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  1. User fees have generally fallen out of favor across Africa, and they have been associated with reductions in access to healthcare. We examined the effects of the introduction and removal of user fees on outpat...

    Authors: S. I. Watson, E. B. Wroe, E. L. Dunbar, J. Mukherjee, S. B. Squire, L. Nazimera, L. Dullie and R. J. Lilford
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:595
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:629

  2. Healthcare in China has significantly improved, meanwhile many  socio-economic risk factors and health conditions factors affect accessibility and utilization of health services in rural areas. Inequity of hea...

    Authors: Yan-Ning Li, Dong-xiao Nong, Bo Wei, Qi-Ming Feng and Hong-ye Luo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:592
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  3. Many point of care diagnostic technologies are available which produce results within minutes, and offer the opportunity to deliver acute care out of hospital settings. Increasing access to diagnostics at the ...

    Authors: Caroline H. D. Jones, Margaret Glogowska, Louise Locock and Daniel S. Lasserson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:591
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  4. The burden of untreated tooth decay remains high and oral healthcare utilisation is low for the majority of children in South Africa. There is need for alternative methods of improving access to low cost oral ...

    Authors: M. P. Molete, L. Chola and K. J. Hofman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:590
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  5. We recently published a systematic review of different healthcare settings (such as outpatient, community or home) for administering intravenous chemotherapy, and concluded that performing conventionally desig...

    Authors: Mark S. Corbett, Judith Watson and Alison Eastwood
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:589
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  6. Health care has experimented with many different quality improvement (QI) approaches with greater variation in name than content. This has been dubbed pseudoinnovation. However, it could also be that the subtl...

    Authors: Carl Savage, Louise Parke, Mia von Knorring and Pamela Mazzocato
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:588
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  7. The accessibility of medical care facilities in sparsely populated rural regions is relevant especially for elderly people which often represent a large segment of the population in such regions. Elderly peopl...

    Authors: Ulrike Stentzel, Jens Piegsa, Daniel Fredrich, Wolfgang Hoffmann and Neeltje van den Berg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:587
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  8. This study evaluates implementation of the Quebec Mental Health (MH) Reform (2005–2015) which aimed to improve accessibility, quality and continuity of care by developing primary care and optimizing integrated...

    Authors: Marie-Josée Fleury, Guy Grenier, Catherine Vallée, Denise Aubé, Lambert Farand, Jean-Marie Bamvita and Geneviève Cyr
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:586
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  10. Uganda implemented a national ART scale-up program at public and private health facilities between 2004 and 2009. Little is known about how and why some health facilities have sustained ART programs and why other...

    Authors: Henry Zakumumpa, Sara Bennett and Freddie Ssengooba
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:584
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  11. Assessment of the quality of primary health care health delivery systems is a vital part of continuous quality improvement (CQI) processes. The Systems Assessment Tool (SAT) was designed to support Indigenous ...

    Authors: Frances C. Cunningham, Sue Ferguson-Hill, Veronica Matthews and Ross Bailie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:583
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  12. Patient Activation is defined as the knowledge, skill, and confidence a patient has in managing their health. Higher levels of patient activation are associated with better self-management, better health outco...

    Authors: Amy Blakemore, Mark Hann, Kelly Howells, Maria Panagioti, Mark Sidaway, David Reeves and Peter Bower
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:582
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  13. Antiretroviral treatment (ART) service scaling up has been practiced in the Ethiopia since 2006. Regardless of increasing number of primary health care centers providing the service, the existing hospitals are...

    Authors: Abebe Megerso and Sileshi Garoma
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:581
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  14. Public health care dominated the services provision in China before 1980s. However, the number of private health care providers in China has been increasing since then. The growth of private hospitals escalate...

    Authors: Chengxiang Tang, Judy Xu and Meng Zhang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:580
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  15. Higher dose of vitamin D supplementation 50000 IU is required for those whose serum 25(OH)D levels are 50 nmol/L and below. The increment in serum 25(OH)D though not significantly affected by race, sex or age ...

