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  1. Under the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s African Health Initiative, five Population Health Implementation and Training partnerships were established as long-term health system strengthening projects in five S...

    Authors: Wilbroad Mutale, Susan Cleary, Jill Olivier, Roma Chilengi and Lucy Gilson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:795
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  2. Evidence on how to implement new interventions into complex healthcare environments is often poorly reported and indexed, reducing its potential to inform initiatives to improve healthcare services. Using the ...

    Authors: Jamie Ross, Fiona Stevenson, Charlotte Dack, Kingshuk Pal, Carl May, Susan Michie, Maria Barnard and Elizabeth Murray
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:794
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  3. When patients die in a hospital their quality of life is lower than when they die at home or in a hospice. Despite efforts to improve palliative care supply structures, still about 60% of lung cancer patients ...

    Authors: Karina Deckert, Julia Walter and Larissa Schwarzkopf
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:793
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  4. Millions of people in Southern Africa are deprived of basic human rights such as the right to education and work because of the large and growing unmet demand for assistive technologies (AT). Evidence is neede...

    Authors: Rebecca A. Matter and Arne H. Eide
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:792
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  5. Results-based financing (RBF) describes health system approaches addressing both service quality and use. Effective coverage is a metric measuring progress towards universal health coverage (UHC). Although con...

    Authors: Stephan Brenner, Jacob Mazalale, Danielle Wilhelm, Robin C Nesbitt, Terhi J Lohela, Jobiba Chinkhumba, Julia Lohmann, Adamson S Muula and Manuela De Allegri
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:791
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  6. The In-Center Hemodialysis Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (ICH CAHPS) Survey is the first patient reported outcome measure included in the U.S. Medicare End Stage Renal Disease Quality...

    Authors: Taimur Dad, Hocine Tighiouart, Joshua J. Fenton, Eduardo Lacson Jr, Klemens B. Meyer, Dana C. Miskulin, Daniel E. Weiner and Michelle M. Richardson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:790
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  7. Multifaceted interventions driven by the needs of patients and providers can help move evidence into practice more rapidly. This study engaged both patients and primary care providers (PCPs) to help design nov...

    Authors: Cristina Villa-Roel, Maria Ospina, Sumit R Majumdar, Stephanie Couperthwaite, Erin Rawe, Taylor Nikel and Brian H Rowe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:789
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  8. India has been at the forefront of innovations around social accountability mechanisms in improving the delivery of public services, including health and nutrition. Yet little is known about how such initiativ...

    Authors: Francesca Feruglio and Nicholas Nisbett
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:788
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  9. Free access to essential medicines is a fundamental right. Governments should provide accessible and affordable medicines to people. The purpose of this study was to evaluate medicines’ prices, availability an...

    Authors: Qais Alefan, Rawan Amairi and Shoroq Tawalbeh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:787
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  10. Early diagnosis and treatment is vital for effective tuberculosis (TB) management especially among migrant populations who are a vulnerable group. We aimed to study factors associated with delay before registr...

    Authors: Tao Li, Hui Zhang, Hemant Deepak Shewade, Kyaw Thu Soe, Lixia Wang and Xin Du
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:786
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  11. Burnout and the intention to leave the profession are frequently studied outcomes in healthcare settings that have not been investigated together and across different health professions before. This study aime...

    Authors: Oliver Hämmig
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:785
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  12. To develop a culture of patient safety in a regime that strongly focuses on saving patients from emergencies may seem counter-intuitive and challenging. Little research exists on patient safety culture in the ...

    Authors: Leif Inge K Sørskår, Eirik B Abrahamsen, Espen Olsen, Stephen J M Sollid and Håkon B Abrahamsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:784
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  13. While efforts have been made to bring about quality and safety improvement in healthcare, it remains by no means certain that an improvement project will succeed. This suggests a need to better understand the ...

    Authors: Denham L. Phipps, Christian E. L. Jones, Dianne Parker and Darren M. Ashcroft
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:783
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  14. Colonoscopy has become a common medical procedure due to increased use of colonoscopy for evaluation of symptoms, colorectal cancer screening and surveillance of people with higher risks of developing colorect...

    Authors: Gayle Restall, John R Walker, Celeste Waldman, Kathleen Zawaly, Valerie Michaud, Dana Moffat and Harminder Singh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:782
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  15. Adolescents living with HIV experience worse HIV care outcomes compared to adults, especially during transition from pediatric to adult care. However, data regarding adolescents are limited. This paper describ...

    Authors: Siyan Yi, Sovannary Tuot, Khuondyla Pal, Vohith Khol, Say Sok, Pheak Chhoun, Laura Ferguson and Gitau Mburu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:781
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  16. The high prevalence of non-communicable diseases places significant demands on the healthcare system. As a result, hospitals are seeking to broaden their role to include more integrated health promotion. Stron...

    Authors: Stephen Barrett, Stephen Begg and Michael Kingsley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:780
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  18. In dementia care, it is crucial that the chain of care is adapted to the needs of people with dementia and their informal caregivers throughout the course of the disease. Assessing the existing dementia care s...

