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  1. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) are tools for assessing outcomes of and experiences with health care from the patient’s perspective. In Germany, PROMs...

    Authors: Christiane Rudolph, Gitte Stentebjerg Petersen, Ron Pritzkuleit, Hans Storm and Alexander Katalinic
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:786
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  2. There is increasing interest in and demands for partnerships between academia and healthcare practices. Few empirical studies have described the influence of such partnerships from a practice perspective. The ...

    Authors: Håkan Uvhagen, Henna Hasson, Johan Hansson and Mia von Knorring
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:785
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  3. In order to address the opioid crisis in North America, many regions have adopted preventative strategies, such as prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs). PDMPs aim to increase patient safety by certify...

    Authors: Emily Rhodes, Maria Wilson, Alysia Robinson, Jill A. Hayden and Mark Asbridge
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:784
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  4. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a heterogeneous autoimmune disease with significant potential morbidity and mortality. Substantial gaps have been documented between the development and dissemination of c...

    Authors: María M. Trujillo-Martín, Yolanda Ramallo-Fariña, Tasmania del Pino-Sedeño, Íñigo Rúa-Figueroa, Elisa Trujillo-Martín, Laura Vallejo-Torres, Iñaki Imaz-Iglesia, Ricardo Sánchez-de-Madariaga, Ana M. de Pascual-Medina and Pedro Serrano-Aguilar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:783
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  5. In China, a long waiting time for registration is a common occurrence in many tertiary hospitals. This study aimed to analyze the effects of a comprehensive reservation service for non-emergency registration o...

    Authors: Wanhua Xie, Xiufeng Yang, Xiaojun Cao and Peiying Liu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:782
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  6. Present demographic trends show a considerable rise in elderly populations with aging disorders, such as dementia. The current article focused on the exploitation of e-learning as an informal support for careg...

    Authors: Blanka Klimova, Martin Valis, Kamil Kuca and Jiri Masopust
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:781
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  7. Higher income population tend to prefer brand-name to generic drugs, which may cause disparity in access to brand-name drugs among income groups. A potential policy that can resolve such disparity is imposing ...

    Authors: Yuki Ito, Konan Hara, Byung-Kwang Yoo, Jun Tomio and Yasuki Kobayashi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:780
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  9. Generic drugs and generic substitution belong to the tools by which healthcare costs may be reduced. However, low awareness and reluctance among healthcare professionals towards generic drugs may negatively af...

    Authors: J. Maly, E. Zimcikova, J. Babica, A. A. Kubena, J. Kostriba and K. Mala-Ladova
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:777
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  10. In 2002, a voluntary diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) payment system was introduced in South Korea for seven disease groups, and participation in the DRGs was mandated for all hospitals beginning in 2013. The p...

    Authors: Jae Woo Choi, Seung-Ju Kim, Hye-Ki Park, Sung-In Jang, Tae Hyun Kim and Eun-Cheol Park
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:776
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  11. This study aims to estimate the direct and indirect effects of the unit environment alongside individual and nursing care variables on eating dependence among residents who are cognitively impaired and living ...

    Authors: Alvisa Palese, Luca Grassetti, Valentina Bressan, Alessandro Decaro, Tea Kasa, Melania Longobardi, Mark Hayter and Roger Watson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:775
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  12. The Child Health Services in Sweden is a well-attended health promoting setting, and thereby has an important role in promoting healthy living habits in families with young children. Due to lack of national re...

    Authors: Linda Håkansson, Mariette Derwig and Ewy Olander
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:774
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  13. The number of people living with diabetes mellitus (DM) in Indonesia has continued to increase over the last 6 years. Four previous studies in U.S have found that higher DD scores were associated with worse ps...

    Authors: Bustanul Arifin, Antoinette D. I. van Asselt, Didik Setiawan, Jarir Atthobari, Maarten J. Postma and Qi Cao
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:773
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  14. Health care researcher-research user partnerships, referred to as integrated knowledge translation (IKT), have been adopted on an international basis, and are an effective means of co-generating and implementi...

    Authors: Maria Maddalena Zych, Whitney B. Berta and Anna R. Gagliardi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:772
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  15. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians have poorer cancer outcomes than other Australians. Comparatively little is known of the type and amount of cancer treatment provided to Aboriginal and Torres ...

