Issue 1/2016
Content (644 Articles)
Healthcare seeking behaviour among self-help group households in Rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India
Wameq A. Raza, Ellen Van de Poel, Pradeep Panda, David Dror, Arjun Bedi
Real-world cost analysis of chemotherapy for colorectal cancer in Japan: detailed costs of various regimens during the entire course of chemotherapy
Shuichi Yajima, Hisanori Shimizu, Hiroyuki Sakamaki, Shunya Ikeda, Naoki Ikegami, Jun-Ichiro Murayama
Nurse perceptions of organizational culture and its association with the culture of error reporting: a case of public sector hospitals in Pakistan
Sara Rizvi Jafree, Rubeena Zakar, Muhammad Zakria Zakar, Florian Fischer
Uptake of services for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in a community cohort in rural Tanzania from 2005 to 2012
Annabelle Gourlay, Alison Wringe, Jim Todd, Caoimhe Cawley, Denna Michael, Richard Machemba, Benjamin Clark, Clemens Masesa, Milly Marston, Mark Urassa, Basia Zaba
Follow-up and tracing of tuberculosis patients who fail to attend their scheduled appointments in Cotonou, Benin: a retrospective cohort study
Serge Ade, Arnaud Trébucq, Anthony D. Harries, Gabriel Ade, Gildas Agodokpessi, Prudence Wachinou, Dissou Affolabi, Sévérin Anagonou
Utilization patterns of insulin therapy and healthcare services among Japanese insulin initiators during their first year: a descriptive analysis of administrative hospital data
Shunya Ikeda, Bruce Crawford, Masayo Sato
The effect of electronic health records adoption on patient visit volume at an academic ophthalmology department
Jocelyn G. Lam, Bryan S. Lee, Philip P. Chen
Factors associated with utilization of maternal serum screening for Down syndrome in mainland China: a cross-sectional study
Chuanlin Li, Leiyu Shi, Jiayan Huang, Xu Qian, Yingyao Chen
Outcome-based health equity across different social health insurance schemes for the elderly in China
Xiaoting Liu, Hung Wong, Kai Liu
Effect of a patient decision aid (PDA) for type 2 diabetes on knowledge, decisional self-efficacy, and decisional conflict
Robert. A. Bailey, Michael Pfeifer, Alicia C. Shillington, Qing Harshaw, Martha M. Funnell, Jeffrey VanWingen, Nanada Col
The work of local healthcare innovation: a qualitative study of GP-led integrated diabetes care in primary health care
Michele Foster, Letitia Burridge, Maria Donald, Jianzhen Zhang, Claire Jackson
Factors influencing the work efficiency of district health managers in low-resource settings: a qualitative study in Ghana
Marc Bonenberger, Moses Aikins, Patricia Akweongo, Kaspar Wyss
Prevalence, predictors and economic consequences of no-shows
Parviz Kheirkhah, Qianmei Feng, Lauren M. Travis, Shahriar Tavakoli-Tabasi, Amir Sharafkhaneh
Perspectives and experiences of new migrants on health screening in Sweden
Faustine Kyungu Nkulu Kalengayi, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Annika Nordstrand, Clas Ahlm, Beth Maina Ahlberg
Medicaid prescription limits: policy trends and comparative impact on utilization
Daniel A. Lieberman, Jennifer M. Polinski, Niteesh K. Choudhry, Jerry Avorn, Michael A. Fischer
Reducing the length of postnatal hospital stay: implications for cost and quality of care
John Bowers, Helen Cheyne
Downstream tests, treatments, and annual direct payments in older men cared for by primary care providers with high or low prostate-specific antigen screening rates using 100 percent Texas U.S. Medicare public insurance claims data: a retrospective cohort study
Preeti Zanwar, Yu-Li Lin, Yong-Fang Kuo, James S. Goodwin
Context, mechanisms and outcomes of integrated care for diabetes mellitus type 2: a systematic review
Loraine Busetto, Katrien Ger Luijkx, Arianne Mathilda Josephus Elissen, Hubertus Johannes Maria Vrijhoef
The impact of redesigning care processes on quality of care: a systematic review
Janneke E. van Leijen-Zeelenberg, Arianne M. J. Elissen, Kerstin Grube, Arno J. A. van Raak, Hubertus J. M. Vrijhoef, Bernd Kremer, Dirk Ruwaard
Development of an e-supported illness management and recovery programme for consumers with severe mental illness using intervention mapping, and design of an early cluster randomized controlled trial
Titus A. A. Beentjes, Betsie G. I. van Gaal, Peter J. J. Goossens, Lisette Schoonhoven
Ethical dilemmas concerning autonomy when persons with dementia wish to live at home: a qualitative, hermeneutic study
Kari Lislerud Smebye, Marit Kirkevold, Knut Engedal
Written survey on recently deceased patients in germany and switzerland: how do general practitioners see their role?
Rieke Schnakenberg, Adrian Goeldlin, Christina Boehm-Stiel, Markus Bleckwenn, Klaus Weckbecker, Lukas Radbruch
Using meta-regression analyses in addition to conventional systematic review methods to examine the variation in cost-effectiveness results – a case study
Laura T. Burgers, Fleur T. van de Wetering, Johan L. Severens, W. Ken Redekop
Sociodemographic disparities in survival from colorectal cancer in South Australia: a population-wide data linkage study
Kerri R. Beckmann, Alice Bennett, Graeme P. Young, Stephen R. Cole, Rohit Joshi, Jacqui Adams, Nimit Singhal, Christos Karapetis, David Wattchow, David Roder
Using Participatory Learning & Action research to access and engage with ‘hard to reach’ migrants in primary healthcare research
Mary O’Reilly-de Brún, Tomas de Brún, Ekaterina Okonkwo, Jean-Samuel Bonsenge-Bokanga, Maria Manuela De Almeida Silva, Florence Ogbebor, Aga Mierzejewska, Lovina Nnadi, Evelyn van Weel-Baumgarten, Chris van Weel, Maria van den Muijsenbergh, Anne MacFarlane
The impact of the World Health Organization 8-steps in wheelchair service provision in wheelchair users in a less resourced setting: a cohort study in Indonesia
Maria L. Toro, Chika Eke, Jonathan Pearlman
Shortened first-line TB treatment in Brazil: potential cost savings for patients and health services
Anete Trajman, Mayara Lisboa Bastos, Marcia Belo, Janaína Calaça, Júlia Gaspar, Alexandre Martins dos Santos, Camila Martins dos Santos, Raquel Trindade Brito, William A. Wells, Frank G. Cobelens, Anna Vassall, Gabriela B. Gomez
Free establishment of primary health care providers: effects on geographical equity
David Isaksson, Paula Blomqvist, Ulrika Winblad
The delivery of specialist spinal cord injury services in Queensland and the potential for telehealth
Eileen van de Pol, Karen Lucas, Timothy Geraghty, Kiley Pershouse, Sandra Harding, Sridhar Atresh, Annemarie Wagemakers, Anthony C. Smith
Current perspectives on China’s national essential medicine system: primary care provider and patient views
Yan Song, Ying Bian, Lingui Li
Barriers to mental health service utilisation in Sudan - perspectives of carers and psychiatrists
Sara H. Ali, Vincent I. O. Agyapong
Managing non-communicable diseases at health district level in Cambodia: a systems analysis and suggestions for improvement
Bart Jacobs, Peter Hill, Maryam Bigdeli, Cheanrithy Men
Hospice care in the Netherlands: who applies and who is admitted to inpatient care?
