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  1. HIV mostly affects people with severe mental illnesses (SMIs) than the general population. In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) introduced assisted partner notification (APN) as a strategy to increase ...

    Authors: Rachel Wangi Nante, Herbert Muyinda, John M. Kiweewa, Regina Ndagire, Emmanuel Ssendikwanawa, Kevin Ouma Ojiambo, Joanita Nangendo, Juliet Nakku and Fred C. Semitala
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:319
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  2. The Brazilian Dental Specialty Centers (CEO, in Portuguese) represent the strategy of the National Oral Health Policy to provide secondary-level dental care. They offer more complex procedures, such as the tre...

    Authors: Raíres Chaves da Silva Rodrigues, Yuri Wanderley Cavalcanti and Edson Hilan Gomes de Lucena
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:318
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  4. Aligning delivery and financing systems across sectors to create broader systems of care can improve the health and well-being of families experiencing adversities. We aimed to identify structural and relation...

    Authors: Venice Ng Williams, Carol Yvette Franco-Rowe, Connie Cignetti Lopez, Mandy A. Allison and Gregory J. Tung
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:316
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  5. Postoperative pain management in lumbar spine surgery care remains a challenge. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of a person-centred postoperative pain management intervention programme on lumb...

    Authors: Eva Angelini, Axel Wolf, Helle Wijk, Helena Brisby and Adad Baranto
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:315
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  6. Clinical empathy is considered a crucial element in patient-centered care. The advent of digital technology in healthcare has introduced new dynamics to empathy which needs to be explored in the context of the...

    Authors: Hanna Luetke Lanfer, Doreen Reifegerste, Winja Weber, Paula Memenga, Eva Baumann, Julia Geulen, Stefanie Klein, Anne Müller, Andrea Hahne and Susanne Weg-Remers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:314
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  7. Isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) works to prevent tuberculosis (TB) among people living with HIV (PLHIV), but uptake remains low in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this analysis, we sought to identify barriers mid-le...

    Authors: Canice Christian, Elijah Kakande, Violah Nahurira, Cecilia Akatukwasa, Fredrick Atwine, Robert Bakanoma, Harriet Itiakorit, Asiphas Owaraganise, William DiIeso, Derek Rast, Jane Kabami, Jason Johnson Peretz, Starley B. Shade, Moses R. Kamya, Diane V. Havlir, Gabriel Chamie…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:313
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  8. There is scarce knowledge on the health care follow-up of parents of terror attack survivors. This study focused on the mothers and fathers of survivors and examined (1) their perceived health care needs relat...

    Authors: Ida Frugård Strøm, Tore Wentzel-Larsen, Synne Stensland, Grete Dyb and Lise Eilin Stene
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:277
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  10. The unequal distribution of government health spending within African regional economic groupings is a significant barrier to achieving Universal Health Coverage and reaching health-related Sustainable Develop...

    Authors: Nicholas Ngepah and Ariane Ephemia Ndzignat Mouteyica
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:311
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  11. Germany has the highest per capita health care spending among EU member states, but its hospitals face pressure to generate profits independently due to the government’s withdrawal of investment cost coverage....

    Authors: Christoph Lüdemann, Maike Gerken and Marcel Hülsbeck
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:310
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  12. The development and use of digital tools in various stages of research highlight the importance of novel open science methods for an integrated and accessible research system. The objective of this study was t...

    Authors: Maryam Zarghani, Leila Nemati-Anaraki, Shahram Sedghi, Abdolreza Noroozi Chakoli and Anisa Rowhani-Farid
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:309
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  13. International experience shows that the suitability of a high-performance healthcare system for its given purposes is reflected in its ability to provide a continuum of services that match the changing health ...

    Authors: Haoran Liu, Zhifan Wang, Juan Hu, Qiushuang Xu, Lei Yang and Weiyan Jian
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:308
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  14. Expenditure of healthcare services has been growing over the past decades. Lean and agile are two popular paradigms that could potentially contain cost and improve proficiency of the healthcare system. However...

