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  1. Increasing numbers of blood tests are being ordered in primary care settings and the swift and accurate communication of test results is central to providing high quality care. The process of testing and resul...

    Authors: Ian J. Litchfield, Louise M. Bentham, Richard J. Lilford, Richard J. McManus, Ann Hill and Sheila Greenfield
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:615
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  2. Incorporating behavioral health care into patient centered medical homes is critical for improving patient health and care quality while reducing costs. Despite documented effectiveness of behavioral health in...

    Authors: Kara Zivin, Benjamin F. Miller, Bruce Finke, Asaf Bitton, Perry Payne, Edith C. Stowe, Ashok Reddy, Timothy J. Day, Pauline Lapin, Janel L. Jin and Laura L. Sessums
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:612
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  3. The initial days of a Medicare-covered skilled nursing facility (SNF) stay may have no cost-sharing or daily copayments depending on beneficiaries’ enrollment in traditional Medicare or Medicare Advantage. Som...

    Authors: Laura M. Keohane, Regina C. Grebla, Momotazur Rahman, Dana B. Mukamel, Yoojin Lee, Vincent Mor and Amal Trivedi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:611
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  5. Psychosocial job stressors, such as low control and high demands, have been found to influence the health and wellbeing of doctors. However, past research in this area has relied on cross-sectional data, which...

    Authors: Allison Milner, Katrina Witt, Matthew J. Spittal, Marie Bismark, Melissa Graham and Anthony D. LaMontagne
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:609
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  6. Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are common tools in policy and clinical practice informing clinical decisions at the bedside, governance of health facilities, health insurer and government spending, and pa...

    Authors: Tamara Kredo, Amber Abrams, Taryn Young, Quinette Louw, Jimmy Volmink and Karen Daniels
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:608
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  7. Many register studies make use of information about permanent nursing home residents. Statistics Denmark (StatD) identifies nursing home residents by two different indirect methods, one based on reports from t...

    Authors: Anna Bebe, Anni Brit Sternhagen Nielsen, Tora Grauers Willadsen, Jens Søndergaard, Volkert Siersma, Dagný Rós Nicolaisdóttir, Jakob Kragstrup and Frans Boch Waldorff
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:607
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  8. Community pharmacies are major contributors to health care systems across the world. Several studies have been conducted to evaluate community pharmacies services in health care. The purpose of this study was ...

    Authors: Jorge Félix, Diana Ferreira, Marta Afonso-Silva, Marta Vargas Gomes, César Ferreira, Björn Vandewalle, Sara Marques, Melina Mota, Suzete Costa, Maria Cary, Inês Teixeira, Ema Paulino, Bruno Macedo and Carlos Maurício Barbosa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:606
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  9. Health literacy is an important concept associated with participation in preventive health initiatives, such as falls prevention programs. A comprehensive health literacy measurement tool, appropriate for this...

    Authors: Rebecca L. Morris, Sze-Ee Soh, Keith D. Hill, Rachelle Buchbinder, Judy A. Lowthian, Julie Redfern, Christopher D. Etherton-Beer, Anne-Marie Hill, Richard H. Osborne, Glenn Arendts and Anna L. Barker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:605
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  10. The enlargement of the European Union since 2004 has led to an increase in the number of Eastern European migrants living in the UK. The health of this group is under-researched though some mixed evidence show...

    Authors: Hannah Madden, Jane Harris, Christian Blickem, Rebecca Harrison and Hannah Timpson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:604
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  12. For decades hospitals have been “vertically” organized, with the risk that specialization leads to fragmented and one-sided views of patient care and treatment that may cause poor communication and coordinatio...

    Authors: C. Abrahamsen, B. Nørgaard, E. Draborg and D. Nielsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:602
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  13. The development of new-growth communities of Latino immigrants in southern states has challenged the traditional health and social service infrastructure. An interprofessional team of service providers, Latino...

    Authors: Kim Larson, Holly F. Mathews, Essie Torres and C. Suzanne Lea
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:601
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  14. Formularies often employ restriction policies to reduce pharmacy costs. Pregabalin, an alpha-2-delta ligand, is approved for treatment of fibromyalgia (FM); neuropathic pain (NeP) due to postherpetic neuralgia...

    Authors: Brett R. Stacey, Jonathan Liss, Regina Behar, Alesia Sadosky, Bruce Parsons, Elizabeth T. Masters and Patrick Hlavacek
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:600
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  15. Private practitioners are the preferred first point of care in a majority of low and middle-income countries and in this position, best placed for the surveillance of diseases. However their contribution to ro...

    Authors: Revati K. Phalkey, Carsten Butsch, Kristine Belesova, Marieke Kroll and Frauke Kraas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:599
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  17. Poor access to affordable insulin results in serious and needless complications and premature deaths for those with diabetes who need this essential medicine. To help address this issue, we assessed insulin av...

