Issue 1/2015
Content (585 Articles)
A mediation approach to understanding socio-economic inequalities in maternal health-seeking behaviours in Egypt
Lenka Benova, Oona MR Campbell, George B Ploubidis
Cost-effectiveness of adding rituximab to splenectomy and romiplostim for treating steroid-resistant idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura in adults
Kayoko Kikuchi, Yoshitaka Miyakawa, Shunya Ikeda, Yuji Sato, Toru Takebayashi
Assessment of health service delivery capacities, health providers’ knowledge and practices related to type 2 diabetes care in Kinshasa primary healthcare network facilities, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Remy Y Kapongo, Aimée M Lulebo, Eric M Mafuta, Paulin B Mutombo, Jean Claude M Dimbelolo, Isidore E Bieleli
Nursing identity and patient-centredness in scholarly health services research: a computational text analysis of PubMed abstracts 1986–2013
Erica Bell, Steve Campbell, Lynette R Goldberg
Comparison of two methods to report potentially avoidable hospitalizations in France in 2012: a cross-sectional study
Rodolphe Bourret, Grégoire Mercier, Jacques Mercier, Olivier Jonquet, Jean-Emmanuel De La Coussaye, Philippe J Bousquet, Jean-Marie Robine, Jean Bousquet
Preventing surgical disputes through early detection and intervention: a case control study in China
Ping Xu, Zhenlin Fan, Ting Li, Lijie Wang, Qingwen Sun, Xia Du, Bin Lian, Lulu Zhang
Determining the predictors of innovation implementation in healthcare: a quantitative analysis of implementation effectiveness
Sara R Jacobs, Bryan J Weiner, Bryce B Reeve, David A Hofmann, Michael Christian, Morris Weinberger
Longitudinal and cross sectional assessments of health utility in adults with HIV/AIDS: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Bach Xuan Tran, Long Hoang Nguyen, Arto Ohinmaa, Rachel Marie Maher, Vuong Minh Nong, Carl A Latkin
Information-gathering for self-medication via Eastern Indonesian community pharmacies: a cross-sectional study
Cecilia Brata, Brahmaputra Marjadi, Carl R Schneider, Kevin Murray, Rhonda M Clifford
Health worker perspectives on barriers to delivery of routine tuberculosis diagnostic evaluation services in Uganda: a qualitative study to guide clinic-based interventions
Adithya Cattamanchi, Cecily R Miller, Asa Tapley, Priscilla Haguma, Emmanuel Ochom, Sara Ackerman, J Lucian Davis, Achilles Katamba, Margaret A Handley
Uterotonic use immediately following birth: using a novel methodology to estimate population coverage in four countries
Jim Ricca, Vikas Dwivedi, John Varallo, Gajendra Singh, Suranjeen Prasad Pallipamula, Nazir Amade, Maria de Luz Vaz, Dustan Bishanga, Marya Plotkin, Bushra Al-Makaleh, Stephanie Suhowatsky, Jeffrey Michael Smith
Impact of diabetes on hospital admission and length of stay among a general population aged 45 year or more: a record linkage study
Elizabeth Jean Comino, Mark Fort Harris, MD Fakhrul Islam, Duong Thuy Tran, Bin Jalaludin, Louisa Jorm, Jeff Flack, Marion Haas
Prescribing efficiency of proton pump inhibitors in China: influence and future directions
Wenjie Zeng, Alexander E Finlayson, Sushma Shankar, Winnie de Bruyn, Brian Godman
Beyond the hospital door: a retrospective, cohort study of associations between birthing in the public or private sector and women’s postpartum care
Wendy Brodribb, Maria Zadoroznyj, Michelle Nesic, Sue Kruske, Yvette D Miller
Economic burden of illness associated with diabetic foot ulcers in Canada
Robert B Hopkins, Natasha Burke, John Harlock, Jathishinie Jegathisawaran, Ron Goeree
Quantifying the demand for hospital care services: a time and motion study
Catharina J van Oostveen, Dirk J Gouma, Piet J Bakker, Dirk T Ubbink
Early detection of maternal deaths in Senegal through household-based death notification integrating verbal and social autopsy: a community-level case study
Mosa Moshabela, Massamba Sene, Ingrid Nanne, Yombo Tankoano, Jennifer Schaefer, Oumulkhairy Niang, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs
Total hospital stay for hip fracture: measuring the variations due to pre-fracture residence, rehabilitation, complications and comorbidities
Anthony W Ireland, Patrick J Kelly, Robert G Cumming
From concept to content: assessing the implementation fidelity of a chronic care model for frail, older people who live at home
Maaike E Muntinga, Karen M Van Leeuwen, François G Schellevis, Giel Nijpels, Aaltje PD Jansen
Addressing implementation challenges during guideline development – a case study of Swedish national guidelines for methods of preventing disease
Linda Richter-Sundberg, Therese Kardakis, Lars Weinehall, Rickard Garvare, Monica E Nyström
Factors related to health-related quality of life among Chinese psychiatrists: occupational stress and psychological capital
Chuan Liu, Lie Wang, Qun Zhao
The role of general practice in routes to diagnosis of lung cancer in Denmark: a population-based study of general practice involvement, diagnostic activity and diagnostic intervals
Louise Mahncke Guldbrandt, Morten Fenger-Grøn, Torben Riis Rasmussen, Henry Jensen, Peter Vedsted
Guideline adherence and health outcomes in diabetes mellitus type 2 patients: a cross-sectional study
Sandra F Oude Wesselink, Hester F Lingsma, Paul BM Robben, Johan P Mackenbach
Multimorbidity, health care utilization and costs in an elderly community-dwelling population: a claims data based observational study
Caroline Bähler, Carola A Huber, Beat Brüngger, Oliver Reich
How rural and urban parents describe convenience in the context of school-based influenza vaccination: a qualitative study
Candace Lind, Margaret L Russell, Ramona Collins, Judy MacDonald, Christine J Frank, Amy E Davis
Organisational culture and post-merger integration in an academic health centre: a mixed-methods study
Pavel V Ovseiko, Karen Melham, Jan Fowler, Alastair M Buchan
Association between chronic disease and catastrophic health expenditure in Korea
Jae-Woo Choi, Jong-Won Choi, Jae-Hyun Kim, Ki-Bong Yoo, Eun-Cheol Park
Medicare and Medicaid enrollment and outside hospitalizations among HIV-infected and uninfected veterans engaged in VA care: a retrospective cohort study
Harry Chang, Janet Tate, Amy C Justice, Michael E Ohl
Everybody wants it done but nobody wants to do it: an exploration of the barrier and enablers of critical components towards creating a clinical pathway for anxiety and depression in cancer
Nicole M Rankin, Phyllis N Butow, Thida Thein, Tracy Robinson, Joanne M Shaw, Melanie A Price, Kerrie Clover, Tim Shaw, Peter Grimison
Knowledge of occupational exposure to HIV: a cross sectional study of healthcare workers in Tumbi and Dodoma hospitals, Tanzania
Kijakazi Obed Mashoto, Godfrey Martin Mubyazi, Adiel K Mushi
Implementing healthy lifestyle promotion in primary care: a quasi-experimental cross-sectional study evaluating a team initiative
Kristin Thomas, Barbro Krevers, Preben Bendtsen
Assessing catastrophic and impoverishing effects of health care payments in Uganda
Brendan Kwesiga, Charlotte M Zikusooka, John E Ataguba
Exploring the success of an integrated primary care partnership: a longitudinal study of collaboration processes
Pim P Valentijn, Hubertus JM Vrijhoef, Dirk Ruwaard, Antoinette de Bont, Rosa Y Arends, Marc A Bruijnzeels
Mobile phone text messaging interventions for HIV and other chronic diseases: an overview of systematic reviews and framework for evidence transfer
Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Sara Mursleen, Lyubov Lytvyn, Marek Smieja, Lisa Dolovich, Lehana Thabane
Cost to households in treating maternal complications in northern Ghana: a cross sectional study
Maxwell Ayindenaba Dalaba, Patricia Akweongo, Raymond Akawire Aborigo, Happiness Pius Saronga, John Williams, Gifty Apiung Aninanya, Rainer Sauerborn, Svetla Loukanova
Treatment variation in patients diagnosed with early stage breast cancer in Alberta from 2002 to 2010: a population-based study
Stacey Fisher, He Gao, Yutaka Yasui, Kelly Dabbs, Marcy Winget
‘Deep down in their heart, they wish they could be given some incentives’: a qualitative study on the changing roles and relations of care among home-based caregivers in Zambia
Fabian Cataldo, Karina Kielmann, Tara Kielmann, Gitau Mburu, Maurice Musheke
Cost-effectiveness of the non-pneumatic anti-shock garment (NASG): evidence from a cluster randomized controlled trial in Zambia and Zimbabwe
Janelle Downing, Alison El Ayadi, Suellen Miller, Elizabeth Butrick, Gricelia Mkumba, Thulani Magwali, Christine Kaseba-Sata, James G Kahn
Innovation in health service delivery: integrating community health assistants into the health system at district level in Zambia
Joseph Mumba Zulu, Anna-Karin Hurtig, John Kinsman, Charles Michelo
Knowledge and perceptions of the intrauterine device among family planning providers in Nepal: a cross-sectional analysis by cadre and sector
Nirali M Chakraborty, Caitlin Murphy, Mahesh Paudel, Sriju Sharma
How to improve prescription of inhaled salbutamol by providing standardised feedback on administration: a controlled intervention pilot study with follow-up
Martina P Neininger, Almuth Kaune, Astrid Bertsche, Jessica Rink, Juliane Musiol, Roberto Frontini, Freerk Prenzel, Wieland Kiess, Thilo Bertsche
Patients’ perception of dignity in an Italian general hospital: a cross-sectional analysis
Paola Ferri, Jennifer Muzzalupo, Rosaria Di Lorenzo
Having a family doctor was associated with lower utilization of hospital-based health services
Colman SC Fung, Carlos KH Wong, Daniel YT Fong, Albert Lee, Cindy LK Lam
Assessing willingness to pay for health care quality improvements
Md Sadik Pavel, Sayan Chakrabarty, Jeff Gow
Who pays for and who benefits from health care services in Uganda?
Brendan Kwesiga, John E Ataguba, Christabel Abewe, Paul Kizza, Charlotte M Zikusooka
Performing well in financial management and quality of care: evidence from hospital process measures for treatment of cardiovascular disease
Gang Nathan Dong
Smoking cessation and care management for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Jamie Peterson, Allan V Prochazka, Catherine Battaglia
The health literate health care organization 10 item questionnaire (HLHO-10): development and validation
Christoph Kowalski, Shoou-Yih D Lee, Anna Schmidt, Simone Wesselmann, Markus A Wirtz, Holger Pfaff, Nicole Ernstmann
The influence of an intermediate care hospital on health care utilization among elderly patients - a retrospective comparative cohort study
Unni Dahl, Roar Johnsen, Rune Sætre, Aslak Steinsbekk
User experiences with clinical social franchising: qualitative insights from providers and clients in Ghana and Kenya
Maia Sieverding, Christina Briegleb, Dominic Montagu
Missed opportunities for brief intervention in tobacco control in primary care: patients’ perspectives from primary health care settings in India
Rajmohan Panda, Divya Persai, Sudhir Venkatesan
A population-based study of the extent of colorectal cancer screening in men with HIV
Tony Antoniou, Nathaniel Jembere, Refik Saskin, Alexander Kopp, Richard H Glazier
The effect of patient, provider and financing regulations on the intensity of ambulatory physical therapy episodes: a multilevel analysis based on routinely available data
Patricia Halfon, Yves Eggli, Yves Morel, Patrick Taffé
Survey on patient safety climate in public hospitals in China
Ping Zhou, M Kate Bundorf, Jianjun Gu, Xiaoyan He, Di Xue
A critique of the design, implementation, and delivery of a culturally-tailored self-management education intervention: a qualitative evaluation
Manbinder S Sidhu, Nicola K Gale, Paramjit Gill, Tom Marshall, Kate Jolly
Streamlined research funding using short proposals and accelerated peer review: an observational study
Adrian G Barnett, Danielle L Herbert, Megan Campbell, Naomi Daly, Jason A Roberts, Alison Mudge, Nicholas Graves
Historical account of the national health insurance formulation in Kenya: experiences from the past decade
Timothy Abuya, Thomas Maina, Jane Chuma
A non-clinical randomised controlled trial to assess the impact of pharmaceutical care intervention on satisfaction level of newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus patients in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Nepal
Dinesh Kumar Upadhyay, Mohamed Izham Mohamed Ibrahim, Pranaya Mishra, Vijay M Alurkar
Health and use of health services of people who are homeless and at risk of homelessness who receive free primary health care in Dublin
Claire Keogh, Kirsty K O’Brien, Anthony Hoban, Austin O’Carroll, Tom Fahey
Using a theory of planned behaviour framework to explore hand hygiene beliefs at the ‘5 critical moments’ among Australian hospital-based nurses
Katherine M White, Nerina L Jimmieson, Patricia L Obst, Nicholas Graves, Adrian Barnett, Wendell Cockshaw, Phillip Gee, Lara Haneman, Katie Page, Megan Campbell, Elizabeth Martin, David Paterson
Facilitating large-scale implementation of evidence based health care: insider accounts from a co-operative inquiry
Heather Waterman, Ruth Boaden, Lorraine Burey, Brook Howells, Gill Harvey, John Humphreys, Katy Rothwell, Michael Spence
Measuring organisational readiness for patient engagement (MORE): an international online Delphi consensus study
Linda JM Oostendorp, Marie-Anne Durand, Amy Lloyd, Glyn Elwyn
The interplay of contextual elements in implementation: an ethnographic case study
Megan B McCullough, Ann F Chou, Jeffrey L Solomon, Beth Ann Petrakis, Bo Kim, Angela M Park, Ashley J Benedict, Alison B Hamilton, Adam J Rose
A cross-sectional, population-based study of HIV physicians and outpatient health care use by people with HIV in Ontario
Claire E Kendall, Jenna Wong, Monica Taljaard, Richard H Glazier, William Hogg, Jaime Younger, Douglas G Manuel
An innovation for improving maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) service delivery in Jigawa State, northern Nigeria: a qualitative study of stakeholders’ perceptions about clinical mentoring
Ekechi Okereke, Jamilu Tukur, Amina Aminu, Jean Butera, Bello Mohammed, Mustapha Tanko, Ibrahim Yisa, Benson Obonyo, Mike Egboh
Attributes and circumstances that induce inappropriate health services demand: a study of the health sector in Brazil
Djalma S Guimarães Jr, Eduardo JO Soares, Gileno Ferraz Júnior, Denise D Medeiros
Use of GP services by patients with schizophrenia: a national cross-sectional register-based study
Øystein Hetlevik, Magne Solheim, Sturla Gjesdal
The impact of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) service scale-up on mechanisms of accountability in Zambian primary health centres: a case-based health systems analysis
Stephanie M Topp, Jim Black, Martha Morrow, Julien M Chipukuma, Wim Van Damme
Community health workers improve diabetes care in remote Australian Indigenous communities: results of a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial
Robyn A McDermott, Barbara Schmidt, Cilla Preece, Vickie Owens, Sean Taylor, Ming Li, Adrian Esterman
Illness and medical and other expenditures: observations from western and eastern China
Jing Zhang, Benchang Shia, Huangdi Yi, Shuangge Ma, Chi Ma
Estimation of lung cancer diagnosis and treatment costs based on a patient-level analysis in Catalonia (Spain)
Julieta Corral, Josep Alfons Espinàs, Francesc Cots, Laura Pareja, Judit Solà, Rebeca Font, Josep Maria Borràs
Using diffusion of innovation theory to understand the factors impacting patient acceptance and use of consumer e-health innovations: a case study in a primary care clinic
Xiaojun Zhang, Ping Yu, Jun Yan, Ir Ton A M Spil
Social acceptance and population confidence in telehealth in Quebec
Thomas G Poder, Christian A Bellemare, Suzanne K Bédard, Renald Lemieux
A comparison of estimated drug costs of potentially inappropriate medications between older patients receiving nurse home visit services and patients receiving pharmacist home visit services: a cross-sectional and propensity score analysis
Jun Hamano, Sachiko Ozone, Yasuharu Tokuda
“Why should I have come here?” - a qualitative investigation of migration reasons and experiences of health workers from sub-Saharan Africa in Austria
Elena Jirovsky, Kathryn Hoffmann, Manfred Maier, Ruth Kutalek
Health providers’ perspectives on delivering public health services under the contract service policy in rural China: evidence from Xinjian County
Huixuan Zhou, Weijun Zhang, Shengfa Zhang, Fugang Wang, You Zhong, Linni Gu, Zhiyong Qu, Xiaoyun Liang, Zhihong Sa, Xiaohua Wang, Donghua Tian
The changing patterns of dispensing branded and generic drugs for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease between 2006 and 2011 in Japan: a retrospective cohort study
Kyoko Murata, Shiro Hinotsu, Shota Hamada, Yasumasa Ezoe, Manabu Muto, Koji Kawakami
Nurses’ evaluation of physicians’ non-clinical performance in emergency departments: advantages, disadvantages and lessons learned
Mohamad Alameddine, Afif Mufarrij, Miriam Saliba, Yara Mourad, Rima Jabbour, Eveline Hitti
A process-based framework to guide nurse practitioners integration into primary healthcare teams: results from a logic analysis
Damien Contandriopoulos, Astrid Brousselle, Carl-Ardy Dubois, Mélanie Perroux, Marie-Dominique Beaulieu, Isabelle Brault, Kelley Kilpatrick, Danielle D’Amour, Esther Sansgter-Gormley
Implementation of evidence-based rehabilitation for non-specific back pain and common mental health problems: a process evaluation of a nationwide initiative
Elisabeth Björk Brämberg, Charlotte Klinga, Irene Jensen, Hillevi Busch, Gunnar Bergström, Mats Brommels, Johan Hansson
Role of information in preparing men for transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy: a qualitative study embedded in the ProtecT trial
Julia Wade, Derek J Rosario, Joanne Howson, Kerry N L Avery, C Elizabeth Salter, M Louise Goodwin, Jane M Blazeby, J Athene Lane, Chris Metcalfe, David E Neal, Freddie C Hamdy, Jenny L Donovan
Effectiveness of intensive healthcare waste management training model among health professionals at teaching hospitals of Pakistan: a quasi-experimental study
Ramesh Kumar, Ratana Somrongthong, Babar Tasneem Shaikh
Assessing the effects of pharmacists’ perceived organizational support, organizational commitment and turnover intention on provision of medication information at community pharmacies in Lithuania: a structural equation modeling approach
Gvidas Urbonas, Loreta Kubilienė, Raimondas Kubilius, Aušra Urbonienė
Consensus building to improve the physical health of people with severe mental illness: a qualitative outcome mapping study
Carolyn Ehrlich, Elizabeth Kendall, Nicolette Frey, Michelle Denton, Steve Kisely
Implementation of integrated services networks in Quebec and nursing practice transformation: convergence or divergence?
