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  1. Congenital haemophilia A (HA) is a rare, inherited, life-long bleeding disorder characterised by prolonged or spontaneous bleeding due to the lack of clotting factor VIII (FVIII) in the body. Treatment for HA ...

    Authors: Valentina Lorenzoni, Isotta Triulzi and Giuseppe Turchetti
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:596
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  2. The General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12) is one of the most unique and extensively used self-report instruments for evaluating psychological disorders and strains. However, the factor structure of GHQ-12 h...

    Authors: Ashraf El-Metwally, Sundas Javed, Hira Abdul Razzak, Khaled K. Aldossari, Abdurrahman Aldiab, Sameer H. Al-Ghamdi, Mowafa Househ, Mamdouh M. Shubair and Jamaan M. Al-Zahrani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:595
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  3. In Malawi, early retention in HIV care remains challenging. Depression is strongly associated with reduced anti-retroviral therapy (ART) adherence and viral suppression. Appropriate depression care for people ...

    Authors: Michael Udedi, Melissa A. Stockton, Kazione Kulisewa, Mina C. Hosseinipour, Bradley N. Gaynes, Steven M. Mphonda, Beatrice Matanje Mwagomba, Alick C. Mazenga and Brian W. Pence
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:593
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  4. To improve and support medication adherence among patients with chronic diseases, especially for long-term medication, it is important to consider both their relationship with healthcare providers and their li...

    Authors: Haruka Ueno, Yoshihiko Yamazaki, Yuki Yonekura, MJ Park, Hirono Ishikawa and Takahiro Kiuchi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:592
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  5. 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
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  6. Unhealthy alcohol consumption exacerbates the HIV epidemic in East Africa. Potential benefits of new trials that test the effectiveness of alcohol interventions could not be evaluated by traditional sampling m...

    Authors: Lingfeng Li, Jennifer Uyei, Kimberly A. Nucifora, Jason Kessler, Elizabeth R. Stevens, Kendall Bryant and R. Scott Braithwaite
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:590
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  7. A model for statewide dissemination of evidence-based treatment (EBT) for traumatized youth was piloted and taken to scale across North Carolina (NC). This article describes the implementation platform develop...

    Authors: Lisa Amaya-Jackson, Dana Hagele, John Sideris, Donna Potter, Ernestine C. Briggs, Leila Keen, Robert A. Murphy, Shannon Dorsey, Vanessa Patchett, George S. Ake and Rebecca Socolar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:589
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  8. Limitations in performing daily activities and a incoherent discharge are risk factors for readmission of elderly patients after discharge from the emergency department. This paper describes the development an...

    Authors: Louise Moeldrup Nielsen, Thomas Maribo, Hans Kirkegaard, Kirsten Shultz Petersen and Lisa Gregersen Oestergaard
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:588
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  9. Results from a previous study showed that 40 to 60% of the price of off-patent medicines in Vietnam was typically spent to induce prescribers to use the medicines, and to persuade procurement officers within h...

    Authors: Tuan A. Nguyen, Rosemary Knight, Andrea Mant, Husna Razee, Geoffrey Brooks, Thu H. Dang and Elizabeth E. Roughead
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:587
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  10. The negative effects of shift work schedules, specifically night and rotating shifts, have been widely reported. However, little is understood whether particular aspects of the organisational environment, rela...

    Authors: Tessa Dehring, Kathryn von Treuer and Bernice Redley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:586
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  11. The discourse in healthcare Knowledge Mobilisation (KMb) literature has shifted from simple, linear models of research knowledge production and action to more iterative and complex models. These aim to blend m...

    Authors: Joe Langley, Daniel Wolstenholme and Jo Cooke
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:585
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  12. The importance of contextual factors in influencing quality improvement and implementation (QI&I) initiatives is broadly acknowledged. Existing treatments of context have primarily viewed it as static and dist...

    Authors: Julie E. Reed, Heather C. Kaplan and Sharif A. Ismail
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:584
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  13. In a number of countries, frameworks have been developed to improve self-management support (SMS) in order to reduce the impact of chronic disease. The frameworks potentially provide direction for system-wide ...