    Authors: Xueying Li and Ana Lúcia Martins
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:307
    Content type: Systematic Review Published on:

  15. Improving quality of nursing home care for residents is a constant focus of stakeholders involved within quality improvement projects. Though, achieving change in long-term care is challenging. Process evaluat...

    Authors: Suzanne Portegijs, Adriana Petronella Anna van Beek, Lilian Huibertina Davida van Tuyl and Cordula Wagner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:306
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  16. Research is crucial for improved healthcare and better patient outcomes, but there is a current shortage of clinician-researchers who can connect research and practice in the health professions field. This stu...

    Authors: Louisa M. D’Arrietta, Venkat N. Vangaveti, Melissa J. Crowe and Bunmi S. Malau-Aduli
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:305
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  17. 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 24:304
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  18. This study presents guidelines for implementation distilled from the findings of a realist evaluation. The setting was local health districts in New South Wales, Australia that implemented three clinical impro...

    Authors: Janet C Long, Natalie Roberts, Emilie Francis-Auton, Mitchell N Sarkies, Hoa Mi Nguyen, Johanna I Westbrook, Jean-Frederic Levesque, Diane E Watson, Rebecca Hardwick, Kate Churruca, Peter Hibbert and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:303
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  19. Supported wellbeing centres established during the COVID-19 pandemic provided high quality rest spaces and access to peer-to-peer psychological first aid for healthcare workers (HCWs). The centres were well ac...

    Authors: Holly Blake, Helen Mancini, Emma Coyne, Joanne Cooper and Natalia Stanulewicz-Buckley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:302
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  20. Healthcare workers (HCWs) are commonly not prepared to properly communicate with D/deaf and hard of hearing (HoH) patients. The resulting communication challenges reinforce the existing barriers to accessing a...

    Authors: Véronique S. Grazioli, Madison Graells, Elodie Schmutz, Odile Cantero, Tanya Sebaï, Vanessa Favre, Jessica Richème-Roos, Kevin Morisod, Michel Jeanneret, Pascal Singy and Patrick Bodenmann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:301
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  21. The objective was to gain knowledge about how external inspections following serious incidents are played out in a Norwegian hospital context from the perspective of the inspectors, and whether stakeholders’ v...

    Authors: Sina Furnes Øyri, Siri Wiig, Janet E. Anderson and Inger Johanne Bergerød
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:300
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  22. Social risk factors are key drivers of the geographic variation in spending in the United States but little is known how community-level social risk factors are associated with hospital prices. Our objective w...

    Authors: Eva Chang and Wayne Psek
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:299
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  24. This paper presents the results of a systematic review to identify practical strategies to create the institutions, skills, values, and norms that will improve health systems resilience.

    Authors: David Bishai, Basma M. Saleh, Maryam Huda, Eman Mohammed Aly, Marwa Hafiz, Ali Ardalan and Awad Mataria
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:297
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  25. Case managers play a vital role in integrating the necessary services to optimise health-related goals and outcomes. Studies suggest that in home care, case managers encounter tensions in their day-to-day work...

    Authors: Alexandra Ethier, Marie-France Dubois, Virginie Savaria and Annie Carrier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:296
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  26. Physiotherapy is a growing profession in Nepal. Despite efforts to promote strengthening and development, there are still challenges in providing equitable access and availability to services, particularly in ...

    Authors: Nishchal Ratna Shakya, Nistha Shrestha, Gillian Webb, Hellen Myezwa, Biraj Man Karmacharya and Ann-Katrin Stensdotter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:295
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  27. During the COVID-19 pandemic, provision of non-COVID healthcare was recurrently severely disrupted. The objective was to determine whether disruption of non-COVID hospital use, either due to cancelled, postpon...

    Authors: Tessa Jansen, Sigur Gouwens, Lotta Meijerink, Iris Meulman, Lisanne H. J. A. Kouwenberg, G. Ardine de Wit, Johan J. Polder, Anton E. Kunst and Ellen Uiters
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:294
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  28. Many hospitals and health care organizations over the centuries have inherited handcrafts of artistic value, objects of worships, donations from pilgrims, votive offerings, legates as a result of their centuri...

