Home-based music therapy--a systematic overview of settings and conditions for an innovative service in healthcare.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Blood samples are usually collected daily from different collection points, such hospitals and health centers, and transported to a core laboratory for testing. This paper presents a project to improve the collection routes of two of the largest clinical laboratories in Spain. These routes must be designed i...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Grasas A,Ramalhinho H,Pessoa LS,Resende MG,Caballé I,Barba N

更新日期：2014-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite continued investment, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) indicators in low and middle income countries have remained relatively poor. This could, in part, be explained by inadequate resources to adequately address these problems, inappropriate allocation of the available resources, or lack of ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Wallace LJ,Kapiriri L

更新日期：2019-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health worker motivation can potentially affect the provision of health services. The HIV pandemic has placed additional strain on health service provision through the extra burden of increased testing and counselling, treating opportunistic infections and providing antiretroviral treatment. The aim of this ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Mbilinyi D,Daniel ML,Lie GT

更新日期：2011-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Overcrowding of high-level health facilities is a major concern in a Vietnamese health system. This may increase an economic burden to the households since health insurance is still insufficient in providing financial risk protection. This paper sought to examine the association between the use of high-level...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Lee HY,Oh J,Hoang VM,Moon JR,Subramanian SV

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When it was initiated in 2001, England's national patient survey programme was one of the first in the world and has now been widely emulated in other healthcare systems. The aim of the survey programme was to make the National Health Service (NHS) more "patient centred" and more responsive to patient feedba...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： DeCourcy A,West E,Barron D

更新日期：2012-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cell-free fetal DNA sequencing based non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for Down syndrome (DS) has become widely available. In Hong Kong, obstetric providers in the public sector refer women identified at high risk of having a child with Down syndrome to obstetric providers in the private sector for NIPT. ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Ngan OMY,Yi H,Ahmed S

更新日期：2018-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are few studies comparing pharmaceutical costs and the use of medications between immigrants and the autochthonous population in Spain. The objective of this study is to evaluate whether there are differences in pharmaceutical consumption and expenses between immigrant and Spanish-born populations. ME...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Rue M,Serna MC,Soler-Gonzalez J,Bosch A,Ruiz-Magaz MC,Galvan L

更新日期：2008-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic diseases are rapidly increasing and are currently the major cause of death and disability worldwide. Patients with chronic diseases experience many challenges including medicine-related problems. However, there is limited information about the home management of medicines among these patients. This s...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Kalyango JN,Hall M,Karamagi C

更新日期：2012-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Case management has been suggested as an innovative strategy that facilitates the improvement of a patient's quality of life, reduction of hospital length of stay, optimization of self-care and improvement of satisfaction of patients and professionals involved. However, there is little evidence about the eff...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Wynia K,Annema C,Nissen H,De Keyser J,Middel B

更新日期：2010-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adverse events are considered a major international problem related to the performance of health systems. Evaluating the occurrence of adverse events involves, as any other outcome measure, determining the extent to which the observed differences can be attributed to the patient's risk factors or to variatio...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Martins M,Travassos C,Mendes W,Pavão AL

更新日期：2011-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:More people in the US now die from Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections than from HIV/AIDS. Often acquired in healthcare facilities or during healthcare procedures, the extremely high incidence of MRSA infections and the dangerously low levels of literacy regarding antibiotic resista...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Rohde RE,Ross-Gordon J

更新日期：2012-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Continuous medical education strategies, including academic detailing (AD), have mixed effects on the quality of prescribing in general practice. Alongside a cluster-randomized controlled trial (cRCT) to assess the effectiveness of AD visits (on appropriate prescribing of analgesics for chronic pain in osteo...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Anthierens S,Verhoeven V,Schmitz O,Coenen S

更新日期：2017-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Quality improvement initiatives have expanded recently within the healthcare sector. Studies have shown that less than 40% of these initiatives are successful, indicating the need for an instrument that can measure the progress and results of quality improvement initiatives and answer questions about how qua...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Andersson AC,Elg M,Perseius KI,Idvall E

更新日期：2013-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dementia is an irreversible chronic disease with wide-ranging effects on patients', caregivers' and families' lives. Hospitalizations are significant events for people with dementia. They tend to have poorer outcomes compared to those without dementia. Most of the previous studies focused on diagnoses leadin...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Pohontsch NJ,Scherer M,Eisele M

更新日期：2017-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Teamwork and job satisfaction are important among the multidisciplinary team who care patients with chronic illnesses such as heart failure (HF) patients. TeamSTEPPS teamwork perceptions questionnaire (T-TPQ) and Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire "short form" (MSQ-short) are both self-report questionnaire...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Lakatamitou I,Lambrinou E,Kyriakou M,Paikousis L,Middleton N

