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  1. Migration among persons living with HIV (PLWH) seeking HIV care is common; however its effect on health outcomes in resource-rich settings is not well understood. We conducted a retrospective cohort study to q...

    Authors: Viviane Dias Lima, Nicola Goldberg, Lillian Lourenço, William Chau, Robert S. Hogg, Silvia Guillemi, Rolando Barrios and Julio S G Montaner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:376
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  2. The aim of the study presented in this article is to analyse the discriminant factors that have an influence on the use of communities of practice by primary and specialist healthcare professionals (physicians...

    Authors: David Lacasta Tintorer, Souhel Flayeh Beneyto, Josep Maria Manresa, Pere Torán-Monserrat, Ana Jiménez-Zarco, Joan Torrent-Sellens and Francesc Saigí-Rubió
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:373
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  3. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has increased rates of public and private health insurance in the United States. Increasing coverage could raise hospital revenue and reduce the need to shift costs to insured pat...

    Authors: Mark W. Smith, Bernard Friedman, Zeynal Karaca and Herbert S. Wong
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:372
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  4. Miscommunication in the healthcare sector can be life-threatening. The rising number of migrant patients and foreign-trained staff means that communication errors between a healthcare practitioner and patient ...

    Authors: Renata F. I. Meuter, Cindy Gallois, Norman S. Segalowitz, Andrew G. Ryder and Julia Hocking
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:371
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  5. A peculiar phenomenon of engaging insurance intermediaries for government funded health insurance schemes for the poor, not usually found globally, is gaining ground in India. Rajiv Aarogyasri Scheme launched ...

    Authors: Srikant Nagulapalli and Sudarsana Rao Rokkam
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:370
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  6. Almost 97 % of the Korean population is covered by National Health Insurance and are entitled to receive the same level of insurance benefits, regardless of how much each enrollee contributes to the system. Ho...

    Authors: Jae Woo Choi, Eun Cheol Park, Ki Bong Yoo, Sang Gyu Lee, Sung In Jang and Tae Hyun Kim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:369
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  7. Client satisfaction is a vital component and main concern intertwined with strategic decisions in service provisions. To improve efficiency of services, eliciting the opinion of users about the available servi...

    Authors: Shewaye Belay Tessema and Mesafint Molla Adane
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:368
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  8. In April/2009, the UK National Health Service initiated four Better Care Better Value (BCBV) prescribing indicators, one of which encouraged the prescribing of cheaper angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors ...

    Authors: Amanj Baker, Li-Chia Chen, Rachel A. Elliott and Brian Godman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:367
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  9. The Australian Home Medicines Review (HMR) program consists of a pharmacist reviewing a patient’s medicines at his or her home and reporting findings to the patient’s general practitioner (GP) to assist optimi...

    Authors: Lindy Swain and Lesley Barclay
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:366
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  10. Pregnancy and child birth are natural process of continuity of life. For many it is a normal process, for some it puts life at risk impending complications. Provision of skilled care for all women before, duri...

    Authors: Zeleke Dutamo, Nega Assefa and Gudina Egata
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:365
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  11. There is a need for new knowledge regarding determinants of a successful implementation of new methods in health care. The role of a receptive context for change to support effective diffusion has been underli...

    Authors: Siw Carlfjord and Karin Festin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:364
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  12. It is of importance and urgency for hospitals to retain excellent nursing staff in order to improve patient satisfaction and hospital performance. However, it was found that simply increasing the salary is not...

    Authors: Su-Yueh Chen, Wen-Chuan Wu, Ching-Sheng Chang, Chia-Tzu Lin, Jung-Yuan Kung, Hui-Ching Weng, Yu-Tz Lin and Shu-I Lee
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:363
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  13. Lean as a management system has been increasingly adopted in health care settings in an effort to enhance quality, capacity and safety, while simultaneously containing or reducing costs. The Ministry of Health...

