Health professional perspectives on systems failures in transitional care for patients with dementia and their carers: a qualitative descriptive study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Authors in previous studies demonstrated that centralising acute stroke care is associated with an increased chance of timely Intra-Venous Thrombolysis (IVT) and lower costs compared to care at community hospitals. In this study we estimated the lower bound of the causal impact of centralising IVT on health ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Freriks RD,Mierau JO,Buskens E,Pizzo E,Luijckx GJ,van der Zee DJ,Lahr MMH

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As the proportion of older people increases, so will the consumption of health services. The aim of this study was to describe the contact characteristics among older people and to identify factors associated with the degree of urgency at the Norwegian out-of-hours (OOH) emergency primary health care service...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Haraldseide LM,Sortland LS,Hunskaar S,Morken T

更新日期：2020-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health professionals need updated health information from credible sources to improve their knowledge and provide evidence based health care services. Various types of medical errors have occurred in resource-limited countries because of poor knowledge and experience sharing practices among health profession...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Asemahagn MA

更新日期：2014-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Empirical evidence on how ownership type affects the quality and cost of medical care is growing, and debate on these topics is ongoing. Despite the fact that the private sector is a major provider of hospital services in Greece, little comparative information on private versus public sector hospitals is ava...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Kondilis E,Gavana M,Giannakopoulos S,Smyrnakis E,Dombros N,Benos A

更新日期：2011-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Whole Systems Demonstrator was a large, pragmatic, cluster randomised trial that compared telehealth with usual care among 3,230 patients with long-term conditions in three areas of England. Telehealth involved the regular transmission of physiological information such as blood glucose to health professi...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Steventon A,Bardsley M,Doll H,Tuckey E,Newman SP

更新日期：2014-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Statins are among the most commonly prescribed drugs worldwide in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases and their effectiveness is largely acknowledged. The consumption of statins increased four-fold during the 2000-2010 decade in Italy and national and regional control policies were developed. Restricti...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Damiani G,Federico B,Anselmi A,Bianchi CB,Silvestrini G,Iodice L,Navarra P,Da Cas R,Raschetti R,Ricciardi W

更新日期：2014-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The value of the Internet to deliver preoperative education would increase if there was variability in questions patients want answered. This study's goal was to have patients consulting an orthopedic surgeon about undergoing either a total hip arthroplasty (THA) or a total knee arthroplasty (TKA) rate the i...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Macario A,Schilling P,Rubio R,Bhalla A,Goodman S

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Guidelines recommend shared decision making (SDM) for determining whether to use statins to prevent cardiovascular events in at-risk patients. We sought to develop a toolkit to facilitate the cross-organizational spread and scale of a SDM intervention called the Statin Choice Conversation Aid (SCCA) by (i) a...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Leppin AL,Boehmer KR,Branda ME,Shah ND,Hargraves I,Dick S,Elwyn G,Ting HH,Ye S,Gilles R,Abbas M,Alexander A,Montori VM

更新日期：2019-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Older care home residents frequently attend emergency departments with a high conversion to admissions. For this purpose, a novel Care Home Innovation Programme (CHIP) was introduced with the aim of reducing potentially avoidable hospital admissions by 30%. The aim of this study is to evaluate the implementa...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Giebel C,Harvey D,Akpan A,Chamberlain P

更新日期：2020-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Following publication of the original article [1], the author reported that their first names and last names were swapped. The original article has been corrected. ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Ippoliti R,Falavigna G,Montani F,Rizzi S

更新日期：2018-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Advances in the management of retinal diseases have been fast-paced as new treatments become available, resulting in increasing numbers of patients receiving treatment in hospital retinal services. These patients require frequent and long-term follow-up and repeated treatments, resulting in increased pressur...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Demir E,Southern D,Verner A,Amoaku W

更新日期：2018-10-04 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:A Personal Health Record (PHR) is an electronic record that individuals use to manage and share their health information, e.g. data from their medical records and data collected by apps. However, engagement with their record can be low if people do not find it beneficial to their health, wellbeing or interac...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Fylan F,Caveney L,Cartwright A,Fylan B

更新日期：2018-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Social Prescribing is a service in primary care that involves the referral of patients with non-clinical needs to local services and activities provided by the third sector (community, voluntary, and social enterprise sector). Social Prescribing aims to promote partnership working between the health and the ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Pescheny JV,Pappas Y,Randhawa G

更新日期：2018-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Elevated blood pressure is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and stroke but patients often discount recommended behavioral changes and prescribed medications. While effective interventions to promote adherence have been developed, cost-effectiveness from the patient's perspective, has not been w...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Gleason-Comstock J,Streater A,Goodman A,Janisse J,Brody A,Mango L,Dawood R,Levy P

