Benchmarked performance charts using principal components analysis to improve the effectiveness of feedback for audit data in HIV care.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to an increasing demand in health care services plans to substitute selective physician-conducted medical activities have become attractive. Because administration of a blood transfusion is a highly standardized procedure, it might be evaluated if obtaining a patient's consent for a blood transfusion can...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Graw JA,Eymann K,Kork F,Zoremba M,Burchard R

更新日期：2018-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Measuring quality of care is essential to improve primary care. Quality of primary care for patients is usually assessed by patient satisfaction questionnaires. However, patients may not be able to judge quality of care without also reflecting their perception of the environment. We determined the effect tha...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Tièche R,da Costa BR,Streit S

更新日期：2016-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:According to the new hypertension treatment guidelines blood pressure (BP) readings need to be kept below or equal to 130/80 mmHg in patients aged less than 65 years old. This study shows the change in proportion of identified cases of uncontrolled blood pressure in light of these changes. METHODS:The data ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Charoensab N,Pinyopornpanish K,Thangsuk P,Jiraporncharoen W,Angkurawaranon C

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The extent to which a genomic test will be used in practice is affected by factors such as ability of the test to correctly predict response to treatment (i.e. sensitivity and specificity of the test), invasiveness of the testing procedure, test cost, and the probability and severity of side effects associat...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Najafzadeh M,Johnston KM,Peacock SJ,Connors JM,Marra MA,Lynd LD,Marra CA

更新日期：2013-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cost information is important for efficient allocation of healthcare expenditure, estimating future budget allocation, and setting user fees to start new financing systems. Myanmar is in political transition, and trying to achieve universal health coverage by 2030. This study assessed the unit cost of health...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Than TM,Saw YM,Khaing M,Win EM,Cho SM,Kariya T,Yamamoto E,Hamajima N

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Care coordination has increasingly been recognized as an important aspect of high-quality health care delivery. Robust measures of coordination processes will be essential tools to evaluate, guide and support efforts to understand and improve coordination, yet little agreement exists among stakeholders about...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Schultz EM,Pineda N,Lonhart J,Davies SM,McDonald KM

更新日期：2013-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most health care services are provided in the primary health care sector, and an increasing number of elderly is in need of these services. Nonetheless, the research on patient safety culture in home care services and nursing homes remains scarce. This study describes staff perceptions of patient safety cult...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Ree E,Wiig S

更新日期：2019-08-29 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:Strategies adopted by health administrations and directed towards drug cost control in primary care (PC) can, according to earlier studies, generate tension between health administrators and healthcare professionals. This study collects and analyzes the opinions of general practitioners (GPs) regarding curre...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Prados-Torres A,Calderón-Larrañaga A,Sicras-Mainar A,March-Llull S,Oliván-Blázquez B

更新日期：2009-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nursing and midwifery research activity is an important indicator of the quality of healthcare services and the status of nursing profession. The main aim of this study was to assess the research activity in nursing and midwifery field in Arab countries. METHOD:The current study implemented bibliometric met...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Sweileh WM,Huijer HA,Al-Jabi SW,Zyoud SH,Sawalha AF

更新日期：2019-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a trend towards value-based health service, striving to cut costs while generating value for the patient. The overall objective comprises higher-quality health services and improved patient safety and cost efficiency. The approach could align with patient-centred care, as it entails a focus on the p...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Elf M,Flink M,Nilsson M,Tistad M,von Koch L,Ytterberg C

更新日期：2017-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Under a constrained health care budget, cost-increasing technologies may displace funds from existing health services. However, it is unknown what services are displaced and how such displacement takes place in practice. The aim of our study was to investigate how the Dutch hospital sector has dealt with the...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Wammes JJG,Frederix G,Govaert P,Determann D,Evers S,Paulus A,Stadhouders N,Jeurissen P,Oortwijn W,Adang EMM

更新日期：2020-03-30 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Older people have higher rates of hospital admission than the general population and higher rates of readmission due to complications and falls. During hospitalisation, older people experience significant functional decline which impairs their future independence and quality of life. Acute hospital services ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Courtney MD,Edwards HE,Chang AM,Parker AW,Finlayson K,Hamilton K

更新日期：2011-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical networks have been established to improve patient outcomes and processes of care by implementing a range of innovations and undertaking projects based on the needs of local health services. Given the significant investment in clinical networks internationally, it is important to assess their effecti...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： McInnes E,Haines M,Dominello A,Kalucy D,Jammali-Blasi A,Middleton S,Klineberg E

