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  1. Pen needles are an important component of insulin delivery among patients with diabetes, but are not universally covered in China. We compared clinical and economic characteristics of insulin-dependent patient...

    Authors: Linong Ji, Arthi Chandran, Timothy J. Inocencio, Zilin Sun, Qifu Li, Guijun Qin, Zheng Wei, Stefan DiMario and Richard H. Chapman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:300
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  2. The intertwined relation between public and private care in Brazil is reshaping the medical profession, possibly affecting the distribution and profile of the country’s medical workforce. Physicians’ simultane...

    Authors: Bruno Alonso Miotto, Aline Gil Alves Guilloux, Alex Jones Flores Cassenote, Giulia Marcelino Mainardi, Giuliano Russo and Mário César Scheffer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:299
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  3. The Missed Opportunities in Maternal and Infant Health (MOMI) project aimed at reducing maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity within the year after childbirth in four sub-Saharan African countries. MOMI in...

    Authors: Danielle Yugbaré Belemsaga, Anne Goujon, Halima Tougri, Abou Coulibaly, Olivier Degomme, Els Duysburgh, Marleen Temmerman and Seni Kouanda
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:298
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  4. Based on a growing body of epidemiological and biomedical studies, physical activity (PA) is considered a cornerstone in type 2 diabetes treatment. However, it is also a practice embedded in daily life and, as...

    Authors: Mirjam Stuij
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:297
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  5. In Ontario, Canada, approximately $2.5 billion is spent yearly on occupational injuries in the healthcare sector. The healthcare sector has been ranked second highest for lost-time injury rates among 16 Ontari...

    Authors: Joan M Almost, Elizabeth G VanDenKerkhof, Peter Strahlendorf, Louise Caicco Tett, Joanna Noonan, Thomas Hayes, Henrietta Van hulle, Ryan Adam, Jeremy Holden, Tracy Kent-Hillis, Mike McDonald, Geneviève C. Paré, Karanjit Lachhar and Vanessa Silva e Silva
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:296
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  6. The Nigerian Midwives Service Scheme (MSS) increased use of antenatal services at rural public sector clinics. However, it is unclear if women who would not have otherwise sought care, or those who would have ...

    Authors: Daniel O. Erim, Harrison E. Offiong, Christine Kim, Folasade A. Bello, Jeremy Moulton, Stephanie B. Wheeler and Harsha Thirumurthy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:295
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  7. Despite several studies that have estimated the economic impact of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in infants, limited data are available on healthcare resource use and costs attributable to RSV across age g...

    Authors: Caroline Amand, Sabine Tong, Alexia Kieffer and Moe H. Kyaw
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:294
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  8. South Korean government is currently in progress of expanding the coverage of telemedicine projects as part of an attempt to vitalize service industry, but is facing fierce opposition from KMA. Practice of tel...

    Authors: Seo-Joon Lee, Tae-Young Jung, Tae-Ro Lee and Jae-Hoon Han
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:293
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  9. Hospitalization due to dengue illness is an important measure of dengue morbidity. However, limited studies are based on administrative database because the validity of the diagnosis codes is unknown. We valid...

    Authors: Yuan-Liang Woon, Keng-Yee Lee, Siti Fatimah Zahra Mohd Anuar, Pik-Pin Goh and Teck-Onn Lim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:292
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  10. Out-of-hospital emergency care (OHEC), also known as prehospital care, has been shown to reduce morbidity and mortality from serious illness. We sought to summarize literature for low and low-middle income cou...

    Authors: Antony Gatebe Kironji, Peter Hodkinson, Sarah Stewart de Ramirez, Trisha Anest, Lee Wallis, Junaid Razzak, Alexander Jenson and Bhakti Hansoti
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:291
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  11. Patients with severe mental illness may be subjected to Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) in order to secure that the patients adhere to treatment. Few studies have investigated the use of CTOs within an Asser...

    Authors: Hanne Kilen Stuen, Anne Landheim, Jorun Rugkåsa and Rolf Wynn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:290
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  13. Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of mortality among people living with HIV (PLHIV), despite the availability of effective preventive therapy. The TEKO trial is assessing the impact of using a blood test,...

    Authors: Deanna Kerrigan, Carrie Tudor, Katlego Motlhaoleng, Limakatso Lebina, Cokiswa Qomfu, Ebrahim Variava, Sandy Chon, Neil Martinson and Jonathan E. Golub
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:288
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  15. Melbourne, Australia is experiencing rapid population growth, with much of this occurring in metropolitan outer suburban areas, also known as urban growth areas. Currently little is known about differences in ...

    Authors: Rebecca Madill, Hannah Badland, Suzanne Mavoa and Billie Giles-Corti
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:286
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  16. Community engagement is increasingly seen as crucial to achieving high quality, efficient and collaborative care. However, organisations are still searching for the best and most effective ways to engage citiz...

    Authors: E. De Weger, N. Van Vooren, K. G. Luijkx, C. A. Baan and H. W. Drewes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:285
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  17. Among the important stress factors for physicians nowadays are poorly functioning, time consuming and inadequate information systems. The present study examined the predictors of physicians’ stress related to ...

