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  1. 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
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  2. 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
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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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
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  8. 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
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  9. 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:

  10. 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:

  11. 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
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  12. 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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  13. 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
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  14. Unplanned hospital admissions place a large and increasing strain on healthcare budgets worldwide. Many admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) are thought to be preventable, a belief suppo...

    Authors: John Busby, Sarah Purdy and William Hollingworth
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:324
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  15. Coordination across levels of care is becoming increasingly important due to rapid advances in technology, high specialisation and changes in the organization of healthcare services; to date, however, the deve...

    Authors: Marta-Beatriz Aller, Ingrid Vargas, Jordi Coderch, Sebastià Calero, Francesc Cots, Mercè Abizanda, Joan Farré, Josep Ramon Llopart, Lluís Colomés and María Luisa Vázquez
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:323
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  16. Patients currently integrate complementary medicine (CM) and allopathic, choosing a combination of therapies rather than a single therapy in isolation. Understanding integrative healthcare (IHC) extends beyond...

    Authors: Suzanne J. Grant, Jane Frawley and Alan Bensoussan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:322
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  17. Many physicians find sickness certification of patients problematic. The aims were to explore problems that physicians in different clinical settings experience with sickness certification tasks in general and...

    Authors: Therese Ljungquist, Elin Hinas, Gunnar H. Nilsson, Catharina Gustavsson, Britt Arrelöv and Kristina Alexanderson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:321
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  18. This study demonstrates a technique to aid the implementation of research findings through an example of improving services and self-management in longer-term depression. In common with other long-term conditi...

    Authors: Rebecca Hutten, Glenys D. Parry, Thomas Ricketts and Jo Cooke
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:320
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  19. Universal Health Coverage seeks to assure that everyone can obtain the health services they need without financial hardship. Countries which rely heavily on out-of-pocket (OOP) payments, including informal pay...

    Authors: Taryn Vian, Frank G. Feeley, Silviu Domente, Ala Negruta, Andrei Matei and Jarno Habicht
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:319
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  20. The Ethiopian health system has been undergoing through reforms. One of the reforms stipulated in policy documents is the introduction of health insurance at national level. Having the majority of the populati...

    Authors: Amarech Obse, Damen Hailemariam and Charles Normand
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:318
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  21. Despite the attempt to integrate evidence-based practice (EBP) in patient counseling and advocacy, there is limited knowledge on the status quo of this process in the German health care system. Our objective w...

    Authors: Sibel Altin, Anna Passon, Sibylle Kautz-Freimuth, Bettina Berger and Stephanie Stock
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:317
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  22. Women at risk of poor perinatal mental health benefit from coordinated approaches to care. Perinatal and infant mental health (PIMH) services have been established to support women with social and emotional ne...

    Authors: Karen A. Myors, Michelle Cleary, Maree Johnson and Virginia Schmied
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:316
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  23. India’s Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS)1 is an information system for tracking maternal and child health beneficiaries in India’s public health system, and improving service delivery planning and outcomes...

    Authors: Rajeev Gera, Nithiyananthan Muthusamy, Amruta Bahulekar, Amit Sharma, Prem Singh, Amrita Sekhar and Vivek Singh
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:315
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are expected to be in the vanguard, repositioning reproductive health as a central issue in population and development in Nigeria. However, most of them have insufficient ...

    Authors: Gloria. T. Momoh, Mojisola M. Oluwasanu, Olufemi L. Oduola, Grace E. Delano and Oladapo A. Ladipo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:314
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  25. Since September 2008, an intervention has made it possible to provide free care to children under five in public health facilities in two districts of Burkina Faso. This study evaluated the intervention’s impa...

    Authors: Mahaman Mourtala Abdou Illou, Slim Haddad, Isabelle Agier and Valéry Ridde
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:313
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  26. The technical challenges associated with national data linkage, and the extent of cross-border population movements, are explored as part of a pioneering research project. The project involved linking state-ba...

