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  1. Healthcare workers (HCWs) are commonly not prepared to properly communicate with D/deaf and hard of hearing (HoH) patients. The resulting communication challenges reinforce the existing barriers to accessing a...

    Authors: Véronique S. Grazioli, Madison Graells, Elodie Schmutz, Odile Cantero, Tanya Sebaï, Vanessa Favre, Jessica Richème-Roos, Kevin Morisod, Michel Jeanneret, Pascal Singy and Patrick Bodenmann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:301
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  2. Case managers play a vital role in integrating the necessary services to optimise health-related goals and outcomes. Studies suggest that in home care, case managers encounter tensions in their day-to-day work...

    Authors: Alexandra Ethier, Marie-France Dubois, Virginie Savaria and Annie Carrier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:296
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  3. Physiotherapy is a growing profession in Nepal. Despite efforts to promote strengthening and development, there are still challenges in providing equitable access and availability to services, particularly in ...

    Authors: Nishchal Ratna Shakya, Nistha Shrestha, Gillian Webb, Hellen Myezwa, Biraj Man Karmacharya and Ann-Katrin Stensdotter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:295
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  4. During the COVID-19 pandemic, provision of non-COVID healthcare was recurrently severely disrupted. The objective was to determine whether disruption of non-COVID hospital use, either due to cancelled, postpon...

    Authors: Tessa Jansen, Sigur Gouwens, Lotta Meijerink, Iris Meulman, Lisanne H. J. A. Kouwenberg, G. Ardine de Wit, Johan J. Polder, Anton E. Kunst and Ellen Uiters
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:294
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  5. Many hospitals and health care organizations over the centuries have inherited handcrafts of artistic value, objects of worships, donations from pilgrims, votive offerings, legates as a result of their centuri...

    Authors: Martina Giusti, Ilaria Elisa Vannini and Niccolò Persiani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:293
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  6. Most wars are fought in poor countries and result in significant proportions of disabilities and mortalities. The consequences of wars and political instability on health workers and access to healthcare remai...

    Authors: Awol Yemane Legesse, Znabu Hadush, Hale Teka, Ephrem Berhe, Bisrat Tesfay Abera, Fasika Amdeselassie, Hiluf Ebuy Abraha, Daniel Gebre and Alessandra N Bazzano
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:292
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  7. Centralized management of queues helps to reduce the surgical waiting time in the publicly funded healthcare system, but this is not a reality in the Brazilian Unified Healthcare System (BUHS). We describe the...

    Authors: Antonio Pazin-Filho, Maria Eulália Lessa do Valle Dallora, Tonicarlo Rodrigues Velasco, Roberto de Oliveira Cardoso dos Santos, Gustavo Jardim Volpe, Diego Marques Moroço, Danilo Arruda de Souza, Claudia Marques Canabrava, Luis Vicente Garcia, Edwaldo Edner Joviliano and Benedito Carlos Maciel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:290
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  8. Coronary heart diseases (CHDs) have experienced the largest increase worldwide as a cause of death, accounting for 16% of all deaths. In Saxony-Anhalt, a federal state in Germany, both CHD morbidity and acute ...

    Authors: Steffen Fleischer, Stephanie Heinrich, Gabriele Meyer, Rafael Mikolajczyk and Sara Lena Lückmann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:288
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  9. Disasters are events that bring with them effects that contribute to the disruption of the normality of a population and thus highlight the vulnerabilities of the health system. In Mariana and Brumadinho, the ...

    Authors: Emerson Pessoa Vidal, Rita de Cássia Costa da Silva and Paola Zucchi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:285
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  10. The National Health Insurance (NHI) was implemented in Indonesia in 2014, and cardiovascular diseases are one of the diseases that have overburdened the healthcare system. However, data concerning the relation...

    Authors: Nurul Qalby, Dian S. Arsyad, Andriany Qanitha, Maarten J. Cramer, Yolande Appelman, Dara R. Pabittei, Pieter A. Doevendans, Idar Mappangara and Akhtar Fajar Muzakkir
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:284
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  12. Infertility is a major health issue worldwide, yet very few examples of interventions addressing infertility in the Global South have been documented to date. In The Gambia, West Africa, infertility is recogni...

    Authors: Anna Afferri, Susan Dierickx, Haddijatou Allen, Mustapha Bittaye, Musa Marena, Allan Pacey and Julie Balen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:282
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  13. Pathways into care-homes have been under-researched. Individuals who move-in to a care-home from hospital are clinically distinct from those moving-in from the community. However, it remains unclear whether th...

    Authors: G. Ciminata, J. K. Burton, T. J Quinn and C. Geue
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:281
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  14. Ethiopia and Kenya have adopted the community-based integrated community case management (iCCM) of common childhood illnesses and newborn care strategy to improve access to treatment of infections in newborns ...

