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  1. Poorly managed hospital discharges and care transitions between health care facilities can cause poor outcomes for both patients and their caregivers. Unfortunately, the usual approach to health care delivery ...

    Authors: Jing Li, Jane Brock, Brian Jack, Brian Mittman, Mary Naylor, Joanna Sorra, Glen Mays and Mark V. Williams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:70
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:326

  2. The Birmingham Free Clinic (BFC) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA is a free, walk-in clinic that serves medically uninsured populations through the use of volunteer health care providers and an on-site medicat...

    Authors: Arielle M. Fisher, Mary I. Herbert and Gerald P. Douglas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:69
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  3. Armenians very rarely seek healthcare services and, consequently experience more serious health conditions. With its ongoing reforms, Armenia is focusing on linking health system financing to the quality and v...

    Authors: Pavitra Paul, Mihran Hakobyan and Hannu Valtonen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:67
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  4. There has been considerable interest in normative ethics regarding how and when coercive care can be justified. However, only a few empirical studies consider how professionals reason about ethical aspects whe...

    Authors: Veikko Pelto-Piri, Lars Kjellin, Christina Lindvall and Ingemar Engström
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:66
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  5. Understanding the factors affecting the mode and timeliness of breast cancer diagnosis is important to optimizing patient experiences and outcomes. The purposes of the study were to identify factors related to...

    Authors: Yan Yuan, Maoji Li, Jing Yang, Tracy Elliot, Kelly Dabbs, James A. Dickinson, Stacey Fisher and Marcy Winget
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:65
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  6. Rapid population ageing in China is increasing the numbers of older people who are likely to require health services in response to higher levels of poor perceived health and chronic diseases. Understanding fa...

    Authors: Cathy Honge Gong, Hal Kendig and Xiaojun He
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:63
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  7. Limited research exists on the process of applying knowledge translation (KT) methodology to a rural-based population health intervention.

    Authors: Elsa Dent, Elizabeth Hoon, Alison Kitson, Jonathan Karnon, Jonathan Newbury, Gillian Harvey, Tiffany K. Gill, Lauren Gillis and Justin Beilby
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:62
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  8. Assessing safety outcomes is critical to inform optimal scale-up of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) programs. Clinical trials demonstrated adverse event (AE) rates from 1.5 to 8 %, but we have limit...

    Authors: Pamela K. Kohler, Dorothy Namate, Scott Barnhart, Frank Chimbwandira, Beth A. Tippet-Barr, Tom Perdue, David A. Chilongozi, Lyson Tenthani, Oliver Phiri, Wezi Msungama, King K. Holmes and John N. Krieger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:61
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  9. Homelessness is associated with a very high prevalence of substance use and mental disorders and elevated levels of acute health service use. Among the homeless, little is known regarding the relative impact o...

    Authors: Angela Russolillo, Akm Moniruzzaman, Milad Parpouchi, Lauren B. Currie and Julian M. Somers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:60
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  11. Many people with mental distress are disadvantaged because care is not available or does not address their needs. In order to increase access to high quality primary mental health care for under-served groups,...

    Authors: Christopher Dowrick, Peter Bower, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Karina Lovell, Suzanne Edwards, Jonathan Lamb, Katie Bristow, Mark Gabbay, Heather Burroughs, Susan Beatty, Waquas Waheed, Mark Hann and Linda Gask
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:58
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  12. Understanding the perceptions and attitudes of physicians is important. This knowledge assists in the efforts to reduce the impact of their interactions with the pharmaceutical industry on clinical practice. I...

    Authors: Tamara Lotfi, Rami Z. Morsi, Mhd Hashem Rajabbik, Lina Alkhaled, Lara Kahale, Hala Nass, Hneine Brax, Racha Fadlallah and Elie A. Akl
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:57
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  13. Assessing the long-term cost of colorectal cancer (CRC) increases our understanding of the disease burden. The aim of this paper is to estimate the long-term costs of CRC care by stage at diagnosis and phase o...

    Authors: Julieta Corral, Xavier Castells, Eduard Molins, Pietro Chiarello, Josep Maria Borras and Francesc Cots
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:56
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  14. The implementation of the ACA has improved access to quality health insurance, a necessary first step to improving health outcomes. However, access must be supplemented by education to help individuals make in...

    Authors: Mary C. Politi, Abigail R. Barker, Kimberly A. Kaphingst, Timothy McBride, Enbal Shacham and Carey S. Kebodeaux
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:55
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  15. There is very little published work on the visual needs of homeless people. This paper is the first study to investigate the visual needs of homeless people in the UK. Although similar work has been done in ot...

    Authors: Penny J. D’Ath, Laura J. Keywood, Elaine C. Styles and Clare M. Wilson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:54
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  16. The integration of maternal mental health into primary health care has been advocated to reduce the mental health treatment gap in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This study reports findings of a cro...

