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  1. The primary aim of this study was to assess the effect of immigrant status on Emergency Room (ER) utilisation by children under age one, considering all, non-urgent, very urgent, and followed by hospitalisatio...

    Authors: Paola Ballotari, Stefania D’Angelo, Laura Bonvicini, Serena Broccoli, Nicola Caranci, Silvia Candela and Paolo Giorgi Rossi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:458
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  2. The interRAI suite of assessment instruments can provide valuable information to support person-specific care planning across the continuum of care. Comprehensive clinical information is collected with these i...

    Authors: Andrea D Foebel, John P Hirdes, George A Heckman, Marie-Jeanne Kergoat, Scott Patten and Ruth Ann Marrie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:457
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  3. The population of patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive breast cancer (BC) who develop central nervous system (CNS) metastases is growing. Treatment strategies in this populati...

    Authors: Sandrine Baffert, Paul Cottu, Youlia M Kirova, Florence Mercier, Cécile Simondi, Thomas Bachelot, Emilie Le Rhun, Christelle Levy, Maya Gutierrez, Nicolas Madranges, Cristian Moldovan, Bruno Coudert, Dominique Spaëth, Daniel Serin, François-Emery Cotté, Laure Benjamin…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:456
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  4. Sexual activity during adolescence is common in Vanuatu, however many adolescents lack access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and subsequently suffer a disproportionate burden of poor SRH. The...

    Authors: Elissa C Kennedy, Siula Bulu, Jennifer Harris, David Humphreys, Jayline Malverus and Natalie J Gray
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:455
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  5. The extent to which a genomic test will be used in practice is affected by factors such as ability of the test to correctly predict response to treatment (i.e. sensitivity and specificity of the test), invasiv...

    Authors: Mehdi Najafzadeh, Karissa M Johnston, Stuart J Peacock, Joseph M Connors, Marco A Marra, Larry D Lynd and Carlo A Marra
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:454
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  6. Pharmacy-based case mix measures are an alternative source of information to the relatively scarce outpatient diagnoses data. But most published tools use national drug nomenclatures and offer no head-to-head ...

    Authors: Patricia Halfon, Yves Eggli, Anne Decollogny and Erol Seker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:453
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  7. The organisation of Swedish primary health care has changed following introduction of free choice of provider for the population in combination with freedom of establishment for private primary care providers....

    Authors: Anders Beckman and Anders Anell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:452
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  8. Demographical changes have stimulated a coordination reform in the Norwegian health care sector, creating new working practices and extending coordination within and between primary and hospital care, increasi...

    Authors: Elisabeth Holen-Rabbersvik, Tom Roar Eikebrokk, Rune Werner Fensli, Elin Thygesen and Åshild Slettebø
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:451
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  9. The financial crisis that hit the global economy in 2007 was unprecedented in the post war era. In general the crisis has created a difficult environment for health systems globally. The purpose of this paper ...

    Authors: Steve Thomas, Conor Keegan, Sarah Barry, Richard Layte, Matt Jowett and Charles Normand
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:450
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  10. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and second highest cause of cancer-related mortality in Canada. Despite the availability of screening services and establishment of guideline...

    Authors: Thomas J Charters, Erin C Strumpf and Maida J Sewitch
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:449
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  11. Research on the quality of diabetes care provided to young adults with Type 1 diabetes is lacking. This study investigates perceptions of quality of care for young adults with Type 1 diabetes (23–30 years old)...

    Authors: Myles Balfe, Ruairi Brugha, Diarmuid Smith, Seamus Sreenan, Frank Doyle and Ronan Conroy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:448
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  12. Vietnamese patients are disproportionately represented in type 2 diabetes mellitus statistics and also incur high rates of diabetes complications. This situation is compounded by limited access to health care....

    Authors: Mary C Carolan-Olah, Angie Cassar, Regina Quiazon and Sean Lynch
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:447
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  13. Although we are observing a general move towards larger primary care practices, surprisingly little is known about the influence of key components of practice organization on primary care. We aimed to determin...