    Authors: Gizachew Tadele Tiruneh, George Odwe, Alexandra Haake Kamberos, Kezia K’Oduol, Nebreed Fesseha, Zipporah Moraa, Hellen Gwaro, Dessalew Emaway, Hema Magge, Yasir Bin Nisar and Lisa R. Hirschhorn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:280
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  15. Healthcare accessibility and utilization are important social determinants of health. Lack of access to healthcare, including missed or no-show appointments, can have negative health effects and be costly to p...

    Authors: Kendra L. Ratnapradipa, Runqiu Wang, Josiane Kabayundo, Walter Marquez Lavenant, Eleanore Nelson, Muskan Ahuja, Ying Zhang and Hongmei Wang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:279
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  16. Mental health service utilization remains a challenge in developing countries, with numerous barriers affecting access to care. Albeit data suggest poor utilization of mental health services in the Bolgatanga ...

    Authors: Dennis Bomansang Daliri, Gifty Apiung Aninanya, Timothy Tienbia Laari, Nancy Abagye, Richard Dei-Asamoa and Agani Afaya
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:278
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  17. Economic sanctions aim to exert pressure on political and economic foundations. Hypothesizing that sanctions might affect various aspects of population health, this study, as a component of a broader investiga...

    Authors: Mohammad Mehdi Kiani, Hakimeh Mostafavi, Fatemeh Ebrahimi, Reza Majdzadeh, Efat Mohamadi, Alexander Kraemer, Alireza Olyaeemanesh and Amirhossein Takian
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:276
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  18. Coronavirus disease 2019 disrupted the delivery of public maternal and child health services to caregivers of preschool children, leading to decreased opportunities for injury prevention education. We aim to 1) e...

    Authors: Chikako Honda and Natsuki Yamamoto-Takiguchi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:275
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  19. Globally, emergency departments (EDs) are overcrowded and unable to meet an ever-increasing demand for care. The aim of this study is to comprehensively review and synthesise literature on potential solutions ...

    Authors: Mahnaz Samadbeik, Andrew Staib, Justin Boyle, Sankalp Khanna, Emma Bosley, Daniel Bodnar, James Lind, Jodie A. Austin, Sarah Tanner, Yasaman Meshkat, Barbora de Courten and Clair Sullivan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:274
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  20. Despite sophisticated risk equalization, insurers in regulated health insurance markets still face incentives to attract healthy people and avoid the chronically ill because of predictable differences in profi...

    Authors: A. A. Withagen-Koster, R. C. van Kleef and F. Eijkenaar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:273
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  21. People with cancer have high information needs; however, they are often inadequately met. Patient versions of clinical practice guidelines (PVGs), a special form of evidence-based information, translate patien...

    Authors: Sarah Wahlen, Jessica Breuing, Monika Becker, Stefanie Bühn, Julia Hauprich, Nadja Könsgen, Nora Meyer, Susanne Blödt, Günther Carl, Markus Follmann, Stefanie Frenz, Thomas Langer, Monika Nothacker, Corinna Schaefer and Dawid Pieper
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:272
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  22. While the social determinants of health (SDOH) have a greater impact on individual health outcomes than the healthcare services a person receives, healthcare providers face barriers to addressing these factors...

    Authors: Jeffrey Glenn, Gwen Kleinhenz, Jenna M.S. Smith, Robert A. Chaney, Victor B.A. Moxley, Paola G. Donoso Naranjo, Sarah Stone, Carl L. Hanson, Alisha H. Redelfs and M. Lelinneth B. Novilla
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:271
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  23. Bangladesh is a developing country where 11% of the population has at least one disability, but no community-level mental health service is available. There is limited evidence of the burden of mental health i...

    Authors: Kamrun Nahar Koly, Jobaida Saba, Enryka Christopher, Anan Nisat Nabela Hossain, Taslima Akter, Zakia Rahman, Helal Uddin Ahmed and Julian Eaton
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:270
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  24. The aim of this study is to identify (1) the extent of work-related stress and (2) stressors associated with cognitive and behavioral stress reactions, burnout symptoms, health status, quality of sleep, job sa...

    Authors: Karin Anne Peter, Christian Voirol, Stefan Kunz, Andrea Gurtner, Fabienne Renggli, Typhaine Juvet and Christoph Golz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:269
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  25. In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on enhancing frontline health professionals’ ability to think and act innovatively, also known as their creative performance. However, previous research has ...

