Development of mental health indicators at the district level in Madhya Pradesh, India: mixed methods study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pay for performance schemes are increasingly being implemented in low income countries to improve health service coverage and quality. This paper describes the context within which a pay for performance programme was introduced in Tanzania and discusses the potential for pay for performance to address health...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Olafsdottir AE,Mayumana I,Mashasi I,Njau I,Mamdani M,Patouillard E,Binyaruka P,Abdulla S,Borghi J

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Effective clinician-patient communication about health behavior change is one of the most important and most overlooked strategies to promote health and prevent disease. Existing guidelines for specific health behavior counseling have been created and promulgated, but not successfully adopted in primary care...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Flocke SA,Antognoli E,Step MM,Marsh S,Parran T,Mason MJ

更新日期：2012-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Training is a critical part of health information technology implementations, but little emphasis is placed on post-implementation training to support day-to-day activities. The goal of this study was to evaluate the impact of post-implementation training on key electronic health record activities. METHODS:...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Bredfeldt CE,Awad EB,Joseph K,Snyder MH

更新日期：2013-12-02 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

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:There are no empirically-grounded criteria or tools to define or benchmark the quality of outpatient clinical documentation. Outpatient clinical notes document care, communicate treatment plans and support patient safety, medical education, medico-legal investigations and reimbursement. Accurately describing...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Hanson JL,Stephens MB,Pangaro LN,Gimbel RW

更新日期：2012-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Migration has been shown to be associated with negative mental health outcomes. Moreover, migrants tend to underutilise mental health services. The current study aimed to assess the association between predictors, divided into three groups (predisposing, enabling and need), and two outcome variables: (1) pas...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Gondek D,Kirkbride JB

更新日期：2018-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limited access to drugs is a crucial barrier to reducing the growing impact of cancer in low- and middle-income countries. Approaches based on drug donations or adaptive pricing strategies yield promising but varying results across countries or programs, The Glivec International Patient Assistance Program (G...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Tekinturhan E,Audureau E,Tavolacci MP,Garcia-Gonzalez P,Ladner J,Saba J

更新日期：2013-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression is a prevalent mental health disorder and the fourth leading cause of disability in the world as per the World Health Organization. Use of antidepressants can lead to adverse drug events (ADEs), defined as any injury resulting from medication use. This study aimed to examine changes in hospital ad...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Parihar HS,Yin H,Gooch JL,Allen S,John S,Xuan J

更新日期：2017-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Swedish government has increasingly begun to rely on so called informative governance when regulating healthcare. The question this article sets out to answer is: considered to be "the backbone" of the Swedish state's strategy for informative governance in healthcare, what kind of regulatory arrangement ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Fredriksson M,Blomqvist P,Winblad U

更新日期：2014-11-05 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:The State of Louisiana spends the most on Medicare beneficiaries per capita, but reports greater disparities in health status and death rates than other states. This project sought to investigate the associations between healthcare intensity, healthcare spending, and mortality in Louisiana. METHODS:We used ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Kruger BP,Brown JR

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Healthcare workers, in the hospital and in community clinics, are frequently exposed to verbal and physical abuse that can lead to frustration and despair. This study's objectives were to evaluate trends in violence towards hospital and community doctors in the Negev region of Israel and to compare them to t...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Nevo T,Peleg R,Kaplan DM,Freud T

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lack of adherence to international normalised ratio (INR) monitoring in rheumatic heart disease (RHD) patients is a contributor to cardio-embolic complications. This population-based observational study investigated whether the distance between home and an INR clinic affects the maintenance of therapeutic IN...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Barth DD,Zühlke LJ,Joachim A,Hoegger T,Mayosi BM,Engel ME

更新日期：2015-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have investigated process and structure indicators of nutritional care as well as their use in nursing homes (NHs), but the relative weight of these indicators in predicting the risk of malnutrition remains unclear. Aims of the present study are to describe the quality indicators of nutritio...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Bonaccorsi G,Collini F,Castagnoli M,Di Bari M,Cavallini MC,Zaffarana N,Pepe P,Mugelli A,Lucenteforte E,Vannacci A,Lorini C

