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  1. Patient’s Informal payments is among the main source of health care financing in some countries. This paper aimed at determining the patient informal payments and relative factors in Cardiac Surgery Department...

    Authors: Ali Vafaei Najar, Hossein Ebrahimipour, Arefeh Pourtaleb, Habibollah Esmaily, Mehdi Jafari, Zohre Nejatzadegan and Yasamin Molavi Taleghani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:205
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  2. Results-based financing (RBF) has been introduced in many countries across Africa and a growing literature is building around the assessment of their impact. These studies are usually quantitative and often si...

    Authors: Matthieu Antony, Maria Paola Bertone and Olivier Barthes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:204
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  3. Antenatal care is one of the three most essential care - antenatal, delivery and post-natal, given to women during pregnancy and has the potential to contribute towards the achievement of the Sustainable Devel...

    Authors: Kwamena Sekyi Dickson, Eugene Kofuor Maafo Darteh and Akwasi Kumi - Kyereme
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:203
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  4. Delirium and dementia (cognitive impairment; CI), are common in older hospital patients, and both are associated with serious adverse outcomes. Despite delirium often being preventable, it is frequently not re...

    Authors: Catherine Travers, Frederick Graham, Amanda Henderson and Elizabeth Beattie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:202
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  5. One aspect to consider when reporting results of observational studies in epidemiology is how quantitative risk factors are analysed. The STROBE (Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemi...

    Authors: Onkabetse V. Mabikwa, Darren C. Greenwood, Paul D. Baxter and Sarah J. Fleming
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:201
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:307

  6. The incidence of type 2 diabetes is increasing, creating a huge burden for China’s social healthcare system. This study aimed to evaluate hospital length of stay (LOS) based on admission characteristics and di...

    Authors: Dajie Chen, Shuai Liu, Xiaodong Tan and Qihan Zhao
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:199
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  7. Hospital readmissions are associated with higher resource utilization and worse patient outcomes. Causes of unplanned readmission to the hospital are multiple with some being better targets for intervention th...

    Authors: Laurel A. Copeland, Laura A. Graham, Joshua S. Richman, Amy K. Rosen, Hillary J. Mull, Edith A. Burns, Jeff Whittle, Kamal M. F. Itani and Mary T. Hawn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:198
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  8. Telenursing triage and advice services are increasingly being used to deliver health advice. Medication-related queries are common, however little research has explored the medication-related calls made to the...

    Authors: Ling Li, Rebecca Lake, Magdalena Z. Raban, Mary Byrne, Maureen Robinson, Johanna Westbrook and Melissa T. Baysari
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:197
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  9. Monitoring for potentially hazardous prescribing is increasingly important to improve medication safety. Healthcare information technology can be used to achieve this aim, for example by providing access to pr...

    Authors: Mark Jeffries, Denham L. Phipps, Rachel L. Howard, Anthony J. Avery, Sarah Rodgers and Darren M. Ashcroft
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:196
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  10. Ethiopia has been deploying specially trained new cadres of community based health workers in urban areas of the country known as urban health extension professionals since 2009. At present, relatively little ...

    Authors: Ewunetu Aberra Gebreegziabher, Feleke Hailemichael Astawesegn, Antehun Alemayehu Anjulo and Mirkuzie Woldie Kerie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:195
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  11. Women who live in remote rural areas encounter different challenges against contraception and often deny the use of modern contraceptive methods. The predictors of modern contraceptive utilization by pastorali...

    Authors: Semere Sileshi Belda, Mekonnen Tegegne Haile, Abulie Takele Melku and Abdurehaman Kalu Tololu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:194
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  12. To accelerate the expansion of primary healthcare coverage, the Ethiopian government started deploying specially trained community health workers named Health Extension Workers (HEWs) in 2003. HEWs work on six...

    Authors: Fentabil Getnet, Abdiwahab Hashi, Sahardid Mohamud, Hassen Mowlid and Eveline Klinkenberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:193
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  13. The vision of Canada’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research is that patients be actively engaged as partners in health research. Support units have been created across Canada to build capacity in patient-ori...

    Authors: Holly Etchegary, Lisa Bishop, Catherine Street, Kris Aubrey-Bassler, Dale Humphries, Lidewij Eva Vat and Brendan Barrett
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:192
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  14. Authors: Levison Stanely Chiwaula, Gowokani Chijere Chirwa, Fabian Cataldo, Atupele Kapito-Tembo, Mina C. Hosseinipour, Monique van Lettow, Hannock Tweya, Virginia Kayoyo, Blessings Khangamwa-Kaunda, Florence Kasende, Clement Trapence, Salem Gugsa, Nora E. Rosenberg, Michael Eliya and Sam Phiri
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:191
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:136

  15. Tuberculosis control programs rely on accurate collection of routine surveillance data to inform program decisions including resource allocation and specific interventions. The electronic TB register (ETR.Net)...

    Authors: A. W. Dreyer, D. Mbambo, M. Machaba, C. E. M. Oliphant and M. M. Claassens
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:190
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  16. Pakistan, being a developing country, presents the dismal picture of maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity. The majority of maternal and neonatal deaths could be avoided if Continuum of Care (CoC) is p...

