Room for improvement: noise on a maternity ward.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diagnostic imaging has been a part of medicine for the last century. It has been difficult to implement guidelines in this field, and unwarranted imaging has been a frequent problem. Some work has been done to explain these phenomena separately. Identifying the barriers to and facilitators of guideline use h...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Gransjøen AM,Wiig S,Lysdahl KB,Hofmann BM

更新日期：2018-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In France, equality in access to screening has been one of the main thrusts of public policies implemented between 2009 and 2013 (the national cancer plan). Our aim in this study was to analyse the obstacles to and levers for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening uptake and their trends over time...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Sicsic J,Franc C

更新日期：2014-10-04 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:Rotavirus has been identified as the most common pathogen associated with severe diarrhoea. Two effective vaccines against the pathogen have been licensed. However, many countries including Indonesia have yet to introduce the vaccine into their national immunisation programs. This study aimed to examine the ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Seale H,Sitaresmi MN,Atthobari J,Heywood AE,Kaur R,MacIntyre RC,Soenarto Y,Padmawati RS

更新日期：2015-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Electronic medical records contain valuable clinical information not readily available elsewhere. Accordingly, they hold important potential for contributing to and enhancing chronic disease registries with the goal of improving chronic disease management; however a standard for diagnoses of conditions such ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Harris SB,Glazier RH,Tompkins JW,Wilton AS,Chevendra V,Stewart MA,Thind A

更新日期：2010-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Four social audits in 1998, 2003, 2006 and 2009 identified actions that Nicaragua could take to reduce corruption and public perception in primary health care and other key services. METHODS:In a 71-cluster sample, weighted according to the 1995 census and stratified by geographic region and settlement type...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Arosteguí J,Hernandez C,Suazo H,Cárcamo A,Reyes RM,Andersson N,Ledogar RJ

更新日期：2011-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Routine health information is an essential health system building block. In low and low-middle income countries however, concerns about the quality of routine administrative data have often undermined their use. The purpose of the present study was to verify the data availability, and consistency of six key ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Sychareun V,Hansana V,Phengsavanh A,Chaleunvong K,Eunyoung K,Durham J

更新日期：2014-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Environmental impact assessments of pharmaceuticals typically consider only a part of the pharmaceutical supply chain, e.g. tablet formulation. While the environmental impact can be expressed in environmental Human Health burden due to resource use and emissions, the Human Health benefit of the pharmaceutica...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Debaveye S,De Smedt D,Heirman B,Kavanagh S,Dewulf J

更新日期：2019-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV testing and counseling (HTC) remains critical in the global efforts to reach a goal of universal access to prevention and timely human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment and health care. Routine HIV testing has been shown to be cost-effective and life-saving by prolonging the life expectancy of HIV p...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Kwapong GD,Boateng D,Agyei-Baffour P,Addy EA

更新日期：2014-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The health care delivery system in the United States is facing cost and quality pressures that will require fundamental changes to remain viable. The optimal structures of the relationships between the hospital, medical school, and physicians have not been determined but are likely to have a large impact on ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Kepros JP,Opreanu RC

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Men who have sex with men (MSM) are at high risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and sexually transmitted infection (STI) in China. Inadequate clinical services and poor clinical competency among physicians are major barriers to improving the sexual health of MSM. This study aims to understan...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Zhao P,Cao B,Bien-Gund CH,Tang W,Ong JJ,Ding Y,Chen W,Tucker JD,Luo Z

更新日期：2018-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The health insurance system in Taiwan is comprised of public health insurance and private health insurance. The public health insurance, called "universal national health insurance" (NHI), was first established in 1995 and amended in 2011. The goal of this study is to provide an updated description of severa...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Fang K,Shia BC,Ma S

更新日期：2012-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The most recent strategic call to action of the World Health Organization sets the elimination of pediatric HIV as a goal. While recent efforts have focused on building infrastructure and ensuring access to high-quality treatment, we must now turn our focus to the behavior change needed to eliminate vertical...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Taylor NK,Buttenheim AM

更新日期：2013-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The number of HIV-related hospitalizations has decreased worldwide in recent years owing to the availability of highly active antiretroviral therapy. However, the change in HIV-related hospitalizations in Portugal has not been studied. Using comprehensive hospital discharge data from mainland Portuguese hosp...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Catumbela E,Freitas A,Lopes F,Mendoza Mdel C,Costa C,Sarmento A,da Costa-Pereira A

更新日期：2015-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Trust has been introduced as the cornerstone of the public and health providers' relation. Public trust in primary health care (PHC) is crucial and must be measured. The aim of this study was to develop and validate PHC trust measurement tool. METHODS:This was a psychometric study to develop PHC trust measu...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Sadeghi-Bazargani H,Farahbakhsh M,Tabrizi JS,Zare Z,Saadati M

更新日期：2019-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limited health literacy (HL) and numeracy have been shown to be associated with a wide array of poor health-related outcomes, knowledge, and behaviors. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical utility of brief HL and numeracy screening items in identifying Spanish-speaking adults' HL and numera...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Singh R,Coyne LS,Wallace LS

