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  1. Globally, the rate of emergency hospital admissions is increasing. However, little evidence exists to inform the development of interventions to reduce unplanned Emergency Department (ED) attendances and hospi...

    Authors: Sarah H. Credé, Colin O’Keeffe, Suzanne Mason, Anthea Sutton, Emma Howe, Susan J. Croft and Mike Whiteside
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:355
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  2. Cervical cancer is currently the leading cause of cancer mortality among women in South Vietnam and the second leading cause of cancer mortality in North Vietnam. Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination has the...

    Authors: Hoang Van Minh, Nguyen Thi Tuyet My and Mark Jit
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:353
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  3. Japan has the highest rate of aging. To contain Long-Term Care (LTC) Insurance costs, the Japanese government is attempting to increase the proportion of individuals receiving home care services. However, dema...

    Authors: Kentaro Sugimoto, Masayo Kashiwagi and Nanako Tamiya
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:352
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  4. Reliance on interdisciplinary teams in the delivery of primary care is on the rise. Funding bodies strive to design financial environments that support collaboration between providers. At present, the design o...

    Authors: W. Dominika Wranik, Susan M. Haydt, Alan Katz, Adrian R. Levy, Maryna Korchagina, Jeanette M. Edwards and Ian Bower
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:351
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  5. In the Netherlands, ethnic minority populations visit their general practitioner (GP) more often than the indigenous population. An explanation for this association is lacking. Recently, health literacy is sug...

    Authors: Marieke van der Gaag, Iris van der Heide, Peter M. M. Spreeuwenberg, Anne E. M. Brabers and Jany J. D. J. M. Rademakers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:350
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  6. Empirical evidence shows that family involvement (FI) can play a pivotal role in the coping and recovery of persons with severe mental illness (SMI). Nevertheless, various studies demonstrate that FI in mental...

    Authors: Elleke Landeweer, Bert Molewijk, Marit Helene Hem and Reidar Pedersen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:349
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  7. Frequent use (FU) of hospital services impacts on patients and health service expenditure. Studies examining FU in emergency departments and inpatient settings have found heterogeneity and the need to differen...

    Authors: Adelle M. Springer, John R. Condon, Shu Q. Li and Steven L. Guthridge
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:348
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  8. Accurate calculation of hospital length of stay (LOS) from the English Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) is important for a wide range of audit and research purposes. The two methodologies which are commonly u...

    Authors: John Busby, Sarah Purdy and William Hollingworth
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:347
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  10. There is strong public support for acute hospital services to move to genuine 7-day models, including access to multidisciplinary team assessment. This study aimed to identify factors that might enable an effe...

    Authors: Lisa O’Brien, Deb Mitchell, Elizabeth H. Skinner, Romi Haas, Marcelle Ghaly, Fiona McDermott, Kerry May and Terry Haines
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:345
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  11. The judgment and decision making process during guideline development is central for producing high-quality clinical practice guidelines, but the topic is relatively underexplored in the guideline research lit...

    Authors: Linda Richter Sundberg, Rickard Garvare and Monica Elisabeth Nyström
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:344
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  12. Cancer treatment can diminish fertility in women and men. The need for fertility preservation is growing as increasing numbers of people survive cancer. Cryostorage of reproductive material to preserve potenti...

    Authors: Karin Hammarberg, Maggie Kirkman, Catharyn Stern, Robert I. McLachlan, Debra Gook, Luk Rombauts, Beverley Vollenhoven and Jane R. W. Fisher
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:343
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  13. This is the fifth in a series of papers reporting Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) in a local healthcare setting. This paper synthesises the findings from Phase One of ...

    Authors: Claire Harris, Kelly Allen, Cara Waller, Sally Green, Richard King, Wayne Ramsey, Cate Kelly and Malar Thiagarajan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:342
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  14. HIV treatment models in Africa are labour intensive and require a high number of skilled staff. In this context, task-shifting is considered a feasible alternative for ART service delivery. In 2006, a lay heal...

    Authors: Megan Landes, Courtney Thompson, Edson Mwinjiwa, Edith Thaulo, Chrissie Gondwe, Harriet Akello and Adrienne K. Chan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:341
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  15. This is the third in a series of papers reporting a program of Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) in a local healthcare setting. Leaders in a large Australian health serv...

    Authors: Claire Harris, Kelly Allen, Cara Waller and Vanessa Brooke
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:340
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  16. The diagnosis of motor neurone disease (MND) is known to be challenging and there may be delay in patients receiving a correct diagnosis. This study investigated the referral process for patients who had been ...

    Authors: Susan Baxter and Christopher J. McDermott
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:339
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  17. Staff who plan and organize day center activities may need to observe the attendees’ performance and progression. This led us to develop a tool for that purpose, termed General Occupational Engagement in peopl...

    Authors: Mona Eklund and Ulrika Bejerholm
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:338
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  18. Psoriasis is a multifactorial, inflammatory, skin disease associated with various comorbidities. The cost of those comorbidities is not well characterized. The present study assesses the incremental burden of ...