Caroline Longpré, Carl-Ardy Dubois
Drivers of hospitalization cost after craniotomy for tumor resection: creation and validation of a predictive model
Symeon Missios, Kimon Bekelis
Implementing a care pathway for elderly patients, a comparative qualitative process evaluation in primary care
Tove Røsstad, Helge Garåsen, Aslak Steinsbekk, Erna Håland, Line Kristoffersen, Anders Grimsmo
How much of the productivity losses among psoriasis patients are due to psoriasis
Anssi Mustonen, Kalle Mattila, Mauri Leino, Leena Koulu, Risto Tuominen
Healthcare utilization and expenditures for chronic and acute conditions in Georgia: Does benefit package design matter?
George Gotsadze, Adrianna Murphy, Natia Shengelia, Akaki Zoidze
Inpatients’ awareness of admission reasons and management plans of their clinical conditions at a tertiary hospital in South Africa
Langalibalele H Mabuza, Olufemi B Omole, Indiran Govender, John V Ndimande, Herman S Schoeman
Factors associated with the frequency of physician visits among North Korean defectors residing in South Korea: a cross-sectional study
Bo-Ram Wang, Young Dae Kwon, Wootack Jeon, Jin-Won Noh
The cost of hospital-acquired complications for older people with and without dementia; a retrospective cohort study
Kasia Bail, John Goss, Brian Draper, Helen Berry, Rosemary Karmel, Diane Gibson
Unfolding similarity in interphysician networks: the impact of institutional and professional homophily
Daniele Mascia, Fausto Di Vincenzo, Valentina Iacopino, Maria Pia Fantini, Americo Cicchetti
Legal and professional implications of shared care: a case study in oral anticoagulation stroke prevention therapy
Jacqueline A Nicholls, Henry WW Potts, Bridget Coleman, David L Patterson
The potential for using a Universal Medication Schedule (UMS) to improve adherence in patients taking multiple medications in the UK: a qualitative evaluation
Cassandra Kenning, Joanne Protheroe, Nicola Gray, Darren Ashcroft, Peter Bower
Cross-sectional study comparing public and private hospitals in Catalonia: Is the practice of routine episiotomy changing?
Ramón Escuriet, María J Pueyo, Mercedes Perez-Botella, Xavi Espada, Isabel Salgado, Analía Gómez, Herminia Biescas, Isabel Espiga, Joanna White, Rosa Fernandez, Josep Fusté, Vicente Ortún
Quality of life measurements as an indicator for timing of support after oesophagectomy for cancer: a prospective study
Marlene Malmström, Rosemarie Klefsgard, Bodil Ivarsson, Maria Roman, Jan Johansson
Informing the design of a national screening and treatment programme for chronic viral hepatitis in primary care: qualitative study of at-risk immigrant communities and healthcare professionals
Lorna Sweeney, John A Owiti, Andrew Beharry, Kamaldeep Bhui, Jessica Gomes, Graham R Foster, Trisha Greenhalgh
A cross-sectional analysis of prescription and stakeholder surveys following essential medicine reform in Guangdong Province, China
Wen-yuan Zhang, Ying-ran Li, Yun-jing Li, Xue-qin Li, Wei-guo Zhao, Rong-zhi Lu
Inclusion of short-term care patients affects the perceived performance of specialists: a retrospective cohort study
Mark A Nyman, Rosa L Cabanela, Juliette T Liesinger, Paula J Santrach, James M Naessens
Effectiveness of a transitional home care program in reducing acute hospital utilization: a quasi-experimental study
Lian Leng Low, Farhad Fakhrudin Vasanwala, Lee Beng Ng, Cynthia Chen, Kheng Hock Lee, Shu Yun Tan
Economic valuation and determinants of informal care to disabled people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Luz María Peña-Longobardo, Juan Oliva-Moreno, Álvaro Hidalgo-Vega, Marc Miravitlles
Household perceptions towards a redistributive policy across health insurance funds in Tanzania
Eunice N Chomi, Phares GM Mujinja, Kristian Hansen, Angwara D Kiwara, Ulrika Enemark
Determinants of the intention to use e-Health by community dwelling older people
Anke J E de Veer, José M Peeters, Anne EM Brabers, Francois G Schellevis, Jany JD JM Rademakers, Anneke L Francke
Cost of illness of the Cervical Cancer of the uterus in Japan - a time trend and future projections
Eijiro Hayata, Kanako Seto, Kayoko Haga, Takefumi Kitazawa, Kunichika Matsumoto, Mineto Morita, Tomonori Hasegawa
Multiple sclerosis outpatient future groups: improving the quality of participant interaction and ideation tools within service improvement activities
Alison Thomson, Carol Rivas, Gavin Giovannoni
Use of prothrombin complex concentrate in warfarin anticoagulation reversal in the emergency department: a quality improvement study of administration delays
Simon Bordeleau, Julien Poitras, Danièle Marceau, Carolle Breton, Pierre Beaupré, Patrick M Archambault
Effects of continuity of care on hospital admission in patients with type 2 diabetes: analysis of nationwide insurance data
Kyoung Hee Cho, Sang Gyu Lee, Byungyool Jun, Bo-Young Jung, Jae-Hyun Kim, Eun-Cheol Park
Ghana’s National Health insurance scheme and maternal and child health: a mixed methods study
Kavita Singh, Isaac Osei-Akoto, Frank Otchere, Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey, Clare Barrington, Carolyn Huang, Corinne Fordham, Ilene Speizer
Evaluating the implementation of the 13-valent pneumococcal vaccine supplementary dose program in Australian primary health care settings
Kirsten F Ward, Marianne Trent, Brynley P Hull, Helen E Quinn, Aditi Dey, Robert I Menzies
Patient-physician agreement on tobacco and alcohol consumption: a multilevel analysis of GPs’ characteristics
Jean-Laurent Thebault, Hector Falcoff, Madeleine Favre, Frédérique Noël, Laurent Rigal
“It is the medicines that keep us alive”: lived experiences of diabetes medication use and continuity among adults in Southeastern Tanzania
Emmy Metta, Hinke Haisma, Flora Kessy, Eveline Geubbels, Inge Hutter, Ajay Bailey
Trends in patient satisfaction in Dutch university medical centers: room for improvement for all
Sophia M Kleefstra, Linda C Zandbelt, Hanneke JCJM de Haes, Rudolf B Kool
Informal relationship patterns among staff of local health and non-health organizations in Thailand
Mano Maneechay, Krit Pongpirul
Shared decision making in designing new healthcare environments—time to begin improving quality
Marie Elf, Peter Fröst, Göran Lindahl, Helle Wijk
Effect of a community-based diabetes self-management empowerment program on mental health-related quality of life: a causal mediation analysis from a randomized controlled trial
Takehiro Sugiyama, William Neil Steers, Neil S Wenger, Obidiugwu Kenrik Duru, Carol M Mangione
Integrating an infectious disease programme into the primary health care service: a retrospective analysis of Chagas disease community-based surveillance in Honduras
Ken Hashimoto, Concepción Zúniga, Jiro Nakamura, Kyo Hanada
Obstacles to the coordination of delivering integrated prenatal HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B testing services in Guangdong: using a needs assessment approach
Jianhong Xia, Shannon Rutherford, Yuanzhu Ma, Li Wu, Shuang Gao, Tingting Chen, Xiao Lu, Xiaozhuang Zhang, Cordia Chu
Inefficiency, heterogeneity and spillover effects in maternal care in India: a spatial stochastic frontier analysis
Yohannes Kinfu, Monika Sawhney
General practitioners’ altered preferences for private practice vs. salaried positions: a consequence of proposed policy regulations?
Jon Helgheim Holte, Birgit Abelsen, Peder Andreas Halvorsen, Jan Abel Olsen
How to identify and recruit nurses to a survey 14 and 24 years after graduation in a context of scarce data: lessons learnt from the 2012 nurses at work pilot study on nurses’ career paths
Véronique Addor, André Jeannin, Diane Morin, Philippe Lehmann, Floriane Roulet Jeanneret, René Schwendimann
Rationing is a reality in rural physiotherapy: a qualitative exploration of service level decision-making
Robyn Adams, Anne Jones, Sophie Lefmann, Lorraine Sheppard
Developing patient-centred care: an ethnographic study of patient perceptions and influence on quality improvement
Alicia Renedo, Cicely Marston
Understanding staff perspectives of quality in practice in healthcare
Michelle Farr, Peter Cressey
The use of electronic patient records for medical research: conflicts and contradictions
Fiona Stevenson
Nursing staff interactions during the older residents’ transition into long-term care facility in a nursing home in rural Norway: an ethnographic study
Marianne Eika, Bjørg Dale, Geir Arild Espnes, Sigrun Hvalvik
National health research system in Malawi: dead, moribund, tepid or flourishing?
Joses Muthuri Kirigia, Damson D Kathyola, Adamson S Muula, Martin Matthew Okechukwu Ota
Trends in needlestick injury incidence following regulatory change in Ontario, Canada (2004–2012): an observational study
Andrea Chambers, Cameron A Mustard, Jacob Etches
Adaptive coordination in surgical teams: an interview study
Jasmina Bogdanovic, Juliana Perry, Merlin Guggenheim, Tanja Manser
Geographical variation analysis of all-cause hospital readmission cases in Winnipeg, Canada
Yang Cui, Mahmoud Torabi, Evelyn L Forget, Colleen Metge, Xibiao Ye, Michael Moffatt, Luis Oppenheimer
The right to be informed and fear of disclosure: sustainability of a full error disclosure policy at an Italian cancer centre/clinic
Stefano D’Errico, Sara Pennelli, Antonio Prospero Colasurdo, Paola Frati, Lorella Sicuro, Vittorio Fineschi
Use of online health information to manage children’s health care: a prospective study investigating parental decisions
Anne M Walsh, Kyra Hamilton, Katherine M White, Melissa K Hyde
Cost of installing and operating an electronic clinical decision support system for maternal health care: case of Tanzania rural primary health centres
Happiness Pius Saronga, Maxwell Ayindenaba Dalaba, Hengjin Dong, Melkizedeck Leshabari, Rainer Sauerborn, Felix Sukums, Antje Blank, Jens Kaltschmidt, Svetla Loukanova
Patient outcomes vs. service workload: an analysis of outcomes in the burn service of England and Wales
Neophytos Stylianou, Matthew Carr, Evangelos Kontopantelis, Iain Buchan, Ken Dunn
Coordinated care affects hospitalization and prognosis in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a cohort study
Valérie Cordesse, Florence Sidorok, Priscilla Schimmel, Josiane Holstein, Vincent Meininger
Can smartphones and tablets improve the management of childhood illness in Tanzania? A qualitative study from a primary health care worker’s perspective
Amani Flexson Shao, Clotilde Rambaud-Althaus, Ndeniria Swai, Judith Kahama-Maro, Blaise Genton, Valerie D’Acremont, Constanze Pfeiffer
Demographic and clinical predictors of unplanned hospital utilisation among chronically ill patients: a prospective cohort study
Kylie-Ann Mallitt, Patrick Kelly, Natalie Plant, Tim Usherwood, James Gillespie, Steven Boyages, Stephen Jan, Stephen Leeder
The impact of hospital accreditation on quality measures: an interrupted time series analysis
Subashnie Devkaran, Patrick N O’Farrell
Clinicians’ beliefs and attitudes toward patient self-management in the Netherlands; translation and testing of the American Clinician Support for Patient Activation Measure (CS-PAM)
Jany Rademakers, Daphne Jansen, Lucas van der Hoek, Monique Heijmans
Resource utilisation and cost of ambulatory HIV care in a regional HIV centre in Ireland: a micro-costing study
Aline Brennan, Arthur Jackson, Mary Horgan, Colm J Bergin, John P Browne
“Planning eye health services in Varamin district, Iran: a cross-sectional study”
Marzieh Katibeh, Karl Blanchet, Shadi Akbarian, Sara Hosseini, Hamid Ahmadieh, Matthew J Burton
Cost-utility analysis of a preventive home visit program for older adults in Germany
Christian Brettschneider, Tobias Luck, Steffen Fleischer, Gudrun Roling, Katrin Beutner, Melanie Luppa, Johann Behrens, Steffi G Riedel-Heller, Hans-Helmut König
Does clinical governance influence the appropriateness of hospital stay?
