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  1. Evidence-based clinical algorithms (EBCA) are knowledge tools to promote evidence use by codifying evidence into action plans to facilitate appropriate care. However, their impact on process and outcomes of ca...

    Authors: Lisa M. Puchalski Ritchie, Finot Debebe and Aklilu Azazh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:181
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  2. 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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  3. The use of maternal health services can markedly promote the maternal health and safety, but there has been a low utilization rate in the ethnic rural areas of western China. Furthermore, the correlated factor...

    Authors: Yuju Wu, Huan Zhou, Qingzhi Wang, Min Cao, Alexis Medina and Scott Rozelle
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:179
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  4. Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) guidelines recommend early oral feeding with nutritionally adequate diets after surgery. However, studies have demonstrated variations in practice and poor adherence to t...

    Authors: Megan Rattray, Shelley Roberts, Ben Desbrow, Martin Wullschleger, Tayla Robertson, Ingrid Hickman and Andrea P. Marshall
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:178
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  5. To cope with rising demand for healthcare services in Singapore, Regional Health Systems (RHS) comprising of health and social care providers across care settings were set up to integrate service delivery. Tas...

    Authors: Milawaty Nurjono, Pami Shrestha, Ian Yi Han Ang, Farah Shiraz, Joanne Su-Yin Yoong, Sue-Anne Ee Shiow Toh and Hubertus Johannes Maria Vrijhoef
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:177
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  6. Surgical instrument processing is important for improving the safety of surgical care in hospitals. However, it has been rarely studied to date. Errors in surgical instrument processing may increase operative ...

    Authors: Xiaolian Zhu, Lan Yuan, Tianyi Li and Ping Cheng
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:176
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  7. Health management information system (HMIS) is a system whereby health data are recorded, stored, retrieved and processed to improve decision-making. HMIS data quality should be monitored routinely as producti...

    Authors: Misganu Endriyas, Abraham Alano, Emebet Mekonnen, Sinafikish Ayele, Temesgen Kelaye, Mekonnen Shiferaw, Tebeje Misganaw, Teka Samuel, Tesfahun Hailemariam and Samuel Hailu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:175
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  8. Shared Decision Making (SDM) is an approach where clinicians and patients share the best available evidence to make decision and where patients opinions are considered. This approach provides benefits for pati...

    Authors: M. R. Gualano, F. Bert, S. Passi, M. Stillo, V. Brescia, G. Scaioli, R. Thomas, G. Voglino, D. Minniti, F. Boraso and R. Siliquini
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:174
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  9. Evidence from the context of local health ecosystems is highly relevant for research and policymaking to understand geographical variations in outcomes of health care delivery. In mental health systems, the an...

    Authors: Mary Anne Furst, Coralie Gandré, Cristina Romero López-Alberca and Luis Salvador-Carulla
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:173
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  10. Rural residents are less likely to receive screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) than urban residents. However, the mechanisms underlying this disparity, especially among people aged 50–64 years old with priva...

    Authors: Mesnad Alyabsi, Mary Charlton, Jane Meza, K. M. Monirul Islam, Amr Soliman and Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:172
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  11. Shared decision-making in oncology requires information on individual prognosis. This comprises cancer prognosis as well as competing risks of dying due to age and comorbidities. Decision aids usually do not p...

    Authors: Viktoria Mühlbauer, Birte Berger-Höger, Martina Albrecht, Ingrid Mühlhauser and Anke Steckelberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:171
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  12. Measuring patients’ perception from health service quality as an important element in the assessment of service quality has attracted much attention in recent years. Therefore, this study was conducted to find...

    Authors: Mohammad Ali Abbasi-Moghaddam, Ehsan Zarei, Rafat Bagherzadeh, Hossein Dargahi and Pouria Farrokhi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:170
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  13. Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are common and increase morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. Their control continues to be an unresolved issue worldwide. HAIs epidemiology shows sex/gender diffe...

