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  1. The increased funding and reimbursement for the New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NRCMS) have provided residents in rural China with better access to inpatient services. This research aims to examine the l...

    Authors: Yan Zhang, Yingchun Chen, Xiang Zhang and Liang Zhang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:649
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  2. Patient participation is important for improving outcomes, respect for self-determination and legal aspects in care. However, how patients with heart failure view participation and which factors may be associa...

    Authors: Lena Näsström, Tiny Jaarsma, Ewa Idvall, Kristofer Årestedt and Anna Strömberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:633
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  4. A quality improvement collaborative is an intensive project involving a combination of implementation strategies applied in a limited “breakthrough” time window. After an implementation project, it is generall...

    Authors: Stephanie MC Ament, Freek Gillissen, Albine Moser, José MC Maessen, Carmen D Dirksen, Maarten F von Meyenfeldt and Trudy van der Weijden
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:641
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  5. Protecting the poor and vulnerable against the cost of unforeseen ill health has become a global concern culminating in the 2005 World Health Assembly resolution urging member states to ensure financial protec...

    Authors: James Akazili, Paul Welaga, Ayaga Bawah, Fabian S Achana, Abraham Oduro, John Koku Awoonor-Williams, John E Williams, Moses Aikins and James F Phillips
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:637
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  6. Clinicians at Norwegian community mental health centres assess referrals from general practitioners and classify them into three priority groups (high priority, low priority, and refusal) according to need whe...

    Authors: Sverre Grepperud, Per Arne Holman and Knut Reidar Wangen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:620
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  7. Mental health related work disability leaves are increasing at alarming rates with depression emerging as the most common mental disorder in the workforce. Treatments are available to alleviate depressive symp...

    Authors: Adeena Wisenthal and Terry Krupa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:530
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  8. Vaccination-impact studies of the live-attenuated pentavalent oral vaccine Rotateq® have demonstrated that the burden of rotavirus gastroenteritis has been reduced significantly after the introduction of RotaT...

    Authors: Susanne Hartwig, Matti Uhari, Marjo Renko, Perrine Bertet, Maria Hemming and Timo Vesikari
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:632
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  9. The objective of our study was to assess the cost-effectiveness of ivabradine plus standard care (SoC) in chronic heart failure (CHF) patients with sinus rhythm and a baseline heart rate ≥ 75 b.p.m. in Greece,...

    Authors: Georgia Kourlaba, John Parissis, Apostolos Karavidas, Alexandra Beletsi, Charalambos Milonas, Neil Branscombe and Nikos Maniadakis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:631
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  10. Continuity of general practitioner (GP) care is associated with reduced use of emergency departments, hospitalisation, and outpatient specialist services. Evidence about the relationship between continuity and...

    Authors: Anne Helen Hansen, Agnete E Kristoffersen, Olaug S Lian and Peder A Halvorsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:629
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  11. Universal health care coverage has been identified as a promising strategy for improving hypertension treatment and control rates in sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Yet, even when quality care is accessible, poor ad...

    Authors: Aina O Odusola, Marleen Hendriks, Constance Schultsz, Oladimeji A Bolarinwa, Tanimola Akande, Akin Osibogun, Charles Agyemang, Gbenga Ogedegbe, Kayode Agbede, Peju Adenusi, Joep Lange, Henk van Weert, Karien Stronks and Joke A Haafkens
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:624
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  12. Established in 1999, the Swedish Maternal Health Care Register (MHCR) collects data on pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period for most pregnant women in Sweden. Antenatal care (ANC) midwives manually ente...

    Authors: Kerstin Petersson, Margareta Persson, Marie Lindkvist, Margareta Hammarström, Ingrid Haglund, Carin Nilses, Yvonne Skogsdal and Ingrid Mogren
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:613
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  13. Policy informs the planning and delivery of rural and remote maternity services and influences the perinatal outcomes of the 30 per cent of Australian women and their babies who live outside the major cities. ...

    Authors: Jennifer Pilcher, Sue Kruske and Lesley Barclay
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:548
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  14. Several countries have introduced generic substitution, but few studies have assessed its effect on refill adherence. This study aimed to analyse whether generic substitution influences refill adherence to sta...

    Authors: Henrik Trusell and Karolina Andersson Sundell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:626
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  15. In 2006, the South African Department of Health adopted and scaled-up loveLife’s Youth Friendly Services (YFS) initiative to a national policy to improve youth utilization of health programmes by strengthening...

    Authors: Brittany Schriver, Kathryn Meagley, Shane Norris, Rebecca Geary and Aryeh D Stein
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:625
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  16. Few previous studies have specifically addressed the health care utilization situation of the physically disabled. This study aimed to investigate the utilization of free adult preventive health care for physi...

    Authors: Suh-May Yen, Pei-Tseng Kung and Wen-Chen Tsai
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:610
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  17. The recent growth of implementation research in care delivery systems has led to a renewed interest in methodological approaches that deliver not only intervention outcome data but also deep understanding of t...