    Authors: Emily C. Baron, Charlotte Hanlon, Sumaya Mall, Simone Honikman, Erica Breuer, Tasneem Kathree, Nagendra P. Luitel, Juliet Nakku, Crick Lund, Girmay Medhin, Vikram Patel, Inge Petersen, Sanjay Shrivastava and Mark Tomlinson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:53
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  17. Beliefs about substance use disorder (SUD) shape how patients, treatment professionals and the general public view addiction and its treatment. A U.S. developed scale exists to assess such beliefs, but it has ...

    Authors: John-Kåre Vederhus, Thomas Clausen and Keith Humphreys
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:52
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  18. Health systems aim to narrow inequality in access to health care across socioeconomic groups and area of residency. However, in low-income countries, studies are lacking that systematically monitor and evaluat...

    Authors: Solomon Tessema Memirie, Stéphane Verguet, Ole F. Norheim, Carol Levin and Kjell Arne Johansson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:51
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  19. The National Comprehensive Cancer Network and the American Society of Clinical Oncology have established guidelines for the treatment and surveillance of colorectal cancer (CRC), respectively. Considering thes...

    Authors: Eric A. Sherer, Deborah A. Fisher, Jeffrey Barnd, George L. Jackson, Dawn Provenzale and David A. Haggstrom
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:50
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  20. In view of the increasing pressure on the UK’s maternity units, new methods of labour induction are required to alleviate the burden on the National Health Service, while maintaining the quality of care for wo...

    Authors: T. Draycott, H. van der Nelson, C. Montouchet, L. Ruff and F. Andersson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:49
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  21. In healthcare research, results diffuse only slowly into clinical practice, and there is a need to bridge the gap between research and practice. This study elucidates how healthcare professionals in a hospital...

    Authors: Nanna Kristensen, Camilla Nymann and Hanne Konradsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:48
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  22. The study aims at investigating the characteristics and the satisfaction determinants of the emerging patient profile. This profile appears to be more demanding and “empowered” compared to the ones traditional...

    Authors: Luca Buccoliero, Elena Bellio, Maria Mazzola and Elisa Solinas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:47
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  23. 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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  24. With the development of information and communication technologies, telemedicine has been proposed as a way to improve patient management by facilitating access to appropriate diagnosis and treatment. The Pari...

    Authors: Nathanael Charrier, Kevin Zarca, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski and Christine Calinaud
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:45
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  25. To explore the factors predicting preventive behaviours among NHS dentists in Camden, Islington and Haringey in London, using constructs from the Theory of Planned Behaviour.

    Authors: Huda Yusuf, Anna Kolliakou, Antiopi Ntouva, Marie Murphy, Tim Newton, Georgios Tsakos and Richard G. Watt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:44
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  26. Antibiotic treatment options for common infections are diminishing due to the proliferation of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The impact of Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) programs seeking to preserve viable ...

    Authors: Alex Broom, Stefanie Plage, Jennifer Broom, Emma Kirby and Jon Adams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:43
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  27. To ensure equity and accessibility of public health care in rural areas, the Chinese central government has launched a series of policies to motivate village doctors to provide basic public health services. Us...

    Authors: Tongtong Li, Trudy Lei, Zheng Xie and Tuohong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:42
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  28. Hepatic steatosis confers an increased risk of metabolic and cardiovascular disease and higher health services use. Associations of the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) PNPLA3 rs738409 and TM6SF2 rs58542926 ...

    Authors: Julia Köpp, Steffen Fleßa, Wolfgang Lieb, Marcello Ricardo Paulista Markus, Alexander Teumer, Georg Homuth, Henri Wallaschofski, Paul Marschall, Henry Völzke and Sebastian Edgar Baumeister
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:41
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  29. Contemporary casemix systems for health services need to ensure that payment rates adequately account for actual resource consumption based on patients’ needs for services. It has been argued that functioning ...

    Authors: Maren Hopfe, Gerold Stucki, Ric Marshall, Conal D. Twomey, T. Bedirhan Üstün and Birgit Prodinger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:40
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  30. Community paramedicine programs have emerged throughout North America and beyond in response to demographic changes and health system reform. Our aim was to identify and analyse how community paramedics create...

    Authors: Peter O’Meara, Christine Stirling, Michel Ruest and Angela Martin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:39
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  31. Functional decline is common in nursing home residents. Nursing staff can help prevent this decline, by encouraging residents to be more active in functional activities. Questionnaires measuring the extent to ...

    Authors: Nienke O. Kuk, G. A. Rixt Zijlstra, Gerrie J. J. W. Bours, Jan P. H. Hamers and Gertrudis I. J. M. Kempen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:38
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  32. Guideline producers are increasingly producing versions of guidelines for the public, and knowledge of what the public want from them is also increasing. The aim of this study was to user test a patient versio...

    Authors: Naomi Fearns, Karen Graham, Gordon Johnston and Duncan Service
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:37
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  34. The aim of this study was to identify the characteristics of morbidity and mortality conferences (MMCs) associated with the implementation of patient health-care quality and safety improvement initiatives.

