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  1. In Spain, the Strategy for Assistance in Normal Childbirth (SANC) promoted a model of care, which respects the physiological birth process and discards unnecessary routine interventions, such as episiotomies. ...

    Authors: Ramón Escuriet, María J Pueyo, Mercedes Perez-Botella, Xavi Espada, Isabel Salgado, Analía Gómez, Herminia Biescas, Isabel Espiga, Joanna White, Rosa Fernandez, Josep Fusté and Vicente Ortún
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:95
  2. Poor adherence to prescribed medication has major consequences. Managing multiple long-term conditions often involves polypharmacy, potentially increasing complexity and the possibility of poor adherence. As a...

    Authors: Cassandra Kenning, Joanne Protheroe, Nicola Gray, Darren Ashcroft and Peter Bower
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:94
  3. Policy initiatives and technological advances enable the use of integrated shared care models of healthcare delivery whereby the focus of care is moved from the hospital to the community, and also of models wh...

    Authors: Jacqueline A Nicholls, Henry WW Potts, Bridget Coleman and David L Patterson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:93
  4. Modern healthcare is characterized by high complexity due to the proliferation of specialties, professional roles, and priorities within organizations. To perform clinical interventions, knowledge distributed ...

    Authors: Daniele Mascia, Fausto Di Vincenzo, Valentina Iacopino, Maria Pia Fantini and Americo Cicchetti
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:92
  5. Increased length of stay and high rates of adverse clinical events in hospitalised patients with dementia is stimulating interest and debate about which costs may be associated and potentially avoided within t...

    Authors: Kasia Bail, John Goss, Brian Draper, Helen Berry, Rosemary Karmel and Diane Gibson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:91
  6. Since the mid-1990s, a growing number of North Korean defectors have been arriving in South Korea, many of whom have various somatic and mental disorders. The health status of defectors is an important predict...

    Authors: Bo-Ram Wang, Young Dae Kwon, Wootack Jeon and Jin-Won Noh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:90
  7. Inpatient awareness of the reason for their admission and the planned management enhances patient compliance and empowers patients to be resourceful in subsequent consultations. The objective of this study was...

    Authors: Langalibalele H Mabuza, Olufemi B Omole, Indiran Govender, John V Ndimande and Herman S Schoeman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:89
  8. In 2007 the Georgian government introduced a full state-subsidized Medical Insurance Program for the Poor (MIP) to provide better financial protection and improved access for socially and financially disadvant...

    Authors: George Gotsadze, Adrianna Murphy, Natia Shengelia and Akaki Zoidze
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:88
  9. In previous studies, productivity losses have been measured specifically due to psoriasis or generally due to health problems in psoriasis patients. There is no information on the proportion of health related ...

    Authors: Anssi Mustonen, Kalle Mattila, Mauri Leino, Leena Koulu and Risto Tuominen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:87
  10. In Central Norway a generic care pathway was developed in collaboration between general hospitals and primary care with the intention of implementing it into everyday practice. The care pathway targeted elderl...

    Authors: Tove Røsstad, Helge Garåsen, Aslak Steinsbekk, Erna Håland, Line Kristoffersen and Anders Grimsmo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:86
  11. The economic sustainability of all areas of medicine is under scrutiny. Limited data exist on the drivers of cost after a craniotomy for tumor resection (CTR). The objective of the present study was to develop...

    Authors: Symeon Missios and Kimon Bekelis
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:85
  12. Even though nurses are expected to play a key role in implementing integrated services networks, up to now their practice in this regard has received very little research attention. The aim of this study is to...

    Authors: Caroline Longpré and Carl-Ardy Dubois
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:84
  13. The poor physical health of people with severe mental illness (SMI) is often attributed to lifestyle, disease-related medication side effects and disparate provision of healthcare. The complexity and inexact n...

