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  1. The US Preventive Services Taskforce (USPSTF) recommends routine lipid screening beginning age 35 for men [1]. For women age 20 and older, as well as men age 20–34, screening is recommended if cardiovascular r...

    Authors: Robert J. Reid, Melissa L. Anderson, Paul A. Fishman, Jennifer B. McClure, Ron L. Johnson, Sheryl L. Catz and Beverly B. Green
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:281
  2. Compliance with minimum volume standards for specific procedures serves as a criterion for high-quality patient care. International experiences report a centralization of the respective procedures. In Germany,...

    Authors: Werner de Cruppé, Marc Malik and Max Geraedts
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:279
  3. With the launch of the national HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) campaign in South Africa (SA), lay HIV counsellors, who had been trained in blood withdrawal, have taken up the role of HIV testing. This study...

    Authors: Aziza Mwisongo, Vuyelwa Mehlomakhulu, Neo Mohlabane, Karl Peltzer, Jacque Mthembu and Heidi Van Rooyen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:278
  4. It is now widely accepted that the mixed effect and success rates of strategies to improve quality and safety in health care are in part due to the different contexts in which the interventions are planned and...

    Authors: Dionne S. Kringos, Rosa Sunol, Cordula Wagner, Russell Mannion, Philippe Michel, Niek S. Klazinga and Oliver Groene
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:277
  5. Correct treatment of potentially life-threatening illnesses (PLTIs) in children under 5 years, such as malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea, can substantially reduce mortality. The Integrated Management of Childho...

    Authors: Laura C. Steinhardt, Faustin Onikpo, Julien Kouamé, Emily Piercefield, Marcel Lama, Michael S. Deming and Alexander K. Rowe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:276
  6. This article presents the qualitative component linked to a larger study of implementation of the Xpert™ MTB/Rif technology in two Brazilian cities. Despite intrinsic advantages of new health technologies, its...

    Authors: Kenneth R. de Camargo Jr, Carla R. Guedes, Rosângela Caetano, Alexandre Menezes and Anete Trajman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:275
  7. Childbirth is regarded as an important life event for women, and growing numbers of them are making the choice to give birth by Caesarean Delivery. The aim of this study was to identify the factors influencing...

    Authors: Alice Yuen Loke, Louise Davies and Sau-fun Li
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:274
  8. There is a need for a way to measure success in multi-modal pain therapy that researchers and clinicians can agree upon. According to developments in health services research, operationalizing success should t...

    Authors: Carolin Donath, Lisa Dorscht, Elmar Graessel, Reinhard Sittl and Christoph Schoen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:272
  9. Uganda’s poor maternal health indicators have resulted from weak maternal health services delivery, including access to quality family planning, skilled birth attendance, emergency obstetric care, and postnata...

    Authors: Gideon Rutaremwa, Stephen Ojiambo Wandera, Tapiwa Jhamba, Edith Akiror and Angela Kiconco
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:271
  10. Access to health services such as palliative care is determined not only by health policy but a number of legacies linked to geography and settlement patterns. We use GIS to calculate potential spatio-temporal...

    Authors: Nadine Schuurman, Ofer Amram, Valorie A. Crooks, Rory Johnston and Allison Williams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:270
  11. The global scale-up of antiretroviral therapy included extensive training and onsite support to build the capacity of HIV health care workers. However, traditional efforts aimed at strengthening knowledge and ...

    Authors: Lisa A. Cosimi, Huong V. Dam, Thai Q. Nguyen, Huyen T. Ho, Phuong T. Do, Duat N. Duc, Huong T. Nguyen, Bridget Gardner, Howard Libman, Todd Pollack and Lisa R. Hirschhorn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:269
  12. Recent health care policies have supported the adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) but examples of failed ICT projects in this sector have highlighted the need for a greater understand...

    Authors: Maria Cucciniello, Irvine Lapsley, Greta Nasi and Claudia Pagliari
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:268
  13. Mental health problems in older people are common and costly, posing multiple challenges for commissioners. Against this backdrop, a series of initiatives have sought to shift resources from institutional to c...

    Authors: Sue Tucker, Christian Brand, Mark Wilberforce, Michele Abendstern and David Challis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:267
  14. Attention is increasing on the consideration of broader non-health outcomes in economic evaluations. It is unknown which non-health outcomes are valued as most relevant in the context of health promotion. The ...

    Authors: Tim M. Benning, Adrienne F.G. Alayli-Goebbels, Marie-Jeanne Aarts, Elly Stolk, G. Ardine de Wit, Rilana Prenger, Louise M.A. Braakman-Jansen and Silvia M.A.A. Evers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:266
  15. Interdisciplinary rounds (IDR) with documentation have become a standard of care, but the process has been incompletely described in academic general medical settings. Checklists are promoted, yet standardized...

