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  1. Leadership styles have often been proven to support employees in performing their duties better and with more efficiency while enabling them to have extended organizational tenures. Staff nurses are an essenti...

    Authors: Surabhila Pattali, Jayendira P. Sankar, Haitham Al Qahtani, Nidhi Menon and Shabana Faizal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:199
  2. The effectiveness of anastrozole for breast cancer prevention has been demonstrated. The objective of this study was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of anastrozole for the prevention of breast cancer in wom...

    Authors: XiaoXia Wei, Jiaqin Cai, Huiting Lin, Wenhua Wu, Jie Zhuang and Hong Sun
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:198
  3. Medical services are among the most urgent needs of the disaster-affected population. Consequently, hospital preparedness -as the main health services provider- is one of the vital factors in effective respons...

    Authors: Behrouz Samei, Javad Babaie, Jafar Sadegh Tabrizi, Homayoun Sadeghi-bazargani, Saber Azami Aghdash, Naser Derakhshani and Ramin Rezapour
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:197
  4. The United States envisions a 90% reduction in HIV infections by 2030. However, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the HIV continuum and disproportionately affected access to social and health services for people...

    Authors: Rogério M. Pinto, Evan Hall, Vitalis Im, Carol A. Lee and Sunggeun (Ethan) Park
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:196
  5. To assess the barriers and facilitators associated with upscaling the Transmural Trauma Care Model (TTCM), a multidisciplinary and patient‐centred transmural rehabilitation care model.

    Authors: Julia Ratter, Suzanne Wiertsema, Ilham Ettahiri, Robin Mulder, Anne Grootjes, Julia Kee, Marianne Donker, Edwin Geleijn, Vincent de Groot, Raymond W. J. G. Ostelo, Frank W. Bloemers and Johanna M. van Dongen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:195
  6. Family doctor contract policy is now run by the State Council as an important move to promote the hierarchical medical system. Whether the family doctor contract policy achieves the initial government’s goal s...

    Authors: Xin Rao, Li Luo and Xingyue Wang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:194
  7. Authors: Vanessa Seijas, Roxanne Maritz, Satish Mishra, Renaldo M Bernard, Patricia Fernandes, Viola Lorenz, Barbara Machado, Ana María Posada, Luz Helena Lugo‑Agudelo, Jerome Bickenbach and Carla Sabariego
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:193

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  8. Despite evidence supporting the effectiveness of prehabilitation as a new preoperative care pathway to optimise perioperative outcomes, its implementation into routine health care is widely pending. Frail pati...

    Authors: Anna Frederike Sontag, Jörn Kiselev, Stefan J Schaller, Claudia Spies and Tanja Rombey
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:192
  9. Recent investment in UK liaison psychiatry services has focused on expanding provision for acute and emergency referrals. Little is known about the experiences of users and providers of these services. The aim...

    Authors: Daniel Romeu, Elspeth Guthrie, Sonia Saraiva, Carolyn Czoski-Murray, Jenny Hewison and Allan House
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:191
  10. The unique life situations of older patients with cancer and their family members requires that health care professionals take a holistic approach to achieve quality care. The aim of this study was to assess t...

    Authors: Minna Launonen, Katri Vehviläinen-Julkunen, Santtu Mikkonen and Tarja Kvist
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:190
  11. This study aimed to achieve expert consensus regarding key items to be addressed by non-clinical operators using computer-software integrated medical dispatch protocols to manage out-of-hours telephone triage ...

    Authors: Farah Islam, Pieter Heeren, Kelu Yang, Koen Milisen and Marc Sabbe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:189
  12. Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is an emerging public health issue, leading to severe visual impairment or blindness. Early identification and prompt treatment play a key role in achieving good visual outcomes. The ...

    Authors: Binita Bhattarai, Hari Bahadur Thapa, Sandip Bashyal, Sarasawati Khadka Thapa, Sirshendu Chaudhuri, Varun Agiwal, Hira Pant, Samiksha Singh and Hemant Mahajan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:188
  13. User involvement and participation in the supervision of the quality of care is an important topic for many healthcare inspectorates. It offers regulators an additional view on quality, increases the legitimac...

    Authors: Sophia M. Kleefstra, Brenda J.M. Frederiks, Adriënne Tingen and Petra G.J. Reulings
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:187
  14. For adults living with HIV (ALHIV) and comorbidities, access to comprehensive healthcare services is crucial to achieving optimal health outcomes. This study aims to describe lived experiences, challenges, and...

