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  1. Knowledge mobilization (KM) is essential to close the longstanding evidence to practice gap in pediatric pain management. Engaging various partners (i.e., those with expertise in a given topic area) in KM is b...

    Authors: Nicole E. MacKenzie, Christine T. Chambers, Christine E. Cassidy, Penny V. Corkum, Meghan E. McGrady, Jennifer A. Parker and Kathryn A. Birnie
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:337
  2. Recruiting large cohorts efficiently can speed the translation of findings into care across a range of scientific disciplines and medical specialties. Recruitment can be hampered by factors such as financial b...

    Authors: Ashley Honushefsky, Eric S. Wagner, Kathleen Sheridan, Kathleen M. Spickard, William R. LeMasters, Carroll N. Walter, Taryn Beaver, Anne Marie Lennon, Nickolas Papadopoulos, Alanna Kulchak Rahm and Adam H. Buchanan
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:336
  3. Over the past few decades, patient-reported outcomes (PROs) have been used to understand patient health conditions better. Therefore, numerous PRO measures (questionnaires) and guidelines or guidance have been...

    Authors: Takako Kaneyasu, Eri Hoshino, Mariko Naito, Yoshimi Suzukamo, Kikuko Miyazaki, Satomi Kojima, Takuhiro Yamaguchi, Takashi Kawaguchi, Tempei Miyaji, Takako Eguchi Nakajima and Kojiro Shimozuma
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:334
  4. Opioid Maintenance Treatment (OMT) is the gold standard for people with opioid dependence. However, drop-out rates are high, and many patients do not reach desired outcomes. Understanding patients’ and healthc...

    Authors: Asbjørn Steiro, Christine Hillestad Hestevik and Ashley Elizabeth Muller
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:333
  5. Public–private partnerships (PPP) are often how health improvement programs are implemented in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). We therefore aimed to systematically review the literature about the aim ...

    Authors: Cassandra B. Iroz, Rohit Ramaswamy, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta and Paul Barach
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:332
  6. Inpatient falls in hospitals are an acknowledged indicator of quality of care. International comparisons could highlight quality improvement potential and enable cross-national learning. Key to fair cross-nati...

    Authors: Niklaus S. Bernet, Irma H. J. Everink, Sabine Hahn, Silvia Bauer and Jos M. G. A. Schols
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:331
  7. An accumulating body of research suggests that an accelerating enhanced recovery after colon surgery protocol is beneficial for patients, however, to obtain these effects, adherence to all elements of the prot...

    Authors: Misha A. T. Sier, Eva Godina, Thaís T. T. Tweed, Imane Daher and Jan H. M. B. Stoot
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:330
  8. In Malaysia, asthma is a common chronic respiratory illness. Poor asthma control may increase out-of-pocket payment for asthma care, leading to financial hardships Malaysia provides Universal Health Coverage f...

    Authors: Norita Hussein, Chiu Wan Ng, Rizawati Ramli, Su May Liew, Nik Sherina Hanafi, Ping Yein Lee, Ai Theng Cheong, Sazlina Shariff Ghazali, Hilary Pinnock, Andrew Stoddart, Jürgen Schwarze and Ee Ming Khoo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:327
  9. In the past 40 years, China has experienced tremendous economic development, but the current situation of hematologists has rarely been reported. A landscape survey of human resources is essential for healthca...

    Authors: Jia Chen, Jiali Gu, Yuhua Ru, Jianxiang Wang, Yu Hu, Kaiyan Liu, Qifa Liu, Xiaohui Zhang, Zhijian Xiao, Weili Zhao, Yang Xu, Xiaojun Huang and Depei Wu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:326
  10. Healthcare professionals (HCPs) are increasingly recommended to play an important role in supporting people with chronic disease in work participation. An intervention for HCPs to provide work-related support ...