Maria Lucia Specchia, Andrea Poscia, Massimo Volpe, Paolo Parente, Silvio Capizzi, Andrea Cambieri, Gianfranco Damiani, Walter Ricciardi, Antonio Giulio De Belvis
The perceptions and perspectives of patients and health care providers on chronic diseases management in rural South Africa: a qualitative study
Eric Maimela, Jean-Pierre Van Geertruyden, Marianne Alberts, Sewela EP Modjadji, Herman Meulemans, Jesicca Fraeyman, Hilde Bastiaens
HIV disease burden, cost, and length of stay in Portuguese hospitals from 2000 to 2010: a cross-sectional study
Emanuel Catumbela, Alberto Freitas, Fernando Lopes, Maria del Carmen Torres Mendoza, Carlos Costa, António Sarmento, Altamiro da Costa-Pereira
Gaps in governance: protective mechanisms used by nurse leaders when policy and practice are misaligned
Kaye M Knight, Amanda Kenny, Ruth Endacott
Neighbourhood immigration, health care utilization and outcomes in patients with diabetes living in the Montreal metropolitan area (Canada): a population health perspective
Alain Vanasse, Josiane Courteau, Maria Gabriela Orzanco, Patrick Bergeron, Alan A Cohen, Théophile Niyonsenga
Enhancing organizational capacity to provide cancer control programs among Latino churches: design and baseline findings of the CRUZA Study
Jennifer D Allen, Maria Idali Torres, Laura S Tom, Sarah Rustan, Bryan Leyva, Rosalyn Negron, Laura A Linnan, Lina Jandorf, Hosffman Ospino
Willingness to participate and Pay for a proposed national health insurance in St. Vincent and the grenadines: a cross-sectional contingent valuation approach
Rosmond Adams, Yiing-Jenq Chou, Christy Pu
Health care resource utilization and direct medical costs for patients with schizophrenia initiating treatment with atypical versus typical antipsychotics in Tianjin, China
Xiaoning He, Jing Wu, Yawen Jiang, Li Liu, Wenyu Ye, Haibo Xue, William Montgomery
Implications of early and guideline adherent physical therapy for low back pain on utilization and costs
John D Childs, Julie M Fritz, Samuel S Wu, Timothy W Flynn, Robert S Wainner, Eric K Robertson, Forest S Kim, Steven Z George
The aftermath of adverse events in Spanish primary care and hospital health professionals
José Joaquín Mira, Irene Carrillo, Susana Lorenzo, Lena Ferrús, Carmen Silvestre, Pastora Pérez-Pérez, Guadalupe Olivera, Fuencisla Iglesias, Elena Zavala, José Ángel Maderuelo-Fernández, Julián Vitaller, Roberto Nuño-Solinís, Pilar Astier
A framework to assess welfare mix and service provision models in health care and social welfare: case studies of two prominent Italian regions
Francesco Longo, Elisabetta Notarnicola, Stefano Tasselli
Validation of the Adherence Barriers Questionnaire – an instrument for identifying potential risk factors associated with medication-related non-adherence
Sabrina Müller, Thomas Kohlmann, Thomas Wilke
Limited evidence to assess the impact of primary health care system or service level attributes on health outcomes of Indigenous people with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review
Odette R Gibson, Leonie Segal
Validation of the Intermountain patient perception of quality (PPQ) survey among survivors of an intensive care unit admission: a retrospective validation study
Samuel M Brown, Glen McBride, Dave S Collingridge, Jorie M Butler, Kathryn G Kuttler, Eliotte L Hirshberg, Jason P Jones, Ramona O Hopkins, Daniel Talmor, James Orme
No longer ‘flying blind’: how access has changed emergency mental health care in rural and remote emergency departments, a qualitative study
Emily Saurman, Sue E Kirby, David Lyle
Implementing a patient-initiated review system in rheumatoid arthritis: a qualitative evaluation
Sue Child, Victoria A Goodwin, Mark G Perry, Christian A Gericke, Richard Byng
Health service utilization after terrorism: a longitudinal study of survivors of the 2011 Utøya attack in Norway
Lise Eilin Stene, Grete Dyb
A retrospective, matched cohort study of potential drug-drug interaction prevalence and opioid utilization in a diabetic peripheral neuropathy population initiated on pregabalin or duloxetine
Jeffrey J Ellis, Alesia B Sadosky, Laura L Ten Eyck, Pallavi Mudumby, Joseph C Cappelleri, Lilian Ndehi, Brandon T Suehs, Bruce Parsons
Community satisfaction with the urban health extension service in South Ethiopia and associated factors
Ephrem Lejore Sibamo, Tezera Moshago Berheto
Predictors of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency procedure use among older people with multiple sclerosis: a national case–control study
Michelle Ploughman, Olivia J Manning, Serge Beaulieu, Chelsea Harris, Stephen H Hogan, Nancy Mayo, John D Fisk, A Dessa Sadovnick, Paul O’Connor, Sarah A Morrow, Luanne M Metz, Penelope Smyth, Penelope W Allderdice, Susan Scott, Ruth Ann Marrie, Mark Stefanelli, Marshall Godwin
Attitudes towards the use and acceptance of eHealth technologies: a case study of older adults living with chronic pain and implications for rural healthcare
Margaret Currie, Lorna J Philip, Anne Roberts
Direct non-medical costs double the total direct costs to patients undergoing cataract surgery in Zamfara state, Northern Nigeria: a case series
Nazaradden Ibrahim, Francisco Pozo-Martin, Clare Gilbert
‘Real-world’ health care priority setting using explicit decision criteria: a systematic review of the literature
Ian Cromwell, Stuart J Peacock, Craig Mitton
Is cost effectiveness sustained after weekend inpatient rehabilitation? 12 month follow up from a randomized controlled trial
Natasha Kareem Brusco, Jennifer J Watts, Nora Shields, Nicholas F Taylor
Patterns and determinants of care seeking for obstetric complications in rural northwest Bangladesh: analysis from a prospective cohort study
Shegufta S Sikder, Alain B Labrique, Ian M Craig, Mohammad Abdul Wakil, Abu Ahmed Shamim, Hasmot Ali, Sucheta Mehra, Lee Wu, Saijuddin Shaikh, Keith P West Jr, Parul Christian
Can shared decision-making reduce medical malpractice litigation? A systematic review
Marie-Anne Durand, Benjamin Moulton, Elizabeth Cockle, Mala Mann, Glyn Elwyn
Adherence to anti diabetic medication among patients with diabetes in eastern Uganda; a cross sectional study
James Bagonza, Elizeus Rutebemberwa, William Bazeyo
The role of institutions on the effectiveness of malaria treatment in the Ghanaian health sector
Eugenia Amporfu, Justice Nonvignon
An evaluation on the effect of the copayment waiver policy for Korean hospitalized children under the age of six
Sook Young Kwak, Seok-Jun Yoon, In-Hwan Oh, Young-eun Kim
Randomised evaluation of the Italian medicines use review provided by community pharmacists using asthma as a model (RE I-MUR)
Andrea Manfrin, Trudy Thomas, Janet Krska
BMC Health Services Research reviewer acknowledgement 2014
Christopher Morrey
Acute and chronic impact of cardiovascular events on health state utilities
Louis S Matza, Katie D Stewart, Shravanthi R Gandra, Philip R Delio, Brett E Fenster, Evan W Davies, Jessica B Jordan, Mickael Lothgren, David H Feeny
Long-term impact of a chronic disease management program on hospital utilization and cost in an Australian population with heart disease or diabetes
G Brent Hamar, Elizabeth Y Rula, Carter Coberley, James E Pope, Shaun Larkin
Comparison of patient preferences for fecal immunochemical test or colonoscopy using the analytic hierarchy process
Yinghui Xu, Barcey T Levy, Jeanette M Daly, George R Bergus, Jeffrey C Dunkelberg
HIV service delivery models towards ‘Zero AIDS-related Deaths’: a collaborative case study of 6 Asia and Pacific countries
Masami Fujita, Krishna C Poudel, Kimberly Green, Teodora Wi, Iyanthi Abeyewickreme, Massimo Ghidinelli, Masaya Kato, Mean Chhi Vun, Seng Sopheap, Khin Ohnmar San, Phavady Bollen, Krishna Kumar Rai, Atul Dahal, Durga Bhandari, Peniel Boas, Jessica Yaipupu, Petchsri Sirinirund, Pairoj Saonuam, Bui Duc Duong, Do Thi Nhan, Nguyen Thi Minh Thu, Masamine Jimba
Caring for the patient, caring for the record: an ethnographic study of ‘back office’ work in upholding quality of care in general practice
Deborah Swinglehurst, Trisha Greenhalgh
Accounting for quality: on the relationship between accounting and quality improvement in healthcare
Dane Pflueger
Economic consequences of ill-health for households in northern rural India
Marta Quintussi, Ellen Van de Poel, Pradeep Panda, Frans Rutten
Workforce interventions to improve access to emergency contraception pills: a systematic review of current evidence in low- and middle-income countries and recommendations for improving performance
Angela Dawson, Nguyen-Toan Tran, Elizabeth Westley, Viviana Mangiaterra, Mario Festin
Role of community health outreach program “living for health”® in improving access to federally qualified health centers in Miami-dade county, Florida: a cross-sectional study
Aws Almufleh, Tori Gabriel, Laura Tokayer, Mary Comerford, Ahmed Alaqeel, Paul Kurlansky
A step-wise approach towards introduction of an alcohol based hand rub, and implementation of front line ownership- using a, rural, tertiary care hospital in central India as a model
Megha Sharma, Rita Joshi, Harshada Shah, Ragini Macaden, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg
Rapid assessment of infrastructure of primary health care facilities – a relevant instrument for health care systems management
Stefan Scholz, Baltazar Ngoli, Steffen Flessa
Direct costs of radiotherapy for rectal cancer: a microcosting study
Paul Hanly, Alan Ó Céilleachair, Máiréad Skally, Ciaran O’Neill, Linda Sharp
Adolescents leaving mental health or social care services: predictors of mental health and psychosocial outcomes one year later
Jessica Memarzia, Michelle C St Clair, Matt Owens, Ian M Goodyer, Valerie J Dunn
Are measurements of patient safety culture and adverse events valid and reliable? Results from a cross sectional study
Per G Farup
Outbound medical tourism from Mongolia: a qualitative examination of proposed domestic health system and policy responses to this trend
Jeremy Snyder, Tsogtbaatar Byambaa, Rory Johnston, Valorie A Crooks, Craig Janes, Melanie Ewan
Strengthening adherence to Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART) monitoring and support: operation research to identify barriers and facilitators in Nepal
Kiran Bam, Rajesh M Rajbhandari, Dibesh B Karmacharya, Sameer M Dixit
E-assessment and an e-training program among elderly care staff lacking formal competence: results of a mixed-methods intervention study
Annika Nilsson, Maria Engström
Gaps in continuity of care: patients’ perceptions of the quality of care during labor ward handover in Mulago hospital, Uganda
Dan K Kaye, Annettee Nakimuli, Othman Kakaire, Michael O Osinde, Scovia N Mbalinda, Nelson Kakande
How to reform western care payment systems according to physicians, policy makers, healthcare executives and researchers: a discrete choice experiment
Roselinde Kessels, Pieter Van Herck, Eline Dancet, Lieven Annemans, Walter Sermeus
Roundtable discussion on the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research: why prioritise talk over aid in the midst of the Ebola crisis?
Jeffrey V Lazarus, Dina Balabanova, Kelly Safreed-Harmon, Karen Daniels, Kopano Matlwa Mabaso, Martin McKee, Tolib Mirzoev, Adnan A Hyder, Sofia Gruskin
Academic detailing of general practitioners by a respiratory physician for diagnosis and management of refractory breathlessness: a randomised pilot study
Aileen Collier, Debra Rowett, Peter Allcroft, Aine Greene, David C. Currow
Effectiveness of chronic care models: opportunities for improving healthcare practice and health outcomes: a systematic review
Carol Davy, Jonathan Bleasel, Hueiming Liu, Maria Tchan, Sharon Ponniah, Alex Brown
The impact of demographic and perceptual variables on a young adult’s decision to be covered by private health insurance
John Cantiello, Myron D Fottler, Dawn Oetjen, Ning Jackie Zhang
Hospital board oversight of quality and safety: a stakeholder analysis exploring the role of trust and intelligence
Ross Millar, Tim Freeman, Russell Mannion
Influence of hospitalization on prescribing safety across the continuum of care: an exploratory study
Wilko von Klüchtzner, Daniel Grandt
Designing a knowledge translation mentorship program to support the implementation of evidence-based innovations
Anna R. Gagliardi, Fiona Webster, Sharon E. Straus
Consenting for contact? Linking electronic health records to a research register within psychosis services, a mixed method study
Dan Robotham, Simon Riches, Iain Perdue, Felicity Callard, Thomas Craig, Diana Rose, Til Wykes
Mining care trajectories using health administrative information systems: the use of state sequence analysis to assess disparities in prenatal care consumption
Nolwenn Le Meur, Fei Gao, Sahar Bayat
Exploration of the content validity and feasibility of the EQ-5D-3L, ICECAP-O and ASCOT in older adults
Karen M van Leeuwen, Aaltje P D Jansen, Maaike E Muntinga, Judith E Bosmans, Marjan J Westerman, Maurits W van Tulder, Henriette E van der Horst
Preparing general practitioners to receive cancer patients following treatment in secondary care: a qualitative study
Ann Dorrit Guassora, Lene Jarlbaek, Thorkil Thorsen
Travel distances, socioeconomic characteristics, and health disparities in nonurgent and frequent use of Hospital Emergency Departments in South Carolina: a population-based observational study
Brian K. Chen, Xi Cheng, Kevin Bennett, James Hibbert
Impact of policies regulating foreign physician migration to Switzerland: a modelling case study in anaesthesia
Guy Haller, Christophe Combescure, Chantal Mamie, Davide Zoccatelli, François Clergue
Antidementia drug treatment in dementia networks in Germany: use rates and factors associated with treatment use
Markus Wübbeler, Diana Wucherer, Johannes Hertel, Bernhard Michalowsky, Steffen Heinrich, Saskia Meyer, Susanne Schaefer-Walkmann, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Jochen René Thyrian
Does a voucher program improve reproductive health service delivery and access in Kenya?
