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  1. Community paramedicine programs (i.e., physician-directed preventive care by emergency medical services personnel embedded in communities) offer a novel approach to community-based health care. Project Swaddle...

    Authors: Laura M. Schwab-Reese, Lynette M. Renner, Hannah King, R. Paul Miller, Darren Forman, Joshua S. Krumenacker and Andrea L. DeMaria
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1167
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  2. Patient navigators have been introduced across various countries to enable timely access to healthcare services and to ensure completion of diagnosis and follow-up of care. There is an increasing evidence on t...

    Authors: Hannah Budde, Gemma A. Williams, Juliane Winkelmann, Laura Pfirter and Claudia B. Maier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1166
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  4. Social Prescribing (SP) is an innovative strategy to respond to the non-clinical health needs of the population. A Social Prescribing Local System (SPLS) can be defined as a set of joined community, health, an...

    Authors: A. Costa, J. Lopes, C. J. Sousa, O. Santos, A. Virgolino, P. Nogueira, A. Henriques, P. Seabra, C. Capitão, R. Martins, M. Arriaga and V. Alarcão
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1164
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  5. The study set out to give an in-depth intersection of geo, eco-socio exposition of the factors relating to geography, healthcare supply and utilization in an island setting. This analysis is informed by what h...

    Authors: Japheth Nkiriyehe Kwiringira, James Mugisha, Mathias Akugizibwe and Paulino Ariho
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1163
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  6. Bouldering-Psychotherapy (BPT) has proven to effectively reduce depressive symptoms, but evidence on its cost-effectiveness is lacking. Corresponding information is paramount to support health policy decision ...

    Authors: Larissa Schwarzkopf, Lisa Dorscht, Ludwig Kraus and Katharina Luttenberger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1162
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  7. Several health care systems internationally have implemented protocolised sepsis recognition and treatment bundles for children to improve outcomes, as recommended by the Surviving Sepsis Campaign. Successful ...

    Authors: Amanda Harley, Luregn J. Schlapbach, Paula Lister, Debbie Massey, Patricia Gilholm and Amy N. B. Johnston
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1161
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  8. Almost all maternal deaths and related morbidities occur in low-income countries. Childbirth supervised by a skilled provider in a health facility is a key intervention to prevent maternal and perinatal morbid...

    Authors: Quraish Sserwanja, David Mukunya, Milton W. Musaba, Joseph Kawuki and Freddy Eric Kitutu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1160
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  9. Pediatric Early Warning Scores (PEWS) are nurse-administered clinical assessment tools utilizing vital signs and patient signs and symptoms to screen for patients at risk for clinical deterioration.1–3 When utili...

    Authors: David Mills, Alexis Schmid, Mohammad Najajreh, Ahmad Al Nasser, Yara Awwad, Kholoud Qattush, Michael C. Monuteaux, Joel Hudgins, Zeena Salman and Michelle Niescierenko
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1159
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  10. The SARS-COV-2 pandemic provides a natural intervention to assess practical priority setting and internal evaluation of specific health services, such as radiological services. Norway makes an excellent case a...

    Authors: Bjørn Hofmann, Eivind Richter Andersen and Elin Kjelle
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1158
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  11. Demographic changes are leading to an ageing population in Europe. People are becoming more dependent on digital technologies and health ministries invest increasingly in digitalisation. Societal digital deman...

    Authors: Moonika Raja, Jorunn Bjerkan, Ingjerd G. Kymre, Kathleen T. Galvin and Lisbeth Uhrenfeldt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1157
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  12. The aim of the third WHO challenge released in 2017 was to attain a global commitment to lessen the severity and to prevent medication-related harm by 50% within the next five years. To achieve this goal, comp...

    Authors: Agani Afaya, Kennedy Diema Konlan and Hyunok Kim Do
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1156
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  13. Understanding patient preferences in emergency departments (EDs) can provide useful information to enhance patient-centred care and improve patient’s experience in hospitals. This study sought to find evidence...