    Authors: Connie Lethin, Lottie Giertz, Emme-Li Vingare and Ingalill Rahm Hallberg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:778
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  19. Problems of irrational antibiotic use by prescribers are ongoing and have escalated following reductions in the cost of essential drugs policy. In an attempt to improve prescribing practices for village doctor...

    Authors: Li Zhen, Chenggang Jin and Hao-nan Xu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:777
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  20. Comorbidity is known to increase risk of death in cancer patients, both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal. The means of measuring comorbidity to assess risk of death has not been studied in any depth in Aboriginal...

    Authors: Lettie Pule, Elizabeth Buckley, Theophile Niyonsenga, David Banham and David Roder
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:776
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  21. Managing medical professionals is challenging because professionals tend to adhere to a set of professional norms and enjoy autonomy from supervision. The aim of this paper is to study the interplay of physici...

    Authors: Domenico Salvatore, Dino Numerato and Giovanni Fattore
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:775
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  22. Patient experiences are acknowledged as an important aspect of health care quality but no validated instruments have been identified for the measurement of either parent or patient experiences with outpatient ...

    Authors: Hilde Hestad Iversen, Ylva Helland, Oyvind Bjertnaes and Torild Skrivarhaug
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:774
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  23. Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) provide services such as personal care, nursing, and home-delivered meals to aging adults and individuals with disabilities. HCBS are available to people acros...

    Authors: Chanee D Fabius, Kali S Thomas, Tingting Zhang, Jessica Ogarek and Theresa I Shireman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:773
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  25. Following publication of the original article [1], the author reported that their first names and last names were swapped. The original article has been corrected.

    Authors: Roberto Ippoliti, Greta Falavigna, Floriana Montani and Silvia Rizzi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:771
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    The original article was published in BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:689

  26. Discharge summary with medication report effectively counteracts drug-related problems among elderly patients due to insufficient information transfer in care transitions. However, this requires optimal transf...

    Authors: Gabriella Caleres, Åsa Bondesson, Patrik Midlöv and Sara Modig
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:770
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  27. In the German rehabilitation system, primary care physicians (PCPs), occupational health physicians (OPs), and rehabilitation physicians (RPs) fulfill different distinct functions and roles. While effective co...

    Authors: Jan M. Stratil, Monika A. Rieger and Susanne Voelter-Mahlknecht
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:769
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  28. Initiatives such as “Choosing Wisely” in the USA and “Smarter Medicine” in Switzerland have published lists of widely overused health care services. The German initiative “Choosing Wisely Together (Gemeinsam K...

    Authors: Cathleen Muche-Borowski, Dorit Abiry, Hans-Otto Wagner, Anne Barzel, Dagmar Lühmann, Günther Egidi, Thomas Kühlein and Martin Scherer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:768
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  29. Safety culture describes leader and staff interactions, attitudes, routines, awareness, and practices within an organisation. With this study, we aimed to determine the psychometric properties of the Slovenian...

    Authors: Zalika Klemenc-Ketis, Irena Makivić and Antonija Poplas-Susič
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:767
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  30. Understanding the perceived importance of Patient-Centered Care (PCC) among Palestinian doctors and how the provider and other clinical characteristics may impact their views on PCC is essential to determine t...

    Authors: Wasim I M Sultan, Mutaz I M Sultan and José Crispim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:766
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  32. Differences in cancer survival exist between countries in Europe. Benchmarking of good practices can assist cancer centers to improve their services aiming for reduced inequalities. The aim of the BENCH-CAN pr...

    Authors: Anke Wind, Joris van Dijk, Isabelle Nefkens, Wineke van Lent, Péter Nagy, Ernestas Janulionis, Tuula Helander, Francisco Rocha-Goncalves and Wim van Harten
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:764
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  33. Medication problems among patients with long-term conditions (LTCs) are well documented. Measures to support LTC management include: medicine optimisation services by community pharmacists such as the Medicine...

    Authors: Reem Kayyali, Shereen Nabhani Gebara, Iman Hesso, Gill Funnell, Minal Naik, Thuy Mason, Mohammed Ahsan Uddin, Noor Al-Yaseri, Umar Khayyam, Teebah Al-Haddad, Roshan Siva and John Chang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:763
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  34. Potential drug–drug interactions (pDDIs) are one of the preventable drug related problems having the risk of serious adverse events or therapeutic failure. In developing countries like Pakistan, this issue rem...

    Authors: Mohammad Ismail, Sidra Noor, Umme Harram, Inamul Haq, Iqbal Haider, Faiza Khadim, Qasim Khan, Zahid Ali, Tahir Muhammad and Muhammad Asif
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:762
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  35. Globally, having the ‘patient and /or family voice’ engaged when measuring quality of care for the dying is fundamentally important. This is particularly pertinent within the United Kingdom, where changes to n...