Rebecca Njuki, Timothy Abuya, James Kimani, Lucy Kanya, Allan Korongo, Collins Mukanya, Piet Bracke, Ben Bellows, Charlotte E. Warren
Incidence of severe hypoglycaemic episodes in patients with type 2 diabetes in the Basque country: impact on healthcare costs
Edurne Alonso-Morán, Juan F. Orueta, Roberto Nuño-Solinís
Successful collaboration in dementia care from the perspectives of healthcare professionals and informal carers in Germany: results from a focus group study
Astrid Stephan, Ralph Möhler, Anna Renom-Guiteras, Gabriele Meyer
Coaching patients in the use of decision and communication aids: RE-AIM evaluation of a patient support program
Jeff Belkora, Shelley Volz, Meredith Loth, Alexandra Teng, Margot Zarin-Pass, Dan Moore, Laura Esserman
Making health insurance pro-poor: evidence from a household panel in rural China
Mateusz J. Filipski, Yumei Zhang, Kevin Z. Chen
Cost and feasibility: an exploratory case study comparing use of a literature review method with questionnaires, interviews and focus groups to identify barriers for a behaviour–change intervention
Andria Hanbury, Katherine Farley, Carl Thompson
Accessing doctors at times of need–measuring the distance tolerance of rural residents for health-related travel
Matthew Richard McGrail, John Stirling Humphreys, Bernadette Ward
Do existing mechanisms contribute to improvements in care coordination across levels of care in health services networks? Opinions of the health personnel in Colombia and Brazil
Ingrid Vargas, Amparo Susana Mogollón-Pérez, Pierre De Paepe, Maria Rejane Ferreira da Silva, Jean Pierre Unger, María Luisa Vázquez
Emergency department and inpatient health care utilization among patients who require interpreter services
Jane W. Njeru, Jennifer L. St. Sauver, Debra J. Jacobson, Jon O. Ebbert, Paul Y. Takahashi, Chun Fan, Mark L. Wieland
Do English healthcare settings use ‘Choice Architecture’ principles in promoting healthy lifestyles for people with psoriasis? An observational study
Chris Keyworth, Pauline A Nelson, Christopher EM Griffiths, Lis Cordingley, Chris Bundy
“It’s very complicated”: a qualitative study of medicines management in intermediate care facilities in Northern Ireland
Anna N. Millar, Carmel M. Hughes, Cristín Ryan
The implementation of national action program diabetes in the Netherlands: lessons learned
Lieke G. M. Raaijmakers, Stef P. J. Kremers, Nicolaas C. Schaper, Inge de Weerdt, Marloes K. Martens, Arlette E. Hesselink, Nanne K. de Vries
Assisting Australians with mental health problems and financial difficulties: a Delphi study to develop guidelines for financial counsellors, financial institution staff, mental health professionals and carers
Kathy S. Bond, Kathryn J. Chalmers, Anthony F. Jorm, Betty A. Kitchener, Nicola J. Reavley
Effect of distance to health facility on the maintenance of INR therapeutic ranges in rheumatic heart disease patients from Cape Town: no evidence for an association
Dylan D Barth, Liesl J Zühlke, Alexia Joachim, Tyler Hoegger, Bongani M Mayosi, Mark E Engel
How can we improve the recognition, reporting and resolution of medical device-related incidents in hospitals? A qualitative study of physicians and registered nurses
Julie Polisena, Anna Gagliardi, Tammy Clifford
Implementing administrative evidence based practices: lessons from the field in six local health departments across the United States
Kathleen Duggan, Kristelle Aisaka, Rachel G. Tabak, Carson Smith, Paul Erwin, Ross C. Brownson
A model to estimate the cost of the National Essential Public Health Services Package in Beijing, China
Delu Yin, Sabrina T. Wong, Wei Chen, Qianqian Xin, Lihong Wang, Mingming Cui, Tao Yin, Ruili Li, Xiaoguo Zheng, Huiming Yang, Juanjuan Yu, Bowen Chen, Weizhong Yang
A cross-sectional survey to investigate the quality of care in Tuscan (Italy) nursing homes: the structural, process and outcome indicators of nutritional care
Guglielmo Bonaccorsi, Francesca Collini, Mariangela Castagnoli, Mauro Di Bari, Maria Chiara Cavallini, Nicoletta Zaffarana, Pasquale Pepe, Alessandro Mugelli, Ersilia Lucenteforte, Alfredo Vannacci, Chiara Lorini
Women with comorbid substance dependence and psychiatric disorders in Sweden: a longitudinal study of hospital care utilization and costs
Tina M. Olsson, Mats Fridell
Migrants’ perceptions of aging in Denmark and attitudes towards remigration: findings from a qualitative study
Maria Kristiansen, Linnea Lue Kessing, Marie Norredam, Allan Krasnik
Development and validation of the Medical Home Care Coordination Survey for assessing care coordination in the primary care setting from the patient and provider perspectives
Ianita Zlateva, Daren Anderson, Emil Coman, Khushbu Khatri, Terrence Tian, Judith Fifield
Disability Grant: a precarious lifeline for HIV/AIDS patients in South Africa
Veloshnee Govender, Jana Fried, Stephen Birch, Natsayi Chimbindi, Susan Cleary
Developing a programme theory to explain how primary health care teams learn to respond to intimate partner violence: a realist case-study
Isabel Goicolea, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Miguel San Sebastian, Carmen Vives-Cases, Bruno Marchal
Satisfaction of clients with the services of an outpatient pharmacy at a university hospital in northwestern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
Abdrrahman Shemsu Surur, Fitsum Sebsibe Teni, Genet Girmay, Elsabet Moges, Meseret Tesfa, Messele Abraha
A concise, health service coverage index for monitoring progress towards universal health coverage
Anthony Leegwater, Wendy Wong, Carlos Avila
Care-seeking at patent and proprietary medicine vendors in Nigeria
Lisa M. Prach, Emily Treleaven, Chinwoke Isiguzo, Jenny Liu
Management practices to support donor transition: lessons from Avahan, the India AIDS Initiative
Sara Bennett, Daniela Rodriguez, Sachiko Ozawa, Kriti Singh, Meghan Bohren, Vibha Chhabra, Suneeta Singh
An analysis of the adaptability of a professional development program in public health: results from the ALPS Study
Lucie Richard, Sara Torres, Marie-Claude Tremblay, François Chiocchio, Éric Litvak, Laurence Fortin-Pellerin, Nicole Beaudet
Perceived needs and experiences with healthcare services of women with spinal cord injury during pregnancy and childbirth — a qualitative content analysis of focus groups and individual interviews
Sue Bertschy, Szilvia Geyh, Jürgen Pannek, Thorsten Meyer
A program evaluation report of a rapid scale-up of a high-volume medical male circumcision site, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2010–2013
Adriane Wynn, Claire C. Bristow, Douglas Ross, Inon Schenker, Jeffrey D. Klausner
The rise of digital direct-to-consumer advertising?: Comparison of direct-to-consumer advertising expenditure trends from publicly available data sources and global policy implications
Tim K. Mackey, Raphael E. Cuomo, Bryan A. Liang
Perceptions of health care providers and patients on quality of care in maternal and neonatal health in fourteen Bangladesh government healthcare facilities: a mixed-method study
Farzana Islam, Aminur Rahman, Abdul Halim, Charli Eriksson, Fazlur Rahman, Koustuv Dalal
Developing family rooms in mental health inpatient units: an exploratory descriptive study
Sophie Isobel, Kim Foster, Clair Edwards
Do quality improvement collaboratives’ educational components match the dominant learning style preferences of the participants?
Anne Marie Weggelaar-Jansen, Jeroen van Wijngaarden, Sarah-Sue Slaghuis
Confronting the quality paradox: towards new characterisations of ‘quality’ in contemporary healthcare
Deborah Swinglehurst, Nathan Emmerich, Jo Maybin, Sophie Park, Sally Quilligan
Healthcare utilization and costs associated with S. aureus and P. aeruginosa pneumonia in the intensive care unit: a retrospective observational cohort study in a US claims database
Moe H. Kyaw, David M. Kern, Siting Zhou, Ozgur Tunceli, Hasan S. Jafri, Judith Falloon
Integrating mental health into primary care in Nigeria: report of a demonstration project using the mental health gap action programme intervention guide
Oye Gureje, Jibril Abdulmalik, Lola Kola, Emmanuel Musa, Mohammad Taghi Yasamy, Kazeem Adebayo
Relationship of organizational culture, teamwork and job satisfaction in interprofessional teams
Mirjam Körner, Markus A. Wirtz, Jürgen Bengel, Anja S. Göritz
High performing hospitals: a qualitative systematic review of associated factors and practical strategies for improvement
Natalie Taylor, Robyn Clay-Williams, Emily Hogden, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Oliver Groene
Productivity loss and indirect costs associated with cardiovascular events and related clinical procedures
Xue Song, Ruben G.W. Quek, Shravanthi R. Gandra, Katherine A. Cappell, Robert Fowler, Ze Cong
Prolonged patients’ In-Hospital Waiting Period after discharge eligibility is associated with increased risk of infection, morbidity and mortality: a retrospective cohort analysis
Maya Rosman, Orna Rachminov, Omer Segal, Gad Segal
Risk factors for loss to follow-up prior to ART initiation among patients enrolling in HIV care with CD4+ cell count ≥200 cells/μL in the multi-country MTCT-Plus Initiative
R Charon Gwynn, Ashraf Fawzy, Ida Viho, Yingfeng Wu, Elaine J Abrams, Denis Nash
The readiness of the national health laboratory system in supporting care and treatment of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania
Leonard E.G. Mboera, Deus S. Ishengoma, Andrew M. Kilale, Isolide S. Massawe, Acleus S.M. Rutta, Gibson B. Kagaruki, Erasmus Kamugisha, Vito Baraka, Celine I. Mandara, Godlisten S. Materu, Stephen M. Magesa
Association between health literacy and medical care costs in an integrated healthcare system: a regional population based study
Jolie N. Haun, Nitin R. Patel, Dustin D. French, Robert R. Campbell, Douglas D. Bradham, William A. Lapcevic
A qualitative analysis of the barriers and facilitators of HIV counselling and testing perceived by adolescents in South Africa
Michael Strauss, Bruce Rhodes, Gavin George
Management of diabetic foot disease and amputation in the Irish health system: a qualitative study of patients’ attitudes and experiences with health services
Sarah Delea, Claire Buckley, Andrew Hanrahan, Gerald McGreal, Deirdre Desmond, Sheena McHugh
Conceptualising patient empowerment: a mixed methods study
Paulina Bravo, Adrian Edwards, Paul James Barr, Isabelle Scholl, Glyn Elwyn, Marion McAllister
Task shifting of HIV/AIDS case management to Community Health Service Centers in urban China: a qualitative policy analysis
Fuchang Ma, Fan Lv, Peng Xu, Dapeng Zhang, Sining Meng, Lahong Ju, Huihui Jiang, Liping Ma, Jiangping Sun, Zunyou Wu
Understanding the modifiable health systems barriers to hypertension management in Malaysia: a multi-method health systems appraisal approach
Isabelle Risso-Gill, Dina Balabanova, Fadhlina Majid, Kien Keat Ng, Khalid Yusoff, Feisul Mustapha, Charlotte Kuhlbrandt, Robby Nieuwlaat, J.-D. Schwalm, Tara McCready, Koon K. Teo, Salim Yusuf, Martin McKee
What are the core predictors of ‘hassles’ among patients with multimorbidity in primary care? A cross sectional study
Charles Adeniji, Cassandra Kenning, Peter A. Coventry, Peter Bower
Measurement and explanation of socioeconomic inequality in catastrophic health care expenditure: evidence from the rural areas of Shaanxi Province
Yongjian Xu, Jianmin Gao, Zhongliang Zhou, Qinxiang Xue, Jinjuan Yang, Hao Luo, Yanli Li, Sha Lai, Gang Chen
Analysis of social networks supporting the self-management of type 2 diabetes for people with mental illness
Mikaila M. Crotty, Julie Henderson, Paul R. Ward, Jeffrey Fuller, Anne Rogers, Debbie Kralik, Sue Gregory
Protocol for the evaluation of a free health insurance card scheme for poor pregnant women in Mbeya region in Tanzania: a controlled-before and after study
Josephine Borghi, Kate Ramsey, August Kuwawenaruwa, Jitihada Baraka, Edith Patouillard, Ben Bellows, Peter Binyaruka, Fatuma Manzi
Determinants of loss to follow-up in patients on antiretroviral treatment, South Africa, 2004–2012: a cohort study
Mazvita Naome Mberi, Lazarus Rugare Kuonza, Nomathemba Michelle Dube, Cornelius Nattey, Samuel Manda, Robert Summers
A brief report on the development of a theoretically-grounded intervention to promote patient autonomy and self-management of physiotherapy patients: face validity and feasibility of implementation
James Matthews, Amanda M. Hall, Marian Hernon, Aileen Murray, Ben Jackson, Ian Taylor, John Toner, Suzanne Guerin, Chris Lonsdale, Deirdre A. Hurley
Procedure-based severity index for inpatients: development and validation using administrative database
Hayato Yamana, Hiroki Matsui, Kiyohide Fushimi, Hideo Yasunaga
Balancing costs and benefits at different stages of medical innovation: a systematic review of Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA)
Philip Wahlster, Mireille Goetghebeur, Christine Kriza, Charlotte Niederländer, Peter Kolominsky-Rabas
Development of a training programme for home health care workers to promote preventive activities focused on a healthy lifestyle: an intervention mapping approach
Maaike E. Walters, Arie Dijkstra, Andrea F. de Winter, Sijmen A. Reijneveld
Attitudes toward inter-hospital electronic patient record exchange: discrepancies among physicians, medical record staff, and patients
Jong-Yi Wang, Hsiao-Yun Ho, Jen-De Chen, Sinkuo Chai, Chih-Jaan Tai, Yung-Fu Chen
Aligning complex processes and electronic health record templates: a quality improvement intervention on inpatient interdisciplinary rounds
Hilary J. Mosher, Daniel T. Lose, Russell Leslie, Priyadarshini Pennathur, Peter J. Kaboli
Exploring Outcomes to Consider in Economic Evaluations of Health Promotion Programs: What Broader Non-Health Outcomes Matter Most?
Tim M. Benning, Adrienne F.G. Alayli-Goebbels, Marie-Jeanne Aarts, Elly Stolk, G. Ardine de Wit, Rilana Prenger, Louise M.A. Braakman-Jansen, Silvia M.A.A. Evers
Identifying alternatives to old age psychiatry inpatient admission: an application of the balance of care approach to health and social care planning
Sue Tucker, Christian Brand, Mark Wilberforce, Michele Abendstern, David Challis
Understanding key factors affecting electronic medical record implementation: a sociotechnical approach
Maria Cucciniello, Irvine Lapsley, Greta Nasi, Claudia Pagliari
Integrated clinical and quality improvement coaching in Son La Province, Vietnam: a model of building public sector capacity for sustainable HIV care delivery
Lisa A. Cosimi, Huong V. Dam, Thai Q. Nguyen, Huyen T. Ho, Phuong T. Do, Duat N. Duc, Huong T. Nguyen, Bridget Gardner, Howard Libman, Todd Pollack, Lisa R. Hirschhorn
A comparative analysis of potential spatio-temporal access to palliative care services in two Canadian provinces
Nadine Schuurman, Ofer Amram, Valorie A. Crooks, Rory Johnston, Allison Williams
Determinants of maternal health services utilization in Uganda
Gideon Rutaremwa, Stephen Ojiambo Wandera, Tapiwa Jhamba, Edith Akiror, Angela Kiconco
Searching for success: Development of a combined patient-reported-outcome (“PRO”) criterion for operationalizing success in multi-modal pain therapy
Carolin Donath, Lisa Dorscht, Elmar Graessel, Reinhard Sittl, Christoph Schoen
An optimization framework for measuring spatial access over healthcare networks
Zihao Li, Nicoleta Serban, Julie L. Swann
Factors influencing the decision that women make on their mode of delivery: the Health Belief Model
Alice Yuen Loke, Louise Davies, Sau-fun Li
The adoption of a new diagnostic technology for tuberculosis in two Brazilian cities from the perspective of patients and healthcare workers: a qualitative study
Kenneth R. de Camargo Jr, Carla R. Guedes, Rosângela Caetano, Alexandre Menezes, Anete Trajman
Predictors of health worker performance after Integrated Management of Childhood Illness training in Benin: a cohort study
Laura C. Steinhardt, Faustin Onikpo, Julien Kouamé, Emily Piercefield, Marcel Lama, Michael S. Deming, Alexander K. Rowe
The influence of context on the effectiveness of hospital quality improvement strategies: a review of systematic reviews
Dionne S. Kringos, Rosa Sunol, Cordula Wagner, Russell Mannion, Philippe Michel, Niek S. Klazinga, Oliver Groene
Evaluation of the HIV lay counselling and testing profession in South Africa
Aziza Mwisongo, Vuyelwa Mehlomakhulu, Neo Mohlabane, Karl Peltzer, Jacque Mthembu, Heidi Van Rooyen
Minimum volume standards in German hospitals: do they get along with procedure centralization? A retrospective longitudinal data analysis
Werner de Cruppé, Marc Malik, Max Geraedts
A systematic review of hospital accreditation: the challenges of measuring complex intervention effects
Kirsten Brubakk, Gunn E. Vist, Geir Bukholm, Paul Barach, Ole Tjomsland
Relationship between cardiovascular risk and lipid testing in one health care system: a retrospective cohort study
Robert J. Reid, Melissa L. Anderson, Paul A. Fishman, Jennifer B. McClure, Ron L. Johnson, Sheryl L. Catz, Beverly B. Green
The number of discharge medications predicts thirty-day hospital readmission: a cohort study
David Picker, Kevin Heard, Thomas C. Bailey, Nathan R. Martin, Gina N. LaRossa, Marin H. Kollef
Preventing mental illness: closing the evidence-practice gap through workforce and services planning
Gareth Furber, Leonie Segal, Matthew Leach, Catherine Turnbull, Nicholas Procter, Mark Diamond, Stephanie Miller, Patrick McGorry
Validation of the safety attitudes questionnaire (short form 2006) in Italian in hospitals in the northeast of Italy
Giang Nguyen, Nikoloz Gambashidze, Shoeb Ahmed Ilyas, Diana Pascu
Impact of socio-economic status on hospital length of stay following injury: a multicenter cohort study
Lynne Moore, Brahim Cisse, Brice Lionel Batomen Kuimi, Henry T. Stelfox, Alexis F. Turgeon, François Lauzier, Julien Clément, Gilles Bourgeois
Discrepancies in assessing home care workers’ working conditions in a Norwegian home care service: differing views of stakeholders at three organizational levels
Gunn Robstad Andersen, Rolf H. Westgaard
Measuring costs of data collection at village clinics by village doctors for a syndromic surveillance system-a cross sectional survey from China
Yan Ding, Yang Fei, Biao Xu, Jun Yang, Weirong Yan, Vinod K. Diwan, Rainer Sauerborn, Hengjin Dong
The integrated disease surveillance and response system in northern Ghana: challenges to the core and support functions
Martin N Adokiya, John K Awoonor-Williams, Claudia Beiersmann, Olaf Müller
Cost-effectiveness analysis of dabigatran and anticoagulation monitoring strategies of vitamin K antagonist
Misericòrdia Carles, Max Brosa, Juan Carlos Souto, Josep Maria Garcia-Alamino, Gordon Guyatt, Pablo Alonso-Coello
A qualitative study of the current state of heart failure community care in Canada: what can we learn for the future?
