Quantitative evaluation of essential medicines lists: the South African case study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently arrived culturally and linguistically diverse migrant mothers in Western Industrialised Nations are less likely to access health care and are more likely to report negative healthcare experiences than more established migrant or non-migrant populations. This is particularly an issue in Australia whe...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Dougherty L,Lloyd J,Harris E,Caffrey P,Harris M

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The first Multi-center Medication Reconciliation Quality Improvement Study (MARQUIS1) demonstrated that implementation of a medication reconciliation best practices toolkit decreased total unintentional medication discrepancies in five hospitals. We sought to implement the MARQUIS toolkit in more diverse hos...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Mixon AS,Smith GR Jr,Mallouk M,Nieva HR,Kripalani S,Rennke S,Chu E,Sridharan A,Dalal A,Mueller S,Williams M,Wetterneck T,Stein JM,Stolldorf D,Howell E,Orav J,Labonville S,Levin B,Yoon C,Gresham M,Goldstein J,Pla

更新日期：2019-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence for efficacy of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) in treatment of schizophrenia is growing. CBT is effective and cost efficient in treating positive and negative symptoms. To effectively meet the needs of diverse cultural groups, CBT needs to be adapted to the linguistic, cultural and socioeconomi...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Husain MO,Chaudhry IB,Mehmood N,Rehman RU,Kazmi A,Hamirani M,Kiran T,Bukhsh A,Bassett P,Husain MI,Naeem F,Husain N

更新日期：2017-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reimbursement systems provide incentives to health care providers and may drive physician behaviour. This review assesses the impact of reimbursement system on socioeconomic and racial inequalities in access, utilization and quality of primary care. METHODS:A systematic search was performed in Web of Scienc...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Tao W,Agerholm J,Burström B

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fever is a common reason for attending primary health facilities in Vietnam. Response of health care providers to patients with fever commonly consists of making a presumptive diagnosis and proposing corresponding treatment. In Vietnam, where malaria was brought under control, viral infections, notably dengu...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Phuong HL,Nga TT,Giao PT,Hung le Q,Binh TQ,Nam NV,Nagelkerke N,de Vries PJ

更新日期：2010-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic diseases are rapidly increasing and are currently the major cause of death and disability worldwide. Patients with chronic diseases experience many challenges including medicine-related problems. However, there is limited information about the home management of medicines among these patients. This s...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Kalyango JN,Hall M,Karamagi C

更新日期：2012-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) has great potential in healthcare service improvement, but a limited use. This paper presents an empirical case of PREMs innovation in Italy, to foster patient data use up to the ward level, by keeping strengths and addressing weaknesses of previous PRE...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： De Rosis S,Cerasuolo D,Nuti S

更新日期：2020-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early diagnosis is crucial for the treatment of childhood cancer as it in some cases can prevent progression of disease and improve prognoses. However, childhood cancer can be difficult to diagnose and barriers to early diagnosis are multifactorial. New knowledge about factors influencing the pathway to diag...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Pedersen LH,Wahlberg A,Cordt M,Schmiegelow K,Dalton SO,Larsen HB

更新日期：2020-10-22 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: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:Male involvement (MI) along the continuum of HIV healthcare services has been promoted as a critical intervention in low-income countries and represents one of the reasons for dropout and low retention of women along the cascade of care. The present review aims to identify interventions adopted to improve MI...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Triulzi I,Palla I,Ciccacci F,Orlando S,Palombi L,Turchetti G

更新日期：2019-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite substantial research on pediatric pain assessment and management, health care professionals do not adequately incorporate this knowledge into clinical practice. Organizational context (work environment) is a significant factor in influencing outcomes; however, the nature of the mechanisms are relativ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Yamada J,Squires JE,Estabrooks CA,Victor C,Stevens B,CIHR Team in Children’s Pain.

更新日期：2017-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To explore whether stroke health state descriptions used in preference elicitation studies reflect patients' experiences by comparing published descriptions with qualitative studies exploring patients' lived experience. METHODS:Two literature reviews were conducted: on stroke health state descriptions used ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Gray J,Lie ML,Murtagh MJ,Ford GA,McMeekin P,Thomson RG

更新日期：2014-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the participation of surgeons in preventative health activities in the non-admitted hospital care setting. The aim of this study was to identify which preventive health activities surgeons practice and to explore their attitudes towards preventive health. METHODS:A mixed methods study ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Barrett S,Begg S,Sloane A,Kingsley M