    Authors: Rose Anne Devlin, William Hogg, Jianwei Zhong, Michael Shortt, Simone Dahrouge and Grant Russell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:446
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  14. The contrast between the low proportion of tuberculosis (TB) suspects referred from private practitioners in Bali province and the high volume of TB suspects seeking care at private practices suggests problems...

    Authors: I Wayan Gede Artawan Eka Putra, Ni Wayan Arya Utami, I Ketut Suarjana, I Made Kerta Duana, Cok Istri Darma Astiti, IW Putra, Ari Probandari, Edine W Tiemersma and Chatarina Umbul Wahyuni
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:445
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  15. To better understand how stock-outs of the first line antimalarial, Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT) and other non-compliant health worker behaviour, influence household expenditures during care-see...

    Authors: Inez Mikkelsen-Lopez, Fabrizio Tediosi, Gumi Abdallah, Mustafa Njozi, Baraka Amuri, Rashid Khatib, Fatuma Manzi and Don de Savigny
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:444
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  16. Antenatal care (ANC) is one of the evidence based interventions to decrease the probability of bad health outcomes for mothers and their newborns. Effectiveness of antenatal care, however, relies on the qualit...

    Authors: Tadese Ejigu, Mirkuzie Woldie and Yibeltal Kifle
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:443
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  17. Given the high prevalence of diabetes, guidelines are updated frequently to reflect optimal treatment recommendations. Our study aims to measure the response of primary care physicians to changes in choice of ...

    Authors: Ting-Yu Wang, Tewodros Eguale and Robyn Tamblyn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:442
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  18. Racial disparities in blood pressure control are well established; however the impact of low health literacy (LHL) on blood pressure has garnered less attention. Office based interventions that are created wit...

    Authors: Jacquie R Halladay, Katrina E Donahue, Alan L Hinderliter, Doyle M Cummings, Crystal W Cene, Cassie L Miller, Beverly A Garcia, Jim Tillman and Darren DeWalt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:441
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  19. In many developed countries, the economic crisis started in 2008 producing a serious contraction of the financial resources spent on healthcare. Identifying which individuals will require more resources and th...

    Authors: Marc Carreras, Pere Ibern, Jordi Coderch, Inma Sánchez and Jose M Inoriza
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:440
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  20. Tuberculosis (TB) is endemic in Pakistan which ranks fifth amongst the twenty two countries designated to be highly burdened by TB according to the World Health Organization. However, there is paucity of data ...

    Authors: Maliha Naseer, Ali Khawaja, Amin S Pethani and Salik Aleem
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:439
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  21. The appropriate care for people with cardiovascular risk factors can reduce morbidity and mortality. One strategy for improving the care for these patients involves the implementation of evidence-based guideli...

    Authors: Arritxu Etxeberria, Itziar Pérez, Idoia Alcorta, Jose Ignacio Emparanza, Elena Ruiz de Velasco, Maria Teresa Iglesias, Domingo Orozco-Beltrán and Rafael Rotaeche
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:438
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  22. Accreditation programs are complex, system-wide quality and safety interventions. Despite their international popularity, evidence of their effectiveness is weak and contradictory. This may be due to variable ...

    Authors: Reece Hinchcliff, David Greenfield, Johanna I Westbrook, Marjorie Pawsey, Virginia Mumford and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:437
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  23. The remuneration system of General Practitioners (GPs) has changed in several countries in the past decade. The aim of our study was: to establish the effect of these changes on the revenues and income of GPs ...

    Authors: Madelon Kroneman, Pascal Meeus, Dionne Sofia Kringos, Wim Groot and Jouke van der Zee
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:436
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  24. The Electronic Prescription Service Release 2 (EPS2) in England has been designed to provide electronic transmission of digitally-signed prescriptions between primary care providers, with the intent on removin...

    Authors: Sara Garfield, Ralph Hibberd and Nick Barber
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:435
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  25. The implementation of clinical practice guidelines in rehabilitation practice is often troublesome and incomplete. An intervention to enhance the implementation of guidelines is the knowledge transfer program ...