    Authors: Patrice François, Frédéric Prate, Gwenaëlle Vidal-Trecan, Jean-François Quaranta, José Labarere and Elodie Sellier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:35
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  35. Access to health care is a global public problem. In French Guiana, there exists social inequalities which are specially marked amongst immigrants who make up a third of the population. Health care inequalitie...

    Authors: Larissa Valmy, Barbara Gontier, Marie Claire Parriault, Astrid Van Melle, Thomas Pavlovsky, Célia Basurko, Claire Grenier, Maylis Douine, Antoine Adenis and Mathieu Nacher
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:34
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  36. Ten percent of non-sudden deaths in the Netherlands occur in inpatient hospice facilities. To investigate differences between patients who are admitted to inpatient hospice care or not following application, h...

    Authors: Emily West, H. Roeline Pasman, Cilia Galesloot, Martine Elizabeth Lokker and Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:33
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  37. Cambodia developed its public health system along the principles of the district model and geared its services towards managing communicable diseases and maternal and child health issues. In line with other co...

    Authors: Bart Jacobs, Peter Hill, Maryam Bigdeli and Cheanrithy Men
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:32
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  39. The National Essential Medicine System (NEMS) is a new policy launched by the Chinese government in 2009. The effects of its introduction have been widely investigated. However, little research has focused on ...

    Authors: Yan Song, Ying Bian and Lingui Li
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:30
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  40. The Queensland Spinal Cord Injuries Service (QSCIS) is a statewide service in Brisbane at the Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH). The QSCIS assists individuals with a spinal cord injury (SCI) through three serv...

    Authors: Eileen van de Pol, Karen Lucas, Timothy Geraghty, Kiley Pershouse, Sandra Harding, Sridhar Atresh, Annemarie Wagemakers and Anthony C. Smith
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:29
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  42. To further efforts to integrate mental health and primary care, this study develops a novel approach to quantifying the amount and sources of work involved in shifting care for common mental health problems to...

    Authors: Lawrence S. Wissow, Waleed Zafar, Kate Fothergill, Anne Ruble and Eric Slade
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 15:584
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  43. Shortened treatment regimens for tuberculosis are under development to improve treatment outcomes and reduce costs. We estimated potential savings from a societal perspective in Brazil following the introducti...

    Authors: Anete Trajman, Mayara Lisboa Bastos, Marcia Belo, Janaína Calaça, Júlia Gaspar, Alexandre Martins dos Santos, Camila Martins dos Santos, Raquel Trindade Brito, William A. Wells, Frank G. Cobelens, Anna Vassall and Gabriela B. Gomez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:27
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  44. For people who have a mobility impairment, access to an appropriate wheelchair is an important step towards social inclusion and participation. The World Health Organization Guidelines for the Provision of Man...

    Authors: Maria L. Toro, Chika Eke and Jonathan Pearlman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:26
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  45. Communication problems occur in general practice consultations when migrants and general practitioners do not share a common language and culture. Migrants’ perspectives have rarely been included in the develo...

    Authors: Mary O’Reilly-de Brún, Tomas de Brún, Ekaterina Okonkwo, Jean-Samuel Bonsenge-Bokanga, Maria Manuela De Almeida Silva, Florence Ogbebor, Aga Mierzejewska, Lovina Nnadi, Evelyn van Weel-Baumgarten, Chris van Weel, Maria van den Muijsenbergh and Anne MacFarlane
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:25
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  46. Inequalities in survival from colorectal cancer (CRC) across socioeconomic groups and by area of residence have been described in various health care settings. Few population-wide datasets which include clinic...

    Authors: Kerri R. Beckmann, Alice Bennett, Graeme P. Young, Stephen R. Cole, Rohit Joshi, Jacqui Adams, Nimit Singhal, Christos Karapetis, David Wattchow and David Roder
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:24
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  47. Systematic reviews of cost-effectiveness analyses summarize results and describe study characteristics. Variability in the study results is often explained qualitatively or based on sensitivity analyses of ind...

    Authors: Laura T. Burgers, Fleur T. van de Wetering, Johan L. Severens and W. Ken Redekop
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:23
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  48. General practitioners (GPs) play an important role in end-of-life care due to their proximity to the patient’s dwelling-place and their contact to relatives and other care providers.

    Authors: Rieke Schnakenberg, Adrian Goeldlin, Christina Boehm-Stiel, Markus Bleckwenn, Klaus Weckbecker and Lukas Radbruch
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:22
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  49. Caring for people with dementia living in their own homes is a challenging care issue that raises ethical dilemmas of how to balance autonomy with their safety and well-being. The theoretical framework for thi...

    Authors: Kari Lislerud Smebye, Marit Kirkevold and Knut Engedal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:21
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  50. E-mental health is a promising medium to keep mental health affordable and accessible. For consumers with severe mental illness the evidence of the effectiveness of e-health is limited. A number of difficultie...

    Authors: Titus A. A. Beentjes, Betsie G. I. van Gaal, Peter J. J. Goossens and Lisette Schoonhoven
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:20
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