    Authors: Barbara Rebecca Mutonyi, Manel González-Piñero, Terje Slåtten and Gudbrand Lien
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:268
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  26. The COVID-19 pandemic has been noted to decrease access to maternal health and family planning services globally. However, evidence from the Middle East and North Africa region is very scarce and limited. We q...

    Authors: Nahla Abdel Tawab, Salma A. Tayel, Sally M. Radwan and Mohamed A. Ramy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:267
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  27. Indigenous people who use unregulated drugs (IPWUD) face significant barriers to care, including sparse availability of culturally safe health services. Integrating Indigenous traditional and cultural treatmen...

    Authors: Alexa Norton, Fahmida Homayra, Courtney Defriend, Brittany Barker, Louise Meilleur, Kanna Hayashi and Bohdan Nosyk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:266
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  28. The COVID-19 outbreak devastated the fragmented health system in Syria, a war-torn country, and exaggerated the demands for humanitarian assistance. COVID-19 vaccination was rolled out in Northwest Syria, an a...

    Authors: Orwa Al-Abdulla, Maher Alaref, Agneta Kallström and Jussi Kauhanen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:265
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  29. The introduction of Integrated Care Systems (ICS) in England aimed to increase joint planning and delivery of health and social care, and other services, to better meet the needs of local communities. There is...

    Authors: Christopher J. Gidlow, Lorna Sams, Kim Buckless, Naomi J. Ellis, Helen C. Duffy, Ruth Lambley-Burke, Paul Campbell, Alison Cooke, Krysia Dziedzic, Matthew Brookes, Nachiappan Chockalingam, Pam Devall and Christian Mallen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:264
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  30. Research evidence to inform primary care policy and practice is essential for building high-performing primary care systems. Nevertheless, research output relating to primary care remains low worldwide. This s...

    Authors: Monica Aggarwal, Brian Hutchison, Sabrina T. Wong, Alan Katz, Steve Slade and Deirdre Snelgrove
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:263
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  31. Young people with mental ill-health experience higher rates of high-risk sexual behaviour, have poorer sexual health outcomes, and lower satisfaction with their sexual wellbeing compared to their peers. Ensuri...

    Authors: Hayley Nolan, Brian O’Donoghue, Magenta Simmons, Isabel Zbukvic, Sophia Ratcliff, Alyssa Milton, Elizabeth Hughes, Andrew Thompson and Ellie Brown
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:262
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  32. Evidence networks facilitate the exchange of information and foster international relationships among researchers and stakeholders. These networks are instrumental in enabling the integration of scientific evi...

    Authors: Germán Andrés Alarcón Garavito, Thomas Moniz, Cristián Mansilla, Syka Iqbal, Rozalia Dobrogowska, Fiona Bennin, Shivangi Talwar, Ahmad Firas Khalid and Cecilia Vindrola-Padros
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:261
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  33. Quality of work life is a vital factor for health care providers. This study aimed to determine the impact of the education program based on dimensions of quality of work life among emergency medical services ...

    Authors: Ali Panahi-Qoloub, Sima Zohari Anboohi, Malihe Nasiri and Parvaneh Vasli
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:260
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  34. One of the clinical responsibilities and goals of hospitals is to provide patients with comfort and security. The present study aims to assess patients’ sense of security among patients in Iranian hospitals.

    Authors: Roya Malekzadeh, Ghasem Abedi, Arash Ziapour, Murat Yıldırım and Ehsan Abedini
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:259
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  35. Digitalization transforms the way in which interdependent work is coordinated, especially in healthcare settings. This work deepens the effect of teleconsultation use on health professionals’ coordination. For...

    Authors: Mattia Vincenzo Olive, Luca Gastaldi and Mariano Corso
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:258
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  36. Primary care provides an important context to engage adolescents and their families in healthy lifestyles with the goal of reducing future behaviour-related health problems. Developing a valid tool to assess h...

    Authors: Fransisca Handy Agung, Rini Sekartini, Nani Cahyani Sudarsono, Aryono Hendarto, Retno Asti Werdhani, Sri Retno Pudjiati, Lathifah Hanum, Affan Naufal and Susan M Sawyer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:257
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  37. The challenge posed by Alcohol-Related Frequent Attenders (ARFAs) in Emergency Departments (EDs) is growing in Singapore, marked by limited engagement with conventional addiction treatment pathways. Recognizin...

    Authors: Juntian Wu, Fahad Javaid Siddiqui, Charles Chia Meng Mak, Ivan Si Yong Chua, Jeevan Raaj Thangayah, Esther Xi Xiang Tan, Huey Ying Seet, Adriel Kailing Rao, Hann Yee Tan, Asif Mohamed, Mikael Hartman, Benjamin Sieu-Hon Leong, Marcus Eng Hock Ong and Desmond Renhao Mao
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:256
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  38. Cardiovascular disease among patients with severe mental illness in England is a major preventable contributor to premature mortality. To address this, a nurse and peer-coach delivered service (Primrose-A) was...

