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  1. Private health insurance in South Korea mainly functions as supplementary and complementary health insurance that compensates for insufficient coverage by National Health Insurance. However, full private cover...

    Authors: Young Choi, Jae-Hyun Kim, Ki-Bong Yoo, Kyoung Hee Cho, Jae-Woo Choi, Tae Hoon Lee, Woorim Kim and Eun-Cheol Park
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:489
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  2. As economic considerations become more important in healthcare reimbursement, decisions about the further development of medical innovations need to take into account not only medical need and potential clinic...

    Authors: Alina Brandes, Moritz F. Sinner, Stefan Kääb and Wolf H. Rogowski
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:486
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  3. Pulse oximetry could potentially contribute to self-monitoring. NHS Lothian’s ‘Light Touch’ service provided COPD patients with a self-management plan based on symptoms and oximetry. The service was overseen (...

    Authors: Michele MacNab, Siew Hwa Lee, Lucy McCloughan, Janet Hanley, Brian McKinstry and Hilary Pinnock
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:485
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  4. Although hemophilia has a potentially high economic impact, there are no published estimates of healthcare costs for this disease in Portugal. The aim of this study was to evaluate costs of treatment and hospi...

    Authors: Patrícia Rocha, Manuela Carvalho, Manuela Lopes and Fernando Araújo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:484
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  5. Diabetes mellitus is a public health challenge worldwide, and roughly 25 % of patients with diabetes in developing countries will develop at least one foot ulcer during their lifetime. The gravest outcome of a...

    Authors: María Kathia Cárdenas, Andrew J. Mirelman, Cooper J. Galvin, María Lazo-Porras, Miguel Pinto, J. Jaime Miranda and Robert H. Gilman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:483
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  6. The existence and magnitude of socio-economic inequalities in health-seeking behaviours for child curative care in Egypt and mechanisms underlying these associations have not been comprehensively assessed. Thi...

    Authors: Lenka Benova, Oona M. R. Campbell and George B. Ploubidis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:482
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  7. There is little evidence as to why or why not insurees decide to seek medical services. Steps prior to the entry of the insuree into the professional health care system have not been sufficiently examined and ...

    Authors: Julia Eckert, Marcel Lichters, Silke Piedmont, Bodo Vogt and Bernt-Peter Robra
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:481
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  8. The national strategy for treatment of chronic diseases - including MS - and changes in the Swedish welfare system, call for analyses of the use of, and patient satisfaction with, care in a long-term perspecti...

    Authors: Charlotte Chruzander, Sverker Johansson, Kristina Gottberg, Ulrika Einarsson, Jan Hillert, Lotta Widén Holmqvist and Charlotte Ytterberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:480
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  9. Over the past two decades, mental health reform in Australia has received unprecedented government attention. This study explored how five policy levers (organisation, regulation, community education, finance ...

    Authors: Francesca C. Grace, Carla S. Meurk, Brian W. Head, Wayne D. Hall, Georgia Carstensen, Meredith G. Harris and Harvey A. Whiteford
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:479
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  10. As the overwhelming surgical burden of injury and disease steadily increases, disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries, adequate surgical and trauma care systems are essential. Yet, little...

    Authors: Marquise Kouo-Ngamby, Fanny Nadia Dissak-Delon, Isabelle Feldhaus, Catherine Juillard, Kent A. Stevens and Martin Ekeke-Monono
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:478
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  11. Overall, men are less likely than women to seek health care services for mental health problems, but differences between genders in higher age groups are equivocal. The aim of the current study was to investig...

    Authors: Anne Helen Hansen and Anne Høye
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:477
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  12. Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global public health problem which affects poorest individuals the worst. A high proportion of patients incur ‘catastrophic costs’ which have been shown to result in severe financi...

    Authors: Jason Madan, Knut Lönnroth, Samia Laokri and Stephen Bertel Squire
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:476
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  13. Patient participation is an important aspect of healthcare quality and may be one way to improve the quality of transitional care for older patients. Research reveals minimal awareness about patient participat...

    Authors: Dagrunn Nåden Dyrstad, Ingelin Testad and Marianne Storm
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:475
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  14. Although chiropractors in the United States (US) have long suggested that their approach to managing spine pain is less costly than other health care providers (HCPs), it is unclear if available evidence suppo...

    Authors: Simon Dagenais, O’Dane Brady, Scott Haldeman and Pran Manga
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:474
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  15. In the last decade, almost every low- or middle-income country in the world has expressed support for universal health coverage (UHC). While at the beginning of the UHC movement, country strategies focused on ...

    Authors: Sarah Alkenbrack, Kara Hanson and Magnus Lindelow
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:473
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  16. Potentially preventable hospital admission (an admission deemed to be potentially preventable given appropriate care in the community-based healthcare setting) has been a topic of international research attent...

    Authors: Jo M. Longman, Megan E. Passey, Dan P. Ewald, Elizabeth Rix and Geoffrey G. Morgan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:472
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  17. It is expected that, by 2020, 15 million new cases of cancer will occur every year in the world, one million of them in Africa. Knowledge of cancer trends in African countries is far from adequate, and improve...

