The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) eliminated the cost-sharing requirement for several preventive cancer screenings. This study examined the cancer screening utilization of mammogram, Pap sme...
Authors: Wendy Yi Xu, Thomas M. Wickizer and Jeah Kyoungrae Jung
The quality of the care relationship between a client and a professional is important in long-term care, as most clients depend on support for a lengthy period. The three largest client groups who receive long...
Authors: Aukelien Scheffelaar, Michelle Hendriks, Nanne Bos, Katrien Luijkx and Sandra van Dulmen
There is an increasing number of pediatric urgent care centers that are largely staffed by pediatric residency graduates. It is unclear if pediatric residency adequately prepares a physician to fully and succe...
Authors: Xian Zhao, Ioannis Koutroulis, Joanna Cohen and Deena Berkowitz
Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have poorer survival and twice the disease burden from breast cancer compared to other Australian women. These disparities are influenced, but not fully ...
Authors: David Banham, David Roder, Dorothy Keefe, Gelareh Farshid, Marion Eckert, Natasha Howard, Karla Canuto and Alex Brown
Failure to keep medical appointments results in inefficiencies and, potentially, in poor outcomes for patients. The aim of this study is to describe non-attendance rate and to investigate predictors of non-att...
Authors: Donna Lykke Wolff, Frans Boch Waldorff, Christian von Plessen, Christian Backer Mogensen, Thomas Lund Sørensen, Kim Christian Houlind, Søren Bie Bogh and Katrine Hass Rubin
As lower-income countries look to develop a mature healthcare workforce and to improve quality and reduce costs, they are increasingly turning to quality improvement (QI), a widely-used strategy in higher-inco...
Authors: Jordan A. Albritton, Bruce Fried, Kavita Singh, Bryan J. Weiner, Bryce Reeve and Jeffrey R. Edwards
When doctors have honest conversations with patients about their illness and involve them in decisions about their care, patients express greater satisfaction with care and lowered anxiety and depression. The ...
Authors: Tamsin McGlinchey, Stephen Mason, Alison Coackley, Anita Roberts, Maria Maguire, Justin Sanders, Francine Maloney, Susan Block, John Ellershaw and Peter Kirkbride
Previous studies have shown limited availability of medicines in health facilities in Bangladesh. While medicines are dispensed for free in public facilities, they are paid out-of-pocket in private pharmacies....
Authors: Lombe Kasonde, David Tordrup, Aliya Naheed, Wu Zeng, Shyfuddin Ahmed and Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar
In the last years, patients’ empowerment has been increasingly recognized as a crucial dimension of patient-centered healthcare and patient safety. Nevertheless, little work has been done so far in the field o...
Authors: M. Rimondini, I. M. Busch, M. A. Mazzi, V. Donisi, A. Poli, E. Bovolenta and F. Moretti
Infection in healthcare facilities is a major public health problem in most developing countries like Ethiopia. Currently the overall incidence of health care associated infection has been increased and burden...
Authors: Abera Beyamo, Terefe Dodicho and Wolde Facha
Some health practitioners pose substantial threats to patient safety, yet early identification of them is notoriously difficult. We aimed to develop an algorithm for use by regulators in prospectively identify...
Authors: Matthew J. Spittal, Marie M. Bismark and David M. Studdert
Initiating parenteral nutrition (PN) within 24 h in critically ill children is inferior to withholding PN during the first week, as was found in the PEPaNIC study. The aims of this study were to investigate de...
Authors: Esther van Puffelen, An Jacobs, Charlotte J. M. Verdoorn, Koen F. M. Joosten, Greet van den Berghe, Erwin Ista and Sascha C. A. T. Verbruggen
Past studies have identified that inconvenient access to health clinics is one of the important barriers to health service utilization and health outcomes. However, establishing the link between the lack of ac...
The Patient Enablement Instrument (PEI) is an established patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) that reflects the quality of appointments with general practitioners (GPs). It is a six-item questionnaire admi...
Authors: Elina Tolvanen, Tuomas H. Koskela and Elise Kosunen
The levels of knowledge, attitude and practice among primary physicians concerning both diabetic retinopathy screening and treatment of sight threatening diabetic retinopathy have been studied by different gro...
Authors: Talal Bassam Abu-Amara, Waleed Abdulaziz Al Rashed, Rajiv Khandekar, Hamad Mohammed Qabha, Faris Mohammad Alosaimi, Abdulrahman Abdullah Alshuwayrikh, Mansour Khalid Almadi and Alanoud Alfaris
Switzerland recently introduced Acute and Transitional Care (ATC) as a new financing option and a preventive measure to mitigate potential side effects of Swiss Diagnosis Related Group (SwissDRG). The goal of ...
Authors: Tenzin Wangmo, Yvonne Padrutt, Insa Koné, Thomas Gächter, Bernice S. Elger and Agnes Leu
Hypertension remains one of the leading causes of death in Nigeria. Appropriate and cost-effective treatment of the disease is necessary to reduce mortality. This study evaluates (i) the prescription patterns ...