    Authors: Arwen E Bunce, Rachel Gold, James V Davis, Carmit K McMullen, Victoria Jaworski, MaryBeth Mercer and Christine Nelson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:607
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  18. Traumatic spinal cord injury is a devastating condition impacting adversely on the health and wellbeing, functioning and independence, social participation and quality of life of the injured person. In Austral...

    Authors: James M Middleton, Lisa N Sharwood, Peter Cameron, Paul M Middleton, James E Harrison, Doug Brown, Rod McClure, Karen Smith, Sandy Muecke and Sarah Healy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:600
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  19. This paper aims to assess the sensitivity and specificity of exit interviews as a measure of malaria case management practice as compared to direct observation.

    Authors: Justin Pulford, Peter M Siba, Ivo Mueller and Manuel W Hetzel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:628
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  20. Despite the increased availability of anti-retroviral therapy, in-hospital HIV mortality remains high in sub-Saharan Africa. Reports from Senegal, Malawi, and Tanzania show rates of in-hospital, HIV-related mo...

    Authors: Bahati MK Wajanga, Lauren E Webster, Robert N Peck, Jennifer A Downs, Kedar Mate, Luke R Smart and Daniel W Fitzgerald
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:627
    Content type: Review Published on:

  21. The concept of responsiveness, introduced by the World Health Organization (WHO), addresses non-clinical aspects of health service quality that are relevant regardless of provider, country, health system or he...

    Authors: Jacoba van der Kooy, Nicole B Valentine, Erwin Birnie, Marijana Vujkovic, Johanna P de Graaf, Semiha Denktaş, Eric AP Steegers and Gouke J Bonsel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:622
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  22. Choice of hospital based on comparative performance information (CPI) was introduced for Dutch healthcare consumers at least 5 years ago, but CPI use has not yet become commonplace. Our aim was to assess the r...

    Authors: Nicole ABM Ketelaar, Marjan J Faber, Jozé C Braspenning and Gert P Westert
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:617
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  23. The aims of this study were to evaluate the current awareness of and implementation by pharmacists in Japan of adjustment of drug dosage according to renal function (ADDR) in patients with chronic kidney disea...

    Authors: Yuki Kondo, Yoichi Ishitsuka, Eri Shigemori, Mitsuru Irikura, Daisuke Kadowaki, Sumio Hirata, Takeshi Maemura and Tetsumi Irie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:615
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  24. Patient panel management and community-based care management may be viable strategies for community health centers to improve the quality of diabetes care for vulnerable patient populations. The objective of o...

    Authors: Philip J Van der Wees, Mark W Friedberg, Elena Alcala Guzman, John Z Ayanian and Hector P Rodriguez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:608
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  25. The study aimed to conduct a process evaluation for a cluster randomised trial of a computer-delivered, point-of-care intervention to reduce antibiotic prescribing in primary care. The study aimed to evaluate ...

    Authors: Lisa McDermott, Lucy Yardley, Paul Little, Tjeerd van Staa, Alex Dregan, Gerard McCann, Mark Ashworth and Martin Gulliford
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:594
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  27. We studied the relationship between physician organization (PO) care management capabilities and inpatient utilization in order to identify PO characteristics or capabilities associated with low inpatient bed-...

    Authors: Thomas J Sheehy and N Marcus Thygeson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:582
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  28. Screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) is suboptimal, particularly for vulnerable populations. Effective intervention programs are needed to increase screening rates. We used a discrete choice experiment (DCE) ...

    Authors: Michael P Pignone, Trisha M Crutchfield, Paul M Brown, Sarah T Hawley, Jane L Laping, Carmen L Lewis, Kristen Hassmiller Lich, Lisa C Richardson, Florence KL Tangka and Stephanie B Wheeler
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:611
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  29. Persons with dementia receive health care and social services from a wide range of professional care providers during the disease trajectory, presenting risks of miscommunication, duplication and/or missed nur...

    Authors: Christina Bökberg, Gerd Ahlström, Staffan Karlsson, Ingalill Rahm Hallberg and Ann-Christin Janlöv
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:596
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Health-care quality in primary care depends largely on the appropriateness of General Practitioners’ (GPs; Primary Care or Family Physicians) decisions, which may be influenced by how difficult they perceive d...

    Authors: Nicola McCleary, Craig R Ramsay, Jill J Francis, Marion K Campbell and Julia Allan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:621
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  31. Person-centered care emphasizes a holistic, humanistic approach that puts patients first, at the center of medical care. Person-centeredness is also considered a core element of integrated care. Yet typologies...

    Authors: Geva Greenfield, Agnieszka M Ignatowicz, Athina Belsi, Yannis Pappas, Josip Car, Azeem Majeed and Matthew Harris
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:619
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  32. Certain personalities are ascribed to physicians. This research aims to measure the extent to which physicians identify with three predetermined personalities (workaholic, Type A and control freak) and to expl...

    Authors: Jane B Lemaire and Jean E Wallace
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:616
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  33. Despite the growing interest in health literacy, little research has been done around health professionals’ knowledge of health literacy or understandings of the barriers to health literacy that patients face ...

