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  1. The Normalization Process Model is a theoretical model that assists in explaining the processes by which complex interventions become routinely embedded in health care practice. It offers a framework for process ...

    Authors: Carl May, Tracy Finch, Frances Mair, Luciana Ballini, Christopher Dowrick, Martin Eccles, Linda Gask, Anne MacFarlane, Elizabeth Murray, Tim Rapley, Anne Rogers, Shaun Treweek, Paul Wallace, George Anderson, Jo Burns and Ben Heaven

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:148

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  2. In Mexico, inappropriate prescription of drugs with potential interactions causing serious risks to patient health has been little studied. Work in this area has focused mainly on hospitalized patients, with o...

    Authors: Svetlana Vladislavovna Doubova (Dubova), Hortensia Reyes-Morales, Laura del Pilar Torres-Arreola and Magdalena Suárez-Ortega

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:147

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  3. Severe mental illness (SMI) has been associated with more medical co-morbidity and less cardiovascular procedure use for older patients with myocardial infarction. However, it is unknown whether SMI is associa...

    Authors: Mary E Plomondon, P Michael Ho, Li Wang, Gwendolyn T Greiner, James H Shore, Joseph T Sakai, Stephan D Fihn and John S Rumsfeld

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:146

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  4. The first step of handling health promotion (HP) in Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) is a systematic documentation and registration of the activities in the medical records. So far the possibility and tradition...

    Authors: Hanne Tønnesen, Mette E Christensen, Oliver Groene, Ann O'Riordan, Fabrizio Simonelli, Lagle Suurorg, Denise Morris, Peder Vibe, Susan Himel and Poul Erik Hansen

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:145

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  5. Inter-professional learning (IPL) and inter-professional practice (IPP) are thought to be critical determinants of effective care, improved quality and safety and enhanced provider morale, yet few empirical st...

    Authors: Jeffrey Braithwaite, Johanna I Westbrook, A Ruth Foxwell, Rosalie Boyce, Timothy Devinney, Marc Budge, Karen Murphy, Mary-Ann Ryall, Jenny Beutel, Rebecca Vanderheide, Elizabeth Renton, Joanne Travaglia, Judy Stone, Amanda Barnard, David Greenfield, Angus Corbett…

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:144

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  7. Previous research suggests that women admitted to hospital with acute myocardial infarction (MI) are managed less intensively than men. Chronic stable angina is the commonest clinical manifestation of coronary...

    Authors: Mike Crilly, Peter Bundred, Xiyuan Hu, Lisa Leckey and Fiona Johnstone

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:142

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  9. In Japan, as in many other countries, several quality and safety assurance measures have been implemented since the 1990's. This has occurred in spite of cost containment efforts. Although government and hospi...

    Authors: Kenshi Hayashida, Yuichi Imanaka and Haruhisa Fukuda

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:140

    Content type: Research article

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  10. The challenge of finding practical, patient-rated outcome measures is a key issue in the evaluation of health care systems and interventions. The ORIDL (Outcome in Relation to Impact on Daily Living) instrumen...

    Authors: David Reilly, Stewart W Mercer, Annemieke P Bikker and Tansy Harrison

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:139

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  11. Nearly half of all patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) receive red blood cell (pRBC) transfusions (TFs), despite their associated complications. Restrictive transfusion strategy (Hemoglobin [Hb] < 7 g/dL...

    Authors: Marya D Zilberberg and Andrew F Shorr

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:138

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  12. In response to limited resources, health care systems have adopted diverse cost-containment strategies and give priority to differing types of interventions. The perception of physicians, who witness the effec...

    Authors: Samia A Hurst, Reidun Forde, Stella Reiter-Theil, Anne-Marie Slowther, Arnaud Perrier, Renzo Pegoraro and Marion Danis

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:137

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  13. Diabetes is a chronic illness which requires the individual to assume responsibility for their own care with the aim of maintaining glucose and blood pressure levels as close to normal as possible. Traditional...

    Authors: Gillian Paul, Susan M Smith, David Whitford, Fergus O'Kelly and Tom O'Dowd

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:136

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  14. Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is a major health problem worldwide. Detection of the most infectious cases of tuberculosis – sputum smear-positive pulmonary cases – by passive case finding is an essential compone...

    Authors: Chatarina U Wahyuni, Budiono, Lutfia Dwi Rahariyani, Muji Sulistyowati, Tety Rachmawati, Djuwari, Sri Yuliwati and Marieke J van der Werf

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:135

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  15. Ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSC), such as hypertension, diabetes, chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma, are conditions that can be managed with timely and effectiv...

    Authors: Paolo Rizza, Aida Bianco, Maria Pavia and Italo F Angelillo

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:134

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  16. Optimal care of patients is dependent on good professional interaction between general practitioners and general hospital physicians. In Norway this is mainly based upon referral and discharge letters. The mai...

