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  1. Continuity of care has been explored largely from academic and service provider perspectives, and in relation to adult patient/client groups. We interviewed parents of children with complex chronic health cond...

    Authors: Anton R Miller, Christopher J Condin, William H McKellin, Nicola Shaw, Anne F Klassen and Sam Sheps
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:242
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  2. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a serious public health problem in Taiwan and the world. The most effective, affordable treatments involve early prevention/detection/intervention, requiring screening. Successf...

    Authors: Deng-Juin Lin, Ya-Hsin Li, Jar-Yuan Pai, Ing-Cheau Sheu, Robert Glen, Ming-Jen Chou and Ching-Yi Lee
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:239
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  3. Nowadays, new organisational strategies should be indentified to improve primary care and its link with secondary care in terms of efficacy and timeliness of interventions thus preventing unnecessary hospital ...

    Authors: Paolo Zanaboni, Simonetta Scalvini, Palmira Bernocchi, Gabriella Borghi, Caterina Tridico and Cristina Masella
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:238
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  4. Accurately indentifying heart failure (HF) patients from administrative claims data is useful for both research and quality of care efforts. Yet, there are few comparisons of the various claims data criteria (...

    Authors: Fadi Alqaisi, L Keoki Williams, Edward L Peterson and David E Lanfear
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:237
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  5. Body mass index (BMI) will be a reportable health measure in the United States (US) through implementation of Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) guidelines. We evaluated current document...

    Authors: Stephanie A Rose, Alexander Turchin, Richard W Grant and James B Meigs
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:236
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  6. Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines support clinical decision-making by making recommendations to guide clinical practice. These recommendations are developed by integrating the expertise of a multidis...

    Authors: Tari J Turner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:235
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  7. The context of healthcare organizations such as hospitals is increasingly accepted as having the potential to influence the use of new knowledge. However, the mechanisms by which the organizational context inf...

    Authors: Carole A Estabrooks, Janet E Squires, Greta G Cummings, Judy M Birdsell and Peter G Norton
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:234
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  8. Hearing impairment is the most common body system disability in veterans. In 2008, nearly 520,000 veterans had a disability for hearing loss through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Changes in eligibil...

    Authors: Margaret P Collins, Pamela E Souza, Chuan-Fen Liu, Patrick J Heagerty, Dagmar Amtmann and Bevan Yueh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:233
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  10. Previous evidence indicates potential variation in the quality of care of cancer patients. We aimed to examine whether recent changes in the treatment of oesophagogastric cancers have been distributed equally ...

    Authors: Georgios Lyratzopoulos, Josephine M Barbiere, Chetna Gajperia, Michael Rhodes, David C Greenberg and Karen A Wright
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:231
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  11. Since 2003, the number of pilot areas of the New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NRCMS) has increased in rural China. And the major efforts have been concentrated on the enrollment of prospective members. In...

    Authors: Xilong Pan, Ying Zhang, Li Xu, Ju Huang and Qianqian Zhao
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:230
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  12. Patient experience is commonly monitored in evaluating and improving health care, but the experience of carers (partners/relatives/friends) is rarely monitored even though the role of carers can often be subst...

    Authors: Paul Sinfield, Richard Baker, Carolyn Tarrant, Shona Agarwal, Andrew M Colman, William Steward, Roger Kockelbergh and John K Mellon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:229
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  13. Polypharmacy is regarded as an important risk factor for fallingand several studies and meta-analyses have shown an increased fall risk in users of diuretics, type 1a antiarrhythmics, digoxin and psychotropic ...

    Authors: Federico Baranzini, Marcello Diurni, Francesca Ceccon, Nicola Poloni, Sara Cazzamalli, Chiara Costantini, Cristiano Colli, Laura Greco and Camilla Callegari
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:228
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  14. Analyses of utilization trends (cost drivers) allow us to understand changes in colorectal cancer (CRC) costs over time, better predict future costs, identify changes in the use of specific types of care (eg, ...

    Authors: Kathleen Lang, Lisa M Lines, David W Lee, Jonathan R Korn, Craig C Earle and Joseph Menzin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:227
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  15. Common mental health problems impose substantial challenges to patients, carers, and health care systems. A range of interventions have demonstrable efficacy in improving the lives of people experiencing such ...

    Authors: Christopher Dowrick, Linda Gask, Suzanne Edwards, Saadia Aseem, Peter Bower, Heather Burroughs, Amy Catlin, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Pam Clarke, Mark Gabbay, Simon Gowers, Derek Hibbert, Marija Kovandzic, Jonathan Lamb, Karina Lovell, Anne Rogers…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:226
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  16. The immigrant population has increased greatly in Spain in recent years to the point where immigrants made up 12% of the infant population in 2008. There is little information available on the profile of this ...

    Authors: Luís A Gimeno-Feliu, Javier Armesto-Gómez, Rosa Macipe-Costa and Rosa Magallón-Botaya
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:225
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  17. This paper presents a Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) model for designing the layout of the Intensive Care Units' (ICUs) patient care space. In particular, this MIP model was developed for optimizing the layou...

    Authors: Javier Sánchez Alejo, Modoaldo Garrido Martín, Miguel Ortega-Mier and Álvaro García-Sánchez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:224
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  18. This study analyzed the likelihood of less-urgent emergency department (ED) visits among type 2 diabetic patients receiving care under a diabetes disease management (DM) program offered by the Louisiana State ...

    Authors: Shang-Jyh Chiou, Claudia Campbell, Ronald Horswell, Leann Myers and Richard Culbertson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:223
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  19. Although primary care should be the cornerstone of medical practice, inappropriate use of urgent care for non-urgent patients is a growing problem that has significant economic and healthcare consequences. The...