    Authors: Catriona Mayland, Tamsin McGlinchey, Maureen Gambles, Helen Mulholland and John Ellershaw
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:761
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  36. Obstetric units across the UK face resource pressures alongside a rising rate of Caesarean section (CS). It is assumed that this places a further burden in the form of postnatal bed demands. The number of inpa...

    Authors: Subhadeep Roy and L Montgomery Irvine
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:760
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  37. Advances in the management of retinal diseases have been fast-paced as new treatments become available, resulting in increasing numbers of patients receiving treatment in hospital retinal services. These patie...

    Authors: Eren Demir, David Southern, Aimee Verner and Winfried Amoaku
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:759
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  38. Uganda halved its maternal mortality to 343/100,000 live births between 1990 and 2015, but did not meet the Millennium Development Goal 5. Skilled, timely and good quality antenatal (ANC) and delivery care can...

    Authors: Lenka Benova, Mardieh L. Dennis, Isabelle L. Lange, Oona M. R. Campbell, Peter Waiswa, Manon Haemmerli, Yolanda Fernandez, Kate Kerber, Joy E. Lawn, Andreia Costa Santos, Fred Matovu, David Macleod, Catherine Goodman, Loveday Penn-Kekana, Freddie Ssengooba and Caroline A. Lynch
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:758
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  39. Self-management of exacerbations in COPD patients is important to reduce exacerbation impact. There is a need for more comprehensive and individualized interventions to improve exacerbation-related self-manage...

    Authors: Y. J. G. Korpershoek, S. C. J. M. Vervoort, J. C. A. Trappenburg and M. J. Schuurmans
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:757
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  40. A substantial number of studies linked aspects of a balanced, healthy and supportive nurse practice environment with quality and patient safety. To what extent balanced work characteristics such as social capi...

    Authors: Peter Van Bogaert, Danny Van heusden, Stijn Slootmans, Ingrid Roosen, Paul Van Aken, Guy H. Hans and Erik Franck
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:756
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  41. It is aspired in the German healthcare system that general practitioners (GPs) act as initial contact for patients and guide through at all steps of medical treatment. This study aims at identifying factors as...

    Authors: Judith Tillmann, Marie-Therese Puth, Laura Frank, Klaus Weckbecker, Manuela Klaschik and Eva Münster
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:755
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  42. Variation in access to joint replacement surgery has been widely reported but less attention has been given to the impact of comorbidities on the patient journey to joint replacement surgery. There is a lack o...

    Authors: Bélène Podmore, Andrew Hutchings, Mary-Alison Durand, John Robson, Sujith Konan, Jan van der Meulen and Rebecca Lynch
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:754
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  43. Mental health care lags behind other forms of medical care in its reliance on subjective clinician assessment. Although routine use of standardized patient-reported outcome measures, measurement-based care (MB...

    Authors: Laura O. Wray, Mona J. Ritchie, David W. Oslin and Gregory P. Beehler
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:753
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  44. Female sex workers (FSWs) in many settings have restricted access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. We therefore conducted an implementation study to test a ‘diagonal’ intervention which combin...

    Authors: Yves Lafort, Malica Sofia Ismael de Melo, Faustino Lessitala, Sally Griffin, Matthew Chersich and Wim Delva
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:752
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  45. Over a third of Australian children have long-term health conditions, often involving multiple organ systems and resulting in complex health care needs. Our healthcare system struggles to meet their needs beca...

    Authors: Christie Breen, Lisa Altman, Joanne Ging, Marie Deverell, Susan Woolfenden and Yvonne Zurynski
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:751
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  46. Long-term care (LTC) staffing practices are poorly understood as is their influence on quality of care. We examined the relationship between staffing characteristics and residents’ quality of care indicators a...

    Authors: Veronique M Boscart, Souraya Sidani, Jeffrey Poss, Meaghan Davey, Josie d’Avernas, Paul Brown, George Heckman, Jenny Ploeg and Andrew P Costa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:750
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  47. Current evidence to support cost effectiveness of doctor- pharmacist collaborative prescribing is limited. Our aim was to evaluate inpatient prescribing of venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis by a pharmac...

    Authors: Andrew Hale, Greg Merlo, Lisa Nissen, Ian Coombes and Nicholas Graves
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:749
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  48. Every family expect to have a healthy mother and new born baby after pregnancy. Especially for parents, pregnancy is a time of great anticipation. Access to maternal and child health care insures safer pregnan...

    Authors: Tegene Legese Dadi, Bayu Begashaw Bekele, Habtamu Kebebe Kasaye and Tadesse Nigussie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:748
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  49. The importance of clinical leadership in ensuring high quality patient care is emphasized in health systems worldwide. Of particular concern are the high costs to health systems related to clinical litigation ...

    Authors: Solange Mianda and Anna Voce
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:747
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  50. Meeting psychosocial needs is a significant component of quality dementia care. To enable persons with dementia to live at home for as long as possible, a community healthcare service offering care where physi...

    Authors: Anette Hansen, Solveig Hauge, Ragnhild Hellesø and Ådel Bergland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:746
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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