    Authors: Steven R. Feldman, Haijun Tian, Isabelle Gilloteau, Patrick Mollon and Meng Shu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:337
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  19. In Italy, copayment has changed its nature and it can no longer be simply considered a system to curb inappropriate expenditure. It has become an important form of revenue for public health care provision, but...

    Authors: Paolo Berta, Rosella Levaggi, Gianmaria Martini and Stefano Verzillo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:336
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  20. There is growing interest in the expansion of community health workers programmes in low- and middle-income countries as a cost-effective approach to address shortages of health professionals. However, our und...

    Authors: Marco Liverani, Chea Nguon, Ra Sok, Daro Kim, Panharith Nou, Sokhan Nguon and Shunmay Yeung
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:335
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  21. ‘Failure to rescue’ of hospitalized patients with deteriorating physiology on general wards is caused by a complex array of organisational, technical and cultural failures including a lack of standardized team...

    Authors: Christian P. Subbe, John Kellett, Paul Barach, Catriona Chaloner, Hayley Cleaver, Tim Cooksley, Erik Korsten, Eilish Croke, Elinor Davis, Ashley JR De Bie, Lesley Durham, Chris Hancock, Jilian Hartin, Tracy Savijn and John Welch
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:334
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  22. Waiting times for hospital appointments, treatment and/or surgery have become a major political and health service problem, leading to national maximum waiting times and policies to reduce waiting times. Quant...

    Authors: Paul R. Ward, Philippa Rokkas, Clinton Cenko, Mariastella Pulvirenti, Nicola Dean, A. Simon Carney and Samantha Meyer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:333
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  23. Acute diabetic emergencies are often managed by prehospital Emergency Medical Services (EMS). The projected growth in prevalence of diabetes is likely to result in rising demand for prehospital EMS that are al...

    Authors: Melanie Villani, Arul Earnest, Natalie Nanayakkara, Karen Smith, Barbora de Courten and Sophia Zoungas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:332
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  24. The lack of proven efficacy of new healthcare interventions represents a problem for health systems globally. It is partly related to suboptimal implementation processes, leading to poor adoption of new interv...

    Authors: Joana Mora, Miren David Iturralde, Lucía Prieto, Cristina Domingo, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Catalina Martínez-Carazo, Anna Giné March, Daniele De Massari, Tino Martí, Marco Nalin, Francesca Avolio, Jean Bousquet and Esteban de Manuel Keenoy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:331
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  25. Thyroid cancer incidence is increasing in the United States (US) and many other countries. The objective of this study was to develop and evaluate algorithms using administrative medical claims data for identi...

    Authors: Donnie Funch, Douglas Ross, Betsey M. Gardstein, Heather S. Norman, Lauren A. Sanders, Atheline Major-Pedersen, Helge Gydesen and David D. Dore
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:330
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  26. This is the fourth in a series of papers reporting a program of Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) in a local healthcare setting. Healthcare decision-makers have sought t...

    Authors: Claire Harris, Henry Ko, Cara Waller, Pamela Sloss and Pamela Williams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:329
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  27. This is the second in a series of papers reporting a program of Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) in a local healthcare setting. Rising healthcare costs, continuing adva...

    Authors: Claire Harris, Kelly Allen, Richard King, Wayne Ramsey, Cate Kelly and Malar Thiagarajan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:328
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  28. Readmission penalties are central to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) efforts to improve patient outcomes and reduce health care spending. However, many clinicians believe that readmission ...

    Authors: Laurent G. Glance, Yue Li and Andrew W. Dick
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:327
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  30. High quality sexual health services are needed to improve both individual and public health outcomes. This study set out to explore what is important to patients who visit a sexual health clinic, and examine t...

    Authors: Alison R. Howarth, Sophie Day, Linda Greene and Helen Ward
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:325
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  31. Patient empowerment is a key element to improve the results in health, increase satisfaction amongst users and obtain higher treatment compliance. The main objective of this study is to validate the Spanish ve...

    Authors: Paloma Garcimartin, Josep Comin-Colet, Pilar Delgado-Hito, Neus Badosa-Marcé and Anna Linas-Alonso
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:324
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  32. This is the first in a series of papers reporting Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE). The SHARE Program is an investigation of concepts, opportunities, methods and implic...

    Authors: Claire Harris, Sally Green, Wayne Ramsey, Kelly Allen and Richard King
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:323
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  33. Research in patient safety is an important area of health services research and is a national priority. It is challenging to investigate rare occurrences, explore potential causes, and account for the complex,...

    Authors: Jeanne-Marie Guise, Matthew Hansen, William Lambert and Kerth O’Brien
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:322
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  34. Patients’ satisfaction is an indicator of the quality of healthcare services. Its measurement involves developing and validating complex instruments. The purpose of this study was to validate a scale for measu...

    Authors: Mauricio Sanabria-Arenas, Julia Tobón- Marín, María Claudia Certuche-Quintana and Ricardo Sánchez-Pedraza
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:321
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  35. Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) has the country’s highest incidence and prevalence of kidney disease. Indigenous people from remote areas suffer the heaviest disease burden. Concerns regarding cost and sus...