    Authors: Chenxi Liu, Xinping Zhang, Chaojie Liu, Margaret Ewen, Zinan Zhang and Guoqin Liu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:597
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  18. Current acute care surgical practices do not focus on the unique needs of older adults. Adverse outcomes in older patients result from a complex interrelationship between baseline vulnerability and insults exp...

    Authors: Heather M. Hanson, Lindsey Warkentin, Roxanne Wilson, Navtej Sandhu, Susan E. Slaughter and Rachel G. Khadaroo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:596
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  19. The purpose of this situation analysis was to explore the views of health and non-health professionals working with women of childbearing age on current and future delivery of preconception care in one Nationa...

    Authors: Ashley Goodfellow, John Frank, John McAteer and Jean Rankin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:595
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  20. The South African Triage Scale (SATS) was developed to facilitate patient triage in emergency departments (EDs) and is used by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in low-resource environments. The aim was to determ...

    Authors: Jacques Massaut, Pola Valles, Arnold Ghismonde, Claudinette Jn Jacques, Liseberth Pierre Louis, Abdulmutalib Zakir, Rafael Van den Bergh, Lunick Santiague, Rose Berly Massenat and Nathalie Edema
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:594
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  21. Facilitation is a widely used implementation method in quality improvement. Reviews reveal a variety of understandings of facilitation and facilitator roles. Research suggests that facilitation interventions s...

    Authors: Tina Drud Due, Thorkil Thorsen, Frans Boch Waldorff and Marius Brostrøm Kousgaard
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:593
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  22. This study presents a descriptive synthesis of Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s (KRI) primary care system, which is undergoing comprehensive primary care reforms within the context of a cross-cutting structural econ...

    Authors: Ali R. Shukor, Niek S. Klazinga and Dionne S. Kringos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:592
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  23. This paper identifies and describes measures of constructs relevant to the adoption or implementation of innovations (i.e., new policies, programs or practices) at the organizational-level. This work is intend...

    Authors: Jennifer D. Allen, Samuel D. Towne Jr, Annette E. Maxwell, Lisa DiMartino, Bryan Leyva, Deborah J Bowen, Laura Linnan and Bryan J. Weiner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:591
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  24. In China, increasing attention has been devoted to the patient safety culture within health administrative departments and healthcare organizations. However, no official version of a patient safety culture ass...

    Authors: Ying Cui, Xiuming Xi, Jinsheng Zhang, Jiang Feng, Xiaoxiao Deng, Ang Li and Jianxin Zhou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:590
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  25. Increasingly, nurse practitioners (NPs) are deployed in teams along with general practitioners (GPs) to help meet the demand for out-of-hours care. The purpose of this study was to explore factors influencing ...

    Authors: Mieke van der Biezen, Michel Wensing, Lusine Poghosyan, Regi van der Burgt and Miranda Laurant
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:589
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  26. Preventive health services (PHSs) form part of primary healthcare with the aim of screening to prevent disease. Migrants show significant differences in lifestyle, health beliefs and risk factors compared with...

    Authors: Aldo Rosano, Marie Dauvrin, Sandra C. Buttigieg, Elena Ronda, Jean Tafforeau and Sonia Dias
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:588
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  27. Follow-up care after kidney transplantation is performed in transplant centers as well as in local nephrologist’s practices in Germany. However, organized integrated care of these different sectors of the Germ...

    Authors: L Pape, M de Zwaan, U Tegtbur, F Feldhaus, JK Wolff, L Schiffer, C Lerch, N Hellrung, V Kliem, G Lonnemann, HD Nolting and M Schiffer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:587
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  28. Diabetes is a significant global public health concern. Poor knowledge of disease and healthcare utilization is associated with worse health outcomes, leading to increasing burden of diabetes in many developin...

    Authors: Md. Kaoser Bin Siddique, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Palash Chandra Banik and Lal B. Rawal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:586
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  29. Continuity of care can bring a wide range of benefits to consumers, providers and health care systems. This study aimed to understand the relationship preferences of primary care patients and their association...

    Authors: Chaojie Liu, Yeqing Wu and Xueyang Chi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:585
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  30. Substance abuse is a growing, but mostly silent, epidemic among older adults. We sought to analyze the trends in admissions for substance abuse treatment among older adults (aged 55 and older).

    Authors: Sumedha Chhatre, Ratna Cook, Eshita Mallik and Ravishankar Jayadevappa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:584
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  31. Chart-stimulated recall (CSR) is a case-based interviewing technique, which is used in the assessment of clinical decision-making in medical education and professional certification. Increasingly, clinical dec...

    Authors: Carol Sinnott, Martina A. Kelly and Colin P. Bradley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:583
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  33. While health care needs assessments have been conducted among juveniles or adolescents by researchers in developed countries, assessments using an ethics framework particularly in developing countries are lack...

    Authors: Maureen Kumwenda, Selestine Nzala and Joseph M. Zulu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:581
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  34. There has been a rapid scale up of HIV services and access to anti-retroviral therapy in Africa over the last 10 years as a result of multilateral donor funding mechanisms. However, in order to continue to exp...

