Knowledge and attitudes towards rotavirus diarrhea and the vaccine amongst healthcare providers in Yogyakarta Indonesia.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The quality of care delivered and clinical outcomes of care are of paramount importance. Wide variations in the outcome of emergency care have been suggested, but the scale of variation, and the way in which outcomes are inter-related are poorly defined and are critical to understand how best to improve serv...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Holt PJ,Sinha S,Ozdemir BA,Karthikesalingam A,Poloniecki JD,Thompson MM

更新日期：2014-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients' expectations and perceptions of the medical encounter and interactions are important tools in diabetes management. Some problems regarding the interaction during encounters may be related to a lack of communication skills on the part of either the physician or the patient. This study aimed at explo...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Abdulhadi N,Al Shafaee M,Freudenthal S,Ostenson CG,Wahlström R

更新日期：2007-10-09 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: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: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:UK and US policy initiatives have suggested that, in the future, patients and clinicians in mainstream medicine could use genetic information to prevent common illnesses. There are no studies on patients' experience and understanding of the process of testing for common genetic susceptibilities in mainstream...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Saukko PM,Ellard S,Richards SH,Shepherd MH,Campbell JL

更新日期：2007-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Indigenous peoples in Australia, New Zealand and Canada carry a greater burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) than the general populations in each country, and this burden is predicted to increase. Given the human and economic cost of dialysis, understanding how to better manage CKD at earlier stages of dis...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Reilly R,Evans K,Gomersall J,Gorham G,Peters MD,Warren S,O'Shea R,Cass A,Brown A

更新日期：2016-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In contrast to individual preferences, most people in developed countries die in health care institutions, with a considerable impact on health care resource use and costs. However, evidence about determinants of aggregate length of hospital stay in the last year preceding death is scant. METHODS:Nationwide...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Hedinger D,Braun J,Kaplan V,Bopp M,Swiss National Cohort Study Group.

更新日期：2016-09-01 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:For Indigenous Australians, health transcends the absence of disease, and includes the health and wellbeing of their community and Country: their whole physical, cultural and spiritual environment. Stronger relationships with Country and greater involvement in cultural practices enhance the wellbeing of Indi...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Schultz R,Abbott T,Yamaguchi J,Cairney S

更新日期：2018-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health services research is a well-articulated research methodology and can be a powerful vehicle to implement sustainable health service reform. This paper presents a summary of a five-year collaborative program between stakeholders and researchers that led to sustainable improvements in the maternity servi...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Barclay L,Kruske S,Bar-Zeev S,Steenkamp M,Josif C,Narjic CW,Wardaguga M,Belton S,Gao Y,Dunbar T,Kildea S

更新日期：2014-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Family planning services in the post-partum period, termed post-partum family planning (PPFP) is critical to cover the unmet need for contraception, especially when institutional delivery rates have increased. However, the intention to choose PPFP methods such as post-partum intrauterine devices (PPIUD) rema...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Thapa K,Dhital R,Rajbhandari S,Mishra S,Subedi S,Dotel BR,Vaidya S,Pande S,Tunnacliffe EA,Makins A,Arulkumaran S

更新日期：2020-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-communicable diseases, including diabetes mellitus and hypertension, continue to disproportionately burden low- and middle-income countries. However, little research has been done to establish current practices and management of chronic disease in these settings. The objective of this study was to examin...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Dekker AM,Amick AE,Scholcoff C,Doobay-Persaud A

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Industry partnerships can help leverage resources to advance HIV/AIDS vaccine research, service delivery, and policy advocacy goals. This often involves capacity building for international and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs). International volunteering is increasingly being used as a capacity bui...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Vian T,Koseki S,Feeley FG,Beard J

更新日期：2013-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As health systems evolve, it is essential to evaluate their impact on the delivery of health services to socially disadvantaged populations. We evaluated the delivery of primary health services for different socio-economic groups and assessed the performance of different organizational models in terms of equ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Dahrouge S,Hogg W,Ward N,Tuna M,Devlin RA,Kristjansson E,Tugwell P,Pottie K