    Authors: Selena O’Connell, Vera J. C. Mc Carthy and Eileen Savage
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:583
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  14. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has recently implemented a comprehensive national program to help veterans who use or experience intimate partner violence (IPV). One important component of this pl...

    Authors: Suzannah K. Creech, Justin K. Benzer, Tracie Ebalu, Christopher M. Murphy and Casey T. Taft
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:582
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  15. University students are within the age group at highest risk for acquiring sexually transmitted infections and other negative health outcomes. Despite the availability of sexual health services at university h...

    Authors: Christine Cassidy, Andrea Bishop, Audrey Steenbeek, Donald Langille, Ruth Martin-Misener and Janet Curran
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:581
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  16. A substantial degree of variability in practices exists amongst donor hospitals regarding the donor detection, determination of brain death, application of donor management techniques or achievement of donor m...

    Authors: Pieter Hoste, Eric Hoste, Patrick Ferdinande, Koenraad Vandewoude, Dirk Vogelaers, Ann Van Hecke, Xavier Rogiers, Kristof Eeckloo and Kris Vanhaecht
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:580
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  17. The practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a deeply-rooted tradition in 30 Sub-Saharan and Middle-East countries which affects approximately 200 million women and girls worldwide. The practice leads to...

    Authors: Alba González-Timoneda, Vicente Ruiz Ros, Marta González-Timoneda and Antonio Cano Sánchez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:579
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  18. The first phase of an enterprise risk management (ERM) program is the identification of risks. Accurate identification is essential to a proactive and effective ERM function. The authors identified a lack of s...

    Authors: Ana Paula Beck da Silva Etges, Veronique Grenon, Ming Lu, Ricardo Bertoglio Cardoso, Joana Siqueira de Souza, Francisco José Kliemann Neto and Elaine Aparecida Felix
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:578
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  19. Although there are many initiatives to improve maternal health services use, utilization of health facility delivery and postnatal care services is low in Ethiopia. Current evidence at global level showed that...

    Authors: Gedefaw Abeje Fekadu, Getachew Mullu Kassa, Abadi Kidanemariam Berhe, Achenef Asmamaw Muche and Nuradin Abusha Katiso
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:577
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  20. Evaluation of integrated care programmes for individuals with multi-morbidity requires a broader evaluation framework and a broader definition of added value than is common in cost-utility analysis. This is po...

    Authors: Maureen Rutten-van Mölken, Fenna Leijten, Maaike Hoedemakers, Apostolos Tsiachristas, Nick Verbeek, Milad Karimi, Roland Bal, Antoinette de Bont, Kamrul Islam, Jan Erik Askildsen, Thomas Czypionka, Markus Kraus, Mirjana Huic, János György Pitter, Verena Vogt, Jonathan Stokes…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:576
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  21. Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPIs) are one of the fasting growing racial groups in the United States (US). NHPIs have a significantly higher disease burden than the US population as a whole, yet th...

    Authors: Marie-Rachelle Narcisse, Holly Felix, Christopher R. Long, Teresa Hudson, Nalin Payakachat, Zoran Bursac and Pearl A. McElfish
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:575
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  22. Falls are one of the major health problems in adults with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). Interventions, such as the Otago Exercise Programme (OEP), can reduce falls in community dwelling adults by up to 35%. The c...

    Authors: Siyar Abdulrazaq, Jackie Oldham, Dawn A. Skelton, Terence O’Neill, Luke Munford, Brenda Gannon, Mark Pilling, Chris Todd and Emma K. Stanmore
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:574
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  23. Medical tourism is a practice where patients travel internationally to purchase medical services. Medical tourists travel abroad for reasons including costly care, long wait times for care, and limited availab...

    Authors: Carly Jackson, Jeremy Snyder, Valorie A. Crooks and M. Ruth Lavergne
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:573
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  24. Health Promoting Hospitals are among the major health promoters of the society. To acquire Health Promoting Hospital (HPH) status, a hospital must self-assess to know their inadequacies and then lay the founda...

