Dementia care and service systems - a mapping system tested in nine Swedish municipalities.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Population aging increases the number of glaucoma patients which leads to higher workloads of glaucoma specialists. If stable glaucoma patients were monitored by optometrists and ophthalmic technicians in a glaucoma follow-up unit (GFU) rather than by glaucoma specialists, the specialists' workload and waiti...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Holtzer-Goor KM,van Sprundel E,Lemij HG,Plochg T,Klazinga NS,Koopmanschap MA

更新日期：2010-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Root cause analysis (RCA) originated in the manufacturing engineering sector but has been adapted for routine use in healthcare to investigate patient safety incidents and facilitate organizational learning. Despite the limitations of the RCA evidence base, healthcare authorities and decision makers in NHS S...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Bowie P,Skinner J,de Wet C

更新日期：2013-02-07 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: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:Patients across North America are using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) with increasing frequency as part of their management of many different health conditions. The objective of this study was to develop a guide for academic health sciences centers that may wish to consider starting an integra...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Vohra S,Feldman K,Johnston B,Waters K,Boon H

更新日期：2005-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are potential instruments to enable private collaboration in the health sector. Despite theoretical debate, empirical analyses have thus far tended to focus on the contractual or project dimension, overlooking institutional PPPs, i.e., formal legal entities run by proper co...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Cappellaro G,Longo F

更新日期：2011-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Child delivery in a health facility is important to reduce maternal mortality. Bypassing nearby birthing facility to deliver at a hospital is common in developing countries including Nepal. Very little is known about the extent and determinants of bypassing the birthing centres in Nepal. This study measures ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Shah R

更新日期：2016-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A large mental health treatment gap exists among conflict-affected populations, and Syrian refugees specifically. Promising brief psychological interventions for conflict-affected populations exist such as the World Health Organization's Problem Management Plus (PM+) and the Early Adolescent Skills for Emoti...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Fuhr DC,Acarturk C,Sijbrandij M,Brown FL,Jordans MJD,Woodward A,McGrath M,Sondorp E,Ventevogel P,Ikkursun Z,El Chammay R,Cuijpers P,Roberts B

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The most recent strategic call to action of the World Health Organization sets the elimination of pediatric HIV as a goal. While recent efforts have focused on building infrastructure and ensuring access to high-quality treatment, we must now turn our focus to the behavior change needed to eliminate vertical...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Taylor NK,Buttenheim AM

更新日期：2013-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although heart disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality the majority of patients do not access existing rehabilitation programs and patient resources are not designed to facilitate patient choice and decision-making. The objective of this study was to develop and test a series of risk factor modul...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Redfern J,Ellis E,Briffa T,Freedman SB

更新日期：2006-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Internationally, key health care reform elements rely on improved integration of care between the primary and secondary sectors. The objective of this systematic review is to synthesise the existing published literature on elements of current integrated primary/secondary health care. These elements and how t...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Nicholson C,Jackson C,Marley J

更新日期：2013-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a lack of practical research frameworks to guide the development of patient decision aids [PtDAs]. This paper described how a PtDA was developed using the International Patient Decision Aids (IPDAS) guideline and UK Medical Research Council (UKMRC) frameworks to support patients when making treatmen...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Ng CJ,Mathers N,Bradley A,Colwell B

更新日期：2014-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 'Surviving Crying' study was designed to develop and provisionally evaluate a support service for parents of excessively crying babies, including its suitability for use in the United Kingdom (UK) National Health Service (NHS). The resulting service includes three materials: a website, a printed booklet,...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Bamber D,Powell C,Long J,Garratt R,Brown J,Rudge S,Morris T,Bhupendra Jaicim N,Plachcinski R,Dyson S,Boyle EM,Turney N,Chessman J,St James-Roberts I

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Industry partnerships can help leverage resources to advance HIV/AIDS vaccine research, service delivery, and policy advocacy goals. This often involves capacity building for international and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs). International volunteering is increasingly being used as a capacity bui...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Vian T,Koseki S,Feeley FG,Beard J