    Authors: Adelline Twimukye, Rachel King, Walter Schlech, Faridah Mayanja Zawedde, Tom Kakaire and Rosalind Parkes-Ratanshi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:580
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  35. There is a growing emphasis on the need to engage patients in order to improve the quality of health care and improve health outcomes. However, we are still lacking a comprehensive understanding on how differe...

    Authors: Yi-Sheng Chao, Hau-tieng Wu, Marco Scutari, Tai-Shen Chen, Chao-Jung Wu, Madeleine Durand and Antoine Boivin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:579
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  36. Results of associations between process and mortality indicators, both used for the external assessment of hospital care quality or public reporting, differ strongly across studies. However, most of those stud...

    Authors: Marcus Ngantcha, Marie-Annick Le-Pogam, Sophie Calmus, Catherine Grenier, Isabelle Evrard, Agathe Lamarche-Vadel and Grégoire Rey
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:578
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  37. There is no standard treatment pathway for tinnitus patients in the UK. Possible therapies include education and reassurance, cognitive behavioural therapies, modified tinnitus retraining therapy (education an...

    Authors: David Stockdale, Don McFerran, Peter Brazier, Clive Pritchard, Tony Kay, Christopher Dowrick and Derek J Hoare
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:577
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  38. Psychiatric comorbidities are common among patients treated for physical disorders. Attitudes of non-psychiatric doctors toward psychological/psychiatric problems have significant implications for care provisi...

    Authors: Jun Wang, Qun Wang, Inoka Wimalaratne, David Benjamin Menkes and Xiaoping Wang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:576
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  39. Over the last decade, the availability and use of mobile phones have grown exponentially globally and in Cambodia. In the Sihanouk Hospital Centre of Hope(SHCH) in Cambodia about half of all tuberculosis patie...

    Authors: Kimcheng Choun, Shanta Achanta, Balaji Naik, Jaya Prasad Tripathy, Sopheak Thai, Natalie Lorent, Kim Eam Khun, Johan van Griensven, Ajay M. V. Kumar and Rony Zachariah
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:575
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  40. Patient reported outcome measures are frequently used standard questionnaires or tools designed to collect information from patients regarding their health status and care. Their use enables accurate and relev...

    Authors: Bridget Johnston, Kate Flemming, Melanie Jay Narayanasamy, Carolyn Coole and Beth Hardy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:574
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  41. Traditional gender roles result in women lagging behind men in the use of modern technologies, especially in developing countries. Although there is rapid uptake of mobile phone use in Bangladesh, investigatio...

    Authors: Fatema Khatun, Anita E. Heywood, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi, M. Shafiqur Rahman, Pradeep K. Ray, Siaw-Teng Liaw and Abbas Bhuiya
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:573
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  43. Very preterm (VPT) children, with a birth weight below 1500 g or delivered before 32 weeks of gestational age, are at increased risk of poorer long-term health outcomes and higher rates of hospitalization in c...

    Authors: Søren T. Klitkou, Tor Iversen, Hans J. Stensvold and Arild Rønnestad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:571
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  44. Internationally there has been a growth in the use of publicly funded service markets as a mechanism to deliver health and social services. This has accompanied the emergence of ‘self-directed care’ in a numbe...

    Authors: Gemma Carey and Helen Dickinson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:570
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  46. In South Korea, people injured in road traffic accidents receive compensation for medical costs through their automobile insurance. However, the automobile insurance system appears to manage health care ineffi...

    Authors: Kyoung Won Shin, Hyo Jung Lee, Chung Mo Nam, Ki Tae Moon and Eun-Cheol Park
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:567
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  47. Ontario’s large community hospitals (LCHs) provide care to 65% of the province’s hospitalized patients, yet we know very little about their research activities. By searching for research publications from 2013...

    Authors: Giulio DiDiodato, John Alexander DiDiodato and Aidan Samuel McKee
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:566
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  48. Studies on data collection and quality of care in Italian family medicine are lacking. The aim of this study was to assess the completeness of data collection of patients with diabetes in a large sample of fam...

    Authors: Alberto Vaona, Franco Del Zotti, Sandro Girotto, Claudio Marafetti, Giulio Rigon and Alessandro Marcon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:565
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  49. Considerable debate exists concerning the effects of antiretroviral therapy (ART) service scale-up on non-HIV services and overall health system performance in sub-Saharan Africa. In this study, we examined wh...

    Authors: Alexandra Wollum, Emily Dansereau, Nancy Fullman, Jane Achan, Kelsey A. Bannon, Roy Burstein, Ruben O. Conner, Brendan DeCenso, Anne Gasasira, Annie Haakenstad, Michael Hanlon, Gloria Ikilezi, Caroline Kisia, Aubrey J. Levine, Samuel H. Masters, Pamela Njuguna…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:564
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