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  1. Colorectal cancer (CRC) continues to be a major cause of death in the U.S. despite the availability of effective screening tools. U.S. Latinos have lower rates of CRC screening and higher rates of death due to...

    Authors: V. M. Telles, S. Rodriguez, M. Torres, J. Schneider, J. Haughton, M. Maldonado and E. Arredondo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:404
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  2. The debate surrounding access to medicines in Nigeria has become increasingly necessary due to the high cost of essential medicine drugs and the prevalence of counterfeit medicines in the country. The Nigerian...

    Authors: Nkolika Uguru, Udochukwu Ogu, Chibuzo Uguru and Ogochukwu Ibe
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:403
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  3. Germany’s medical specialist shortage is an acute challenge, especially in the rehabilitation segment. One countermeasure is to recruit foreign trained physicians (FTP), but the high turnover of FTP is a burde...

    Authors: Eva Jansen, Johanna Schmidt and Manuela Marquardt
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:402
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  4. Forensic psychiatry is often associated with long admissions and has a high cost of care. There is little known about factors influencing length of stay (LOS), and no previous systematic review has synthesised...

    Authors: Aikaterini Dima, Adonis Wazir, Raquel Clark-Castillo, Iordanis Zakopoulos, Shubulade Smith and Fiona Gaughran
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:400
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  5. Rural-urban differences in health service use among persons with prevalent dementia are known. However, the extent of geographic differences in health service use over a long observation period, and prior to d...

    Authors: Julie Kosteniuk, Beliz Acan Osman, Meric Osman, Jacqueline Quail, Naorin Islam, Megan E. O’Connell, Andrew Kirk, Norma Stewart, Chandima Karunanayake and Debra Morgan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:399
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  6. Opioid agonist treatment (OAT) for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) has a convincing evidence base, although variable retention rates suggest that it may not be beneficial for all. One of the options to...

    Authors: Lars Henrik Myklebust, Desiree Eide, Espen A. Arnevik, Omid Dadras, Silvana De Pirro, Rune Ellefsen, Lars T. Fadnes, Morten Hesse, Timo L. Kvamme, Francesca Melis, Ann Oldervoll, Birgitte Thylstrup, Linda E.C. Wusthoff and Thomas Clausen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:398
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  7. Innovative nuclear medicine services offer substantial clinical value to patients. However, these advancements often come with high costs. Traditional payment strategies do not incentivize medical institutes t...

    Authors: Haode Wang, Hui Sun, Yuyan Fu, Wendi Cheng, Chunlin Jin, Hongcheng Shi, Yashuang Luo, Xinjie Xu and Haiyin Wang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:397
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  8. There is limited research on the experiences of access to medicines for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in health facilities among older persons in Uganda. This paper explores the perspectives of older person...

    Authors: Stephen Ojiambo Wandera, Valerie Golaz, Betty Kwagala, James P. M. Ntozi and David Otundo Ayuku
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:396
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  9. Ensuring the transition towards person-centred care is a growing focus in health and social care systems globally. Presented as an ethical framework for health and social care professionals, such a transition ...

    Authors: Qarin Lood, Eric Carlström, Charlotte Klinga and Emmelie Barenfeld
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:395
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  10. Evidence-based care for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) reduces morbidity and mortality. Prior studies in Tanzania identified substantial gaps in the uptake of evidence-based AMI care. Implementation science...

    Authors: Julian T Hertz, Francis M Sakita, Sainikitha Prattipati, Lauren Coaxum, Tumsifu G Tarimo, Godfrey L Kweka, Jerome J Mlangi, Kristen Stark, Nathan M Thielman, Hayden B Bosworth and Janet P Bettger
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:393
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  11. As the popularity and demonstrated effectiveness of Health and Wellness Coaching (HWC) continue to grow to address chronic disease prevalence worldwide, delivery of this approach in a group format is gaining t...

    Authors: Ruth Q Wolever, Timothy R Cline, Jocelyn M Weiss, Suzie Carmack, Cindy Schultz, Michael Arloski and Karen Lawson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:392
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  12. Independent inquiries have identified that appropriate staffing in maternity units is key to enabling quality care and minimising harm, but optimal staffing levels can be difficult to achieve when there is a s...

    Authors: Lesley Turner, Jane Ball, Paul Meredith, Ellen Kitson-Reynolds and Peter Griffiths
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:391
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  13. Despite advances in managing secondary health complications after spinal cord injury (SCI), challenges remain in developing targeted community health strategies. In response, the SCI Health Maintenance Tool (S...

