Social acceptance and population confidence in telehealth in Quebec.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Strong management skills are key to improving performance of health systems. Action learning, a technique to develop management skills, has been used successfully with health managers but not usually among lower level managers or in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). METHODS:This study uses a qualitat...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Masango-Muzindutsi Z,Haskins L,Wilford A,Horwood C

更新日期：2018-11-29 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:Although general practitioners (GPs) and community pharmacists (CPs) are encouraged to collaborate, a true collaborative relationship does not exist between them. Our objective was to identify and analyze factors affecting GP-CP collaboration. METHODS:This was a descriptive-exploratory qualitative study car...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Rubio-Valera M,Jové AM,Hughes CM,Guillen-Solà M,Rovira M,Fernández A

更新日期：2012-07-07 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:We examined the utilization of rehabilitation resources among children with autism spectrum condition (ASC), a neurodevelopmental condition, in Taiwan. METHODS:We derived from the National Health Insurance Research Database of Taiwan data pertaining to 3- to 12-year-old children for the period 2008-2010. Ba...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Li HJ,Chen CY,Tsai CH,Kuo CC,Chen KH,Chen KH,Li YC

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Predicting pharmacy service fees is crucial to sustain the health insurance budget and maintain pharmacy management. However, there is no evidence on how to predict pharmacy service fees at the population level. This study compares the status of pharmacy services and constructs regression model to project an...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Ha D,Song I,Lee EK,Shin JY

更新日期：2018-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Currently, hospital nursing care workers (hereafter referred to as HNCWs) have become an important part of the healthcare system in China. They exist in nearly all of the public hospitals and in some private hospitals, making up 20 to 30% of the total nursing staff and providing 30 to 40% of basic nursing ca...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Wang Y,Yuan H

更新日期：2018-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of increasingly complex payment schemes in primary care may represent a barrier to recruiting general practitioners (GP). The existing Norwegian remuneration system is fully activity based - 2/3 fee-for-service and 1/3 capitation. Given that the system has been designed and revised in close collabora...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Abelsen B,Olsen JA

更新日期：2012-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Future of Family Medicine Report calls for a fundamental redesign of the American family physician workplace. At the same time, academic family practices are under economic pressure. Most family medicine departments do not have self-supporting practices, but seek support from specialty colleagues or hosp...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Michener JL,Østbye T,Kaprielian VS,Krause KM,Yarnall KS,Yaggy SD,Gradison M

更新日期：2006-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Problem gambling and homelessness are recognized as important public health concerns that significantly impact individuals, their friends and families, communities and broader society. We aimed to explore the experiences with health and social services of men who had histories of problem gambling and housing...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Guilcher SJ,Hamilton-Wright S,Skinner W,Woodhall-Melnik J,Ferentzy P,Wendaferew A,Hwang SW,Matheson FI

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression is a prevalent mental health disorder and the fourth leading cause of disability in the world as per the World Health Organization. Use of antidepressants can lead to adverse drug events (ADEs), defined as any injury resulting from medication use. This study aimed to examine changes in hospital ad...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Parihar HS,Yin H,Gooch JL,Allen S,John S,Xuan J

更新日期：2017-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Osteoporosis has significant impact on healthcare costs and quality of life. Amongst the models for collaborative disease state management services published internationally, there is sparse evidence regarding the role of community pharmacists in the provision of osteoporosis care. Hence, the aim of our stud...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Nik J,Lai PS,Ng CJ,Emmerton L

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of this article is to describe the design of a study to evaluate the clinical and economic effects of a Disease Management model on functional health, quality of care and quality of life of persons living in homes for the elderly. METHODS:This study concerns a cluster randomized controlled cli...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Boorsma M,van Hout HP,Frijters DH,Ribbe MW,Nijpels G

更新日期：2008-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Potentially avoidable hospitalizations represent an indirect measure of access to effective primary care. However many approaches have been proposed to measure them and results may differ considerably. This work aimed at examining the agreement between the Weissman and Ansari approaches in order to measure p...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Bourret R,Mercier G,Mercier J,Jonquet O,De La Coussaye JE,Bousquet PJ,Robine JM,Bousquet J

