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  1. Efforts to take forward universal health coverage require innovative approaches in fragile settings, which experience particularly acute human resource shortages and poor health indicators. For maternal and ne...

    Authors: Evelyn Orya, Sunday Adaji, Thidar Pyone, Haja Wurie, Nynke van den Broek and Sally Theobald
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:460
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  3. Analysis of patient mobility in a country not only gives an idea of how the health-care system works, but also can be a guideline to determine the quality of health care and health disparity among regions. Eve...

    Authors: Selman Delil, Rahmi Nurhan Çelik, Sayın San and Murat Dundar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:458
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  4. Surgical and procedural patient care settings require efficient patient flow. The primary goal of this study was to assess use and efficiency of language services for our limited English proficiency (LEP) pati...

    Authors: Christopher M. Burkle, Kathleen A. Anderson, YaPa Xiong, Andrea E. Guerra and Daniel A. Tschida-Reuter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:456
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  5. There are many telehealthcare devices currently available ranging from personal alarms, automated pill dispensers and fall detectors through to monitoring devices for blood sugar, blood pressure and heart rate...

    Authors: Natasha C. Campling, David G. Pitts, Paul V. Knight and Richard Aspinall
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:455
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  6. Healthcare financing through health insurance is gaining traction as developing countries strive to achieve universal health coverage and address the limited access to critical health services for specific pop...

    Authors: Lawrence P.O. Were, Edwin Were, Richard Wamai, Joseph Hogan and Omar Galarraga
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:454
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  7. Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) is a method used to assess the risk of failures and harms to patients during the medical process and to identify the associated clinical issues. The aim of this study wa...

    Authors: Zhila Najafpour, Mojtaba Hasoumi, Faranak Behzadi, Efat Mohamadi, Mohamadreza Jafary and Morteza Saeedi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:453
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  8. Health care improvement efforts should be aligned in order to make a meaningful impact on health systems. Appropriate care delivery could be a unifying goal to help coordinate efforts to improve health outcome...

    Authors: Joelle Robertson-Preidler, Nikola Biller-Andorno and Tricia J. Johnson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:452
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  9. Local health departments are often at the forefront of a disaster response, attending to the immediate trauma inflicted by the disaster and also the long term health consequences. As the frequency and severity...

    Authors: Kate Gossip, Hebe Gouda, Yong Yi Lee, Sonja Firth, Raoul Bermejo III, Willibald Zeck and Eliana Jimenez Soto
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:450
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  10. The successful control of cardiovascular diseases at the lowest possible cost requires the use of the most effective and affordable medicines. We aimed to describe the trends in the ambulatory use of medicines...

    Authors: Helena Gama, Carla Torre, José Pedro Guerreiro, Ana Azevedo, Suzete Costa and Nuno Lunet
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:449
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  11. 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
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  12. One approach to prevent adverse drug events is to discontinue (“deprescribe”) medications that are outdated, not indicated, or of limited benefit relative to risk for a particular patient. However, there is li...

    Authors: Amy Linsky, Mark Meterko, Kelly Stolzmann and Steven R. Simon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:447
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  13. Chronic low back pain is a common health problem for adult workers and causes an enormous economic burden. With the improvement of minimally invasive surgical techniques (MIS) in spinal fusion and the developm...

    Authors: Xuan Wang, Benny Borgman, Simona Vertuani and Jonas Nilsson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:446
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  14. Health reforms in service improvement have included the use of nurse practitioners. In rural emergency departments, nurse practitioners work to the full scope of their expanded role across all patient acuities...

    Authors: Tina E. Roche, Glenn Gardner and Leanne Jack
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:445
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  15. In 2012, Makerere University Johns - Hopkins University, and Mulago National Referral Hospital, with support from the National Institute of Health (under Grant number: NOT AI-01-023) undertook operational rese...

