A mobile methods pilot study of surgical spaces: 'fit for purpose? Organisational productivity and workforce wellbeing in workspaces in hospital' (FLOURISH).

abstract：BACKGROUND:Home care (HC) is a critical component of the ongoing restructuring of healthcare in Canada. It impacts three dimensions of healthcare delivery: primary healthcare, chronic disease management, and aging at home strategies. The purpose of our study is to investigate a significant safety dimension of HC, the o...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Doran DM,Hirdes JP,Blais R,Baker GR,Poss JW,Li X,Dill D,Gruneir A,Heckman G,Lacroix H,Mitchell L,O'Beirne M,White N,Droppo L,Foebel AD,Qian G,Nahm SM,Yim O,McIsaac C,Jantzi M

更新日期：2013-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effects of tobacco, physical exercise, diet, and alcohol consumption on morbidity and mortality underline the importance of health promotion and prevention (HPP) at the primary health care (PHC) level. Likewise, the deficiencies when putting such policies into practice and assessing their effectiveness a...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Calderón C,Balagué L,Cortada JM,Sánchez A

更新日期：2011-03-23 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:Recovery in mental health care is complex, highly individual and can be facilitated by a range of professional and non-professional support. In this study we will examine how recovery from mental health problems is promoted in non-medical settings. We hypothesise a relationship between involvement in decisio...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Coffey M,Hannigan B,Meudell A,Hunt J,Fitzsimmons D

更新日期：2016-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Healthcare systems are increasingly focusing on outcomes that are the endpoints of care: patient health status and patient satisfaction. The availability of patient satisfaction (PS) data has encouraged research on its relationship with other outcomes, such as mortality. In Italy, an inter-regional performan...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Grillo Ruggieri T,Berta P,Murante AM,Nuti S

更新日期：2018-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The quality standards of the Dutch Society of Intensive Care require monitoring of the satisfaction of patient's relatives with respect to care. Currently, no suitable instrument is available in the Netherlands to measure this. This study describes the development and psychometric evaluation of the questionn...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Rensen A,van Mol MM,Menheere I,Nijkamp MD,Verhoogt E,Maris B,Manders W,Vloet L,Verharen L

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the single greatest contributor to the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Our objective is to determine if holistic CVD risk assessment, introduced as part of the new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Adult Health Check (AHC), results...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Burgess CP,Bailie RS,Connors CM,Chenhall RD,McDermott RA,O'Dea K,Gunabarra C,Matthews HL,Esterman AJ

更新日期：2011-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Safety management systems have been set up in healthcare institutions to reduce the number of adverse events. Safety management systems use a combination of activities, such as identifying and assessing safety risks in the organizational processes through retrospective and prospective risk assessments. A com...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： van Schoten SM,Baines RJ,Spreeuwenberg P,de Bruijne MC,Groenewegen PP,Groeneweg J,Wagner C

更新日期：2014-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Norwegian specialist health service has undergone many processes of reorganization during the last three decades. Changes are mainly initiated to increase the efficiency and quality of health care serving an ageing population under the condition of a diminishing labour supply. The aim of this study is to...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Ingelsrud MH

更新日期：2014-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Promotion of healthy lifestyle is an important strategy. This study was conducted to determine the effects of counselling on health-promoting lifestyle and quality of life in middle-aged women. METHODS:This randomised, controlled, clinical trial was conducted on 102 middle-aged women presenting to health ce...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Karimlou V,Charandabi SM,Malakouti J,Mirghafourvand M

更新日期：2019-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The quality of care delivered and clinical outcomes of care are of paramount importance. Wide variations in the outcome of emergency care have been suggested, but the scale of variation, and the way in which outcomes are inter-related are poorly defined and are critical to understand how best to improve serv...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Holt PJ,Sinha S,Ozdemir BA,Karthikesalingam A,Poloniecki JD,Thompson MM

更新日期：2014-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the general association between socioeconomic status (SES) and hospitalization has been well established, few studies have considered the relationship between SES and hospital length of stay (LOS), and/or hospital re-admission. The primary objective of this study therefore, was to examine the relati...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： McGregor MJ,Reid RJ,Schulzer M,Fitzgerald JM,Levy AR,Cox MB

更新日期：2006-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Outreach facilitation has been proven successful in improving the adoption of clinical preventive care guidelines in primary care practice. The net costs and savings of delivering such an intensive intervention need to be understood. We wanted to estimate the proportion of a facilitation intervention cost th...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Hogg W,Baskerville N,Lemelin J

更新日期：2005-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over 75% of the medical devices used in India are imported. Often, they are costly and maladapted to low-resource settings. We have prepared case studies of six firms in Bangalore that could contribute to solving this problem. They have developed (or are developing) innovative health care products and theref...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Jarosławski S,Saberwal G