Emily West, H. Roeline Pasman, Cilia Galesloot, Martine Elizabeth Lokker, Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen
Prevalence and predictive factors for renouncing medical care in poor populations of Cayenne, French Guiana
Larissa Valmy, Barbara Gontier, Marie Claire Parriault, Astrid Van Melle, Thomas Pavlovsky, Célia Basurko, Claire Grenier, Maylis Douine, Antoine Adenis, Mathieu Nacher
Characteristics of morbidity and mortality conferences associated with the implementation of patient safety improvement initiatives, an observational study
Patrice François, Frédéric Prate, Gwenaëlle Vidal-Trecan, Jean-François Quaranta, José Labarere, Elodie Sellier
Patient representatives’ views on patient information in clinical cancer trials
Pia Dellson, Mef Nilbert, Christina Carlsson
Improving the user experience of patient versions of clinical guidelines: user testing of a Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network (SIGN) patient version
Naomi Fearns, Karen Graham, Gordon Johnston, Duncan Service
Development and usability of the MAINtAIN, an inventory assessing nursing staff behavior to optimize and maintain functional activity among nursing home residents: a mixed-methods approach
Nienke O. Kuk, G. A. Rixt Zijlstra, Gerrie J. J. W. Bours, Jan P. H. Hamers, Gertrudis I. J. M. Kempen
Community paramedicine model of care: an observational, ethnographic case study
Peter O’Meara, Christine Stirling, Michel Ruest, Angela Martin
Capturing patients’ needs in casemix: a systematic literature review on the value of adding functioning information in reimbursement systems
Maren Hopfe, Gerold Stucki, Ric Marshall, Conal D. Twomey, T. Bedirhan Üstün, Birgit Prodinger
Association of PNPLA3 rs738409 and TM6SF2 rs58542926 with health services utilization in a population-based study
Julia Köpp, Steffen Fleßa, Wolfgang Lieb, Marcello Ricardo Paulista Markus, Alexander Teumer, Georg Homuth, Henri Wallaschofski, Paul Marschall, Henry Völzke, Sebastian Edgar Baumeister
Determinants of basic public health services provision by village doctors in China: using non-communicable diseases management as an example
Tongtong Li, Trudy Lei, Zheng Xie, Tuohong Zhang
A qualitative study of hospital pharmacists and antibiotic governance: negotiating interprofessional responsibilities, expertise and resource constraints
Alex Broom, Stefanie Plage, Jennifer Broom, Emma Kirby, Jon Adams
Predictors of dentists’ behaviours in delivering prevention in primary dental care in England: using the theory of planned behaviour
Huda Yusuf, Anna Kolliakou, Antiopi Ntouva, Marie Murphy, Tim Newton, Georgios Tsakos, Richard G. Watt
Efficacy and cost effectiveness of telemedicine for improving access to care in the Paris region: study protocols for eight trials
Nathanael Charrier, Kevin Zarca, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, Christine Calinaud
Hospital in the Nursing Home program reduces emergency department presentations and hospital admissions from residential aged care facilities in Queensland, Australia: a quasi-experimental study
Lijun Fan, Xiang-Yu Hou, Jingzhou Zhao, Jiandong Sun, Kaeleen Dingle, Rhonda Purtill, Sam Tapp, Bill Lukin
A marketing perspective to “delight” the “patient 2.0”: new and challenging expectations for the healthcare provider
Luca Buccoliero, Elena Bellio, Maria Mazzola, Elisa Solinas
Implementing research results in clinical practice- the experiences of healthcare professionals
Nanna Kristensen, Camilla Nymann, Hanne Konradsen
Reduction in resource use with the misoprostol vaginal insert vs the dinoprostone vaginal insert for labour induction: a model-based analysis from a United Kingdom healthcare perspective
T. Draycott, H. van der Nelson, C. Montouchet, L. Ruff, F. Andersson
The accuracy and completeness for receipt of colorectal cancer care using Veterans Health Administration administrative data
Eric A. Sherer, Deborah A. Fisher, Jeffrey Barnd, George L. Jackson, Dawn Provenzale, David A. Haggstrom
Inequalities in utilization of maternal and child health services in Ethiopia: the role of primary health care
Solomon Tessema Memirie, Stéphane Verguet, Ole F. Norheim, Carol Levin, Kjell Arne Johansson
Assessing understandings of substance use disorders among Norwegian treatment professionals, patients and the general public
John-Kåre Vederhus, Thomas Clausen, Keith Humphreys
Maternal mental health in primary care in five low- and middle-income countries: a situational analysis
Emily C. Baron, Charlotte Hanlon, Sumaya Mall, Simone Honikman, Erica Breuer, Tasneem Kathree, Nagendra P. Luitel, Juliet Nakku, Crick Lund, Girmay Medhin, Vikram Patel, Inge Petersen, Sanjay Shrivastava, Mark Tomlinson
East London’s Homeless: a retrospective review of an eye clinic for homeless people
Penny J. D’Ath, Laura J. Keywood, Elaine C. Styles, Clare M. Wilson
Show Me My Health Plans: a study protocol of a randomized trial testing a decision support tool for the federal health insurance marketplace in Missouri
Mary C. Politi, Abigail R. Barker, Kimberly A. Kaphingst, Timothy McBride, Enbal Shacham, Carey S. Kebodeaux
Long-term costs of colorectal cancer treatment in Spain
Julieta Corral, Xavier Castells, Eduard Molins, Pietro Chiarello, Josep Maria Borras, Francesc Cots
Knowledge, beliefs and attitudes of physicians in low and middle-income countries regarding interacting with pharmaceutical companies: a systematic review
Tamara Lotfi, Rami Z. Morsi, Mhd Hashem Rajabbik, Lina Alkhaled, Lara Kahale, Hala Nass, Hneine Brax, Racha Fadlallah, Elie A. Akl
Evaluating a complex model designed to increase access to high quality primary mental health care for under-served groups: a multi-method study
Christopher Dowrick, Peter Bower, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Karina Lovell, Suzanne Edwards, Jonathan Lamb, Katie Bristow, Mark Gabbay, Heather Burroughs, Susan Beatty, Waquas Waheed, Mark Hann, Linda Gask
BMC Health Services Research reviewer acknowledgement 2015
Christopher Morrey
A 10-year retrospective analysis of hospital admissions and length of stay among a cohort of homeless adults in Vancouver, Canada
Angela Russolillo, Akm Moniruzzaman, Milad Parpouchi, Lauren B. Currie, Julian M. Somers
Classification and rates of adverse events in a Malawi male circumcision program: impact of quality improvement training
