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  1. Adolescents’ sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH) needs have been prioritized globally, and they have the rights to access and utilize SRH services for their needs. However, adolescents under-utilize SRH s...

    Authors: Kim Jonas, Rik Crutzen, Anja Krumeich, Nicolette Roman, Bart van den Borne and Priscilla Reddy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:109
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  2. Delirium is a frequent and detrimental complication of inpatient hospitalization. Multicomponent intervention in selected groups has been shown to prevent and treat delirium, though little data exists on the e...

    Authors: Ethan G. Brown, S. Andrew Josephson, Noriko Anderson, Mary Reid, Melissa Lee and Vanja C. Douglas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:106
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  3. Hospital stay represents the opportunity for a change of therapy, about which patients may not know indications, contraindications, and mode of administration, which may lead to dosing errors, drug interaction...

    Authors: Claudia Pileggi, Emilia Caligiuri, Carmelo G. A. Nobile and Maria Pavia
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:105
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  4. Poor quality of health services and socio-cultural dynamics may severely limit utilization of health services. Facility health committees were established in several states in northern Nigeria to reduce these ...

    Authors: Olugbenga Oguntunde, Isa M. Surajo, Dauda Sulaiman Dauda, Abdulsamad Salihu, Salma Anas-Kolo and Irit Sinai
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:104
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  5. Transitions to sub-acute care are regularly complicated by inadequate discharge communication, which is exacerbated by a lack of clarity regarding accountability for important follow-up care. Patients discharg...

    Authors: Andrea L. Gilmore-Bykovskyi, Korey A. Kennelty, Eva DuGoff and Amy J. H. Kind
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:103
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  6. Despite economic growth and improved health outcomes over the past few decades, China still experiences striking urban-rural health inequalities. Urban and rural residents distinguished by the hukou system may...

    Authors: Jiajia Li, Leiyu Shi, Hailun Liang, Gan Ding and Lingzhong Xu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:102
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  7. Healthcare systems are complex networks where relationships affect outcomes. The importance of primary care increases while health care acknowledges multimorbidity, the impact of combinations of different dise...

    Authors: Karin Ranstad, Patrik Midlöv and Anders Halling
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:101
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  8. The quality of social and emotional wellbeing services for Indigenous families of young children is not known, in many settings especially services provided by primary care centers.

    Authors: Karen M. Edmond, Kimberley McAuley, Daniel McAullay, Veronica Matthews, Natalie Strobel, Rhonda Marriott and Ross Bailie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:100
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  9. Rare diseases are, by definition, very serious and chronic diseases with a high negative impact on quality of life. Approximately 350 million people worldwide live with rare diseases. The resulting high diseas...

    Authors: Ana Babac, Martin Frank, Frédéric Pauer, Svenja Litzkendorf, Daniel Rosenfeldt, Verena Lührs, Lisa Biehl, Tobias Hartz, Holger Storf, Franziska Schauer, Thomas O. F. Wagner and J-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:99
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  10. One of the most successful modes of record-keeping and data collection is the use of health management information systems, where patient information and management plans are uniformly entered into a database ...

    Authors: Lily Kpobi, Leslie Swartz and Angela L. Ofori-Atta
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:98
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  11. Evaluations on different aspects of the performance of public hospitals in China have been conducted, usually based on indicators developed by literature review and expert suggestions. The patient perspective ...

    Authors: Xuanxuan Wang, Rongqin Jiang, Jingxian Li, Jiaying Chen, Bo Burström and Kristina Burström
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:97
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  12. Systems navigation provided by individuals or teams is emerging as a strategy to reduce barriers to care. Complex clients with health and social support needs in primary care experience fragmentation and gaps ...

    Authors: Nancy Carter, Ruta K. Valaitis, Annie Lam, Janice Feather, Jennifer Nicholl and Laura Cleghorn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:96
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  14. Increasing population-based evidence suggests that patients who receive breast conserving surgery (BCS) plus radiotherapy have superior survival than those who receive mastectomy. It is unclear, however, how B...

    Authors: Stacey Fisher, Yutaka Yasui, Kelly Dabbs and Marcy Winget
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:94
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  15. The implementation of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (CPG) can improve patients care. To date, the impact of implementation strategies has not been evaluated in our context. This study is aimed to...

    Authors: Arritxu Etxeberria, Idoia Alcorta, Itziar Pérez, Jose Ignacio Emparanza, Elena Ruiz de Velasco, Maria Teresa Iglesias and Rafael Rotaeche
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:93
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  16. Availability and accessibility of sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents are very crucial for prevention and control of sexual and reproductive health problems. These services also play vital ...