    Authors: Hilary J. Mosher, Daniel T. Lose, Russell Leslie, Priyadarshini Pennathur and Peter J. Kaboli
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:265
  16. In this era of ubiquitous information, patient record exchange among hospitals still has technological and individual barriers including resistance to information sharing. Most research on user attitudes has b...

    Authors: Jong-Yi Wang, Hsiao-Yun Ho, Jen-De Chen, Sinkuo Chai, Chih-Jaan Tai and Yung-Fu Chen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:264
  17. Lifestyle is an important aspect in maintaining good health in older adults, and home health care (HHC) workers can play an important role in promoting a healthy lifestyle. However, there is limited evidence i...

    Authors: Maaike E. Walters, Arie Dijkstra, Andrea F. de Winter and Sijmen A. Reijneveld
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:263
  18. The diffusion of health technologies from translational research to reimbursement depends on several factors included the results of health economic analysis. Recent research identified several flaws in health...

    Authors: Philip Wahlster, Mireille Goetghebeur, Christine Kriza, Charlotte Niederländer and Peter Kolominsky-Rabas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:262
  19. Risk adjustment is important in studies using administrative databases. Although utilization of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures can represent patient severity, the usability of procedure records in risk ...

    Authors: Hayato Yamana, Hiroki Matsui, Kiyohide Fushimi and Hideo Yasunaga
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:261
  20. Clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of low back pain suggest the inclusion of a biopsychosocial approach in which patient self-management is prioritized. While many physiotherapists recognise the im...

    Authors: James Matthews, Amanda M. Hall, Marian Hernon, Aileen Murray, Ben Jackson, Ian Taylor, John Toner, Suzanne Guerin, Chris Lonsdale and Deirdre A. Hurley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:260
  21. The number of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infected people eligible for initiation on antiretroviral Therapy (ART) is increasing. ART programmatic success requires that patients who are taking ART remain...

    Authors: Mazvita Naome Mberi, Lazarus Rugare Kuonza, Nomathemba Michelle Dube, Cornelius Nattey, Samuel Manda and Robert Summers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:259
  22. The use of demand-side financing mechanisms to increase health service utilisation among target groups and enhance service quality is gaining momentum in many low- and middle-income countries. However, there i...

    Authors: Josephine Borghi, Kate Ramsey, August Kuwawenaruwa, Jitihada Baraka, Edith Patouillard, Ben Bellows, Peter Binyaruka and Fatuma Manzi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:258
  23. People with mental illness have been identified as being more likely to experience type 2 diabetes and the complications arising from this, necessitating more complex chronic illness self-management. Social su...

    Authors: Mikaila M. Crotty, Julie Henderson, Paul R. Ward, Jeffrey Fuller, Anne Rogers, Debbie Kralik and Sue Gregory
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:257
  24. Policy interventions have been taken to protect households from facing unpredictable economic changes that may cause catastrophe in China. This study aims to estimate the change of overall proportion of househ...

    Authors: Yongjian Xu, Jianmin Gao, Zhongliang Zhou, Qinxiang Xue, Jinjuan Yang, Hao Luo, Yanli Li, Sha Lai and Gang Chen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:256
  25. A limitation of service delivery in primary care in the United Kingdom is that services are often organised to manage discrete long-term conditions, using guidelines related to single conditions, and managed i...

    Authors: Charles Adeniji, Cassandra Kenning, Peter A. Coventry and Peter Bower
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:255
  26. The growing burden of non-communicable diseases in middle-income countries demands models of care that are appropriate to local contexts and acceptable to patients in order to be effective. We describe a multi...

    Authors: Isabelle Risso-Gill, Dina Balabanova, Fadhlina Majid, Kien Keat Ng, Khalid Yusoff, Feisul Mustapha, Charlotte Kuhlbrandt, Robby Nieuwlaat, J.-D. Schwalm, Tara McCready, Koon K. Teo, Salim Yusuf and Martin McKee
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:254
  27. The growing number of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in China points to an increased need for case management services of HIV/AIDS. This study sought to explore the challenges and enablers in shifting the...

    Authors: Fuchang Ma, Fan Lv, Peng Xu, Dapeng Zhang, Sining Meng, Lahong Ju, Huihui Jiang, Liping Ma, Jiangping Sun and Zunyou Wu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:253
  28. In recent years, interventions and health policy programmes have been established to promote patient empowerment, with a particular focus on patients affected by long-term conditions. However, a clear definiti...

    Authors: Paulina Bravo, Adrian Edwards, Paul James Barr, Isabelle Scholl, Glyn Elwyn and Marion McAllister
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:252
  29. 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
  30. Youth in South Africa have been identified as a high-risk group for contracting HIV. In response, the South African Integrated School Health Policy (ISHP) has been developed with the aim of guiding the provisi...

    Authors: Michael Strauss, Bruce Rhodes and Gavin George
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:250
  31. Low health literacy is associated with higher health care utilization and costs; however, no large-scale studies have demonstrated this in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). This research evaluated the ...