    Authors: David Banham, David Roder, Marion Eckert, Natasha J. Howard, Karla Canuto and Alex Brown
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:771
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  16. Stroke is a health problem with serious consequences, both in terms of mortality, and after-effects affecting patient quality of life. Stroke requires both urgent and chronic management involving the entire he...

    Authors: S. Broussy, F. Rouanet, E. Lesaine, S. Domecq, M. Kret, M. Maugeais, F. Aly, P. Dehail, A. Bénard, J. Wittwer, R. Salamon, I. Sibon and F. Saillour-Glenisson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:770
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  17. In Finland, the reimbursement rate for antidiabetic medicines other than insulins was lowered from 100 to 65% at the beginning of 2017. The objective of this study was to examine the effects of this reform exp...

    Authors: Taika Suviranta, Johanna Timonen, Janne Martikainen and Emma Aarnio
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:769
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  18. During recent years, Quality of Life (QoL) is a significant assessment factor in clinical trials and epidemiological researches due to the advent of Antiretroviral Therapy (ART), Human Immunodeficiency Virus (...

    Authors: Hesam Ghiasvand, Katherine M. Waye, Mehdi Noroozi, Gholamreza Ghaedamini Harouni, Bahram Armoon and Azadeh Bayani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:768
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  19. Strong and effective workforce models are essential for improving comprehensive Indigenous primary healthcare service (PHC) provision to Indigenous peoples in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the USA (CANZUS...

    Authors: Janya McCalman, Sandra Campbell, Crystal Jongen, Erika Langham, Kingsley Pearson, Ruth Fagan, Ann Martin-Sardesai and Roxanne Bainbridge
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:767
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  20. To address deficits in the delivery of acute services in Ireland, the National Acute Medicine Programme (NAMP) was established in 2010 to optimise the management of acutely ill medical patients in the hospital...

    Authors: E. Hurley, S. McHugh, J. Browne, L. Vaughan and C. Normand
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:766
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  21. Direct Acting Antiviral (DAAs) drugs have a much lower burden of treatment and monitoring requirements than regimens containing interferon and ribavirin, and a much higher efficacy in treating hepatitis C (HCV...

    Authors: Andrew Radley, Emma Robinson, Esther J. Aspinall, Kathryn Angus, Lex Tan and John F. Dillon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:765
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  22. Globally, health inequities persist with effects on whole populations and the most profound effects on populations marginalized by poverty, discrimination and other forms of disadvantage. In the current neolib...

    Authors: Amélie Blanchet Garneau, Annette J. Browne and Colleen Varcoe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:764
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  23. The aim of this study was to estimate the mean cost per caregiver of informal care during the first year after myocardial infarction event in France.

    Authors: Hugo Rabier, Hassan Serrier, Anne-Marie Schott, Nathan Mewton, Michel Ovize, Norbert Nighoghossian, Antoine Duclos and Cyrille Colin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:763
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  24. Public engagement in health technology assessment (HTA) is increasing worldwide. There are several forms of public engagement and it is not always possible to determine which stakeholders participate in the HT...

    Authors: Viviane Karoline da Silva Carvalho, Maria Sharmila Alina de Sousa, Jorge Otávio Maia Barreto and Everton Nunes da Silva
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:762
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  25. Accessing HIV-related care is challenging for formerly incarcerated people with HIV. Interventions informed by the perspectives of these individuals could facilitate engagement with care and address competing ...

    Authors: Tony Antoniou, Sharmistha Mishra, Flora Matheson, Diane Smith-Merrill, Laurel Challacombe, Janet Rowe, Anne Marie DiCenso, Fiona G. Kouyoumdjian, Wendy Wobeser, Claire Kendall, Mona Loutfy, Jenkin Tsang, Lauren Kanee and Carol Strike
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:761
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  26. With most countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lagging behind schedule to implement a comprehensive viral hepatitis elimination strategy, several barriers to accurate information and hepatitis B virus (HBV) s...

