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Changes in the management of urinary tract infections in women: impact of the new recommendations on antibiotic prescribing behavior in France, between 2014 and 2019

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common infections that require antibiotic therapy. In December 2015, new guidelines for UTI management were published in France with the aim of reducing antib...

Authors: Arthur Piraux, Sébastien Faure, Kurt G. Naber, Jakhongir F. Alidjanov and Aline Ramond-Roquin

Conducting a psychosocial and lifestyle assessment as part of an integrated care approach for childhood obesity: experiences, needs and wishes of Dutch healthcare professionals

The causes and consequences of childhood obesity are complex and multifaceted. Therefore, an integrated care approach is required to address weight-related issues and improve children’s health, societal partic...

Authors: L. W. Koetsier, M. M. A. van Mil, M. M. A. Eilander, E. van den Eynde, C. A. Baan, J. C. Seidell and J. Halberstadt

‘Bare-bones’ to ‘silver linings’: lessons on integrating a palliative approach to care in long-term care in Western Canada

‘Whole-person’ palliative approaches to care (PAC) are important for enhancing the quality of life of residents with life-limiting conditions in long-term care (LTC). This research is part of a larger, four pr...

Authors: Denise Cloutier, Kelli I. Stajduhar, Della Roberts, Carren Dujela and Kaitlyn Roland

Accessing and utilising gender-affirming healthcare in England and Wales: trans and non-binary people’s accounts of navigating gender identity clinics

Transgender, or trans, people experience a number of barriers to accessing gender-affirming healthcare and have a range of barriers and facilitators to primary care and specialist services, commonly citing dis...

Authors: Talen Wright, Emily Jay Nicholls, Alison J Rodger, Fiona M Burns, Peter Weatherburn, Roger Pebody, Leanne McCabe, Aedan Wolton, Mitzy Gafos and T. Charles Witzel

Understanding acceptability in the context of text messages to encourage medication adherence in people with type 2 diabetes

Acceptability is recognised as a key concept in the development of health interventions, but there has been a lack of consensus about how acceptability should be conceptualised. The theoretical framework of ac...

Authors: Y. Kiera Bartlett, Cassandra Kenning, Jack Crosland, Nikki Newhouse, Lisa M. Miles, Veronika Williams, Jenny McSharry, Louise Locock, Andrew J. Farmer and David P. French

Self-referral and associated factors among patients attending adult outpatient departments in Debre tabor general hospital, North West Ethiopia

Self-referral leads to diminished quality of health care service; increase resource depletion and poorer patient outcomes. However, a significant number of patients referred themselves to the higher health car...

Authors: Tigist Misganaw Abere, Desta Debalkie Atnafu and Yaread Mulu

The health service use of aged rural-to-urban migrant workers in different types of cities in China

The association between different types of cities and the use of health services by aged migrant workers in China has not been widely reported in previous studies. This article aims to focus on rural-to-urban ...

Authors: Yating Xie, Qiuju Guo and Yang Meng

Reimagining community relationships for organizational learning: a scoping review with implications for a learning health system

Communities represent a highly relevant source of knowledge with regard to not only healthcare performance but also sociocultural context, yet their role in learning health systems has not been studied. Situat...

Authors: Crystal Milligan and Whitney Berta

When trust, confidence, and faith collide: refining a realist theory of how and why inter-organisational collaborations in healthcare work

Health systems are facing unprecedented socioeconomic pressures as well as the need to cope with the ongoing strain brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, the reconfiguration of health systems to...

Authors: Justin Avery Aunger, Ross Millar and Joanne Greenhalgh

Access to water, sanitation and hygiene services in health facilities in sub-Saharan Africa 2013–2018: Results of health facility surveys and implications for COVID-19 transmission

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted important needs in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services and standard practices for infection prevention and control in sub-Saharan Africa. We assessed the availab...

Authors: Mufaro Kanyangarara, Savannah Allen, Safia S Jiwani and David Fuente

Economic status and catastrophic health expenditures in China in the last decade of health reform: a systematic review and meta-analysis

In order to solve the problem of “expensive medical treatment and difficult medical treatment” for patients and improve the equity of medical services, China started the health-care reform in 2009, and propose...