    Authors: Jolie N. Haun, Nitin R. Patel, Dustin D. French, Robert R. Campbell, Douglas D. Bradham and William A. Lapcevic
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:249
  32. Strong health laboratory systems and networks capable of providing high quality services are critical components of the health system and play a key role in routine diagnosis, care, treatment and disease surve...

    Authors: Leonard E.G. Mboera, Deus S. Ishengoma, Andrew M. Kilale, Isolide S. Massawe, Acleus S.M. Rutta, Gibson B. Kagaruki, Erasmus Kamugisha, Vito Baraka, Celine I. Mandara, Godlisten S. Materu and Stephen M. Magesa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:248
  33. In resource-limited settings, many HIV-infected patients are lost to follow-up (LTF) before starting ART; risk factors among those not eligible for ART at enrollment into care are not well described.

    Authors: R Charon Gwynn, Ashraf Fawzy, Ida Viho, Yingfeng Wu, Elaine J Abrams and Denis Nash
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:247
  34. Prolonged, inappropriate hospital stay after patients’ eligibility for discharge from internal medicine departments is a world-wide health-care systems’ problem. Nevertheless, the extent to which such surplus ...

    Authors: Maya Rosman, Orna Rachminov, Omer Segal and Gad Segal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:246
  35. The high acute costs of cardiovascular disease and acute cardiovascular events are well established, particularly in terms of direct medical costs. The costs associated with lost work productivity have been de...

    Authors: Xue Song, Ruben G.W. Quek, Shravanthi R. Gandra, Katherine A. Cappell, Robert Fowler and Ze Cong
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:245
  36. High performing hospitals attain excellence across multiple measures of performance and multiple departments. Studying high performing hospitals can be valuable if factors associated with high performance can ...

    Authors: Natalie Taylor, Robyn Clay-Williams, Emily Hogden, Jeffrey Braithwaite and Oliver Groene
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:244
  37. Team effectiveness is often explained on the basis of input-process-output (IPO) models. According to these models a relationship between organizational culture (input = I), interprofessional teamwork (process...

    Authors: Mirjam Körner, Markus A. Wirtz, Jürgen Bengel and Anja S. Göritz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:243
  38. The World Mental Health Surveys conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) have shown that huge treatment gaps for severe mental disorders exist in both developed and developing countries. This gap is gr...

    Authors: Oye Gureje, Jibril Abdulmalik, Lola Kola, Emmanuel Musa, Mohammad Taghi Yasamy and Kazeem Adebayo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:242
  39. Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa are major causes of pneumonia in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Limited data exist regarding the health economic impact of S. aureus and P. aeruginosa pneumon...

    Authors: Moe H. Kyaw, David M. Kern, Siting Zhou, Ozgur Tunceli, Hasan S. Jafri and Judith Falloon
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:241
  40. Quality improvement collaboratives are used to improve healthcare by various organizations. Despite their popularity literature shows mixed results on their effectiveness. A quality improvement collaborative c...

    Authors: Anne Marie Weggelaar-Jansen, Jeroen van Wijngaarden and Sarah-Sue Slaghuis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:239
  41. This editorial introduces the special Biomed Central cross-journal collection The Many Meanings of ‘Quality’ in Healthcare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, setting out the context for the development of the colle...

    Authors: Deborah Swinglehurst, Nathan Emmerich, Jo Maybin, Sophie Park and Sally Quilligan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:240
  42. Bangladesh has achieved remarkable progress in healthcare with a steady decline in maternal and under-5 child mortality rates in efforts to achieve Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5. However, the mortality ...

    Authors: Farzana Islam, Aminur Rahman, Abdul Halim, Charli Eriksson, Fazlur Rahman and Koustuv Dalal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:237
  43. Pharmaceutical marketing is undergoing a major shift in the United States, in part due to new transparency regulations under the healthcare reform act. Changes in pharmaceutical marketing practices include a p...

    Authors: Tim K. Mackey, Raphael E. Cuomo and Bryan A. Liang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:236
  44. Male circumcision can provide life-long reduction in the risk of acquiring HIV infection. In South Africa, the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Department of Health committed to rolling out circumcision programs to ad...

    Authors: Adriane Wynn, Claire C. Bristow, Douglas Ross, Inon Schenker and Jeffrey D. Klausner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:235
  45. Women after a spinal cord injury (SCI), who decide to get pregnant and to become mothers, have special health care service needs. This study aims to identify the perceived service needs of woman with SCI durin...

    Authors: Sue Bertschy, Szilvia Geyh, Jürgen Pannek and Thorsten Meyer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:234
  46. Hospital boards, those executive members charged with developing appropriate organisational strategies and cultures, have an important role to play in safeguarding the care provided by their organisation. Howe...

    Authors: Ross Millar, Tim Freeman and Russell Mannion
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:196