    Authors: Amelia Ngozi ODO, Efiong Sunday SAMUEL, Evelyn N. NWAGU, Petra Obioma NNAMANI and Chiemezie S. ATAMA
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:92
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  17. As part of the NHS desire to move services closer to where people live, and provide greater accessibility and convenience to patients, Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) underwent a review of...

    Authors: Samantha J. Ingram, Charlotte L. Kirkdale, Sian Williams, Elaine Hartley, Susan Wintle, Valerie Sefton and Tracey Thornley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:91
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  18. To date, few studies have assessed how Brazil’s universal healthcare system’s (SUS, Sistema Único de Saúde) systemic, infrastructural, and geographical challenges affect individuals’ abilities to access organ ...

    Authors: Eduardo J. Gómez, Sven Jungmann and Agnaldo Soares Lima
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:90
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  19. To estimate changes in the cost and utilization of Medicare among beneficiaries over age 65 who have been impacted by a natural disaster, we merged publically available county-level Medicare claims for the yea...

    Authors: Nathanael Rosenheim, Shannon Grabich and Jennifer A. Horney
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:89
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  20. Traditional Oriental medicine is used in many Asian countries and involves herbal medicines, acupuncture, moxibustion, and cupping. We investigated the incidence and causes of hospital-acquired fever (HAF) and...

    Authors: Soo-youn Moon, Ki-Ho Park, Mi Suk Lee and Jun Seong Son
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:88
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  21. Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) have been integrated in national quality registries or specific national monitoring initiatives to inform the improvement of quality of care on a national scale. Howev...

    Authors: Birgit Prodinger and Paul Taylor
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:87
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  22. Social Prescribing is a service in primary care that involves the referral of patients with non-clinical needs to local services and activities provided by the third sector (community, voluntary, and social en...

    Authors: Julia Vera Pescheny, Yannis Pappas and Gurch Randhawa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:86
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  23. In general, patients with a cancer suspicion visit the hospital multiple times before diagnosis is completed. Using various “operations management” techniques a few fast track diagnostic services were implemen...

    Authors: W. H. van Harten, N. Goedbloed, A. H. Boekhout and S. Heintzbergen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:85
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  24. In 2013 the Swiss Diagnosis Related Groups ((Swiss)-DRG) was implemented in Intensive Care Units (ICU). Its impact on hospitalizations has not yet been examined. We compared the number of ICU admissions, accor...

    Authors: Lionel Chok, Esther B. Bachli, Peter Steiger, Dominique Bettex, Silvia R. Cottini, Emanuela Keller, Marco Maggiorini and Reto A. Schuepbach
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:84
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  26. Little is known about the usefulness of online ratings when searching for a hospital. We therefore assess the association between quantitative and qualitative online ratings for US hospitals and clinical quali...

    Authors: Martin Emmert, Nina Meszmer and Mark Schlesinger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:82
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  28. Health care professionals (HCP) are known key elements of effective patient’s counselling and education. For patients taking warfarin, education about the dose, side effects, and toxicity is clearly identified...

    Authors: Nermine S. Choumane, Diana N. Malaeb, Bassem Malaeb and Souheil Hallit
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:80
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  29. The Primary Care Outcomes Questionnaire (PCOQ) is a new patient-reported outcome measure designed specifically for primary care. This paper describes the developmental process of improving the item quality and...

    Authors: Mairead Murphy, Sandra Hollinghurst and Chris Salisbury
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:79
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  30. Patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) typically use several drug treatments during their lifetime. There is a debate about the best second-line therapy after metformin monotherapy failure due to the increasing n...

    Authors: Christina S. Kwon, Enrique Seoane-Vazquez and Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:78
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  31. Organizational change is inevitable in any workplace. Previous research has shown that leadership and a number of organizational climate and contextual variables can affect the adoption of change initiatives. ...

    Authors: Kathryn von Treuer, Gery Karantzas, Marita McCabe, David Mellor, Anastasia Konis, Tanya E. Davison and Daniel O’Connor
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:77
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  32. Malawi, Uganda, and Zimbabwe have recently adopted a universal ‘test-and-treat’ approach to the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (Option B+). Amongst a largely asymptomatic population of women...

    Authors: Fabian Cataldo, Janet Seeley, Misheck J. Nkhata, Zivai Mupambireyi, Edward Tumwesige and Diana M. Gibb
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:76
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  33. Partner notification services (PNS) are recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a public health intervention for addressing the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (S...

    Authors: Sarah Magaziner, Madeline C. Montgomery, Thomas Bertrand, Daniel Daltry, Heidi Jenkins, Brenda Kendall, Lauren Molotnikov, Lindsay Pierce, Emer Smith, Lynn Sosa, Jacob J. van den Berg, Theodore Marak, Don Operario and Philip A. Chan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:75
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  34. In order to conduct studies on shared decision-making (SDM) and to implement SDM in routine practice, psychometrically tested measures are needed. The development of the short 5-item version of the OPTION scal...