更新日期：2013-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients' satisfaction is an important indicator for quality of care. Measuring healthcare quality and improving patient satisfaction have become increasingly prevalent, especially among healthcare providers and purchasers of healthcare. This is mainly due to the fact that consumers are becoming increasingly...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Soufi G,Belayachi J,Himmich S,Ahid S,Soufi M,Zekraoui A,Abouqal R

更新日期：2010-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Timely access is a challenge for providers of outpatient and community-based health services, as seen by the often lengthy waiting lists to manage demand. The Specific Timely Appointments for Triage (STAT) model, an alternative approach for managing access and triage, reduced waiting time by 34% in a stepped...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Harding KE,Snowdon DA,Prendergast L,Lewis AK,Kent B,Leggat SF,Taylor NF

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Improving healthcare utilization is essential as health systems around the world grapple with the escalating demands for acute hospital resources. Evidence suggests that transitional care programs are effective to improve utilization of healthcare. However, the evidence for transitional care programs that en...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Low LL,Vasanwala FF,Ng LB,Chen C,Lee KH,Tan SY

更新日期：2015-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Emergency departments handle a large proportion of acute patients. In 2007, it was recommended centralizing the Danish healthcare system and establishing emergency departments as the main common entrance for emergency patients. Since this reorganization, few studies describing the emergency patient populatio...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Søvsø MB,Hermansen SB,Færk E,Lindskou TA,Ludwig M,Møller JM,Jonciauskiene J,Christensen EF

更新日期：2018-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During the SARS epidemic, healthcare utilization and medical services decreased significantly. However, the long-term impact of SARS on hospital performance needs to be further discussed. METHODS:A municipal hospital in Taipei City was shut down for a month due to SARS and then became the designated SARS an...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Chu D,Chen RC,Ku CY,Chou P

更新日期：2008-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early identification of patients who need post-acute care (PAC) may improve discharge planning. The purposes of the study were to develop and validate a score predicting discharge to a post-acute care (PAC) facility and to determine its best assessment time. METHODS:We conducted a prospective study includin...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Louis Simonet M,Kossovsky MP,Chopard P,Sigaud P,Perneger TV,Gaspoz JM

更新日期：2008-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Severe underutilization of healthcare facilities and lack of timely, affordable and effective access to healthcare services in resource-constrained, bottom of pyramid (BoP) settings are well-known issues, which foster a negative cycle of poor health outcomes, catastrophic health expenditures and poverty. Und...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Černauskas V,Angeli F,Jaiswal AK,Pavlova M

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During transitions from hospital to home, up to half of all patients experience medication-related problems, such as adverse drug events. To reduce these problems, knowledge of patient experiences with medication use during this transition is needed. This study aims to identify the perspectives of patients o...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Daliri S,Bekker CL,Buurman BM,Scholte Op Reimer WJM,van den Bemt BJF,Karapinar-Çarkit F

更新日期：2019-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The level of patient safety and outcomes accomplished depends on the quality of care provided. Previous studies found that nurse-to-patient ratio, practice environment, and nursing education were significant predictors of patient outcomes. However, the outcomes measured in previous studies were mainly inpati...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Chau JP,Lo SH,Choi KC,Chan EL,McHugh MD,Tong DW,Kwok AM,Ip WY,Lee IF,Lee DT

更新日期：2015-12-04 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:General practice clinics are the main primary care institutions providing ambulatory care in the rural areas of Beijing, rational use of medicines is crucial for the rural primary care system. This study investigated the prescribing patterns of general practice clinics in rural Beijing to provide a baseline ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Jin G,Chen C,Liu Y,Zhao Y,Chen L,Du J,Lu X,Chen J

更新日期：2019-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hospital admission and emergency department(ED) visits are a massive burden in medical expenditures. In 2003, the Taiwanese government developed Family Physician Integrated Care Program (FPIC) to increase the quality of primary care and decrease medical expenditures. This study's goals were to determine whet...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Huang PT,Kung PT,Kuo WY,Tsai WC

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent developments have made screening tests for foetal abnormalities available earlier in pregnancy and women have a range of testing options accessible to them. It is now recommended that all women, regardless of their age, are provided with information on prenatal screening tests. General Practitioners (...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Nagle C,Lewis S,Meiser B,Gunn J,Halliday J,Bell R

更新日期：2008-05-28 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:The Australian federal government introduced private health insurance incentive policy reforms in 2000 that increased the uptake of private health insurance in Australia. There is currently a lack of evidence on the effect of the policy reforms on access to cardiovascular interventions in public and private ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Trafalski S,Briffa T,Hung J,Moorin RE,Sanfilippo F,Preen DB,Einarsdóttir K

更新日期：2013-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There has been a relentless increase in emergency medical admissions in the UK over recent years. Many of these patients suffer with chronic conditions requiring continuing medical attention. We wished to determine whether conventional outpatient clinic follow up after discharge has any impact on the rate of...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Rayner HC,Temple RM,Marshall T,Clarke D

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00