Authors: Onyinye Onyeka Akunne and Aduragbenro Deborah A. Adedapo
Hospital accreditation is widely adopted as a visible measure of an organisation’s quality and safety management standards compliance. There is still inconsistent evidence regarding the influence of hospital a...
Authors: Viera Wardhani, Jitse Pieter van Dijk and Adi Utarini
The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy and quality of immunization data on the pentavalent (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib)) and MMR vaccines as the a...
Authors: Manoochehr Karami, Salman Khazaei, Abbas Babaei, Fatemeh Abdoli Yaghini, Mohammad Mehdi Gouya and Seyed Mohsen Zahraei
Comprehensive assessment of integrated care deployment constitutes a major challenge to ensure quality, sustainability and transferability of both healthcare policies and services in the transition toward a co...
Authors: Erik Baltaxe, Isaac Cano, Carmen Herranz, Anael Barberan-Garcia, Carme Hernandez, Albert Alonso, María José Arguis, Cristina Bescos, Felip Burgos, Montserrat Cleries, Joan Carles Contel, Jordi de Batlle, Kamrul Islam, Rachelle Kaye, Maarten Lahr, Graciela Martinez-Palli…
Waiting times for elective treatments, including elective surgery, are a source of public concern and therefore are on policy makers’ agenda. The long waiting times have often been tackled through the allocati...
Authors: Daniel Adrian Lungu, Tommaso Grillo Ruggieri and Sabina Nuti
Healthcare professionals’ person-centered communication skills are pivotal for delivering successful diabetes education. Many healthcare professionals favor person-centeredness as a concept, but implementation...
Authors: Vibeke Stenov, Gitte Wind, Michael Vallis, Susanne Reventlow and Nana Folmann Hempler
Demographic change concurrent with medical progress leads to an increasing number of elderly patients in intensive care units (ICUs). Antibacterial treatment is an important, often life-saving, aspect of inten...
Authors: Dominik Beier, Christel Weiß, Michael Hagmann, Ümniye Balaban, Manfred Thiel and Verena Schneider-Lindner
Implementation of digital monitoring technology systems is considered beneficial for increasing the safety and quality of care for residents in nursing homes and simultaneously improving care providers’ workfl...
Authors: Janne Dugstad, Tom Eide, Etty R. Nilsen and Hilde Eide
Elder people aged ≥45 years often have more healthcare needs than the younger. But the Chinese elderly are less likely to see a doctor when ill. In this article, this phenomenon is abbreviated as “not see a do...
Electronic health (e-Health) interventions are emerging as an effective alternative model for improving secondary prevention of coronary artery disease (CAD). The aim of this study was to describe the effectiv...
Authors: Gunhild Brørs, Trond Røed Pettersen, Tina B. Hansen, Bengt Fridlund, Linn Benjaminsen Hølvold, Hans Lund and Tone M. Norekvål
Health systems worldwide rely on health professionals to deliver services and provide framework structures. Considering their opinions about their work environment, the public policies that regulate their work...
Authors: Esteban Ortiz-Prado, Marta Fors, Aquiles R. Henriquez-Trujillo, Gabriel H. Cevallos-Sierra, Alejandra Barreto-Grimaldos, Katherine Simbaña-Rivera, Lenin Gomez-Barreno, Eduardo Vasconez and Alex Lister
Advance care planning (ACP) is the process of ongoing communication among patients, family and health care professionals regarding what plans for future care are preferred in the event that patients become una...
Authors: Carmen Wing Han Chan, Nancy Hiu Yim Ng, Helen Y. L. Chan, Martin M. H. Wong and K. M. Chow
To improve the efficiency of the use of medical resources, China has implemented medical alliances (MAs) to implement a hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system. The willingness to undertake a first visit t...
Authors: Haiyan Song, Xu Zuo, Chengsen Cui and Kai Meng
High medical expenditures serve as a major obstacle for many people trying to access healthcare. Our goals are to provide an updated and comprehensive description of each category of medical expenditure in inp...
Authors: Chenjin Ma, Yan Jiang, Yang Li, Yuming Zhang, Xiaojun Wang, Shuangge Ma and Yu Wang
Homeless women are a highly vulnerable group for risks of pregnancy and childbirth-related complications. They may also face multiple challenges to access and utilize maternity healthcare services. This study ...
Little is known about the participation of surgeons in preventative health activities in the non-admitted hospital care setting. The aim of this study was to identify which preventive health activities surgeon...
Authors: Stephen Barrett, Stephen Begg, Andrea Sloane and Michael Kingsley
Lifestyle interventions regularly rely on study staff to implement the intervention and collect outcomes data directly from study participants. This study describes the experiences of project staff in two rand...
