What do patients with diabetes and providers think of an innovative Australian model of remote diabetic retinopathy screening? A qualitative study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and return to work are important outcomes in critical care medicine, reaching beyond mortality. Little is known on factors predictive of HRQoL and return to work in critical illness, including the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and no evidence exists on the...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Brandstetter S,Dodoo-Schittko F,Blecha S,Sebök P,Thomann-Hackner K,Quintel M,Weber-Carstens S,Bein T,Apfelbacher C

更新日期：2015-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During the past 2 decades, there has been a rapid proliferation of "health examination center (HEC)" across China. The effects of their services on public's health have not been systemically investigated. This study aimed to assess the impact of periodic health examination (PHE) at HEC on surgical treatment ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Wu HY,Yang LL,Zhou S

更新日期：2010-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical social franchising is a rapidly growing delivery model in private healthcare markets in low- and middle-income countries. Despite this growth, little is known about providers' perceptions of the benefits and challenges of social franchising or clients' reasons for choosing franchised facilities over...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Sieverding M,Briegleb C,Montagu D

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:India has experienced a steep rise in institutional childbirth. The relative contributions of public and private sector facilities to emergency obstetric care (EmOC) has not been studied in this setting. This paper aims to study in three districts of Gujarat state, India:(a) the availability of EmOC faciliti...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Salazar M,Vora K,De Costa A

更新日期：2016-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Promotion of healthy lifestyle is an important strategy. This study was conducted to determine the effects of counselling on health-promoting lifestyle and quality of life in middle-aged women. METHODS:This randomised, controlled, clinical trial was conducted on 102 middle-aged women presenting to health ce...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Karimlou V,Charandabi SM,Malakouti J,Mirghafourvand M

更新日期：2019-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many countries have introduced elements of managed competition in their healthcare system with the aim to accomplish more efficient and demand-driven health care. Simultaneously, generating and reporting of comparative healthcare information has become an important quality-improvement instrument. We examined...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Hendriks M,Spreeuwenberg P,Rademakers J,Delnoij DM

更新日期：2009-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health systems play key roles in identifying tobacco users and providing evidence-based care to help them quit. Health systems change - changes to health care processes, policies and financing - has potential to build capacity within these systems to address tobacco use. In 2010, ClearWay MinnesotaSM piloted...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Jansen AL,Capesius TR,Lachter R,Greenseid LO,Keller PA

更新日期：2014-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a growing body of international research that displays the prevalence and character of abuse in health care. Even though most of these studies are conducted from a patient perspective little is known about how patients conceptualize their agency in relation to such situations. This study aimed to ex...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Brüggemann AJ,Forsberg C,Thornberg R

更新日期：2019-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study investigated prognosis among patients under prolonged mechanical ventilation (PMV) through exploring the following issues: (1) post-PMV survival rates, (2) factors associated with survival after PMV, and (3) the number of days alive free of hospital stays requiring mechanical ventilation (MV) care...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Lu HM,Chen L,Wang JD,Hung MC,Lin MS,Yan YH,Chen CR,Fan PS,Huang LC,Kuo KN

更新日期：2012-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) in older people is common in primary care and can result in increased morbidity, adverse drug events, hospitalizations and mortality. The prevalence of PIP in Ireland is estimated at 36% with an associated expenditure of over €45 million in 2007. The aim of this pa...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Clyne B,Bradley MC,Hughes CM,Clear D,McDonnell R,Williams D,Fahey T,Smith SM,OPTI-SCRIPT study team.

更新日期：2013-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Pakistan, where gendered norms restrict women's mobility, female community health workers (CHWs) provide doorstep primary health services to home-bound women. The program has not achieved optimal functioning. One reason, I argue, may be that the CHWs are unable to make home visits because they have to ope...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Mumtaz Z

更新日期：2012-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Compare changes in types of hospital service revenues between traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) hospitals and Western-medicine based general hospitals. METHODS:97 TCM hospitals and 103 general hospitals were surveyed in years of 2000 and 2004. Six types of medical service revenue between the two types of h...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Shen JJ,Wang Y,Lin F,Lu J,Moseley CB,Sun M,Hao M

更新日期：2011-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attempts to achieve digital transformation across the health service have stimulated increasingly large-scale and more complex change programmes. These encompass a growing range of functions in multiple locations across the system and may take place over extended timeframes. This calls for new approaches to ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Cresswell K,Sheikh A,Franklin BD,Krasuska M,Nguyen HT,Hinder S,Lane W,Mozaffar H,Mason K,Eason S,Potts HWW,Williams R

更新日期：2020-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Quality Improvement Interventions require significant financial investments, and therefore demand careful consideration in their design in order to maximize potential benefits. In this correspondence we present the methodological approach of a multifaceted quality improvement intervention aiming to improve q...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Samoutis GA,Soteriades ES,Stoffers HE,Zachariadou T,Philalithis A,Lionis C

更新日期：2008-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The poor physical health of people with severe mental illness (SMI) is often attributed to lifestyle, disease-related medication side effects and disparate provision of healthcare. The complexity and inexact nature of this issue prohibits the identification of a clear and concise causal pathway, which in tur...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Ehrlich C,Kendall E,Frey N,Denton M,Kisely S