Authors: Qingqing Yuan, Yuxuan Wu, Furong Li, Min Yang, Dandi Chen and Kun Zou

Factors impacting hospital avoidance program utilisation in the care of acutely unwell residential aged care facility residents

An existing hospital avoidance program, the Aged Care Rapid Response Team (ARRT), rapidly delivers geriatric outreach services to acutely unwell or older people with declining health at risk of hospitalisation...

Authors: Luke Testa, Tayhla Ryder, Jeffrey Braithwaite and Rebecca J. Mitchell

Patient-controlled admissions to inpatient care: A twelve-month naturalistic study of patients with schizophrenia spectrum diagnoses and the effects on admissions to and days in inpatient care

Patients with schizophrenia spectrum diagnoses have a poor prognostic outlook and rates of recovery. Inpatient care is common, but the decision to initiate such care is not solely up to the patient but also in...

Authors: Maria Skott, Natalie Durbeej, Maria Smitmanis-Lyle, Clara Hellner, Emelie Allenius, Sigrid Salomonsson, Tobias Lundgren, Nitya Jayaram-Lindström and Alexander Rozental

Exploring the use of health and wellbeing measures during pregnancy and the first year following birth in women living with pre-existing long-term conditions: qualitative interviews with women and healthcare professionals

One way in which care for pregnant and postpartum women living with long-term health conditions (LTCs) may be improved is through the adoption of standardised measures to provide evidence of health outcomes an...

Authors: Laura Kelly, Jennifer J. Kurinczuk, Oliver Rivero-Arias, Ray Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth Gibbons and Fiona Alderdice

Experiences and lessons learned from the real-world implementation of an HIV recent infection testing algorithm in three routine service-delivery settings in Kenya and Zimbabwe

Testing for recent HIV infection can distinguish recently acquired infection from long-standing infections. Given current interest in the implementation of recent infection testing algorithms (RITA), we report...

Authors: Mariken M. de Wit, Brian Rice, Kathryn Risher, Susie Welty, Wanjiru Waruiru, Sitholubuhle Magutshwa, John Motoku, Daniel Kwaro, Benard Ochieng, Georges Reniers, Frances Cowan, George Rutherford, James R. Hargreaves and Gary Murphy

Burnout profiles among French workers in health units for inmates: results of the EHCAU study

Health care personnel who work in penitentiary environments are at risk of burnout due to a variety of factors. Latest research have brought forward a classification system consisting of five burnout profiles ...

Authors: Stéphanie Boulier, Cédric Baumann, Hélène Rousseau, Pierre Horrach and Stéphanie Bourion-Bédès

Key informant perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for using routine health data for decision-making in Senegal

Increasing the performance of routine health information systems (RHIS) is an important policy priority both globally and in Senegal. As RHIS data become increasingly important in driving decision-making in Se...

Authors: Pierre Muhoza, Haneefa Saleem, Adama Faye, Ibrahima Gaye, Roger Tine, Abdoulaye Diaw, Alioune Gueye, Almamy Malick Kante, Andrea Ruff and Melissa A. Marx

Validation of the German version of the work and social adjustment scale in a sample of depressed patients

Depression is one of the key factors contributing to difficulties in one’s ability to work, and serves as one of the major reasons why employees apply for psychotherapy and receive insurance subsidization of t...

Authors: A. Heissel, J. Bollmann, M. Kangas, K. Abdulla, M. Rapp and A. Sanchez

The impact of personalized clinical decision support on primary care patients’ views of cancer prevention and screening: a cross-sectional survey

Few studies have assessed the impact of clinical decision support (CDS), with or without shared decision-making tools (SDMTs), on patients’ perceptions of cancer screening or prevention in primary care setting...

Authors: Daniel M. Saman, Ella A. Chrenka, Melissa L. Harry, Clayton I. Allen, Laura A. Freitag, Stephen E. Asche, Anjali R. Truitt, Heidi L. Ekstrom, Patrick J. O’Connor, JoAnn M. Sperl-Hillen, Jeanette Y. Ziegenfuss and Thomas E. Elliott

Place4Carers: a multi-method participatory study to co-design, piloting, and transferring a novel psycho-social service for engaging family caregivers in remote rural settings

Family caregivers are key actors in the ageing society. They are mediators between practitioners and patients and usually provide also essential daily services for the elders. However, till now, few services h...

