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  1. Non-prescription medicines are increasingly used in Germany, aided by prescription-to-non-prescription reclassification (or switch). This study aimed to examine the barriers and enablers to reclassification of...

    Authors: Natalie J. Gauld
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:404
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  2. Gathering sufficient information when handling self-medication requests in community pharmacies is an important factor in assisting patients to obtain appropriate health outcomes. Common types of information u...

    Authors: Cecilia Brata, Brahmaputra Marjadi, Carl R Schneider, Kevin Murray and Rhonda M Clifford
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:8
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  3. This retrospective process evaluation reports on the application of a 1-year implementation program to increase identification and management of patients at high risk of a hereditary cancer syndrome. The proje...

    Authors: Janet C. Long, Teresa Winata, Deborah Debono, Kim-Chi Phan-Thien, Christine Zhu and Natalie Taylor
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:180
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  4. Health literacy refers to an individual’s ability to find, understand and use health information in order to promote and maintain health. An individual’s health literacy may also be influenced by the way healt...

    Authors: Rebecca L. Jessup, Richard H. Osborne, Alison Beauchamp, Allison Bourne and Rachelle Buchbinder
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:134
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  5. The decision to obtain a computed tomography CT scan in the emergency department (ED) is complex, including a consideration of the risk posed by the test itself weighed against the importance of obtaining the ...

    Authors: M. Fernanda Bellolio, Shawna D. Bellew, Lindsey R. Sangaralingham, Ronna L. Campbell, Daniel Cabrera, Molly M. Jeffery, Nilay D. Shah and Erik P. Hess
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:154
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  6. Collaborative partnerships are considered an essential strategy for integrating local disjointed health and social services. Currently, little evidence is available on how integrated care arrangements between ...

    Authors: Pim P. Valentijn, Dirk Ruwaard, Hubertus J M Vrijhoef, Antoinette de Bont, Rosa Y. Arends and Marc A. Bruijnzeels
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:463
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  7. Administrative evidence based practices (A-EBPs) are agency level structures and activities positively associated with performance measures (e.g., achieving core public health functions, carrying out evidence-...

    Authors: Kathleen Duggan, Kristelle Aisaka, Rachel G. Tabak, Carson Smith, Paul Erwin and Ross C. Brownson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:221
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  8. Following a recent major review of cervical screening, from 2017 Australia will transition from two-yearly cytology-based screening to five-yearly primary HPV screening, with partial genotyping and direct refe...

    Authors: Megan A. Smith, Dorota Gertig, Michaela Hall, Kate Simms, Jie-Bin Lew, Michael Malloy, Marion Saville and Karen Canfell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:147
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  9. Oral chemotherapy is increasingly prescribed to treat cancer. Despite its benefits, concerns have been raised regarding adherence to therapy. The study objective was to compare and measure adherence, persisten...

    Authors: Michael Stokes, Carolina Reyes, Yu Xia, Veronica Alas, Hans-Peter Goertz and Luke Boulanger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:414
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  10. In Denmark, immigrants have been found to have a higher use of healthcare services abroad. Since this use may have an impact on both the individual patient and the healthcare system in the country of residence...

    Authors: Nicoline Lokdam, Maria Kristiansen, Line Neerup Handlos and Marie Norredam
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:99
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  11. Nurses' turnover is a major contributor to nursing shortages, strongly influenced by nurses’ intentions to leave. Several factors influencing the turnover intention have been well identified in Western countri...

    Authors: Huiyun Yang, Jingwen Lv, Xi Zhou, Huitong Liu and Baibing Mi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:112
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  12. The collaborative care model is an evidence-based practice for treatment of depression in which designated care managers provide clinical services, often by telephone. However, the collaborative care model is ...

    Authors: Jessica M. Lipschitz, Justin K. Benzer, Christopher Miller, Siena R. Easley, Jenniffer Leyson, Edward P. Post and James F. Burgess Jr
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:691
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  13. The number of people living with chronic health conditions is increasing in Australia. The Chronic Disease Management program was introduced to Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) to provide a more structured app...