    Authors: Philippa Shaw, Annabel Mifsud, David Osborn, Nitisha Nahata, Cerdic Hall, Ian Prenelle and Danielle Lamb
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:255
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  39. Despite previous experience with epidemics, African healthcare systems were inadequately prepared and substantially impacted by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Limited information about the l...

    Authors: Gloria P. Gómez-Pérez, Aafke E. de Graaff, John T. Dekker, Bonifacia B. Agyei, Ibironke Dada, Emmanuel Milimo, Marilyn S. Ommeh, Peter Risha, Tobias F. Rinke de Wit and Nicole Spieker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:254
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  40. Germline cancer genetic testing has become a standard evidence-based practice, with established risk reduction and screening guidelines for genetic carriers. Access to genetic services is limited in many place...

    Authors: Tara O. Henderson, Mary Ashley Allen, Rajia Mim, Brian Egleston, Linda Fleisher, Elena Elkin, Kevin Oeffinger, Kevin Krull, Demetrios Ofidis, Briana Mcleod, Hannah Griffin, Elizabeth Wood, Cara Cacioppo, Michelle Weinberg, Sarah Brown, Sarah Howe…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:253
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  41. The compounded effect of a migratory background and ageing increases the risk of unequal medical treatment opportunities. The aim of this article is to investigate the social determinants of barriers to health...

    Authors: Nuriiar Safarov, Laura Kemppainen, Sirpa Wrede and Anne Kouvonen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:252
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  43. The cohealth Health Concierge program operated in Melbourne, Australia from July 2020 to 30 June 2022. It provided peer-to-peer support to culturally and linguistically diverse residents of high-rise public ho...

    Authors: Jane Oliver, Angeline Ferdinand, Awil Hussein, Ruqiyo Hussein, Jessica Kaufman, Peta Edler, Nicole Allard, Margie Danchin and Katherine B. Gibney
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:250
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  44. At an individual level, physician resilience protects against burnout and against its known negative effects on individual physicians, patient safety, and quality of care. However, it remains uncertain whether...

    Authors: Christian Fazekas, Maximilian Zieser, Barbara Hanfstingl, Janika Saretzki, Evelyn Kunschitz, Luise Zieser-Stelzhammer, Dennis Linder and Franziska Matzer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:249
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  46. Emergency psychiatric care, unplanned hospital admissions, and inpatient health care are the costliest forms of mental health care. According to Statistics Canada (2018), almost 18% (5.3 million) of Canadians ...

    Authors: Medard K. Adu, Raquel da Luz Dias, Gloria Obuobi-Donkor, Ngozi Ezeanozie, Sanjana Sridharan, Jason Morrison, Patryk Simon, Bryanne Taylor, Monica MacKinnon, Shiloh Gossen, Mahmoud Awara, Mattew White, Reham Shalaby, Belinda Agyapong, Ejemai Eboreime, JianLi Wang…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:247
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  47. Clinician distress is a multidimensional condition that includes burnout, decreased meaning in work, severe fatigue, poor work–life integration, reduced quality of life, and suicidal ideation. It has negative ...

    Authors: Ahlexxi Jelen, Rebecca Goldfarb, Jennifer Rosart, Leanna Graham and Barry B. Rubin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:246
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  48. The extent of healthcare expenditure within households stands as a crucial indicator in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). When out-of-pocket healthcare expenses surpass household income or become unduly...

    Authors: Maryam Hedayati, Mohammadreza Maleki, Iravan Masoudi Asl, Ali Akbar Fazaeli and Salime Goharinezhad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:245
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  49. Despite tremendous progress in antiretroviral therapy (ART) and access to ART, many patients have advanced human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease (AHD). Patients on AHD, whether initiating ART or providing...

    Authors: Thulani Maphosa, Lise Denoeud-Ndam, Lester Kapanda, Sarah Khatib, Lloyd Chilikutali, Eddington Matiya, Boswell Munthali, Rosalia Dambe, Brown Chiwandira, Bilaal Wilson, Rose Nyirenda, Laywell Nyirenda, Bongani Chikwapulo, Owen Madeira Musopole, Appolinaire Tiam and Leila Katirayi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:244
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  50. Despite the potential for improved population mental health and wellbeing, the integration of mental health digital interventions has been difficult to achieve. In this qualitative systematic review, we aimed ...

    Authors: Chiara Berardi, Marcello Antonini, Zephanie Jordan, Heidi Wechtler, Francesco Paolucci and Madeleine Hinwood
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:243
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