更新日期：2015-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Systematic reviews of randomised placebo controlled trials of antidepressant medication show small and decreasing differences between pharmacological and placebo arms. In part this finding may relate to methodological problems with conventional trial designs, including their assumption of additivity between ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Dowrick CF,Hughes JG,Hiscock JJ,Wigglesworth M,Walley TJ

更新日期：2007-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neonatal male circumcision (NMC) is an alternative approach to adult male circumcision for HIV prevention. Recent studies found that NMC was rarely performed in Thailand and that most Thai health professionals did not recognize that NMC could reduce the risk of HIV infection and would not want NMC services i...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Srithanaviboonchai K,Srirak N,Pruenglampoo B,Thaikla K,Suwanteerangkul J,Khorana J,Danthamrongkul V,Paileeklee S,Pattanasattayavong U,Grimes DE,Grimes RM

更新日期：2018-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The main objective of this methodological manuscript was to illustrate the role of using qualitative research in emergency settings. We outline rigorous criteria applied to a qualitative study assessing perceptions and experiences of staff working in Australian emergency departments. METHODS:We used an inte...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Forero R,Nahidi S,De Costa J,Mohsin M,Fitzgerald G,Gibson N,McCarthy S,Aboagye-Sarfo P

更新日期：2018-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing unplanned hospital admissions disrupt planned health care, lead to additional morbidity and are expensive. A recent review found only weak evidence for case management preventing unplanned admissions, yet case management of older people is being implemented widely in the UK. We aimed to study the ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Huws DW,Cashmore D,Newcombe RG,Roberts C,Vincent J,Elwyn G

更新日期：2008-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients' views are being given more and more importance in policy-making. Understanding populations' perceptions of quality of care is critical to developing measures to increase the utilization of primary health care services. Using the data from the South African World Health Survey (WHS), the current stu...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Peltzer K

更新日期：2009-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the interventions required to build the capacity of mental health policy-makers and planners in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We conducted a systematic review with the primary aim of identifying and synthesizing the evidence base for building the capacity of policy-makers an...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Keynejad R,Semrau M,Toynbee M,Evans-Lacko S,Lund C,Gureje O,Ndyanabangi S,Courtin E,Abdulmalik JO,Alem A,Fekadu A,Thornicroft G,Hanlon C

更新日期：2016-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Different service characteristics are known to influence mental health care delivery. Much less is known about the impact of contextual factors, such as the socioeconomic circumstances, on the provision of care to socially marginalized groups.The objectives of this work were to assess the organisational char...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Costa D,Matanov A,Canavan R,Gabor E,Greacen T,Vondráčková P,Kluge U,Nicaise P,Moskalewicz J,Díaz-Olalla JM,Straßmayr C,Kikkert M,Soares JJ,Gaddini A,Barros H,Priebe S

更新日期：2014-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Even if a large proportion of physiotherapists work in the private sector worldwide, very little is known of the organizations within which they practice. Such knowledge is important to help understand contexts of practice and how they influence the quality of services and patient outcomes. The purpose of th...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Perreault K,Dionne CE,Rossignol M,Poitras S,Morin D

更新日期：2014-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In many countries health policy encourages patients to choose their hospital, preferably by considering information of performance reports. Previous studies on hospital choice mainly have focused on patients undergoing elective surgery. This study examined a representative sample of hospital inpatients acros...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： de Cruppé W,Geraedts M

更新日期：2017-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A novel point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) training program was developed to train rural healthcare providers in Kenya on the Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST), thoracic ultrasound, basic echocardiography, and focused obstetric ultrasonography. The program includes a multimedia manual, pre-c...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Wanjiku GW,Bell G,Wachira B

更新日期：2018-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:People experiencing homelessness and mental illness face multiple barriers to care. The goal of this study was to examine the association between health service use and indicators of need among individuals experiencing homelessness and mental illness in Vancouver, Canada. We hypothesized that those with more...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Currie LB,Patterson ML,Moniruzzaman A,McCandless LC,Somers JM

更新日期：2014-09-18 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：OBJECTIVES:Many European countries face challenges in long-term care for older people, such as the growing number of older people requiring care, the increasing complexity of their health care problems, and a decreasing workforce that is inadequately prepared. Optimizing the staff and skill mix of health care teams may...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Koopmans L,Damen N,Wagner C

更新日期：2018-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Stroke Canada Optimization of Rehabilitation by Evidence Implementation Trial (SCORE-IT) was a cluster randomized controlled trial that evaluated two knowledge translation (KT) interventions for the promotion of the uptake of best practice recommendations for interventions targeting upper and lower extre...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Munce SEP,Graham ID,Salbach NM,Jaglal SB,Richards CL,Eng JJ,Desrosiers J,MacKay-Lyons M,Wood-Dauphinee S,Korner-Bitensky N,Mayo NE,Teasell RW,Zwarenstein M,Mokry J,Black S,Bayley MT

更新日期：2017-06-26 00:00:00