    Authors: Martina Giusti, Ilaria Elisa Vannini and Niccolò Persiani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:293
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  29. Most wars are fought in poor countries and result in significant proportions of disabilities and mortalities. The consequences of wars and political instability on health workers and access to healthcare remai...

    Authors: Awol Yemane Legesse, Znabu Hadush, Hale Teka, Ephrem Berhe, Bisrat Tesfay Abera, Fasika Amdeselassie, Hiluf Ebuy Abraha, Daniel Gebre and Alessandra N Bazzano
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:292
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  30. Adults with sickle cell disease (SCD) suffer early mortality and high morbidity. Many are not affiliated with SCD centers, defined as no ambulatory visit with a SCD specialist in 2 years. Negative social deter...

    Authors: Gustavo G. Mendez, Judith M. Nocek, Donald J. Brambilla, Sara Jacobs, Oladipo Cole, Julie Kanter, Jeffrey Glassberg, Kay L. Saving, Cathy L. Melvin, Robert W. Gibson, Marsha Treadwell, George L. Jackson, Allison A. King, Victor R. Gordeuk, Barbara Kroner and Lewis L. Hsu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:291
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  31. Centralized management of queues helps to reduce the surgical waiting time in the publicly funded healthcare system, but this is not a reality in the Brazilian Unified Healthcare System (BUHS). We describe the...

    Authors: Antonio Pazin-Filho, Maria Eulália Lessa do Valle Dallora, Tonicarlo Rodrigues Velasco, Roberto de Oliveira Cardoso dos Santos, Gustavo Jardim Volpe, Diego Marques Moroço, Danilo Arruda de Souza, Claudia Marques Canabrava, Luis Vicente Garcia, Edwaldo Edner Joviliano and Benedito Carlos Maciel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:290
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  32. Working in healthcare environments is highly stressful for most professionals and can trigger problems in interpersonal relationships that can result in horizontal violence. In order to prevent violence and im...

    Authors: Paula Arquioli Adriani, Paula Hino, Mônica Taminato, Meiry Fernanda Pinto Okuno, Odilon Vieira Santos and Hugo Fernandes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:289
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  33. Coronary heart diseases (CHDs) have experienced the largest increase worldwide as a cause of death, accounting for 16% of all deaths. In Saxony-Anhalt, a federal state in Germany, both CHD morbidity and acute ...

    Authors: Steffen Fleischer, Stephanie Heinrich, Gabriele Meyer, Rafael Mikolajczyk and Sara Lena Lückmann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:288
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  34. Movement of patients through a health establishment is a complex activity reliant upon multi-actor co-ordination across departments. The challenge of enhancing service delivery to meet the needs of a growing a...

    Authors: Mehreen Hunter, Shrikant Peters, Nontuthuko Khumalo and Mary-Ann Davies
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:287
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  36. Disasters are events that bring with them effects that contribute to the disruption of the normality of a population and thus highlight the vulnerabilities of the health system. In Mariana and Brumadinho, the ...

    Authors: Emerson Pessoa Vidal, Rita de Cássia Costa da Silva and Paola Zucchi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:285
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  37. The National Health Insurance (NHI) was implemented in Indonesia in 2014, and cardiovascular diseases are one of the diseases that have overburdened the healthcare system. However, data concerning the relation...

    Authors: Nurul Qalby, Dian S. Arsyad, Andriany Qanitha, Maarten J. Cramer, Yolande Appelman, Dara R. Pabittei, Pieter A. Doevendans, Idar Mappangara and Akhtar Fajar Muzakkir
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:284
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  39. Infertility is a major health issue worldwide, yet very few examples of interventions addressing infertility in the Global South have been documented to date. In The Gambia, West Africa, infertility is recogni...

    Authors: Anna Afferri, Susan Dierickx, Haddijatou Allen, Mustapha Bittaye, Musa Marena, Allan Pacey and Julie Balen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:282
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  40. Pathways into care-homes have been under-researched. Individuals who move-in to a care-home from hospital are clinically distinct from those moving-in from the community. However, it remains unclear whether th...