Pamela K. Kohler, Dorothy Namate, Scott Barnhart, Frank Chimbwandira, Beth A. Tippet-Barr, Tom Perdue, David A. Chilongozi, Lyson Tenthani, Oliver Phiri, Wezi Msungama, King K. Holmes, John N. Krieger
Translating a health service intervention into a rural setting: lessons learned
Elsa Dent, Elizabeth Hoon, Alison Kitson, Jonathan Karnon, Jonathan Newbury, Gillian Harvey, Tiffany K. Gill, Lauren Gillis, Justin Beilby
Factors predicting health services use among older people in China: An analysis of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study 2013
Cathy Honge Gong, Hal Kendig, Xiaojun He
Development and preliminary validation of a leadership competency instrument for existing and emerging allied health professional leaders
Hui-Gek Ang, Jeremy Meng-Yeow Koh, Jeffrey Lee, Yong-Hao Pua
Factors related to breast cancer detection mode and time to diagnosis in Alberta, Canada: a population-based retrospective cohort study
Yan Yuan, Maoji Li, Jing Yang, Tracy Elliot, Kelly Dabbs, James A. Dickinson, Stacey Fisher, Marcy Winget
Justifications for coercive care in child and adolescent psychiatry, a content analysis of medical documentation in Sweden
Veikko Pelto-Piri, Lars Kjellin, Christina Lindvall, Ingemar Engström
The association between self-perceived health status and satisfaction with healthcare services: Evidence from Armenia
Pavitra Paul, Mihran Hakobyan, Hannu Valtonen
The impact of retirement on health: quasi-experimental methods using administrative data
Elizabeth Mokyr Horner, Mark R. Cullen
Understanding the dispensary workflow at the Birmingham Free Clinic: a proposed framework for an informatics intervention
Arielle M. Fisher, Mary I. Herbert, Gerald P. Douglas
Project ACHIEVE – using implementation research to guide the evaluation of transitional care effectiveness
Jing Li, Jane Brock, Brian Jack, Brian Mittman, Mary Naylor, Joanna Sorra, Glen Mays, Mark V. Williams
The preventive services use self-efficacy (PRESS) scale in older women: development and psychometric properties
Mini E. Jacob, Wei-Hsuan Lo-Ciganic, Laurey R. Simkin-Silverman, Steven M. Albert, Anne B. Newman, Lauren Terhorst, Joni Vander Bilt, Janice C. Zgibor, Elizabeth A. Schlenk
Optimal use of external demands in hospitals - a Delphi study from the Netherlands
Louise H. K. Blume, Nico J. H. W. van Weert, Jamiu O. Busari, Diana Delnoij
Erratum to: 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
What do patients and the public know about clinical practice guidelines and what do they want from them? A qualitative study
Naomi Fearns, Joanna Kelly, Margaret Callaghan, Karen Graham, Kirsty Loudon, Robin Harbour, Nancy Santesso, Emma McFarlane, Judith Thornton, Shaun Treweek
Assessing the ‘active couch potato’ phenomenon in cardiac rehabilitation: rationale and study protocol
Nicole Freene, Borja del Pozo Cruz, Rachel Davey
Costs of diagnostic and preoperative workup with and without breast MRI in older women with a breast cancer diagnosis
Tracy Onega, Anna N.A. Tosteson, Julie Weiss, Jennifer Alford-Teaster, Rebecca A. Hubbard, Louise M. Henderson, Karla Kerlikowske, Martha E. Goodrich, Cristina O’Donoghue, Karen J. Wernli, Wendy B. DeMartini, Beth A Virnig
The effects of multiple chronic conditions on hospitalization costs and utilization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in the United States: a nationally representative cross-sectional study
Halcyon G. Skinner, Rosanna Coffey, Jenna Jones, Kevin C. Heslin, Ernest Moy
Integrated health service delivery networks and tuberculosis avoidable hospitalizations: is there a relation between them in Brazil?
Marcela Paschoal Popolin, Michelle Mosna Touso, Mellina Yamamura, Ludmila Barbosa Bandeira Rodrigues, Maria Concebida da Cunha Garcia, Luiz Henrique Arroyo, Antônio Carlos Vieira Ramos, Thais Zamboni Berra, Marcelino Santos Neto, Juliane de Almeida Crispim, Francisco Chiaravalotti Neto, Ione Carvalho Pinto, Pedro Fredemir Palha, Severina Alice da Costa Uchoa, Luís Velez Lapão, Inês Fronteira, Ricardo Alexandre Arcêncio
Service user and caregiver involvement in mental health system strengthening in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review
Maya Semrau, Heidi Lempp, Roxanne Keynejad, Sara Evans-Lacko, James Mugisha, Shoba Raja, Jagannath Lamichhane, Atalay Alem, Graham Thornicroft, Charlotte Hanlon
A qualitative analysis of the effect of a community-based primary health care programme on reproductive preferences and contraceptive use among the Kassena-Nankana of northern Ghana
Maxwell Ayindenaba Dalaba, Allison E. Stone, Abigail R. Krumholz, Abraham R. Oduro, James F. Phillips, Philip B. Adongo
Health care contact following a new incident neck or low back pain episode in the general population; the HUNT study
Astrid Woodhouse, Kristine Pape, Pål R. Romundstad, Ottar Vasseljen
Safe start at home: what parents of newborns need after early discharge from hospital – a focus group study
Elisabeth Kurth, Katrin Krähenbühl, Manuela Eicher, Susanne Rodmann, Luzia Fölmli, Cornelia Conzelmann, Elisabeth Zemp
Health care providers’ perceived barriers to and need for the implementation of a national integrated health care standard on childhood obesity in the Netherlands – a mixed methods approach
Annemarie A. H. Schalkwijk, Giel Nijpels, Sandra D. M. Bot, Petra J. M. Elders
Examining the role of a decision aid in reducing decisional conflict amongst hospital healthcare workers towards receiving the influenza vaccine
Holly Seale, Rajneesh Kaur, Kerryn Lajoie, Julie Dixon, Julie Gallard
The role of primary care providers in patient activation and engagement in self-management: a cross-sectional analysis
Carmen Alvarez, Jessica Greene, Judith Hibbard, Valerie Overton
Assessing cancer patients’ quality of life and supportive care needs: Translation-revalidation of the CARES in Flemish and exhaustive evaluation of concurrent validity
Bojoura Schouten, Elke Van Hoof, Patrick Vankrunkelsven, Ward Schrooten, Paul Bulens, Frank Buntinx, Jeroen Mebis, Dominique Vandijck, Irina Cleemput, Johan Hellings
Scoping review of complexity theory in health services research
David S. Thompson, Xavier Fazio, Erika Kustra, Linda Patrick, Darren Stanley
Patient information and emotional needs across the hip osteoarthritis continuum: a qualitative study
Espen Andreas Brembo, Heidi Kapstad, Tom Eide, Lukas Månsson, Sandra Van Dulmen, Hilde Eide
Achieving behaviour change for detection of Lynch syndrome using the Theoretical Domains Framework Implementation (TDFI) approach: a study protocol
