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  1. People with type 1 diabetes who attend structured education training in self-management using flexible intensive therapy achieve improved blood glucose control and experience fewer episodes of severe hypoglyca...

    Authors: Fiona Campbell, Julia Lawton, David Rankin, Mark Clowes, Elizabeth Coates, Simon Heller, Nicole de Zoysa, Jackie Elliott and Jenna P. Breckenridge
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:898
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. The implementation of Integrated Care Models (ICMs) represents a strategy for addressing the increasing issues of system fragmentation and improving service customization according to user needs. Available ICM...

    Authors: Ida Charlotte Holmen, Sina Waibel and Oddvar Kaarboe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:860
    Content type: Research Published on:

  3. Because of the current emphasis and enthusiasm focused on integration of health systems, there is a risk of piling resources into integrated strategies without the necessary systems in place to monitor their p...

    Authors: Heidi W Reynolds and Elizabeth G Sutherland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:168
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  4. Despite universal population coverage and equity being a stated policy goal of its NHIS, over a decade since passage of the first law in 2003, Ghana continues to struggle with how to attain it. The predominant...

    Authors: Irene Akua Agyepong, Daniel Nana Yaw Abankwah, Angela Abroso, ChangBae Chun, Joseph Nii Otoe Dodoo, Shinye Lee, Sylvester A. Mensah, Mariam Musah, Adwoa Twum, Juwhan Oh, Jinha Park, DoogHoon Yang, Kijong Yoon, Nathaniel Otoo and Francis Asenso-Boadi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:504
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Patients’ reported opinions of the health system need to be understood in order to provide patient-centered care. We investigated determinants of women’s ratings of the quality of care during their most recent...

    Authors: Elysia Larson, Sabrina Hermosilla, Angela Kimweri, Godfrey M Mbaruku and Margaret E Kruk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:483
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Innovative and sustainable programs are required to support the well-being of stroke survivors. Peer support is a potentially low cost way to enhance well-being of recent stroke survivors and the well-being an...

    Authors: Dorothy Kessler, Mary Egan and Lucy-Ann Kubina
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:256
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Re-hospitalization is common among patients with diabetes, and may be related to aspects of health care use. We sought to determine the association between patterns of health care engagement and risk of subseq...

    Authors: Paul E Ronksley, Pietro Ravani, Claudia Sanmartin, Hude Quan, Braden Manns, Marcello Tonelli and Brenda R Hemmelgarn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2013 13:399
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. Smoking is strongly associated with disadvantage and is an important contributor to inequalities in health. Smoking cessation services have been implemented in the UK targeting disadvantaged smokers, but there...

    Authors: Elin Roddy, Marilyn Antoniak, John Britton, Andrew Molyneux and Sarah Lewis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2006 6:147
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Due to stagnating resources and an increase in staff workload, the quality of Finnish primary health care (PHC) is claimed to have deteriorated slowly. With a decentralised PHC organisation and lack of nationa...

    Authors: Markku Satokangas, Sonja Lumme, Martti Arffman and Ilmo Keskimäki
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:629
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Using a combination of videos and online short stories, we conducted four face-to-face deliberative workshops in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) with members of the public who later joined additional participants in...

    Authors: P. Lehoux, J. Jimenez-Pernett, F. A. Miller and B. Williams-Jones
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:616
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. Research exploring telehealth expansion during the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that groups disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 also experience worse access to telehealth. However, this research has ...

    Authors: Diana J. Govier, Hannah Cohen-Cline, Katherine Marsi and Sarah E. Roth
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:511
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. Short-term school eye health programmes supported by external funders have sustainability issues. This study aimed to understand the contextual factors affecting integrating eye health into the school health p...

    Authors: Ving Fai Chan, Elodie Yard, Eden Mashayo, Damaris Mulewa, Lesley Drake and Fatma Omar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:1414
    Content type: Research Published on:

  13. Integrated care services are considered a vital strategy for improving the Triple Aim values for people with chronic kidney disease. However, a solid scholarly explanation of how to develop, implement and eval...