Authors: Aline Gubrium, Denise Leckenby, Megan Ward Harvey, Bess H. Marcus, Milagros C. Rosal and Lisa Chasan-Taber
High performance work systems (HPWSs) are successful work systems in the context of safety climate and patient safety. The 10-item HPWS questionnaire is a validated instrument developed to assess existing HPWS...
Authors: Juliane Mielke, Sabina De Geest, Sonja Beckmann, Lynn Leppla, Xhyljeta Luta, Raphaelle-Ashley Guerbaai, Sabina Hunziker and René Schwendimann
Since the 2016 presidential election, reports have suggested that President Trump’s rhetoric and his administration’s proposed policies could be exacerbating barriers to accessing health care for undocumented ...
Authors: Timothy Callaghan, David J. Washburn, Katharine Nimmons, Delia Duchicela, Anoop Gurram and James Burdine
We examined the utilization of rehabilitation resources among children with autism spectrum condition (ASC), a neurodevelopmental condition, in Taiwan.
Authors: Hsing-Jung Li, Chi-Yuan Chen, Ching-Hong Tsai, Chao-Chan Kuo, Kung-Heng Chen, Kuan-Hsu Chen and Ying-Chun Li
The Republic of Moldova is faced with a high prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) related to lifestyle and health behavioural factors. Within the frame of the decentralisation reform, the primary hea...
Authors: Carolyn Blake, Leah F. Bohle, Cristina Rotaru, Natalia Zarbailov, Valeriu Sava, Florence Sécula, Helen Prytherch and Ala Curteanu
As a result of financial barriers to the utilization of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) services, the Government of Sierra Leone launched the Free Health Care Initiative (FHCI) in 2010. This study aimed to exa...
Authors: Mohamed Boie Jalloh, Abdulai Jawo Bah, Peter Bai James, Steven Sevalie, Katrina Hann and Amir Shmueli
Expansion of provider-initiated testing and counselling (PITC) is one strategy to increase accessibility of HIV testing services. Insufficient human resources was identified as a primary barrier to increasing ...
Authors: Aaron F. Bochner, Beth A. Tippett Barr, Batsirai Makunike, Gloria Gonese, Blessing Wazara, Richard Mashapa, Elizabeth Meacham, Ponesai Nyika, Gertrude Ncube, Shirish Balachandra, Ruth Levine, Frances Petracca, Tsitsi Apollo, Ann Downer and Stefan Z. Wiktor
Promotion of healthy lifestyle is an important strategy. This study was conducted to determine the effects of counselling on health-promoting lifestyle and quality of life in middle-aged women.
The Targeted Intervention Interdisciplinary Model for Evaluation and Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms (TIME) has recently in a three-month cluster randomised controlled trial demonstrated reduction in ag...
Authors: Bjørn Lichtwarck, Janne Myhre, Geir Selbaek, Øyvind Kirkevold, Anne Marie Mork Rokstad, Jūratė Šaltytė Benth and Sverre Bergh
Among the available patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) there is an absence of a PROM with a specific focus on the impact of the wide variety of visual impairments following stroke.
Authors: Lauren R. Hepworth, Fiona J. Rowe and Girvan Burnside
In life time, nearly each person succumbs to some sort of chronic disease and many develop complicated chronic diseases. It is critical to focus on preventive services with a relatively high health impact and ...
Authors: Netsanet Fetene Wendimagegn and Marthie Bezuidenhout
With an extensive rise in the number of acute patients and increases in both admissions and readmissions, hospitals are at times overcrowded and under immense pressure and this may challenge patient safety. Th...
Authors: Cathrine Bell, Ulrich Fredberg, Anders Damgaard Moeller Schlünsen and Peter Vedsted
Whether patients receive low-value hospital care (care that is not expected to provide a net benefit) may be influenced by unmeasured factors at the hospital they attend or the hospital’s Local Health District...
Authors: Tim Badgery-Parker, Yingyu Feng, Sallie-Anne Pearson, Jean-Frederic Levesque, Susan Dunn and Adam G. Elshaug
Patient satisfaction is an important factor for both assessing the quality of healthcare and predicting positive health outcomes. This study assesses the influence of HIV/AIDS patients’ perception of the quali...
Authors: Carlued Leon, Tamar Koosed, Bryn Philibert, Cristina Raposo and Adele Schwartz Benzaken
Health care on equal terms is a cornerstone of the Swedish health care system. Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is considered a success story in Sweden with low frequency of reoperations and restored health-relate...
Authors: Linnea Oldsberg, Göran Garellick, Ingrid Osika Friberg, Anke Samulowitz, Ola Rolfson and Szilárd Nemes
Australians living in rural and remote areas have access to considerably fewer doctors compared with populations in major cities. Despite plentiful, descriptive data about what attracts and retains doctors to ...
Authors: Louise Young, Raquel Peel, Belinda O’Sullivan and Carole Reeve