    Authors: Peter Mudiope, Ezra Musingye, Carolyne Onyango Makumbi, Danstan Bagenda, Jaco Homsy, Mai Nakitende, Mike Mubiru, Linda Barlow Mosha, Mike Kagawa, Zikulah Namukwaya and Mary Glenn Fowler
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:444
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  16. The admission process of patients to a hospital is the starting point for inpatient services. In order to optimize the quality of the health services provision, one needs a good understanding of the patient ad...

    Authors: Fabian Röthlisberger, Stefan Boes, Sara Rubinelli, Klaus Schmitt and Anke Scheel-Sailer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:443
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  18. Patient satisfaction, one of the main components of quality of care, is a crucial phenomenon for the overall health care delivery system. Even though a number of studies have been conducted about patient satis...

    Authors: Teshome Mulisa, Fasil Tessema and Hailu Merga
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:441
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  19. The Stroke Canada Optimization of Rehabilitation by Evidence Implementation Trial (SCORE-IT) was a cluster randomized controlled trial that evaluated two knowledge translation (KT) interventions for the promot...

    Authors: Sarah E. P. Munce, Ian D. Graham, Nancy M. Salbach, Susan B. Jaglal, Carol L. Richards, Janice J. Eng, Johanne Desrosiers, Marilyn MacKay-Lyons, Sharon Wood-Dauphinee, Nicol Korner-Bitensky, Nancy E. Mayo, Robert W. Teasell, Merrick Zwarenstein, Jennifer Mokry, Sandra Black and Mark T. Bayley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:440
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  20. Internationally, the use of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) is increasing. Electronic PROs (ePROs) offer immediate access of such reports to healthcare providers. The objectives of this study were to assess n...

    Authors: Kara Schick-Makaroff and Anita E. Molzahn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:439
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  21. For achieving equity of the accessibility to primary healthcare, measuring potential geographical accessibility is essential. The provider-to-population ratio is the most frequently used measure. However, it i...

    Authors: Takashi Nakamura, Akihisa Nakamura, Kengo Mukuda, Masanori Harada and Kazuhiko Kotani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:438
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  22. While greater reliance on nurse practitioners in primary healthcare settings can improve service efficiency and accessibility, their integration is not straightforward, challenging existing role definitions of...

    Authors: Véronique Chouinard, Damien Contandriopoulos, Mélanie Perroux and Catherine Larouche
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:437
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  23. Increasing pressure in the United Kingdom (UK) urgent care system has led to Emergency Departments (EDs) failing to meet the national requirement that 95% of patients are admitted, discharged or transferred wi...

    Authors: Dawn Swancutt, Sian Joel-Edgar, Michael Allen, Daniel Thomas, Heather Brant, Jonathan Benger, Richard Byng and Jonathan Pinkney
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:436
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  24. The importance of assessing research impact is increasingly recognised. Ghana has a long tradition of research dating from the 1970s. In the Ghana Health Service there are three health research centres under t...

    Authors: Blanca Escribano-Ferrer, Jayne Webster and Margaret Gyapong
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:435
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  25. Mobile phones are gradually becoming an integral part of healthcare services worldwide. We assessed the association between Aponjon mobile phone based messaging services and practices regarding childbirth and ...

    Authors: Mafruha Alam, Catherine D’Este, Cathy Banwell and Kamalini Lokuge
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:434
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  26. Electronic consultation (eConsult) systems have enhanced access to specialty expertise and enhanced care coordination among primary care and specialty care providers, while maintaining high primary care provid...

    Authors: Jesus G. Ulloa, Marika D. Russell, Alice Hm Chen and Delphine S. Tuot
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:433
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  27. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) constitutes on average 10–15% of dementia in younger persons (≤65 years old), but can also affect older people. These patients demonstrate a decline in social conduct, and/or lang...

    Authors: Mette Sagbakken, Dagfinn Nåden, Ingun Ulstein, Kari Kvaal, Birgitta Langhammer and May-Karin Rognstad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:432
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  28. Evidence is urgently needed from complex emergency settings to support efforts to respond to the increasing burden of diabetes mellitus (DM). We conducted a qualitative study of a new model of DM health care (...