    Authors: Mia Willems, Carin Schröder, Marcel Post, Trudy van der Weijden and Anne Visser-Meily
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:434
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  26. In the last decades the presence of social inequalities in diabetes care has been observed in multiple countries, including Spain. These inequalities have been at least partially attributed to differences in d...

    Authors: Ignacio Ricci-Cabello, Antonio Olry de Labry–Lima, Julia Bolívar-Muñoz, Guadalupe Pastor-Moreno, Clara Bermudez-Tamayo, Isabel Ruiz-Pérez, Fermín Quesada-Jiménez, Enrique Moratalla-López, Susana Domínguez-Martín, Ana M de los Ríos-Álvarez, Pilar Cruz-Vela, Miguel A Prados-Quel and José A López-De Hierro
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:433
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  28. The position of nurse consultant (NC) was introduced in Hong Kong by the Hospital Authority in January 2009. Seven NCs were appointed in five clinical specialties: diabetes, renal, wound and stoma care, psychi...

    Authors: Diana TF Lee, Kai Chow Choi, Carmen WH Chan, Sek Ying Chair, Dominic Chan, Sylvia YK Fung and Eric LS Chan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:431
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  29. Publicly available information comparing performance across quality and costs has proliferated in recent years, both about individual healthcare professionals and hospitals. This type of information is now bec...

    Authors: Nicole ABM Ketelaar, Marten Munneke, Bastiaan R Bloem, Gert P Westert and Marjan J Faber
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:430
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  30. Extant research suggests that there is a strong social component to Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) adoption since professional networks amongst physicians are strongly associated with their attitudes towards EB...

    Authors: Daniele Mascia, Americo Cicchetti and Gianfranco Damiani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:429
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  31. In recent years, coaching has received special attention as a method to improve healthy lifestyle behaviours. The fact that coaching has found its way into healthcare and may provide new ways of engaging the p...

    Authors: Jette Ammentorp, Lisbeth Uhrenfeldt, Flemming Angel, Martin Ehrensvärd, Ebbe B Carlsen and Poul-Erik Kofoed
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:428
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  32. Older people from culturally and linguistically diverse groups are underrepresented in residential aged care but overrepresented in community aged care in Australia. However, little is known about culturally a...

    Authors: Lily Dongxia Xiao, Anita De Bellis, Lesley Habel and Helena Kyriazopoulos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:427
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  33. Patients with severe mental illness (SMI) experience more physical comorbidity than the general population. Multiple factors, including inadequate seeking of healthcare and health care related factors such as ...

    Authors: Fenneke M van Hasselt, Marian JT Oud and Anton JM Loonen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:426
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  34. Theory-based evaluation (TBE) approaches are heralded as supporting formative evaluation by facilitating increased use of evaluative findings to guide programme improvement. It is essential that learning from ...

    Authors: Jennifer Eaves and Wendy Gnich
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:425
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  35. The evidence on the long-term economic effects of obesity is still scarce. This study aims to analyse the impact of body mass index (BMI) and BMI-change on future pharmaceutical utilisation and expenditures.

    Authors: Christina M Teuner, Petra Menn, Margit Heier, Rolf Holle, Jürgen John and Silke B Wolfenstetter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:424
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  36. Provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling (PITC) is based on information-giving while voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) includes individualised client-centered counseling. It is not known if the pro...

    Authors: Rhoda K Wanyenze, David Kyaddondo, John Kinsman, Fredrick Makumbi, Robert Colebunders and Anita Hardon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:423
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  37. Difficulties with recruitment pose a major, increasingly recognised challenge to the viability of research. We sought to explore whether a register of volunteers interested in research participation, with data...

    Authors: Aileen Grant, Jenny Ure, Donald J Nicolson, Janet Hanley, Aziz Sheikh, Brian McKinstry and Frank Sullivan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:422
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  38. Adjusted clinical groups (ACG®) have been widely used to adjust resource distribution; however, the relationship with effectiveness has been questioned. The purpose of the study was to measure the relationship...