    Authors: Sarosh Iqbal, Sidra Maqsood, Rubeena Zakar, Muhammad Zakria Zakar and Florian Fischer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:189
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  17. Despite Nigeria’s high HIV prevalence, voluntary testing and counselling rates remain low. UNAIDS/WHO/CDC recommends provider-initiated testing and counselling (PITC) for HIV in settings with high HIV prevalen...

    Authors: Felix A. Ogbo, Andrew Mogaji, Pascal Ogeleka, Kingsley E. Agho, John Idoko, Terver Zua Tule and Andrew Page
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:188
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  18. Substantial improvements have been observed in the coverage of and access to maternal health service, especially in skilled birth attendants, in Ethiopia. However, the quality of care has been lagging behind. ...

    Authors: Girmatsion Fisseha, Yemane Berhane, Alemayehu Worku and Wondwossen Terefe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:187
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  19. Practice guidelines (PGs) can assist health care practitioners and patients to make decisions about health care options. A key component of high quality PGs is the consideration of patient values and preferenc...

    Authors: Melissa C. Brouwers, Marija Vukmirovic, Karen Spithoff and Julie Makarski
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:186
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  21. Ethiopia has experienced rapid improvements in its healthcare infrastructure, such as through the recent scale up of integrated community case management (iCCM) delivered by community-based health extension wo...

    Authors: Bryan Shaw, Agbessi Amouzou, Nathan P. Miller, Jennifer Bryce and Pamela J. Surkan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:184
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  22. Service satisfaction is integral to quality of care and measures are therefore considered important indicators of quality. Patient’s responses to their experiences of using services are under-researched in the...

    Authors: Rosie Mayston, Kassahun Habtamu, Girmay Medhin, Atalay Alem, Abebaw Fekadu, Alehegn Habtamu, Martin Prince and Charlotte Hanlon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:183
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  23. Treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is complex, lengthy, and involves a minimum of four drugs termed a background regimen (BR), that have not previously been prescribed or that have proven s...

    Authors: Daniel Wirth, Ramesh Dass and Robert Hettle
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:182
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  24. Alcohol Brief Intervention (ABI) uses a motivational counselling approach to support individuals to reduce excessive alcohol consumption. There is growing evidence on ABI’s use within various health care setti...

    Authors: Jean M. McQueen, Claire Ballinger and Tracey E. Howe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:181
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  25. Many health systems have implemented integrated care as an alternative approach to health care delivery that is more appropriate for patients with complex, long-term needs. The objective of this article was to...

    Authors: Loraine Busetto, Jörn Kiselev, Katrien Ger Luijkx, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen and Hubertus Johannes Maria Vrijhoef
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:180
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  26. Against the background of well-described associations between oral and general health, collaboration between dentists and general practitioners (GP) is crucial to provide therapeutic and preventive patient car...

    Authors: Khira Sippli, Monika A. Rieger and Fabian Huettig
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:179
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  27. Despite its prominence, intimate partner violence (IPV) against women has received little attention in Ethiopia. And as many of sub-Saharan African countries, maternal health care services utilization remains ...

    Authors: Bedru Hussen Mohammed, Janice Mary Johnston, Joseph I. Harwell, Huso Yi, Katrina Wai-kay Tsang and Jemal Ali Haidar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:178
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  28. The assessment of quality of care is an integral part of modern medicine. The referral represents the handing over of care from the general practitioner to the specialist. This study aimed to assess whether an...

    Authors: Henrik Wåhlberg, Per Christian Valle, Siri Malm, Øistein Hovde and Ann Ragnhild Broderstad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:177
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  29. Recruiting patients to health promotion programmes who will benefit is crucial to success. A key policy driver for health promotion in older people is to reduce health and social care use. Our aim was to descr...

    Authors: John A. Ford, Kalpa Kharicha, Caroline S. Clarke, Allan Clark, Steve Iliffe, Claire Goodman, Jill Manthorpe, Nick Steel and Kate Walters
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:176
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  30. In May 2009, the Northern Ireland government introduced General Dental Services (GDS) contracts based on capitation in dental practices newly set up by a corporate dental provider to promote access to dental c...

    Authors: Harry Hill, Stephen Birch, Martin Tickle, Ruth McDonald, Michael Donaldson, Donncha O’Carolan and Paul Brocklehurst
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:175
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  31. Compassion has become a topic of increasing interest within healthcare over recent years. Yet despite its raised profile, little research has investigated how compassionate care is enacted and what it means to...

    Authors: Stephanie Tierney, Kate Seers, Elizabeth Tutton and Joanne Reeve
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:174
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  32. Lung cancer patients are often diagnosed in an advanced stage of disease. In a situation of palliative treatment, both patients and their relatives experience existential burden. Evidence suggests that multi-p...

    Authors: Anika Sparla, Sebastian Flach-Vorgang, Matthias Villalobos, Katja Krug, Martina Kamradt, Kadiatou Coulibaly, Joachim Szecsenyi, Michael Thomas, Sinikka Gusset-Bährer and Dominik Ose
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:173
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  34. Non-communicable diseases, including diabetes mellitus and hypertension, continue to disproportionately burden low- and middle-income countries. However, little research has been done to establish current prac...