Natalie Taylor, Janet C. Long, Deborah Debono, Rachel Williams, Elizabeth Salisbury, Sharron O’Neill, Elizabeth Eykman, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Melvin Chin
Provider attributes correlation analysis to their referral frequency and awards
Matthew T. Wiley, Ryan L. Rivas, Vagelis Hristidis
The struggle for inter-professional teamwork and collaboration in maternity care: Austrian health professionals’ perspectives on the implementation of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative
Christina C. Wieczorek, Benjamin Marent, Thomas E. Dorner, Wolfgang Dür
Barriers and facilitators related to implementation of regulated midwifery in Manitoba: a case study
Kellie Thiessen, Maureen Heaman, Javier Mignone, Patricia Martens, Kristine Robinson
Barriers and facilitators of dental service utilization by children aged 8 to 11 years in Enugu State, Nigeria
Nneka Kate Onyejaka, Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan, Nkiruka Folaranmi
Patient satisfaction with the healthcare system: Assessing the impact of socio-economic and healthcare provision factors
Sofia Xesfingi, Athanassios Vozikis
The evolution of the health system outcomes in Central and Eastern Europe and their association with social, economic and political factors: an analysis of 25 years of transition
Piotr Romaniuk, Adam R. Szromek
Survey of medical genetic services in Italy: year 2011
Daniela Giardino, Rita Mingarelli, Tiziana Lauretti, Antonio Amoroso, Lidia Larizza, Bruno Dallapiccola
Distribution and predictors of emergency department charges: the case of a tertiary hospital in Lebanon
Shadi Saleh, Yara Mourad, Hani Dimassi, Eveline Hitti
Patient safety work in Sweden: quantitative and qualitative analysis of annual patient safety reports
Mikaela Ridelberg, Kerstin Roback, Per Nilsen, Siw Carlfjord
Use of healthcare services in the region of origin among patients with an immigrant background in Denmark: a qualitative study of the motives
Nicoline Lokdam, Maria Kristiansen, Line Neerup Handlos, Marie Norredam
The association between medically unexplained physical symptoms and health care use over two years and the influence of depressive and anxiety disorders and personality traits: a longitudinal study
Madelon den Boeft, Jos W. R. Twisk, Berend Terluin, Brenda W. J. H. Penninx, Harm W. J. van Marwijk, Mattijs E. Numans, Johannes C. van der Wouden, Henriette E. van der Horst
Cost analysis of multiple sclerosis in Brazil: a cross-sectional multicenter study
Nilceia Lopes da Silva, Maira L. S. Takemoto, Alfredo Damasceno, Yara D. Fragoso, Alessandro Finkelsztejn, Jefferson Becker, Marcus V. M. Gonçalves, Charles Tilbery, Enedina M. L. de Oliveira, Dagoberto Callegaro, Fernanda C. Boulos
Opportunity costs and local health service spending decisions: a qualitative study from Wales
Sarah Karlsberg Schaffer, Jon Sussex, Dyfrig Hughes, Nancy Devlin
The acceptability to patients of PhysioDirect telephone assessment and advice services; a qualitative interview study
Jennifer Pearson, Jane Richardson, Michael Calnan, Chris Salisbury, Nadine E. Foster
Self-rated treatment outcomes in medical rehabilitation among German and non-German nationals residing in Germany: an exploratory cross-sectional study
P. Brzoska, O. Sauzet, Y. Yilmaz-Aslan, T. Widera, O. Razum
Barriers and enablers to the delivery of psychological care in the management of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in China: a qualitative study using the theoretical domains framework
Anna Chapman, Hui Yang, Shane A Thomas, Kendall Searle, Colette Browning
Factors influencing health care and service providers’ and their respective “at risk” populations’ adoption of the Air Quality Health Index (AQHI): a qualitative study
Sally Radisic, K. Bruce Newbold
Patient-physician discussions about costs: definitions and impact on cost conversation incidence estimates
Wynn G. Hunter, Ashley Hesson, J. Kelly Davis, Christine Kirby, Lillie D. Williamson, Jamison A. Barnett, Peter A. Ubel
Potentially inappropriate medication in the elderly in Germany: an economic appraisal of the PRISCUS list
Katharina Pohl-Dernick, Florian Meier, Renke Maas, Oliver Schöffski, Martin Emmert
Identification of major cardiovascular events in patients with diabetes using primary care data
Koen Bernardus Pouwels, Jaco Voorham, Eelko Hak, Petra Denig
Towards equity and sustainability of rural and remote health services access: supporting social capital and integrated organisational and professional development
Adrian Schoo, Sharon Lawn, Dean Carson
How do case managers spend time on their functions and activities?
Emily (Chuanmei) You, David Dunt, Colleen Doyle
Modelling the healthcare costs of skin cancer in South Africa
Louisa G. Gordon, Thomas M. Elliott, Caradee Y. Wright, Nicola Deghaye, Willie Visser
Affordable care act: comparison of healthcare indicators among different insurance beneficiaries with new coverage eligibility
Young Rock Hong, Derek Holcomb, Michelyn Bhandari, Laurie Larkin
Erratum to: The effectiveness of substitution of hospital ward care from medical doctors to physician assistants: a study protocol
Marijke J. C. Timmermans, Anneke J. A. H. van Vught, Michel Wensing, Miranda G. H. Laurant
Erratum to: Unique challenges experienced during the process of implementing mobile health information technology in developing countries
Siobhan O’Connor, John O’Donoghue, Joe Gallagher, Yvonne O’Connor, Tiwonge Kawonga
Texas hospitals with higher health information technology expenditures have higher revenue: A longitudinal data analysis using a generalized estimating equation model
Jinhyung Lee, Jae-Young Choi
Coping with the economic burden of Diabetes, TB and co-prevalence: evidence from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Matthias Arnold, David Beran, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Neha Batura, Baktygul Akkazieva, Aida Abdraimova, Jolene Skordis-Worrall
Effectiveness, cost effectiveness, acceptability and implementation barriers/enablers of chronic kidney disease management programs for Indigenous people in Australia, New Zealand and Canada: a systematic review of mixed evidence
Rachel Reilly, Katharine Evans, Judith Gomersall, Gillian Gorham, Micah D. J. Peters, Steven Warren, Rebekah O’Shea, Alan Cass, Alex Brown
Concordance between nurse-reported quality of care and quality of care as publicly reported by nurse-sensitive indicators