Authors: Guendalina Graffigna, Eleonora Gheduzzi, Niccolò Morelli, Serena Barello, Massimo Corbo, Valeria Ginex, Roberta Ferrari, Andrea Lascioli, Carolina Feriti and Cristina Masella

Utilization of eye health services and diabetic retinopathy: a cross-sectional study among persons living with diabetes visiting a tertiary eye care facility in Ghana

There have been a major advance made in screening, early diagnosis, and prompt treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy among Person living with diabetes (PLWD). However, screening services remain a challenge in Low-...

Authors: Bridgid Akrofi, John Tetteh, Kwesi N. Amissah-Arthur, Eileen N.A. Buxton and Alfred Yawson

Mental health service preferences of patients and providers: a scoping review of conjoint analysis and discrete choice experiments from global public health literature over the last 20 years (1999–2019)

In designing, adapting, and integrating mental health interventions, it is pertinent to understand patients’ needs and their own perceptions and values in receiving care. Conjoint analysis (CA) and discrete ch...

Authors: Anna Larsen, Albert Tele and Manasi Kumar

How to sustainably build capacity in quality improvement within a healthcare organisation: a deep-dive, focused qualitative analysis

A key characteristic of healthcare systems that deliver high quality and cost performance in a sustainable way is a systematic approach to capacity and capability building for quality improvement. The aim of t...

Authors: Peter D. Hibbert, Martin Basedow, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Louise K. Wiles, Robyn Clay-Williams and Robert Padbury

Correction to: Understanding what matters most to patients in acute care in seven countries, using the flash mob study design

Authors: Eva S. van den Ende, Bo Schouten, Marjolein N. T. Kremers, Tim Cooksley, Chris P. Subbe, Immo Weichert, Louise S. van Galen, Harm R. Haak, John Kellett, Jelmer Alsma, Victoria Siegrist, Mark Holland, Erika F. Christensen, Colin A. Graham, Ling Yan LEUNG, Line E. Laugesen…

Identifying relevant factors for successful implementation into routine practice: expert interviews to inform a heart failure self-care intervention (ACHIEVE study)

Adherence to heart failure (HF) self-care behaviours has been found to be effective for alleviating illness symptoms, increasing quality of life and reducing hospital re-admissions and mortality. However, many...

Authors: Oliver Rudolf Herber, Isabell Ehringfeld, Paula Steinhoff and Amanda Whittal

Situational analysis of diabetic retinopathy treatment Services in Ghana

Although the equitable distribution of diabetic retinopathy (DR) services across Ghana remains paramount, there is currently a poor understanding of nationwide DR treatment services. This study aims to conduct...

Authors: Agatha Mensah-Debrah, Kwesi Nyan Amissah Arthur, David Ben Kumah, Kwadwo Owusu Akuffo, Isaiah Osei Duah and Covadonga Bascaran

The referral of patients to smoking cessation counselling: perceptions and experiences of healthcare providers in general practice

Few European smokers receive professional counselling when attempting to quit smoking, resulting in suboptimal success rates and poor health outcomes. Healthcare providers in general practice play an important...

Authors: Naomi A. van Westen-Lagerweij, Elisabeth G. Meeuwsen, Esther A. Croes, Eline Meijer, Niels H. Chavannes and Marc C. Willemsen

Do remote dialysis services really cost more? An economic analysis of hospital and dialysis modality costs associated with dialysis services in urban, rural and remote settings

Rates of end-stage kidney disease in Australia are highest in the Northern Territory (NT), with the burden of disease heaviest in remote areas. However, the high cost of delivering dialysis services in remote ...

Authors: Gillian Gorham, Kirsten Howard, Joan Cunningham, Federica Barzi, Paul Lawton and Alan Cass

Perceived consequences of healthcare service decentralization on access, affordability and quality of care in Khartoum locality, Sudan

Decentralization of healthcare services has been widely utilized, especially in developing countries, to improve the performance of healthcare systems by increasing the access and efficiency of service deliver...

Authors: Bandar Noory, Sara Hassanain, Jeffrey Edwards and Benedikte V. Lindskog

Telephone follow-up of oncology patients: the contribution of the nurse specialist for a Service-Dominant Logic in hospital

The French healthcare system is characterised by a shift towards outpatient care and the desire to develop telemedicine affirmed in the collective commitment “Ma santé 2022” presented by President Macron in 20...