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study examined the daily surgical scheduling problem in a teaching hospital. This problem relates to the use of multiple operating rooms and different types of surgeons in a typical surgical day with deterministic operation durations (preincision, incision, and postincision times). Teaching hospitals pl...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Pulido R,Aguirre AM,Ortega-Mier M,García-Sánchez Á,Méndez CA

更新日期：2014-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a growing number of adolescents and young adults living with HIV (YPLHIV) who require the transfer of care from pediatric/ adolescent clinics to adult Antiretroviral therapy (ART) clinics. A successful transition is critical for optimum health outcomes, yet facilities may lack infrastructure, human ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Mbalinda SN,Bakeera-Kitaka S,Lusota DA,Magongo EN,Musoke P,Kaye DK

更新日期：2020-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient enrolment into clinical trials is based on oral information and informed consent, which includes an information sheet and a consent certificate. The written information should be complete, but at the same time risks being so complex that it may be questioned if a fully informed consent is possible to...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Dellson P,Nilbert M,Carlsson C

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Perinatal depression is common in low and middle income countries (LAMICs). Task sharing interventions have been implemented to treat perinatal depression in these settings, as a way of dealing with staff shortages. Task sharing allows lay health workers to provide services for less complex cases while being...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Munodawafa M,Mall S,Lund C,Schneider M

更新日期：2018-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few previous studies have specifically addressed the health care utilization situation of the physically disabled. This study aimed to investigate the utilization of free adult preventive health care for physically disabled people and its' affecting factors. METHODS:The data was obtained from three nationwi...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Yen SM,Kung PT,Tsai WC

更新日期：2014-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Across low-income settings, community volunteers and health committee members support the formal health system - both routinely and amid emergencies - by engaging in health services such as referrals and health education. During the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic, emerging reports suggest that community engagement...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： McMahon SA,Ho LS,Scott K,Brown H,Miller L,Ratnayake R,Ansumana R

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medicine access is an important goal of medicine policy; however the evaluation of medicine access is a subject under conceptual and methodological development. The aim of this study was to describe quantitative methodologies to measure medicine access on household level, access expressed as paid or unpaid m...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Paniz VM,Fassa AG,Maia MF,Domingues MR,Bertoldi AD

更新日期：2010-05-30 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:Drug costs increasingly pose a burden upon the otherwise inadequate health care resources and rational drug utilization is an important segment of every national health policy. Optimal patient care should be the goal of rational pharmacotherapy, whereby the economic burden of treatment is just one of the ele...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Polić-ViŽintin M,Stimac D,Sostar Z,Tripković I

更新日期：2014-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic disease is a leading cause of death globally, where inadequate fruit and vegetable consumption and inadequate physical activity are consistently implicated as key contributing risk factors for such diseases. People with a mental health condition are reported to experience a higher prevalence of such ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Bailey JM,Clinton-McHarg TL,Wye PM,Wiggers JH,Bartlem KM,Bowman JA

更新日期：2020-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Home care (HC) is a critical component of the ongoing restructuring of healthcare in Canada. It impacts three dimensions of healthcare delivery: primary healthcare, chronic disease management, and aging at home strategies. The purpose of our study is to investigate a significant safety dimension of HC, the o...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Doran DM,Hirdes JP,Blais R,Baker GR,Poss JW,Li X,Dill D,Gruneir A,Heckman G,Lacroix H,Mitchell L,O'Beirne M,White N,Droppo L,Foebel AD,Qian G,Nahm SM,Yim O,McIsaac C,Jantzi M

更新日期：2013-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) often have poor glycemic control on first-line pharmacologic therapy and require treatment intensification. Intensification decisions can be difficult because of many available options and their many benefits and risks. The American Diabetes Association recommends patient...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Bailey RA,Pfeifer M,Shillington AC,Harshaw Q,Funnell MM,VanWingen J,Col N

更新日期：2016-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We conducted a national level assessment of the quality of clinical care practice in the Ukrainian healthcare system for two important causes of death and chronic disease conditions. We tested two hypotheses: a) quality of care is predicted by physician and facility characteristics and b) health status is pr...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Peabody JW,Luck J,DeMaria L,Menon R

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Small Canadian rural maternity services are struggling to maintain core staffing and remain open. Existing evidence states that having to travel to access maternity services is associated with adverse outcomes. The goal of this study is to systematically examine rural maternal and newborn outcomes across thr...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Grzybowski S,Fahey J,Lai B,Zhang S,Aelicks N,Leung BM,Stoll K,Attenborough R

更新日期：2015-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is an urgent need for the development of simple communication tools that convey the strengths, assets, and healthcare needs of people living with dementia. A Healthcare Passport may improve communication with range of health and social support services, enhancing quality and continuity of care, and to ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Leavey G,Abbott A,Watson M,Todd S,Coates V,McIlfactrick S,McCormack B,Waterhouse-Bradley B,Curran E

更新日期：2016-08-09 00:00:00