    Authors: Helge Garåsen and Roar Johnsen

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:133

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  17. Current health policies assume that prescribing is more efficient and rational when general practitioners (GPs) work with a formulary or restricted drugs lists and thus with a limited range of drugs. Therefore...

    Authors: Dinny H de Bakker, Dayline SV Coffie, Eibert R Heerdink, Liset van Dijk and Peter P Groenewegen

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:132

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  19. Hospital in the home programs have been implemented in several countries and have been shown to be safe substitutions (alternatives) to in-patient hospitalization. These programs may offer a solution to the in...

    Authors: Jacques Lemelin, William E Hogg, Simone Dahrouge, Catherine Deri Armstrong, Carmel M Martin, Wei Zhang, Jo-Anne Dusseault, Joy Parsons-Nicota, Raphael Saginur and Gary Viner

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:130

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  21. The official statistics of persons with mental disorders who are granted disability pension (DP) in Russia and Norway indicate large differences between the countries.

    Authors: Grigory Rezvyy, Walter Schönfelder, Terje Øiesvold, Reidun Olstad and Georges Midré

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:128

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  22. To date, mental health problems and mental workload have been increasingly related to long-term sick leave and disability. However, there is, as yet, no structured protocol available for the identification and...

    Authors: Sandra H van Oostrom, Johannes R Anema, Berend Terluin, Anita Venema, Henrica CW de Vet and Willem van Mechelen

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:127

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  24. Tailor-made approaches enable the uptake of interventions as they are seen as a way to overcome the incompatibility of general interventions with local knowledge about the organisation of routine medical pract...

    Authors: Yvonne JFM Jansen, Antoinette de Bont, Marleen Foets, Marc Bruijnzeels and Roland Bal

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:125

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  25. Compliance is a major issue in glaucoma care. It is usually poor in glaucomatous patients, and may ultimately result in an acceleration of the disease progression and a risk of blindness. Reasons for this poor...

    Authors: Jean-Philippe Nordmann, Philippe Denis, Marc Vigneux, Elyse Trudeau, Isabelle Guillemin and Gilles Berdeaux

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:124

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  26. In order to facilitate the collaborative design, system dynamics (SD) with a group modelling approach was used in the early stages of planning a new stroke unit. During six workshops a SD model was created in ...

    Authors: Marie Elf, Mariya Putilova, Lena von Koch and Kerstin Öhrn

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:123

    Content type: Correspondence

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  27. Outpatient drugs are dispensed through both community and mail order pharmacies. There is no empirical evidence that substitution of community pharmacy with mail order reduces overall drug expenditures. The ne...

    Authors: Satish Valluri, Enrique Seoane-Vazquez, Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio and Sheryl L Szeinbach

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:122

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  28. The Health and Health Services Research Fund (HHSRF) is dedicated to support research related to all aspects of health and health services in Hong Kong. We evaluated the fund's outcomes and explored factors as...

    Authors: Patrick Kwan, Janice Johnston, Anne YK Fung, Doris SY Chong, Richard A Collins and Su V Lo

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:121

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  31. The extent to which clinical and non-clinical factors impact on the waiting-list prioritization preferences of patients in the queue is unknown. Using a series of hypothetical scenarios, the objective of this ...

    Authors: Katy Shufelt, Alice Chong and David A Alter

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:118

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  32. Generic community mental health teams (CMHTs) currently deliver specialist mental health care in England. Policy dictates that CMHTs focus on those patients with greatest need but it has proved difficult to es...

    Authors: Carolyn Chew-Graham, Mike Slade, Carolyn Montana, Mairi Stewart and Linda Gask

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:117

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  33. A number of intensive care (ICU) patients experience significant problems with physical, psychological, and social functioning for some time after discharge from ICU. These problems have implications not just ...

    Authors: Brian H Cuthbertson, Janice Rattray, Marie Johnston, J Anthony Wildsmith, Edward Wilson, Rodolfo Hernendez, Craig Ramsey, Alastair M Hull, John Norrie and Marion Campbell

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:116

    Content type: Study protocol

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  34. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the knee is the second most common MRI examination in Norway after head/brain MRI. Little has been published internationally on trends in the use of knee MRI after 1999. Thi...

    Authors: Ansgar Espeland, Nils L Natvig, Ingard Løge, Lars Engebretsen and Jostein Ellingsen

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:115

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  35. Most of the about 140 million informal sector workers in urban China do not have health insurance. A 1998 central government policy leaves it to the discretion of municipal governments to offer informal sector...