更新日期：2017-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Integrated care is the coordination of general and behavioral health and is a highly promising and practical approach to improving healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. While there is growing interest and investment in integrated care implementation internationally, there are no formal guidelines for int...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Stadnick NA,Sadler E,Sandall J,Turienzo CF,Bennett IM,Borkan J,Oladeji B,Gureje O,Aarons GA,Sklar M

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the growing literature on the efficiency and productivity of the Chinese healthcare system, less attention has been given to examining the undesirable outputs linked to healthcare services, including environmental pollution. Taking the atmospheric environmental pollution resulting from the incinerati...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Yu J,Liu Z,Zhang T,Hatab AA,Lan J

更新日期：2020-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Healthcare obtained abroad may conflict with care received in the country of residence. A special concern for immigrants has been raised as they may have stronger links to healthcare services abroad. Our objective was to investigate use of healthcare in a foreign country in Turkish immigrants, their descenda...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Nielsen SS,Yazici S,Petersen SG,Blaakilde AL,Krasnik A

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Residents living in sheltered housing depend on help from healthcare personnel (HCP) with medication management, regarding regular long-term and pro re nata (PRN) medication. The HCP assess the need for PRN medication prior to administration to the residents. The purpose of this study was to describe HCP's p...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Nilsen MK,Sletvold H,Olsen RM

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Home-visiting nurses are expected to enhance their ability to provide adequate nursing care in a relatively isolated work environment. However, the isolated work environment leads to less opportunity to share patient information. We investigated factors relevant to better patient information sharing among ho...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Nonogaki A,Nishida T,Kobayashi K,Nozaki K,Tamura H,Sakakibara H

更新日期：2019-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Surgical theater (ST) operations planning is a key subject in the healthcare management literature, particularly the scheduling of procedures in operating rooms (ORs). The OR scheduling problem is usually approached using mathematical modeling and made available to ST managers through dedicated software. Reg...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Calegari R,Fogliatto FS,Lucini FR,Anzanello MJ,Schaan BD

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVCs) account for a mean of 38% of catheter associated bloodstream infections (CABSI) with Staphylococcus aureus, which are preventable if deficiencies in best practice are addressed. There exists no feasible and reliable quality surveillance tool assessing all important ar...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Høvik LH,Gjeilo KH,Lydersen S,Rickard CM,Røtvold B,Damås JK,Solligård E,Gustad LT

更新日期：2019-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Poorer cancer outcomes of Indigenous Australians in Australia's Northern Territory (NT) compared with their non-Indigenous counterparts are partially due to diminished access to cancer treatment services (CTS). Accessibility of health care is a multidimensional construct, including physical, logistical, psyc...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Anderson K,Diaz A,Parikh DR,Garvey G

更新日期：2021-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prisoners are associated with high health care needs compared with the general population. This study aims to investigate prisoners' use of health service. METHODS:A cross-sectional study of 29 prisons in central and southern parts of Norway. A questionnaire was distributed to 1, 454 prisoners (90% response...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Nesset MB,Rustad AB,Kjelsberg E,Almvik R,Bjørngaard JH

更新日期：2011-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary health care plays an important role in addressing the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in low- and middle-income countries. In light of the rapid urbanization of Vietnam, this study aims to explore health professionals' views about the responsiveness of primary health care services at commu...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Kien VD,Van Minh H,Giang KB,Ng N,Nguyen V,Tuan LT,Eriksson M

更新日期：2018-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To improve the effectiveness of interventions targeting non-adherence in older adults, a systematic approach to intervention design is required. The content of complex interventions and design decisions are often poorly described in published reports which makes it difficult to explore why they are ineffecti...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Patton DE,Ryan C,Hughes CM

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is increasing interest in the role of close-to-community providers in supporting universal health coverage, but questions remain about the best approaches to supporting and motivating these providers, and the optimal package they can deliver indifferent contexts and support required. We report on the e...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Datiko DG,Yassin MA,Tulloch O,Asnake G,Tesema T,Jamal H,Markos P,Cuevas LE,Theobald S

更新日期：2015-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Brazilian health system is founded on the principle of equity, meaning provision of equal care for equal needs. However, little is known about the impact of health policies in narrowing socioeconomic health inequalities. Using data from the Brazilian World Health Survey, this paper addresses socioeconomi...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Szwarcwald CL,Souza-Júnior PR,Damacena GN

更新日期：2010-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the last 20 years governments around the world have promoted user involvement in an effort to improve the quality of health services. Despite the growing emphasis placed on user involvement in England, there is a paucity of recent studies looking at how service users and professionals perceive the outco...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Omeni E,Barnes M,MacDonald D,Crawford M,Rose D

更新日期：2014-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is increasing evidence that psychological constructs, such as emotional intelligence and emotional labor, play an important role in various organizational outcomes in service sector. Recently, in the "emotionally charged" healthcare field, emotional intelligence and emotional labor have both emerged as...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Psilopanagioti A,Anagnostopoulos F,Mourtou E,Niakas D

更新日期：2012-12-17 00:00:00