    Authors: Annette M. Dekker, Ashley E. Amick, Cecilia Scholcoff and Ashti Doobay-Persaud
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:171
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  35. Management of chronic conditions can be complex and burdensome for patients and complex and costly for health systems. Outcomes could be improved and costs reduced if proven clinical interventions were better ...

    Authors: Melanie Harris, Sharon J. Lawn, Andrea Morello, Malcolm W. Battersby, Julie Ratcliffe, R. Doug McEvoy and Jennifer J. Tieman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:170
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  36. Implementing the value-based healthcare concept (VBHC) is a growing management trend in Swedish healthcare organizations. The aim of this study is to explore how representatives of four pilot project teams exp...

    Authors: Kerstin Nilsson, Fredrik Bååthe, Annette Erichsen Andersson, Ewa Wikström and Mette Sandoff
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:169
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  37. In 2012, Switzerland has introduced a diagnosis related group (DRG) system for hospital financing to increase the efficiency and transparency of hospital services and to reduce costs. However, little is known ...

    Authors: Christoph Napierala and Stefan Boes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:168
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  38. In Europe, scant information is available about prescription practices for pain medications. The aim of this research was to assess changes in prescription rates of non-opioid, weak opioid, and strong opioid m...

    Authors: Maria M. Wertli, Oliver Reich, Andri Signorell, Jakob M. Burgstaller, Johann Steurer and Ulrike Held
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:167
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  39. Developing new medicines relies on the successful conduct of clinical trials. As trial protocols become more arduous, it becomes harder to recruit and retain patient volunteers, although recent efforts such as...

    Authors: Pronabesh DasMahapatra, Priya Raja, Jeremy Gilbert and Paul Wicks
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:166
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  42. Australia has a universal health care system and a comprehensive safety net. Despite this, outcomes for Australians living in rural and remote areas are worse than those living in cities. This study will exami...

    Authors: Margaret I Rolfe, Deborah Anne Donoghue, Jo M Longman, Jennifer Pilcher, Sue Kildea, Sue Kruske, Jude Kornelsen, Stefan Grzybowski, Lesley Barclay and Geoffrey Gerard Morgan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:163
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  43. Somatic comorbidities are a serious problem in patients with severe mental illnesses. These comorbidities often remain undiagnosed for a long time. In Germany, physicians are not allowed to access patients’ he...

    Authors: Christina Dornquast, Juliane Tomzik, Thomas Reinhold, Matthias Walle, Norbert Mönter and Anne Berghöfer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:162
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  44. Despite the complexity of drug use, a number of indicators have been developed, standardized and evaluated by the World Health Organization (WHO). These indicators are grouped in to three categories namely: pr...

    Authors: Mekonnen Sisay, Getnet Mengistu, Bereket Molla, Firehiwot Amare and Tesfaye Gabriel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:161
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  45. Home delivery of antiretroviral therapy (ART) by community health workers (CHWs) may improve ART retention by reducing the time burden and out-of-pocket expenditures to regularly attend an ART clinic. In addit...

    Authors: Pascal Geldsetzer, Joel M. Francis, Nzovu Ulenga, David Sando, Irene A. Lema, Eric Mboggo, Maria Vaikath, Happiness Koda, Sharon Lwezaula, Janice Hu, Ramadhani A. Noor, Ibironke Olofin, Elysia Larson, Wafaie Fawzi and Till Bärnighausen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:160
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  46. The private health sector is a primary source of curative care for childhood illnesses in many low- and middle-income countries. Therefore ensuring appropriate private sector care is an important step towards ...

    Authors: Aurélie Brunie, Rachel Lenzi, Anamika Lahiri and Rasa Izadnegahdar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:159
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  47. Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the commonest cause of preventable blindness in working age populations, but up to 98% of visual loss secondary to DR can be prevented with early detection and treatment. In 2012, ...

    Authors: Nicola M. Glasson, Sarah L. Larkins and Lisa J. Crossland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:158
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  48. In the last decade, the health status of Afghans has improved drastically. However, the health financing system in Afghanistan remains fragile due to high out-of-pocket spending and reliance on donor funding. ...

    Authors: Wu Zeng, Christine Kim, Lauren Archer, Omarzaman Sayedi, Mohammad Yousuf Jabarkhil and Kathleen Sears
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:157
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  49. Patient satisfaction with doctor-patient interactions is an indicator of physicians’ competence. The satisfaction of diabetes patients is rarely studied in public diabetes clinics of Pakistan. Thus, this study...

    Authors: Aisha Jalil, Rubeena Zakar, Muhammad Zakria Zakar and Florian Fischer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:155
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  50. Previous studies have demonstrated that organized, multidisciplinary care is the cornerstone of current strategies to reduce the death and disability caused by stroke. Identification of stroke units and an und...

    Authors: Valeria E. Rac, Yeva Sahakyan, Iris Fan, Luciano Ieraci, Ruth Hall, Linda Kelloway, Gabrielle van der Velde, Moira K. Kapral, Mark Bayley and Murray Krahn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:154
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