    Authors: Carolyn Ehrlich, Elizabeth Kendall, Nicolette Frey, Michelle Denton and Steve Kisely
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:83
  14. As a member of a pharmacy organization, a pharmacist is not only bound to fulfill his/her professional obligations but is also affected by different personal and organizational factors that may influence his/h...

    Authors: Gvidas Urbonas, Loreta Kubilienė, Raimondas Kubilius and Aušra Urbonienė
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:82
  15. Infectious waste management has always remained a neglected public health problem in the developing countries, resulting in high burden of environmental pollution affecting general masses. Health workers are t...

    Authors: Ramesh Kumar, Ratana Somrongthong and Babar Tasneem Shaikh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:81
  16. The histological diagnosis of prostate cancer requires a prostate needle biopsy. Little is known about the relationship between information provided to prepare men for transrectal ultrasound guided biopsy (TRU...

    Authors: Julia Wade, Derek J Rosario, Joanne Howson, Kerry N L Avery, C Elizabeth Salter, M Louise Goodwin, Jane M Blazeby, J Athene Lane, Chris Metcalfe, David E Neal, Freddie C Hamdy and Jenny L Donovan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:80
  17. Nationwide implementation of guaranteed access to evidence-based rehabilitation was established in Sweden in 2009, through an Act of the Swedish Government. The rehabilitation guarantee’s primary goal was to i...

    Authors: Elisabeth Björk Brämberg, Charlotte Klinga, Irene Jensen, Hillevi Busch, Gunnar Bergström, Mats Brommels and Johan Hansson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:79
  18. Integrating Nurse Practitioners into primary care teams is a process that involves significant challenges. To be successful, nurse practitioner integration into primary care teams requires, among other things,...

    Authors: Damien Contandriopoulos, Astrid Brousselle, Carl-Ardy Dubois, Mélanie Perroux, Marie-Dominique Beaulieu, Isabelle Brault, Kelley Kilpatrick, Danielle D’Amour and Esther Sansgter-Gormley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:78
  19. Peer evaluation is increasingly used as a method to assess physicians’ interpersonal and communication skills. We report on experience with soliciting registered nurses’ feedback on physicians’ non-clinical pe...

    Authors: Mohamad Alameddine, Afif Mufarrij, Miriam Saliba, Yara Mourad, Rima Jabbour and Eveline Hitti
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:77
  20. Despite rising healthcare costs, generic drugs are less frequently dispensed in Japan compared with other developed countries. This study aimed to describe changes in dispensing of branded and generic drugs an...

    Authors: Kyoko Murata, Shiro Hinotsu, Shota Hamada, Yasumasa Ezoe, Manabu Muto and Koji Kawakami
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:76
  21. To effectively provide public health care for rural residents, the Ministry of Health formally unveiled the contract service policy in rural China in April 2013. As the counterpart to family medicine in some d...

    Authors: Huixuan Zhou, Weijun Zhang, Shengfa Zhang, Fugang Wang, You Zhong, Linni Gu, Zhiyong Qu, Xiaoyun Liang, Zhihong Sa, Xiaohua Wang and Donghua Tian
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:75
  22. There are many health professionals from abroad working in the European Union and in Austria. The situation of sub-Saharan health workers in particular has now been studied for the first time. The objective wa...

    Authors: Elena Jirovsky, Kathryn Hoffmann, Manfred Maier and Ruth Kutalek
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:74
  23. There have been no multicenter studies that estimated the relations of either nurse or pharmacist home visit program to drug costs of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs). This study aimed to establish...

    Authors: Jun Hamano, Sachiko Ozone and Yasuharu Tokuda
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:73
  24. Access to healthcare in remote areas is difficult and telehealth could be a promising avenue if accepted by the population. The aim of this study is to assess social acceptance and population confidence in tel...

    Authors: Thomas G Poder, Christian A Bellemare, Suzanne K Bédard and Renald Lemieux
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:72
  25. Consumer e-Health is a potential solution to the problems of accessibility, quality and costs of delivering public healthcare services to patients. Although consumer e-Health has proliferated in recent years, ...