    Authors: Till Bärnighausen, Yuanli Liu, Xinping Zhang and Rainer Sauerborn

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:114

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  36. The UK has witnessed a considerable increase in immigration in the past decade. Migrant may face barriers to accessing appropriate health care on arrival and the current focus on screening certain migrants for...

    Authors: Graham Cooke, Sally Hargreaves, Jana Natkunarajah, Gurjinder Sandhu, Devesh Dhasmana, Joseph Eliahoo, Alison Holmes and Jon S Friedland

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:113

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  37. Since 1976, Medicare has linked reimbursement for hospitals performing organ transplants to the attainment of certain benchmarks, including transplant volume. While Medicare is a stakeholder in all transplant ...

    Authors: John M Hollingsworth, Sarah L Krein, David C Miller, Sonya DeMonner and Brent K Hollenbeck

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:112

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  38. An increasing number of newly trained Dutch GPs prefer to work in a group practice and as a non-principal rather than in a single-handed practice. In view of the greater number of female doctors, changing prac...

    Authors: Tanja Maiorova, Fred Stevens, Lud van der Velden, Albert Scherpbier and Jouke van der Zee

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:111

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  39. To identify differences among men and women with acute coronary syndrome in terms of in-hospital mortality, and to assess whether these differences are related to the use of percutaneous cardiovascular procedu...

    Authors: María J Aguado-Romeo, Soledad Márquez-Calderón and María L Buzón-Barrera

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:110

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  40. The Belgian and Dutch societies present many similarities but differ with regard to the organisation of maternity care. The Dutch way of giving birth is well known for its high percentage of home births and it...

    Authors: Wendy Christiaens, Anneleen Gouwy and Piet Bracke

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:109

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  41. Economic theory and limited empirical data suggest that costs per unit of HIV prevention program output (unit costs) will initially decrease as small programs expand. Unit costs may then reach a nadir and star...

    Authors: Elliot Marseille, Lalit Dandona, Nell Marshall, Paul Gaist, Sergio Bautista-Arredondo, Brandi Rollins, Stefano M Bertozzi, Jerry Coovadia, Joseph Saba, Dmitry Lioznov, Jo-Ann Du Plessis, Evgeny Krupitsky, Nicci Stanley, Mead Over, Alena Peryshkina, SG Prem Kumar…

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:108

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  42. Collaboration between providers of conventional care and complementary therapies (CTs) has gained in popularity but there is a lack of conceptualised models for delivering such care, i.e. integrative medicine ...

    Authors: Tobias Sundberg, Jeremy Halpin, Anders Warenmark and Torkel Falkenberg

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:107

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  43. In order to accurately distinguish gaps of varying length in drug treatment for chronic conditions from discontinuation without resuming therapy, short-term observation does not suffice. Thus, the use of inhal...

    Authors: Tanja T Menckeberg, Svetlana V Belitser, Marcel L Bouvy, Madelon Bracke, Jan-Willem J Lammers, Jan AM Raaijmakers and Hubert GM Leufkens

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:106

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  44. Despite the promotion of Community Health Insurance (CHI) in Uganda in the second half of the 90's, mainly under the impetus of external aid organisations, overall membership has remained low. Today, some 30,0...

    Authors: Robert Basaza, Bart Criel and Patrick Van der Stuyft

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:105

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  45. Clinicians, nurses, and managers in hospitals are continuously confronted by new technologies and methods that require changes to working practice. Quality systems can help to manage change while maintaining a...

    Authors: Stefan Kunkel, Urban Rosenqvist and Ragnar Westerling

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:104

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  47. Lower respiratory tract infections like acute bronchitis, exacerbated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and community-acquired pneumonia are often unnecessarily treated with antibiotics, mainly because of ...

    Authors: Philipp Schuetz, Mirjam Christ-Crain, Marcel Wolbers, Ursula Schild, Robert Thomann, Claudine Falconnier, Isabelle Widmer, Stefanie Neidert, Claudine A Blum, Ronald Schönenberger, Christoph Henzen, Thomas Bregenzer, Claus Hoess, Martin Krause, Heiner C Bucher, Werner Zimmerli…

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:102

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  48. The satisfaction and the quality of life perceived by professionals have implications for the performance of health organizations. We have assessed the variations in professional quality of life (PQL) and thei...

    Authors: Jesus Martin-Fernandez, Tomas Gomez-Gascon, Milagros Beamud-Lagos, Jose Alfonso Cortes-Rubio and Angel Alberquilla-Menendez-Asenjo

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:101

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  49. Work capacity correlates weakly to disease concepts, which in turn are insufficient to explain sick leave behavior. With data mainly from Sweden, a welfare state with high sickness absence rates, our aim was t...

    Authors: Hans O Thulesius and Birgitta E Grahn

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:100

    Content type: Research article

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