    Authors: Pim P. Valentijn, Claus Biermann and Marc A. Bruijnzeels
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:330
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Workplace violence in emergency primary health care is prevalent, but longitudinal studies using validated assessment scales to describe the characteristics of workplace violence in these settings are lacking....

    Authors: Grethe E. Johnsen, Tone Morken, Valborg Baste, Knut Rypdal, Tom Palmstierna and Ingrid Hjulstad Johansen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:33
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Midwives have long workdays and work many weeks on call. There is a concern that these extended work schedules can negatively affect their intention to stay in the profession.

    Authors: Isik U. Zeytinoglu, Firat K. Sayin, Elena Neiterman, Farimah HakemZadeh, Johanna Geraci, Jennifer Plenderleith and Derek Lobb
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:950
    Content type: Research Published on:

  16. Taiwan's National Health Insurance (NHI), implemented in 1995, substantially increased the number of health care facilities that can deliver free prenatal care. Because of the increase in such facilities, it i...

    Authors: Likwang Chen, Chi-Liang Chen and Wei-Chih Yang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:67
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. While Medicare is a federal health insurance program, managed Medicare limits access to healthcare services to networks within states or territories. However, if a natural disaster requires evacuation, displac...

    Authors: George Mellgard, David Abramson, Charles Okamura and Himali Weerahandi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:818
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  18. Healthcare professionals (HCPs) are increasingly recommended to play an important role in supporting people with chronic disease in work participation. An intervention for HCPs to provide work-related support ...

    Authors: Maarten Butink, Shari Hooper, Annelies Boonen, Vera Baadjou, Tim Boymans, Marieke Pierik and Angelique de Rijk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:325
    Content type: Research Published on:

  20. There is a growing body of evidence to support the use of telehealth in monitoring HbA1c levels in people living with type 2 diabetes. However, the overall magnitude of effect is yet unclear due to variable re...

    Authors: Puikwan A. Lee, Geva Greenfield and Yannis Pappas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:495
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. There is a lack of practical research frameworks to guide the development of patient decision aids [PtDAs]. This paper described how a PtDA was developed using the International Patient Decision Aids (IPDAS) g...

    Authors: Chirk Jenn Ng, Nigel Mathers, Alastair Bradley and Brigitte Colwell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:503
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  23. HIV assisted partner services (aPS) is an intervention to improve HIV status awareness among sex and drug-injecting partners of people newly diagnosed with HIV (index clients). Implementation fidelity—the degr...

    Authors: Beatrice Wamuti, Mercy Owuor, Wenjia Liu, David Katz, Harison Lagat, George Otieno, Edward Kariithi, Paul Macharia, Sarah Masyuko, Mary Mugambi, Carey Farquhar and Bryan Weiner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:511
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. The Maldives faces challenges in the provision of health services to its population scattered across many small islands. The government commissioned two separate reproductive health surveys, in 1999 and 2004, ...

    Authors: Anne Cockcroft, LuWei Pearson, Candyce Hamel and Neil Andersson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11(Suppl 2):S6
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 2

  26. Common mental health problems impose substantial challenges to patients, carers, and health care systems. A range of interventions have demonstrable efficacy in improving the lives of people experiencing such ...

    Authors: Christopher Dowrick, Linda Gask, Suzanne Edwards, Saadia Aseem, Peter Bower, Heather Burroughs, Amy Catlin, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Pam Clarke, Mark Gabbay, Simon Gowers, Derek Hibbert, Marija Kovandzic, Jonathan Lamb, Karina Lovell, Anne Rogers…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:226
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  27. Some veterans face multiple barriers to VA mental healthcare service use. However, there is limited understanding of how veterans’ experiences and meaning systems shape their perceptions of barriers to VA ment...

    Authors: Ann M. Cheney, Christopher J. Koenig, Christopher J. Miller, Kara Zamora, Patricia Wright, Regina Stanley, John Fortney, James F. Burgess and Jeffrey M. Pyne
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:591
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. Good workspace design is key to the quality of work, safety, and wellbeing for workers, yet we lack vital knowledge about optimal hospital design to meet healthcare workforce needs. This study used novel mobil...