Dewi Stalpers, Renate A. M. M. Kieft, Dimitri van der Linden, Marian J. Kaljouw, Marieke J. Schuurmans
Resource allocation and the burden of co-morbidities among patients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: an observational cohort study from Danish general practice
Peder Ahnfeldt-Mollerup, Jesper Lykkegaard, Anders Halling, Kim Rose Olsen, Troels Kristensen
Performance of general health workers in leprosy control activities at public health facilities in Amhara and Oromia States, Ethiopia
Tadiye Abeje, Edessa Negera, Eshetu Kebede, Tsegaye Hailu, Ismaile Hassen, Tsehainesh Lema, Lawrence Yamuah, Birru Shiguti, Melkamu Fenta, Megersa Negasa, Demissew Beyene, Kidist Bobosha, Abraham Aseffa
Drivers of improved health sector performance in Rwanda: a qualitative view from within
Felix Sayinzoga, Leon Bijlmakers
Risk stratification by endocrinologists of patients with type 2 diabetes in a Danish specialised outpatient clinic: a cross-sectional study
Lene Munch, Anne B. Arreskov, Michael Sperling, Dorthe Overgaard, Filip K. Knop, Tina Vilsbøll, Michael E. Røder
Effort-reward imbalance and self-rated health among Gambian healthcare professionals
Amadou Darboe, I-Feng Lin, Hsien-Wen Kuo
A systematic review of strategies to recruit and retain primary care doctors
Puja Verma, John A. Ford, Arabella Stuart, Amanda Howe, Sam Everington, Nicholas Steel
A systematic review of modelling approaches in economic evaluations of health interventions for drug and alcohol problems
Van Phuong Hoang, Marian Shanahan, Nagesh Shukla, Pascal Perez, Michael Farrell, Alison Ritter
Associations of frailty with health care costs – results of the ESTHER cohort study
Jens-Oliver Bock, Hans-Helmut König, Hermann Brenner, Walter E. Haefeli, Renate Quinzler, Herbert Matschinger, Kai-Uwe Saum, Ben Schöttker, Dirk Heider
Overutilization of ambulatory medical care in the elderly German population? – An empirical study based on national insurance claims data and a review of foreign studies
Hendrik van den Bussche, Hanna Kaduszkiewicz, Ingmar Schäfer, Daniela Koller, Heike Hansen, Martin Scherer, Gerhard Schön
Do newly marketed generic medicines expand markets using descriptive time series analysis and mixed logit models? Korea as an exemplar and its implications
Hye-Young Kwon, Brian Godman
A comparison of patients’ and pharmacists’ satisfaction with medication counseling provided by community pharmacies: a cross-sectional survey
Seungwon Yang, Dasohm Kim, Hye Joung Choi, Min Jung Chang
Relay model for recruiting alcohol dependent patients in general hospitals - a single-blind pragmatic randomized trial
Anne-Sophie Schwarz, Randi Bilberg, Lene Bjerregaard, Bent Nielsen, Jes Søgaard, Anette Søgaard Nielsen
Differences in severity at admission for heart failure between rural and urban patients: the value of adding laboratory results to administrative data
Mark W. Smith, Pamela L. Owens, Roxanne M. Andrews, Claudia A. Steiner, Rosanna M. Coffey, Halcyon G. Skinner, Jill Miyamura, Ioana Popescu
Telemedicine in diabetes foot care delivery: health care professionals’ experience
Beate-Christin Hope Kolltveit, Eva Gjengedal, Marit Graue, Marjolein M. Iversen, Sally Thorne, Marit Kirkevold
Assessment of health system challenges and opportunities for possible integration of diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis services in South-Eastern Amhara Region, Ethiopia: a qualitative study
Mahteme Haile Workneh, Gunnar Aksel Bjune, Solomon Abebe Yimer
The value of informal care in the context of option B+ in Malawi: a contingent valuation approach
Levison Stanely Chiwaula, Gowokani Chijere Chirwa, Fabian Caltado, Atupele Kapito-Tembo, Mina C. Hosseinipour, Monique van Lettow, Hannock Tweya, Virginia Kayoyo, Blessings Khangamwa-Kaunda, Florence Kasende, Clement Trapence, Salem Gugsa, Nora E. Rosenberg, Michael Eliya, Sam Phiri
Exploring the factors that influence the decision to adopt and engage with an integrated assistive telehealth and telecare service in Cambridgeshire, UK: a nested qualitative study of patient ‘users’ and ‘non-users’
Erica J. Cook, Gurch Randhawa, Chloe Sharp, Nasreen Ali, Andy Guppy, Garry Barton, Andrew Bateman, Jane Crawford-White
Fail to prepare and you can prepare to fail: the experience of financing path changes in teaching hospitals in Iran
Leila Doshmangir, Arash Rashidian, Mehdi Jafari, Hamid Ravaghi, Amirhossein Takian
Barriers to and facilitators of implementing complex workplace dietary interventions: process evaluation results of a cluster controlled trial
Sarah Fitzgerald, Fiona Geaney, Clare Kelly, Sheena McHugh, Ivan J. Perry
Household income determines access to specialized pediatric chronic pain treatment in Germany
Ann-Kristin Ruhe, Julia Wager, Gerrit Hirschfeld, Boris Zernikow
“It has to be fixed”: a qualitative inquiry into perceived ADHD behaviour among affected individuals and parents in Western Australia
Manonita Ghosh, Colleen Fisher, David B. Preen, C. D’Arcy J. Holman
The league of extraordinary generalists: a qualitative study of professional identity and perceptions of role of GPs working on a national after hours helpline in Australia
Rosemary McKenzie, Michelle Williamson
Care coordination gaps due to lack of interoperability in the United States: a qualitative study and literature review
Lipika Samal, Patricia C. Dykes, Jeffrey O. Greenberg, Omar Hasan, Arjun K. Venkatesh, Lynn A. Volk, David W. Bates
Assessment of medicines use pattern using World Health Organization’s Prescribing, Patient Care and Health facility indicators in selected health facilities in eastern Ethiopia
Arebu I. Bilal, Ebrahim D. Osman, Anwar Mulugeta
Impact of a community pharmacist-led medication review on medicines use in patients on polypharmacy - a prospective randomised controlled trial
Markus Messerli, Eva Blozik, Noortje Vriends, Kurt E. Hersberger
Can a pharmacy intervention improve the metabolic risks of mental health patients? Evaluation of a novel collaborative service
Husna Maulavizada, Lynne Emmerton, Hendrika Laetitia Hattingh
Transitioning from cytology-based screening to HPV-based screening at longer intervals: implications for resource use
Megan A. Smith, Dorota Gertig, Michaela Hall, Kate Simms, Jie-Bin Lew, Michael Malloy, Marion Saville, Karen Canfell
Facilitating telemedicine project sustainability in medically underserved areas: a healthcare provider participant perspective
David L. Paul, Reuben R. McDaniel Jr.