    Authors: Donna Goodridge, Gill Westhorp, Thomas Rotter, Roy Dobson and Brenna Bath
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:362
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  14. Pharmacist involvement in the prevention of medication errors is well documented. One such method, the process by which hospital pharmacists undertake these clinical interventions needs to be described and doc...

    Authors: Franklin Acheampong and Berko Panyin Anto
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:361
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  15. In Lithuania, the right to confidentiality in healthcare for adolescents over the age of 16 was guaranteed in 2010 through the adoption of new legislation. This study sets out to explore changes in Lithuanian ...

    Authors: Lina Jaruseviciene, Apolinaras Zaborskis, Skirmante Sauliune, Gediminas Jarusevicius and Jeffrey V. Lazarus
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:360
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  16. Community nurses are well placed to promote and support stroke survivors to engage in self-management. The aim of this study was to develop a stroke self-management intervention that could be tailored towards ...

    Authors: Lisa Kidd, Maggie Lawrence, Jo Booth, Anne Rowat and Sian Russell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:359
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  17. African Vaccination Week (AVW) is an initiative of the Member States of the African Region aimed at promoting vaccination and ensuring equity and access to its benefits. The initiative has proven to be particu...

    Authors: Richard Mihigo, Blanche Anya, Joseph Okeibunor, Samuel Ajibola, Collins Boakye-Agyemang, Linda Muzenda, Flavienne Issembe and Deo Nshimirimana
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:358
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  18. Social epidemiologists aim to identify social characteristics that affect the pattern of disease and health distribution in a society and to understand its mechanisms. Some important concepts of social epidemi...

    Authors: Olaf von dem Knesebeck
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:357
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  19. It is important to learn how employers in European countries can prevent nursing staff from changing occupation or taking early retirement in order to counteract expected nursing shortages. However, to date re...

    Authors: Erica E. M. Maurits, Anke J. E. de Veer, Lucas S. van der Hoek and Anneke L. Francke
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:356
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  20. Successful diabetes disease management involves routine medical care with individualized patient goals, self-management education and on-going support to reduce complications. Without interventions that facili...

    Authors: Lynn Nuti, Ayten Turkcan, Mark A. Lawley, Lingsong Zhang, Laura Sands and Sara McComb
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:355
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  21. Nearly 20 years after the adoption by the government of Malawi of the provision of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) for malaria, only 55 % of pregnant women received at least two doses of ...

    Authors: P. Stanley Yoder, Xavier Nsabagasani, Erin Eckert, Allisyn Moran and Yazoumé Yé
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:354
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  22. The referral letter is an important document facilitating the transfer of care from a general practitioner (GP) to secondary care. Hospital doctors have often criticised the quality and content of referral let...

    Authors: Henrik Wåhlberg, Per Christian Valle, Siri Malm and Ann Ragnhild Broderstad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:353
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  23. Treatment for patients with breast cancer (BC) is guided by human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) status. The patient’s HER2 status is assessed using US Food and Drug Administration-approved in vitro di...

    Authors: Mogens Vyberg, Søren Nielsen, Rasmus Røge, Beth Sheppard, Jim Ranger-Moore, Eric Walk, Juliane Gartemann, Ulrich-Peter Rohr and Volker Teichgräber
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:352
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  24. Intermediate care is a health care model developed to optimize the coordination of health care services and functional independence. In Central Norway, an intermediate care hospital (ICH) was established in a ...

    Authors: Unni Dahl, Aslak Steinsbekk and Roar Johnsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:351
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  25. Individuals living in the community with neurological conditions receive the majority of their care from informal caregivers. The purpose of this project was to provide a profile of caregivers of home care cli...

    Authors: Lori A. Mitchell, John Hirdes, Jeff W. Poss, Caroline Slegers-Boyd, Hilary Caldarelli and Lynn Martin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:350
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  26. Rising demand of ophthalmology care is increasingly straining Malaysia’s public healthcare sector due to its limited human and financial resources. Improving the effectiveness of ophthalmology service delivery...