    Authors: Adrianna Murphy, Michel Biringanine, Bayard Roberts, Beverley Stringer, Pablo Perel and Kiran Jobanputra
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:431
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  29. This is the seventh in a series of papers reporting Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) in a local healthcare setting. The SHARE Program was a systematic, integrated, evid...

    Authors: Claire Harris, Kelly Allen, Cara Waller, Tim Dyer, Vanessa Brooke, Marie Garrubba, Angela Melder, Catherine Voutier, Anthony Gust and Dina Farjou
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:430
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  30. Kenya has a high maternal mortality rate. Provision of skilled delivery plays a major role in reducing maternal mortality. Cost is a hindrance to the utilization of skilled delivery. The Government of Kenya in...

    Authors: John Njuguna, Njoroge Kamau and Charles Muruka
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:429
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  31. Homelessness is associated with increased morbidity, mortality and health care use. The aim of this study was to examine the role of mental disorders in relation to the use of 1) daytime primary health care se...

    Authors: Agnes Stenius-Ayoade, Peija Haaramo, Elisabet Erkkilä, Niko Marola, Kirsi Nousiainen, Kristian Wahlbeck and Johan G. Eriksson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:428
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  32. The home and community care sector is one of the fastest growing sectors globally and most prominently in mature industrialized countries. Personal support workers (PSWs) are the largest occupational group in ...

    Authors: Isik U. Zeytinoglu, Margaret Denton, Catherine Brookman, Sharon Davies and Firat K. Sayin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:427
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  33. The goal of integrated care is to offer a continuum of care that crosses the boundaries of public health, primary, secondary, and tertiary care. Integrated care is increasingly promoted for people with complex...

    Authors: Inge C. Boesveld, Marc A. Bruijnzeels, Marit Hitzert, Marieke A. A. Hermus, Karin M. van der Pal-de Bruin, M. E. van den Akker-van Marle, Eric A. P. Steegers, Arie Franx, Raymond G. de Vries and Therese A. Wiegers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:426
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  34. Patient safety culture concerns leader and staff interaction, attitudes, routines, awareness and practices that impinge on the risk of patient-adverse events. Due to their complex multiple diseases, nursing ho...

    Authors: Gunnar Tschudi Bondevik, Dag Hofoss, Bettina Sandgathe Husebø and Ellen Catharina Tveter Deilkås
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:424
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  35. High coverage of a screening program is essential to program success. Many European screening programs cover only 10–80% of their target population. A possible explanation for the low coverage may be that some...

    Authors: Mette Bach Larsen, Ellen M. Mikkelsen, Ulla Jeppesen, Hans Svanholm and Berit Andersen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:423
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  36. Antibiotic resistance (ABR) has become a major public health challenge in most parts of the world including Ghana and is a major threat to gain in bacterial disease control. The role of prescribers in the cont...

    Authors: Kwaku Poku Asante, Ellen Abrafi Boamah, Martha Ali Abdulai, Kwame Ohene Buabeng, Emmanuel Mahama, Francis Dzabeng, Edith Gavor, Edith Andrews Annan, Seth Owusu-Agyei and Martha Gyansa-Lutterodt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:422
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  37. Work design integrates work characteristics having organizational, social and job components which influence employees’ welfare and also organizational goals. We investigated the effects of work characteristic...

    Authors: Ashim Roy, Trudy van der Weijden and Nanne de Vries
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:421
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  38. Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) have been implemented in 49 out of 50 states in an effort to reduce opioid-related misuse, abuse, and mortality, yet the literature evaluating the impact of PDMP i...

    Authors: Erin P. Finley, Ashley Garcia, Kristen Rosen, Don McGeary, Mary Jo Pugh and Jennifer Sharpe Potter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:420
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  39. Falsely labelled, falsified (counterfeit) medicines (FFCm’s) are produced or distributed illegally and can harm patients. Although the occurrence of FFCm’s is increasing in Europe, harm is rarely reported. The...

