Authors: Sara Jamili, Mehdi Yousefi, Hossein Ebrahimi pour, Elahe Houshmand, Ali Taghipour, Seyed Saeed Tabatabaee and Amin Adel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:865
  21. COVID-19 has disrupted maternal and child health services. Community Health Workers (CHWs) supported the women by visiting pregnant women's homes and providing the MCH services as required. This study attempts...

    Authors: Preeti Dhillon, Sayeed Unisa, Ajay Gupta, Abhishek Saraswat, Sulaiman KM and Sarang Pedgaonkar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:864
  22. The COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed the health systems and socio-economic foundations of many countries, Nigeria inclusive. The study was carried out to assess, understand, document and report the activities/mea...

    Authors: Chioma Amarachi Onyedinma, Chinyere Cecilia Okeke and Obinna Onwujekwe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:863
  23. Hospitals play a crucial role in responding to disasters and public health emergencies. However, they are also vulnerable to threats such as fire or flooding and can fail to respond or evacuate adequately due ...

    Authors: Phatthranit Phattharapornjaroen, Eric Carlström, Pongsakorn Atiksawedparit, Lina Dahlén Holmqvist, Dhanesh Pitidhammabhorn, Yuwares Sittichanbuncha and Amir Khorram-Manesh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:862
  24. The implementation of Integrated Care Models (ICMs) represents a strategy for addressing the increasing issues of system fragmentation and improving service customization according to user needs. Available ICM...

    Authors: Ida Charlotte Holmen, Sina Waibel and Oddvar Kaarboe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:860
  25. Cost-of-illness studies are widely used for healthcare decision-making in chronic conditions. Our aim was to assess the cost-of-illness of adult atopic dermatitis (AD) from the societal perspective in Hungary.

    Authors: Zsuzsanna Beretzky, Kamilla Koszorú, Fanni Rencz, Krisztina Hajdu, Júlia Borza, Katalin Bodai, Xu Feifei, Andrea Szegedi, Miklós Sárdy and Valentin Brodszky
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:859
  26. Patients with musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) access health care in different ways. Despite the high prevalence and significant costs, we know little about the different ways patients use health care. We aim ...

    Authors: Olav Amundsen, Tron Anders Moger, Jon Helgheim Holte, Silje Bjørnsen Haavaag, Line Kildal Bragstad, Ragnhild Hellesø, Trond Tjerbo and Nina Køpke Vøllestad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:858
  27. Evidence suggests that the culture of healthcare organisations, including residential aged care facilities (RACFs), is linked to the quality of care offered. The number of people living in RACFs has increased ...

    Authors: Kate Churruca, Emma Falkland, Maree Saba, Louise A Ellis and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:857
  28. Immunisation remains the most cost-effective public health intervention in preventing morbidity and mortality due to Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (VPDs). The study aims to compare the differences in immunisati...

    Authors: Awa Jammeh, Michael Muhoozi, Asli Kulane and Dan Kajungu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:856
  29. Arterial Hypertension (AH) and Diabetes Mellitus (DM) are diseases that are getting worse all over the world. Linked to this advance, is the growing digital health market with numerous mobile health applicatio...

    Authors: Emily de Souza Ferreira, Fernanda de Aguiar Franco, Marina Marilac dos Santos Lara, André Amaral Levcovitz, Mateus Araújo Dias, Tiago Ricardo Moreira, Ary Henrique Morais de Oliveira and Rosângela Minardi Mitre Cotta
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:855
  30. Hypertension is the leading cause of death and disability. Clinical care for patients with hypertension in Kenya leverages referral networks to provide basic and specialized healthcare services. However, refer...

    Authors: Violet Naanyu, Benson Njuguna, Hillary Koros, Josephine Andesia, Jemima Kamano, Tim Mercer, Gerald Bloomfield, Sonak Pastakia, Rajesh Vedanthan and Constantine Akwanalo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:854
  31. The Government of The Gambia introduced a national health insurance scheme (NHIS) in 2021 to promote universal health coverage (UHC). Provider payment systems (PPS) are strategic purchasing arrangements that c...

    Authors: Hassan Njie, Patrick G. C. Ilboudo, Unni Gopinathan, Lumbwe Chola and Knut Reidar Wangen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:853
  32. Focusing on patients’ perceived values is essential for patient-centered health care. Only by identifying the patient’s preferred values can we better meet their needs and provide them with valuable medical se...

    Authors: Sha Liu, Yinhuan Hu, Chuntao Lu, Dehe Li and Zemiao Zhang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:852
  33. Hospital discharge is a complex process encompassing multiple interactions and requiring coordination. To identify potential improvement measures in care transitions for people with complex care needs, intra- ...