    Authors: Jesús López-Alcalde, Elena Stallings, Sheila Cabir Nunes, Abelardo Fernández Chávez, Mathilde Daheron, Xavier Bonfill Cosp and Javier Zamora
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:169
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  14. Demand for Physiotherapy is on the rise due to increasing ageing population and consequent disability and morbidity. However, the costs of healthcare in developing countries are rising, and healthcare resources a...

    Authors: Chidozie Mbada, Abraham Olawuyi, Olufemi O. Oyewole, Adesola C. Odole, Abiola O. Ogundele and Francis Fatoye
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:168
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  15. Growing understanding of the influence of social determinants of health (SDH) on healthcare costs and outcomes for low income populations is leading State Medicaid agencies to consider incorporating SDH into t...

    Authors: Deena J. Chisolm, Daniel L. Brook, Mary S. Applegate and Kelly J. Kelleher
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:167
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  16. Nepal formulated a range of policies related to maternal and neonatal survival, especially after the year 2000. Nevertheless, Nepal’s perinatal mortality remains high, particularly in disadvantaged regions. Po...

    Authors: Mohan Paudel, Sara Javanparast, Gouranga Dasvarma and Lareen Newman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:166
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  17. Polypharmacy is prevalent among hospitalized older adults, particularly those being discharged to a post-care care facility (PAC). The aim of this randomized controlled trial is to determine if a patient-cente...

    Authors: Eduard E. Vasilevskis, Avantika S. Shah, Emily K. Hollingsworth, Matthew S. Shotwell, Amanda S. Mixon, Susan P. Bell, Sunil Kripalani, John F. Schnelle and Sandra F. Simmons
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:165
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  19. In the original publication of this article [1], some numbers in the below sentence errors in the Results section of the Abstract:

    Authors: Melissa Spoden, Ulrike Nimptsch and Thomas Mansky
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:163
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    The original article was published in BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:8

  20. Low- and middle-income countries often lack the fiscal, infrastructural and human resources to conduct evidence-based research; similar constraints may also hinder the application of good clinical practice gui...

    Authors: Ockert Coetzee, Leslie Swartz, Charlotte Capri and Colleen Adnams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:162
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  21. Little is known about whether patients’ socioeconomic status influences their access to elective general surgery in Canada. The purpose of this study was to assess the association between socioeconomic status ...

    Authors: Jason M. Sutherland, Zuzanna Kurzawa, Ahmer Karimuddin, Katrina Duncan, Guiping Liu and Trafford Crump
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:161
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  22. This study aimed to analyse the patient predictors of health-seeking behaviour for persons coughing for more than 2 weeks to better understand this vulnerable and important population.

    Authors: Carmen Christian, Cobus Burger, Mareli Claassens, Virginia Bond and Ronelle Burger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:160
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  23. Better management of long-term conditions remains a policy priority, with a focus on improving outcomes and reducing use of expensive hospital services. A number of interventions have been tested, but many hav...

    Authors: David G. Lugo-Palacios, Jonathan Hammond, Thomas Allen, Sarah Darley, Ruth McDonald, Thomas Blakeman and Peter Bower
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:159
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  24. The medical discharge letter is an important communication tool between hospitals and other healthcare providers. Despite its high status, it often does not meet the desired requirements in everyday clinical p...

    Authors: Christine Maria Schwarz, Magdalena Hoffmann, Petra Schwarz, Lars-Peter Kamolz, Gernot Brunner and Gerald Sendlhofer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:158
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  25. The concept of complexity is used in palliative care (PC) to describe the nature of patients’ situations and the extent of resulting needs and care demands. However, the term or concept is not clearly defined ...

    Authors: Farina Hodiamont, Saskia Jünger, Reiner Leidl, Bernd Oliver Maier, Eva Schildmann and Claudia Bausewein
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:157
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  26. The increasing adoption of hospital electronic prescribing and medication administration (ePA) systems has driven a wealth of research around the impact on patient safety. Yet relatively little research has so...