    Authors: Tarja Heponiemi, Hannele Hyppönen, Sari Kujala, Anna-Mari Aalto, Tuulikki Vehko, Jukka Vänskä and Marko Elovainio
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:284
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  19. Community-oriented nursing care is an important model of nursing care. Counseling and Nursing Care Service Centers (CNCSCs) have been providing these private services to the Iranian community for nearly two de...

    Authors: Sefollah Alaei, Fatemeh Alhani and Hassan Navipour
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:282
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  20. Maternal anaemia prevalence in Bihar, India remains high despite government mandated iron supplementation targeting pregnant women. Inadequate supply has been identified as a potential barrier to iron and foli...

    Authors: Amanda S. Wendt, Rob Stephenson, Melissa F. Young, Pankaj Verma, Sridhar Srikantiah, Amy Webb-Girard, Carol J. Hogue, Usha Ramakrishnan and Reynaldo Martorell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:281
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  21. Free clinics are volunteer based organizations that provide health care services to low-income individuals for free or minimal cost. Communities served by a free clinic can provide ambulatory care services for...

    Authors: Jenny Hutchison, Michael E. Thompson, Jennifer Troyer, Christine Elnitsky, Maren J. Coffman and M. Lori Thomas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:280
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  22. To improve care, planners require accurate information about nursing home (NH) residents and their healthcare use. We evaluated how accurately measures of resident user status and healthcare use were captured ...

    Authors: Malcolm B. Doupe, Jeff Poss, Peter G. Norton, Allan Garland, Natalia Dik, Shauna Zinnick and Lisa M. Lix
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:279
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  23. Outcomes for patients in UK with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (LA NSCLC) are amongst the worst in Europe. Assessing outcomes is important for analysing the effectiveness of current practice. How...

    Authors: Swee-Ling Wong, Kate Ricketts, Gary Royle, Matt Williams and Ruheena Mendes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:278
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  24. Tanzania is experiencing a severe shortage of human resources for health, which poses a serious threat to the quality of health care services particularly in rural areas. Task shifting has been considered a wa...

    Authors: Edith A. M. Tarimo, Gustav Moyo, Happy Masenga, Paul Magesa and Dafroza Mzava
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:277
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  25. Drug resistance is a growing challenge to tuberculosis (TB) control worldwide, but particularly salient to countries such as Myanmar, where the health system is fragmented across the public and private sector....

    Authors: Sucitro Dwijayana Sidharta, Jason Dean-Chen Yin, Joanne Su-Yin Yoong and Mishal Sameer Khan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:276
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  26. Neonatal male circumcision (NMC) is an alternative approach to adult male circumcision for HIV prevention. Recent studies found that NMC was rarely performed in Thailand and that most Thai health professionals...

    Authors: Kriengkrai Srithanaviboonchai, Namtip Srirak, Boonlure Pruenglampoo, Kanittha Thaikla, Jiraporn Suwanteerangkul, Jiraporn Khorana, Vipa Danthamrongkul, Suchada Paileeklee, Uraiwan Pattanasattayavong, Deanna E. Grimes and Richard M. Grimes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:275
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  28. In Canada, government insurance covers eye care services provided by ophthalmologists and other physicians. However, government coverage for services provided by optometrists, non-medical school trained primar...

    Authors: A. M. Khan, G. E. Trope, R. Wedge, Y. M. Buys, S. El-Defrawy, Q. Chen and Y. P. Jin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:273
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  29. A vast and heated debate is arising in Switzerland as a result of some recent citizens’ initiatives aimed at introducing compulsory dental health care insurance. The Grand Conseils of the Vaud, Geneva, and Neu...

    Authors: Enrico di Bella, Ivo Krejci, Stefano Ardu, Lucia Leporatti and Marcello Montefiori
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:272
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  30. Telemedical programs for patients with chronic heart failure have shown inconsistent effects on survival and hospitalization. Few studies analyzed effects of telemedical interventions on health costs, although...

    Authors: Robert Herold, Wolfgang Hoffmann and Neeltje van den Berg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:271
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  31. Procedural and documentation deviations relating to intravenous (IV) infusion administration can have important safety consequences. However, research on such deviations is limited. To address this we investig...

    Authors: Dominic Furniss, Imogen Lyons, Bryony Dean Franklin, Astrid Mayer, Gillian Chumbley, Li Wei, Anna L. Cox, Jolien Vos, Galal Galal-Edeen and Ann Blandford
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:270
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  32. Tuberculosis (TB) infection control at primary healthcare (PHC) level remains problematic, especially in South Africa. Improvements are significantly dependent on healthcare workers’ (HCWs) behaviours, underwr...

    Authors: Farirai Zinatsa, Michelle Engelbrecht, André Janse van Rensburg and Gladys Kigozi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:269
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  34. Children who leave the emergency department (ED) without complete evaluation or care (LWCET) have poorer outcomes in general. Previous studies have found that American Indian (AI) children have higher rates of...

    Authors: Tess L. Weber, Katherine M. Ziegler, Anupam B. Kharbanda, Nathaniel R. Payne, Chad Birger and Susan E. Puumala
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:267
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  35. Little is known about the association between patient-related factors and patients’ evaluation of care.