    Authors: Michelle Lambert, Joanne Luke, Bernice Downey, Sue Crengle, Margaret Kelaher, Susan Reid and Janet Smylie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:614
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  34. There is a scarcity of empirical data on institutions devoted to knowledge brokerage and their influence in Africa. Our objective was to describe two pioneering Knowledge Translation Platforms (KTPs) supportin...

    Authors: Pierre Ongolo-Zogo, John N Lavis, Goran Tomson and Nelson K Sewankambo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:612
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  35. Whole-system interventions are those that entail system wide changes in goals, service delivery arrangements and relationships between actors, requiring approaches to implementation that go beyond projects or ...

    Authors: Helen Schneider, Rene English, Hanani Tabana, Thesandree Padayachee and Marsha Orgill
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:609
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  36. The main goal of the health care system in Sweden is good health and health care on equal terms for the entire population. This study investigated the existence of social inequalities in refraining from health...

    Authors: Anu Molarius, Bo Simonsson, Margareta Lindén-Boström, Marina Kalander-Blomqvist, Inna Feldman and Hans G Eriksson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:605
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  37. For mothers who have just given birth, the postpartum hospital stay is meant to promote an environment where resting, healing and bonding can take place. New mothers, however, face many interruptions throughou...

    Authors: Safina Adatia, Susan Law and Jeannie Haggerty
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:604
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  38. Employees working night shifts are at a greater risk of being overweight or obese. Few studies on obesity and weight gain analyze the years of exposure to night work. The aim of this study was to determine the...

    Authors: Rosane Härter Griep, Leonardo S Bastos, Maria de Jesus Mendes da Fonseca, Aline Silva-Costa, Luciana Fernandes Portela, Susanna Toivanen and Lucia Rotenberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:603
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  39. The primary aim of this paper is to describe the design of a project evaluating the effects of using a research-based strategy for managing housing adaptations (HAs). The evaluation targets clients’ perspectiv...

    Authors: Lisa Ekstam, Gunilla Carlsson, Carlos Chiatti, Maria H Nilsson and Agneta Malmgren Fänge
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:602
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  40. Scaling up services to achieve HIV targets will require that countries optimize the use of available funding. Robust unit cost estimates are essential for the better use of resources, and information on the he...

    Authors: Sergio Bautista-Arredondo, Sandra G Sosa-Rubí, Marjorie Opuni, Ada Kwan, Claire Chaumont, Jenny Coetzee, Jeanine Condo, Kumbutso Dzekedzeke, Omar Galárraga, Neil Martinson, Felix Masiye, Sabin Nsanzimana, Richard Wamai and Joseph Wang’ombe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:599
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  41. Reimbursement policies for anti-cancer drugs vary among countries even though they rely on the same clinical evidence. We compared the pattern of publicly funded drug programs and analyzed major factors influe...

    Authors: Carol Sunghye Lim, Yun-Gyoo Lee, Youngil Koh and Dae Seog Heo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:595
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Typically people who go to see their GP with a memory problem will be initially assessed and those patients who seem to be at risk will be referred onto a memory clinic. The demographic forces mean that memory...

    Authors: Emily Dodd, Richard Cheston, Tina Fear, Ellie Brown, Chris Fox, Clare Morley, Rosalyn Jefferies and Richard Gray
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:592
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  43. Ensuring safe and appropriate service delivery is central to a high quality maternity service. With this in mind, over recent years much attention has been given to the development of evidence-based clinical g...

    Authors: Suzanne V Sinni, Euan M Wallace and Wendy M Cross
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:591
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Aging in an unfamiliar landscape can pose health challenges for the growing numbers of immigrants and their health care providers. Therefore, better understanding of how different immigrant groups use Primary ...

    Authors: Esperanza Diaz and Bernadette N Kumar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:623
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Mental health services in England are smoke-free by law and expected to provide comprehensive support to patients who smoke. Although clinicians’ knowledge in this area is reported to be limited, research expl...

    Authors: Meghana Kulkarni, Lisa Huddlestone, Anne Taylor, Kapil Sayal and Elena Ratschen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:618
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Despite high smoking rates, cessation services are largely unavailable in Vietnam. This study explored attitudes and beliefs of community health workers (CHWs) towards expanding their role to include deliverin...

    Authors: Donna Shelley, Linh Nguyen, Hieu Pham, Nancy VanDevanter and Nam Nguyen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:606
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  48. Mobile phone technologies including SMS (short message service) have been used to improve the delivery of health services in many countries. However, data on the effects of mobile health technology on patient ...

    Authors: Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Andreas Lechner, Uta Ferrari, Guenter Froeschl, Dewan Shamsul Alam, Rolf Holle, Jochen Seissler and Louis W Niessen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:586
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  49. Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most common causes of pain and disability in the adult population. Several studies have documented discordance between general practioners (GP) practice and management recomme...

    Authors: Gudmund Grønhaug, Nina Østerås and Kåre Birger Hagen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:598
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. The majority of pancreases, offered in allocation, are not transplanted. This pancreas under-utilisation is a phenomenon observed in all transplant systems in North-America and Europe. It was the aim of this s...

    Authors: Karl Philipp Drewitz, Martin Loss, Julika Loss and Christian Joachim Apfelbacher
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:584
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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