    Authors: Monsey McLeod, Georgios Dimitrios Karampatakis, Lore Heyligen, Ann McGinley and Bryony Dean Franklin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:156
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  27. To overcome the limitations of administrative data in adequately adjusting for differences in patients’ risk of readmissions, recent studies have added supplemental data from patient surveys and other sources ...

    Authors: Sarah Zheng, Amresh Hanchate and Michael Shwartz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:155
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  28. In 2014, a large metropolitan mental health service in Australia developed a senior role (Lead Research Occupational Therapist) to address an identified need for greater research and knowledge translation, and...

    Authors: Danielle Hitch, Kate Lhuede, Lindsay Vernon, Genevieve Pepin and Karen Stagnitti
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:154
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  29. Tanzania remains among the countries with the highest burden of infectious diseases (notably HIV, Malaria and Tuberculosis) during pregnancy. In response, the country adopted World Health Organization’s (WHO) ...

    Authors: Emmanuel Nene Odjidja, Ghislaine Gatasi and Predrag Duric
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:153
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:676

  30. Prisons represent a unique opportunity to diagnose blood-borne viruses. Opt-out testing is receiving increasing interest, as a result of mounting evidence to suggest that the manner in which a test offer is de...

    Authors: Seth Francis-Graham, Nnenna Adaniya Ekeke, Corey Andrew Nelson, Tin Yan Lee, Sulaima El Haj, Tim Rhodes, Cecilia Vindrola, Tim Colbourn and William Rosenberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:152
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  31. Comparison of services and identification of factors important for favourable patient outcomes in emergency medical services (EMS) is challenging due to different organization and quality of data. The purpose ...

    Authors: Kristin Tønsager, Marius Rehn, Kjetil G. Ringdal, Hans Morten Lossius, Ilkka Virkkunen, Øyvind Østerås, Jo Røislien and Andreas J. Krüger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:151
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  32. Of the estimated 130,000 children living with HIV in Uganda, 47% are receiving ART. Only 39.3% have suppressed HIV-1 viral load to levels below 50 copies per ml. Caregivers are key drivers of adherence to achi...

    Authors: Esther Nasuuna, Joanita Kigozi, Patience A. Muwanguzi, Joyce Babirye, Laura Kiwala, Alex Muganzi, Nelson Sewankambo and Damalie Nakanjako
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:150
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  33. Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized under observation status have significant cost-sharing responsibilities under Medicare Part B. Prior work has demonstrated an association between increased cost-sharing and ...

    Authors: Jennifer N. Goldstein, J. Sanford Schwartz, Patricia McGraw and LeRoi S. Hicks
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:149
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  34. While local context costing evidence is relevant for healthcare planning, budgeting and cost-effectiveness analysis, it continues to be scarce in Ethiopia. This study assesses the cost of providing a preventio...

    Authors: Elias Asfaw Zegeye, Josue Mbonigaba, Sylvia Kaye and Benjamin Johns
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:148
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  35. Many countries are facing overlapping epidemics of tuberculosis (TB) and diabetes mellitus (DM). Diabetes increases the overall risk of developing Tuberculosis (TB) and contributes to adverse treatment outcome...

    Authors: Mashal S. Basir, Shifa S. Habib, Syed M.A. Zaidi, Saira Khowaja, Hamidah Hussain, Rashida A. Ferrand and Aamir J. Khan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:147
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  36. Efforts to address health literacy should favour a system-based approach with the dual aim both of fostering the material conditions and creating a work culture inside health care organisations that makes it e...

    Authors: Gilles Henrard, Marc Vanmeerbeek, Laetitia Buret and Jany Rademakers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:146
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  37. An important goal of the patient-centered medical home is increasing timely access for urgent needs, while maintaining continuity. In academic primary care clinics, meeting this goal, along with training medic...

