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  1. In recent years, studies have shown that electronic WOM (eWOM) directly reflects consumers’ post-purchase psychological perception and directly affects repurchase behavior. This information is valued by instit...

    Authors: Po-Chun Lee, Li-Lin Liang, Min-Hsin Huang and Ching-Yuan Huang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1568
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  2. In conflict-affected settings, data on reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) are often lacking for priority setting and timely decision-making. We aimed to describe the levels and trends in ...

    Authors: Espoir Bwenge Malembaka, Chiara Altare, Rosine Nshobole Bigirinama, Ghislain Bisimwa, Robert Banywesize, Nabil Tabbal and Ties Boerma
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21(Suppl 1):195
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 21 Supplement 1

  3. Selecting appropriate strategies to target barriers to implementing interventions represents a considerable challenge in implementation research and practice. The aim was to investigate what categories of impl...

    Authors: Jeanette Wassar Kirk, Per Nilsen, Ove Andersen, Byron J. Powell, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Thomas Bandholm and Mette Merete Pedersen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:8
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  4. Few previous studies have specifically addressed the health care utilization situation of the physically disabled. This study aimed to investigate the utilization of free adult preventive health care for physi...

    Authors: Suh-May Yen, Pei-Tseng Kung and Wen-Chen Tsai
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:610
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Government responses to the pandemic varied in terms of timing, duration, and stringency, seeking to protect healthcare systems, whose pre-pandemic state varied significantly. Therefore, the severity of Covid-...

    Authors: Nikolaos Kapitsinis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1197
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  6. Partner notification (PN) is an essential case-finding tool in the management of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Yet, data on the effectiveness and factors impacting implementation of PN in the Netherl...

    Authors: Kevin ATM Theunissen, Pim Schipper, Christian JPA Hoebe, Rik Crutzen, Gerjo Kok and Nicole HTM Dukers-Muijrers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:647
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  7. There is increasing interest in the contribution of the quality of nursing care to patient outcomes. Due to different casemix and risk profiles, algorithms for administrative health data that identify nursing-...

    Authors: Sally Wilson, Alexandra P Bremner, Yvonne Hauck and Judith Finn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:209
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  8. The Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia (FGAE) operates as a non-governmental organization dedicated to offering family planning and reproductive health services to the Ethiopian population. The gap in the...

    Authors: Niguss Cherie, Yawkal Tsega, Anissa Mohammed, Zinet Abegaz, Abel Endawkie, Yeshimebet Ali Dawed and Natnael Kebede
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:473
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  9. Clinicians in Chinese public hospitals face a complex and severe clinical practice environment, and the individual performance of clinicians is key to improving the output of the healthcare industry. This stud...

    Authors: Wei Lu, Xinrui Song, Junli Zhu, Yao Zhang and Changmin Hou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:388
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  11. Although tuberculosis (TB) patients often incur high costs to access TB-related services, it was unclear beforehand whether the implementation of universal health coverage (UHC) in Indonesia in 2014 would redu...

    Authors: Ahmad Fuady, Tanja A. J. Houweling, Muchtaruddin Mansyur, Erlina Burhan and Jan Hendrik Richardus
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:502
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  14. 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
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  15. Control of reproduction and prevention of reproductive health problems are important reasons for women to use health services, but the proper organisational level of service provision is not clear. The purpose...

    Authors: Elina Hemminki, Tiina Sevon, Kati Tanninen, Eero Pukkala and Ahti Anttila
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2006 6:27
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  16. This report describes how we refined a protocol for a pragmatic comparative effectiveness study of two models of an evidence-based diabetes shared medical appointment intervention and used the PRECIS-2 rating ...

    Authors: Russell E. Glasgow, Dennis Gurfinkel, Jeanette Waxmonsky, Jenny Rementer, Natalie D. Ritchie, Jennifer Dailey-Vail, Patrick Hosokawa, L. Miriam Dickinson and Bethany M. Kwan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1039
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  17. Overcrowding occurs when the identified need for emergency services outweighs the available resources in the emergency department (ED). Literature shows that ED overcrowding impacts the overall quality of the ...

    Authors: Marta Marsilio, Eugenia Tomas Roldan, Luca Salmasi and Stefano Villa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:974
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  18. Accounting for the patients’ perspective on quality of care has become increasingly important in the development of Evidence Based Medicine as well as in governmental policies. In the Netherlands the Consumer ...

    Authors: Evi B Koster, Rob RS Ong, Rachel Heybroek, Diana MJ Delnoij and Erik W Baars
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:148
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  20. Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients, especially among older adults. Probiotics have been evaluated to prevent hospital-acquire...