    Authors: Maarten Butink, Shari Hooper, Annelies Boonen, Vera Baadjou, Tim Boymans, Marieke Pierik and Angelique de Rijk
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:325
  11. Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) are known to have high prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus and high incidence of diabetes-related foot disease. Diabetes-related foot disease can lead to lower limb...

    Authors: Kay Y. Hon, Neil McMillan and Robert A. Fitridge
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:324
  12. Using digital technologies to provide services and supports remotely may improve efficiency and accessibility of healthcare, and support people with disabilities to live independently. This study aimed to expl...

    Authors: Jennifer Fortune, Manjula Manikandan, Sarah Harrington, Owen Hensey, Claire Kerr, Sebastian Koppe, Thilo Kroll, Grace Lavelle, Siobhán Long, Malcolm MacLachlan, Denis Nolan, Meriel Norris, Jason O’Reilly, Mary Owens, Aisling Walsh, Michael Walsh…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:323
  13. Youth mental health is a major health concern in almost every country. Mental health accounts for about 13% of the global burden of disease in the 10-to-19-year age group. Still there are significant gaps betw...

    Authors: Linda Richter Sundberg, Anne Gotfredsen, Monica Christianson, Maria Wiklund, Anna-Karin Hurtig and Isabel Goicolea
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:322
  14. This study aims to estimate average COVID-19-associated healthcare costs per capita in Germany from a payer perspective. In addition, insights into COVID-19-associated mortality should be gained.

    Authors: Florian Brandt, Giancarlo Simone, Jörg Loth and Daniel Schilling
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:321
  15. Translating research, achieving impact, and assessing impact are important aspirations for all research collaboratives but can prove challenging. The Hunter Cancer Research Alliance (HCRA) was funded from 2014...

    Authors: Christine L. Paul, Nicole M. Verrills, Stephen Ackland, Rodney Scott, Susan Goode, Ann Thomas, Sarah Lukeman, Sarah Nielsen, Judith Weidenhofer, James Lynam, Elizabeth A. Fradgley, Jarad Martin, Peter Greer, Stephen Smith, Cassandra Griffin, Kelly A. Avery-Kiejda…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:320
  16. HIV mostly affects people with severe mental illnesses (SMIs) than the general population. In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) introduced assisted partner notification (APN) as a strategy to increase ...

    Authors: Rachel Wangi Nante, Herbert Muyinda, John M. Kiweewa, Regina Ndagire, Emmanuel Ssendikwanawa, Kevin Ouma Ojiambo, Joanita Nangendo, Juliet Nakku and Fred C. Semitala
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:319
  17. The Brazilian Dental Specialty Centers (CEO, in Portuguese) represent the strategy of the National Oral Health Policy to provide secondary-level dental care. They offer more complex procedures, such as the tre...

    Authors: Raíres Chaves da Silva Rodrigues, Yuri Wanderley Cavalcanti and Edson Hilan Gomes de Lucena
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:318
  18. Aligning delivery and financing systems across sectors to create broader systems of care can improve the health and well-being of families experiencing adversities. We aimed to identify structural and relation...

    Authors: Venice Ng Williams, Carol Yvette Franco-Rowe, Connie Cignetti Lopez, Mandy A. Allison and Gregory J. Tung
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:316
  19. Postoperative pain management in lumbar spine surgery care remains a challenge. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of a person-centred postoperative pain management intervention programme on lumb...

    Authors: Eva Angelini, Axel Wolf, Helle Wijk, Helena Brisby and Adad Baranto
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:315
  20. Clinical empathy is considered a crucial element in patient-centered care. The advent of digital technology in healthcare has introduced new dynamics to empathy which needs to be explored in the context of the...

    Authors: Hanna Luetke Lanfer, Doreen Reifegerste, Winja Weber, Paula Memenga, Eva Baumann, Julia Geulen, Stefanie Klein, Anne Müller, Andrea Hahne and Susanne Weg-Remers
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:314
  21. Isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) works to prevent tuberculosis (TB) among people living with HIV (PLHIV), but uptake remains low in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this analysis, we sought to identify barriers mid-le...