    Authors: Lygia Vieira Lopes, Fernando Miguel, Helga Freitas, António Tavares, Salvador Pangui, Clara Castro, Gonçalo Forjaz Lacerda, Adhemar Longatto-Filho, Elisabete Weiderpass and Lúcio Lara Santos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:471
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  18. National Health Service (NHS) trusts, which provide the majority of hospital and community health services to the English NHS, are increasingly adopting a ‘public firm’ model with a board consisting of executi...

    Authors: Rod Sheaff, Ruth Endacott, Ray Jones and Val Woodward
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:470
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  19. The government of Ghana introduced the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2003 through an Act of Parliament (Act 650) as a strategy to improve financial access to quality basic health care services. Al...

    Authors: Cornelius Debpuur, Maxwell Ayindenaba Dalaba, Samuel Chatio, Martin Adjuik and Patricia Akweongo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:469
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. Research capacity is a prerequisite for any health care institution intending to provide high-quality care, yet, few clinicians engage in research, and their work is rarely recognized. To make research an inst...

    Authors: Caterina Caminiti, Elisa Iezzi, Caterina Ghetti, Gianluigi De’ Angelis and Carlo Ferrari
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:468
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  21. Resource scarcity in health care is a universal challenge. In high-income settings, bedside rationing is commonly discussed and debated as a means to addressing scarcity. However, little is known about physici...

    Authors: Frehiwot Berhane Defaye, Dawit Desalegn, Marion Danis, Samia Hurst, Yemane Berhane, Ole Frithjof Norheim and Ingrid Miljeteig
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:467
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  23. Some people have a lower threshold to seek care for certain symptoms than others. This study aims to investigate what factors are associated with patients’ propensity to seek care. In addition, this study expl...

    Authors: Tessa van Loenen, Michael J. van den Berg, Marjan J. Faber and Gert P. Westert
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:465
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  24. Myanmar and Thailand belong to the top 22 high burden countries for tuberculosis (TB). Health care organizations play an essential role in addressing TB control in the two bridging border jurisdictions, Tak pr...

    Authors: Aiko Kaji, Sein Sein Thi, Terrence Smith, Prakaykaew Charunwatthana and Francois H. Nosten
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:464
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  25. 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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  26. Compliance with surgical checklist use remains an obstacle in the context of checklist implementation programs. The theory of planned behaviour was applied to analyse attitudes, perceived behaviour control, an...

    Authors: Anna C. Mascherek, Katrin Gehring, Paula Bezzola and David L. B. Schwappach
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:462
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  27. Emergency Neonatal Care (EmNC) is an important service for the health and survival of newborns. The objective of our study was to assess the availability of emergency neonatal care services in the north-easter...

    Authors: Prem K. Mony, Krishnamurthy Jayanna, Swarnarekha Bhat, Suman V Rao, Maryann Crockett, Lisa Avery, BM Ramesh, Stephen Moses and James Blanchard
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:461
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  28. Support with managing medicines at home is a common reason for older people to receive community nursing services. With population ageing and projected nurse shortages, reliance on nurses may not be sustainabl...

    Authors: Cik Yin Lee, Christine Beanland, Dianne Goeman, Ann Johnson, Juliet Thorn, Susan Koch and Rohan A. Elliott
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:460
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  29. The National Health and Family Planning Commission of China has issued more than 400 clinical pathways to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of medical care delivered by public hospitals in China. The ai...

    Authors: Xiao Yan He, M. Kate Bundorf, Jian Jun Gu, Ping Zhou and Di Xue
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:459
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  30. Elderly migrants who do not speak the official language of their host country have increased due to extensive international migration, and will further increase in the future. This entails major challenges to ...

    Authors: Emina Hadziabdic, Christina Lundin and Katarina Hjelm
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:458
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  31. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) has a significant impact on communities and systems such as health, education, justice and social services. FASD is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder that results in ...

    Authors: Paul Masotti, Sally Longstaffe, Holly Gammon, Jill Isbister, Breann Maxwell and Ana Hanlon-Dearman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:457
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  32. The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) provides aeromedical care to patients during fixed-wing transport over vast distances to healthcare unavailable in rural or remote communities. This study examined the re...

    Authors: Matthew T. Haren, John Setchell, David L. John and Mark Daniel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:456
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  33. Within the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS), Referral Centers (RCs) are care facilities that provide specialized services. The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of care provided to pati...

    Authors: Indara C. Saccilotto, Rosane Isabel Bittencourt, Camila C. Fischer, Amanda Quevedo, Vania N. Hirakata and Paulo D. Picon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:455
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  34. Worldwide, rural communities face barriers when accessing health services. In response, numerous initiatives have focused on fostering technological innovations, new management approaches and health policies. ...