    Authors: Frances Rapport, Emilie Francis-Auton, John Cartmill, Tayhla Ryder, Jeffrey Braithwaite and Robyn Clay-Williams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:78
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. Community health workers, known as Village Health Teams (VHTs) in Uganda, play a central role in increasing access to community-based health services. The objective of this research is to explore tensions that...

    Authors: Samantha Perry, Cynthia D. Fair, Sahai Burrowes, Sarah Jane Holcombe and Robert Kalyesubula
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:563
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Cancer is the leading cause of death in Canada. Early cancer diagnosis could improve patients’ prognosis and quality of life. This study aimed to analyze the factors influencing elapsed time between the first ...

    Authors: Astrid Brousselle, Mylaine Breton, Lynda Benhadj, Dominique Tremblay, Sylvie Provost, Danièle Roberge, Raynald Pineault and Pierre Tousignant
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:448
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. Adults with sickle cell disease (SCD) suffer early mortality and high morbidity. Many are not affiliated with SCD centers, defined as no ambulatory visit with a SCD specialist in 2 years. Negative social deter...

    Authors: Gustavo G. Mendez, Judith M. Nocek, Donald J. Brambilla, Sara Jacobs, Oladipo Cole, Julie Kanter, Jeffrey Glassberg, Kay L. Saving, Cathy L. Melvin, Robert W. Gibson, Marsha Treadwell, George L. Jackson, Allison A. King, Victor R. Gordeuk, Barbara Kroner and Lewis L. Hsu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:291
    Content type: Research Published on:

  32. The field of acceptability of health services is emerging and growing in coherence. But there are gaps, including relatively little integration of elements of acceptability. This study attempted to analyse col...

    Authors: Blaise Joy Bucyibaruta, John Eyles, Bronwyn Harris, Gaëtan Kabera, Kafayat Oboirien and Benon Ngyende
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:839
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. Medication discrepancies commonly occur when patients are transferred between care settings. Despite the presence of medication reconciliation services (MRS), medication discrepancies are still prevalent, whic...

    Authors: Konstadina Griva, Zi Yang Chua, Lester Yousheng Lai, Sandra Jialun Xu, Esther Siew Joo Bek and Eng Sing Lee
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:357
    Content type: Research Published on:

  34. Mental illnesses are the leading cause of disability in young people, and lifestyle interventions in young people at risk of mental illness remain a priority. Opportunities to improve nutrition and physical ac...

    Authors: Tamieka Mawer, Katherine Kent, Andrew D. Williams, Courtney J. McGowan, Sandra Murray, Marie-Louise Bird, Sibella Hardcastle and Heather Bridgman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:789
    Content type: Research Published on:

  35. In the United States, health care has long been viewed as a ‘right,’ and residents of the state of Ohio are no exception. The Ohio Department of Health ensures that this right exists for all residents of Ohio....

    Authors: M. S. Alam, N. J. Tabassum and A. I. Tokey
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:598
    Content type: Research Published on:

  36. To effectively provide public health care for rural residents, the Ministry of Health formally unveiled the contract service policy in rural China in April 2013. As the counterpart to family medicine in some d...

    Authors: Huixuan Zhou, Weijun Zhang, Shengfa Zhang, Fugang Wang, You Zhong, Linni Gu, Zhiyong Qu, Xiaoyun Liang, Zhihong Sa, Xiaohua Wang and Donghua Tian
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:75
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. Diabetes is an increasingly prevalent chronic illness that places a huge burden on the individual, the health system and society. Patients with active foot disease and lower limb amputations due to diabetes ha...

    Authors: Sarah Delea, Claire Buckley, Andrew Hanrahan, Gerald McGreal, Deirdre Desmond and Sheena McHugh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:251
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. The aim of this study was to assess the relation between perceived social support and personal autonomy of individuals with intellectual disabilities and Health-Related Quality of Life.