Sean M. Hayes, Sophie Peloquin, Jonathan G. Howlett, Karen Harkness, Nadia Giannetti, Carol Rancourt, Nancy Ricard
Inbound medical tourism to Barbados: a qualitative examination of local lawyers’ prospective legal and regulatory concerns
Valorie A. Crooks, I. Glenn Cohen, Krystyna Adams, Rebecca Whitmore, Jeffrey Morgan
Quality of life in patients treated with first-line antiretroviral therapy containing nevirapine or efavirenz in Uganda: a prospective non-randomized study
Doris Mutabazi Mwesigire, Albert W. Wu, Faith Martin, Achilles Katamba, Janet Seeley
What is the perceived impact of Alexander technique lessons on health status, costs and pain management in the real life setting of an English hospital? The results of a mixed methods evaluation of an Alexander technique service for those with chronic back pain
Stuart McClean, Sam Brilleman, Lesley Wye
Non-use of health care service among empty-nest elderly in Shandong, China: a cross-sectional study
Chengchao Zhou, Chunmei Ji, Jie Chu, Alexis Medina, Cuicui Li, Shan Jiang, Wengui Zheng, Jing Liu, Scott Rozelle
Use of appropriate healthcare technologies: a cross-sectional study in rural Zhejiang of China
Jianping Ren, Chaojie Liu, Qi-Sheng Gao, Lianping Yang, Xianhong Huang, Qing Guo
Compliance with Australian stroke guideline recommendations for outdoor mobility and transport training by post-inpatient rehabilitation services: An observational cohort study
Annie McCluskey, Louise Ada, Patrick J. Kelly, Sandy Middleton, Stephen Goodall, Jeremy M. Grimshaw, Pip Logan, Mark Longworth, Aspasia Karageorge
A qualitative study of patient (dis)trust in public and private hospitals: the importance of choice and pragmatic acceptance for trust considerations in South Australia
Paul R. Ward, Philippa Rokkas, Clinton Cenko, Mariastella Pulvirenti, Nicola Dean, Simon Carney, Patrick Brown, Michael Calnan, Samantha Meyer
Making patient centered care a reality: a survey of patient educational programs in Italian Cancer Research and Care Institutes
C. Cipolat Mis, I. Truccolo, V. Ravaioli, S. Cocchi, L. Gangeri, P. Mosconi, C. Drace, L. Pomicino, A. Paradiso, P. De Paoli
Enhancing governance and health system accountability for people centered healthcare: an exploratory study of community scorecards in Afghanistan
Anbrasi Edward, Kojo Osei-Bonsu, Casey Branchini, Temor shah Yarghal, Said Habib Arwal, Ahmad Jan Naeem
Comparison of practice based research network based quality improvement technical assistance and evaluation to other ongoing quality improvement efforts for changes in agency culture
William C. Livingood, Angela H. Peden, Gulzar H. Shah, Nandi A. Marshall, Ketty M. Gonzalez, Russell B. Toal, Dayna S. Alexander, Alesha R. Wright, Lynn D. Woodhouse
Who pays for home care? A study of nationally representative data on disabled older Americans
Alexander L. Janus, John Ermisch
The view of severely burned patients and healthcare professionals on the blind spots in the aftercare process: a qualitative study
Wendy Christiaens, Elke Van de Walle, Sophie Devresse, Dries Van Halewyck, Nadia Benahmed, Dominique Paulus, Koen Van den Heede
A qualitative study of the experiences of care and motivation for effective self-management among diabetic and hypertensive patients attending public sector primary health care services in South Africa
Katherine Murphy, Thandie Chuma, Catherine Mathews, Krisela Steyn, Naomi Levitt
Adapting the adult social care outcomes toolkit (ASCOT) for use in care home quality monitoring: conceptual development and testing
Ann-Marie Towers, Jacquetta Holder, Nick Smith, Tanya Crowther, Ann Netten, Elizabeth Welch, Grace Collins
The making of local hospital discharge arrangements: specifying the role of professional groups
Viola Burau, Flemming Bro
Cancer care coordinators in stage III colon cancer: a cost-utility analysis
Tony Blakely, Lucie Collinson, Giorgi Kvizhinadze, Nisha Nair, Rachel Foster, Elizabeth Dennett, Diana Sarfati
Everolimus plus exemestane versus bevacizumab-based chemotherapy for second-line treatment of hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer in Greece: An economic evaluation study
Georgia Kourlaba, Vasiliki Rapti, Athanasios Alexopoulos, John Relakis, Georgios Koumakis, Magdalini Chatzikou, Nikos Maniadakis, Vassilis Georgoulias
Health-care services utilization and costs associated with radical cystectomy for bladder cancer: a descriptive population-based study in the province of Quebec, Canada
Fabiano Santos, Alice Dragomir, Ahmed Sayed Zakaria, Wassim Kassouf, Armen Aprikian
Empowering patients through eHealth: a case report of a pan-European project
Emanuele Lettieri, Lia P. Fumagalli, Giovanni Radaelli, Paolo Bertele’, Jess Vogt, Reinhard Hammerschmidt, Juan L. Lara, Ana Carriazo, Cristina Masella
Implementing cognitive therapies into routine psychosis care: organisational foundations
Frances Dark, Harvey Whiteford, Neal M. Ashkanasy, Carol Harvey, David Crompton, Ellie Newman
The importance of older patients’ experiences with care delivery for their quality of life after hospitalization
Jacqueline M. Hartgerink, Jane M. Cramm, Ton J. Bakker, Johan P. Mackenbach, Anna P. Nieboer
Accuracy and completeness of patient pathways – the benefits of national data linkage in Australia
James H. Boyd, Sean M. Randall, Anna M. Ferrante, Jacqueline K. Bauer, Kevin McInneny, Adrian P. Brown, Katrina Spilsbury, Margo Gillies, James B. Semmens
The elimination of healthcare user fees for children under five substantially alleviates the burden on household expenses in Burkina Faso
Mahaman Mourtala Abdou Illou, Slim Haddad, Isabelle Agier, Valéry Ridde
Outcome of a reproductive health advocacy mentoring intervention for staff of selected non- governmental organisations in Nigeria
Gloria. T. Momoh, Mojisola M. Oluwasanu, Olufemi L. Oduola, Grace E. Delano, Oladapo A. Ladipo
An in-depth assessment of India’s Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS) in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh
Rajeev Gera, Nithiyananthan Muthusamy, Amruta Bahulekar, Amit Sharma, Prem Singh, Amrita Sekhar, Vivek Singh
A mixed methods study of collaboration between perinatal and infant mental health clinicians and other service providers: Do they sit in silos?
Karen A. Myors, Michelle Cleary, Maree Johnson, Virginia Schmied
A qualitative study on barriers to evidence-based practice in patient counseling and advocacy in Germany
Sibel Altin, Anna Passon, Sibylle Kautz-Freimuth, Bettina Berger, Stephanie Stock
Knowledge of and preferences for health insurance among formal sector employees in Addis Ababa: a qualitative study
Amarech Obse, Damen Hailemariam, Charles Normand
Barriers to universal health coverage in Republic of Moldova: a policy analysis of formal and informal out-of-pocket payments
Taryn Vian, Frank G. Feeley, Silviu Domente, Ala Negruta, Andrei Matei, Jarno Habicht
Squaring the circle: a priority-setting method for evidence-based service development, reconciling research with multiple stakeholder views
Rebecca Hutten, Glenys D. Parry, Thomas Ricketts, Jo Cooke
Problems with sickness certification tasks: experiences from physicians in different clinical settings. A cross-sectional nationwide study in Sweden
Therese Ljungquist, Elin Hinas, Gunnar H. Nilsson, Catharina Gustavsson, Britt Arrelöv, Kristina Alexanderson
Process of care in outpatient Integrative healthcare facilities: a systematic review of clinical trials
Suzanne J. Grant, Jane Frawley, Alan Bensoussan
Development and testing of indicators to measure coordination of clinical information and management across levels of care
Marta-Beatriz Aller, Ingrid Vargas, Jordi Coderch, Sebastià Calero, Francesc Cots, Mercè Abizanda, Joan Farré, Josep Ramon Llopart, Lluís Colomés, María Luisa Vázquez
A systematic review of the magnitude and cause of geographic variation in unplanned hospital admission rates and length of stay for ambulatory care sensitive conditions
John Busby, Sarah Purdy, William Hollingworth
The public’s voice about healthcare quality regulation policies. A population-based survey
Renée Bouwman, Manja Bomhoff, Judith D. de Jong, Paul Robben, Roland Friele
Understanding nurses’ and physicians’ fear of repercussions for reporting errors: clinician characteristics, organization demographics, or leadership factors?
Evan S. Castel, Liane R. Ginsburg, Shahram Zaheer, Hala Tamim
Do relationships exist between the scope and intensity of quality improvement activities and hospital operation performance? A 10-year observation in Taiwan
Kuo-Piao Chung, Tsung-Hsien Yu
What are patients’ expectations about the organization of their primary care physicians’ practices?
Paul Sebo, François R. Herrmann, Patrick Bovier, Dagmar M. Haller
CoDiab-VD: protocol of a prospective population-based cohort study on diabetes care in Switzerland
Emilie Zuercher, Julie Bordet, Bernard Burnand, Isabelle Peytremann-Bridevaux
The rising burden of chronic conditions among urban poor: a three-year follow-up survey in Bengaluru, India
Mrunalini J Gowda, Upendra Bhojani, Narayanan Devadasan, Thriveni S Beerenahally
Does the National Health Insurance Scheme provide financial protection to households in Ghana?
Anthony Kusi, Kristian Schultz Hansen, Felix A Asante, Ulrika Enemark
The effects of patient education programs on medication use among asthma and COPD patients: a propensity score matching with a difference-in-difference regression approach
Nazmi Sari, Meric Osman
Can she make it? Transportation barriers to accessing maternal and child health care services in rural Ghana
Kilian Nasung Atuoye, Jenna Dixon, Andrea Rishworth, Sylvester Zackaria Galaa, Sheila A. Boamah, Isaac Luginaah
Predictors of primary health care pharmaceutical expenditure by districts in Uganda and implications for budget setting and allocation
Paschal N. Mujasi, Jaume Puig-Junoy
Why do women choose private over public facilities for family planning services? A qualitative study of post-partum women in an informal urban settlement in Kenya
Sirina R. Keesara, Pamela A. Juma, Cynthia C. Harper
Mental health service use by recent immigrants from different world regions and by non-immigrants in Ontario, Canada: a cross-sectional study
Anna Durbin, Rahim Moineddin, Elizabeth Lin, Leah S. Steele, Richard H. Glazier
The effect on potential adverse drug events of a pharmacist-acquired medication history in an emergency department: a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, controlled, parallel-group study
Jesus Becerra-Camargo, Fernando Martínez-Martínez, Emilio García-Jiménez
Optimizing senior’s surgical care - Elder-friendly Approaches to the Surgical Environment (EASE) study: rationale and objectives
Rachel G. Khadaroo, Raj S. Padwal, Adrian S. Wagg, Fiona Clement, Lindsey M. Warkentin, Jayna Holroyd-Leduc
Determinants of emergency response responsibility perceptions in the local public health workforce after China’s health sector restructuring
Mingli Jiao, Ning Ning, Qunhong Wu, David H. Peters, Yanhua Hao, Ye Li, Xingang Wei, Zheng Kang
Exploring the treatment delay in the care of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing acute percutaneous coronary intervention: a cross-sectional study
Joppe Tra, Ineke van der Wulp, Martine C. de Bruijne, Cordula Wagner
Interventions in health organisations to reduce the impact of adverse events in second and third victims
José Joaquín Mira, Susana Lorenzo, Irene Carrillo, Lena Ferrús, Pastora Pérez-Pérez, Fuencisla Iglesias, Carmen Silvestre, Guadalupe Olivera, Elena Zavala, Roberto Nuño-Solinís, José Ángel Maderuelo-Fernández, Julián Vitaller, Pilar Astier
Defining the content and delivery of an intervention to Change AdhereNce to treatment in BonchiEctasis (CAN-BE): a qualitative approach incorporating the Theoretical Domains Framework, behavioural change techniques and stakeholder expert panels
Amanda R. McCullough, Cristín Ryan, Brenda O’Neill, Judy M. Bradley, J. Stuart Elborn, Carmel M. Hughes
Community-level effect of the reproductive health vouchers program on out-of-pocket spending on family planning and safe motherhood services in Kenya
Francis Obare, Charlotte Warren, Lucy Kanya, Timothy Abuya, Ben Bellows
A qualitative study of factors influencing retention of doctors and nurses at rural healthcare facilities in Bangladesh
Emmanuel Kwame Darkwa, M. Sophia Newman, Mahmud Kawkab, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury
A survey of the availability, prices and affordability of essential medicines in Jiangsu Province, China
Xiaoyu Xi, Weixia Li, Jun Li, Xuan Zhu, Cong Fu, Xu Wei, Shuzhen Chu
Risk factors for delay in age-appropriate vaccinations among Gambian children
Aderonke Odutola, Muhammed O. Afolabi, Ezra O. Ogundare, Yamu Ndow Lowe-Jallow, Archibald Worwui, Joseph Okebe, Martin O. Ota
Estimating the cost of referral and willingness to pay for referral to higher-level health facilities: a case series study from an integrated community case management programme in Uganda
Agnes Nanyonjo, Benson Bagorogoza, Frida Kasteng, Godfrey Ayebale, Fredrick Makumbi, Göran Tomson, Karin Källander
The effectiveness of an integrated collaborative care model vs. a shifted outpatient collaborative care model on community functioning, residential stability, and health service use among homeless adults with mental illness: a quasi-experimental study
Vicky Stergiopoulos, Andrée Schuler, Rosane Nisenbaum, Wayne deRuiter, Tim Guimond, Donald Wasylenki, Jeffrey S. Hoch, Stephen W. Hwang, Katherine Rouleau, Carolyn Dewa
Improving the effectiveness of service delivery in the public healthcare sector: the case of ophthalmology services in Malaysia
Chee Yoong Foo, Ka Keat Lim, Sheamini Sivasampu, Kamilah Binti Dahian, Pik Pin Goh
Informal caregivers of clients with neurological conditions: profiles, patterns and risk factors for distress from a home care prevalence study
Lori A. Mitchell, John Hirdes, Jeff W. Poss, Caroline Slegers-Boyd, Hilary Caldarelli, Lynn Martin
Effectiveness of an intermediate care hospital on readmissions, mortality, activities of daily living and use of health care services among hospitalized adults aged 60 years and older—a controlled observational study
Unni Dahl, Aslak Steinsbekk, Roar Johnsen
Immunohistochemical expression of HER2 in breast cancer: socioeconomic impact of inaccurate tests
Mogens Vyberg, Søren Nielsen, Rasmus Røge, Beth Sheppard, Jim Ranger-Moore, Eric Walk, Juliane Gartemann, Ulrich-Peter Rohr, Volker Teichgräber
Impact of referral templates on the quality of referrals from primary to secondary care: a cluster randomised trial
Henrik Wåhlberg, Per Christian Valle, Siri Malm, Ann Ragnhild Broderstad
Perspectives of health care providers on the provision of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy in health facilities in Malawi
P. Stanley Yoder, Xavier Nsabagasani, Erin Eckert, Allisyn Moran, Yazoumé Yé
The impact of interventions on appointment and clinical outcomes for individuals with diabetes: a systematic review