    Authors: Heidi Welberry, Margo Linn Barr, Elizabeth J. Comino, Ben F. Harris-Roxas, Elizabeth Harris, Shona Dutton, Tony Jackson, Debra Donnelly and Mark Fort Harris
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:811
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  14. Systematic screening of all colorectal tumors for Lynch Syndrome (LS) has been recommended since 2009. Currently, implementation of LS screening in healthcare systems remains variable, likely because LS screen...

    Authors: Alanna Kulchak Rahm, Deborah Cragun, Jessica Ezzell Hunter, Mara M. Epstein, Jan Lowery, Christine Y. Lu, Pamala A. Pawloski, Ravi N. Sharaf, Su-Ying Liang, Andrea N. Burnett-Hartman, James M. Gudgeon, Jing Hao, Susan Snyder, Radhika Gogoi, Ilene Ladd and Marc S. Williams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:824
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  15. Gastric cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in both sexes worldwide, especially in Eastern Asia. This study aimed to estimate the economic burden of advanced gastric cancer (AGC) in Ta...

    Authors: Jihyung Hong, Yiling Tsai, Diego Novick, Frank Chi-huang Hsiao, Rebecca Cheng and Jen-Shi Chen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:663
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. Maternal mortality in Nigeria is one of the highest in the world. Access to antenatal care is limited and the quality of services is poor in much of the country. Previous research in Bauchi State found associa...

    Authors: Anne Cockcroft, Khalid Omer, Yagana Gidado, Adamu Ibrahim Gamawa and Neil Andersson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:510
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  17. Birth weight is continuously decreasing in Japan since food satiation has become a problem in recent years. The present study aimed to develop and examine the reliability and validity of a scale for the assess...

    Authors: Kazuko Sonoda, Yuko Matsunari and Syuji Takei
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:48
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. Ghana introduced a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2003 applying fee-for-service method for paying NHIS-credentialed health care providers. The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) later intro...

    Authors: Francis-Xavier Andoh-Adjei, Renske van der Wal, Eric Nsiah-Boateng, Felix Ankomah Asante, Koos van der Velden and Ernst Spaan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:52
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  19. There is an absence of formal error tracking systems in public sector hospitals of Pakistan and also a lack of literature concerning error reporting culture in the health care sector. Nurse practitioners have ...

    Authors: Sara Rizvi Jafree, Rubeena Zakar, Muhammad Zakria Zakar and Florian Fischer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:3
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  20. Effective teamwork has been recognised as a major contributor to safe patient care in surgery. Previous research has highlighted the importance of adaptive coordination for effective performance in acute care ...

    Authors: Jasmina Bogdanovic, Juliana Perry, Merlin Guggenheim and Tanja Manser
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:128
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Transplant recipients are chronically ill patients, who require lifelong follow-up to manage co-morbidities and prevent graft loss. This necessitates a system of care that is congruent with the Chronic Care Mo...

    Authors: Katia Iglesias, Sabina De Geest, Lut Berben, Fabienne Dobbels, Kris Denhaerynk, L. Cynthia Russell, Remon Helmy and Isabelle Peytremann-Bridevaux
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:160
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  22. The use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI) has been associated with the development of bradykinin-mediated angioedema. With ever-widening indications for ACEI in diseases including hypertension...

    Authors: Nicola Bonner, Charlotte Panter, Alan Kimura, Rich Sinert, Joseph Moellman and Jonathan A. Bernstein
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:366
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  23. Having a tax-funded and supposedly ‘National’ Health Service (NHS), one might assume that the UK is well-positioned to roll out eHealth innovations at scale. Yet, despite a strong policy push, the English NHS ...

    Authors: Sheena Asthana, Ray Jones and Rod Sheaff
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:984
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  24. Trajectories of Rehabilitation across Complex Environments (TRaCE), a consented prospective cohort study, addresses a critical need to better understand access to the healthcare system after acute treatment an...

    Authors: Melissa Legg, Michele Foster, Sanjoti Parekh, Mandy Nielsen, Rachel Jones, Elizabeth Kendall, Jennifer Fleming and Timothy Geraghty
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:700
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  25. Although there is mounting evidence and policy guidance urging the integration of HIV services into general health systems in countries with a high HIV burden, vertical (stand-alone) HIV clinics are still comm...