    Authors: Cynthia Fiorella Anticona Huaynate, Monica Jehnny Pajuelo Travezaño, Malena Correa, Holger Mayta Malpartida, Richard Oberhelman, Laura L Murphy and Valerie A Paz-Soldan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:454
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  35. The majority of patients with prostate cancer (International Classification of Diseases, 10th edition, code C61) are elderly. With Japan’s rapidly society aging, both the prevalence and mortality of prostate c...

    Authors: Takefumi Kitazawa, Kunichika Matsumoto, Shigeru Fujita, Kanako Seto, Shimpei Hanaoka and Tomonori Hasegawa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:453
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  36. Every day, globally approximately a thousand women and girls needlessly die as a result of complications during pregnancy, childbirth or the 6 weeks following delivery. The majority of maternal deaths are avoi...

    Authors: Muna Hassan Mustafa and Abdel Moniem Mukhtar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:452
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  37. Integration of HIV into RMNCH (reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health) services is an important process addressing the disproportionate burden of HIV among mothers and children in sub-Saharan Africa....

    Authors: Selena J. An, Asha S. George, Amnesty E. LeFevre, Rose Mpembeni, Idda Mosha, Diwakar Mohan, Ann Yang, Joy Chebet, Chrisostom Lipingu, Abdullah H. Baqui, Japhet Killewo, Peter J. Winch and Charles Kilewo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:451
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  39. Provider misconceptions and biases about contraceptive methods are major barriers to family planning access for women in low- and middle-income countries, including Jordan. Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) progra...

    Authors: Marianne El-Khoury, Rebecca Thornton, Minki Chatterji and Soon Kyu Choi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:449
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  40. Integrating health care across specialized work units has the potential to lower costs and increase quality and access to mental health care. However, a key challenge for healthcare managers is how to develop ...

    Authors: Justin K. Benzer, Irene E. Cramer, James F. Burgess Jr, David C. Mohr, Jennifer L. Sullivan and Martin P. Charns
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:448
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. The howRu and howRwe are new short questionnaires which are meant to measure health-related quality of life and patient experience. However, validation at the individual patient level has not yet taken place. ...

    Authors: Steven H. Hendriks, Jojanneke Rutgers, Peter R. van Dijk, Klaas H. Groenier, Henk J. G. Bilo, Nanne Kleefstra, Janwillem W. H. Kocks, Kornelis J. J. van Hateren and Marco H. Blanker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:447
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. An understanding of public financial flows to reproductive health (RH) at the country level is key to assessing the extent to which they correspond to political commitments. This is especially relevant for low...

    Authors: Claire Chaumont, Carmen Muhorane, Isabelle Moreira-Burgos, Ndereye Juma and Leticia Avila-Burgos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:446
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  43. Studies have shown that community and neighborhood characteristics can impact health outcomes of those with chronic illness, including T2DM. Factors, such as crime, violence, and lack of resources have been sh...

    Authors: Brittany L. Smalls, Chris M. Gregory, James S. Zoller and Leonard E. Egede
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:445
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  44. Faecal incontinence is a common, distressing and debilitating condition which remains largely hidden, leading to social isolation and loss of confidence. Patients with faecal incontinence experience delays in ...

    Authors: Craig John Rimmer, Kathryn Ann Gill, Sheila Greenfield and George Dowswell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:444
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Despite widespread documentation of racial/ethnic disparities in care (predominantly under-use of needed care), differences in population-wide attitudes or experiences about under- or overuse (care where harms...

    Authors: Nancy R. Kressin and Meng-Yun Lin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:443
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Several African and South Asian countries are currently investing in new cadres of community health workers (CHWs) as a major part of strategies aimed at reaching the Millennium Development Goals. However, one...

    Authors: Yoshito Kawakatsu, Tomohiko Sugishita, Junya Tsutsui, Kennedy Oruenjo, Stephen Wakhule, Kennedy Kibosia, Eric Were and Sumihisa Honda
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:442
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. By examining 2013 County Health Rankings and Roadmaps data from the University of Wisconsin and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this paper seeks to add to the available literature on health variances between ...

    Authors: Timothy J. Anderson, Daniel M. Saman, Martin S. Lipsky and M. Nawal Lutfiyya
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:441
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  48. We aimed to get better insight into the development of the variation in length of stay (LOS) between and within hospitals over time, in order to assess the room for efficiency improvement in hospital care.

    Authors: Aart R. van de Vijsel, Richard Heijink and Maarten Schipper
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:438
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  49. For the past two decades, chlamydia has been the most commonly notified infectious disease among young people (15–29 year olds) in Australia, the United States of America and the United Kingdom and rates have ...

    Authors: Simon Graham, Rebecca J. Guy, James S. Ward, John Kaldor, Basil Donovan, Janet Knox, Debbie McCowen, Patricia Bullen, Julie Booker, Chris O’Brien, Kristine Garrett and Handan C. Wand
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:437
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  50. Similar to other countries in the region, South Africa is currently reorienting a loosely structured and highly diverse community care system that evolved around HIV and TB, into a formalized, comprehensive an...

    Authors: Helen Schneider, Nikki Schaay, Lilian Dudley, Charlyn Goliath and Tobeka Qukula
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:436
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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