    Authors: Theresia A. Ottaru, Christine V. Wood, Zeeshan Butt, Claudia Hawkins, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, Peter Karoli, Elizabeth H. Shayo, Emmy Metta, Pilly Chillo, Hellen Siril and Gideon P. Kwesigabo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:186
  15. Over time, Uganda has experienced high levels of maternal mortality (435 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2006 to 336 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2016). The persistence of high levels of maternal mortal...

    Authors: Moses Festo Towongo, Enock Ngome, Kannan Navaneetham and Gobopamang Letamo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:185
  16. Climate change is seen as the biggest health threat of the twenty-first century. Making outpatient medical practices resilient is therefore crucial to protect vulnerable groups and maintain quality of care. Aw...

    Authors: Nicola Alexandra Litke, Regina Poß-Doering, Valeska Fehrer, Martina Köppen, Stephanie Kümmel, Joachim Szecsenyi and Michel Wensing
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:184
  17. The success of collaborative quality improvement (QI) projects in healthcare depends on the context and engagement of health teams; however, the factors that modulate teams’ motivation to participate in these ...

    Authors: Eliane Pereira da Silva, Pedro Jesus Saturno-Hernández, Marise Reis de Freitas and Zenewton André da Silva Gama
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:183
  18. Critical illness is a state of ill health with vital organ dysfunction, a high risk of imminent death if care is not provided and potential for reversibility. The burden of critical illness is high, especially...

    Authors: Karima Khalid, Carl Otto Schell, Jacquie Oliwa, Mike English, Onesmus Onyango, Jacob Mcknight, Elibariki Mkumbo, Khamis Awadh, John Maiba and Tim Baker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:182
  19. Local health protection systems play a crucial role in infectious disease prevention and control and were critical to COVID-19 pandemic responses. Despite this vital function, few studies have explored the liv...

    Authors: Suzanne Rotheram, Stephen Clayton, Ian Buchan, Sam Ghebrehewet and Ben Barr
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:181
  20. Improving screening and triage practices is essential for early severity assessments at the first point of contact and ensuring timely attention by healthcare workers (HCWs). The main objective of this study w...

    Authors: Bipin Adhikari, Lava Shrestha, Manjita Bajracharya, Nishika Aryal, Anuja Rajbhandari, Ramesh K. Maharjan, Santa K. Das, Jyotshna Sapkota, Kevin K. A. Tetteh and Debashish Das
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:180
  21. Opioid-involved overdose deaths continue to rise in the US, despite availability of highly effective treatments for opioid use disorder (OUD), in part due to the insufficient number of treatment providers. Bar...

    Authors: Amesika N. Nyaku, Erin A. Zerbo, Clement Chen, Nicole Milano, Barbara Johnston, Randall Chadwick, Stephanie Marcello, Kaitlan Baston, Rachel Haroz and Stephen Crystal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:179
  22. The aim of this systematic review was to examine the relationship between strategies to improve care delivery for older adults in ED and evaluation measures of patient outcomes, patient experience, staff exper...

    Authors: Luke Testa, Lieke Richardson, Colleen Cheek, Theresa Hensel, Elizabeth Austin, Mariam Safi, Natália Ransolin, Ann Carrigan, Janet Long, Karen Hutchinson, Magali Goirand, Mia Bierbaum, Felicity Bleckly, Peter Hibbert, Kate Churruca and Robyn Clay-Williams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:178

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:304

  23. Electronic clinical decision-making support systems (eCDSS) aim to assist clinicians making complex patient management decisions and improve adherence to evidence-based guidelines. Integrated management of Chi...

    Authors: C. Horwood, L. Haskins, S. Mapumulo, C. Connolly, S. Luthuli, C. Jensen, D. Pansegrouw and N. McKerrow
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:177
  24. This study aimed to identify strategies for the implementation of a guided internet- and mobile-based intervention (IMI) for infant sleep problems (“Sleep Well, Little Sweetheart”) in well-baby and community ment...

    Authors: Filip Drozd, Hege Pettersen Sandtrø, Turid Skjerve Leksbø, Silje Marie Haga, Heidi Jacobsen and Hege Therese Størksen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:175
  25. Oral health care is essential, and digital training may influence healthcare professionals’ attitudes to and knowledge of oral health. The aim, therefore, was to evaluate the impact on attitudes to and knowled...

    Authors: Maria Snogren, Kristina Ek, Maria Browall, Irene Eriksson and Ulrika Lindmark
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:174
  26. Pressure injury is a severe problem that can significantly impact a patient’s health, quality of life, and healthcare expenses. The prevalence of pressure injuries is a widely used clinical indicator of patien...

