Availability of HIV services along the continuum of HIV testing, care and treatment in Ghana.

abstract：BACKGROUND:For mothers who have just given birth, the postpartum hospital stay is meant to promote an environment where resting, healing and bonding can take place. New mothers, however, face many interruptions throughout the day including multiple visitors and noise caused by medical equipment, corridor conversations ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Adatia S,Law S,Haggerty J

更新日期：2014-11-29 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:In response to long waiting lists and problems with access to primary care physiotherapy, several Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) (now Clinical Commissioning Groups CCGs) developed physiotherapy-led telephone assessment and treatment services. The Medical Research Council (MRC) funded PhysioDirect trial was a ran...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Pearson J,Richardson J,Calnan M,Salisbury C,Foster NE

更新日期：2016-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurate TNM stage information is essential for cancer health services research, but is often impractical and expensive to collect at the population-level. We evaluated algorithms using administrative healthcare data to identify patients with metastatic gastric cancer. METHODS:A population-based cohort of g...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Mahar AL,Jeong Y,Zagorski B,Coburn N

更新日期：2018-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To examine key factors influencing chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients' total expenditure and offer recommendations on how to reduce total cost of CKD care without compromising quality. METHODS:Using the 2002-2011 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data, our cross-sectional study analyzed 197 patient...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Damien P,Lanham HJ,Parthasarathy M,Shah NL

更新日期：2016-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health reforms in Bulgaria have introduced major changes to the financing, delivery and regulation of health care. As in many other countries of Central and Eastern Europe, these included introducing general practice, establishing a health insurance system, reorganizing hospital services, and setting up new ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Rechel B,Blackburn CM,Spencer NJ,Rechel B

更新日期：2011-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The republic of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) is a middle income country with a comparatively high prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) compared to others in the Caribbean. To date, there have been no studies on health care professionals' (HCP) perspectives regarding the barriers to achieving optimal care of pat...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Roopnarinesingh N,Brennan N,Khan C,Ladenson PW,Hill-Briggs F,Kalyani RR

更新日期：2015-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The GRADE method represents a new approach to grading the quality of evidence and strength of recommendations in the preparation of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG). In the context of a pilot study to assess the implementability of the system in Spain, we considered it relevant to gain an insight into the ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Calderón C,Rotaeche R,Etxebarria A,Marzo M,Rico R,Barandiaran M

更新日期：2006-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nepal's Safe Delivery Incentive Programme (SDIP) was introduced nationwide in 2005 with the intention of increasing utilisation of professional care at childbirth. It provided cash to women giving birth in a health facility and an incentive to the health provider for each delivery attended, either at home or...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Powell-Jackson T,Morrison J,Tiwari S,Neupane BD,Costello AM

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Smoking during pregnancy is a major public health concern and an NHS priority. In 2010, 26% of UK women smoked immediately before or during their pregnancy and 12% smoked continuously. Smoking cessation support is provided through free at the point of use Stop Smoking Services for Pregnant women (SSSP). Howe...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Fahy SJ,Cooper S,Coleman T,Naughton F,Bauld L

更新日期：2014-03-04 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:Swiss ambulatory care is characterized by independent, and primarily practice-based, physicians, receiving fee for service reimbursement. This study analyses supply sensitive services using ambulatory care claims data from mandatory health insurance. A first research question was aimed at the hypothesis that...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Busato A,Matter P,Künzi B,Goodman DC

更新日期：2010-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) receiving primary care regularly visit their practice nurses (PNs). By actively participating during medical consultations, patients can better manage their disease, improving clinical outcomes and their quality of life. However, many patients with T2DM do not ac...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： du Pon E,Wildeboer AT,van Dooren AA,Bilo HJG,Kleefstra N,van Dulmen S

更新日期：2019-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Continuous medical education strategies, including academic detailing (AD), have mixed effects on the quality of prescribing in general practice. Alongside a cluster-randomized controlled trial (cRCT) to assess the effectiveness of AD visits (on appropriate prescribing of analgesics for chronic pain in osteo...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Anthierens S,Verhoeven V,Schmitz O,Coenen S

更新日期：2017-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In the original publication of this article [1], the authors missed that reverse coding was necessary for the item "Do you work separate from your colleagues?" before calculating the scale 'social relations'. So they corrected the analysis accordingly. The results with the revised scale show that there are no longer a...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Wagner A,Rieger MA,Manser T,Sturm H,Hardt J,Martus P,Lessing C,Hammer A,WorkSafeMed Consortium.

