An ontology-based nurse call management system (oNCS) with probabilistic priority assessment.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several years have passed since the rural New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) in China was established and policies kept continuous improvement. Its policies on chronic diseases vary by county but have certain shared characteristics. Following this modification of medical insurance policy, this study reass...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Wang J,Chen L,Ye T,Zhang Z,Ma J

更新日期：2014-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Policy that supports rural allied health service delivery is important given the shortage of services outside of Australian metropolitan centres. The shortage of allied health professionals means that rural clinicians work long hours and have little peer or service support. Service delivery to rural and remo...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Veitch C,Lincoln M,Bundy A,Gallego G,Dew A,Bulkeley K,Brentnall J,Griffiths S

更新日期：2012-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The goal of universal health coverage is challenging for chronically under-resourced health systems. Although household out-of-pocket payments are the most important source of health financing in low-income countries, relatively little is known about the drivers of primary health care expenditure and the pre...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Laokri S,Soelaeman R,Hotchkiss DR

更新日期：2018-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The development of assisted reproduction techniques (ART) has resulted in rapid advances in the treatment of infertility. However, a systematic assessment of ART and its processes and outcomes in China has never been carried out. The goal of this study was to assess the features of ART status from 2012 to 20...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Fang YY,Wu QJ,Zhang TN,Wang TR,Shen ZQ,Jiao J,Shao XG,Xu P,Guo SS,Zhou YM,Wang XX,Li D

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aims at gathering evidence about the relation between 30-day mortality and 30-day unplanned readmission and patient and hospital factors. By definition, we refer to 30-day mortality and 30-day unplanned readmission as the number of deaths and non-programmed hospitalizations for any cause within 30...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Roshanghalb A,Mazzali C,Lettieri E

更新日期：2019-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Care-managers are responsible for the public administration of individual healthcare decisions and decide on the volume and content of community healthcare services given to a population. The purpose of this study was to investigate the conflicting expectations and ethical dilemmas these professionals encoun...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Tønnessen S,Ursin G,Brinchmann BS

更新日期：2017-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rising workload in general practice has been a recent cause for concern in several countries; this is also the case in Norway. Long working hours and heavy workload seem to affect recruitment and retention of regular general practitioners (RGPs). We investigated Norwegian RGPs' workload in terms of time used...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Morken T,Rebnord IK,Maartmann-Moe K,Hunskaar S

更新日期：2019-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Risperidone long-acting injection (LAI) is mostly administered twice weekly to people with schizophrenia by nurses at community mental health centres (CMHC) or through mobile outreach visits. This study estimates the cost of resource utilisation associated with the administration of risperidone LAI and the p...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Dalton A,Lambert T,Schrover R,Hertel J,Smith DK

更新日期：2011-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2011, South Africa improved its ability to test for rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB) by introducing GeneXpert MTB/RIF. At the same time, the South African National TB program adopted a policy decentralized, outpatient treatment for drug resistant (DR-) TB. We aim to analyze the impact of these changes on l...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Evans D,Sineke T,Schnippel K,Berhanu R,Govathson C,Black A,Long L,Rosen S

更新日期：2018-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND: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 severe burn injuries do have a devastating effect on all aspects of a person's life. Therefore a well-org...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Christiaens W,Van de Walle E,Devresse S,Van Halewyck D,Benahmed N,Paulus D,Van den Heede K

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High performing hospitals attain excellence across multiple measures of performance and multiple departments. Studying high performing hospitals can be valuable if factors associated with high performance can be identified and applied. Factors leading to high performance are complex and an exclusive quantita...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Taylor N,Clay-Williams R,Hogden E,Braithwaite J,Groene O

更新日期：2015-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the organisational set-up of physiotherapy services across different countries is increasingly important as clinicians around the world use evidence to improve their practice. This also has to be taken into consideration when multi-centre international clinical trials are conducted. This survey...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Rasova K,Freeman J,Martinkova P,Pavlikova M,Cattaneo D,Jonsdottir J,Henze T,Baert I,Van Asch P,Santoyo C,Smedal T,Beiske AG,Stachowiak M,Kovalewski M,Nedeljkovic U,Bakalidou D,Guerreiro JM,Nilsagård Y,Dimitrova EN,H

更新日期：2016-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recognizing the importance of increased patient participation in healthcare decisions leads decision makers to consider effective ways to incorporate patient perspectives in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) processes. The implementation of local health HTA units in university hospitals in Quebec provides a...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Gagnon MP,Lepage-Savary D,Gagnon J,St-Pierre M,Simard C,Rhainds M,Lemieux R,Gauvin FP,Desmartis M,Légaré F

更新日期：2009-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To examine the association between rurality and health in Scotland, after adjusting for differences in individual and practice characteristics. METHODS: DESIGN:Mortality and hospital record data linked to two cross sectional health surveys. SETTING:Respondents in the community-based 1995 and 1998 Scottish...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Teckle P,Hannaford P,Sutton M

更新日期：2012-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medicine access is an important goal of medicine policy; however the evaluation of medicine access is a subject under conceptual and methodological development. The aim of this study was to describe quantitative methodologies to measure medicine access on household level, access expressed as paid or unpaid m...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Paniz VM,Fassa AG,Maia MF,Domingues MR,Bertoldi AD