    Authors: Montserrat Alonso-Sardón, Helena Iglesias-de-Sena, Luz Celia Fernández-Martín and José Antonio Mirón-Canelo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:63
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Professional knowledge aims at improving practice. It reduces uncertainty in decision-making, improves effectiveness in action and relevance in evaluation, stimulates reflexivity, and subjects practice to ethi...

    Authors: Jean-Pierre Unger, Ingrid Morales and Pierre De Paepe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20(Suppl 2):1071
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 2

  40. To estimate the incidence and concentration of catastrophic out-of-pocket payments for healthcare and dental treatment, by region in Spain (calculated as the proportion of households needing to exceed a given ...

    Authors: Samuel López-López, Raúl del Pozo-Rubio, Marta Ortega-Ortega and Francisco Escribano-Sotos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:784
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. Rural, remote, and underserved communities have often struggled to provide adequate access to family physicians. To bridge this gap in Renfrew County, a large, rural region in Ontario, Canada, a community- bas...

    Authors: Jonathan Fitzsimon, Kush Patel, Cayden Peixoto and Christopher Belanger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:573
    Content type: Research Published on:

  42. In response to long waiting lists and problems with access to primary care physiotherapy, several Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) (now Clinical Commissioning Groups CCGs) developed physiotherapy-led telephone asses...

    Authors: Jennifer Pearson, Jane Richardson, Michael Calnan, Chris Salisbury and Nadine E. Foster
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:104
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. National screening programs have reduced cervical cancer mortality; however participation in these programs varies according to women's personal and social characteristics. Research into these inequalities has...

    Authors: Sarah C Olesen, Peter Butterworth, Patricia Jacomb and Robert J Tait
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:34
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Improving the health of women before pregnancy and throughout a woman’s lifespan could mitigate disparities and improve the health and wellbeing of women, infants and children. The preconception period is impo...

    Authors: Angela Wangari Walter, Clevanne Julce, Nireesha Sidduri, Leanne Yinusa-Nyahkoon, Jessica Howard, Matthew Reichert, Timothy Bickmore and Brian W. Jack
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:889
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  45. The first world conference on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in 1994 helped create the awareness that reproductive health is a human right. Over the years, attempts have been made to extend services to a...

    Authors: William Nketsia, Wisdom Kwadwo Mprah, Maxwell Peprah Opoku, Duorinaah Juventus and Michael Amponteng
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2022 22:954
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. Globally, about 150 million people experience catastrophic healthcare expenditure services annually. Among low and middle income countries, out-of-pocket expenditure pushes about 100 million people into povert...

    Authors: Barnabas Africanus Mbogo and Deborah McGill
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:413
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Immunisation remains the most cost-effective public health intervention in preventing morbidity and mortality due to Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (VPDs). The study aims to compare the differences in immunisati...

    Authors: Awa Jammeh, Michael Muhoozi, Asli Kulane and Dan Kajungu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:856
    Content type: Research Published on:

  48. Patient engagement is effective in promoting adherence to HIV care. In an effort to promote patient-centered care, we implemented an enhanced patient care (EPC) intervention that addresses a combination of sys...

    Authors: Juddy Wachira, Becky Genberg, Diana Chemutai, Ann Mwangi, Omar Galarraga, Siika Abraham and Ira Wilson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2021 21:515
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Ambulatory based treatment of tuberculosis has been recently introduced in Kazakhstan. We sought to assess the attitudes of the general population, TB patients and their household members towards ambulatory TB...

    Authors: Meruyert Darisheva, Melissa Tracy, Assel Terlikbayeva, Baurzhan Zhussupov, Neil Schluger and Tara McCrimmon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20:563
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. HIV prevention is increasingly focused on people living with HIV (PLWH) and the role of healthcare settings in prevention. Emergency Departments (EDs) frequently care for PLWH, but do not typically endorse a p...

    Authors: Michael S Lyons, Dana L Raab, Christopher J Lindsell, Alexander T Trott and Carl J Fichtenbaum
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2007 7:164
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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