更新日期：2015-06-06 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: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:The adherence pattern of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) among patients with epilepsy is relatively lower in the United States and different European countries. However, adherence and cost analysis of AEDs in Asian countries have not been thoroughly studied. Therefore, the present study aimed to analyze the cost ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Asghar MA,Rehman AA,Raza ML,Shafiq Y,Asghar MA

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Case review and discussion at multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTMs) have evolved into standard practice in cancer care with the aim to provide evidence-based treatment recommendations. As a basis for work to optimize the MDTMs, we investigated participants' views on the meeting function, including perceive...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Rosell L,Alexandersson N,Hagberg O,Nilbert M

更新日期：2018-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:People who use substances experience high levels of substance-related stigma, both within and outside of health care settings, which can prevent people from help-seeking and contribute further to health inequities. Recognizing and respecting how political, social, economic, and historical conditions influenc...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Urbanoski K,Pauly B,Inglis D,Cameron F,Haddad T,Phillips J,Phillips P,Rosen C,Schlotter G,Hartney E,Wallace B

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) remain one of the world's most frequently prescribed medications and there is a growing number of publications on correct versus incorrect use of PPIs worldwide. The objective of this observational retrospective study was to assess changes in PPI prescribing trends over the past...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Luo H,Fan Q,Xiao S,Chen K

更新日期：2018-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intermediate care (IC) describes a range of services targeted at older people, aimed at preventing unnecessary hospitalisation, promoting faster recovery from illness and maximising independence. Older people are at increased risk of medication-related adverse events, but little is known about the provision ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Millar AN,Hughes CM,Ryan C

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The presence of certain underlying medical conditions is known to increase the risk of pneumococcal disease in persons of all ages and across a wide spectrum of conditions, as demonstrated in two recent evaluations. Corresponding estimates of attributable economic costs have not been well characterized. We t...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Weycker D,Farkouh RA,Strutton DR,Edelsberg J,Shea KM,Pelton SI

更新日期：2016-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of trimetazidine (TMZ) as add-on therapy to standard-of-care (SoC) compared to SoC alone in patients with chronic stable angina who did not respond adequately to first line therapy with b-blockers, nitrates or calcium channel antagonists in Greece. METHODS:A Markov model w...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Kourlaba G,Gourzoulidis G,Andrikopoulos G,Tsioufis K,Beletsi A,Maniadakis N

更新日期：2016-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Failure to keep medical appointments results in inefficiencies and, potentially, in poor outcomes for patients. The aim of this study is to describe non-attendance rate and to investigate predictors of non-attendance among patients receiving hospital outpatient treatment for chronic diseases. METHODS:We con...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Wolff DL,Waldorff FB,von Plessen C,Mogensen CB,Sørensen TL,Houlind KC,Bogh SB,Rubin KH

更新日期：2019-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Assessment of the availability of essential medicines, in rural areas of countries with free state health care system, is scarce. Dependence on essential medicines among the population in rural sector is considered to be high. Assessing the availability of essential medicines in selected state owned primary ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Rathish D,Premarathna I,Jayathilake T,Kandegedara C,Punchihewa K,Ananda L,Bandara T,Jayasumana C,Siribaddana S

更新日期：2017-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When tested in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of 31,411 patients, the nurse-led 6-PACK falls prevention program did not reduce falls. Poor implementation fidelity (i.e., program not implemented as intended) may explain this result. Despite repeated calls for the examination of implementation fidelity as...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Morello RT,Barker AL,Ayton DR,Landgren F,Kamar J,Hill KD,Brand CA,Sherrington C,Wolfe R,Rifat S,Stoelwinder J

更新日期：2017-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In the original publication of this article [1] an author's name needs to be revised from Katrina Nelson to Adrianne Katrina Nelson. ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Ho J,Bachman-Carter K,Thorkelson S,Anderson K,Jaggi J,Brown C,Nelson AK,Curley C,King C,Atwood S,Shin S

更新日期：2019-10-22 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: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