Authors: Corinne Rochette, Anne Sophie Michallet, Stéphanie Malartre-Sapienza and Sophie Rodier

“We are taking every precaution to do our part…”: a comparative analysis of nursing, palliative and hospice care facilities’ websites during the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has a significant impact on health care processes. Precautions such as restrictions imposed on visitors and social distancing have led to multiple challenges, particularly in terms of com...

Authors: Sabahat Ölcer, Mohamed Idris¹, Yüce Yilmaz-Aslan and Patrick Brzoska

Does therapy always need touch? A cross-sectional study among Switzerland-based occupational therapists and midwives regarding their experience with health care at a distance during the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic impedes therapy and care activities. Tele-health, i.e., the provision of health care at a distance (HCD), is a promising way to fill the supply gap. However, facilitators and barriers inf...

Authors: Verena Klamroth-Marganska, Michael Gemperle, Thomas Ballmer, Susanne Grylka-Baeschlin, Jessica Pehlke-Milde and Brigitte E. Gantschnig

Advancing discussion of ethics in mixed methods health services research

To describe the ethical issues and experiences of scientists conducting mixed methods health services research and to advance empirical and conceptual discussion on ethical integrity in mixed methods health re...

Authors: Nicole A. Stadnick, Cheryl N. Poth, Timothy C. Guetterman and Joseph J. Gallo

Effects of hospital funding reform on wait times for hip fracture surgery: a population-based interrupted time-series analysis

Health care funding reforms are being used worldwide to improve system performance but may invoke unintended consequences. We assessed the effects of introducing a targeted hospital funding model, based on fix...

Authors: Daniel Pincus, Jessica Widdifield, Karen S. Palmer, J. Michael Paterson, Alvin Li, Anjie Huang, David Wasserstein, Lauren Lapointe-Shaw, Adalsteinn Brown, Monica Taljaard and Noah M. Ivers

Current developments in delivering customized care: a scoping review

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in health care personalization and customization (i.e. personalized medicine and patient-centered care). While some positive impacts of these approaches have ...

Authors: Etienne Minvielle, Aude Fourcade, Thomas Ricketts and Mathias Waelli

Women’s adoption of a web-based intervention for stress urinary incontinence: a qualitative study

Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is common among women and affects their quality of life. Pelvic floor muscle training is an effective conservative therapy, but only a minority of women seek help. E-health wi...

Authors: Lotte Firet, Theodora Alberta Maria Teunissen, Rudolf Bertijn Kool, Lukas van Doorn, Manal Aourag, Antoinette Leonarda Maria Lagro-Janssen and Willem Jan Jozef Assendelft

Mechanisms of impact and experiences of a person-centred transition programme for adolescents with CHD: the Stepstones project

During the past decade there has been some evaluation of transition programmes for adolescents with chronic conditions. However, this has rarely involved process evaluations focusing on mechanisms leading to o...

Authors: Markus Saarijärvi, Lars Wallin, Philip Moons, Hanna Gyllensten and Ewa-Lena Bratt

Use of health care services among Syrian refugees migrating to Norway: a prospective longitudinal study

Understanding the differential utilization of healthcare services is essential to address the public health challenges. Through the migration process, refugees move from one set of health risk factors to anoth...

Authors: Jasmin Haj-Younes, Elisabeth Marie Strømme, Jannicke Igland, Eirik Abildsnes, Bernadette Kumar, Wegdan Hasha and Esperanza Diaz

Navigating change – managers’ experience of implementation processes in disability health care: a qualitative study

Effective implementation processes play a central role in health care organizations and affect the care of patients. Managers are pivotal in facilitating the use of new practices, but their experience and how ...

Authors: Anette Granberg, Marie Matérne, Lars-Olov Lundqvist and Anna Duberg

Correction to: Health services utilization and out-ofpocket (OOP) expenditures in public and private facilities in Pakistan: an empirical analysis of the 2013–14 OOP health expenditure survey

Authors: Faraz Khalid, Wajeeha Raza, David R. Hotchkiss and Rieza H. Soelaeman

Chinese mental health workers’ family-focused practices: a cross-sectional survey

Mental disorders impose heavy burdens on patients’ families and children. It is imperative to provide family-focused services to avoid adverse effects from mental disorders on patients’ families and children. ...