    Authors: Usha Gowda, Thilanga Ruwanpathirana, David P. S. Fong, Ambika Kaur and Andre M. N. Renzaho
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:579
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  16. Assessing quality of health services, for example through supportive supervision, is essential for strengthening healthcare delivery. Most systematic health facility assessment mechanisms, however, are not sui...

    Authors: Dominick Mboya, Christopher Mshana, Flora Kessy, Sandra Alba, Christian Lengeler, Sabine Renggli, Bart Vander Plaetse, Mohamed A. Mohamed and Alexander Schulze
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:578
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  17. Unregulated health care aides provide the majority of direct health care to residents in long term care homes. Lower job satisfaction as reported by care aides is associated with increased turnover of staff. T...

    Authors: Stephanie A. Chamberlain, Matthias Hoben, Janet E. Squires and Carole A. Estabrooks
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:577
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  18. Primary Health Care (PHC) is an efficient strategy to improve health outcomes in populations. Nevertheless, studies of technical efficiency in health care have focused on hospitals, with very little on primary...

    Authors: Myriam Ruiz-Rodriguez, Laura A. Rodriguez-Villamizar and Ileana Heredia-Pi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:576
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  19. Cervical cancer is the greatest cause of age-weighted years of life lost in the developing world. Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is associated with a high proportion of cervical cancers, and HPV vaccinat...

    Authors: Joël Ladner, Marie-Hélène Besson, Etienne Audureau, Mariana Rodrigues and Joseph Saba
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:575
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  20. Hospitals are under increasing pressure to share indicator-based performance information. These indicators can also serve as a means to promote quality improvement and boost hospital performance. Our aim was t...

    Authors: Daan Botje, Guus ten Asbroek, Thomas Plochg, Helen Anema, Dionne S. Kringos, Claudia Fischer, Cordula Wagner and Niek S. Klazinga
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:574
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  21. HFE-related hereditary haemochromatosis (HH) is a common autosomal recessive disorder with clinical manifestations ranging from asymptomatic disease to possible life-threatening complications. Cirrhosis, hepat...

    Authors: Annick Vanclooster, Hub Wollersheim, Kris Vanhaecht, Dorine Swinkels, Bert Aertgeerts and David Cassiman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:573
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  22. The concept of leadership has been studied in various disciplines and from different theoretical approaches. It is a dynamic concept that evolves over time. There are few studies in our field on managers’ self...

    Authors: Glòria Jodar i Solà, Joan Gené i Badia, Pilar Delgado Hito, M. Antonia Campo Osaba and Jose Luís Del Val García
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:572
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  23. Increases in health care utilization and costs, resulting from the rising prevalence of chronic conditions related to the aging population, is exacerbated by a high level of fragmentation that characterizes he...

    Authors: Xin Wang, Stephen Birch, Weiming Zhu, Huifen Ma, Mark Embrett and Qingyue Meng
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:571
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  24. To allow better assessment of patients’ individual competencies for self-management, the Patient Activation Measure (PAM) has been developed in the USA. Because the American studies have shown the PAM to be a ...

    Authors: Jany Rademakers, Helle Terkildsen Maindal, Aslak Steinsbekk, Jochen Gensichen, Katja Brenk-Franz and Michelle Hendriks
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:570
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  25. The role of community pharmacists is changing globally with pharmacists engaging in more clinically-oriented roles, including in mental health care. Pharmacists’ interventions have been shown to improve mental...

    Authors: Andrea L. Murphy, Ruth Martin-Misener, Stan P. Kutcher, Claire L. O’Reilly, Timothy F. Chen and David M. Gardner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:569
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  26. Improving public accountability is currently high on the global agenda. At the same time, the organisation of health services in low- and middle-income countries is taking place in fragmented institutional lan...