更新日期：2010-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Screening programs for colorectal cancer (CRC) exist in many countries, and with varying participation rates. The present study aimed at identifying socio-demographic factors for accepting a cost-free screening offer for CRC in Denmark, and to study if more people would accept the screening offer if the pres...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Nielsen JB,Berg-Beckhoff G,Leppin A

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Healthcare workers, in the hospital and in community clinics, are frequently exposed to verbal and physical abuse that can lead to frustration and despair. This study's objectives were to evaluate trends in violence towards hospital and community doctors in the Negev region of Israel and to compare them to t...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Nevo T,Peleg R,Kaplan DM,Freud T

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physicians are encouraged to counsel obese patients to lose weight, but studies measuring the quality of physicians' counseling are rare. We sought to describe the quality of physicians' obesity counseling and to determine associations between the quality of counseling and obese patients' motivation and inte...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Jay M,Gillespie C,Schlair S,Sherman S,Kalet A

更新日期：2010-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Promotion of healthy lifestyle is an important strategy. This study was conducted to determine the effects of counselling on health-promoting lifestyle and quality of life in middle-aged women. METHODS:This randomised, controlled, clinical trial was conducted on 102 middle-aged women presenting to health ce...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Karimlou V,Charandabi SM,Malakouti J,Mirghafourvand M

更新日期：2019-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During transitions from hospital to home, up to half of all patients experience medication-related problems, such as adverse drug events. To reduce these problems, knowledge of patient experiences with medication use during this transition is needed. This study aims to identify the perspectives of patients o...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Daliri S,Bekker CL,Buurman BM,Scholte Op Reimer WJM,van den Bemt BJF,Karapinar-Çarkit F

更新日期：2019-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The decision to obtain a computed tomography CT scan in the emergency department (ED) is complex, including a consideration of the risk posed by the test itself weighed against the importance of obtaining the result. In patients with limited access to primary care follow up the consequences of not making a d...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Bellolio MF,Bellew SD,Sangaralingham LR,Campbell RL,Cabrera D,Jeffery MM,Shah ND,Hess EP

更新日期：2018-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the intensive care unit (ICU), checklists can be used to support the delivery of quality and consistent clinical care. While studies have reported important benefits for clinical checklists in this context, lack of formal validity testing in the literature prompted the study aim; to develop relevant 'proc...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Conroy KM,Elliott D,Burrell AR

更新日期：2013-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Strong health laboratory systems and networks capable of providing high quality services are critical components of the health system and play a key role in routine diagnosis, care, treatment and disease surveillance. This study aimed to assess the readiness of the national health laboratory system (NHLS) an...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Mboera LE,Ishengoma DS,Kilale AM,Massawe IS,Rutta AS,Kagaruki GB,Kamugisha E,Baraka V,Mandara CI,Materu GS,Magesa SM

更新日期：2015-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Like much of the developed world, healthcare costs in Canada are rising. A small proportion of patients account for a large proportion of healthcare spending and much of this spending occurs in acute care settings. The purpose of our study was to determine potentially modifiable factors related to care proce...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Rashidi B,Kobewka DM,Campbell DJT,Forster AJ,Ronksley PE

更新日期：2017-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:By tradition, the Swedish health care system is based on a representative and parliamentary form of government. Recently, new management forms, inspired by market principles, have developed. The steering system is both national and regional, in that self-governing county councils are responsible for the fina...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Höglund AT,Falkenström E

更新日期：2018-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2017, ostomy patients gained access to ostomy products in community pharmacies that are fully reimbursed by the Portuguese National Health Service. This impacted the daily lives of people with ostomy and opened a new market of products and services for pharmacies. However, little is known about the sociod...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Romão M,Figueira D,Galante H,Guerreiro J,Romano S

更新日期：2020-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study is to understand health care provider barriers to referring patients to Medical Fitness Center Facilities within an affiliated teaching hospital system using referral of diabetic services as an example. The aims of this study include: (1) to assess health care providers' awareness a...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Smock C,Alemagno S

更新日期：2017-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While there is a significant focus on the health and well-being of women during pregnancy, labour and birth, much less emphasis is placed on the care of postpartum women and their infants in primary care following the birth. Some studies have investigated the role of GPs in postpartum care, and others examin...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Brodribb WE,Mitchell BL,van Driel ML

更新日期：2016-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Mexico, patients with hematologic malignancies (HMs) are characterized by being at high risk and advanced stages at diagnosis and by having a low cure rate; yet information on their experiences with health care and health-related quality of life (HRQL) is scarce. We aimed to evaluate experiences with heal...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Doubova SV,Terreros-Muñoz E,Delgado-Lòpez N,Montaño-Figueroa EH,Infante-Castañeda C,Pérez-Cuevas R

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Given the documented benefits of Patient Own Drugs (PODs) in most developed countries and scanty data on PODs management in developing countries the aim of the study was to evaluate the assessment, quality and extent of PODs use among hospitalised patients. Furthermore the perceived benefits and challenges i...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Boachie-Ansah P,Anto BP,Marfo AFA

更新日期：2019-01-11 00:00:00