Workplace bullying and its preventive measures and productivity among emergency department nurses.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) is an important method used by occupational physicians (OPs) to deliver high quality health care. The presence and quality of a knowledge infrastructure is thought to influence the practice of EBM in occupational health care. This study explores the facilities in the knowledge i...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Hugenholtz NI,Nieuwenhuijsen K,Sluiter JK,van Dijk FJ

更新日期：2009-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health problem. The emerging epidemic of multi- and extensively drug-resistant (M/XDR) TB further imperils health workers, patients and public health. Health facilities with inadequate infection control are risky environments for the emergence and transmission of TB. ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Tamir K,Wasie B,Azage M

更新日期：2016-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several Western and Arab countries, as well as over 30 States in the US are using the "All-Patient Refined Diagnosis-Related Groups" (APR-DRGs) with four severity-of-illness (SOI) subcategories as a model for hospital funding. The aim of this study is to verify whether this is an adequate model for funding s...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Dewilde S,Annemans L,Pincé H,Thijs V

更新日期：2018-05-11 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:Aging of the workforce is a growing problem. As workers age, their physical, physiological and psychosocial capabilities change. Keeping older workers healthy and productive is a key goal of European labor policy and health promotion is a key to achieve this result. Previous studies about workplace health pr...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Poscia A,Moscato U,La Milia DI,Milovanovic S,Stojanovic J,Borghini A,Collamati A,Ricciardi W,Magnavita N

更新日期：2016-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:E-mental health is a promising medium to keep mental health affordable and accessible. For consumers with severe mental illness the evidence of the effectiveness of e-health is limited. A number of difficulties and barriers have to be addressed concerning e-health for consumers with severe mental illness. On...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Beentjes TAA,van Gaal BGI,Goossens PJJ,Schoonhoven L

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While previous research establishes an association between social relations, health and use of healthcare services among older people, how to implement this knowledge in real-life settings has received much less attention. This study will explore the relationship between social relations, health and use of h...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Mikkelsen ASB,Lund R,Kristiansen M

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When it was initiated in 2001, England's national patient survey programme was one of the first in the world and has now been widely emulated in other healthcare systems. The aim of the survey programme was to make the National Health Service (NHS) more "patient centred" and more responsive to patient feedba...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： DeCourcy A,West E,Barron D

更新日期：2012-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research on team effectiveness in healthcare has focussed on whether effective teams yield positive outcomes for patients and on the effectiveness of team interventions to improve performance. Limited understanding exists of what works for whom within an effective team, or how and why the context in which th...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Cunningham U,Ward ME,De Brún A,McAuliffe E

更新日期：2018-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The "practice makes perfect" concept considers the more frequent a hospital performs a procedure, the better the outcome of the procedure. We aimed to study this concept by investigating whether patient outcomes improve in hospitals with a significantly increased volume of high-risk surgery over time and whe...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Payet C,Polazzi S,Lifante JC,Cotte E,Grinberg D,Carty MJ,Sanchez S,Rabilloud M,Duclos A

更新日期：2020-04-01 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:Reimbursement systems provide incentives to health care providers and may drive physician behaviour. This review assesses the impact of reimbursement system on socioeconomic and racial inequalities in access, utilization and quality of primary care. METHODS:A systematic search was performed in Web of Scienc...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Tao W,Agerholm J,Burström B

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV treatment models in Africa are labour intensive and require a high number of skilled staff. In this context, task-shifting is considered a feasible alternative for ART service delivery. In 2006, a lay health cadre of expert patients (EPs) at a tertiary referral HIV clinic in Zomba, Malawi was capacitated...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Landes M,Thompson C,Mwinjiwa E,Thaulo E,Gondwe C,Akello H,Chan AK

更新日期：2017-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite public health care being free at the point of delivery in Timor-Leste, wealthier patients access hospital care at nearly twice the rate of poorer patients. This study seeks to understand the barriers driving inequitable utilisation of hospital services in Timor-Leste from the perspective of community...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Price JA,Soares AI,Asante AD,Martins JS,Williams K,Wiseman VL

更新日期：2016-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the organisational set-up of physiotherapy services across different countries is increasingly important as clinicians around the world use evidence to improve their practice. This also has to be taken into consideration when multi-centre international clinical trials are conducted. This survey...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Rasova K,Freeman J,Martinkova P,Pavlikova M,Cattaneo D,Jonsdottir J,Henze T,Baert I,Van Asch P,Santoyo C,Smedal T,Beiske AG,Stachowiak M,Kovalewski M,Nedeljkovic U,Bakalidou D,Guerreiro JM,Nilsagård Y,Dimitrova EN,H