Impact of a well-developed primary care system on the length of stay in emergency departments in the Netherlands: a multicenter study
Wendy A. M. H. Thijssen, Nicole Kraaijvanger, Dennis G. Barten, Marleen L. M. Boerma, Paul Giesen, Michel Wensing
Effect of pharmacist intervention on physician prescribing in patients with chronic schizophrenia: a descriptive pre/post study
Yasuhiko Hashimoto, Masami Tensho
An exploration of clinical practice in sites with and without clinical nurse or midwife specialists or advanced nurse practitioners, in Ireland
Imelda Coyne, Catherine M. Comiskey, Joan G. Lalor, Agnes Higgins, Naomi Elliott, Cecily Begley
Stigma, explanatory models and unmet needs of caregivers of children with developmental disorders in a low-income African country: a cross-sectional facility-based survey
Dejene Tilahun, Charlotte Hanlon, Abebaw Fekadu, Bethlehem Tekola, Yonas Baheretibeb, Rosa A. Hoekstra
Informational role self-efficacy: a validation in interprofessional collaboration contexts involving healthcare service and project teams
François Chiocchio, Paule Lebel, Jean-Nicolas Dubé
The association between multimorbidity and hospitalization is modified by individual demographics and physician continuity of care: a retrospective cohort study
Andrea Gruneir, Susan E. Bronskill, Colleen J. Maxwell, Yu Qing Bai, Anna J. Kone, Kednapa Thavorn, Yelena Petrosyan, Andrew Calzavara, Walter P. Wodchis
Co-creation of an ICT-supported cancer rehabilitation application for resected lung cancer survivors: design and evaluation
Josien G. Timmerman, Thijs M. Tönis, Marit G. H. Dekker-van Weering, Martijn M. Stuiver, Michel W. J. M. Wouters, Wim H. van Harten, Hermie J. Hermens, Miriam M. R. Vollenbroek-Hutten
Integrating care for frequent users of emergency departments: implementation evaluation of a brief multi-organizational intensive case management intervention
Deborah Kahan, Molyn Leszcz, Patricia O’Campo, Stephen W. Hwang, Donald A. Wasylenki, Paul Kurdyak, Deborah Wise Harris, Agnes Gozdzik, Vicky Stergiopoulos
The effect of pre-existing health conditions on the cost of recovery from road traffic injury: insights from data linkage of medicare and compensable injury claims in Victoria, Australia
Behrooz Hassani-Mahmooei, Janneke Berecki-Gisolf, Youjin Hahn, Roderick J. McClure
Italian translation and cultural adaptation of the communication assessment tool in an outpatient surgical clinic
Daniela Scala, Enrica Menditto, Mariano Fortunato Armellino, Francesco Manguso, Valeria Marina Monetti, Valentina Orlando, Antonio Antonino, Gregory Makoul, Maurizio De Palma
Health surveillance assistants as intermediates between the community and health sector in Malawi: exploring how relationships influence performance
Maryse C. Kok, Ireen Namakhoma, Lot Nyirenda, Kingsley Chikaphupha, Jacqueline E. W. Broerse, Marjolein Dieleman, Miriam Taegtmeyer, Sally Theobald
Clinical characteristics and preventable acute care spending among a high cost inpatient population
Paul E. Ronksley, Daniel M. Kobewka, Jennifer A. McKay, Deanna M. Rothwell, Sunita Mulpuru, Alan J. Forster
Coaching in self-efficacy improves care responses, health and well-being in dementia carers: a pre/post-test/follow-up study
Lynn Chenoweth, Jane Stein-Parbury, Danielle White, Georgene McNeill, Yun-Hee Jeon, Beverley Zaratan
Issues in healthcare services in Malaysia as experienced by Japanese retirees
Ayako Kohno, Ghazali Musa, Nik Daliana Nik Farid, Norlaili Abdul Aziz, Takeo Nakayama, Maznah Dahlui
National estimates of the impact of electronic health records on the workload of primary care physicians
Jaeyong Bae, William E. Encinosa
Economic burden of multimorbidity among older adults: impact on healthcare and societal costs
Louisa Picco, Evanthia Achilla, Edimansyah Abdin, Siow Ann Chong, Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar, Paul McCrone, Hong Choon Chua, Derrick Heng, Harish Magadi, Li Ling Ng, Martin Prince, Mythily Subramaniam
Who uses outpatient healthcare services under Ghana’s health protection scheme and why?
Ama P. Fenny, Felix A. Asante, Daniel K. Arhinful, Anthony Kusi, Divya Parmar, Gemma Williams
Estimating the future burden of cardiovascular disease and the value of lipid and blood pressure control therapies in China
Warren Stevens, Desi Peneva, Jim Z. Li, Larry Z. Liu, Gordon Liu, Runlin Gao, Darius N. Lakdawalla
Assessment of the contribution of morbidity and mortality conferences to quality and safety improvement: a survey of participants’ perceptions
André Lecoanet, Gwenaëlle Vidal-Trecan, Frédéric Prate, Jean-François Quaranta, Elodie Sellier, Alizé Guyomard, Arnaud Seigneurin, Patrice François
Correlates of unequal access to preventive care in China: a multilevel analysis of national data from the 2011 China Health and Nutrition Survey
Chi Huang, Chao-Jie Liu, Xiong-Fei Pan, Xiang Liu, Ning-Xiu Li
Investigating the feasibility, acceptability and appropriateness of outreach case management in an urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care service: a mixed methods exploratory study
Deborah A. Askew, Samantha J. Togni, Philip J. Schluter, Lynne Rogers, Sonya Egert, Nichola Potter, Noel E. Hayman, Alan Cass, Alex D. H. Brown
Factors influencing the current practice of self-medication consultations in Eastern Indonesian community pharmacies: a qualitative study
Cecilia Brata, Colleen Fisher, Brahmaputra Marjadi, Carl R. Schneider, Rhonda M. Clifford
Erratum to: Researching Complex Interventions in Health: The State of the Art
Peter Craig, Ingalill Rahm-Hallberg, Nicky Britten, Gunilla Borglin, Gabriele Meyer, Sascha Köpke, Jane Noyes, Jackie Chandler, Sara Levati, Anne Sales, Lehana Thabane, Lora Giangregorio, Nancy Feeley, Sylvie Cossette, Rod Taylor, Jacqueline Hill, David A. Richards, Willem Kuyken, Louise von Essen, Andrew Williams, Karla Hemming, Richard Lilford, Alan Girling, Monica Taljaard, Munyaradzi Dimairo, Mark Petticrew, Janis Baird, Graham Moore, Willem Odendaal, Salla Atkins, Elizabeth Lutge, Natalie Leon, Simon Lewin, Katherine Payne, Theo vanAchterberg, Walter Sermeus, Martin Pitt, Thomas Monks
Rates and costs of invasive pneumococcal disease and pneumonia in persons with underlying medical conditions
Derek Weycker, Raymond A. Farkouh, David R. Strutton, John Edelsberg, Kimberly M. Shea, Stephen I. Pelton
Transitioning a home telehealth project into a sustainable, large-scale service: a qualitative study
Victoria A. Wade, Alan D. Taylor, Michael R. Kidd, Colin Carati
Provision of dementia-related services in Canada: a comparative study
Helen Tam-Tham, Alberto Nettel-Aguirre, James Silvius, William Dalziel, Linda Garcia, Frank Molnar, Neil Drummond