    Authors: Lauren C. Bresee, Nicole Lamont, Wrechelle Ocampo, Jayna Holroyd-Leduc, Deana Sabuda, Jenine Leal, Bruce Dalton, Jaime Kaufman, Bayan Missaghi, Joseph Kim, Oscar E. Larios, Elizabeth Henderson, Maitreyi Raman, Jared R. Fletcher, Peter Faris, Scott Kraft…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1386
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  21. The prevalence of modern contraception use is higher in Kenya than in most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The uptake has however slowed down in recent years, which, among other factors, has been attributed t...

    Authors: Katherine Tumlinson, Laura E. Britton, Emilia Goland, Stephanie Chung, Brooke W. Bullington, Caitlin R. Williams, Debborah Muthoki Wambua, Dickens Otieno Onyango and Leigh Senderowicz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:74
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  22. Diabetes self-management education (DSME) can be delivered in many forms. Group based DSME is widespread due to being a cheaper method and the added advantages of having patient meet and discuss with each othe...

    Authors: Aslak Steinsbekk, LisbethØ Rygg, Monde Lisulo, Marit B Rise and Atle Fretheim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:213
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  23. Accurate and precise measures of health literacy (HL) is supportive for health policy making, tailoring health service design, and ensuring equitable access to health services. According to research, valid and...

    Authors: Christopher Le, Øystein Guttersrud, Kristine Sørensen and Hanne Søberg Finbråten
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1485
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  24. Online social networking and personally controlled health management systems (PCHMS) offer a new opportunity for developing innovative interventions to prevent diseases of public health concern (e.g., influenz...

    Authors: Annie YS Lau, Vitali Sintchenko, Jacinta Crimmins, Farah Magrabi, Blanca Gallego and Enrico Coiera
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:86
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  25. In response to concerns about high hospital mortality rates, patient and carer complaints, a Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust public inquiry was conducted at the request of the UK government. This inquir...

    Authors: Mary Leamy, Sarah Sims, Ros Levenson, Nigel Davies, Sally Brearley, Stephen Gourlay, Giampiero Favato, Fiona Ross and Ruth Harris
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1341
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  26. Policy informs the planning and delivery of rural and remote maternity services and influences the perinatal outcomes of the 30 per cent of Australian women and their babies who live outside the major cities. ...

    Authors: Jennifer Pilcher, Sue Kruske and Lesley Barclay
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:548
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  27. Primary health care has a central role in dementia detection, diagnosis, and management, especially in low-resource rural areas. Care navigation is a strategy to improve integration and access to care, but lit...

    Authors: Debra G. Morgan, Julie Kosteniuk and Melanie Bayly
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:607
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  28. The aim of the study was to examine gender differences in the self-reported use of health care services by the elderly in rural and metropolitan areas of two Nordic countries with slightly different health car...

    Authors: Anna Liisa Suominen-Taipale, Tuija Martelin, Seppo Koskinen, Jostein Holmen and Roar Johnsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2006 6:110
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  29. Persons with a chronic disease are less often employed than healthy persons. If employed, many of them experience problems at work. Therefore, we developed a training programme aimed at job retention. The obje...

    Authors: Inge Varekamp, Gabe de Vries, Annelies Heutink and Frank JH van Dijk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:224
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  30. Drug dispensing is a clinical pharmacy service that promotes access to medicines and their rational use. However, there is a lack of evidence for the impact of drug dispensing on patients’ health outcomes. Thu...

    Authors: Bárbara Pizetta, Lívia Gonçalves Raggi, Kérilin Stancine Santos Rocha, Sabrina Cerqueira-Santos, Divaldo Pereira de Lyra-Jr and Genival Araujo dos Santos Júnior
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:764
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  31. In England, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) produces guidelines for the management of hypertension. In 2006, the NICE guidelines introduced an ethnic-age group algorithm based on t...

    Authors: Lena Barrera, Craig Leaper, Utz J Pape, Azeem Majeed, Marta Blangiardo and Christopher Millett
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:87
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  33. Many healthcare professionals (HCPs) feel uncomfortable and incompetent talking about weight with children with overweight and obesity and their parents. To optimally target interventions that can improve obes...

    Authors: B. van der Voorn, R. Camfferman, J. C. Seidell and J. Halberstadt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1236
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  34. Effectiveness and efficiency are part of the quality of care for mental health problems, and treatment should thus be performed at the right level of care. Norwegian guidelines specify which patients should be...

    Authors: Ole Gunnar Tveit, Torleif Ruud, Ketil Hanssen-Bauer, Ole Rikard Haavet and Ajmal Hussain
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:960
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  35. The care policy and organization of the care sector is shifting to accommodate projected demographic changes and to ensure a sustainable model of health care provision in the future. Adult children and spouses...

    Authors: Line Kildal Bragstad, Marit Kirkevold and Christina Foss
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:331
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  36. The number of people surviving colorectal cancer has doubled in recent years. While much of the literature suggests that most people return to near pre-diagnosis status following surgery for colorectal cancer,...