    Authors: Henry Zakumumpa, Joseph Rujumba, Japheth Kwiringira, Jepchirchir Kiplagat, Edith Namulema and Alex Muganzi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:690
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  26. Warfarin is a drug with narrow therapeutic index used in the management of thromboembolic disorders. Several factors affect its plasma concentrations with a resultant risk of toxicity. We examined the database...

    Authors: Zipporah Kamuren, Gabriel Kigen, Alfred Keter and Alice Maritim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:723
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  27. Since the emergence of social media in 2004, a growing percentage of patients use this technology for health related reasons. To reflect on the alleged beneficial and potentially harmful effects of social medi...

    Authors: Edin Smailhodzic, Wyanda Hooijsma, Albert Boonstra and David J. Langley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:442
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  28. Given the astounding rates of diabetes and related complications, and the barriers to providing care present in Indigenous communities in Canada, intervention strategies that take into account contextual facto...

    Authors: Mariam Naqshbandi Hayward, Selam Mequanint, Jann Paquette-Warren, Ross Bailie, Alexandra Chirila, Roland Dyck, Michael Green, Anthony Hanley, Jordan Tompkins and Stewart Harris
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:233
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  29. Navajo Nation Community Health Representatives (CHR) are trained community health workers (CHWs) who provide crucial services for patients and families. The success of the CHRs’ interventions depends on the in...

    Authors: Vikas Gampa, Casey Smith, Olivia Muskett, Caroline King, Hannah Sehn, Jamy Malone, Cameron Curley, Chris Brown, Mae-Gilene Begay, Sonya Shin and Adrianne Katrina Nelson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:19
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  30. The aim of the study was to identify the proportion of female sex workers, men who have sex with men, and people who inject drugs who had accessed HIV prevention services at public health facilities and peer-l...

    Authors: Bartholomew Ochonye, Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan, Adesegun O. Fatusi, Godwin Emmanuel, Oluwatomi Adepoju, Babatunde Ajidagba, Toluwanimi Jaiyebo, Paul Umoh and Ayo Yusuf
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:856
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  31. Treatment of stroke patients in stroke units has increased and studies have shown improved outcomes. However, a large share of patients in Germany is still treated in hospitals without stroke unit. The effects...

    Authors: Christoph Pross, Elke Berger, Martin Siegel, Alexander Geissler and Reinhard Busse
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:880
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  32. In Norway, as in many Western countries, a shift from institutional care to home care is taking place. Our knowledge is limited regarding which needs for nursing interventions patients being cared for in their...

    Authors: Gro Næss, Marit Kirkevold, Wenche Hammer, Jørund Straand and Torgeir Bruun Wyller
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:645
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  33. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has recently implemented a comprehensive national program to help veterans who use or experience intimate partner violence (IPV). One important component of this pl...

    Authors: Suzannah K. Creech, Justin K. Benzer, Tracie Ebalu, Christopher M. Murphy and Casey T. Taft
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:582
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  34. Intensive care Unit (ICU) admission decisions involve collaboration between internists and intensivists. Clear perception of each other’s roles is a prerequisite for good collaboration. The objective was to ex...

    Authors: Stéphane Cullati, Patricia Hudelson, Bara Ricou, Mathieu Nendaz, Thomas V. Perneger and Monica Escher
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:620
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  35. In order to develop a context appropriate in mental health system, there is a need to document relevant existing resources and practices with a view of identifying existing gaps, challenges and opportunities a...

    Authors: Victoria N. Mutiso, Christine W. Musyimi, Isaiah Gitonga, Albert Tele, Romaisa Pervez, Tahilia J. Rebello, Kathleen M. Pike and David M. Ndetei
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:51
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is considered a multisystem disease, in which comorbidities feature prominently. COPD guidelines recommend holistic assessment and management of relevant comorbid d...

    Authors: Belinda Cochrane, Jann Foster, Robert Boyd and Evan Atlantis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:347
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  37. There has been considerable publicity regarding population ageing and hospital emergency department (ED) overcrowding. Our study aims to investigate impact of one intervention piloted in Queensland Australia, ...