Cost-effectiveness of medical primary prevention strategies to reduce absolute risk of cardiovascular disease in Tanzania: a Markov modelling study
Frida N. Ngalesoni, George M. Ruhago, Amani T. Mori, Bjarne Robberstad, Ole F. Norheim
Transitional care in skilled nursing facilities: a multiple case study
Mark Toles, Cathleen Colón-Emeric, Mary D. Naylor, Julie Barroso, Ruth A. Anderson
Assessment of the priority target group of mental health service networks within a nation-wide reform of adult psychiatry in Belgium
Vincent Lorant, Adeline Grard, Chantal Van Audenhove, Eva Helmer, Joke Vanderhaegen, Pablo Nicaise
‘One man’s medicine is another man’s poison’: a qualitative study of user perspectives on low intensity interventions for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Jasmin Knopp-Hoffer, Sarah Knowles, Peter Bower, Karina Lovell, Penny E. Bee
The Youth Health Care measure-satisfaction, utilization, and needs (YHC-SUN)-development of a self-report version of the Child Health Care (CHC-SUN) proxy-measure
Silke Schmidt, Ute Thyen, Carsten Herrmann-Garitz, Franziska Bomba, Holger Muehlan
Factors associated with emergency department visit within 30 days after discharge
Chuan-Lan Wang, Shih-Tan Ding, Ming-Ju Hsieh, Chin-Chung Shu, Nin-Chieh Hsu, Yu-Feng Lin, Jin-Shing Chen
‘It just has to click’: Internists’ views of: what constitutes productive interactions with chronically ill patients
N. M. H. Kromme, C. T. B. Ahaus, R. O. B. Gans, H. B. M. van de Wiel
Perspectives of frontline health workers on Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme before and after community engagement interventions
Robert Kaba Alhassan, Edward Nketiah-Amponsah, Nicole Spieker, Daniel Kojo Arhinful, Tobias F. Rinke de Wit
Development of a survey instrument to measure patient experience of integrated care
Kara Odom Walker, Anita L. Stewart, Kevin Grumbach
The Quality of Working Life Questionnaire for Cancer Survivors (QWLQ-CS): a Pre-test Study
Merel de Jong, Sietske J. Tamminga, Angela G.E.M. de Boer, Monique H.W. Frings-Dresen
Who benefited from the New Rural Cooperative Medical System in China? A case study on Anhui Province
Lidan Wang, Anjue Wang, Gerry FitzGerald, Lei Si, Qicheng Jiang, Dongqing Ye
Burden of socio-legal concerns among vulnerable patients seeking cancer care services at an urban safety-net hospital: a cross-sectional survey
Naomi Yu Ko, Tracy A. Battaglia, Rebecca Gupta-Lawrence, Jessica Schiller, Christine Gunn, Kate Festa, Kerrie Nelson, JoHanna Flacks, Samantha J. Morton, Jennifer E. Rosen
Health profiles of foreigners attending primary care clinics in Malaysia
Norazida Ab Rahman, Sheamini Sivasampu, Kamaliah Mohamad Noh, Ee Ming Khoo
Insufficient access to oral paediatric medicines in Ghana: A descriptive study
Daniel N A Ankrah, Joseph T Turkson, Edith B Boateng, Frank T T Amegavie, Elizabeth Bruce
Healthcare professionals’ views on feedback of a patient safety culture assessment
Nicolien C. Zwijnenberg, Michelle Hendriks, Janneke Hoogervorst-Schilp, Cordula Wagner
Integration of research and practice to improve public health and healthcare delivery through a collaborative 'Health Integration Team' model - a qualitative investigation
Sabi Redwood, Emer Brangan, Verity Leach, Jeremy Horwood, Jenny L. Donovan
Systematic review of the health and societal effects of medication organisation devices
Steven James Watson, Clare Frances Aldus, Christine Bond, Debi Bhattacharya
The swine flu vaccine, public attitudes, and researcher interpretations: a systematic review of qualitative research
Benedicte Carlsen, Claire Glenton
Identifying role of perceived quality and satisfaction on the utilization status of the community clinic services; Bangladesh context
Rizwanul M. Karim, Mamun S. Abdullah, Anisur M. Rahman, Ashraful M. Alam
Advancing a new evidence-based professional in health care: job task analysis for health and wellness coaches
Ruth Q. Wolever, Meg Jordan, Karen Lawson, Margaret Moore
Cost-effectiveness analysis of anal cancer screening in women with cervical neoplasia in British Columbia, Canada
I. Cromwell, M. Gaudet, S. J. Peacock, C. Aquino-Parsons
Social supports and mental health: a cross-sectional study on the correlation of self-consistency and congruence in China
YanMei Gu, Jie Hu, YaPing Hu, JianRong Wang
Health care utilization and outpatient, out-of-pocket costs for active convulsive epilepsy in rural northeastern South Africa: a cross-sectional Survey
Ryan G. Wagner, Melanie Y. Bertram, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Stephen M. Tollman, Lars Lindholm, Charles R. Newton, Karen J. Hofman
The feasibility of introducing an adult safeguarding measure for inclusion in the Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF): findings from a pilot study
Caroline Norrie, Jill Manthorpe, Cher Cartwright, Pritpal Rayat
An exploratory cross-sectional study on the impact of education on perception of stigma by Chinese patients with schizophrenia
Zhibin Ren, Heqiu Wang, Bin Feng, Chenyu Gu, Yongchun Ma, Hong Chen, Bingling Li, Lanying Liu
Organizational factors associated with Health Care Provider (HCP) influenza campaigns in the Veterans health care system: a qualitative study
Zayd Razouki, Troy Knighton, Richard A. Martinello, Pamela R. Hirsch, Kathleen M. McPhaul, Adam J. Rose, Megan McCullough
Improving healthcare for Aboriginal Australians through effective engagement between community and health services
Angela Durey, Suzanne McEvoy, Val Swift-Otero, Kate Taylor, Judith Katzenellenbogen, Dawn Bessarab
The dominance of the private sector in the provision of emergency obstetric care: studies from Gujarat, India
Mariano Salazar, Kranti Vora, Ayesha De Costa
Organising medication discontinuation: a qualitative study exploring the views of general practitioners toward discontinuing statins
Michael Nixon, Marius Brostrøm Kousgaard
Telemedicine-supported transition of stable coronary artery disease patients from tertiary to primary health care facilities: protocol for a randomized non-inferiority trial
Joanna d’Arc Lyra Batista, Mariana Vargas Furtado, Natan Katz, Milena Rodrigues Agostinho, Brasil Silva Neto, Erno Harzheim, Carisi Anne Polanczyk
Cost-effectiveness of preventive case management for parents with a mental illness: a randomized controlled trial from three economic perspectives
Henny J. Wansink, Ruben M. W. A. Drost, Aggie T. G. Paulus, Dirk Ruwaard, Clemens M. H. Hosman, Jan M. A. M. Janssens, Silvia M. A. A. Evers
Management of hypertension and multiple risk factors to enhance cardiovascular health - a feasibility study in Singapore polyclinics
Tazeen H. Jafar, Ngiap C. Tan, John C. Allen, Shreyasee S. Pradhan, Paul Goh, Saeideh Tavajoh, Fong M. Keng, Jason Chan