    Authors: Sara Van Belle and Susannah H. Mayhew
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:568
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  28. Innovative strategies are needed to reduce malaria mortality in high burden countries like Nigeria. Given that one of the important reasons for this high malaria mortality is delay in receiving effective treat...

    Authors: Olatunde Adesoro, Constance Shumba, John Kpamor, Jane Achan, Harriet Kivumbi, John Dada, Kolawole Maxwell, James Tibenderana, Madeline Marasciulo, Prudence Hamade, Olusola Oresanya, Joanita Nankabirwa and Ebenezer Baba
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:566
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  29. A patient’s trajectory through the healthcare system affects resource use and outcomes. Data fields in population-based administrative health databases are potentially valuable resources for constructing care ...

    Authors: John Paul Kuwornu, Lisa M. Lix, Jacqueline M. Quail, Xiaoyun Eric Wang, Meric Osman and Gary F. Teare
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:565
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  30. Risks prediction models of 30-day all-cause hospital readmissions are multi-factorial. Severity of illness (SOI) and risk of mortality (ROM) categorized by All Patient Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (APR-DRG...

    Authors: Hao Wang, Carol Johnson, Richard D. Robinson, Vicki A. Nejtek, Chet D. Schrader, JoAnna Leuck, Johnbosco Umejiego, Allison Trop, Kathleen A. Delaney and Nestor R. Zenarosa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:564
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  31. Microscopic Observation Drug Susceptibility (MODS) and Xpert MTB/Rif (Xpert) are highly sensitive tests for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). This study evaluated the cost effectiveness of utilizing M...

    Authors: Simon Walusimbi, Brendan Kwesiga, Rashmi Rodrigues, Melles Haile, Ayesha de Costa, Lennart Bogg and Achilles Katamba
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:563
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  32. Digital technologies show promise for reversing poor engagement of youth (16–24 years) with mental health services. In particular, mobile and internet based applications with communication capabilities can aug...

    Authors: Simone Orlowski, Sharon Lawn, Ben Matthews, Anthony Venning, Kaisha Wyld, Gabrielle Jones, Megan Winsall, Gaston Antezana, Geoffrey Schrader and Niranjan Bidargaddi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:562
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  33. Addressing evidence-practice gaps in primary care remains a significant public health challenge and is likely to require action at different levels of the health system. Whilst Continuous Quality Improvement (...

    Authors: Gill Schierhout, Veronica Matthews, Christine Connors, Sandra Thompson, Ru Kwedza, Catherine Kennedy and Ross Bailie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:560
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  34. Treatment costs of induced abortion complications can consume a substantial amount of hospital resources. This use of hospitals scarce resources to treat induced abortion complications may affect hospitals’ ca...

    Authors: Patrick G. C. Ilboudo, Giulia Greco, Johanne Sundby and Gaute Torsvik
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:559
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  35. Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has emerged as a major goal for health care delivery in the post-2015 development agenda. It is viewed as a solution to health care needs in low and middle countries with growin...

    Authors: Adam Fusheini and John Eyles
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:558
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  36. Despite increasing evidence for the effectiveness of virtual reality (VR)-based therapy in stroke rehabilitation, few knowledge translation (KT) resources exist to support clinical integration. KT intervention...

    Authors: Danielle Levac, Stephanie M. N. Glegg, Heidi Sveistrup, Heather Colquhoun, Patricia A. Miller, Hillel Finestone, Vincent DePaul, Jocelyn E. Harris and Diana Velikonja
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:557
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  37. The Government of Tajikistan is reforming its health system to make access more equitable. Nonetheless, out-of-pocket expenditures (OPE) remain a key modality for purchasing health care. Drugs remain a major d...

    Authors: Morgane Donadel, Gulzira Karimova, Ruslan Nabiev and Kaspar Wyss
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:556
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  38. Advance cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) decision-making and escalation of care discussions are variable in routine clinical practice. We aimed to explore physician barriers to advance CPR decision-making i...