    Authors: Ann-Therese Hedqvist, Gesa Praetorius and Mirjam Ekstedt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:851
  34. Existing evidence highlights that the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with a large reduction in healthcare utilization for routine and less-urgent services around the world including Korea. During the COVID-19...

    Authors: Jongnam Hwang, Woong-Han Kim and Jongho Heo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:850
  35. Achieving World Health Organization (WHO) targets for viral hepatitis elimination will require simplification and decentralisation of care, supported through task-shifting and training of non-specialist frontl...

    Authors: Maria A. Corcorran, John D. Scott, Marcelo Naveira and Philippa Easterbrook
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:849
  36. Scandinavian countries are internationally recognised for leading the way in older adult care and in digitally transforming healthcare. Dignity has become a central value in care for older adults in all three ...

    Authors: Moonika Raja, Ingjerd G. Kymre, Jorunn Bjerkan, Kathleen T. Galvin and Lisbeth Uhrenfeldt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:848
  37. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, heart failure (HF) disease management programmes were predominantly delivered in-person, with telemedicine being uncommon. Covid-19 resulted in a rapid shift to “remote-by-defau...

    Authors: Arvind Singhal, Jillian P. Riley and Martin R. Cowie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:847
  38. Patient engagement is seen as a necessary component in achieving the triple aim of improved population health, improved experience of care, and lower per capita health care costs. While there has been a substa...

    Authors: Gennaro Di Tosto, Jennifer L. Hefner, Daniel M. Walker, Megan E. Gregory, Ann Scheck McAlearney and Cynthia J. Sieck
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:846
  39. Systematically using standard patient-reported measures (PRMs) in clinical routines is trending. The International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) has developed condition-specific standard s...

    Authors: Kirsi Väyrynen, An Chen, Riikka-Leena Leskelä, Eija Raussi-Lehto, Reija Klemetti, Seppo Heinonen, Paulus Torkki and Aydin Tekay
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:845
  40. Developed in 2019, the Community Rapid Intervention Service (CRIS) is a community intervention service aiming to prevent hospital admissions. CRIS provides a response within two hours to patients with sub-acut...

    Authors: Alice Moult, Dereth Baker, Helen Twohig, Matthew Missen, Zafar Iqbal, Helen Duffy and Zoe Paskins
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:844
  41. Globally, countries are taking actions to ensure that their population have improved access to people-centred and integrated health services. Attaining this requires improved access to health workers at all le...

    Authors: Sunny C Okoroafor and Christmal Dela Christmals
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:843
  42. Individuals undergoing radiation therapy for breast cancer frequently request information before, throughout and after the treatment as a means to reduce distress. Nevertheless, the provision of information to...

    Authors: Annika Grynne, Josefin Wångdahl, Sofi Fristedt, Frida Smith and Maria Browall
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:842
  43. Adolescents in mental health care may benefit from using patient portals to access personalised information about their health and treatment. While no studies have considered the interest in using patient port...

    Authors: Martine Stecher Nielsen, Aslak Steinsbekk and Torunn Hatlen Nøst
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:841
  44. Shared decision-making (SDM) is highly relevant in oncology but rarely implemented in routine care. In a stepped-wedge cluster randomized implementation trial, the outcome evaluation of a theoretically and emp...

    Authors: Pola Hahlweg, Anja Lindig, Wiebke Frerichs, Jördis Zill, Henning Hanken, Volkmar Müller, Mia-Carlotta Peters and Isabelle Scholl
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:840
  45. Infodemics, defined as the rapid spread of misinformation during an epidemic or pandemic, can have serious public health consequences. Healthcare workers(HCWs) play a critical role in managing infodemics, but ...

    Authors: Arezoo Dehghani and Fatemeh Zarei
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:839
  46. Same-day initiation (SDI) of antiretroviral therapy (ART) increases ART uptake, however retention in care after ART initiation remains a challenge. Public health behaviours, such as retention in HIV care and a...

    Authors: Sabina M. Govere, Chester Kalinda and Moses J. Chimbari
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:838
  47. Despite advance in care of people with an ostomy, related complications remain prevalent. The objective of this study was to examine short- and long-term healthcare resource utilization and associated costs af...

    Authors: Eva Carlsson, Annabelle Forsmark, Catarina Sternhufvud, Gina Scheffel, Frederikke B. Andersen and Eva I Persson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:837
  48. This editorial outlines the background to the BMC Health Services Research collection on decolonizing global health. The discourse on decolonizing global health is gaining increasing momentum. These persistent...

    Authors: Henry Zakumumpa, Nafissatou Diop and Robert Kaba Alhassan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:832