Health inequalities in the UK have proved to be stubborn, and health gaps between best and worst-off are widening. While there is growing understanding of how the main causes of poor health are perceived among...
Authors: Neil McHugh, Rachel Baker, Olga Biosca, Fatma Ibrahim and Cam Donaldson
In England, there is an ongoing national pilot to expand pharmacists’ presence in general practice. Evaluation of the pilot includes numerical and survey-based Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and requires ph...
Authors: Georgios Dimitrios Karampatakis, Kath Ryan, Nilesh Patel, Wing Man Lau and Graham Stretch
Prompt access to appropriate treatment reduces early onset of complications to chronic illnesses. Our objective was to document the health providers that patients with diabetes in rural areas seek treatment fr...
Authors: Elizeus Rutebemberwa, James Bagonza and Raymond Tweheyo
The government of Ethiopia launched an innovative program called Urban Health Extension Program (UHEP) in 2009, aims to produce better health outcomes to the urban populations using urban health extension prof...
Authors: Nebiyou Tafesse, Aregawi Gesessew and Ergataw Kidane
Data on the burden of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and health-care related costs in patients with cancer is scarce. We aimed to estimate the CAP incidence rate, mortality, and healthcare-related costs of...
Authors: Niklas Schmedt, Olivia Denise Heuer, Dennis Häckl, Reiko Sato and Christian Theilacker
Over-occupancy at the two tertiary pediatric care hospitals in Alberta, Canada is steadily increasing with simultaneous decline in occupancy of pediatric beds at regional hospitals. Over-occupancy negatively i...
Authors: Sumedh Bele, Christine Cassidy, Janet Curran, David W. Johnson, Chad Saunders and J.A. Michelle Bailey
ED overcrowding represents a significant public health problem in developed countries. Frequent users of the emergency departments (FUEDs; reporting 5 or more ED visits in the past year) are often affected by ...
Authors: Véronique S. Grazioli, Joanna C. Moullin, Miriam Kasztura, Marina Canepa-Allen, Olivier Hugli, Judy Griffin, Francis Vu, Catherine Hudon, Yves Jackson, Hans Wolff, Bernard Burnand, Jean-Bernard Daeppen and Patrick Bodenmann
Given the documented benefits of Patient Own Drugs (PODs) in most developed countries and scanty data on PODs management in developing countries the aim of the study was to evaluate the assessment, quality and...
Most seniors wish to live independently for as long as possible. Gerontechnologies such as personal alarms or remote control systems, have the potential to help them age in place. For seniors, assessing what i...
Authors: Marc Haufe, Sebastiaan Theodorus Michaël Peek and Katrien Ger Luijkx
Today, one of the most important global public health challenges is represented by hepatitis C virus (HCV), which imposes relevant costs. Globally speaking, the median cost of HCV-related complications ranges ...
Authors: Masoud Behzadifar, Hasan Abolghasem Gorji, Aziz Rezapour, Meysam Behzadifar and Nicola Luigi Bragazzi
While the development and evaluation of clinical ethics services in Norway has been recognized internationally, the country’s research ethics infrastructure at times may have been less well developed. In 2016,...
Authors: R. Froud, T. J. Meza, K. O. Ernes and A. M. Slowther
With few exceptions the International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes for diagnoses and official coding guidelines do not distinguish pre-existing conditions from complications or comorbidit...
Authors: Karen Triep, Thomas Beck, Jacques Donzé and Olga Endrich
Diabetic macular oedema (DMO) may lead to visual loss and blindness. Several pharmacological treatments are available on the National Health Service (NHS) to United Kingdom patients affected by this condition,...
Authors: Michal Pochopien, Annette Beiderbeck, Phil McEwan, Richard Zur, Mondher Toumi and Samuel Aballéa
Primary care practices are changing the way that they provide care by increasing their medical home functionality. Medical home functionality can improve access to care and increase patient-centeredness, which...
To date, there has been a dearth of scientifically tested, established intervention concepts focussed on supporting informal caregivers and embedded in routine health care structures. The aim of this study was...
Authors: Elisa-Marie Behrndt, Melanie Straubmeier, Hildegard Seidl, Chiara Vetter, Katharina Luttenberger and Elmar Graessel
Tuberculosis (TB) remains the prime killer disease among infectious diseases. TB control depends on early case detection and treatment in a directly observed treatment short course (DOTS) programme. The succes...
Authors: Bezawit Temesgen Sima, Tefera Belachew and Fekadu Abebe
The literature has described several challenges related to the quality of diabetes management clinics in public primary health care centres in Oman. These clinics continue to face challenges due to the continu...
Authors: Kamila Al-Alawi, Ahmed Al Mandhari and Helene Johansson
Patient satisfaction is an important measure of quality of care and a determinant of health service utilisation and the choice of health facility. Measuring patients’ experiences is important for understanding...