    Authors: Xiaojun Zhang, Ping Yu, Jun Yan and Ir Ton A M Spil
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:71
  26. Assessing of the costs of treating disease is necessary to demonstrate cost-effectiveness and to estimate the budget impact of new interventions and therapeutic innovations. However, there are few comprehensiv...

    Authors: Julieta Corral, Josep Alfons Espinàs, Francesc Cots, Laura Pareja, Judit Solà, Rebeca Font and Josep Maria Borràs
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:70
  27. Illness and the medical expenditure that follows have a profound impact on the well-being of individuals and households. China is a huge country with significant regional differences. The goal of this study is...

    Authors: Jing Zhang, Benchang Shia, Huangdi Yi, Shuangge Ma and Chi Ma
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:69
  28. Health outcomes for Indigenous Australians with diabetes in remote areas remain poor, including high rates of avoidable complications which could be reduced with better primary level care. We aimed to evaluate...

    Authors: Robyn A McDermott, Barbara Schmidt, Cilla Preece, Vickie Owens, Sean Taylor, Ming Li and Adrian Esterman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:68
  29. Questions about the impact of large donor-funded HIV interventions on low- and middle-income countries’ health systems have been the subject of a number of expert commentaries, but comparatively few empirical ...

    Authors: Stephanie M Topp, Jim Black, Martha Morrow, Julien M Chipukuma and Wim Van Damme
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:67
  30. Reform of health services has given primary care facilities increased responsibility for patients with serious mental disorders (SMD). There has also been a growing awareness of the high somatic morbidity amon...

    Authors: Øystein Hetlevik, Magne Solheim and Sturla Gjesdal
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:66
  31. The current economic and social context has required health systems to provide top quality services and to be efficient in controlling costs. An obstacle to achieve these goals is the inappropriate health serv...

    Authors: Djalma S Guimarães Jr, Eduardo JO Soares, Gileno Ferraz Júnior and Denise D Medeiros
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:65
  32. An effective capacity building process for healthcare workers is required for the delivery of quality health care services. Work-based training can be applied for the capacity building of health care workers w...

    Authors: Ekechi Okereke, Jamilu Tukur, Amina Aminu, Jean Butera, Bello Mohammed, Mustapha Tanko, Ibrahim Yisa, Benson Obonyo and Mike Egboh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:64
  33. People with HIV are living longer and their care has shifted towards the prevention and management of comorbidities. However, little is known about who is providing their care. Our objective was to characteriz...

    Authors: Claire E Kendall, Jenna Wong, Monica Taljaard, Richard H Glazier, William Hogg, Jaime Younger and Douglas G Manuel
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:63
  34. Contextual elements have significant impact on uptake of health care innovations. While existing conceptual frameworks in implementation science suggest contextual elements interact with each other, little res...

    Authors: Megan B McCullough, Ann F Chou, Jeffrey L Solomon, Beth Ann Petrakis, Bo Kim, Angela M Park, Ashley J Benedict, Alison B Hamilton and Adam J Rose
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:62
  35. Widespread implementation of patient engagement by organisations and clinical teams is not a reality yet. The aim of this study is to develop a measure of organisational readiness for patient engagement design...

    Authors: Linda JM Oostendorp, Marie-Anne Durand, Amy Lloyd and Glyn Elwyn
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:61
  36. Facilitators are known to be influential in the implementation of evidence-based health care (EBHC). However, little evidence exists on what it is that they do to support the implementation process. This resea...

    Authors: Heather Waterman, Ruth Boaden, Lorraine Burey, Brook Howells, Gill Harvey, John Humphreys, Katy Rothwell and Michael Spence
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:60
  37. Improving hand hygiene among health care workers (HCWs) is the single most effective intervention to reduce health care associated infections in hospitals. Understanding the cognitive determinants of hand hygi...