    Authors: Steven H. Hendriks, Marco H. Blanker, Yvonne Roelofsen, Kornelis J. J. van Hateren, Klaas H. Groenier, Henk J. G. Bilo and Nanne Kleefstra
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:266
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  36. The Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) strategy was introduced in Madagascar in 2007. Information was collected by Healthcare structures (HS) on paper forms and transferred to the central leve...

    Authors: Rado Randriamiarana, Grégoire Raminosoa, Nikaria Vonjitsara, Rivo Randrianasolo, Harena Rasamoelina, Harimahefa Razafimandimby, Arthur Lamina Rakotonjanabelo, Richard Lepec, Loïc Flachet and Ariane Halm
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:265
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  37. Pediatric admissions to intensive care outside children’s hospitals are generally excluded from registry-based studies. This study compares pediatric admission to specialist pediatric intensive care units (PIC...

    Authors: Ibinabo Ibiebele, Charles S. Algert, Jennifer R. Bowen and Christine L. Roberts
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:264
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  38. Post-marketing safety studies of medicines often rely on administrative claims databases to identify adverse outcomes following drug exposure. Valid ascertainment of outcomes is essential for accurate results....

    Authors: Florence T. Wang, Fei Xue, Yan Ding, Eva Ng, Cathy W. Critchlow and David D. Dore
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:263
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  39. Rwanda has made tremendous progress in reduction of maternal mortality in the last twenty years. Antenatal care is believed to have played a role in that progress. In late 2016, the World Health Organization p...

    Authors: Regis Hitimana, Lars Lindholm, Gunilla Krantz, Manassé Nzayirambaho and Anni-Maria Pulkki-Brännström
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:262
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  41. Retention of Human Resources for Health (HRH), particularly doctors at district level is a big challenge facing the decentralized health systems in poorly resourced countries. Tanzania, with 75% of its populat...

    Authors: Nathanael Sirili, Gasto Frumence, Angwara Kiwara, Mughwira Mwangu, Amani Anaeli, Tumaini Nyamhanga, Isabel Goicolea and Anna-Karin Hurtig
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:260
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  42. Successful implementation of clinical pharmacy services is associated with improvement of appropriateness of prescribing. Both high clinical significance of pharmacist interventions and their high acceptance r...

    Authors: Nicola Lombardi, Li Wei, Maisoon Ghaleb, Enrico Pasut, Silvia Leschiutta, Paolo Rossi and Maria Grazia Troncon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:259
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  43. Early identification and management of mental illness in childhood and adolescence helps to avert debilitating mental illness in adulthood but the attention given to Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) h...

    Authors: Angela Akol, Karen Marie Moland, Juliet N. Babirye and Ingunn Marie S. Engebretsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:258
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  44. In the current context of increasingly fragmented healthcare systems where patients are seen by multiple doctors in different settings, patients’ relational continuity with one doctor is regaining relevance; h...

    Authors: Sina Waibel, Ingrid Vargas, Jordi Coderch and María-Luisa Vázquez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:257
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  45. Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in children is the most serious form of malnutrition and is associated with very high rates of morbidity and mortality. For sustainable SAM management, United Nations recommends...

    Authors: Santhia Ireen, Mohammad Jyoti Raihan, Nuzhat Choudhury, M. Munirul Islam, Md Iqbal Hossain, Ziaul Islam, S. M. Mustafizur Rahman and Tahmeed Ahmed
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:256
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  46. There is uncertainty about how directly observed treatment (DOT) support for tuberculosis (TB) can be delivered most effectively and how DOT support can simultaneously be used to strengthen human immunodeficie...

    Authors: Embry M. Howell, N. Gladys Kigozi and J. Christo Heunis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:255
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  47. Clinicians have difficulty accurately assessing medication non-adherence within chronic disease care settings. Health information technology (HIT) could offer novel tools to assess medication adherence in dive...

    Authors: Neda Ratanawongsa, Judy Quan, Margaret A. Handley, Urmimala Sarkar and Dean Schillinger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:254
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  48. Involuntary psychiatric care remains controversial. Geographic disparities in its use can challenge the appropriateness of the care provided when they do not result from different health needs of the populatio...

    Authors: Coralie Gandré, Jeanne Gervaix, Julien Thillard, Jean-Marc Macé, Jean-Luc Roelandt and Karine Chevreul
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:253
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  49. This paper explores Norwegian doctors’ use of and experiences with a national tool for sharing core patient health information. The summary care record (SCR; the Kjernejournal in Norwegian) is the first national ...

    Authors: Kari Dyb and Line Lundvoll Warth
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:252
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  50. Nanomedicine is the medical application of nanomaterials that may have an infinite size with the range less than 100 nm. This science has provided solutions to many of the current limitations in the diagnosis ...

    Authors: Mohyeddin Assali, Ali Shakaa, Sabaa Abu-Hejleh, Reham Abu-Omar, Nareman Karajeh, Nawal Ajory, Saed Zyoud and Waleed Sweileh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:250
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