Lynn Nuti, Ayten Turkcan, Mark A. Lawley, Lingsong Zhang, Laura Sands, Sara McComb
Factors associated with the self-perceived ability of nursing staff to remain working until retirement: a questionnaire survey
Erica E. M. Maurits, Anke J. E. de Veer, Lucas S. van der Hoek, Anneke L. Francke
Concepts of social epidemiology in health services research
Olaf von dem Knesebeck
African vaccination week as a vehicle for integrated health service delivery
Richard Mihigo, Blanche Anya, Joseph Okeibunor, Samuel Ajibola, Collins Boakye-Agyemang, Linda Muzenda, Flavienne Issembe, Deo Nshimirimana
Development and evaluation of a nurse-led, tailored stroke self-management intervention
Lisa Kidd, Maggie Lawrence, Jo Booth, Anne Rowat, Sian Russell
Changes in public attitudes towards confidential adolescent sexual and reproductive health services in Lithuania after the introduction of new legislation: findings from the cross-sectional surveys conducted in 2005 and 2012
Lina Jaruseviciene, Apolinaras Zaborskis, Skirmante Sauliune, Gediminas Jarusevicius, Jeffrey V. Lazarus
Perceived barriers to pharmacist engagement in adverse drug event prevention activities in Ghana using semi-structured interview
Franklin Acheampong, Berko Panyin Anto
Lean and leadership practices: development of an initial realist program theory
Donna Goodridge, Gill Westhorp, Thomas Rotter, Roy Dobson, Brenna Bath
Organizational justice, trust, and identification and their effects on organizational commitment in hospital nursing staff
Su-Yueh Chen, Wen-Chuan Wu, Ching-Sheng Chang, Chia-Tzu Lin, Jung-Yuan Kung, Hui-Ching Weng, Yu-Tz Lin, Shu-I Lee
Association between organizational climate and perceptions and use of an innovation in Swedish primary health care: a prospective study of an implementation
Siw Carlfjord, Karin Festin
Maternal health care use among married women in Hossaina, Ethiopia
Zeleke Dutamo, Nega Assefa, Gudina Egata
Medication reviews are useful, but the model needs to be changed: Perspectives of Aboriginal Health Service health professionals on Home Medicines Reviews
Lindy Swain, Lesley Barclay
The impact of the ‘Better Care Better Value’ prescribing policy on the utilisation of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers for treating hypertension in the UK primary care setting: longitudinal quasi-experimental design
Amanj Baker, Li-Chia Chen, Rachel A. Elliott, Brian Godman
Assessment of antiretroviral treatment (ART) care service provision in Tigray Region health centers, North Ethiopia
Shewaye Belay Tessema, Mesafint Molla Adane
The effect of high medical expenses on household income in South Korea: a longitudinal study using propensity score matching
Jae Woo Choi, Eun Cheol Park, Ki Bong Yoo, Sang Gyu Lee, Sung In Jang, Tae Hyun Kim
Should Governments engage health insurance intermediaries? A comparison of benefits with and without insurance intermediary in a large tax funded community health insurance scheme in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh
Srikant Nagulapalli, Sudarsana Rao Rokkam
Overcoming language barriers in healthcare: A protocol for investigating safe and effective communication when patients or clinicians use a second language
Renata F. I. Meuter, Cindy Gallois, Norman S. Segalowitz, Andrew G. Ryder, Julia Hocking
Predicting inpatient hospital payments in the United States: a retrospective analysis
Mark W. Smith, Bernard Friedman, Zeynal Karaca, Herbert S. Wong
Understanding the discriminant factors that influence the adoption and use of clinical communities of practice: the ECOPIH case
David Lacasta Tintorer, Souhel Flayeh Beneyto, Josep Maria Manresa, Pere Torán-Monserrat, Ana Jiménez-Zarco, Joan Torrent-Sellens, Francesc Saigí-Rubió
Brief screening items to identify spanish-speaking adults with limited health literacy and numeracy skills
Rashmi Singh, Laura Scott Coyne, Lorraine S. Wallace
The effect of performance-based financing on illness, care-seeking and treatment among children: an impact evaluation in Rwanda
Martha Priedeman Skiles, Siân L. Curtis, Paulin Basinga, Gustavo Angeles, Harsha Thirumurthy
Virologic suppression and mortality of patients who migrate for HIV care in the province of British Columbia, Canada, from 2003 to 2012: a retrospective cohort study
Viviane Dias Lima, Nicola Goldberg, Lillian Lourenço, William Chau, Robert S. Hogg, Silvia Guillemi, Rolando Barrios, Julio S G Montaner
Barriers to diabetic foot care in a developing country with a high incidence of diabetes related amputations: an exploratory qualitative interview study
Cornelia Guell, Nigel Unwin
Association Between Nighttime Discharge from the Intensive Care Unit and Hospital Mortality: A Multi-Center Retrospective Cohort Study
Luciano CP Azevedo, Ivens A. de Souza, David A. Zygun, Henry T. Stelfox, Sean M. Bagshaw
Increased self-efficacy: the experience of high-intensity exercise of nursing home residents with dementia – a qualitative study
Cecilie Fromholt Olsen, Elisabeth Wiken Telenius, Knut Engedal, Astrid Bergland
A systematic review of social, economic and diplomatic aspects of short-term medical missions
Paul H. Caldron, Ann Impens, Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot
Empirical evidence of recall bias for primary health care visits
Natasha Kareem Brusco, Jennifer J. Watts
Analyzing barriers and facilitators to the implementation of an action plan to strengthen the midwifery professional role: a Moroccan case study
Sabina Abou-Malham, Marie Hatem, Nicole Leduc
Herpes labialis and Nigerian dental health care providers: knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and refusal to treat
Clement Chinedu Azodo, Agnes O. Umoh
A comparison of a multistate inpatient EHR database to the HCUP Nationwide Inpatient Sample
Jonathan P. DeShazo, Mark A. Hoffman
Healthcare professionals’ views on patient-centered care in hospitals
Mathilde Berghout, Job van Exel, Laszlo Leensvaart, Jane M. Cramm
Development and feasibility of an automated call monitoring intervention for older wheelchair users: the MOvIT project
Claudine Auger, William C. Miller, Jeffrey W. Jutai, Robyn Tamblyn
Optimizing appointment template and number of staff of an OB/GYN clinic – micro and macro simulation analyses
R.B. Lenin, Curtis L. Lowery, Wilbur C. Hitt, Nirvana A. Manning, Peter Lowery, Hari Eswaran
Fifteen-month follow up of an assertive community treatment program for chronic patients with mental illness
Tae-Won Kim, Jong-Hyun Jeong, Young-Hee Kim, Yura Kim, Ho-Jun Seo, Seung-Chul Hong
A first country-wide review of Diabetes Mellitus care in Bhutan: time to do better
Kinley Zam, Ajay MV Kumar, Shanta Achanta, Prashant Bhat, Balaji Naik, Kado Zangpo, Tandin Dorji, Yeshey Wangdi, Rony Zachariah
Challenges in the provision of healthcare services for migrants: a systematic review through providers’ lens
Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Kanang Kantamaturapoj, Weerasak Putthasri, Phusit Prakongsai
Combining administrative data feedback, reflection and action planning to engage primary care professionals in quality improvement: qualitative assessment of short term program outcomes
Brigitte Vachon, Bruno Désorcy, Isabelle Gaboury, Michel Camirand, Jean Rodrigue, Louise Quesnel, Claude Guimond, Martin Labelle, Ai-Thuy Huynh, Jeremy Grimshaw
Family Group Conferences within the integrated care system for young people with ID: a controlled study of effects and costs
Simone A. Onrust, Geke Romijn, Yvette de Beer
Program manager perspectives on the service system to meet the needs of youth with concurrent disorders: findings from a Canadian national survey
Joanna L. Henderson, Gloria Chaim, Stephanie Luca, E. B. Brownlie, Susan Rosenkranz, Tracey A. Skilling, Joseph H. Beitchman
Barriers to and delays in accessing breast cancer care among New Zealand women: disparities by ethnicity
Lis Ellison-Loschmann, Ridvan Firestone, Lucy Aquilina, Fiona McKenzie, Michelle Gray, Mona Jeffreys
Factors determining the patients’ care intensity for surgeons and surgical nurses: a conjoint analysis
Catharina J. van Oostveen, Hester Vermeulen, Els J. M. Nieveen van Dijkum, Dirk J. Gouma, Dirk T. Ubbink
Barriers to optimal diabetes care in Trinidad and Tobago: a health care Professionals’ perspective
Nira Roopnarinesingh, Nancyellen Brennan, Claude Khan, Paul W. Ladenson, Felicia Hill-Briggs, Rita Rastogi Kalyani
Between government policy, clinical autonomy, and market demands: a qualitative study of the impact of the Prescribing Analysis System on behavior of physicians in South Korea
Dong-Sook Kim, Green Bae, Soo Yeon Yoo, Minah Kang
Development and pilot of a framework to evaluate reproductive health call centre services: experience of Marie Stopes international
Pallavi Yagnik, Judy Gold, Mark Stoove, Barbara Reichwein, Caroline van Gemert, Nick Corby, Megan S C Lim
Evaluation of the regional nurse-supported hepatitis C shared care program in Western Australia: a mixed methods study
Roanna Lobo, Lester Mascarenhas, David Worthington, Judith Bevan, Donna B. Mak
Feasibility and validity of using WHO adolescent job aid algorithms by health workers for reproductive morbidities among adolescent girls in rural North India
Siddaiah Archana, B. Nongkrynh, K. Anand, CS Pandav
Lost in translation: a case-study of the travel of lean thinking in a hospital
Hege Andersen, Kjell Arne Røvik
Making sense of a new technology in clinical practice: a qualitative study of patient and physician perspectives
Regitze A. S. Pals, Ulla M. Hansen, Clea B. Johansen, Christian S. Hansen, Marit E. Jørgensen, Jesper Fleischer, Ingrid Willaing
Evaluation of the implementation outcomes of the Essential Medicines System in Anhui county-level public hospitals: a before-and-after study
Shuman Xu, Cheng Bian, Heng Wang, Niannian Li, Jingya Wu, Peng Li, Hua Lu
Exploring the impact of intravenous thrombolysis on length of stay for acute ischemic stroke: a retrospective cohort study
Ling-Chien Hung, Ya-Han Hu, Sheng-Feng Sung
A retrospective review of how nonconformities are expressed and finalized in external inspections of health-care facilities
Einar Hovlid, Helge Høifødt, Bente Smedbråten, Geir Sverre Braut
Predicting cost of care using self-reported health status data
Christy K. Boscardin, Ralph Gonzales, Kent L. Bradley, Maria C. Raven
Studies analysing the need for health-related information in Germany - a systematic review
Dawid Pieper, Fabian Jülich, Sunya-Lee Antoine, Christina Bächle, Nadja Chernyak, Jutta Genz, Michaela Eikermann, Andrea Icks
Assessment of primary care facilities for cardiovascular disease preparedness in Madhya Pradesh, India
Abhijit Pakhare, Sanjeev Kumar, Swati Goyal, Rajnish Joshi
Increased influence and collaboration: a qualitative study of patients’ experiences of community treatment orders within an assertive community treatment setting
Hanne Kilen Stuen, Jorun Rugkåsa, Anne Landheim, Rolf Wynn
The safety of Canadian rural maternity services: a multi-jurisdictional cohort analysis
Stefan Grzybowski, John Fahey, Barbara Lai, Sharon Zhang, Nancy Aelicks, Brenda M. Leung, Kathrin Stoll, Rebecca Attenborough
Use of the Theory of Planned Behaviour to assess factors influencing the identification of students at clinical high-risk for psychosis in 16+ Education
Debra A. Russo, Jan Stochl, Michelle Painter, Gillian F. Shelley, Peter B. Jones, Jesus Perez
A scoping review of cost-effectiveness of screening and treatment for latent tuberculosis infection in migrants from high-incidence countries
Lorenzo Zammarchi, Gianluigi Casadei, Marianne Strohmeyer, Filippo Bartalesi, Carola Liendo, Alberto Matteelli, Maurizio Bonati, Eduardo Gotuzzo, Alessandro Bartoloni
Enablers of and barriers to high quality clinical supervision among occupational therapists across Queensland in Australia: findings from a qualitative study
Priya Martin, Saravana Kumar, Lucylynn Lizarondo, Ans VanErp
A cross-sectional study assessing the association between online ratings and structural and quality of care measures: results from two German physician rating websites
Martin Emmert, Thomas Adelhardt, Uwe Sander, Veit Wambach, Jörg Lindenthal
Comparing efficiency of health systems across industrialized countries: a panel analysis
Bianca K. Frogner, H.E. Frech III, Stephen T. Parente
Popularity of internet physician rating sites and their apparent influence on patients’ choices of physicians
Christopher M. Burkle, Mark T. Keegan
Is the quality of primary healthcare services influenced by the healthcare centre’s type of ownership?—An observational study of patient perceived quality, prescription rates and follow-up routines in privately and publicly owned primary care centres
Andy Maun, Catrin Wessman, Pär-Daniel Sundvall, Jörgen Thorn, Cecilia Björkelund
The economic burden of overseas medical treatment: a cross sectional study of Maldivian medical travelers
Mariyam Suzana, Anne Mills, Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong
The prevalence of self-reported underuse of medications due to cost for the elderly: results from seven European urban communities
Aurima Stankuniene, Mindaugas Stankunas, Mark Avery, Jutta Lindert, Rita Mikalauskiene, Maria Gabriella Melchiorre, Francisco Torres-Gonzalez, Elisabeth Ioannidi-Kapolou, Henrique Barros, Arūnas Savickas, Raimondas Radziunas, Joaquim J. F. Soares
Equity impact of a choice reform and change in reimbursement system in primary care in Stockholm County Council
Janne Agerholm, Daniel Bruce, Antonio Ponce de Leon, Bo Burström
“Neither we are satisfied nor they”-users and provider’s perspective: a qualitative study of maternity care in secondary level public health facilities, Uttar Pradesh, India
Sanghita Bhattacharyya, Anns Issac, Preety Rajbangshi, Aradhana Srivastava, Bilal I. Avan
Learning and coping strategies versus standard education in cardiac rehabilitation: a cost-utility analysis alongside a randomised controlled trial
Nasrin Tayyari Dehbarez, Vibeke Lynggaard, Ole May, Rikke Søgaard
Provision of inpatient rehabilitation and challenges experienced with participation post discharge: quantitative and qualitative inquiry of African stroke patients
Anthea Rhoda, Natalie Cunningham, Simon Azaria, Gerard Urimubenshi
Haïti and the health marketplace: the role of the private, informal market in filling the gaps left by the state
J. Durham, Marcos Michael, P. S. Hill, E. Paviignani
Determinants of patient-reported experience of cancer services responsiveness
Dominique Tremblay, Danièle Roberge, Djamal Berbiche
Strengthening health systems capacity to monitor and evaluate programmes targeted at reducing abortion-related maternal mortality in Jessore district, Bangladesh
Fauzia Akhter Huda, Anisuddin Ahmed, Evelyn Rebecca Ford, Heidi Bart Johnston
Awareness, experiences and perceptions of telehealth in a rural Queensland community
Natalie K. Bradford, Liam J. Caffery, Anthony C. Smith