    Authors: Lijun Fan, Xiang-Yu Hou, Jingzhou Zhao, Jiandong Sun, Kaeleen Dingle, Rhonda Purtill, Sam Tapp and Bill Lukin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:46
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  38. The Korean healthcare system is composed of costly and inefficient structures that fail to adequately divide the functions and roles of medical care organizations. To resolve this matter, the government reform...

    Authors: Hyo Jung Lee, Sung-In Jang and Eun-Cheol Park
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:152
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  39. There is uncertainty about how directly observed treatment (DOT) support for tuberculosis (TB) can be delivered most effectively and how DOT support can simultaneously be used to strengthen human immunodeficie...

    Authors: Embry M. Howell, N. Gladys Kigozi and J. Christo Heunis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:255
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. As the emphasis in health reform shifts to value-based payments, especially through multi-payer initiatives supported by the U.S. Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, and with the increasing availability...

    Authors: Karl Finison, MaryKate Mohlman, Craig Jones, Melanie Pinette, David Jorgenson, Amy Kinner, Tim Tremblay and Daniel Gottlieb
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:58
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  41. Implementing good-quality health and social care requires empowerment of staff members within organizations delivering care. Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) is an intervention using positive video feedback to...

    Authors: Alex Hall, Tracy Finch, Niina Kolehmainen and Deborah James
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:608
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  42. The prevalence of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among key populations in Cambodia continues to rise. To address this issue, KHANA, the largest national HIV organization in the country develope...

    Authors: Siyan Yi, Sovannary Tuot, Pheak Chhoun, Khuondyla Pal, Chanrith Ngin, Sok Chamreun Choub and Carinne Brody
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:599
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. This study presents a descriptive synthesis of Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s (KRI) primary care system, which is undergoing comprehensive primary care reforms within the context of a cross-cutting structural econ...

    Authors: Ali R. Shukor, Niek S. Klazinga and Dionne S. Kringos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:592
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  44. Reuse of injection devices to give healthcare injections decreased from 39.8 to 5.5% between 2000 and 2010, but trends since 2011 have not been described. We reviewed results of Demographic and Health Surveys ...

    Authors: Tomoyuki Hayashi, Yvan J.-F. Hutin, Marc Bulterys, Arshad Altaf and Benedetta Allegranzi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:600
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  46. It is critical to understand whether providing health insurance coverage, assigning a dedicated Primary Care Physician (PCP), and arranging timely post-Emergency Department (ED) clinic follow-up can improve co...

    Authors: Chet D. Schrader, Richard D. Robinson, Somer Blair, Sajid Shaikh, Amy F. Ho, James P. D’Etienne, Jessica J. Kirby, Radhika Cheeti, Nestor R. Zenarosa and Hao Wang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:451
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Linking process of care data from general practice (GP) and hospital data may provide more information about the risk of hospital admission and re-admission for people with type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Thi...

    Authors: Sarah Dennis, Jane Taggart, Hairong Yu, Bin Jalaludin, Mark F. Harris and Siaw-Teng Liaw
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:526
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Care home residents in England have variable access to health care services. There is currently no coherent policy or consensus about the best arrangements to meet these needs. The purpose of this review was t...

    Authors: Claire Goodman, Tom Dening, Adam L. Gordon, Susan L. Davies, Julienne Meyer, Finbarr C. Martin, John R. F. Gladman, Clive Bowman, Christina Victor, Melanie Handley, Heather Gage, Steve Iliffe and Maria Zubair
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:269
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Hospitalisations are the prime contributor to healthcare expenditure, with older adults often identified as high hospital users. Despite the apparent high use of hospitals at the end of life, limited evidence ...

    Authors: Melissa L. Harris, Xenia Dolja-Gore, Hal Kendig and Julie E. Byles
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:484
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  50. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) with which over 37 million peoples are living is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The rapid expansion of antiretroviral treatment has dramatically ...

    Authors: Getaneh Adissu, Gashaw Andarge Biks and Koku Sisay Tamirat
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:93
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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