    Authors: M.-H. Taghdisi, S. Poortaghi, V. Suri-J, T. Dehdari, M. Gojazadeh and M. Kheiri
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:572
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  25. Our research focuses on the co-creation of value in healthcare with reference to a case of hereditary angioedema with C1 inhibitor deficiency (C1-INH-HAE). Our work is mainly based on the concept of value co-c...

    Authors: Rosanna Spanò, Nadia Di Paola, Maria Bova and Alessandro Barbarino
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:571
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  26. Complexity science has been introduced in healthcare as a theoretical framework to better understand complex situations. Interdisciplinary healthcare teams can be viewed as Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) by fo...

    Authors: Peter Pype, Fien Mertens, Fleur Helewaut and Demi Krystallidou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:570
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  27. Measuring quality in healthcare is vital in evaluating patient outcomes and system performance. The availability of reliable and valid information about the quality of care for patients presenting with rotator...

    Authors: Breda H.F. Eubank, Mark R. Lafave, J. Preston Wiley, David M. Sheps, Aaron J. Bois and Nicholas G. Mohtadi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:569
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  28. Partnerships between clinicians and researchers could increase the generalizability of research findings and increase uptake of research results across populations. Yet engaging clinicians in research is chall...

    Authors: Kim M. Unertl, Alecia M. Fair, Jacquelyn S. Favours, Rowena J. Dolor, Duane Smoot and Consuelo H. Wilkins
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:568
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  29. Chronic diseases are becoming a huge threat to the Chinese health system. Although the New Round of Medical Reform aims to improve this, the chronic disease management in rural China is still worrying as it re...

    Authors: Shaofan Chen, Bo Burström, Vibeke Sparring and Dongfu Qian
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:567
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  30. Severe anaemia (SA) is a common reason for hospitalisation of children in sub-Saharan Africa but the extent to which blood transfusion is used appropriately in the management of severe anemia has hitherto rema...

    Authors: Robert O. Opoka, Andrew S. Ssemata, William Oyang, Harriet Nambuya, Chandy C. John, James K. Tumwine and Charles Karamagi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:566
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  31. Investments in settings-based health interventions can include workplaces, however, engaging with businesses and convincing them to take a role can be difficult. Our research investigated the potential for tra...

    Authors: Geraldine Marsh, Virginia Lewis, Jenny Macmillan and Su Gruszin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:565
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  32. Childbirth is a momentous event for women and their partners, yet women continue to die in childbirth worldwide, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. To reduce maternal mortality and increase the number of wome...

    Authors: Thecla W. Kohi, Lilian T. Mselle, Justine Dol and Megan Aston
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:564
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  33. In 2012, approximately 14 million new cases of cancer were diagnosed. As a result of advances in treatment, screening and prevention programmes the number of people surviving cancer globally is also increasing.

    Authors: Lucy Johnston and Karen Campbell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:563
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  34. Leadership has been identified as an influential factor in implementation processes in healthcare organizations. However, the processes through which leaders affect implementation outcomes are largely unknown....

    Authors: Håkan Uvhagen, Henna Hasson, Johan Hansson and Mia von Knorring
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:562
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  35. Arua district, in Uganda, hosts some of the largest refugee camps in the country. The estimated prevalence of moderate and severe acute malnutrition in children is higher than the national estimates (10.4 and ...

    Authors: Humphrey Wanzira, Richard Muyinda, Peter Lochoro, Giovanni Putoto, Giulia Segafredo, Henry Wamani and Marzia Lazzerini
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:561
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  36. Chronic diseases are generating a major health and societal burden worldwide. Healthy lifestyles, including physical activity (PA), have proven efficacy in the prevention and treatment of many chronic conditio...

    Authors: Anael Barberan-Garcia, Elena Gimeno-Santos, Isabel Blanco, Isaac Cano, Graciela Martínez-Pallí, Felip Burgos, Felip Miralles, Miquel Coca, Serafín Murillo, María Sanz, Alexander Steblin, Marta Ubré, Jaume Benavent, Josep Vidal, Marta Sitges and Josep Roca
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:560
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  37. Anxiety disorders are common, yet treatment options in general practice are often limited to medication or CBT. There is a lack of evidence for the effectiveness of exercise in the treatment of anxiety in pati...