    Authors: Dorrin Aghajani Nargesi, Mohammad Hajizadeh, Mohammadhasan Javadi Pakdel, Elham Gheysvandi and Enayatollah Homaie Rad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1155
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  15. Antigen-based lateral flow devices (LFDs) offer the potential of widespread rapid testing. The scientific literature has primarily focused on mathematical modelling of their use and test performance characteri...

    Authors: Patrick Kierkegaard, Massimo Micocci, Anna McLister, John S. P. Tulloch, Paula Parvulescu, Adam L. Gordon and Peter Buckle
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1153
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  16. To characterize health care use and costs among new Medicaid enrollees before and during the COVID pandemic. Results can help Medicaid non-expansion states understand health care use and costs of new enrollees...

    Authors: Brad Wright, David Anderson, Rebecca Whitaker, Peter Shrader, Janet Prvu Bettger, Charlene Wong and Paul Shafer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1152
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  17. Approximately 20% of patients experience chronic pain after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Due to the growing number of TKA procedures, this will affect an increasing number of people worldwide. Catastrophic t...

    Authors: Turid Rognsvåg, Maren Falch Lindberg, Anners Lerdal, Jan Stubberud, Ove Furnes, Inger Holm, Kari Indrekvam, Bjørn Lau, Daniil Rudsengen, Søren T. Skou and Mona Badawy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1151
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  18. Diabetes mellitus has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. As the prevalence of diabetes continues to rise, the burden of disease is divided unevenly among different populations. Racial/ethnic di...

    Authors: Felippe O. Marcondes, David Cheng, Margarita Alegria and Jennifer S. Haas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1150
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  19. Routinely collected health facility data usually captured and stored in Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) are potential sources of data for frequent and local disaggregated estimation of the coverag...

    Authors: George Mwinnyaa, Elizabeth Hazel, Abdoulaye Maïga and Agbessi Amouzou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21(Suppl 2):1083
    Content type: Review Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 21 Supplement 2

  20. The study objective was to analyse the implementation challenges experienced in carrying out the IMPROVE programme. This programme was designed to implement checklist-related improvement initiatives based on t...

    Authors: Yvette Emond, André Wolff, Gerrit Bloo, Johan Damen, Gert Westert, Hub Wollersheim and Hiske Calsbeek
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1149
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  21. In 2011, the province of British Columbia (BC) moved to allow patients with complex rheumatic disease to be seen by nurses along with their rheumatologist by introducing a ‘Multidisciplinary Care Assessments’ ...

    Authors: Glory Apantaku, Magda Aguiar, K. Julia Kaal, Sarah Munro, Michelle Teo and Mark Harrison
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1148
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  22. Changes in pharmacy models of care, services and funding have been occurring internationally, moving away from the traditional dispensing role to more extended patient-facing roles utilising pharmacists’ clini...

    Authors: Janet McDonald, Caroline Morris, Megan Pledger, Phoebe Dunn, Ausaga Fa’asalele Tanuvasa, Kirsten Smiler and Jacqueline Cumming
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1147
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  23. Health systems are a complex web of interacting and interconnected parts; introducing an intervention, or the allocation of resources, in one sector can have effects across other sectors and impact the entire ...

    Authors: Anna J. Hussey, Shannon L. Sibbald, Madonna Ferrone, Alyson Hergott, Robert McKelvie, Cathy Faulds, Zofe Roberts, Andrew D. Scarffe, Matthew J. Meyer, Susan Vollbrecht and Christopher Licskai
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1146
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  24. Managerial commitment is important for effective design and implementation of citizen charter to assure the quality of health service delivery as per the standards depicted in the document. Hence the objective...

    Authors: Nigusu Getachew, Gebeyehu Tsega, Firehiwot Worku, Tilahun Fufa Debela, Dejene Melese, Elias Ali Yesuf and Yibeltal Siraneh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1145
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  25. Allied health assistants (AHAs) support allied health professionals (AHPs) to meet workforce demands in modern healthcare systems. Previous studies have indicated that AHAs may be underutilised in some context...