    Authors: Marija Anđelković, Einar Björnsson, Virgilio De Bono, Nenad Dikić, Katleen Devue, Daniel Ferlin, Miroslav Hanževački, Freyja Jónsdóttir, Mkrtich Shakaryan and Sabine Walser
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:419
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  41. Inadequate access to affordable essential medicines poses a challenge to achieving Universal Health Coverage. Access to essential medicines for children has been in the spotlight in recent research. However, i...

    Authors: Velisha Ann Perumal-Pillay and Fatima Suleman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:417
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  42. In Tanzania, progress toward achieving the 2015 Millennium Development Goals for maternal and newborn health was slow. An intervention brought together community health workers, health facility staff, and accr...

    Authors: Angel Dillip, Suleiman Kimatta, Martha Embrey, John C Chalker, Richard Valimba, Mariam Malliwah, John Meena, Rachel Lieber and Keith Johnson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:416
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  43. To understand private consumer and clinician preferences towards different rehabilitation modes following knee or hip arthroplasty, and identify factors which influence the chosen rehabilitation pathway.

    Authors: Mark A. Buhagiar, Justine M. Naylor, Grahame Simpson, Ian A. Harris and Friedbert Kohler
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:415
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  44. Oral chemotherapy is increasingly prescribed to treat cancer. Despite its benefits, concerns have been raised regarding adherence to therapy. The study objective was to compare and measure adherence, persisten...

    Authors: Michael Stokes, Carolina Reyes, Yu Xia, Veronica Alas, Hans-Peter Goertz and Luke Boulanger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:414
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  45. Due to extensive literature in the field of lung cancer and their heterogeneous results, the aim of this study was to systematically review of systematic reviews studies which reviewed the cost-effectiveness o...

    Authors: Farbod Ebadifard Azar, Saber Azami-Aghdash, Fatemeh Pournaghi-Azar, Alireza Mazdaki, Aziz Rezapour, Parvin Ebrahimi and Negar Yousefzadeh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:413
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  46. Wellbeing of healthcare workers is important for the effective functioning of health systems. The aim of this study was to explore the conceptualisations of wellbeing, stress and burnout among healthcare worke...

    Authors: Medhin Selamu, Graham Thornicroft, Abebaw Fekadu and Charlotte Hanlon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:412
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  47. The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle is a commonly used improvement process in health care settings, although its documented use in pragmatic clinical research is rare. A recent pragmatic clinical research study...

    Authors: Jennifer Coury, Jennifer L. Schneider, Jennifer S. Rivelli, Amanda F. Petrik, Evelyn Seibel, Brieshon D’Agostini, Stephen H. Taplin, Beverly B. Green and Gloria D. Coronado
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:411
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  48. The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric characteristics of four Health Literacy (HL) measurement tools, viz. Newest Vital Sign (NVS), Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (STOFHLA), ...

    Authors: Paola Zotti, Simone Cocchi, Jerry Polesel, Chiara Cipolat Mis, Donato Bragatto, Silvio Cavuto, Alice Conficconi, Carla Costanzo, Melissa De Giorgi, Christina A. Drace, Federica Fiorini, Laura Gangeri, Andrea Lisi, Rosalba Martino, Paola Mosconi, Angelo Paradiso…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:410
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  49. Predicted shortages in the supply of neurologists may limit patients’ access to and quality of care for neurological disorders. Retaining neurologists already in practice provides one opportunity to support th...

    Authors: Stephanie M. Teixeira-Poit, Michael T. Halpern, Heather L. Kane, Michael Keating and Murrey Olmsted
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:409
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  50. Point of care testing promises to reduce delays in diagnosing and initiating treatment for infectious diseases such as Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV). In South Africa, decentralized HIV testing with rapid...

    Authors: Nora Engel, Malika Davids, Nadine Blankvoort, Keertan Dheda, Nitika Pant Pai and Madhukar Pai
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17:408
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