Authors: Hao Yao, Lili Guan, Changchun Zhang, Yang Pan, Jinxiang Han, Rui He, Zhengjiao Chang, Tianhang Zhou, Chunyu Du, Tingfang Wu, Jingwen Sun, Yilin Yuan, Darryl Maybery and Hong Ma

The societal cost and economic impact of surgical care on patients’ households in rural Uganda; a mixed method study

The epidemiology and cost of surgical care delivery in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) is poorly understood. This study characterizes the cost of surgical care, rate of catastrophic medical expenditure...

Authors: Obieze Nwanna–Nzewunwa, Rasheedat Oke, Esther Agwang, Mary-Margaret Ajiko, Christopher Yoon, Melissa Carvalho, Fred Kirya, Elliot Marseille and Rochelle A. Dicker

Personal barriers to addressing intimate partner abuse: a qualitative meta-synthesis of healthcare practitioners’ experiences

Healthcare practitioners (HCPs) play a crucial role in recognising, responding to, and supporting female patients experiencing intimate partner abuse (IPA). However, research consistently identifies barriers t...

Authors: Laura Tarzia, Jacqui Cameron, Jotara Watson, Renee Fiolet, Surriya Baloch, Rebecca Robertson, Minerva Kyei-Onanjiri, Gemma McKibbin and Kelsey Hegarty

Importance of patient bed pathways and length of stay differences in predicting COVID-19 hospital bed occupancy in England

Predicting bed occupancy for hospitalised patients with COVID-19 requires understanding of length of stay (LoS) in particular bed types. LoS can vary depending on the patient’s “bed pathway” - the sequence of ...

Authors: Quentin J. Leclerc, Naomi M. Fuller, Ruth H. Keogh, Karla Diaz-Ordaz, Richard Sekula, Malcolm G. Semple, Katherine E. Atkins, Simon R. Procter and Gwenan M. Knight

Impacts of innovation in dental care delivery and payment in Medicaid managed care for children and adolescents

We evaluated a 14-county quality improvement program of care delivery and payment of a dental care organization for child and adolescent managed care Medicaid beneficiaries after 2 years of implementation.

Authors: Douglas A. Conrad, Peter Milgrom, Yuxian Du, Joana Cunha-Cruz, Sharity Ludwig and R. Mike Shirtcliff

Exploring patient experiences of cancer care in Northern Ireland: A thematic analysis of free-text responses to the 2018 Northern Ireland Patient Experience Survey (NICPES)

Cancer diagnosis, treatment and survivorship is multifaceted, and the cancer patient experience can serve as a key indicator of healthcare performance and quality. The purpose of this paper was to analyse free...

Authors: Gillian Prue, Dominic O’Connor, Malcolm Brown and Olinda Santin

Assessing the impact of a shadowing programme on in-hospital mortality following trainee doctors’ changeover

To assess the impact on seven-day in-hospital mortality following the introduction in 2012 of a shadowing programme for new UK medical graduates requiring them to observe the doctor they are replacing for at l...

Authors: Balinskaite Violeta, Bottle Alex and Aylin Paul

Understanding providers’ attitudes and key concerns toward incorporating CVD risk prediction into clinical practice: a qualitative study

Although risk prediction has become an integral part of clinical practice guidelines for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention, multiple studies have shown that patients’ risk still plays almost no role in c...

Authors: Linda Takamine, Jane Forman, Laura J. Damschroder, Bradley Youles and Jeremy Sussman

Attributes and generic competencies required of doctors: findings from a participatory concept mapping study

Medical education should ensure graduates are equipped for practice in modern health-care systems. Practicing effectively in complex health-care systems requires contemporary attributes and competencies, compl...

Authors: Kathryn Ogden, Sue Kilpatrick, Shandell Elmer and Kim Rooney

How do people choose to be informed? A survey of the information searched for in the choice of primary care provider in Sweden

To stimulate quality through choice of provider, patients need to seek and base their decisions on both relevant and reliable information describing providers’ clinical quality. The purpose of this study was f...

Authors: Caroline Hoffstedt, Magnus Fredriksson and Ulrika Winblad