    Authors: Nicholas Waldron, Claire E. Johnson, Peter Saul, Heidi Waldron, Jeffrey C. Chong, Anne-Marie Hill and Barbara Hayes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:555
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  39. Several countries have launched public reporting systems based on quality indicators (QIs) to increase transparency and improve quality in health care organizations (HCOs). However, a prerequisite to quality i...

    Authors: Mathias Waelli, Marie-Léandre Gomez, Claude Sicotte, Adrian Zicari, Jean-Yves Bonnefond, Philippe Lorino and Etienne Minvielle
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:553
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  40. Understanding the organisational set-up of physiotherapy services across different countries is increasingly important as clinicians around the world use evidence to improve their practice. This also has to be...

    Authors: Kamila Rasova, Jenny Freeman, Patricia Martinkova, Marketa Pavlikova, Davide Cattaneo, Johanna Jonsdottir, Thomas Henze, Ilse Baert, Paul Van Asch, Carme Santoyo, Tori Smedal, Antonie Giæver Beiske, Małgorzata Stachowiak, Mariusz Kovalewski, Una Nedeljkovic, Daphne Bakalidou…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:552
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  41. Quality indicators are increasingly used to measure the quality of care and compare quality across hospitals. In the Netherlands over the past few years numerous hospital quality indicators have been developed...

    Authors: Claudia Fischer, Hester F. Lingsma, Helen A. Anema, Job Kievit, Ewout W. Steyerberg and Niek Klazinga
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:551
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  42. Physicians’ daily work is increasingly affected by the use of emails, text messages and cell phone calls with their patients. The aim of this study was to describe their use between primary-care physicians and...

    Authors: Jonathan Dash, Dagmar M. Haller, Johanna Sommer and Noelle Junod Perron
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:549
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  43. Recurrent reports from national and international studies show a persistent high prevalence of sickness presence among hospital physicians. Despite the negative consequences reported, we do not know a lot abou...

    Authors: Fay Giæver, Signe Lohmann-Lafrenz and Lise Tevik Løvseth
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:548
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  44. User involvement is increasingly important in developing relevant health care services. The aim of this study was to contribute to a deeper understanding of user involvement and patients’ experiential knowledg...

    Authors: Mirela Slomic, Bjørg Christiansen, Helene L. Soberg and Unni Sveen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:547
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  46. Patients undergoing orthopaedic procedures experience major changes in function and daily routines upon their return home. Discharge summaries are an important communication tool that may play a role in optimi...

    Authors: Christine Soong, Bochra Kurabi, Kathleen Exconde, Faiqa Tajammal and Chaim M. Bell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:545
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  47. Structural violence shapes the health of Indigenous peoples globally, and is deeply embedded in history, individual and institutional racism, and inequitable social policies and practices. Many Indigenous comm...

    Authors: Annette J. Browne, Colleen Varcoe, Josée Lavoie, Victoria Smye, Sabrina T. Wong, Murry Krause, David Tu, Olive Godwin, Koushambhi Khan and Alycia Fridkin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:544
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  48. Uptake of e-health, the use of information communication technologies (ICT) for health service delivery, in allied health appears to be lagging behind other health care areas, despite offering the potential to...

    Authors: Teresa Iacono, Kellie Stagg, Natalie Pearce and Alana Hulme Chambers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:543
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  49. Reimbursement systems provide incentives to health care providers and may drive physician behaviour. This review assesses the impact of reimbursement system on socioeconomic and racial inequalities in access, ...

    Authors: Wenjing Tao, Janne Agerholm and Bo Burström
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:542
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  50. Socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with an increased risk of adverse diabetes outcomes. In Switzerland, a country with theoretical universal healthcare coverage, people without health insurance face barr...

    Authors: Yves Jackson, Juan Carlos Lozano Becerra and Marc Carpentier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:540
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