    Authors: David R Scott, Holly A Batal, Sharon Majeres, Jill C Adams, Rita Dale and Philip S Mehler
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:222
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  20. Specialist physicians provide a large share of outpatient health care for children and adolescents in the United States, but little is known about the nature and content of these services in the ambulatory set...

    Authors: Jose M Valderas, Barbara Starfield, Christopher B Forrest, Luis Rajmil, Martin Roland and Bonnie Sibbald
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:221
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  21. The Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg have adopted laws decriminalizing euthanasia under strict conditions of prudent practice. These laws stipulate, among other things, that the attending physician should ...

    Authors: Yanna Van Wesemael, Joachim Cohen, Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Johan Bilsen and Luc Deliens
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:220
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  22. Patients regard health care professionals as role models for leading a healthy lifestyle. Health care professionals' own behaviour and attitudes concerning healthy lifestyle have an influence in counselling pa...

    Authors: Karen Voigt, Sabine Twork, Dirk Mittag, Anne Göbel, Roger Voigt, Jörg Klewer, Joachim Kugler, Stefan R Bornstein and Antje Bergmann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:219
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  23. Relatively little research attention has been given to the development of standardised and psychometrically sound scales for measuring influences relevant to the utilisation of health services. This study aims...

    Authors: Jianzhen Zhang, Brian Oldenburg and Gavin Turrell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:218
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  24. Population aging poses significant challenges to primary care providers and healthcare policy makers. Primary care reform can alleviate the pressures, but these initiatives require clinical benchmarks and evid...

    Authors: Ketan Vegda, Jason X Nie, Li Wang, C Shawn Tracy, Rahim Moineddin and Ross EG Upshur
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:217
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  26. Alzheimer's disease is the leading cause of dementia and affects about 25 million people worldwide. Recent studies have evaluated the effect of early interventions for dementia, but few studies have considered...

    Authors: Rikke Søgaard, Jan Sørensen, Frans B Waldorff, Ane Eckermann, Dorthe V Buss and Gunhild Waldemar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:215
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  27. As one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the Pearl River Delta of South China, Shenzhen attracts millions of migrant workers annually. The objectives of this study were to compare health needs, self-r...

    Authors: Jin Mou, Jinquan Cheng, Dan Zhang, Hanping Jiang, Liangqiang Lin and Sian M Griffiths
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:214
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  28. The HIV epidemic poses significant challenges to the low income countries in sub Saharan Africa (SSA), affecting the attrition rate among health care workers, their level of motivation, and absenteeism from wo...

    Authors: Anne N Åstrøm and Elwalid F Nasir
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:213
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  30. In the Netherlands, pregnant women without medical complications can decide where they want to give birth, at home or in a short-stay hospital setting with a midwife. However, a decrease in the home birth rate...

    Authors: Marijke JC Hendrix, Silvia MAA Evers, Marloes CM Basten, Jan G Nijhuis and Johan L Severens
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:211
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  31. Cross-national comparable data on migrants' use of healthcare services are important to address problems in access to healthcare; to identify high risk groups for prevention efforts; and to evaluate healthcare...

    Authors: Signe Smith Nielsen, Allan Krasnik and Aldo Rosano
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:210
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  32. Strategies adopted by health administrations and directed towards drug cost control in primary care (PC) can, according to earlier studies, generate tension between health administrators and healthcare profess...

    Authors: Alexandra Prados-Torres, Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Antoni Sicras-Mainar, Sebastià March-Llull and Bárbara Oliván-Blázquez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:209
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  34. In 1997 Hong Kong reunified with China and the development of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) started with this change in national identity. However, the two latest discussion papers on Hong Kong's healthca...

    Authors: Vincent CH Chung, Chun Hong Lau, Eng Kiong Yeoh and Sian Meryl Griffiths
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:207
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  35. Implementing quality improvement programs that require behavior change on the part of health care professionals and patients has proven difficult in routine care. Significant randomized trial evidence supports...

    Authors: David A Ganz, Elizabeth M Yano, Debra Saliba and Paul G Shekelle
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:206
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  36. Geriatric health is a neglected and under-explored area internationally and in Pakistan. We aimed to ascertain the expectations of the geriatric patients from their physicians and the factors associated with p...

    Authors: Taimur Saleem, Umair Khalid and Waris Qidwai
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:205
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  37. Oesophago-gastric cancer services in England have been extensively reorganised since 2001 to deliver a centralised, specialist-led service. Our aim was to assess how well the National Health Service (NHS) in E...

    Authors: Thomas R Palser, David A Cromwell, Richard H Hardwick, Stuart A Riley, Kimberley Greenaway, William Allum and Jan HP van der Meulen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:204
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  38. Diagnosis and treatment of cancer can contribute to psychological distress and anxiety amongst patients. Evidence indicates that information giving can be beneficial in reducing patient anxiety, so oncology sp...

    Authors: Raymond Chan, Joan Webster and Linda Bennett
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:203
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  39. Decreases in length of stay (LOS) in hospital after breast cancer surgery can be partly attributed to the change to less radical surgery, but many other factors are operating at the patient, surgeon and hospit...

    Authors: Amy Downing, Mark Lansdown, Robert M West, James D Thomas, Gill Lawrence and David Forman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:202
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  40. Widespread adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) is a key strategy to meet the challenges facing health systems internationally of increasing demands, rising costs, limited resources and...

    Authors: Johanna I Westbrook, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Kathryn Gibson, Richard Paoloni, Joanne Callen, Andrew Georgiou, Nerida Creswick and Louise Robertson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:201
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  41. Several methodological approaches have been used to estimate distance in health service research. In this study, focusing on cardiac catheterization services, Euclidean, Manhattan, and the less widely known Mi...

    Authors: Rizwan Shahid, Stefania Bertazzon, Merril L Knudtson and William A Ghali
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:200
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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