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The implementation of strategic health system change is often complicated by the informal politics and power of health systems, such as competing interests and resistant groups. Evidence from other industries shows that strategic leaders need to be aware of and manage such 'organisational politics' when impl...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Waring J,Bishop S,Clarke J,Exworthy M,Fulop NJ,Hartley J,Ramsay AIG

更新日期：2018-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods are considered high-risk periods for the health of mothers and their newborns. Although the current utilization rate of some maternal and child care services in Jordan is encouraging, detailed information about the quality of these services is limited. Theref...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Alyahya MS,Khader YS,Batieha A,Asad M

更新日期：2019-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, numerous behavior change, risk-reduction, and biomedical interventions have been developed and tested. While some of these interventions have shown to be efficacious in randomized trials, it often takes almost two decades for an intervention to be translated into prac...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Howard BN,Van Dorn R,Myers BJ,Zule WA,Browne FA,Carney T,Wechsberg WM

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As part of its ongoing healthcare reform, the Hong Kong Government introduced a voucher scheme, intended for encouraging older patients to use primary healthcare services in the private sector, thereby, reducing burden on the overwhelmed public sector. The voucher program is also considered one of the strate...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Yam CH,Liu S,Huang OH,Yeoh EK,Griffiths SM

更新日期：2011-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The current, place-oriented nurse call systems are very static. A patient can only make calls with a button which is fixed to a wall of a room. Moreover, the system does not take into account various factors specific to a situation. In the future, there will be an evolution to a mobile button for each patien...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Ongenae F,Myny D,Dhaene T,Defloor T,Van Goubergen D,Verhoeve P,Decruyenaere J,De Turck F

更新日期：2011-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research shows us that auditory hallucinations or 'hearing voices' may be more common than previously thought, particularly in childhood and adolescents. Importantly, not all individuals are affected negatively by their voice hearing experiences, yet child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) have t...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Kapur P,Hayes D,Waddingham R,Hillman S,Deighton J,Midgley N

更新日期：2014-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abortion related deaths as a proportion of maternal mortality appears to have fallen dramatically in Bangladesh from 5 % in 2001 to 1 % in 2010. Yet complications from menstrual regulation (MR) and unsafe abortion continue to cause deleterious health, economic and social consequences for women in the country...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Huda FA,Ahmed A,Ford ER,Johnston HB

更新日期：2015-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Residential care infrastructure, in terms of the characteristics of the organisation (such as proprietary status, size, and location) and the physical environment, have been found to directly influence resident outcomes. This review aimed to summarise the existing literature of economic evaluations of reside...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Easton T,Milte R,Crotty M,Ratcliffe J

更新日期：2017-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Growing understanding of the influence of social determinants of health (SDH) on healthcare costs and outcomes for low income populations is leading State Medicaid agencies to consider incorporating SDH into their program design. This paper explores states' current approaches to SDH. METHODS:A mixed-methods...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Chisolm DJ,Brook DL,Applegate MS,Kelleher KJ

更新日期：2019-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The national strategy for treatment of chronic diseases - including MS - and changes in the Swedish welfare system, call for analyses of the use of, and patient satisfaction with, care in a long-term perspective. The aim was therefore to explore the use of care and the predictive value of personal factors, d...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Chruzander C,Johansson S,Gottberg K,Einarsson U,Hillert J,Holmqvist LW,Ytterberg C

更新日期：2015-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND: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 this population. METHODS:A retrospective cohort study was designed to identify and compare estimated...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Bail K,Goss J,Draper B,Berry H,Karmel R,Gibson D

更新日期：2015-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:General practitioners (GPs) adopt clinical practice guidelines to varying degrees. Several factors have been found to influence application of guidelines in practice and the GP is apparently the key actor. Studies are needed to increase our understanding of how GPs' attitudes influence their use of guideline...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Carlsen B,Norheim OF

更新日期：2008-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2003, Ghana passed a law to establish a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to serve as the main vehicle for achieving universal health coverage. Over 60% of the population had registered by 2009. Current active membership is however 40%. The stagnation in growth has been recorded across all the membe...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Seddoh A,Sataru F

更新日期：2018-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Globally, female sex workers (FSWs) are considered a key population group due to the high HIV prevalence. Studies show that there are various factors in some contexts that render FSWs marginalised, which limits their access to sexual reproductive health (SRH) services. Access to SRH services are particularly...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Makhakhe NF,Meyer-Weitz A,Struthers H,McIntyre J

更新日期：2019-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary care records from the UK have frequently been used to identify episodes of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in studies of drug toxicity because of their comprehensive population coverage and longitudinal recording of prescriptions and diagnoses. Recent linkage within England of primary and secondary c...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Crooks CJ,Card TR,West J

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00