更新日期：2013-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We studied the prevalence of common mental disorders among Dutch hospital physicians and investigated whether the presence of a mental disorder was associated with insufficient self-reported work ability. METHODS:A questionnaire was sent to all (n = 958) hospital physicians of one academic medical center, u...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Ruitenburg MM,Frings-Dresen MH,Sluiter JK

更新日期：2012-08-31 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:In 2012, approximately 14 million new cases of cancer were diagnosed. As a result of advances in treatment, screening and prevention programmes the number of people surviving cancer globally is also increasing. The growing understanding of the diversity and scale of the need for support, compounded by the in...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Johnston L,Campbell K

更新日期：2018-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies comparing the access to health care of rural and urban populations have been contradictory and inconclusive. These studies are complicated by the influence of other factor which have been shown to be related to access and utilization. This study assesses the equity of access to health care services a...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Sibley LM,Weiner JP

更新日期：2011-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Combined lifestyle interventions (CLIs) are designed to help people who are overweight or obese maintain a healthy new lifestyle. The CooL intervention is a CLI in the Netherlands, in which lifestyle coaches counsel adults and children (and/or their parents) who are obese or at high risk of obesity to achiev...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： van Rinsum C,Gerards S,Rutten G,Johannesma M,van de Goor I,Kremers S

更新日期：2019-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Emergency Department (ED) is consistently described as a high-risk environment for patients and clinicians that demands colleagues quickly work together as a cohesive group. Communication between nurses, physicians, and other ED clinicians is complex and difficult to track. A clear understanding of commu...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Patterson PD,Pfeiffer AJ,Weaver MD,Krackhardt D,Arnold RM,Yealy DM,Lave JR

更新日期：2013-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Caring for people with dementia living in their own homes is a challenging care issue that raises ethical dilemmas of how to balance autonomy with their safety and well-being. The theoretical framework for this study consisted of the concepts of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, paternalism and from th...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Smebye KL,Kirkevold M,Engedal K

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A summary utility index is useful for deriving quality-adjusted life years (QALY) for cost analyses or disability weights for burden of disease studies. However, many quality of life instruments provide descriptive profiles rather than a single utility index. Transforming quality of life instruments to a uti...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Brennan DS,Spencer AJ

更新日期：2006-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When tested in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of 31,411 patients, the nurse-led 6-PACK falls prevention program did not reduce falls. Poor implementation fidelity (i.e., program not implemented as intended) may explain this result. Despite repeated calls for the examination of implementation fidelity as...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Morello RT,Barker AL,Ayton DR,Landgren F,Kamar J,Hill KD,Brand CA,Sherrington C,Wolfe R,Rifat S,Stoelwinder J

更新日期：2017-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pharmacy databases are commonly used to assess medication usage, and a number of measures have been developed to measure patients' adherence to medication. An extensive literature now supports these measures, although few studies have systematically compared the properties of different adherence measures. M...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Vollmer WM,Xu M,Feldstein A,Smith D,Waterbury A,Rand C

更新日期：2012-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Integrating health care across specialized work units has the potential to lower costs and increase quality and access to mental health care. However, a key challenge for healthcare managers is how to develop policies, procedures, and practices that coordinate care across specialized units. The purpose of th...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Benzer JK,Cramer IE,Burgess JF Jr,Mohr DC,Sullivan JL,Charns MP

更新日期：2015-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Job satisfaction is an important focal attitude towards work. Understanding factors that relate to job satisfaction allows interventions to be developed to enhance work performance. Most research on job satisfaction among nurses has been conducted in acute care settings in industrialized countries. Factors t...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Jayasuriya R,Whittaker M,Halim G,Matineau T

更新日期：2012-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The perceived responsiveness of a healthcare system reflects its ability to satisfy reasonable expectations of the public with respect to non-medical services. Recently, there has been increasing attention paid to responsiveness in evaluating the performance of a healthcare system in a variety of service set...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Chao J,Lu B,Zhang H,Zhu L,Jin H,Liu P

更新日期：2017-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies that identify reasons for readmissions are gaining importance in the light of the changing demographics worldwide which has led to greater demand for hospital beds. It is essential to profile the prevalence of avoidable readmissions and understand its drivers so as to develop possible interventions f...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Yam CH,Wong EL,Chan FW,Leung MC,Wong FY,Cheung AW,Yeoh EK

更新日期：2010-11-17 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