    Authors: Chee Yoong Foo, Ka Keat Lim, Sheamini Sivasampu, Kamilah Binti Dahian and Pik Pin Goh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:349
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  27. Although a growing number of collaborative mental health care models have been developed, targeting specific populations, few studies have utilized such interventions among homeless populations. This quasi-exp...

    Authors: Vicky Stergiopoulos, Andrée Schuler, Rosane Nisenbaum, Wayne deRuiter, Tim Guimond, Donald Wasylenki, Jeffrey S. Hoch, Stephen W. Hwang, Katherine Rouleau and Carolyn Dewa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:348
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  28. Integrated community case management (iCCM) relies on community health workers (CHWs) managing children with malaria, pneumonia, diarrhoea, and referring children when management is not possible. This study so...

    Authors: Agnes Nanyonjo, Benson Bagorogoza, Frida Kasteng, Godfrey Ayebale, Fredrick Makumbi, Göran Tomson and Karin Källander
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:347
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  29. Vaccination has been shown to reduce mortality and morbidity due to vaccine-preventable diseases. However, these diseases are still responsible for majority of childhood deaths worldwide especially in the deve...

    Authors: Aderonke Odutola, Muhammed O. Afolabi, Ezra O. Ogundare, Yamu Ndow Lowe-Jallow, Archibald Worwui, Joseph Okebe and Martin O. Ota
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:346
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  30. Field surveys conducted in China before the implementation of the essential medicine policy showed that Chinese individuals faced less access to essential medicines. This paper aims to evaluate the availabilit...

    Authors: Xiaoyu Xi, Weixia Li, Jun Li, Xuan Zhu, Cong Fu, Xu Wei and Shuzhen Chu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:345
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. Bangladesh is a highly populous country with three-quarters rural population. Pressing national shortages in health professionals has resulted in high vacancy rates in rural areas. These are compounded by exce...

    Authors: Emmanuel Kwame Darkwa, M. Sophia Newman, Mahmud Kawkab and Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:344
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. Although vouchers can protect individuals in low-income countries from financial catastrophe and impoverishment arising from out-of-pocket expenditures on healthcare, their effectiveness in achieving this goal...

    Authors: Francis Obare, Charlotte Warren, Lucy Kanya, Timothy Abuya and Ben Bellows
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:343
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  33. Low patient adherence to treatment is associated with poorer health outcomes in bronchiectasis. We sought to use the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) (a framework derived from 33 psychological theories) and...

    Authors: Amanda R. McCullough, Cristín Ryan, Brenda O’Neill, Judy M. Bradley, J. Stuart Elborn and Carmel M. Hughes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:342
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  34. Adverse events (AE) are also the cause of suffering in health professionals involved. This study was designed to identify and analyse organization-level strategies adopted in both primary care and hospitals in...

    Authors: José Joaquín Mira, Susana Lorenzo, Irene Carrillo, Lena Ferrús, Pastora Pérez-Pérez, Fuencisla Iglesias, Carmen Silvestre, Guadalupe Olivera, Elena Zavala, Roberto Nuño-Solinís, José Ángel Maderuelo-Fernández, Julián Vitaller and Pilar Astier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:341
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  35. A short delay between diagnosis and treatment for patients diagnosed with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is vital to prevent cardiac damage and mortality. The objective of this study was to explore...

    Authors: Joppe Tra, Ineke van der Wulp, Martine C. de Bruijne and Cordula Wagner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:340
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  36. Local health departments are the backbone of public health emergency (PHE) response plans. The front line of emergency response preparedness is people. Role perceptions of individual staff members of a given o...

    Authors: Mingli Jiao, Ning Ning, Qunhong Wu, David H. Peters, Yanhua Hao, Ye Li, Xingang Wei and Zheng Kang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:339
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  37. It is estimated that seniors (≥65 years old) account for >50 % of acute inpatient hospital days and are presenting for surgical evaluation of acute illness in increasing numbers. Unfortunately, conventional ac...