    Authors: Canice Christian, Elijah Kakande, Violah Nahurira, Cecilia Akatukwasa, Fredrick Atwine, Robert Bakanoma, Harriet Itiakorit, Asiphas Owaraganise, William DiIeso, Derek Rast, Jane Kabami, Jason Johnson Peretz, Starley B. Shade, Moses R. Kamya, Diane V. Havlir, Gabriel Chamie…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:313
  22. There is scarce knowledge on the health care follow-up of parents of terror attack survivors. This study focused on the mothers and fathers of survivors and examined (1) their perceived health care needs relat...

    Authors: Ida Frugård Strøm, Tore Wentzel-Larsen, Synne Stensland, Grete Dyb and Lise Eilin Stene
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:277
  23. The unequal distribution of government health spending within African regional economic groupings is a significant barrier to achieving Universal Health Coverage and reaching health-related Sustainable Develop...

    Authors: Nicholas Ngepah and Ariane Ephemia Ndzignat Mouteyica
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:311
  24. Germany has the highest per capita health care spending among EU member states, but its hospitals face pressure to generate profits independently due to the government’s withdrawal of investment cost coverage....

    Authors: Christoph Lüdemann, Maike Gerken and Marcel Hülsbeck
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:310
  25. The development and use of digital tools in various stages of research highlight the importance of novel open science methods for an integrated and accessible research system. The objective of this study was t...

    Authors: Maryam Zarghani, Leila Nemati-Anaraki, Shahram Sedghi, Abdolreza Noroozi Chakoli and Anisa Rowhani-Farid
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:309
  26. International experience shows that the suitability of a high-performance healthcare system for its given purposes is reflected in its ability to provide a continuum of services that match the changing health ...

    Authors: Haoran Liu, Zhifan Wang, Juan Hu, Qiushuang Xu, Lei Yang and Weiyan Jian
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:308
  27. Expenditure of healthcare services has been growing over the past decades. Lean and agile are two popular paradigms that could potentially contain cost and improve proficiency of the healthcare system. However...

    Authors: Xueying Li and Ana Lúcia Martins
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:307
  28. Improving quality of nursing home care for residents is a constant focus of stakeholders involved within quality improvement projects. Though, achieving change in long-term care is challenging. Process evaluat...

    Authors: Suzanne Portegijs, Adriana Petronella Anna van Beek, Lilian Huibertina Davida van Tuyl and Cordula Wagner
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:306
  29. Research is crucial for improved healthcare and better patient outcomes, but there is a current shortage of clinician-researchers who can connect research and practice in the health professions field. This stu...

    Authors: Louisa M. D’Arrietta, Venkat N. Vangaveti, Melissa J. Crowe and Bunmi S. Malau-Aduli
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:305
  30. Authors: Luke Testa, Lieke Richardson, Colleen Cheek, Theresa Hensel, Elizabeth Austin, Mariam Safi, Natália Ransolin, Ann Carrigan, Janet Long, Karen Hutchinson, Magali Goirand, Mia Bierbaum, Felicity Bleckly, Peter Hibbert, Kate Churruca and Robyn Clay-Williams
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:304

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  31. This study presents guidelines for implementation distilled from the findings of a realist evaluation. The setting was local health districts in New South Wales, Australia that implemented three clinical impro...

    Authors: Janet C Long, Natalie Roberts, Emilie Francis-Auton, Mitchell N Sarkies, Hoa Mi Nguyen, Johanna I Westbrook, Jean-Frederic Levesque, Diane E Watson, Rebecca Hardwick, Kate Churruca, Peter Hibbert and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:303
  32. Supported wellbeing centres established during the COVID-19 pandemic provided high quality rest spaces and access to peer-to-peer psychological first aid for healthcare workers (HCWs). The centres were well ac...