Social and economic costs and health-related quality of life in non-institutionalised patients with cystic fibrosis in the United Kingdom
Aris Angelis, Panos Kanavos, Julio López-Bastida, Renata Linertová, Elena Nicod, Pedro Serrano-Aguilar
Developing a mental health care plan in a low resource setting: the theory of change approach
Maji Hailemariam, Abebaw Fekadu, Medhin Selamu, Atalay Alem, Girmay Medhin, Tedla Wolde Giorgis, Mary DeSilva, Erica Breuer
Evidence based policy making and the ‘art’ of commissioning – how English healthcare commissioners access and use information and academic research in ‘real life’ decision-making: an empirical qualitative study
Lesley Wye, Emer Brangan, Ailsa Cameron, John Gabbay, Jonathan H. Klein, Catherine Pope
Dual use of VA and non-VA hospitals by Veterans with multiple hospitalizations
Alan N. West, Mary E. Charlton, Mary Vaughan-Sarrazin
Endurance, resistance and resilience in the South African health care system: case studies to demonstrate mechanisms of coping within a constrained system
John Eyles, Bronwyn Harris, Jana Fried, Veloshnee Govender, Pascalia Munyewende
Patient educational technologies and their use by patients diagnosed with localized prostate cancer
Richard J. Baverstock, R. Trafford Crump, Kevin V. Carlson
Perception of quality of care of patients with potentially severe diseases evaluated at a distinct quick diagnostic delivery model: a cross-sectional study
Carmen Sanclemente-Ansó, Albert Salazar, Xavier Bosch, Cristina Capdevila, Amparo Giménez-Requena, Beatriz Rosón-Hernández, Xavier Corbella
Characteristics of young people with long term conditions close to transfer to adult health services
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The challenges of reshaping disease specific and care oriented community based services towards comprehensive goals: a situation appraisal in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
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Incidence and predictors of annual chlamydia testing among 15–29 year olds attending Aboriginal primary health care services in New South Wales, Australia
Simon Graham, Rebecca J. Guy, James S. Ward, John Kaldor, Basil Donovan, Janet Knox, Debbie McCowen, Patricia Bullen, Julie Booker, Chris O’Brien, Kristine Garrett, Handan C. Wand
Has variation in length of stay in acute hospitals decreased? Analysing trends in the variation in LOS between and within Dutch hospitals
Aart R. van de Vijsel, Richard Heijink, Maarten Schipper
Determinants of hospital length of stay for people with serious mental illness in England and implications for payment systems: a regression analysis
Rowena Jacobs, Nils Gutacker, Anne Mason, Maria Goddard, Hugh Gravelle, Tony Kendrick, Simon Gilbody
Costs of HIV/AIDS treatment in Indonesia by time of treatment and stage of disease
Adiatma Y. M. Siregar, Noor Tromp, Dindin Komarudin, Rudi Wisaksana, Reinout van Crevel, Andre van der Ven, Rob Baltussen
A cross-sectional study on health differences between rural and non-rural U.S. counties using the County Health Rankings
Timothy J. Anderson, Daniel M. Saman, Martin S. Lipsky, M. Nawal Lutfiyya
Individual and contextual factors associated with community health workers’ performance in Nyanza Province, Kenya: a multilevel analysis
Yoshito Kawakatsu, Tomohiko Sugishita, Junya Tsutsui, Kennedy Oruenjo, Stephen Wakhule, Kennedy Kibosia, Eric Were, Sumihisa Honda
Race/ethnicity, and Americans’ perceptions and experiences of over- and under-use of care: a cross-sectional study
Nancy R. Kressin, Meng-Yun Lin
The design and initial patient evaluation of an integrated care pathway for faecal incontinence: a qualitative study
Craig John Rimmer, Kathryn Ann Gill, Sheila Greenfield, George Dowswell
Assessing the relationship between neighborhood factors and diabetes related health outcomes and self-care behaviors
Brittany L. Smalls, Chris M. Gregory, James S. Zoller, Leonard E. Egede
Maternal and reproductive health financing in Burundi: public-sector contribution levels and trends from 2010 to 2012
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Validation of the howRu and howRwe questionnaires at the individual patient level
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How personal and standardized coordination impact implementation of integrated care
Justin K. Benzer, Irene E. Cramer, James F. Burgess Jr, David C. Mohr, Jennifer L. Sullivan, Martin P. Charns
Effectiveness of evidence-based medicine on knowledge, attitudes, and practices of family planning providers: a randomized experiment in Jordan
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The supply of general practitioners across local areas: accounting for spatial heterogeneity
Michelle McIsaac, Anthony Scott, Guyonne Kalb
Supply-side dimensions and dynamics of integrating HIV testing and counselling into routine antenatal care: a facility assessment from Morogoro Region, Tanzania
Selena J. An, Asha S. George, Amnesty E. LeFevre, Rose Mpembeni, Idda Mosha, Diwakar Mohan, Ann Yang, Joy Chebet, Chrisostom Lipingu, Abdullah H. Baqui, Japhet Killewo, Peter J. Winch, Charles Kilewo
Factors associated with antenatal and delivery care in Sudan: analysis of the 2010 Sudan household survey
Muna Hassan Mustafa, Abdel Moniem Mukhtar
Cost of illness of the prostate cancer in Japan—a time-trend analysis and future projections
Takefumi Kitazawa, Kunichika Matsumoto, Shigeru Fujita, Kanako Seto, Shimpei Hanaoka, Tomonori Hasegawa
Diagnostics barriers and innovations in rural areas: insights from junior medical doctors on the frontlines of rural care in Peru
Cynthia Fiorella Anticona Huaynate, Monica Jehnny Pajuelo Travezaño, Malena Correa, Holger Mayta Malpartida, Richard Oberhelman, Laura L Murphy, Valerie A Paz-Soldan
Efficacy of a referral center for patient-centered care in multiple myeloma: a cohort study
Indara C. Saccilotto, Rosane Isabel Bittencourt, Camila C. Fischer, Amanda Quevedo, Vania N. Hirakata, Paulo D. Picon
The impacts of withdrawal and replacement of general practitioner services on aeromedical service trends: a 13-year interrupted time-series study in Tennant Creek, Northern Territory
Matthew T. Haren, John Setchell, David L. John, Mark Daniel
Integrating care for individuals with FASD: results from a multi-stakeholder symposium
Paul Masotti, Sally Longstaffe, Holly Gammon, Jill Isbister, Breann Maxwell, Ana Hanlon-Dearman
Boundaries and conditions of interpretation in multilingual and multicultural elderly healthcare
Emina Hadziabdic, Christina Lundin, Katarina Hjelm
Compliance with clinical pathways for inpatient care in Chinese public hospitals
Xiao Yan He, M. Kate Bundorf, Jian Jun Gu, Ping Zhou, Di Xue
Evaluation of a support worker role, within a nurse delegation and supervision model, for provision of medicines support for older people living at home: the Workforce Innovation for Safe and Effective (WISE) Medicines Care study
Cik Yin Lee, Christine Beanland, Dianne Goeman, Ann Johnson, Juliet Thorn, Susan Koch, Rohan A. Elliott
Availability of emergency neonatal care in eight districts of Karnataka state, southern India: a cross-sectional study
Prem K. Mony, Krishnamurthy Jayanna, Swarnarekha Bhat, Suman V Rao, Maryann Crockett, Lisa Avery, BM Ramesh, Stephen Moses, James Blanchard
Using the theory of planned behaviour to model antecedents of surgical checklist use: a cross-sectional study
Anna C. Mascherek, Katrin Gehring, Paula Bezzola, David L. B. Schwappach
Collaboration processes and perceived effectiveness of integrated care projects in primary care: a longitudinal mixed-methods study
Pim P. Valentijn, Dirk Ruwaard, Hubertus J M Vrijhoef, Antoinette de Bont, Rosa Y. Arends, Marc A. Bruijnzeels
Challenges in tackling tuberculosis on the Thai-Myanmar border: findings from a qualitative study with health professionals
Aiko Kaji, Sein Sein Thi, Terrence Smith, Prakaykaew Charunwatthana, Francois H. Nosten
Propensity to seek healthcare in different healthcare systems: analysis of patient data in 34 countries
Tessa van Loenen, Michael J. van den Berg, Marjan J. Faber, Gert P. Westert
Cost of stroke: a controlled national study evaluating societal effects on patients and their partners
Poul Jennum, Helle K. Iversen, Rikke Ibsen, Jakob Kjellberg
A survey of Ethiopian physicians’ experiences of bedside rationing: extensive resource scarcity, tough decisions and adverse consequences
Frehiwot Berhane Defaye, Dawit Desalegn, Marion Danis, Samia Hurst, Yemane Berhane, Ole Frithjof Norheim, Ingrid Miljeteig
A method for measuring individual research productivity in hospitals: development and feasibility
Caterina Caminiti, Elisa Iezzi, Caterina Ghetti, Gianluigi De’ Angelis, Carlo Ferrari
An exploration of moral hazard behaviors under the national health insurance scheme in Northern Ghana: a qualitative study
Cornelius Debpuur, Maxwell Ayindenaba Dalaba, Samuel Chatio, Martin Adjuik, Patricia Akweongo
Interaction between non-executive and executive directors in English National Health Service trust boards: an observational study
Rod Sheaff, Ruth Endacott, Ray Jones, Val Woodward
Stage at presentation of breast cancer in Luanda, Angola - a retrospective study
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Admissions for chronic ambulatory care sensitive conditions - a useful measure of potentially preventable admission?
Jo M. Longman, Megan E. Passey, Dan P. Ewald, Elizabeth Rix, Geoffrey G. Morgan
Evasion of “mandatory” social health insurance for the formal sector: evidence from Lao PDR
Sarah Alkenbrack, Kara Hanson, Magnus Lindelow
A systematic review comparing the costs of chiropractic care to other interventions for spine pain in the United States
Simon Dagenais, O’Dane Brady, Scott Haldeman, Pran Manga
Older patients’ participation in hospital admissions through the emergency department: an interview study of healthcare professionals
Dagrunn Nåden Dyrstad, Ingelin Testad, Marianne Storm
What can dissaving tell us about catastrophic costs? Linear and logistic regression analysis of the relationship between patient costs and financial coping strategies adopted by tuberculosis patients in Bangladesh, Tanzania and Bangalore, India
Jason Madan, Knut Lönnroth, Samia Laokri, Stephen Bertel Squire
Gender differences in the use of psychiatric outpatient specialist services in Tromsø, Norway are dependent on age: a population-based cross-sectional survey
Anne Helen Hansen, Anne Høye
A cross-sectional survey of emergency and essential surgical care capacity among hospitals with high trauma burden in a Central African country
Marquise Kouo-Ngamby, Fanny Nadia Dissak-Delon, Isabelle Feldhaus, Catherine Juillard, Kent A. Stevens, Martin Ekeke-Monono
An analysis of policy levers used to implement mental health reform in Australia 1992-2012
Francesca C. Grace, Carla S. Meurk, Brian W. Head, Wayne D. Hall, Georgia Carstensen, Meredith G. Harris, Harvey A. Whiteford
A 10-year population-based study of people with multiple sclerosis in Stockholm, Sweden: use of and satisfaction with care and the value of different factors in predicting use of care
Charlotte Chruzander, Sverker Johansson, Kristina Gottberg, Ulrika Einarsson, Jan Hillert, Lotta Widén Holmqvist, Charlotte Ytterberg
Case vignettes based on EQ-5D to elicit stated preferences for health services utilization from the insurees’ perspective
Julia Eckert, Marcel Lichters, Silke Piedmont, Bodo Vogt, Bernt-Peter Robra
Socio-economic inequalities in curative health-seeking for children in Egypt: analysis of the 2008 Demographic and Health Survey
Lenka Benova, Oona M. R. Campbell, George B. Ploubidis
The cost of illness attributable to diabetic foot and cost-effectiveness of secondary prevention in Peru
María Kathia Cárdenas, Andrew J. Mirelman, Cooper J. Galvin, María Lazo-Porras, Miguel Pinto, J. Jaime Miranda, Robert H. Gilman
Costs and utilization of treatment in patients with hemophilia
Patrícia Rocha, Manuela Carvalho, Manuela Lopes, Fernando Araújo
Oximetry-supported self-management for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: mixed method feasibility pilot project
Michele MacNab, Siew Hwa Lee, Lucy McCloughan, Janet Hanley, Brian McKinstry, Hilary Pinnock
Early decision-analytic modeling – a case study on vascular closure devices
Alina Brandes, Moritz F. Sinner, Stefan Kääb, Wolf H. Rogowski
How many operating rooms are needed to manage non-elective surgical cases? A Monte Carlo simulation study
Joseph M. O’Brien Antognini, Joseph F. Antognini, Vijay Khatri
Pathways to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment initiation: a qualitative comparison of patients’ experiences in the era of rapid molecular diagnostic tests
Pren Naidoo, Margaret van Niekerk, Elizabeth du Toit, Nulda Beyers, Natalie Leon
The effect of cost-sharing in private health insurance on the utilization of health care services between private insurance purchasers and non-purchasers: a study of the Korean health panel survey (2008–2012)
Young Choi, Jae-Hyun Kim, Ki-Bong Yoo, Kyoung Hee Cho, Jae-Woo Choi, Tae Hoon Lee, Woorim Kim, Eun-Cheol Park
Re-inventing care planning in mental health: stakeholder accounts of the imagined implementation of a user/carer involved intervention
Helen Brooks, Caroline Sanders, Karina Lovell, Claire Fraser, Anne Rogers
Assessing the performance of maternity care in Europe: a critical exploration of tools and indicators
Ramón Escuriet, Joanna White, Katrien Beeckman, Lucy Frith, Fatima Leon-Larios, Christine Loytved, Ans Luyben, Marlene Sinclair, Edwin van Teijlingen
Self-rated health and hospital services use in the Spanish National Health System: a longitudinal study
Nayara Tamayo-Fonseca, Andreu Nolasco, Jose A. Quesada, Pamela Pereyra-Zamora, Inmaculada Melchor, Joaquin Moncho, Julia Calabuig, Carmen Barona
Barriers in physical access to maternal health services in rural Ethiopia
Yemisrach B. Okwaraji, Emily L. Webb, Karen M. Edmond
An institutional ethnography of chronic pain management in family medicine (COPE) study protocol
Fiona Webster, Onil Bhattacharyya, Aileen Davis, Rick Glazier, Joel Katz, Paul Krueger, Ross Upshur, Albert Yee, Lynn Wilson
Point-of-care screening for syphilis and HIV in the borderlands: challenges in implementation in the Brazilian Amazon
Carole Zen Ruffinen, Meritxell Sabidó, Ximena Pamela Díaz-Bermúdez, Marcus Lacerda, David Mabey, Rosanna W. Peeling, Adele Schwartz Benzaken
Cost-effectiveness of dapagliflozin versus DPP-4 inhibitors as an add-on to Metformin in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus from a UK Healthcare System Perspective
M. Charokopou, P. McEwan, S. Lister, L. Callan, K. Bergenheim, K. Tolley, R. Postema, R. Townsend, M. Roudaut
What are the reasons for clinical network success? A qualitative study
Elizabeth McInnes, Mary Haines, Amanda Dominello, Deanna Kalucy, Asmara Jammali-Blasi, Sandy Middleton, Emily Klineberg
Actions following adverse drug events – how do these influence uptake and utilisation of newer and/or similar medications?