更新日期：2019-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical practice improvements based on quality-register data are influenced by multiple factors. Although there is agreement that information from quality registers is valuable for quality improvement, practical ways of organising register use have been notoriously difficult to realise. The present study so...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Norman AC,Elg M,Nordin A,Gäre BA,Algurén B

更新日期：2020-02-11 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:Characteristics associated with acceptance of dataset linkages and health data linkage data quality were analyzed. METHODS:Participants from the 2011 Taiwan Longitudinal Study on Aging were asked to link their epidemiological data with concurrent and future medical claim datasets. Characteristics associated...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Chiu CJ,Huang HM,Lu TH,Wang YW

更新日期：2018-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Workplace violence in emergency primary health care is prevalent, but longitudinal studies using validated assessment scales to describe the characteristics of workplace violence in these settings are lacking. The aim of the present study was to determine the characteristics of aggressive incidents in emerge...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Johnsen GE,Morken T,Baste V,Rypdal K,Palmstierna T,Johansen IH

更新日期：2020-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Quality improvement initiatives have expanded recently within the healthcare sector. Studies have shown that less than 40% of these initiatives are successful, indicating the need for an instrument that can measure the progress and results of quality improvement initiatives and answer questions about how qua...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Andersson AC,Elg M,Perseius KI,Idvall E

更新日期：2013-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The safety culture has recently attracted the attention of healthcare organizations. Considering the importance of the roles of nurses with regard to patient safety, their knowledge and experiences of the challenges that influence patient safety culture can facilitate the development and implementation of be...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Farokhzadian J,Dehghan Nayeri N,Borhani F

更新日期：2018-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Strengthening primary health care is critical to reducing health inequity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The Audit and Best practice for Chronic Disease Extension (ABCDE) project has facilitated the implementation of modern Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) approaches in Indigenous com...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Bailie R,Si D,Shannon C,Semmens J,Rowley K,Scrimgeour DJ,Nagel T,Anderson I,Connors C,Weeramanthri T,Thompson S,McDermott R,Burke H,Moore E,Leon D,Weston R,Grogan H,Stanley A,Gardner K

更新日期：2010-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limited studies have evaluated the effectiveness of pharmacist interventions on outpatient prescription. The goal of this study was to evaluate the clinical and economic impacts of pharmacist interventions on randomly sampled outpatient prescriptions. METHOD:Outpatient prescriptions of our hospital were sam...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Bao Z,Ji C,Hu J,Luo C,Fang W

更新日期：2018-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The migration of health professionals from southern Africa to developed nations is negatively affecting the delivery of health care services in the source countries. Oftentimes however, it is the reasons for the out-migration that have been described in the literature. The work and domestic situations of tho...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Muula AS,Maseko FC

更新日期：2006-08-09 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:As part of its ongoing healthcare reform, the Hong Kong Government introduced a voucher scheme, intended for encouraging older patients to use primary healthcare services in the private sector, thereby, reducing burden on the overwhelmed public sector. The voucher program is also considered one of the strate...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Yam CH,Liu S,Huang OH,Yeoh EK,Griffiths SM

更新日期：2011-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This article presents the qualitative component linked to a larger study of implementation of the Xpert™ MTB/Rif technology in two Brazilian cities. Despite intrinsic advantages of new health technologies, its introduction can be disruptive to existing routines, and it is thus important to understand how the...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： de Camargo KR Jr,Guedes CR,Caetano R,Menezes A,Trajman A

更新日期：2015-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To explore the perceptions of health workers on the risks of contracting tuberculosis at Namwala District Hospital. Tuberculosis literature indicates that health workers are at risk of contracting tuberculosis while conducting their daily duties in the workplace. This is mainly attributed to low tuberculosis...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Mwenya S,Stapley S

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study is to evaluate the performance of the first certified regional trauma network in Germany, the Trauma Network Eastern Bavaria (TNO) addressing the following specific research questions: Do standard and maximum care facilities produce comparable (risk-adjusted) levels of patient outcome? ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Koller M,Ernstberger A,Zeman F,Loss J,Nerlich M,Trauma Network Eastern Bavaria (TNO).

更新日期：2016-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients may decide to undertake shared care with a general practitioner (GP) during follow-up after treatment for localised melanoma. Routine imaging tests for surveillance may be commonly used despite no evidence of clinical utility. This study describes the frequency of shared care and routine tests durin...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Lim WY,Turner RM,Morton RL,Jenkins MC,Irwig L,Webster AC,Dieng M,Saw RPM,Guitera P,Low D,Low C,Bell KJL

更新日期：2018-06-20 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