    Authors: Joan Nankya-Mutyoba, Jim Aizire, Fredrick Makumbi, Ponsiano Ocama and Gregory D. Kirk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:760
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:982

  27. In return-to-work (RTW) programs, coordinators are often provided in order to integrate services. However, models of coordinating services vary widely internationally, and across different programs, where one ...

    Authors: Lisebet Skeie Skarpaas, Lise Aasen Haveraaen, Milada Cvancarova Småstuen, William S. Shaw and Randi Wågø Aas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:759
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  28. Despite a national focus on closing the gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal child health outcomes in Australia, there remain significant challenges, including provision of health services in very remote ...

    Authors: Philippa J Dossetor, Kathryn Thorburn, June Oscar, Maureen Carter, James Fitzpatrick, Carol Bower, John Boulton, Emily Fitzpatrick, Jane Latimer, Elizabeth J Elliott and Alexandra LC Martiniuk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:758
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  29. Within Population Health Management (PHM) initiatives, stakeholders from various sectors apply PHM strategies, via which services are reorganised and integrated in order to improve population health and qualit...

    Authors: Betty M. Steenkamer, Hanneke W. Drewes, Natascha van Vooren, Caroline A. Baan, Hans van Oers and Kim Putters
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:757
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  30. Village Health and Nutrition Days (VHNDs) are a cornerstone of the Government of India’s strategy to provide first-contact primary health care to rural areas. Recent government programmes such as the Janani Su...

    Authors: Mira Johri, Louis Rodgers, Dinesh Chandra, Cybil Abou-Rizk, Eleanor Nash and Alok K. Mathur
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:756
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  31. No studies using a valid, standardized method to measure post-donation satisfaction levels among living kidney donors (LKDs) have been published.

    Authors: Sayaka Kobayashi, Rie Akaho, Kazuya Omoto, Hiroki Shirakawa, Tomokazu Shimizu, Hideki Ishida, Kazunari Tanabe and Katsuji Nishimura
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:755
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  32. Cancer patients experience psychological and social distress due to their medical treatment and social issues. However, continuous and specialized social support is still lacking. In Germany, a group of compan...

    Authors: Johann Frick, Daniel Schindel, Pimrapat Gebert, Ulrike Grittner and Liane Schenk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:754
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  33. The aim of this nationwide study was to investigate barriers to adequate professional interpreter use and to describe existing initiatives and identify key factors for successful interpreter policies in primar...

    Authors: Fabienne N. Jaeger, Nicole Pellaud, Bénédicte Laville and Pierre Klauser
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:753
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  34. People living with and beyond cancer (PLC) receive various forms of specialty care at different locations and many interventions concurrently or over time. They are affected by the operation of professional an...

    Authors: Dominique Tremblay, Nassera Touati, Thomas Poder, Helen-Maria Vasiliadis, Karine Bilodeau, Djamal Berbiche, Jean-Louis Denis, Marie-Pascale Pomey, Johanne Hébert, Geneviève Roch, Catherine Prady and Lise Lévesque
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:752
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  35. Unplanned hospital admissions are costly and prevention of these has been a focus for research for decades. With this study we aimed to determine whether discharge planning including a single follow-up home vi...

    Authors: Maurice A. Lembeck, Lau C. Thygesen, Birgitte Dreyer Sørensen, Lisbeth Lumby Rasmussen and Ellen A. Holm
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:751
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  36. Although healthcare providers are well placed to help smokers quit, implementation of smoking cessation care is still suboptimal. The Ask-Advise-Refer tasks are important aspects of smoking cessation care. We ...

    Authors: E. Meijer, R. M. J. J. Van der Kleij and N. H. Chavannes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:750
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  37. An estimated 8.2 million adults in the United States live with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Although the benefits of integrated treatment services for persons with co-occurring disor...

    Authors: Mehret T. Assefa, James H. Ford II, Eric Osborne, Amy McIlvaine, Ahney King, Kevin Campbell, Booil Jo and Mark P. McGovern
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:749
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  38. Despite the growing evidence base supporting intensive lifestyle and medical treatments for severe obesity, patient engagement in specialist obesity services is difficult to achieve and poorly understood. To a...

    Authors: Evan Atlantis, Fang Lin, Sulak Anandabaskaran, Paul Fahey and Nic Kormas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:748
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  39. Pregnant women and newborns are at high risk for infectious diseases. Altered immunity status during pregnancy and challenges fully vaccinating newborns contribute to this medical reality. Maternal immunizatio...