    Authors: James H. Boyd, Sean M. Randall, Anna M. Ferrante, Jacqueline K. Bauer, Kevin McInneny, Adrian P. Brown, Katrina Spilsbury, Margo Gillies and James B. Semmens
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:312
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  27. Older patients’ experiences with care delivery may be important for their quality of life over time. Evidence is however lacking. Therefore, this study aims to identify the longitudinal relationship between ol...

    Authors: Jacqueline M. Hartgerink, Jane M. Cramm, Ton J. Bakker, Johan P. Mackenbach and Anna P. Nieboer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:311
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  28. Treatment outcomes for people diagnosed with psychosis remain suboptimal due in part to the limited systematic application of evidence based practice (Adm Policy Ment Health, 36: 1-7, 2009) [1]. The Implementa...

    Authors: Frances Dark, Harvey Whiteford, Neal M. Ashkanasy, Carol Harvey, David Crompton and Ellie Newman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:310
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  29. This paper crystallises the experience developed by the pan-European PALANTE Consortium in dealing with the generation of relevant evidence from heterogeneous eHealth services for patient empowerment in nine E...

    Authors: Emanuele Lettieri, Lia P. Fumagalli, Giovanni Radaelli, Paolo Bertele’, Jess Vogt, Reinhard Hammerschmidt, Juan L. Lara, Ana Carriazo and Cristina Masella
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:309
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  30. Bladder cancer (BC) has the highest lifetime treatment costs per patient of all cancers. The objective of this study was to characterize the use of health-care services and costs associated with BC among patie...

    Authors: Fabiano Santos, Alice Dragomir, Ahmed Sayed Zakaria, Wassim Kassouf and Armen Aprikian
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:308
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  31. The objective of our study was to conduct a cost-effectiveness (CE) study of combined everolimus (EVE) and exemestane (EXE) versus the common clinical practice in Greece for the treatment of postmenopausal wom...

    Authors: Georgia Kourlaba, Vasiliki Rapti, Athanasios Alexopoulos, John Relakis, Georgios Koumakis, Magdalini Chatzikou, Nikos Maniadakis and Vassilis Georgoulias
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:307
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  32. There is momentum internationally to improve coordination of complex care pathways. Robust evaluations of such interventions are scarce. This paper evaluates the cost-utility of cancer care coordinators for st...

    Authors: Tony Blakely, Lucie Collinson, Giorgi Kvizhinadze, Nisha Nair, Rachel Foster, Elizabeth Dennett and Diana Sarfati
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:306
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  34. Alongside an increased policy and practice emphasis on outcomes in social care, English local authorities are now obliged to review quality at a service level to help in their new role of ensuring the developm...

    Authors: Ann-Marie Towers, Jacquetta Holder, Nick Smith, Tanya Crowther, Ann Netten, Elizabeth Welch and Grace Collins
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:304
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  35. Diabetes and hypertension constitute a significant and growing burden of disease in South Africa. Presently, few patients are achieving adequate levels of control. In an effort to improve outcomes, the Departm...

    Authors: Katherine Murphy, Thandie Chuma, Catherine Mathews, Krisela Steyn and Naomi Levitt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:303
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  36. In most Western countries burn centres have been developed to provide acute and critical care for patients with severe burn injuries. Nowadays, those patients have a realistic chance of survival. However sever...

    Authors: Wendy Christiaens, Elke Van de Walle, Sophie Devresse, Dries Van Halewyck, Nadia Benahmed, Dominique Paulus and Koen Van den Heede
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:302
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  38. Public health agencies in the USA are increasingly challenged to adopt Quality Improvement (QI) strategies to enhance performance. Many of the functional and structural barriers to effective use of QI can be f...

    Authors: William C. Livingood, Angela H. Peden, Gulzar H. Shah, Nandi A. Marshall, Ketty M. Gonzalez, Russell B. Toal, Dayna S. Alexander, Alesha R. Wright and Lynn D. Woodhouse
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:300
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. The premise of patient-centered care is to empower patients to become active participants in their own care and receive health services focused on their individual needs and preferences. Afghanistan has eviden...