    Authors: G. Ciminata, J. K. Burton, T. J Quinn and C. Geue
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:281
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  41. Ethiopia and Kenya have adopted the community-based integrated community case management (iCCM) of common childhood illnesses and newborn care strategy to improve access to treatment of infections in newborns ...

    Authors: Gizachew Tadele Tiruneh, George Odwe, Alexandra Haake Kamberos, Kezia K’Oduol, Nebreed Fesseha, Zipporah Moraa, Hellen Gwaro, Dessalew Emaway, Hema Magge, Yasir Bin Nisar and Lisa R. Hirschhorn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:280
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  42. Healthcare accessibility and utilization are important social determinants of health. Lack of access to healthcare, including missed or no-show appointments, can have negative health effects and be costly to p...

    Authors: Kendra L. Ratnapradipa, Runqiu Wang, Josiane Kabayundo, Walter Marquez Lavenant, Eleanore Nelson, Muskan Ahuja, Ying Zhang and Hongmei Wang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:279
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  43. Mental health service utilization remains a challenge in developing countries, with numerous barriers affecting access to care. Albeit data suggest poor utilization of mental health services in the Bolgatanga ...

    Authors: Dennis Bomansang Daliri, Gifty Apiung Aninanya, Timothy Tienbia Laari, Nancy Abagye, Richard Dei-Asamoa and Agani Afaya
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:278
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  44. Economic sanctions aim to exert pressure on political and economic foundations. Hypothesizing that sanctions might affect various aspects of population health, this study, as a component of a broader investiga...

    Authors: Mohammad Mehdi Kiani, Hakimeh Mostafavi, Fatemeh Ebrahimi, Reza Majdzadeh, Efat Mohamadi, Alexander Kraemer, Alireza Olyaeemanesh and Amirhossein Takian
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:276
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  45. Coronavirus disease 2019 disrupted the delivery of public maternal and child health services to caregivers of preschool children, leading to decreased opportunities for injury prevention education. We aim to 1) e...

    Authors: Chikako Honda and Natsuki Yamamoto-Takiguchi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:275
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  46. Globally, emergency departments (EDs) are overcrowded and unable to meet an ever-increasing demand for care. The aim of this study is to comprehensively review and synthesise literature on potential solutions ...

    Authors: Mahnaz Samadbeik, Andrew Staib, Justin Boyle, Sankalp Khanna, Emma Bosley, Daniel Bodnar, James Lind, Jodie A. Austin, Sarah Tanner, Yasaman Meshkat, Barbora de Courten and Clair Sullivan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:274
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  47. Despite sophisticated risk equalization, insurers in regulated health insurance markets still face incentives to attract healthy people and avoid the chronically ill because of predictable differences in profi...

    Authors: A. A. Withagen-Koster, R. C. van Kleef and F. Eijkenaar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:273
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  48. People with cancer have high information needs; however, they are often inadequately met. Patient versions of clinical practice guidelines (PVGs), a special form of evidence-based information, translate patien...

    Authors: Sarah Wahlen, Jessica Breuing, Monika Becker, Stefanie Bühn, Julia Hauprich, Nadja Könsgen, Nora Meyer, Susanne Blödt, Günther Carl, Markus Follmann, Stefanie Frenz, Thomas Langer, Monika Nothacker, Corinna Schaefer and Dawid Pieper
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:272
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  49. While the social determinants of health (SDOH) have a greater impact on individual health outcomes than the healthcare services a person receives, healthcare providers face barriers to addressing these factors...

    Authors: Jeffrey Glenn, Gwen Kleinhenz, Jenna M.S. Smith, Robert A. Chaney, Victor B.A. Moxley, Paola G. Donoso Naranjo, Sarah Stone, Carl L. Hanson, Alisha H. Redelfs and M. Lelinneth B. Novilla
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:271
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  50. Bangladesh is a developing country where 11% of the population has at least one disability, but no community-level mental health service is available. There is limited evidence of the burden of mental health i...

    Authors: Kamrun Nahar Koly, Jobaida Saba, Enryka Christopher, Anan Nisat Nabela Hossain, Taslima Akter, Zakia Rahman, Helal Uddin Ahmed and Julian Eaton
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:270
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