Development of a complex community pharmacy intervention package using theory-based behaviour change techniques to improve older adults' medication adherence.

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2011, South Africa improved its ability to test for rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB) by introducing GeneXpert MTB/RIF. At the same time, the South African National TB program adopted a policy decentralized, outpatient treatment for drug resistant (DR-) TB. We aim to analyze the impact of these changes on l...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Evans D,Sineke T,Schnippel K,Berhanu R,Govathson C,Black A,Long L,Rosen S

更新日期：2018-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Secondary prevention is important for reducing both mortality and morbidity of patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). Pharmacists can provide medication and also work on disease management for patients with CHD. This review has been carried out to evaluate the role of pharmacist care on mortality, morbi...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Cai H,Dai H,Hu Y,Yan X,Xu H

更新日期：2013-11-04 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:Management, culture and systems for better quality and patient safety in hospitals have been widely studied in Norway. Nursing homes and home care, however have received much less attention. An increasing number of people need health services in nursing homes and at home, and the services are struggling with...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Johannessen T,Ree E,Aase I,Bal R,Wiig S

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few previous studies have specifically addressed the health care utilization situation of the physically disabled. This study aimed to investigate the utilization of free adult preventive health care for physically disabled people and its' affecting factors. METHODS:The data was obtained from three nationwi...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Yen SM,Kung PT,Tsai WC

更新日期：2014-12-05 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:Older care home residents frequently attend emergency departments with a high conversion to admissions. For this purpose, a novel Care Home Innovation Programme (CHIP) was introduced with the aim of reducing potentially avoidable hospital admissions by 30%. The aim of this study is to evaluate the implementa...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Giebel C,Harvey D,Akpan A,Chamberlain P

更新日期：2020-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The existence of publicly-accessible datasets comprised a significant opportunity for health services research to evolve into a science that supports health policy making and evaluation, proper inter- and intra-organizational decisions and optimal clinical interventions. This paper investigated the role of p...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Saleh SS,Alameddine MS,El-Jardali F

更新日期：2009-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a prominent threat to public health. Although many guidelines have been developed over the years to tackle this issue, their impact on health care practice varies. Guidelines are often based on evidence from clinical trials, but these have limitations, particularly in the br...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Steels S,Van der Zande M,van Staa TP

更新日期：2019-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The migration of health professionals from southern Africa to developed nations is negatively affecting the delivery of health care services in the source countries. Oftentimes however, it is the reasons for the out-migration that have been described in the literature. The work and domestic situations of tho...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Muula AS,Maseko FC

更新日期：2006-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We studied the prevalence of common mental disorders among Dutch hospital physicians and investigated whether the presence of a mental disorder was associated with insufficient self-reported work ability. METHODS:A questionnaire was sent to all (n = 958) hospital physicians of one academic medical center, u...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Ruitenburg MM,Frings-Dresen MH,Sluiter JK

更新日期：2012-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:By tradition, the Swedish health care system is based on a representative and parliamentary form of government. Recently, new management forms, inspired by market principles, have developed. The steering system is both national and regional, in that self-governing county councils are responsible for the fina...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Höglund AT,Falkenström E

更新日期：2018-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Audit and feedback (A&F) is a strategy that has been used in various disciplines for performance and quality improvement. There is limited research regarding medical professionals' acceptance of clinical-performance feedback and whether feedback impacts clinical practice. The objectives of our research were ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Payne VL,Hysong SJ

更新日期：2016-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drug prescribing errors are frequent in the hospital setting and pharmacists play an important role in detection of these errors. The objectives of this study are (1) to describe the drug prescribing errors rate during the patient's stay, (2) to find which characteristics for a prescribing error are the most...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Caruba T,Colombet I,Gillaizeau F,Bruni V,Korb V,Prognon P,Bégué D,Durieux P,Sabatier B

更新日期：2010-01-12 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:Adults with certain comorbid conditions have a higher risk of pneumonia than the overall population. If treatment of pneumonia is more costly in certain predictable situations, this would affect the value proposition of populations for pneumonia prevention. We estimate the economic impact of community-acquir...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Polsky D,Bonafede M,Suaya JA

更新日期：2012-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, several initiatives have focused on how to create true person-centred health services. This calls for a new understanding of health-related empowerment in relation to people living with one or more chronic conditions. We report on a Delphi investigation among participants in the European Innovation...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Kayser L,Karnoe A,Duminski E,Somekh D,Vera-Muñoz C

更新日期：2019-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article. ...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Leung CL,Naert M,Andama B,Dong R,Edelman D,Horowitz C,Kiptoo P,Manyara S,Matelong W,Matini E,Naanyu V,Nyariki S,Pastakia S,Valente T,Fuster V,Bloomfield GS,Kamano J,Vedanthan R

更新日期：2020-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Tanzania, decentralisation processes and reforms in the health sector aimed at improving planning and accountability in the sector. As a result, districts were given authority to undertake local planning and set priorities as well as allocate resources fairly to promote the health of a population with var...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Shayo EH,Mboera LE,Blystad A

更新日期：2013-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2008, the Swedish government introduced a National Rehabilitation Program, in which the government financially reimburses the county councils for evidence-based multimodal rehabilitation (MMR) interventions. The target group is patients of working age with musculoskeletal disorders (MSD), expected to retu...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Sennehed CP,Holmberg S,Stigmar K,Forsbrand M,Petersson IF,Nyberg A,Grahn B

更新日期：2017-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Is the implementation of Quality Management (QM) in health care proceeding satisfactorily and can national health care policies influence the implementation process? Policymakers and researchers in a country need to know the answer to this question. Cross country comparisons can reveal whether sufficient pro...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Wagner C,Gulácsi L,Takacs E,Outinen M

更新日期：2006-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Treat-to-target is the recommended strategy for the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and involves regular assessment of disease activity using validated measures and subsequent adjustment of medical therapy if patients are not in remission or low disease activity. Recommendations published in 2012 det...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Bays A,Wahl E,Daikh DI,Yazdany J,Schmajuk G

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We investigate factors affecting Australian general practitioners' decisions to adopt novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs) for the prevention of stroke/systemic embolism among patients with atrial fibrillation. Australia has a national homogeneous review and coverage system, which enables us to distinguish phys...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Zhang Y,Méndez SJ,Scott A

更新日期：2019-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Combined lifestyle interventions (CLIs) are designed to help people who are overweight or obese maintain a healthy new lifestyle. The CooL intervention is a CLI in the Netherlands, in which lifestyle coaches counsel adults and children (and/or their parents) who are obese or at high risk of obesity to achiev...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： van Rinsum C,Gerards S,Rutten G,Johannesma M,van de Goor I,Kremers S

更新日期：2019-09-14 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: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: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:A Massachusetts regulation implemented in 2007 has required all acute care hospitals to report patients' race, ethnicity and preferred language using standardized methodology based on self-reported information from patients. This study assessed implementation of the regulation and its impact on the use of ra...

journal_title：BMC health services research

authors： Jorgensen S,Thorlby R,Weinick RM,Ayanian JZ

更新日期：2010-12-31 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: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