    Authors: Talal ALFadhalah, Marjan Lari, Gheed Al Salem, Shaimaa Ali, Hamad Al Kharji and Hossam Elamir
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:173
  27. Qualitative social research has made valuable contributions to understanding technology-based interventions in global health. However, we have little evidence of who is carrying out this research, where, how, ...

    Authors: Janet Perkins, Sarah Nelson, Emma Birley, Emilie Mcswiggan, Marshall Dozier, Anna McCarthy, Nadege Atkins, Eldad Agyei-Manu, Jasmin Rostron, Koichi Kameda, Ann Kelly, Clare Chandler and Alice Street
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:172
  28. Severe events during the perinatal period can be experienced as traumatic by pregnant women, their partners or others who are closely involved. This includes maternity care providers who can be affected by bei...

    Authors: Marianne Nieuwenhuijze, Patricia Leahy-Warren, Maria Healy, Songül Aktaş, Ruveyde Aydin, Jean Calleja-Agius, Josefina Goberna-Tricas, Eleni Hadjigeorgiou, Katharina Hartmann, Lena Henriksen, Antje Horsch, Ute Lange, Margaret Murphy, Annabelle Pierron, Rainhild Schäfers, Zada Pajalic…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:171
  29. Despite efforts to view electronic health records (EHR) data through an equity lens, crucial contextual information regarding patients’ social environments remains limited. Integrating EHR data and Geographic ...

    Authors: Sang S. Pak, Madeline Ratoza and Victor Cheuy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:170
  30. The presence of chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) requires behavioral lifestyle changes mediated by individuals’ motivation for change and adherence to treatment. This study aims to ex...

    Authors: Elisa Brosina de Leon, Hércules Lázaro Morais Campos, Natália Barbeiro Santos, Fabiana Almeida Brito and Fabio Araújo Almeida
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:169
  31. Emergency Medical Service (EMS) is a very crucial aspect of the healthcare system in providing urgent management and transportation of patients during emergencies. The sustainability of the services is however...

    Authors: Nor Zam Azihan Mohd Hassan, Mohd Shahri Bahari, Sivaraj Raman, Farhana Aminuddin, Mohd Shaiful Jefri Mohd Nor Sham Kunusagaran, Nur Amalina Zaimi, Min Fui Wong, Marhaini Mostapha, Ahmad Tajuddin Mohamad Nor and Mohd Ridzwan Shahari
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:168
  32. The public health policy “Making Every Contact Count” (MECC) compels healthcare professionals to deliver health behaviour change interventions during routine consultations. As healthcare systems continue their...

    Authors: Chris Keyworth, Mark Conner, Judith Johnson, Tracy Epton, Katharina S. Vogt and Christopher J. Armitage
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:167
  33. The need for rehabilitation in low-to-middle income countries (LMICs) is rapidly increasing as more people are living longer with chronic diseases. Primary health care (PHC) is ideally placed to provide the sp...

    Authors: Maria Yvonne Charumbira, Thandi Conradie, Karina Berner and Quinette Abegail Louw
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:166
  34. The Malaysian Allied Health Profession Act (Act 774) regulates the practice of allied health practitioners in Malaysia, with two described professions viz. allied health profession (AHP) and profession of allied ...

    Authors: L Mageswary Lapchmanan, Duratul Ain Hussin, Naji Arafat Mahat, Aik Hao Ng, Nurul Huda Bani, Salina Hisham, Wai Siew Teh, Mohd Azmarul A Aziz, Saravanakumar Maniam, Pauzilah Dollah, Nur Atiqah Hasbullah, Salini Manimaran, Hazirah Hassan and Farina Zulkernain
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:165
  35. Scarce evidence exists on audit and feedback implementation processes in low-resource health systems. The Integrated District Evidence to Action (IDEAs) is a multi-component audit and feedback strategy designe...

    Authors: Aneth Dinis, Quinhas Fernandes, Bradley H Wagenaar, Sarah Gimbel, Bryan J Weiner, Grace John-Stewart, Ermyas Birru, Stephen Gloyd, Ruth Etzioni, Dorlim Uetela, Isaías Ramiro, Artur Gremu, Orvalho Augusto, Stélio Tembe, Jaime L Mário, Jalilo E Chinai…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:164
  36. Hospital at Home (HaH) provides intensive, hospital-level care in patients’ homes for acute conditions that would normally require hospitalisation, using multidisciplinary teams. As a programme of complex medi...

    Authors: Hong Chen, Agnieszka Ignatowicz, Magdalena Skrybant and Daniel Lasserson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:163
  37. The Danish Health Authority recommended the implementation of new types of emergency departments. Organizational changes in the hospital sector challenged the role, identity, and autonomy of medical specialist...