    Authors: J. Huglin, L. Whelan, S. McLean, K. Greer, D. Mitchell, S. Downie and M. K. Farlie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1144
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  26. High-cost high-need patients are typically defined by risk or cost thresholds which aggregate clinically diverse subgroups into a single ‘high-need high-cost’ designation. Programs have had limited success in ...

    Authors: Jacob K. Quinton, O. Kenrik Duru, Nicholas Jackson, Arseniy Vasilyev, Dennis Ross-Degnan, Donna L. O’Shea and Carol M. Mangione
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1143
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  27. Social capital has become an important concept in the field of public health, and is associated with improved health services uptake. This study aimed to systematically review the available literature on the r...

    Authors: Endalkachew Worku Mengesha, Getu Degu Alene, Desalegne Amare, Yibeltal Assefa and Gizachew A Tessema
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1142
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  28. Besides coping with a disease with many uncertainties, people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis face complex decisions concerning disease-modifying therapies (DMTs). In an interview study, we aimed t...

    Authors: Anna Sippel, Karin Riemann-Lorenz, Jutta Scheiderbauer, Ingo Kleiter, Rebecca Morrison, Christopher Kofahl and Christoph Heesen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1141
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  29. Health insurance (HI) has increasingly been accepted as a mechanism to facilitate access to healthcare in low and middle-income countries. However, health insurance members, especially those in Sub-Saharan Afr...

    Authors: Paul Joseph Amani, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Gasto Frumence, Angwara Denis Kiwara, Isabel Goicolea and Miguel San Sebastiån
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1140
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  30. To examine racial/ethnic and educational inequities in the relationship between state-level restrictive abortion policies and adverse birth outcomes from 2005 to 2015 in the United States.

    Authors: Sara K. Redd, Whitney S. Rice, Monica S. Aswani, Sarah Blake, Zoë Julian, Bisakha Sen, Martha Wingate and Kelli Stidham Hall
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1139
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  31. Community Health Worker (CHW) programs have long been used to provide acute care for children and women in healthcare shortage areas, but their provision of comprehensive longitudinal care for chronic problems...

    Authors: Faraz Alizadeh, Aravind Addepalli, Shombit R. Chaudhuri, Annie Modesta Budongo, Immaculate Owembabazi, Gloria Fung Chaw, Sam Musominali and Gerald Paccione
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1138
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  33. Occupational blood exposure is one of the major public health problems that healthcare workers (HCWs) are encountering. Most previous occupational blood exposure studies are delimited to needle stick injury, w...

    Authors: Semere Reda, Mesfin Gebrehiwot, Mistir Lingerew, Awoke Keleb, Tefera chane Mekonnen, Birhanu Wagaye, Amanuel Atamo, Chala Daba, Alelgne Feleke and Metadel Adane
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1136
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  34. The increasing number of clinical research opportunities requires increasing numbers of participants in clinical trials. However, it may become increasingly problematic, as protocols have become increasingly c...

    Authors: Dimitrios Karampatakis, Angeliki Kakavouti-Doudos, Panagiotis Oikonomidis and Polychronis Voultsos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1135
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  35. Continuity of care is associated with many benefits for patients and health care systems. Therefore measuring care coordination - the deliberate organization of patient care activities between two or more part...

    Authors: Aleida Ringwald, Katja Goetz, Jost Steinhaeuser, Nina Fleischmann, Alexandra Schüssler and Kristina Flaegel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1134
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  36. Health systems need constant changes and reforms in their structure to adapt to changing conditions and meet the needs of society. One of the fundamental changes in the health system of Iran is the health tran...

    Authors: Mohammad Ranjbar, Mohammad Bazyar, Hassan Jafari, Mohsen Pakdaman and Vahid Pirasteh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1133
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  37. Many interventions aim to improve the transition from ward to community at the time of discharge, with varying success. Guidelines suggest that discharge planning should begin at admission, but in reality this...

    Authors: Natasha Tyler, Nicola Wright, Kyriakos Gregoriou and Justin Waring
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1132
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  38. The emergence of the Coronavirus disease has heightened the experience of emotional burden among healthcare staff. To guide the development of support programmes, this review sought to aggregate and synthesise...