    Authors: John A Bourke, K. Anne Sinnott Jerram, Mohit Arora, Ashley Craig and James W Middleton
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:390
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  14. Resistant bacterial infections, particularly those caused by gram-negative pathogens, are associated with high mortality and economic burdens. Ceftolozane/tazobactam demonstrated efficacy comparable to meropen...

    Authors: Risako Takaya, Nobuyoshi Mori, Eiko Saito and Sachiko Ohde
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:389
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  15. Chronic pain is a leading cause of disability and negatively impacts biological/physical, psychological, and social aspects of life resulting in significant pain interference or disability. This project was pa...

    Authors: Jolie N. Haun, Christopher A. Fowler, Bridget M. Smith, Lishan Cao, Kevin T. Stroupe, William A. Lapcevic, Michael S. Saenger, Rachel C. Benzinger and Dustin D. French
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:388
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  16. To gain an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of Chinese organ transplant recipients’ perceptions, expectations, and suggestions of pharmacy services to hospital pharmacists.

    Authors: Zhao Yin, Wan Zhang, Xuedong Jia, Xi Yang, Wenzhi Guo, Hang Fu, Shuzhang Du, Xiaojian Zhang, Fangying Si and Jun Li
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:387
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  17. COVID-19 vaccine was launched in India on January 16, 2021. There is a paucity of robust evidence from qualitative studies on the acceptability and expectations of potential recipients from the COVID-19 vaccin...

    Authors: Mohit N. Makwana, Hiren J. Shekhda and Mihir P. Rupani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:386
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  18. Ensuring that evidence-based interventions for people with alcohol use disorders (AUD) are acceptable, effective, and feasible in different socio-cultural and health system contexts is essential. We previously...

    Authors: Dorothy Mushi, Charlotte Hanlon, Candida Moshiro, Joel M Francis, Merga B. Feyasa and Solomon Teferra
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:385
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  19. Medicine smuggling poses a serious public health threat, limiting patients’ safe and timely access to this essential resource. Thus, this study aims to identify the factors contributing to the vulnerability to...

    Authors: NourolHoda Fakhrzad, Vahid Yazdi-Feyzabadi and Maryam Fakhrzad
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:383
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  20. Retention in prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV programs is critical to reduce vertical transmission. To addresses challenges with retention, Mozambique launched a peer-support program in 2018, ...

    Authors: Leila Katirayi, Sozinho Ndima, Amgad Farah, Whitney Ludwig, Atanásio Mabote, Ismail Chiposse, Ana Muteerwa, Jessica Greenberg Cowan and Ivete Meque
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:382
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  21. A shortage of healthcare providers, particularly in primary care and mental health, exists in the predominately rural state of Idaho. There are also barriers to retaining healthcare providers to work in rural ...

    Authors: Jonathan D. Moore, Allie M. Lords, Madeline P. Casanova, Ashley J. Reeves, Ann Lima, Cody Wilkinson, Sarah M. Deming and Russell T. Baker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:381
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  22. To determine the views of health care professionals (HCPs) in South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD) about the effectiveness of implementation strategies used to increase routine height/length and...

    Authors: Slavica Krstic, Sarah Dennis, Faye Southcombe and Elizabeth Denney-Wilson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:380
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  23. Although Cotrimoxazole preventive therapy (CPT) has shown to be highly efficacious in reducing morbidity and mortality among people living with Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) under ‘ideal world’ study cond...

    Authors: Pia Müller, Edna Mabasso, Luís Velez Lapão and Mohsin Sidat
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:379
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  24. Community General Practitioners (CGPs) are crucial to primary healthcare worldwide. Their job satisfaction significantly impacts the quality and accessibility of healthcare. However, a comprehensive global per...

    Authors: Qilin Deng, Yifang Liu, Ziyi Cheng, Qi Wang and Junan Liu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:378
    Content type: Systematic Review Published on:

  25. High quality supportive care is fundamental to achieve optimal health outcomes for people affected by cancer. Use of quality indicators provides comparative information for monitoring, management, and improvem...

    Authors: Amelia Hyatt, Karla Gough, Holly Chung, Wendy Wood, Ruth Aston, Jo Cockwill, Spiridoula Galetakis and Meinir Krishnasamy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:377
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  26. Appropriate maternal referral system plays an essential role in curbing maternal mortality. Although the occurrence of obstetric complications is often unpredictable, addressing bottlenecks of the referral sys...