更新日期：2016-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:QUALMAT project aimed at improving quality of maternal and newborn care in selected health care facilities in three African countries. An electronic clinical decision support system was implemented to support providers comply with established standards in antenatal and childbirth care. Given that health care...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Saronga HP,Duysburgh E,Massawe S,Dalaba MA,Wangwe P,Sukums F,Leshabari M,Blank A,Sauerborn R,Loukanova S

更新日期：2017-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physicians are encouraged to counsel obese patients to lose weight, but studies measuring the quality of physicians' counseling are rare. We sought to describe the quality of physicians' obesity counseling and to determine associations between the quality of counseling and obese patients' motivation and inte...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Jay M,Gillespie C,Schlair S,Sherman S,Kalet A

更新日期：2010-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A vast body of literature has documented regional variations in healthcare utilization rates. The extent to which such variations are "unwarranted" critically depends on whether there are corresponding variations in patients' needs. Using a unique medical registry, the current paper investigated any associat...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Rudolfsen JH,Solberg TK,Ingebrigtsen T,Olsen JA

更新日期：2020-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Along with economic growth and living standard improvement, hypertension has become one of the most prevalent chronic diseases in China. Self-reported measures and tested measures of hypertension may differ significantly due to the low awareness of prevalence. The objective of this study is to figure out whe...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Cao D,Zhou Z,Si Y,Xiao X,Wang X,Shen C,Ren Y,Su M,He S,Gao J

更新日期：2019-07-01 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:Aboriginal Australians have worse cancer survival rates than other Australians. Reasons include fear of a cancer diagnosis, reluctance to attend mainstream health services and discrimination from health professionals. Offering health professionals education in care focusing on Aboriginal patients' needs is i...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Durey A,Halkett G,Berg M,Lester L,Kickett M

更新日期：2017-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the prevalence of depression in Vietnam is on par with global rates, services for depression are limited. The government of Vietnam has prioritized enhancing depression care through primary healthcare (PHC) and efforts are currently underway to test and scale-up psychosocial interventions throughout...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Murphy J,Corbett KK,Linh DT,Oanh PT,Nguyen VC

更新日期：2018-08-16 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:The current, place-oriented nurse call systems are very static. A patient can only make calls with a button which is fixed to a wall of a room. Moreover, the system does not take into account various factors specific to a situation. In the future, there will be an evolution to a mobile button for each patien...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Ongenae F,Myny D,Dhaene T,Defloor T,Van Goubergen D,Verhoeve P,Decruyenaere J,De Turck F

更新日期：2011-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exploring barriers to the uptake of research based recommendations into practice is an important part of the development of implementation programmes. Techniques to identify barriers can include use of theory-informed questionnaires and qualitative interviews. Conceptualising and measuring theory-informed fa...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Hanbury A,Farley K,Thompson C,Wilson P,Chambers D

更新日期：2012-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has increased insurance coverage for people with HIV (PWH) in the United States. To inform health policy, it is useful to investigate how enrollment through ACA Exchanges, deductible levels, and demographic factors are associated with health care utilization and HIV clinical out...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Satre DD,Parthasarathy S,Silverberg MJ,Horberg M,Young-Wolff KC,Williams EC,Volberding P,Campbell CI

更新日期：2020-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A growing body of evidence supports the link between hospital organisational culture and health outcomes. Organisational culture is thus an essential consideration for hospital accreditation, a practice of systematically assessing the quality of hospital care against accepted standards. This study assesses t...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Andres EB,Song W,Schooling CM,Johnston JM

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The concept of frailty is rapidly gaining attention as an independent syndrome with high prevalence in older adults. Thereby, frailty is often related to certain adverse outcomes like mortality or disability. Another adverse outcome discussed is increased health care utilization. However, only few studies ex...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Bock JO,König HH,Brenner H,Haefeli WE,Quinzler R,Matschinger H,Saum KU,Schöttker B,Heider D

更新日期：2016-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health professionals need updated health information from credible sources to improve their knowledge and provide evidence based health care services. Various types of medical errors have occurred in resource-limited countries because of poor knowledge and experience sharing practices among health profession...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Asemahagn MA

更新日期：2014-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Struggling to correct the public-private imbalance in its health care system, the Hong Kong SAR Government seeks to introduce a government-regulated voluntary health insurance scheme, or VHIS, a distinctive financing instrument that combines the characteristics of private insurance with strong government reg...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： He AJ

更新日期：2017-08-25 00:00:00