更新日期：2013-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health insurance (HI) plays an important role in ensuring the financial equity by the risk pooling mechanism and reducing the economic burden of healthcare for HIV/AIDS patients. However, there is a lack of evidence to clearly understand HI coverage in regard to people living with HIV (PLWH). We conducted th...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Nguyen QLT,Van Phan T,Tran BX,Nguyen LH,Ngo C,Phan HTT,Latkin CA

更新日期：2017-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Continuity of care has been explored largely from academic and service provider perspectives, and in relation to adult patient/client groups. We interviewed parents of children with complex chronic health conditions to examine how their experiences and perceptions of continuity of care fit with these perspec...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Miller AR,Condin CJ,McKellin WH,Shaw N,Klassen AF,Sheps S

更新日期：2009-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to stagnating resources and an increase in staff workload, the quality of Finnish primary health care (PHC) is claimed to have deteriorated slowly. With a decentralised PHC organisation and lack of national stewardship, it is likely that municipalities have adopted different coping strategies, predisposi...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Satokangas M,Lumme S,Arffman M,Keskimäki I

更新日期：2019-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The shortage of organs for kidney transplantation for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is magnified in Hispanics/Latin Americans in the United States. Living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) is the treatment of choice for ESRD. However, compared to their representation on the transplant waitli...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Gordon EJ,Lee J,Kang RH,Caicedo JC,Holl JL,Ladner DP,Shumate MD

更新日期：2018-05-16 00:00:00

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:Clinical guidelines are an integral part of healthcare. Whilst much progress has been made in ensuring that guidelines are well developed and disseminated, the gap between routine clinical practice and current guidelines often remains wide. A key reason for this gap is that implementation of guidelines typic...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Taylor N,Lawton R,Moore S,Craig J,Slater B,Cracknell A,Wright J,Mohammed MA

更新日期：2014-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a broad consensus that addictive behaviors tend to be chronic and relapsing. But for field studies of substance users, successfully tracking, locating, and following up with a representative sample of subjects is a challenge. METHODS:The purpose of this paper is to provide a general overview of how...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Farabee D,Schulte M,Gonzales R,Grella CE

更新日期：2016-08-10 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:Acute low back pain is one of the most common reasons for individuals to seek medical care in the United States. The US Military Health System provides medical care to approximately 9.4 million beneficiaries annually. These patients also routinely suffer from acute low back pain. Within this health system, p...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Dietrich EJ,Leroux T,Santiago CF,Helgeson MD,Richard P,Koehlmoos TP

更新日期：2018-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most existing research on medical clowns in health care services has investigated their usefulness mainly among child health consumers. In this research we examined multiple viewpoints of medical staff, clowns, and health consumers aiming to identify the optimal audience (adult or child health consumers) for...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Efrat-Triester D,Altman D,Friedmann E,Margalit DL,Teodorescu K

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lean thinking as a quality improvement approach is introduced in hospitals worldwide, although evidence for its impact is scarce. Lean initiatives are social, complex and context-dependent. This calls for a shift from cause-effect to conditional attributions to understand how lean works. In this study, we br...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Andersen H,Røvik KA

更新日期：2015-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Poles constitute the largest group of migrants in Norway. Research confirms a steady inflow and a minimal outflow of Polish migrants. One of the key aspects of migrants' structural integration is access to health care services. This study explored barriers to and facilitators of Polish migrants' access to No...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Czapka EA,Sagbakken M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

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:Health systems research is increasingly being conducted in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Such research should aim to reduce health disparities between and within countries as a matter of global justice. For such research to do so, ethical guidance that is consistent with egalitarian theories of so...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Pratt B,Hyder AA

更新日期：2016-11-15 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:Use of a claims-based index to identify persons with physical function impairment and at risk for long-term institutionalization would facilitate population health and comparative effectiveness research. The JEN Frailty Index [JFI] is comprised of diagnosis domains representing impairments and multimorbid cl...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Kinosian B,Wieland D,Gu X,Stallard E,Phibbs CS,Intrator O

更新日期：2018-11-29 00:00:00