    Authors: Concepción Violán, Oleguer Plana-Ripoll, Quintí Foguet-Boreu, Bonaventura Bolíbar, Alba Aguado, Ruth Navarro-Artieda, Soledad Velasco-Velasco and Antoni Sicras-Mainar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:421
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  39. Currently there is a dual system of oral healthcare delivery in Cyprus: the public dental system (PDS) run by the Government and the private system provided by private dental practitioners. Although 83% of the...

    Authors: Chrystalla Charalambous, Nikolaos Maniadakis, Nikolaos Polyzos, Vassilis Fragoulakis and Mamas Theodorou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:420
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  40. Restorative home care services help older people maximise their independence using a multi-dimensional approach. They usually include an exercise program designed to improve the older person’s strength, balanc...

    Authors: Elissa Burton, Gill Lewin, Lindy Clemson and Duncan Boldy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:419
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  41. Medication errors are a common type of preventable errors in health care causing unnecessary patient harm, hospitalization, and even fatality. Improving communication between providers and between providers an...

    Authors: Nicole A Kitson, Morgan Price, Francis Y Lau and Grey Showler
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:418
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  42. Central venous catheter-associated bloodstream infections in children are an increasingly recognized serious safety problem worldwide, but are often preventable. Central venous catheter bundles have proved eff...

    Authors: Onno Helder, René Kornelisse, Cynthia van der Starre, Dick Tibboel, Caspar Looman, René Wijnen, Marten Poley and Erwin Ista
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:417
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  43. Before 2007, the disability evaluation was based on the medical model in Taiwan. According to the People with Disabilities Rights Protection Act, from 2012 the assessment of a person’s eligibility for disabili...

    Authors: Wen-Ta Chiu, Chia-Feng Yen, Sue-Wen Teng, Hua-Fang Liao, Kwang-Hwa Chang, Wen-Chou Chi, Yen-Ho Wang and Tsan-Hon Liou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:416
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  44. Prior studies of patients leaving hospital against medical advice (AMA) have been limited by not being population-based or assessing only one type of patient.

    Authors: Allen Kraut, Randy Fransoo, Kendiss Olafson, Clare D Ramsey, Marina Yogendran and Allan Garland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:415
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  45. Severe hypertension (SHT) (Blood Pressure, BP ≥ 180/110 mmHg) is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality, yet little is known about how it is managed. The purpose of this study is to examine the m...

    Authors: Blanca Gallego, William B Runciman, Oscar Perez-Concha, Siaw-Teng Liaw, Ric O Day, Adam G Dunn and Enrico Coiera
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:414
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  46. Healthcare technology and quality improvement programs have been identified as a means to influence healthcare costs and healthcare quality in Canada. This study seeks to identify whether the ability to implem...

    Authors: Rajesh K Tyagi, Lori Cook, John Olson and James Belohlav
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:413
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  47. It has been suggested that lay community health workers (LHWs) could play a role in primary and secondary prevention of Mental, Neurological and Substance use (MNS) disorders in low resourced settings. We cond...

    Authors: Byamah Brian Mutamba, Nadja van Ginneken, Lucy Smith Paintain, Simon Wandiembe and David Schellenberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:412
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  48. Retirement migration from northern countries to southern countries is increasing in both Europe and North America, and retiree experiences will impact future migration and health services utilization. We there...

    Authors: Philip D Sloane, Lauren W Cohen, Bryce E Haac and Sheryl Zimmerman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:411
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  49. Rates of chronic disease are escalating around the world. To date health service evaluations have focused on interventions for single chronic diseases. However, evaluations of the effectiveness of new interven...

    Authors: Zephanie Tyack, Kerrie-Anne Frakes, Petrea Cornwell, Suzanne S Kuys, Adrian G Barnett and Steven M McPhail
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:410
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  50. Involving patients in decision-making is an important part of patient-centred care. Research has found a discrepancy between patients’ desire to be involved and their actual involvement in healthcare decision-...

    Authors: Chirk-Jenn Ng, Ping-Yein Lee, Yew-Kong Lee, Boon-How Chew, Julia P Engkasan, Zarina-Ismail Irmi, Nik-Sherina Hanafi and Seng-Fah Tong
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:408
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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