    Authors: Jane H. Forman, Claire H. Robinson and Sarah L. Krein
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:145
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  38. Floating Catchment Area (FCA) metrics provide a comprehensive measure of potential spatial accessibility to health care services and are often used to identify geographic disparities in health care access. An ...

    Authors: Paul L. Delamater, Ashton M. Shortridge and Rachel C. Kilcoyne
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:144
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  39. Many countries, including China, have identified the primary health care system as a reform priority. The purpose of this study is to compare the perceived service capacity of primary care from the perspective...

    Authors: Wenjuan Tao, Wenqi Zeng, Ling Yan, Huazhen Yang, Jin Wen and Weimin Li
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:143
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  41. Generally, a significant portion of healthcare spending consists of out-of-pocket (OOP) expenses. Patients indicate that, in practice, there are often some OOP expenses, incurred when they receive medical care...

    Authors: A. Victoor, J. Noordman, A. Potappel, M. Meijers, C. J. J. Kloek and J. D. de Jong
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:141
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  42. With some Medicaid state programs still restricting patient access to hepatitis C (HCV) treatment, it is important to demonstrate how states could expand treatment access to a broader Medicaid population and b...

    Authors: Jacquelyn W. Chou, Alison R. Silverstein and Dana P. Goldman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:140
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  43. The study aims were: to estimate the proportion of patients with an indication for admission to a new high acuity Medical Psychiatric Unit (MPU), to explore the reasons for MPU-admission according to different...

    Authors: P. J. Caarls, M. A. van Schijndel, M. Kromkamp, A. I. Wierdsma, R. J. Osse, G. van der Hoeven, W. J. G. Hoogendijk and J. J. van Busschbach
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:139
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  44. Auxiliary Midwives (AMWs) are unpaid volunteer health workers assisting qualified paid midwives in maternal and child health care mainly in hard-to-reach areas of Myanmar. This paper describes the relationship...

    Authors: Kyu Kyu Than, Stanley Luchters, Khaing Nwe Tin, Thazin La, James Beeson and Alison Morgan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:138
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  45. Family navigation in mental health and addictions is a mode of support aimed at helping families through the complex mental health and addictions system, making well-informed service matches, and engaging with...

    Authors: Roula Markoulakis, Samantha Chan and Anthony Levitt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:137
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  46. The objective of this paper is to utilise a clinical costing system to investigate differences in the patient journey, defined as the sequence and timing of contacts with the Gold Coast Hospital and Health Ser...

    Authors: James Todd, Adrian Gepp, Bruce Vanstone and Brent Richards
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:136
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  47. Cross-cultural educational initiatives for professionals are now commonplace across a variety of sectors including health care. A growing number of studies have attempted to explore the utility of such initiat...

    Authors: Stephane M. Shepherd, Cynthia Willis-Esqueda, Danielle Newton, Diane Sivasubramaniam and Yin Paradies
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:135
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  48. In England emergency hospital admissions among children are increasing and the under 25s are the most frequent attenders of A&E departments. Children of lower socio-economic status (SES) have poorer health out...

    Authors: Leigh Johnson, Rosie Cornish, Andy Boyd and John Macleod
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:134
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  49. The state of São Paulo recorded a significant reduction in infant mortality from 1990 to 2013, but the desired reduction in maternal mortality was not achieved. Knowledge of the factors with impact on these in...

    Authors: Alexandre Bergo Guerra, Luciane Miranda Guerra, Livia Fernandes Probst, Brunna Verna Castro Gondinho, Gláucia Maria Bovi Ambrosano, Estêvão Azevedo Melo, Valéria Silva Cândido Brizon, Jaqueline Vilela Bulgareli, Karine Laura Cortellazzi and Antonio Carlos Pereira
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:133
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  50. Organisational performance measurement is a recognised business management tool and essential for survival and success. There is a paucity of methodological studies of organisational performance measurement re...

    Authors: Richard Colbran, Robyn Ramsden, Karen Stagnitti and John W. Toumbourou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:132
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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