    Authors: Betelhem Mengist, Agumasie Semahegn, Shegaye Yibabie, Bezabih Amsalu and Abera Kenay Tura
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:376
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  27. The clinical outcomes of diabetes can be influenced by primary care providers’ (PCP) treatment approaches. This study explores the association between PCP approaches to management and performance measured by e...

    Authors: Jamil Alkhaddo, Jillian M. Rung, Ameer Khowaja, Yue Yin, Shannon B. Richards, Charlotte Drury-Gworek, Samina Afreen, Caitlan Rossi and Susan Manzi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:375
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  28. Transferring residents from nursing homes (NHs) to emergency care facilities (ECFs) is often questioned as many are terminally ill and have access to onsite care. While some NH to ECF transfers have merit, avo...

    Authors: Arne Bastian Wiik, Malcolm Bray Doupe, Marit Stordal Bakken, Bård Reiakvam Kittang, Frode Fadnes Jacobsen and Oddvar Førland
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:374
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  29. Adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) interventions are underfunded in Ghana. We explored stakeholder perspectives on innovative and sustainable financing strategies for priority ASRH interventions ...

    Authors: Evans Otieku, Ama P. Fenny, Daniel M. Achala and John E. Ataguba
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:373
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  30. The number and specificities of telehealth service units that expanded their services and diversified with the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil need to be discovered. The objective of this manuscript is to present ...

    Authors: Angélica Baptista Silva, Ivan Torres Pisa, Luiz Ary Messina, Andréa Pereira Simões Pelogi, Josceli Maria Tenório, Fernando Sequeira Sousa, Daniela Lacerda Santos, Jessi Maia, Ianê Germano de Andrade Filha, Ana Cristina Carneiro Menezes Guedes, Paulo Roberto de Lima Lopes and Paulo Ricardo da Silva Maia
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:372
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  31. The increased recognition of governance, leadership, and management as determinants of health system performance has prompted calls for research focusing on the nature, quality, and measurement of this key hea...

    Authors: Paul Mubiri, Freddie Ssengooba, Thomasena O’Byrne, Adelaine Aryaija-Keremani, Justine Namakula, Kingsley Chikaphupha, Moses Aikins, Tim Martineau and Frédérique Vallières
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:371
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  32. This study evaluates cost reduction in participants of a health awareness program (the Center of Healthy Aging Program, CHAP) in a Japanese rural area, characterized by an annual check-up and personalized inte...

    Authors: Ayako Shoji, Kennichi Kudo, Koichi Murashita, Shigeyuki Nakaji and Ataru Igarashi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:370
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  33. To provide better quality healthcare services to patients with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds, the cross-cultural competence of medical professionals is important. However, assessing and improvi...

    Authors: Chieko Shirai, Daisuke Nonaka and Jun Kobayashi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:369
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  34. Individuals with unmet social needs experience adverse health outcomes and are subject to greater inequities in health and social outcomes. Given the high prevalence of unmet needs among Medicaid enrollees, ma...

    Authors: Rachel Hogg-Graham, Allison M. Scott, Emily R. Clear, Elizabeth N. Riley and Teresa M. Waters
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:368
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  35. Homecare client services are often distributed across several interdependent healthcare providers, making proper care coordination essential. However, as studies exploring care coordination in the homecare set...

    Authors: Nathalie Möckli, Michael Simon, Kris Denhaerynck, Diana Trutschel, Tania Martins, Carla Meyer-Massetti and Franziska Zúñiga
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:367
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  36. In Ethiopia, there is a growing concern about improving patients’ safety in healthcare facilities. However, the lack of a valid and reliable instrument sensitive to the Ethiopian culture for measuring health p...

    Authors: Bisrat Tamene Bekele, Trhas Tadesse Berhe, Biniam Yohannes Wotango, Wubet Mihretu Workneh and Nebiyou Wendwessen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:366
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  37. Perceived care quality and patient satisfaction have been important care quality indicators in recent decades, and healthcare professionals have been influential on women’s childbirth experience. This study in...

    Authors: Somayeh Abdolalipour, Shamsi Abbasalizadeh, Sakineh Mohammad-Alizadeh-Charandabi, Fatemeh Abbasalizadeh, Shayesteh Jahanfar, Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi, Kosar Abdollahi and Mojgan Mirghafourvadsnd
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:365
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  38. The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the worst health catastrophes of the last century, which caused severe economic, political, and social consequences worldwide. Despite these devastating consequences, lessons le...