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prevalence studies usually depend on self-report of disease status in survey data or administrative data collections and may over- or under-estimate disease prevalence. The establishment of a linked data collection provided an opportunity to explore the accuracy and completeness of capture of information abo...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Comino EJ,Tran DT,Haas M,Flack J,Jalaludin B,Jorm L,Harris MF

更新日期：2013-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the Netherlands, midwives are autonomous medical practitioners and 78% of pregnant women start their maternity care with a primary care midwife. Scientific research to support evidence-based practice in primary care midwifery in the Netherlands has been sparse. This paper describes the research design and...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Manniën J,Klomp T,Wiegers T,Pereboom M,Brug J,de Jonge A,van der Meijde M,Hutton E,Schellevis F,Spelten E

更新日期：2012-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The capacity of the Indigenous primary healthcare (PHC) sector to continue playing a crucial role in meeting the health needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians is in large part reliant on the skills, motivation and experience of its workforce. While exhibiting many workforce strengths, the...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Jongen C,McCalman J,Campbell S,Fagan R

更新日期：2019-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient participation in health care is associated with improved outcomes for patients and hospitals. New technologies are creating vast potential for patients to participate in care at the bedside. Several studies have explored patient use, satisfaction and perceptions of health information technology (HIT)...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Roberts S,Chaboyer W,Gonzalez R,Marshall A

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malnutrition is a comprehensive challenge for the nursing home, home care- and home nursing sector. Nutritional care and the subsequent documentation are a common and multifaceted healthcare practice that requires that the healthcare professionals possess complex combinations of competencies in order to deli...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Håkonsen SJ,Pedersen PU,Bygholm A,Thisted CN,Bjerrum M

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An increase in chronic conditions is currently the greatest threat to human health and to the sustainability of health systems. Risk adjustment systems may enable population stratification programmes to be developed and become instrumental in implementing new models of care.The objectives of this study are t...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Orueta JF,Nuño-Solinis R,Mateos M,Vergara I,Grandes G,Esnaola S

更新日期：2013-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aboriginal Australians suffer from poorer overall health compared to the general Australian population, particularly in terms of cardiovascular disease and prognosis following a cardiac event. Despite such disparities, Aboriginal Australians utilise health care services at much lower rates than the general p...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Artuso S,Cargo M,Brown A,Daniel M

更新日期：2013-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Global coronary heart disease (CHD) risk assessment is recommended to guide primary preventive pharmacotherapy. However, little is known about physicians' understanding and use of global CHD risk assessment. Our objective was to examine US physicians' awareness, use, and attitudes regarding global CHD risk a...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Shillinglaw B,Viera AJ,Edwards T,Simpson R,Sheridan SL

更新日期：2012-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Consumer e-Health is a potential solution to the problems of accessibility, quality and costs of delivering public healthcare services to patients. Although consumer e-Health has proliferated in recent years, it remains unclear if patients are willing and able to accept and use this new and rapidly developin...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Zhang X,Yu P,Yan J,Ton A M Spil I

更新日期：2015-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Governments increasingly require policy documents to be evidence-based. This paper analyses the use of scientific evidence in such documents by reviewing reports from government-appointed committees in Norway to assess the committees' handling of questions of effect. METHODS:This study uses the 'Index of Sc...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Innvaer S

更新日期：2009-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whether activity-based financing of hospitals creates incentives to treat more patients and to reduce the length of each hospital stay is an empirical question that needs investigation. This paper examines how the level of the activity-based component in the financing system of Norwegian hospitals influences...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Yin J,Lurås H,Hagen TP,Dahl FA

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The disparity between government health expenditures across regions is more severe in developing countries than it is in developed countries. The capitation subsidy method has been proven effective in developed countries in reducing this disparity, but it has not been tested in China, the world's largest dev...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Zhang G,Zhang L,Wu S,Xia X,Lu L

更新日期：2016-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ageing of Mexican population implies greater demand of hospital services. Nevertheless, the available resources are used inadequately. In this study, the direct medical costs associated with the appropriateness of elderly populations hospital stay are estimated. METHODS:Appropriateness of hospital stay was ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Mould-Quevedo JF,García-Peña C,Contreras-Hernández I,Juárez-Cedillo T,Espinel-Bermúdez C,Morales-Cisneros G,Sánchez-García S

更新日期：2009-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Managed care organizations use a variety of strategies to reduce the cost and improve the quality of medication use. The effectiveness of such policies is not well understood. The objective of this research was to update a previous systematic review of interventions, published between 1966 and 2001, to impro...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Lu CY,Ross-Degnan D,Soumerai SB,Pearson SA

更新日期：2008-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Analyzing social differences in the health of adolescents is a challenge. The accuracy of adolescent's report on familial socio-economic position is unknown. The aims of the study were to examine the validity of measuring occupational social class and family level of education reported by adolescents aged 12...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Pueyo MJ,Serra-Sutton V,Alonso J,Starfield B,Rajmil L

更新日期：2007-09-24 00:00:00