    Authors: Jeanette Wassar Kirk, Mette Bendtz Lindstroem, Nina Thórný Stefánsdóttir, Ove Andersen, Byron J. Powell, Per Nilsen and Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:162
  38. The shortage of medicines and medical supplies remains to be a major issue that is facing public health facilities in Tanzania. This situation has been influenced by lack of consistency in the supply chain, in...

    Authors: Liberatus Elias and Lawrencia Mushi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:161
  39. The previous “one-size-fits-all” practice in resource allocation can no longer adapt to the spatial variation in population and health needs. This study aimed to investigate the spatially heterogeneous effect ...

    Authors: Wanchun Xu, Zijing Pan, Liang Zhang and Shan Lu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:160
  40. Peer support is an essential part of recovery-oriented care worldwide. Contextual factors have an impact on the implementation of peer support work. However, research has paid little attention to similarities ...

    Authors: Maria Haun, Inbar Adler Ben-Dor, Cerdic Hall, Jasmine Kalha, Palak Korde, Galia Moran, Annabel S. Müller-Stierlin, Jackline Niwemuhwezi, Rebecca Nixdorf, Bernd Puschner, Mary Ramesh, Ashleigh Charles and Silvia Krumm
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:159
  41. The COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged many countries worldwide since December 2019. The high infection rates, and the need for health care assistance for individuals with comorbidities, strained the national healt...

    Authors: Assunta De Luca, Luca Provvidenti, Mario Muselli, Giacinto Di Gianfilippo, Massimiliano Angelucci, Michele Ciro Totaro, Mauro Pitorri, Marzia Marcelli, Marinella D’Innocenzo, Maria Scatigna, Riccardo Mastrantonio, Stefano Necozione and Leila Fabiani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:158
  42. Adolescents’ Mental Healthcare (MHC) is influenced by numerous factors, and adolescents occasionally seek professional help for mental health (MH) issues. These factors become more complex within low-middle-in...

    Authors: Zainab Mubeen, Zafar Fatmi, Waqas Hameed and Muhammad Asim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:157
  43. As Vietnam and other low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) experience a rapid increase in the number of people living with dementia, an acute need exists to strengthen research capacity to inform policy, imp...

    Authors: Huyen Thi Thanh Vu, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Thu Thi Hoai Nguyen, Anh Trung Nguyen, Duyen Tran, Huong Nguyen, Ladson Hinton and Thang Pham
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:156
  44. Losing a close other to cancer is an incisive experience that occurs after a long course of illness and intense family caregiving. Despite an evident need for family engagement and support and guidance on this...

    Authors: Qëndresa Thaqi, Marco Riguzzi, David Blum, Simon Peng-Keller, Anja Lorch and Rahel Naef
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:155
  45. Hospital at home (HaH) was increasingly implemented in Catalonia (7.7 M citizens, Spain) achieving regional adoption within the 2011-2015 Health Plan. This study aimed to assess population-wide HaH outcomes ov...

    Authors: Rubèn González-Colom, Gerard Carot-Sans, Emili Vela, Mireia Espallargues, Carme Hernández, Francesc Xavier Jiménez, David Nicolás, Montserrat Suárez, Elvira Torné, Eulalia Villegas-Bruguera, Fernando Ozores, Isaac Cano, Jordi Piera-Jiménez and Josep Roca
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:154
  46. The number of patients depending on home mechanical ventilation (HMV) has increased substantially in Germany in recent years. These patients receive long-term care in different nursing facilities (nursing home...

    Authors: Martha Schutzmeier, Lilly Sophia Brandstetter, Stephanie Stangl, Jutta Ahnert, Anna Grau, Laura Gerken, Hanna Klingshirn, Bernd Reuschenbach, Tobias Skazel, Maximilian Kippnich, Thomas Wurmb, Peter Heuschmann and Kirsten Haas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:152
  47. The Directly Observed Therapy Short Course (DOTS) strategy recommended by World Health Organization for tuberculosis control requires multiple clinic visits which may place economic burden on treatment support...

    Authors: Robert Bagngmen Bio, Patricia Akweongo, Augustina Koduah and Augustine Adomah-Afari
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:148
  48. People who are unhoused, use substances (drugs and/or alcohol), and who have mental health conditions experience barriers to care access and are frequently confronted with discrimination and stigma in health c...

    Authors: Meghan O’Neill, Camilla Michalski, Kate Hayman, Jennifer Hulme, Sané Dube, Lori M. Diemert, Kathy Kornas, Alice Schoffel, Laura C. Rosella and Andrew Boozary
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:147