    Authors: Stacy W. Nganga, Nancy A. Otieno, Maxwell Adero, Dominic Ouma, Sandra S. Chaves, Jennifer R. Verani, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Andrew Wilson, Irina Bergenfeld, Courtni Andrews, Vincent L. Fenimore, Ines Gonzalez-Casanova, Paula M. Frew, Saad B. Omer and Fauzia A. Malik
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:747
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  40. Globally, female sex workers (FSWs) are considered a key population group due to the high HIV prevalence. Studies show that there are various factors in some contexts that render FSWs marginalised, which limit...

    Authors: Nosipho Faith Makhakhe, Anna Meyer-Weitz, Helen Struthers and James McIntyre
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:746
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  41. The PACE Steps to Success programme is a complex educational and development intervention to improve palliative care in nursing homes. Little research has investigated processes in the cross-cultural adaptatio...

    Authors: Jo Hockley, Katherine Froggatt, Lieve Van den Block, Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Marika Kylänen, Katarzyna Szczerbińska, Giovanni Gambassi, Sophie Pautex and Sheila Alison Payne
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:745
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  42. Many relatives of close family members suffering from dementia have taken on the caregiver role. While intervention studies have revealed promising results on caregiver burden, distress, and depression, there ...

    Authors: Heidi Bjørge, Kari Kvaal and Ingun Ulstein
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:744
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  43. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an opportunistic bacterial organism resistant to first line antibiotics. Acquisition of MRSA is often classified as either healthcare-associated or community-...

    Authors: Erin Kirwin, Marie Varughese, David Waldner, Kimberley Simmonds, A. Mark Joffe and Stephanie Smith
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:743
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2019 20:4

  44. In recent years, several large studies have assessed the costs of national infant immunization programs, and the results of these studies are used to support planning and budgeting in low- and middle-income co...

    Authors: Cristina Munk, Allison Portnoy, Christian Suharlim, Emma Clarke-Deelder, Logan Brenzel, Stephen C. Resch and Nicolas A. Menzies
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:741
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  45. Despite an increase in studies showing the efficacy of lifestyle interventions in improving the poor health outcomes for people with severe mental illness (SMI), routine implementation remains ad hoc. Recently...

    Authors: Jeroen Deenik, Diederik E. Tenback, Erwin C. P. M. Tak, Olivier A. Blanson Henkemans, Simon Rosenbaum, Ingrid J. M. Hendriksen and Peter N. van Harten
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:740
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  46. With about 50 million people infected with hepatitis B (HBV) in India the burden of disease is high. Stigma has been identified to have a major negative impact on screening, diagnosis and treatment of hepatiti...

    Authors: F. C. van der Scheun, M. C. M. Nagelkerke, A. Kilaru, V. Shridhar, R. Prasad and T. S. van der Werf
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:736
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  47. Reducing the burden of malaria highly depends on access to prompt and effective malaria diagnosis and treatment. The aim of this study was to identify challenges affecting prompt access to effective uncomplica...

    Authors: Larissa Klootwijk, Anthony Emeritus Chirwa, Alinune Nathanael Kabaghe and Michele van Vugt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:735
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  48. User understanding of information technology systems (IT-Systems) is a prerequisite for their use. This study aimed to explore how primary care physician trainees learn, understand and use IT-Systems.

    Authors: Michel Wensing, Barbara Paech, Catharina Roth and Simon Schwill
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:728
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  49. Due to increasing international migration, Sweden has become a multicultural and multilingual society, with about 19% of the population born abroad, which imposes high demands on the healthcare sector and inte...

    Authors: Emina Hadziabdic and Katarina Hjelm
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:727
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  50. In the original publication of this article [1] an author’s name needs to be revised from Katrina Nelson to Adrianne Katrina Nelson.

    Authors: Julius Ho, Karen Bachman-Carter, Shelley Thorkelson, Kristi Anderson, Jennifer Jaggi, Chris Brown, Adrianne Katrina Nelson, Cameron Curley, Caroline King, Sid Atwood and Sonya Shin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:726
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:629

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