    Authors: Mara Kölker, Janine Topp, Glyn Elwyn, Martin Härter and Isabelle Scholl
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:74
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  35. Emergency department visits and hospitalizations (EDVH) place a large burden on patients and the health care system. The presence of informal caregivers may be beneficial for reducing EDVH among patients with ...

    Authors: Robert Abtan, Nooshin Khobzi Rotondi, Alison Macpherson and Michael Anthony Rotondi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:73
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  36. Implementation of evidence-based programs (EBPs) for disease self-management and prevention is a policy priority. It is challenging to implement EBPs offered in community settings and to integrate them with he...

    Authors: Aaron L. Leppin, Karen Schaepe, Jason Egginton, Sara Dick, Megan Branda, Lori Christiansen, Nicole M. Burow, Charlene Gaw and Victor M. Montori
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:72
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  37. The National Guideline for Assessment, Treatment and Social Rehabilitation of Persons with Concurrent Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders, launched in 2012, is to be implemented in mental health services...

    Authors: Monica Stolt Pedersen, Anne Landheim, Merete Møller and Lars Lien
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:71
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  38. Children with medical complexity (CMC) have a wide range of long term health problems and disabilities that have an adverse impact on their quality of life. They have high levels of family identified health ca...

    Authors: Lisa Altman, Yvonne Zurynski, Christie Breen, Tim Hoffmann and Susan Woolfenden
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:70
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  40. Citizen participation in health service co-production is increasingly enacted. A reason for engaging community members is to co-design services that are locally-appropriate and harness local assets. To date, m...

    Authors: Jane Farmer, Karen Carlisle, Virginia Dickson-Swift, Simon Teasdale, Amanda Kenny, Judy Taylor, Felicity Croker, Karen Marini and Mark Gussy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:68
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  42. While governments are urging adult mental health services to support consumers in the context of their family, there is little information about what family focused practice is, nor how it might be enacted.

    Authors: Andrea Reupert, Bernadette Ward, Francis McCormick, Cathy Ward, Susan Waller and Susan Kidd
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:66
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  43. Cardiovascular disease (CVD), a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, has similar incidence in metropolitan and rural areas but poorer cardiovascular outcomes for residents living in rural and remote Austr...

    Authors: Sandra Hamilton, Belynda Mills, Shelley McRae and Sandra Thompson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:64
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  44. Implementing an accredited quality and patient safety management system is inevitable for hospitals. Even in the case of an obligatory rule system, different approaches to implement such a system can be used: ...

    Authors: Ulrike Weske, Paul Boselie, Elizabeth L. J. van Rensen and Margriet M. E. Schneider
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:62
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  45. Prolonged hospital discharge boarding can impact patient flow resulting in upstream Emergency Department crowding. We aim to determine the risks predicting prolonged hospital discharge boarding and their direc...

    Authors: Sajid A. Shaikh, Richard D. Robinson, Radhika Cheeti, Shyamanand Rath, Chad D. Cowden, Frank Rosinia, Nestor R. Zenarosa and Hao Wang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:59
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  46. Engagement with HIV medical care is critical to successful HIV treatment and prevention efforts. However, in Ukraine, delays in the timely initiation of HIV treatment hamper viral suppression. By January 01, 2...

    Authors: Tetiana Kiriazova, Oleksandr Postnov, Trista Bingham, Janet Myers, Timothy Flanigan, Charles Vitek and Oleksandr Neduzhko
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:58
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  47. Newborn hearing screening programs aim to lower the ages at audiological intervention among hearing-impaired children. In Wallonia and Brussels (Belgium), audiological intervention data are not collected in th...

    Authors: Bénédicte Vos, Christelle Senterre, Michel Boutsen, Raphaël Lagasse and Alain Levêque
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:56
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  48. Pediatric providers are key players in the treatment of childhood obesity, yet rates of obesity management in the primary care setting are low. The goal of this study was to examine the views of pediatric prov...

    Authors: Kyung E. Rhee, Stephanie Kessl, Sarah Lindback, Marshall Littman and Robert E. El-Kareh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:55
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  49. For more than 30 years policy action across sectors has been celebrated as a necessary and viable way to affect the social factors impacting on health. In particular intersectoral action on the social determin...

    Authors: Ditte Heering Holt, Morten Hulvej Rod, Susanne Boch Waldorff and Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:54
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  50. Women with comorbid substance use disorders are an extremely vulnerable group having an increased relative risk of negative outcomes such as incarceration, morbidity and mortality. In Sweden, women with comorb...

    Authors: Tina M. Olsson and Mats Fridell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:53
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