更新日期：2015-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Population aging increases the number of glaucoma patients which leads to higher workloads of glaucoma specialists. If stable glaucoma patients were monitored by optometrists and ophthalmic technicians in a glaucoma follow-up unit (GFU) rather than by glaucoma specialists, the specialists' workload and waiti...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Holtzer-Goor KM,van Sprundel E,Lemij HG,Plochg T,Klazinga NS,Koopmanschap MA

更新日期：2010-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are attribute-driven experimental techniques used to elicit stakeholders' preferences to support the design and implementation of policy interventions. The validity of a DCE, therefore, depends on the appropriate specification of the attributes and their levels. There have ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Abiiro GA,Leppert G,Mbera GB,Robyn PJ,De Allegri M

更新日期：2014-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The treatment gap for epilepsy is considerable in low and middle-income countries. In the Lao PDR it is estimated at over 90%. Health workers play a significant role in bridging the gap between people with epilepsy (PWE) and access to epilepsy care. In a national survey we assessed: 1) the knowledge and prac...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Harimanana A,Chivorakul P,Souvong V,Preux PM,Barennes H

更新日期：2013-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Effective clinician-patient communication about health behavior change is one of the most important and most overlooked strategies to promote health and prevent disease. Existing guidelines for specific health behavior counseling have been created and promulgated, but not successfully adopted in primary care...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Flocke SA,Antognoli E,Step MM,Marsh S,Parran T,Mason MJ

更新日期：2012-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Both availability and quality of family planning services are believed to have contributed to increasing contraceptive use and declining fertility rates in developing countries. Yet, there is limited empirical evidence to show the relationship between the quality of family planning services and the populatio...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Hong R,Montana L,Mishra V

更新日期：2006-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The existence of publicly-accessible datasets comprised a significant opportunity for health services research to evolve into a science that supports health policy making and evaluation, proper inter- and intra-organizational decisions and optimal clinical interventions. This paper investigated the role of p...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Saleh SS,Alameddine MS,El-Jardali F

更新日期：2009-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The organisation of cancer follow-up is under scrutiny in many countries, and general practice is suggested to become more involved. A central focus is timely detection of recurring previous cancer and new second primary cancer. More knowledge on the patient pathway before cancer recurrence and second primar...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Rasmussen LA,Jensen H,Virgilsen LF,Falborg AZ,Møller H,Vedsted P

更新日期：2019-12-05 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: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: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:Despite efforts by professional societies to reduce low value care, many reports indicate that unnecessary tests, such as nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), are commonly used in contemporary practice. The degree to which lack of awareness and professional liability concerns drive these behaviors war...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Kline KP,Shaw L,Beyth RJ,Plumb J,Nguyen L,Huo T,Winchester DE

更新日期：2017-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a prominent threat to public health. Although many guidelines have been developed over the years to tackle this issue, their impact on health care practice varies. Guidelines are often based on evidence from clinical trials, but these have limitations, particularly in the br...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Steels S,Van der Zande M,van Staa TP

更新日期：2019-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The phased withdrawal of oral polio vaccine (OPV) and the introduction of inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) is central to the polio 'end-game' strategy. METHODS:We analyzed the cost implications in Chile of a switch from the vaccination scheme consisting of a pentavalent vaccine with whole-cell pertussis...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Olivera I,Grau C,Dibarboure H,Torres JP,Mieres G,Lazarov L,Alvarez FP,Yescas JGL

更新日期：2020-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There has been a recent growth in health provider search portals, where patients specify filters-such as specialty or insurance-and providers are ranked by patient ratings or other attributes. Previous work has identified attributes associated with a provider's quality through user surveys. Other work suppor...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Wiley MT,Rivas RL,Hristidis V

更新日期：2016-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biomedical research constantly produces new findings but these are not routinely translated into health care practice. One way to address this problem is to develop effective interventions to translate research findings into practice. Currently a range of empirical interventions are available and systematic ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Walker AE,Grimshaw J,Johnston M,Pitts N,Steen N,Eccles M

更新日期：2003-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hospital deaths following several hospital admissions or long hospital stays may be indicative of a low quality of dying. Although place of death has been extensively investigated at population level, hospital use in the last months of life and its determinants have been studied less often, especially in Eur...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Van den Block L,Deschepper R,Drieskens K,Bauwens S,Bilsen J,Bossuyt N,Deliens L

更新日期：2007-05-08 00:00:00