    Authors: Deborah Fenlon, Alison Richardson, Julia Addington-Hall, Peter Smith, Jessica Corner, Jane Winter and Claire Foster
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:90
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  37. Few studies have investigated the subsequent rate of hospital and outpatient clinic utilization in those who receive continuing care and have documented frequent usage over one year. Such knowledge may be help...

    Authors: Anna Condelius, Ingalill R Hallberg and Ulf Jakobsson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:136
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  38. In Spain, there are substantial variations in the utilization of health resources among regions. Because the need for surgery differs in patients with appropriate surgical indication, introducing a prioritizat...

    Authors: Rubén Román, Mercè Comas, Javier Mar, Enrique Bernal, Alberto Jiménez-Puente, Santiago Gutiérrez-Moreno and Xavier Castells
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:32
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  39. The National Health Service Type 2 Diabetes Path to Remission programme in England (known as the NHS Low Calorie Diet programme when piloted) was established to support people living with excess weight and Typ...

    Authors: Susan Jones, Tamara J Brown, Patricia Watson, Catherine Homer, Charlotte Freeman, Chirag Bakhai and Louisa Ells
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:53
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  40. Drug prescribing errors are frequent in the hospital setting and pharmacists play an important role in detection of these errors. The objectives of this study are (1) to describe the drug prescribing errors ra...

    Authors: Thibaut Caruba, Isabelle Colombet, Florence Gillaizeau, Vanida Bruni, Virginie Korb, Patrice Prognon, Dominique Bégué, Pierre Durieux and Brigitte Sabatier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:13
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  41. Performance management systems have been introduced in health and social services institutions to improve organizational performance, supporting the emergence of new management behaviors that are more rooted i...

    Authors: Pierre-Luc Fournier, Line Moisan and Denis Lagacé
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:285
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  42. Research on health care utilization in low income countries suggests that patients frequently bypass PHC facilities in favour of higher-level hospitals - despite substantial additional time and financial costs...

    Authors: Catherine Kahabuka, Gunnar Kvåle, Karen Marie Moland and Sven Gudmund Hinderaker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:315
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  43. Lynch syndrome is an underdiagnosed hereditary condition carrying an increased lifetime risk for colorectal and endometrial cancer and affecting nearly 1 million people in the United States. Cascade screening,...

    Authors: Lauren Passero, Swetha Srinivasan, Mary E. Grewe, Jennifer Leeman, Jonathan Berg, Daniel Reuland and Megan C. Roberts
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:1411
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  44. Extant research suggests that there is a strong social component to Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) adoption since professional networks amongst physicians are strongly associated with their attitudes towards EB...

    Authors: Daniele Mascia, Americo Cicchetti and Gianfranco Damiani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:429
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  45. Due to the growing economic pressure, there is an increasing interest in the optimization of operational processes within surgical operating rooms (ORs). Surgical departments are frequently dealing with limite...

    Authors: Martin Schenk, Juliane Neumann, Nadine Adler, Tilo Trommer, Jan Theopold, Thomas Neumuth and Pierre Hepp
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1313
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  46. Patient experience is an important indicator of quality of health care. In Norway, little is known about the quality of health care for immigrants. The aim of this study was to compare patient-reported experie...

    Authors: Marte Kjøllesdal, Thor Indseth, Hilde Hestad Iversen and Oyvind Bjertnaes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:1106
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS), a problem common in newborns exposed to substances in-utero, is an emerging health concern. In traditional models of care, infants with NAS are routinely separated from thei...

    Authors: Osnat Wine, Deborah McNeil, Seija K. Kromm, Karen Foss, Vera Caine, Denise Clarke, Nathaniel Day, David W. Johnson, Katherine Rittenbach, Stephen Wood and Matt Hicks
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:448
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  48. The national breast screening programme in the United Kingdom is under pressure due to workforce shortages and having been paused during the COVID-19 pandemic. Artificial intelligence has the potential to tran...

    Authors: Rumana Newlands, Hanne Bruhn, Magdalena Rzewuska Díaz, Gerald Lip, Lesley A. Anderson and Craig Ramsay
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:569
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  49. A well functioning Health Information System (HIS) is crucial for effective and efficient health service delivery. In Tanzania there is a national HIS called Mfumo wa Taarifa za Uendeshaji Huduma za Afya (MTUH...

    Authors: Miriam C Wilms, Osman Mbembela, Helen Prytherch, Peter Hellmold and Rainer Kuelker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:91
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  50. Many primary health care (PHC) clients come in with medically unexplained complaints, leading to frequent consultations and high usage of services and healthcare costs. This study aimed to determine the preval...

    Authors: Zaher Nazzal, Beesan Maraqa, Marah Abu Zant, Layali Qaddoumi and Rana Abdallah
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:615
    Content type: Research Published on:
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