To detect possible threats to quality and safety, multiple systems have been developed. One of them is retrospective chart review. A team of experts scrutinizes medical records, selected by trigger systems, to...
Authors: Dorthe O. Klein, Roger J. M. W. Rennenberg, Richard P. Koopmans and Martin H. Prins
The implementation of an innovative and sustainable professional pharmacy service in routine care requires substantial resources borne by the pharmacy owner. Although a community pharmacy is a business setting...
Relatively little is known about which characteristics of smokers are related to choosing a specific type of smoking cessation service. The user characteristics of different smoking cessation services were com...
Authors: Bo Yoon Jeong, Min Kyung Lim, E. Hwa Yun and Jin-Kyoung Oh
Patients with multi-morbidity have complex care needs that often make healthcare delivery difficult and costly to manage. Current healthcare delivery is not tailored to the needs of patients with multi-morbidi...
Authors: Sanne Jannick Kuipers, Jane Murray Cramm and Anna Petra Nieboer
Patient centeredness is an important component of patient care and healthcare quality. Several scales exist to measure patient centeredness, and previous literature provides a critical appraisal of their measu...
Authors: Eline Ree, Siri Wiig, Tanja Manser and Marianne Storm
At a population level, the majority of alcohol-related harm is attributable to drinkers whose consumption exceeds recommended drinking levels, rather than those with severe alcohol dependency. Identification a...
Authors: Nicola Hall, John D Mooney, Zeibeda Sattar and Jonathan Ling
The heart-breaking maternal and neonatal health indicators in Nigeria are not improving despite previous interventions, such as ‘Health for all’ and ‘Millennium Development Goals. The unattained health-related...
Authors: Joel O. Aluko, Rhoda Anthea and R. R. Marie Modeste
There is a lack of validated instruments examining dimensions of team functioning from the perspective of patients and families consistent with a conceptual framework. The study aimed to develop and assess the...
Authors: Kelley Kilpatrick, Éric Tchouaket, Lysane Paquette, Claudel Guillemette, Mira Jabbour, François Desmeules, Véronique Landry and Nicolas Fernandez
In international comparisons, rates of amputations of the lower limb are relatively high in Germany. This study aims to analyze trends in lower limb amputations over time, as well as outcomes of care concernin...
Authors: Melissa Spoden, Ulrike Nimptsch and Thomas Mansky
The number of older adults with different ethnic and socioeconomic background is steadily increasing. There is a need for community-based health promotion interventions for older adults that are responsive to ...
Authors: Abirami Srivarathan, Andrea Nedergaard Jensen and Maria Kristiansen
This study examined community-based rehabilitation (CBR) practice in China on the basis of the development of an evaluation system using current evidence in a real context.
Community pharmacists’ (CPs’) interventions have a positive impact on managing respiratory patients. However, methods used by CPs to assess patients’ inhaler technique and adherence are subjective. New technol...
Authors: Iman Hesso, Reem Kayyali and Shereen Nabhani-Gebara
Few studies have focused on post-discharge ambulatory care for stroke patients and subsequent differences in readmission and mortality rates. Identifying groups at higher risk according to services received is...
Huge variability in quality of service delivery of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) in the UK. This study aimed to ascertain whether the variation in quality of CR delivery is associated with participants’ characte...
This paper aims to demonstrate how systems modeling methodology of Group Model Building (GMD) can be applied for exploring and reaching consensus on non-communicable disease (NCD) management. This exercise was...
Authors: John P. Ansah, Amina Mahmood Islam, Victoria Koh, Vanthy Ly, Hero Kol, David B. Matchar, Chhun Loun and Mondol Loun
In an attempt to reach remote rural areas, this study explores a community-based, pediatric hearing screening program in villages, integrating two models of diagnostic ABR testing; one using a tele-medicine ap...
Authors: Vidya Ramkumar, Roopa Nagarajan, Vanaja C. Shankarnarayan, Selvakumar Kumaravelu and James W. Hall
The symptoms related to neurocognitive disorders (NCD) may lead to caregiver burden increase. Involving caregivers in research may be an effective way of improving the practicalities and relevance of intervent...
Authors: Teddy Novais, Christelle Mouchoux, Michel Kossovsky, Lucie Winterstein, Floriane Delphin-Combe, Pierre Krolak-Salmon and V. Dauphinot
Citation:BMC Health Services Research
2018
18:1016
The increased mortality risk associated with weekend admission to hospital (the ‘weekend effect’) has been reported across many health systems. More recently research has focused on causal mechanisms. Variatio...