    Authors: Ane Fullaondo, Irati Erreguerena and Esteban de Manuel Keenoy
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:364
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  39. Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is known as a serious complication of diabetes mellitus in patients with diabetes, imposing heavy medical costs on healthcare systems due to its chronic nature. patients with severe d...

    Authors: Reza Hashempour, SeyedHadi MirHashemi, Fariba Mollajafari, Soheila Damiri, Ali ArabAhmadi and Behzad Raei
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:363
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  40. Globally, healthcare workers (HCWs) in maternity units are at high risk of developing burnout. Burnout can lead to multiple harmful impacts on HCWs, their patients, and the broader healthcare system. Little is...

    Authors: Tanya Y. Brückner, S. Heemelaar, T. Endjala and T. van den Akker
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:362
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  41. Besides the scarcity of resources, inefficient utilization of available health service resources has been the bottleneck to deliver quality health services in Ethiopia. However, Information regarding the effic...

    Authors: Anteneh Lamesgen, Belayneh Mengist, Elyas Melaku Mazengia and Bekalu Endalew
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:361
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  42. Living in a deprived neighborhood is associated with poorer health, due to factors such as lower socio-economic status and an adverse lifestyle. There is little insight into whether living in deprived neighbor...

    Authors: Eline K. Nanninga, Malou D. Menting, Eric J. E. van der Hijden and France R. M. Portrait
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:360
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  43. The National Health Service in England pledged >£365 million to improve access to mental healthcare services via Community Perinatal Mental Health Teams (CPMHTs) and reduce the rate of perinatal relapse in wom...

    Authors: Emma Tassie, Julia Langham, Ipek Gurol-Urganci, Jan van der Meulen, Louise M Howard, Dharmintra Pasupathy, Helen Sharp, Antoinette Davey, Heather O’Mahen, Margaret Heslin and Sarah Byford
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:359
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  44. Authors: Roslyn G. Poulos, Andrew M. D. Cole, Dan R. Hilvert, Kerry N. Warner, Steven G. Faux, Tuan‑Anh Nguyen, Friedbert Kohler, Fey‑Ching Un, Tara Alexander, Jacquelin T. Capell, Claire M. C. O’Connor and Christopher J. Poulos
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:358
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    The original article was published in BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:151

  45. Medication discrepancies commonly occur when patients are transferred between care settings. Despite the presence of medication reconciliation services (MRS), medication discrepancies are still prevalent, whic...

    Authors: Konstadina Griva, Zi Yang Chua, Lester Yousheng Lai, Sandra Jialun Xu, Esther Siew Joo Bek and Eng Sing Lee
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:357
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  46. Routine health information is the pillar of the planning and management of health services and plays a vital role in effective and efficient health service delivery, decision making, and program improvement. L...

    Authors: Gudeta Ayele, Admas Abera, Angefa Ayele, Daniel Gudina and Dawit Firdisa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:356
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  47. Community Health Workers (CHWs) play an essential role in linking communities to facility-based healthcare. However, CHW programmes have often been hampered by low levels of staff motivation, and new tools aim...

    Authors: Maartje Kletter, Bronwyn Harris, Emilia Connolly, Chifundo Namathanga, Basimenye Nhlema, Henry Makungwa, Benson Chabwera, Benson Phiri and Celia Brown
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:355
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  48. To provide an assessment of the cost burden of obesity across a spectrum of obesity-related comorbidities (ORCs) for four countries in South-Eastern Europe (SEE).

    Authors: Kostas Athanasakis, Cornelia Bala, Alexander Kokkinos, Gabor Simonyi, Klaudia Hálová Karoliová, Amaury Basse, Miodrag Bogdanovic, Malvin Kang, Kaywei Low and Adrien Gras
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:354
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  50. The adoption of C-reactive protein point-of-care tests (CRP POCTs) in hospitals varies across Europe. We aimed to understand the factors that contribute to different levels of adoption of CRP POCTs for the man...

    Authors: Juan Emmanuel Dewez, Ruud G. Nijman, Elizabeth J. A. Fitchett, Edmond C. Li, Queena F. Luu, Rebecca Lynch, Marieke Emonts, Ronald de Groot, Michiel van der Flier, Ria Philipsen, Stefanie Ettelt and Shunmay Yeung
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:351
    Content type: Research Published on:
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