Nadia Barozzi, GMEE Geeske Peeters, Susan E. Tett
Cost-effectiveness of using the Cervex-Brush (broom) compared to the elongated spatula for collection of conventional cervical cytology samples within a high-burden HIV setting: a model-based analysis
Kathryn Schnippel, Pamela Michelow, Carla J. Chibwesha, Caroline Makura, Naomi Lince-Deroche, Bridgette Goeieman, Masangu Mulongo, Suzette Jordaan, Cynthia Firnhaber
Pathways of healthcare utilisation in patients with suspected adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a cross-sectional study
Marie Beauséjour, Lise Goulet, Debbie Ehrmann Feldman, Roxane Borgès Da Silva, Raynald Pineault, Michel Rossignol, Marjolaine Roy-Beaudry, Hubert Labelle
Exploring providers’ perspectives of a community based TB approach in Southern Ethiopia: implication for community based approaches
Daniel G. Datiko, Mohammed A. Yassin, Olivia Tulloch, Girum Asnake, Tadesse Tesema, Habiba Jamal, Paulos Markos, Luis E. Cuevas, Sally Theobald
Equity in access to health care among asylum seekers in Germany: evidence from an exploratory population-based cross-sectional study
Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Christine Schneider, Stefanie Joos
Associations between workplace affiliation and phlebotomy practices regarding patient identification and test request handling practices in primary healthcare centres: a multilevel model approach
Karin Nilsson, Christina Juthberg, Johan Söderberg, Karin Bölenius, Kjell Grankvist, Christine Brulin, Marie Lindkvist
What are the similarities and differences in structure and function among the three main models of community health centers in China: a systematic review
Haitao Li, Dongfu Qian, Sian Griffiths, Roger Yat-nork Chung, Xiaolin Wei
Understanding adverse drug reactions in package leaflets – an exploratory survey among health care professionals
Viktoria Mühlbauer, Ingrid Mühlhauser
The cost of dialysis in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review
Lawrencia Mushi, Paul Marschall, Steffen Fleßa
Errors in cause-of-death statement on death certificates in intensive care unit of Kathmandu, Nepal
Leison Maharjan, Aarzoo Shah, Khagendra Bahadur Shrestha, Gambhir Shrestha
Understanding organizational and cultural premises for quality of care in nursing homes: an ethnographic study
Sigrid Nakrem
Models of care for musculoskeletal health: a cross-sectional qualitative study of Australian stakeholders’ perspectives on relevance and standardised evaluation
Andrew M. Briggs, Joanne E. Jordan, Robyn Speerin, Matthew Jennings, Peter Bragge, Jason Chua, Helen Slater
How should health service organizations respond to diversity? A content analysis of six approaches
Conny Seeleman, Marie-Louise Essink-Bot, Karien Stronks, David Ingleby
Cost effectiveness analysis of Year 2 of an elementary school-located influenza vaccination program–Results from a randomized controlled trial
Byung-Kwang Yoo, Sharon G. Humiston, Peter G. Szilagyi, Stanley J. Schaffer, Christine Long, Maureen Kolasa
Results of a hypertension and diabetes treatment program in the slums of Nairobi: a retrospective cohort study
Marie E. Werner, Steven van de Vijver, Mildred Adhiambo, Thaddaeus Egondi, Samuel O. Oti, Catherine Kyobutungi
Improving access to medicines through centralised dispensing in the public sector: a case study of the Chronic Dispensing Unit in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
Bvudzai Priscilla Magadzire, Bruno Marchal, Kim Ward
Social accountability for maternal health services in Muanda and Bolenge Health Zones, Democratic Republic of Congo: a situation analysis
Eric M. Mafuta, Marjolein A. Dieleman, Lisanne M. Hogema, Paul N. Khomba, François M. Zioko, Patrick K. Kayembe, Tjard de Cock Buning, Thérèse N. M. Mambu
Toward cost-effective staffing mixes for Veterans Affairs substance use disorder treatment programs
Jinwoo J. Im, Ross D. Shachter, John W. Finney, Jodie A. Trafton
Type 2 diabetes patients’ and providers’ differing perspectives on medication nonadherence: a qualitative meta-synthesis
Francesca Brundisini, Meredith Vanstone, Danielle Hulan, Deirdre DeJean, Mita Giacomini
Assessing feasibility and acceptability of study procedures: getting ready for implementation of national stroke guidelines in out-patient health care
Susanne Palmcrantz, Malin Tistad, Ann Catrine Eldh, Lotta Widén Holmqvist, Anna Ehrenberg, Göran Tomson, Christina B. Olsson, Lars Wallin
A qualitative study of physician perspectives of cost-related communication and patients’ financial burden with managing chronic disease
Minal R. Patel, Khooshbu S. Shah, Meagan L. Shallcross
Depicting the interplay between organisational tiers in the use of a national quality registry to develop quality of care in Sweden
Ann Catrine Eldh, Mio Fredriksson, Sofie Vengberg, Christina Halford, Lars Wallin, Tobias Dahlström, Ulrika Winblad
Thai health care provider knowledge of neonatal male circumcision in reducing transmission of HIV and other STIs
Kriengkrai Srithanaviboonchai, Boonlure Pruenglampoo, Kanittha Thaikla, Namtip Srirak, Jiraporn Suwanteerangkul, Jiraporn Khorana, Richard M. Grimes, Deanna E. Grimes, Vipa Danthamrongkul, Suchada Paileeklee, Uraiwan Pattanasutnyavong
Cardiac rehabilitation in Canada and Arab countries: comparing availability and program characteristics
Karam I. Turk-Adawi, Carmen Terzic, Birna Bjarnason-Wehrens, Sherry L. Grace
Evaluating the effect of a proposed logistics fee cap on pharmaceuticals in South Africa - a pre and post analysis
Varsha Bangalee, Fatima Suleman
Evolutionary concept analysis of health seeking behavior in nursing: a systematic review
Sarieh Poortaghi, Afsaneh Raiesifar, Parisa Bozorgzad, Samad E. J. Golzari, Soroor Parvizy, Forough Rafii
Survey of patient perceptions towards short-term mobile medical aid for those living in a medically underserved area of Swaziland
Yi-Hao Weng, Hung-Yi Chiou, Chi-Cheng Tu, Say-Tsung Liao, Patience Thulile Bhembe, Chun-Yuh Yang, Ya-Wen Chiu
Why do older people with multi-morbidity experience unplanned hospital admissions from the community: a root cause analysis
Richard L. Reed, Linda Isherwood, David Ben-Tovim
Sick-listed persons’ experiences with taking part in an in-patient occupational rehabilitation program based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: a qualitative focus group interview study
Marit B. Rise, Sigmund Ø. Gismervik, Roar Johnsen, Marius S. Fimland
Population level usage of health services, and HIV testing and care, prior to decentralization of antiretroviral therapy in Agago District in rural Northern Uganda
G. Abongomera, S. Kiwuwa-Muyingo, P. Revill, L. Chiwaula, T. Mabugu, A. Phillips, E. Katabira, V. Musiime, C. Gilks, A. Chan, J. Hakim, R. Colebunders, C. Kityo, D. M. Gibb, J. Seeley, D. Ford
Knowledge and attitudes towards rotavirus diarrhea and the vaccine amongst healthcare providers in Yogyakarta Indonesia
Holly Seale, Mei Neni Sitaresmi, Jarir Atthobari, Anita E. Heywood, Rajneesh Kaur, Raina C. MacIntyre, Yati Soenarto, Retna Siwi Padmawati
Implementing solutions to improve and expand telehealth adoption: participatory action research in four community healthcare settings
Johanna Taylor, Elizabeth Coates, Bridgette Wessels, Gail Mountain, Mark S. Hawley
Beyond NIMBYs and NOOMBYs: what can wind farm controversies teach us about public involvement in hospital closures?
Ellen Stewart, Mhairi Aitken
Excess length of stay and economic consequences of adverse events in Dutch hospital patients
Janneke Hoogervorst-Schilp, Maaike Langelaan, Peter Spreeuwenberg, Martine C. de Bruijne, Cordula Wagner
A national study of Continuous Professional Competence (CPC) amongst pre-hospital practitioners
Shane Knox, Walter Cullen, Colum P. Dunne
Prehospital transportation to therapeutic hypothermia centers and survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Derek DeLia, Henry E. Wang, Jared Kutzin, Mark Merlin, Jose Nova, Kristen Lloyd, Joel C. Cantor
Establishing a centralised telehealth service increases telehealth activity at a tertiary hospital
Melinda Martin-Khan, Farhad Fatehi, Marina Kezilas, Karen Lucas, Leonard C. Gray, Anthony C. Smith
An organizational perspective on the long-term sustainability of a nursing best practice guidelines program: a case study
Andrea R. Fleiszer, Sonia E. Semenic, Judith A. Ritchie, Marie-Claire Richer, Jean-Louis Denis
Estimation of indices of health service readiness with a principal component analysis of the Tanzania Service Provision Assessment Survey
Elizabeth F. Jackson, Ayesha Siddiqui, Hialy Gutierrez, Almamy Malick Kanté, Judy Austin, James F. Phillips
Acute hospital-based services used by adults during the last year of life in New South Wales, Australia: a population-based retrospective cohort study
David E. Goldsbury, Dianne L. O’Connell, Afaf Girgis, Anne Wilkinson, Jane L. Phillips, Patricia M. Davidson, Jane M. Ingham
A longitudinal examination of the association between nurse staffing levels, the practice environment and nurse-sensitive patient outcomes in hospitals
Janita P. C. Chau, Suzanne H. S. Lo, K. C. Choi, Eric L. S. Chan, Matthew D. McHugh, Danny W. K. Tong, Angela M. L. Kwok, W. Y. Ip, Iris F. K. Lee, Diana T. F. Lee
Strengthening health system governance using health facility service charters: a mixed methods assessment of community experiences and perceptions in a district in Kenya
Martin Atela, Pauline Bakibinga, Remare Ettarh, Catherine Kyobutungi, Simon Cohn
How online sexual health services could work; generating theory to support development
Paula Baraitser, Jonathan Syred, Vicki Spencer-Hughes, Chris Howroyd, Caroline Free, Gillian Holdsworth
Population-based geographic access to endocrinologists in the United States, 2012
Hua Lu, James B. Holt, Yiling J. Cheng, Xingyou Zhang, Stephen Onufrak, Janet B. Croft
Factors influencing the underutilization of mental health services among Asian American women with a history of depression and suicide
Astraea Augsberger, Albert Yeung, Meaghan Dougher, Hyeouk Chris Hahm
A systematic review of factors that affect uptake of community-based health insurance in low-income and middle-income countries
Esther F. Adebayo, Olalekan A. Uthman, Charles S. Wiysonge, Erin A. Stern, Kim T. Lamont, John E. Ataguba
A multi-level qualitative analysis of Telehomecare in Ontario: challenges and opportunities
Gemma Hunting, Nida Shahid, Yeva Sahakyan, Iris Fan, Crystal R. Moneypenny, Aleksandra Stanimirovic, Taylor North, Yelena Petrosyan, Murray D. Krahn, Valeria E. Rac
Costs and advance directives at the end of life: a case of the ‘Coaching Older Adults and Carers to have their preferences Heard (COACH)’ trial
Billingsley Kaambwa, Julie Ratcliffe, Sandra L. Bradley, Stacey Masters, Owen Davies, Craig Whitehead, Catherine Milte, Ian D. Cameron, Tracey Young, Jason Gordon, Maria Crotty
The provision of NHS health checks in a community setting: an ethnographic account
Ruth Riley, Nikki Coghill, Alan Montgomery, Gene Feder, Jeremy Horwood
Evaluating a train-the-trainer approach for improving capacity for evidence-based decision making in public health
Laura Yarber, Carol A. Brownson, Rebekah R. Jacob, Elizabeth A. Baker, Ellen Jones, Carsten Baumann, Anjali D. Deshpande, Kathleen N. Gillespie, Darcell P. Scharff, Ross C. Brownson
Seniors managing multiple medications: using mixed methods to view the home care safety lens
Ariella Lang, Marilyn Macdonald, Patricia Marck, Lynn Toon, Melissa Griffin, Tony Easty, Kimberly Fraser, Neil MacKinnon, Jonathan Mitchell, Eddy Lang, Sharon Goodwin
Is exposure in vivo cost-effective for chronic low back pain? A trial-based economic evaluation
Marielle E. J. B. Goossens, Reina J. A. de Kinderen, Maaike Leeuw, Jeroen R. de Jong, Joop Ruijgrok, Silvia M. A. A. Evers, Johan W. S. Vlaeyen
Point-of-care testing in India: missed opportunities to realize the true potential of point-of-care testing programs
Nora Engel, Gayatri Ganesh, Mamata Patil, Vijayashree Yellappa, Caroline Vadnais, Nitika Pant Pai, Madhukar Pai
The ideal healthcare: priorities of people with chronic conditions and their carers
Adem Sav, Sara S. McMillan, Fiona Kelly, Michelle A. King, Jennifer A. Whitty, Elizabeth Kendall, Amanda J. Wheeler
Utilization of cervical cancer screening services and its associated factors among primary school teachers in Ilala Municipality, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Neema Minja Kileo, Denna Michael, Nyasule Majura Neke, Candida Moshiro
Feasibility of using self-reported patient data in a national diabetes register
Karianne Fjeld Løvaas, John G. Cooper, Sverre Sandberg, Thomas Røraas, Geir Thue
The systematic early integration of palliative care into multidisciplinary oncology care in the hospital setting (IPAC), a randomized controlled trial: the study protocol
Gaëlle Vanbutsele, Simon Van Belle, Martine De Laat, Veerle Surmont, Karen Geboes, Kim Eecloo, Koen Pardon, Luc Deliens
Use of peers, community lay persons and Village Health Team (VHT) members improves six-week postnatal clinic (PNC) follow-up and Early Infant HIV Diagnosis (EID) in urban and rural health units in Uganda: A one-year implementation study
Zikulah Namukwaya, Linda Barlow-Mosha, Peter Mudiope, Adeodata Kekitiinwa, Joyce Namale Matovu, Ezra Musingye, Jane Ntongo Ssebaggala, Teopista Nakyanzi, Jubilee John Abwooli, Dorothy Mirembe, Juliane Etima, Edward Bitarakwate, Mary Glenn Fowler, Philippa Martha Musoke
Intellectual capital in the healthcare sector: a systematic review and critique of the literature
Jenna M. Evans, Adalsteinn Brown, G. Ross Baker
Counselling practices in community pharmacies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study
Sinaa Alaqeel, Norah O. Abanmy
Using vignettes to assess contributions to the work of addressing child mental health problems in primary care
Lawrence S. Wissow, Waleed Zafar, Kate Fothergill, Anne Ruble, Eric Slade
Exploring physiotherapists’ personality traits that may influence treatment outcome in patients with chronic diseases: a cohort study
Elisah Margretha Buining, Margit K. Kooijman, Ilse C. S. Swinkels, Martijn F. Pisters, Cindy Veenhof
The organizational dynamics enabling patient portal impacts upon organizational performance and patient health: a qualitative study of Kaiser Permanente
Terese Otte-Trojel, Thomas G. Rundall, Antoinette de Bont, Joris van de Klundert, Mary E. Reed
Health promotion programme design and efficacy in relation to ageing persons with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis
Qarin Lood, Greta Häggblom-Kronlöf, Synneve Dahlin-Ivanoff
China’s human resources for maternal and child health: a national sampling survey
Zhenghong Ren, Peige Song, Evropi Theodoratou, Sufang Guo, Lin An
Costs of postabortion care in public sector health facilities in Malawi: a cross-sectional survey
Janie Benson, Hailemichael Gebreselassie, Maribel Amor Mañibo, Keris Raisanen, Heidi Bart Johnston, Chisale Mhango, Brooke A. Levandowski
Influence of quality of care and individual patient characteristics on quality of life and return to work in survivors of the acute respiratory distress syndrome: protocol for a prospective, observational, multi-centre patient cohort study (DACAPO)
Susanne Brandstetter, Frank Dodoo-Schittko, Sebastian Blecha, Philipp Sebök, Kathrin Thomann-Hackner, Michael Quintel, Steffen Weber-Carstens, Thomas Bein, Christian Apfelbacher
Does it matter whose opinion we seek regarding the allocation of healthcare resources? - a case study
K. Kolasa, T. Lewandowski
The impact of self-monitoring in chronic illness on healthcare utilisation: a systematic review of reviews
Hayley McBain, Michael Shipley, Stanton Newman
Ranolazine for the symptomatic treatment of patients with chronic angina pectoris in Greece: a cost-utility study
Georgia Kourlaba, Charalambos Vlachopoulos, John Parissis, John Kanakakis, George Gourzoulidis, Nikos Maniadakis
Health professional perspectives on systems failures in transitional care for patients with dementia and their carers: a qualitative descriptive study
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Patient journey to a specialist amyotrophic lateral sclerosis multidisciplinary clinic: an exploratory study
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The effect of trends in health and longevity on health services use by older adults
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Introducing the chronic disease self-management program in Switzerland and other German-speaking countries: findings of a cross-border adaptation using a multiple-methods approach
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Impact evaluation of a healthy lifestyle intervention to reduce cardiovascular disease risk in health centers in San José, Costa Rica and Chiapas, Mexico
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HeLP-Diabetes: randomised controlled trial protocol
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The wellness incentives and navigation project: design and methods
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Incorporating shared savings programs into primary care: from theory to practice
Arthur P. Hayen, Michael J. van den Berg, Bert R. Meijboom, Jeroen N. Struijs, Gert P. Westert
Differences in medical schools’ regional retention of physicians by school type and year of establishment: effect of new schools built under government policy
Satoru Kamitani, Fumiaki Nakamura, Mitsuko Itoh, Takehiro Sugiyama, Satoshi Toyokawa, Yasuki Kobayashi
Is the choice of the statistical model relevant in the cost estimation of patients with chronic diseases? An empirical approach by the Piedmont Diabetes Registry
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Agreement between routine electronic hospital discharge and Scottish Stroke Care Audit (SSCA) data in identifying stroke in the Scottish population
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