    Authors: Elizabeth Aylett, Nicola Small and Peter Bower
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:559
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Pain is a common and distressing symptom in people with cancer, but is under-recognised and under-treated. Australian guidelines for ‘Cancer Pain Management in Adults’ are available on the Cancer Council Austr...

    Authors: Tim Luckett, Jane Phillips, Meera Agar, Lawrence Lam, Patricia M. Davidson, Nicola McCaffrey, Frances Boyle, Tim Shaw, David C. Currow, Alison Read, Annmarie Hosie and Melanie Lovell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:558
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  40. Diagnostic imaging has been a part of medicine for the last century. It has been difficult to implement guidelines in this field, and unwarranted imaging has been a frequent problem. Some work has been done to...

    Authors: Ann Mari Gransjøen, Siri Wiig, Kristin Bakke Lysdahl and Bjørn Morten Hofmann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:556
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Person-centred health care has widespread recognition, but there are few instruments aimed at measuring the provision of person-centred practice among health care professionals across a range of settings. The ...

    Authors: Pia Cecilie Bing-Jonsson, Paul Slater, Brendan McCormack and Lisbeth Fagerström
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:555
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  42. The effective adoption and use of digital and computerized systems and records in hospitals are crucial for increasing the overall quality, safety and outcomes of any national health community. Prior research ...

    Authors: Luigi Lepore, Concetta Metallo, Francesco Schiavone and Loris Landriani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:554
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Africa’s health systems rely on services provided by mid-level health workers (MLWs). Investment in their training is worthwhile since they are more likely to be retained in underserved areas, require shorter ...

    Authors: Ian Couper, Sunanda Ray, Duane Blaauw, Gideon Ng’wena, Lucy Muchiri, Eren Oyungu, Akinyinka Omigbodun, Imran Morhason-Bello, Charles Ibingira, James Tumwine, Daphney Conco and Sharon Fonn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:553
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  44. Rapidly increasing healthcare costs and the growing burden of non-communicable diseases have increased the out-of-pocket (OOP) spending (63.3% of total health expenditure) in Bangladesh. This increasing OOP sp...

    Authors: Sayem Ahmed, Md. Zahid Hasan, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Farzana Dorin, Marufa Sultana, Ziaul Islam, Andrew J. Mirelman, Clas Rehnberg, Jahangir A. M. Khan and Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:552
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  46. Delirium is a well-known complication in cardiac surgery and intensive care unit (ICU) patients. However, in many other settings its prevalence and clinical consequences are understudied. The aims of this stud...

    Authors: Maria Schubert, Roger Schürch, Soenke Boettger, David Garcia Nuñez, Urs Schwarz, Dominique Bettex, Josef Jenewein, Jasmina Bogdanovic, Marina Lynne Staehli, Rebecca Spirig and Alain Rudiger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:550
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  47. There is a growing body of evidence that supports the uses of telehealth to monitor and manage people with diabetes at a distance. Despite this, the uptake of telehealth has been low. The objective of this stu...

    Authors: Puikwan A. Lee, Geva Greenfield and Yannis Pappas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:549
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  48. The standard 11-days IMCI (Integrated Management of Childhood Illness) training course (standard IMCI) has faced barriers such as high cost to scale up. Distance learning IMCI training program was developed as...

    Authors: Lulu M. Muhe, Nemes Iriya, Felixambrose Bundala, Mary Azayo, Maryam Juma Bakari, Asia Hussein and Theopista John
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:547
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  49. Patient-reported outcome (PRO)-based follow-up is a new model of service delivery, where PRO measures are used as the very basis for demand-driven outpatient follow-up in patients with chronic diseases. Adopti...

    Authors: Caroline Trillingsgaard Mejdahl, Liv Marit Valen Schougaard, Niels Henrik Hjollund, Erik Riiskjær and Kirsten Lomborg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:546
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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