    Authors: Gillian Gorham, Kirsten Howard, Samantha Togni, Paul Lawton, Jaquelyne Hughes, Sandawana William Majoni, Sarah Brown, Sue Barnes and Alan Cass
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:320
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  36. The inequality in health outcomes between Indigenous (Throughout the paper, the term Indigenous will be used to represent both Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander Australians.) and non-Indigenous...

    Authors: Jessica Conway, George Tsourtos and Sharon Lawn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:319
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  37. Delayed hospital discharge (also known as Alternate Level of Care or ALC) is a global health care quality issue with negative implications for people (e.g., functional decline) and the health care system (e.g....

    Authors: Kerry Kuluski, Jennifer Im and Mary McGeown
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:318
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  38. In Brazil, community health workers have gathered monthly information on people with disabilities to maintain the Primary Care Information System since 1998; however, few studies have used this database for sc...

    Authors: Fernando Rocha Lucena Lopes, Karolinne Souza Monteiro, Thalita Figueiredo, Thyago da Costa Wanderley, Thiago de Almeida Pequeno, Shirley Lima and Silvana Santos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:317
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  39. Prevention interventions for people living with HIV/AIDS are an important component of HIV programs. We report the results of a pilot evaluation of a four-hour, clinic-based training for healthcare providers i...

    Authors: Christopher G. Kemp, Julia de Kadt, Erushka Pillay, Jennifer M. Gilvydis, Evasen Naidoo, Jessica Grignon and Marcia R. Weaver
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:316
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  40. The goal of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act is to eliminate differences in insurance coverage between behavioral health and general medical care. The law requ...

    Authors: Susan H. Busch, Emma E. Mcginty, Elizabeth A. Stuart, Haiden A. Huskamp, Teresa B. Gibson, Howard H. Goldman and Colleen L. Barry
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:315
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  41. Urinary tract infection (UTI) as the most common healthcare-associated infection accounts for up to 36% of all healthcare-associated infections. Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) accounts for...

    Authors: Vicki Parker, Michelle Giles, Laura Graham, Belinda Suthers, Wendy Watts, Tony O’Brien and Andrew Searles
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:314
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  42. Good progress is being made towards universal access to contraceptives, however stock-outs still jeopardize progress. A seldom considered but important building block in optimizing supply management is the deg...

    Authors: Heleen Vermandere, Anna Galle, Sally Griffin, Málica de Melo, Lino Machaieie, Dirk Van Braeckel and Olivier Degomme
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:313
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  43. Evidence to inform communication between emergency department clinicians and public health agencies is limited. In the context of diverse, emerging public health incidents, communication is urgent, as emergenc...

    Authors: Yasmin Khan, Sarah Sanford, Doug Sider, Kieran Moore, Gary Garber, Eileen de Villa and Brian Schwartz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:312
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  44. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence, perpetrators and factors associated with workplace violence against nurses in public secondary health care facilities from two health regions in the Gambia.

    Authors: Ebrima J. Sisawo, Saide Yacine Y. Arsène Ouédraogo and Song-Lih Huang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:311
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  45. The success of ‘treatment as prevention’ (TasP) to control HIV relies on the uptake of testing across priority population groups. Innovative strategies including; rapid HIV testing (RHT) in community and outre...

    Authors: Allyson J. Mutch, Chi-Wai Lui, Judith Dean, Limin Mao, Jime Lemoire, Joseph Debattista, Chris Howard, Andrea Whittaker and Lisa Fitzgerald
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:310
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  46. The Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) has nine scales that each measure an aspect of the multidimensional construct of health literacy. All scales have good psychometric properties. However, it is the interp...

    Authors: Melanie Hawkins, Stephen D Gill, Roy Batterham, Gerald R Elsworth and Richard H Osborne
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:309
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  47. Introduction of a health insurance scheme is one of the ways to enhance access to health care services and to protect individuals from catastrophic health expenditures. Little is known on the influence of soci...

    Authors: Ntuli A. Kapologwe, Gibson B. Kagaruki, Albino Kalolo, Mariam Ally, Amani Shao, Manoris Meshack, Manfred Stoermer, Amena Briet, Karin Wiedenmayer and Axel Hoffman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:308
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  49. Despite the rapid adoption of the World Health Organization’s 2013 guidelines, children continue to be infected with HIV perinatally because of sub-optimal adherence to the continuum of HIV care in maternal an...

    Authors: Marcel Yotebieng, Frieda Behets, Bienvenu Kawende, Noro Lantoniaina Rosa Ravelomanana, Martine Tabala and Emile W. Okitolonda
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:306
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  50. Administrative claims of United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) beneficiaries have long been used in non-experimental research. While CMS performs in-house checks of these claims, littl...

    Authors: Charles E. Leonard, Colleen M. Brensinger, Young Hee Nam, Warren B. Bilker, Geralyn M. Barosso, Margaret J. Mangaali and Sean Hennessy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:304
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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