    Authors: Katherine M White, Nerina L Jimmieson, Patricia L Obst, Nicholas Graves, Adrian Barnett, Wendell Cockshaw, Phillip Gee, Lara Haneman, Katie Page, Megan Campbell, Elizabeth Martin and David Paterson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:59
  38. Homeless populations experience poorer physical and mental health, and more barriers to accessing adequate healthcare. This study investigates the health of this population, following the provision of a free t...

    Authors: Claire Keogh, Kirsty K O’Brien, Anthony Hoban, Austin O’Carroll and Tom Fahey
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:58
  39. Patient satisfaction is the ultimate goal of healthcare system which can be achieved from good patient-healthcare professional relationship and quality of healthcare services provided.

    Authors: Dinesh Kumar Upadhyay, Mohamed Izham Mohamed Ibrahim, Pranaya Mishra and Vijay M Alurkar
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:57
  40. Many Low-and-Middle-Income countries are considering reviewing their health financing systems to meet the principles of Universal Health Coverage (UHC). One financing mechanism, which has dominated UHC reforms...

    Authors: Timothy Abuya, Thomas Maina and Jane Chuma
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:56
  41. Despite the widely recognised importance of sustainable health care systems, health services research remains generally underfunded in Australia. The Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI) i...

    Authors: Adrian G Barnett, Danielle L Herbert, Megan Campbell, Naomi Daly, Jason A Roberts, Alison Mudge and Nicholas Graves
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:55
  42. Self-management education is at the forefront of addressing the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases. For those at greatest risk, such as minority-ethnic and/or socio-economically deprived groups, self-ma...

    Authors: Manbinder S Sidhu, Nicola K Gale, Paramjit Gill, Tom Marshall and Kate Jolly
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:54
  43. Patient safety climate has been recognized as a core determinant for improving safety in hospitals. Describing workforce perceptions of patient safety climate is an important part of safety climate management....

    Authors: Ping Zhou, M Kate Bundorf, Jianjun Gu, Xiaoyan He and Di Xue
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:53
  44. Many studies have found considerable variations in the resource intensity of physical therapy episodes. Although they have identified several patient- and provider-related factors, few studies have examined th...

    Authors: Patricia Halfon, Yves Eggli, Yves Morel and Patrick Taffé
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:52
  45. Because of the increased life-expectancy of persons with HIV, the need for age-appropriate colorectal cancer screening among these patients will increase. We examined rates of colorectal cancer screening among...

    Authors: Tony Antoniou, Nathaniel Jembere, Refik Saskin, Alexander Kopp and Richard H Glazier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:51
  46. World Health Organization has called for tobacco cessation to be integrated into primary care. Primary Health Centres (PHC) offer opportunities for tobacco-use screening and brief cessation advice but data on ...

    Authors: Rajmohan Panda, Divya Persai and Sudhir Venkatesan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:50
  47. Clinical social franchising is a rapidly growing delivery model in private healthcare markets in low- and middle-income countries. Despite this growth, little is known about providers’ perceptions of the benef...

    Authors: Maia Sieverding, Christina Briegleb and Dominic Montagu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:49
  48. While research on individual health literacy is steadily increasing, less attention has been paid to the context of care that may help to increase the patient’s ability to navigate health care or to compensate...

    Authors: Christoph Kowalski, Shoou-Yih D Lee, Anna Schmidt, Simone Wesselmann, Markus A Wirtz, Holger Pfaff and Nicole Ernstmann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:47
  49. Fiscal constraints faced by U.S. hospitals as a result of the recent economic downturn are leading to business practices that reduce costs and improve financial and operational efficiency in hospitals. There n...

    Authors: Gang Nathan Dong
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:45
  50. Equity in health care entails payment for health services according to the capacity to pay and the receipt of benefits according to need. In Uganda, as in many African countries, although equity is extolled in...

    Authors: Brendan Kwesiga, John E Ataguba, Christabel Abewe, Paul Kizza and Charlotte M Zikusooka
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:44