    Authors: Holly Blake, Helen Mancini, Emma Coyne, Joanne Cooper and Natalia Stanulewicz-Buckley
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:302
  33. Healthcare workers (HCWs) are commonly not prepared to properly communicate with D/deaf and hard of hearing (HoH) patients. The resulting communication challenges reinforce the existing barriers to accessing a...

    Authors: Véronique S. Grazioli, Madison Graells, Elodie Schmutz, Odile Cantero, Tanya Sebaï, Vanessa Favre, Jessica Richème-Roos, Kevin Morisod, Michel Jeanneret, Pascal Singy and Patrick Bodenmann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:301
  34. The objective was to gain knowledge about how external inspections following serious incidents are played out in a Norwegian hospital context from the perspective of the inspectors, and whether stakeholders’ v...

    Authors: Sina Furnes Øyri, Siri Wiig, Janet E. Anderson and Inger Johanne Bergerød
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:300
  35. Social risk factors are key drivers of the geographic variation in spending in the United States but little is known how community-level social risk factors are associated with hospital prices. Our objective w...

    Authors: Eva Chang and Wayne Psek
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:299
  36. This paper presents the results of a systematic review to identify practical strategies to create the institutions, skills, values, and norms that will improve health systems resilience.

    Authors: David Bishai, Basma M. Saleh, Maryam Huda, Eman Mohammed Aly, Marwa Hafiz, Ali Ardalan and Awad Mataria
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:297
  37. Case managers play a vital role in integrating the necessary services to optimise health-related goals and outcomes. Studies suggest that in home care, case managers encounter tensions in their day-to-day work...

    Authors: Alexandra Ethier, Marie-France Dubois, Virginie Savaria and Annie Carrier
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:296
  38. Physiotherapy is a growing profession in Nepal. Despite efforts to promote strengthening and development, there are still challenges in providing equitable access and availability to services, particularly in ...

    Authors: Nishchal Ratna Shakya, Nistha Shrestha, Gillian Webb, Hellen Myezwa, Biraj Man Karmacharya and Ann-Katrin Stensdotter
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:295
  39. Many hospitals and health care organizations over the centuries have inherited handcrafts of artistic value, objects of worships, donations from pilgrims, votive offerings, legates as a result of their centuri...

    Authors: Martina Giusti, Ilaria Elisa Vannini and Niccolò Persiani
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:293
  40. Adults with sickle cell disease (SCD) suffer early mortality and high morbidity. Many are not affiliated with SCD centers, defined as no ambulatory visit with a SCD specialist in 2 years. Negative social deter...

    Authors: Gustavo G. Mendez, Judith M. Nocek, Donald J. Brambilla, Sara Jacobs, Oladipo Cole, Julie Kanter, Jeffrey Glassberg, Kay L. Saving, Cathy L. Melvin, Robert W. Gibson, Marsha Treadwell, George L. Jackson, Allison A. King, Victor R. Gordeuk, Barbara Kroner and Lewis L. Hsu
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:291
  41. Working in healthcare environments is highly stressful for most professionals and can trigger problems in interpersonal relationships that can result in horizontal violence. In order to prevent violence and im...

    Authors: Paula Arquioli Adriani, Paula Hino, Mônica Taminato, Meiry Fernanda Pinto Okuno, Odilon Vieira Santos and Hugo Fernandes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:289
  42. Coronary heart diseases (CHDs) have experienced the largest increase worldwide as a cause of death, accounting for 16% of all deaths. In Saxony-Anhalt, a federal state in Germany, both CHD morbidity and acute ...

    Authors: Steffen Fleischer, Stephanie Heinrich, Gabriele Meyer, Rafael Mikolajczyk and Sara Lena Lückmann
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:288
  43. Movement of patients through a health establishment is a complex activity reliant upon multi-actor co-ordination across departments. The challenge of enhancing service delivery to meet the needs of a growing a...

    Authors: Mehreen Hunter, Shrikant Peters, Nontuthuko Khumalo and Mary-Ann Davies
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2024 24:287