Authors: Elizabeth Sutton, Julian Bion, Cassie Aldridge, Amunpreet Boyal, Janet Willars and Carolyn Tarrant
Citation:BMC Health Services Research
2018
18:1015
China ranks first amongst the countries for the abuse of antibacterials. Essential antibacterials could help solve the problem. The aim of the work is to evaluate the availability, price and affordability of e...
Authors: Guangjie Wu, Shiwei Gong, Hongbing Cai and Yufeng Ding
Citation:BMC Health Services Research
2018
18:1013
To investigate the effects after twelve months related to patient activation and a range of secondary outcomes on persons with chronic pain of a chronic pain self-management course compared to a low-impact out...
Authors: Torunn Hatlen Nøst, Aslak Steinsbekk, Ola Bratås and Kjersti Grønning
Citation:BMC Health Services Research
2018
18:1012
The scope of implementation research is often restricted to the analysis of organizations that participate voluntarily in implementation interventions. The recruitment of participants for a quality improvement...
Authors: Jeanny J. A. de Groot, Maite Timmermans, José M. C. Maessen, Bjorn Winkens, Carmen D. Dirksen, Brigitte F. M. Slangen and Trudy van der Weijden
Citation:BMC Health Services Research
2018
18:1011
Rates of End-Stage Kidney Disease among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) Australians in remote areas are disproportionately high; however, haemodialysis is not currently offered in most remot...
Authors: Jessica Conway, Sharon Lawn, Susan Crail and Stephen McDonald
Citation:BMC Health Services Research
2018
18:1010
The global Choosing Wisely campaign has identified the following psychotropic prescribing as low-value (harmful or wasteful): (1) benzodiazepine use in the elderly, (2) antipsychotic use in dementia and (3) presc...
Authors: Jonathan Brett, Helga Zoega, Nicholas A. Buckley, Benjamin J. Daniels, Adam G. Elshaug and Sallie-Anne Pearson
Citation:BMC Health Services Research
2018
18:1009
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is a perioperative management based on multimodality and multidisciplinary work. ERAS has been shown to have important clinical and economic benefits, but its spread rema...
Authors: Gaëtan-Romain Joliat, Olle Ljungqvist, Tracy Wasylak, Oliver Peters and Nicolas Demartines
Citation:BMC Health Services Research
2018
18:1008
Comparing the mortality profiles of dialysis centres is important to ensure that high standards of care are maintained. We compare the performance of dialysis centres in Australia and New Zealand in their trea...
Authors: Jessica Kasza, Kevan R. Polkinghorne, Rory Wolfe, Stephen P. McDonald and Mark R. Marshall
Citation:BMC Health Services Research
2018
18:1007
Access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services is critical for such outcomes as pregnancy and birth, prenatal and neonatal mortality, maternal morbidity and mortality, and prevention of vertical trans...
Authors: Jing Yao and Victor Agadjanian
Citation:BMC Health Services Research
2018
18:1006
Using outcome measures to advance healthcare continues to be of widespread interest. The goal is to summarize the results of studies which use outcome measures from clinical registries to implement and monitor...
Authors: Nynke A. Kampstra, Nina Zipfel, Paul B. van der Nat, Gert P. Westert, Philip J. van der Wees and A. Stef Groenewoud
Citation:BMC Health Services Research
2018
18:1005
Whether the association between access to medical care and health outcomes differs by age and gender among older adults in China is unclear. We aimed to investigate the associations between self-reported inade...
Authors: Xufan Zhang, Matthew E. Dupre, Li Qiu, Wei Zhou, Yuan Zhao and Danan Gu
Citation:BMC Health Services Research
2018
18:1004
Off-patent pharmaceuticals (OPPs) hold vital importance in meeting public health objectives, especially in developing countries where resources are limited. OPPs are comprised of off-patent originals, branded ...
Preventive care has gained increasing attention in health reforms around the world due to its ability to reduce the burden of disease and to save health costs. Nevertheless, there is a gap in terms of the deve...
Authors: Federico Rotondo, Lucia Giovanelli, Nicoletta Fadda and Alberto Ezza
Citation:BMC Health Services Research
2018
18:1002
Mental health among adolescents is an important public health challenge. School health services perform central public health functions in Norwegian municipalities, where school nurses are uniquely positioned ...
Authors: Hanne Nissen Bjørnsen, Regine Ringdal, Geir Arild Espnes, Mary-Elizabeth Bradley Eilertsen and Unni Karin Moksnes
Citation:BMC Health Services Research
2018
18:1001
Return to work (RTW) is a key parameter of outcome quality that ensures social participation. Therefore, this study analyses the sociodemographic and disease-related determinants of RTW among newly diagnosed b...
Authors: Christian Heuser, Sarah Halbach, Christoph Kowalski, Anna Enders, Holger Pfaff and Nicole Ernstmann
Citation:BMC Health Services Research
2018
18:1000