    Authors: Frank Bediako Agyei, Jonathan Bayuo, Prince Kyei Baffour and Cletus Laari
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1131
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  39. People with a mental health condition experience a greater prevalence of chronic disease and reduced life expectancy compared to the general population. Modifiable health risk behaviours, such as physical inac...

    Authors: Tegan Bradley, Vibeke Hansen, Paula Wye, Elizabeth Campbell, Kate Bartlem, Kate Reid and Jenny Bowman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1130
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  40. In an effort to accommodate the growing number of HIV clients, improve retention in care and reduce health care burden, the differentiated service delivery (DSD) models were introduced in 2014. One such model,...

    Authors: Timothy Mwanje Kintu, Anna Maria Ssewanyana, Tonny Kyagambiddwa, Pretty Mariam Nampijja, Patience Kevin Apio, Jessica Kitaka and Jerome Kahuma Kabakyenga
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1129
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  41. The effect of predisposing factors on post-operative acute care length of stay (POALOS) after lower extremity amputation (LEA) has been sparsely studied with reports largely focused on major (through/proximal ...

    Authors: Samuel Kwaku Essien and Audrey Zucker-Levin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1128
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  42. In Australia’s north, Aboriginal peoples live with world-high rates of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and its precursor, acute rheumatic fever (ARF); driven by social and environmental determinants of health. W...

    Authors: Vicki Kerrigan, Angela Kelly, Anne Marie Lee, Valerina Mungatopi, Alice G. Mitchell, Rosemary Wyber and Anna P. Ralph
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1127
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  43. Rural healthcare workers (RHWs) are the core of the rural health system. The antecedents of turnover of RHWs have been well studied, but little is known about the consequences of job mobilities among RWHs. Thi...

    Authors: Jinlin Liu, Ying Mao and Bin Zhu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1126
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  44. Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is a potentially curative therapy as well as a costly procedure. Published studies have examined the cost of HCT in the US and the complications that follow but little ...

    Authors: Machaon Bonafede, Elias Anaissie, Kristin Evans and Robbin Itzler
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1125
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  45. Reducing inappropriate referrals to specialists is a challenge for the healthcare system as it seeks to transition from volume to value-based healthcare. Given the projection of a severe shortage of rheumatolo...

    Authors: Eline van den Broek-Altenburg, Adam Atherly, Nick Cheney and Teresa Fama
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1124
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  46. Researchers often use survey data to study the effect of health and social variables on physician use, but how self-reported physician use compares to administrative data, the gold standard, in particular with...

    Authors: Lauren E. Griffith, Andrea Gruneir, Kathryn A. Fisher, Rumaisa Aljied, Richard Perez, Francis Nguyen, Christopher Patterson, Maureen Markle-Reid, Jenny Ploeg and Ross Upshur
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1123
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  47. A family member’s negative experiences with medical care have long-term effects on a patient’s attitudes and emotions. However, the impact of family members’ experiences on patients’ trust in their own physici...

    Authors: Nao Oguro, Ryo Suzuki, Nobuyuki Yajima, Kosuke Sakurai, Takafumi Wakita, Mark A. Hall and Noriaki Kurita
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1122
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  48. Hospital presentations provide unique opportunities to detect DFV. However, up to 70% of women experiencing Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) go undetected by hospital staff. While routine DFV screening is in...

    Authors: Debra K. Creedy, Kathleen Baird, Kerri Gillespie and Grace Branjerdporn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1121
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1208

  49. Social participation is one of the guidelines of the Brazilian health system. Health councils are collegiate instances of participation established by Law 8.142/90. The most recent legal regulation for council...

    Authors: Rita de Cássia Costa da Silva, Maykon Anderson Pires de Novais and Paola Zucchi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1120
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  50. Shortages of antimicrobials lead to treatment failures, increase medical costs, and accelerate the development of antimicrobial resistance. We evaluated the effects of the serious cefazolin shortage in 2019 in...

    Authors: Ryuji Koizumi, Yoshiki Kusama, Yusuke Asai, Gu Yoshiaki, Yuichi Muraki and Norio Ohmagari
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:1118
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