更新日期：2015-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Australians born in countries where hepatitis B infection is endemic are 6-12 times more likely to develop hepatocellular cancer (HCC) than Australian-born individuals. However, a program of screening, surveillance and treatment of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) in high risk populations could significantly reduce...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Robotin MC,Kansil MQ,George J,Howard K,Tipper S,Levy M,Phung N,Penman AG

更新日期：2010-07-21 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: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:Delivery of community-based prevention services for HIV, malaria, and diarrhea is a major priority and challenge in rural Africa. Integrated delivery campaigns may offer a mechanism to achieve high coverage and efficiency. METHODS:We quantified the resources and costs to implement a large-scale integrated p...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Kahn JG,Harris B,Mermin JH,Clasen T,Lugada E,Grabowksy M,Vestergaard Frandsen M,Garg N

更新日期：2011-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obesity in Canada is a growing concern, but little is known about the available services for managing obesity in adults. Our objectives were to (a) survey and describe programs dedicated to weight management and (b) evaluate program adherence to established recommendations for care. METHODS:We conducted an ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Rosa Fortin MM,Brown C,Ball GD,Chanoine JP,Langlois MF

更新日期：2014-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In several health systems of advanced countries, reforms have changed primary care in the last two decades. The literature has assessed the effects of a variety of interventions and individual factors on the behavior of general practitioners (GPs). However, there has been a lack of investigation concerning t...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Calciolari S,González-Ortiz LG,Lega F

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the United Kingdom and worldwide, there is significant policy interest in improving the quality of care for patients with mental health disorders and distress. Improving quality of care means addressing not only the effectiveness of interventions but also the issue of limited access to care. Research to d...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Gask L,Bower P,Lamb J,Burroughs H,Chew-Graham C,Edwards S,Hibbert D,Kovandžić M,Lovell K,Rogers A,Waheed W,Dowrick C,AMP Research Group.

更新日期：2012-08-13 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：OBJECTIVE:While most studies focused on the relation between volunteering and health-related outcomes, little attention has been given on the association between volunteering and the use of health care services. Thus, with this analysis we aimed at exploring whether and how the voluntary work of older adults is related...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Flennert M,König HH,Hajek A

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sexually transmissible infection (STI) and blood-borne virus (BBV) diagnoses data are a core component of the Australian National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS). However, the NNDSS data alone is not enough to understand STI and BBV burden among priority population groups, like Aboriginal and...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Bradley C,Hengel B,Crawford K,Elliott S,Donovan B,Mak DB,Nattabi B,Johnson D,Guy R,Fairley CK,Wand H,Ward J,and the Centre of Research Excellence in Aboriginal Sexual Health investigator group.

更新日期：2020-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Environmental impact assessments of pharmaceuticals typically consider only a part of the pharmaceutical supply chain, e.g. tablet formulation. While the environmental impact can be expressed in environmental Human Health burden due to resource use and emissions, the Human Health benefit of the pharmaceutica...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Debaveye S,De Smedt D,Heirman B,Kavanagh S,Dewulf J

更新日期：2019-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to increasing bacterial resistance rates choosing a correct empiric antibiotic therapy is getting more and more complex. Often medical doctors use information tools to make the right treatment choice. METHODS:One hundred sixty six participants (77 medical doctors and 89 medical students) were asked to p...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Neugebauer M,Ebert M,Vogelmann R

更新日期：2020-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a reduction in the number of routine radiographs in the follow-up of patients with ankle fractures. METHODS:We performed an economic evaluation alongside the multicentre, randomised WARRIOR trial. Participants were randomised to a reduced imaging follow-up protocol (i.e...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： van Gerven P,van Dongen JM,Rubinstein SM,Termaat MF,El Moumni M,Zuidema WP,Krijnen P,Schipper IB,van Tulder MW,WARRIOR study group.

更新日期：2020-09-22 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:Health outcomes for Indigenous Australians with diabetes in remote areas remain poor, including high rates of avoidable complications which could be reduced with better primary level care. We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a community-based health-worker led case management approach to the care of In...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： McDermott RA,Schmidt B,Preece C,Owens V,Taylor S,Li M,Esterman A

更新日期：2015-02-19 00:00:00