    Authors: Anbrasi Edward, Kojo Osei-Bonsu, Casey Branchini, Temor shah Yarghal, Said Habib Arwal and Ahmad Jan Naeem
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:299
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  40. Educational intervention represents an essential element of care for cancer patients; while several single institutions develop their own patient education (PE) programs on cancer, little information is availa...

    Authors: C. Cipolat Mis, I. Truccolo, V. Ravaioli, S. Cocchi, L. Gangeri, P. Mosconi, C. Drace, L. Pomicino, A. Paradiso and P. De Paoli
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:298
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  41. This paper explores the nature and reasoning for (dis)trust in Australian public and private hospitals. Patient trust increases uptake of, engagement with and optimal outcomes from healthcare services and is t...

    Authors: Paul R. Ward, Philippa Rokkas, Clinton Cenko, Mariastella Pulvirenti, Nicola Dean, Simon Carney, Patrick Brown, Michael Calnan and Samantha Meyer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:297
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  42. Community participation is often restricted after stroke, due to reduced confidence and outdoor mobility. Australian clinical guidelines recommend that specific evidence-based interventions be delivered to tar...

    Authors: Annie McCluskey, Louise Ada, Patrick J. Kelly, Sandy Middleton, Stephen Goodall, Jeremy M. Grimshaw, Pip Logan, Mark Longworth and Aspasia Karageorge
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:296
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  43. Appropriate healthcare technologies (AHTs) are an important strategy for improving the availability and accessibility of healthcare services. It is not clear what impact AHTs have on health workers and consume...

    Authors: Jianping Ren, Chaojie Liu, Qi-Sheng Gao, Lianping Yang, Xianhong Huang and Qing Guo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:295
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  44. Empty-nest elderly refers to those elderly with no children or whose children have already left home. Few studies have focused on healthcare service use among empty-nest seniors, and no studies have identified...

    Authors: Chengchao Zhou, Chunmei Ji, Jie Chu, Alexis Medina, Cuicui Li, Shan Jiang, Wengui Zheng, Jing Liu and Scott Rozelle
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:294
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  45. Randomised controlled trial evidence indicates that Alexander Technique is clinically and cost effective for chronic back pain. The aim of this mixed methods evaluation was to explore the role and perceived im...

    Authors: Stuart McClean, Sam Brilleman and Lesley Wye
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:293
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. The goal of antiretroviral therapy (ART) is to suppress viral replication, reduce morbidity and mortality, and improve quality of life (QoL). For resource-limited settings, the World Health Organization recomm...

    Authors: Doris Mutabazi Mwesigire, Albert W. Wu, Faith Martin, Achilles Katamba and Janet Seeley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:292
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  47. Enabled by globalizing processes such as trade liberalization, medical tourism is a practice that involves patients’ intentional travel to privately obtain medical care in another country. Empirical legal rese...

    Authors: Valorie A. Crooks, I. Glenn Cohen, Krystyna Adams, Rebecca Whitmore and Jeffrey Morgan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:291
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  48. In North America and other industrialized countries, heart failure (HF) has become a national public health priority. Studies indicate there is significant heterogeneity in approaches to treat and manage HF an...

    Authors: Sean M. Hayes, Sophie Peloquin, Jonathan G. Howlett, Karen Harkness, Nadia Giannetti, Carol Rancourt and Nancy Ricard
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:290
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  49. Vitamin K antagonists are commonly used for the prevention of thromboembolic events. Patient self-monitoring of vitamin K antagonists has proved superior to usual care. Dabigatran has been shown, relative to w...

    Authors: Misericòrdia Carles, Max Brosa, Juan Carlos Souto, Josep Maria Garcia-Alamino, Gordon Guyatt and Pablo Alonso-Coello
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:289
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  50. The integrated disease surveillance and response (IDSR) strategy was adopted in Ghana over a decade ago, yet gaps still remain in its proper functioning. The objective of this study was to assess the core and ...

    Authors: Martin N Adokiya, John K Awoonor-Williams, Claudia Beiersmann and Olaf Müller
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:288
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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