    Authors: Rachel G. Khadaroo, Raj S. Padwal, Adrian S. Wagg, Fiona Clement, Lindsey M. Warkentin and Jayna Holroyd-Leduc
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:338
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  38. Potential adverse drug events (PADEs) are defined as being potentially harmful unintentional medication discrepancies. Discrepancies regarding medication history (MH) often occur when a patient is being admitt...

    Authors: Jesus Becerra-Camargo, Fernando Martínez-Martínez and Emilio García-Jiménez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:337
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Given that immigration has been linked to a variety of mental health stressors, understanding use of mental health services by immigrant groups is particularly important. However, very little research on immig...

    Authors: Anna Durbin, Rahim Moineddin, Elizabeth Lin, Leah S. Steele and Richard H. Glazier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:336
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Nearly 40 % of women in developing countries seek contraceptives services from the private sector. However, the reasons that contraceptive clients choose private or public providers are not well studied.

    Authors: Sirina R. Keesara, Pamela A. Juma and Cynthia C. Harper
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:335
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  41. There is need for the Uganda Ministry of Health to understand predictors of primary health care pharmaceutical expenditure among districts in order to guide budget setting and to improve efficiency in allocati...

    Authors: Paschal N. Mujasi and Jaume Puig-Junoy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:334
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  42. The Ghana Community based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) strategy targets to bring health services to the doorsteps of clients in a manner that improves maternal and child health outcomes. In this strateg...

    Authors: Kilian Nasung Atuoye, Jenna Dixon, Andrea Rishworth, Sylvester Zackaria Galaa, Sheila A. Boamah and Isaac Luginaah
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:333
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  43. Adherence to medication is one of the critical determinants of successful management of chronic diseases including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Given that poor adherence with self-m...

    Authors: Nazmi Sari and Meric Osman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:332
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  44. Excessive healthcare payments can impede access to health services and also disrupt the welfare of households with no financial protection. Health insurance is expected to offer financial protection against he...

    Authors: Anthony Kusi, Kristian Schultz Hansen, Felix A Asante and Ulrika Enemark
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:331
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Chronic conditions are on rise globally and in India. Prevailing intra-urban inequities in access to healthcare services compounds the problems faced by urban poor. This paper reports the trends in self-report...

    Authors: Mrunalini J Gowda, Upendra Bhojani, Narayanan Devadasan and Thriveni S Beerenahally
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:330
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Diabetes represents an increasing health burden worldwide. In 2010, the Public Health Department of the canton of Vaud (Switzerland) launched a regional diabetes programme entitled “Programme cantonal Diabète”...

    Authors: Emilie Zuercher, Julie Bordet, Bernard Burnand and Isabelle Peytremann-Bridevaux
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:329
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  47. To our knowledge no study has at the same time assessed patients’ satisfaction and their expectations concerning the organizational and contextual aspects of health care provided by their primary care physicia...

    Authors: Paul Sebo, François R. Herrmann, Patrick Bovier and Dagmar M. Haller
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:328
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. The relationship between the scope and intensity of quality improvement (QI) activities and hospital performance remains unclear. This study investigated the relationship between performance, external environm...

    Authors: Kuo-Piao Chung and Tsung-Hsien Yu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:327
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Identifying and understanding factors influencing fear of repercussions for reporting and discussing medical errors in nurses and physicians remains an important area of inquiry. Work is needed to disentangle ...

    Authors: Evan S. Castel, Liane R. Ginsburg, Shahram Zaheer and Hala Tamim
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:326
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  50. In the wake of various high-profile incidents in a number of countries, regulators of healthcare quality have been criticised for their ‘soft’ approach. In politics, concerns were expressed about public confid...

    Authors: Renée Bouwman, Manja Bomhoff, Judith D. de Jong, Paul Robben and Roland Friele
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:325
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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