How efficient are referral hospitals in Uganda? A data envelopment analysis and tobit regression approach
Paschal N. Mujasi, Eyob Z. Asbu, Jaume Puig-Junoy
Co-designing inflammatory bowel disease (Ibd) services in Scotland: findings from a nationwide survey
Mariyana Schoultz, Leah Macaden, Angus J. M. Watson
Expectations and needs of patients with a chronic disease toward self-management and eHealth for self-management purposes
Martine W. J. Huygens, Joan Vermeulen, Ilse C. S. Swinkels, Roland D. Friele, Onno C. P. van Schayck, Luc P. de Witte
Field-testing phase of the development of individual cognitive stimulation therapy (iCST) for dementia
Lauren A Yates, Vasiliki Orgeta, Phuong Leung, Aimee Spector, Martin Orrell
Methodological issues on the use of administrative data in healthcare research: the case of heart failure hospitalizations in Lombardy region, 2000 to 2012
Cristina Mazzali, Anna Maria Paganoni, Francesca Ieva, Cristina Masella, Mauro Maistrello, Ornella Agostoni, Simonetta Scalvini, Maria Frigerio
Implementation of Child Death Review in the Netherlands: results of a pilot study
Sandra Gijzen, Michaëla I. Hilhorst, Monique P. L’Hoir, Magda M. Boere-Boonekamp, Ariana Need
Clinical and demographic correlates of medication and visit adherence in a large randomized controlled trial
Jeff Whittle, José-Miguel Yamal, Jeffrey D. Williamson, Charles E. Ford, Jeffrey L. Probstfield, Barbara L. Beard, Horia Marginean, Bruce P. Hamilton, Pamela S. Suhan, Barry R. Davis
Unit cost analysis of training and deploying paid community health workers in three rural districts of Tanzania
Kassimu Tani, Amon Exavery, Colin D. Baynes, Senga Pemba, Ahmed Hingora, Fatuma Manzi, James F. Phillips, Almamy Malick Kanté
Physician drug dispensing in Switzerland: association on health care expenditures and utilization
Maria Trottmann, Mathias Frueh, Harry Telser, Oliver Reich
Differences in nulliparous caesarean section rates across models of care: a decomposition analysis
Aoife Brick, Richard Layte, Anne Nolan, Michael J. Turner
Childhood fever in well-child clinics: a focus group study among doctors and nurses
Kirsten K. B. Peetoom, Luc J. L. Ploum, Jacqueline J. M. Smits, Nicky S. J. Halbach, Geert-Jan Dinant, Jochen W. L. Cals
Clinical trial network for the promotion of clinical research for rare diseases in Japan: muscular dystrophy clinical trial network
Reiko Shimizu, Katsuhisa Ogata, Akemi Tamaura, En Kimura, Maki Ohata, Eri Takeshita, Harumasa Nakamura, Shin’ichi Takeda, Hirofumi Komaki
Outcome after polytrauma in a certified trauma network: comparing standard vs. maximum care facilities concept of the study and study protocol (POLYQUALY)
Michael Koller, Antonio Ernstberger, Florian Zeman, Julika Loss, Michael Nerlich, Bauer, Lehner, Cedl, Walter, Schandelmaier, Maurer, Wick, Barz, Obermeier, Ganslmeier, Bay, Mehlhorn, Schmickal, Obernhuber, Füchtmeier, Nerlich, Schneider, Oedekoven, Schäfer, Albersdörfer, Rieger, Schmid, Neubaruer-Grartzke, Walter
Health status and access to health services of female prisoners in Greece: a cross-sectional survey
Mary Geitona, Stella-Olga Milioni
Practice related factors that may impact on postpartum care for mothers and infants in Australian general practice: a cross-sectional survey
Wendy E. Brodribb, Benjamin L. Mitchell, Mieke L. van Driel
Introduction of a team-based care model in a general medical unit
Stephanie E. Hastings, Esther Suter, Judy Bloom, Krishna Sharma
Methodological review: quality of randomized controlled trials in health literacy
Julii Brainard, Stephanie Howard Wilsher, Charlotte Salter, Yoon Kong Loke
How hepatitis C patients manage the treatment process of pegylated interferon and ribavirin therapy: a qualitative study
Shu-Mei Tsai, Jung-Ta Kao, Yun-Fang Tsai
Clinical service use as people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder transition into adolescence and adulthood: a prospective longitudinal study
Hanna Eklund, Tim Cadman, James Findon, Hannah Hayward, Deirdre Howley, Jennifer Beecham, Kiriakos Xenitidis, Declan Murphy, Philip Asherson, Karen Glaser
Designing and delivering facilitated storytelling interventions for chronic disease self-management: a scoping review
Enza Gucciardi, Nicole Jean-Pierre, Grace Karam, Souraya Sidani
Coping strategies in anxious surgical patients
Hansjoerg Aust, Dirk Rüsch, Maike Schuster, Theresa Sturm, Felix Brehm, Yvonne Nestoriuc
The economic burden of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the impact of poor inhalation technique with commonly prescribed dry powder inhalers in three European countries
A. Lewis, S. Torvinen, P. N. R. Dekhuijzen, H. Chrystyn, A. T. Watson, M. Blackney, A. Plich
Preparedness of health care professionals in preventing maternal mortality at a public health facility in Ghana: a qualitative study
Hubert Amu, Samuel H. Nyarko
A value proposition for early physical therapist management of neck pain: a retrospective cohort analysis
Maggie E. Horn, Gerard P. Brennan, Steven Z. George, Jeffrey S. Harman, Mark D. Bishop
Handoffs, safety culture, and practices: evidence from the hospital survey on patient safety culture
Soo-Hoon Lee, Phillip H. Phan, Todd Dorman, Sallie J. Weaver, Peter J. Pronovost
Validating abortion procedure coding in Canadian administrative databases
Saied Samiedaluie, Sandra Peterson, Rollin Brant, Janusz Kaczorowski, Wendy V. Norman
Identifying the conditions needed for integrated knowledge translation (IKT) in health care organizations: qualitative interviews with researchers and research users
Anna R. Gagliardi, Mark J. Dobrow
Influences on uptake of cancer screening in mental health service users: a qualitative study
Abigail Clifton, Caroline Burgess, Sarah Clement, Ruth Ohlsen, Pras Ramluggun, Jackie Sturt, Paul Walters, Elizabeth A. Barley
Can Sierra Leone maintain the equitable delivery of their Free Health Care Initiative? The case for more contextualised interventions: results of a cross-sectional survey
Frédérique Vallières, Emma Louise Cassidy, Eilish McAuliffe, Brynne Gilmore, Allieu S. Bangura, Joseph Musa
Causes of cancellations on the day of surgery at a Tertiary Teaching Hospital
Roland Kaddoum, Racha Fadlallah, Eveline Hitti, Fadi EL-Jardali, Ghada El Eid
Model depicting aspects of audit and feedback that impact physicians’ acceptance of clinical performance feedback
Velma L. Payne, Sylvia J. Hysong
Accessibility of ophthalmic healthcare for residents of an offshore island—an example of integrated delivery system
Li-Ju Chen, Yun-Jau Chang, Chun-Fu Shieh, Jy-Haw Yu, Ming-Chin Yang
Regional differences in recommended cancer treatment for the elderly
Vivian Ho, Meei-Hsiang Ku-Goto, Hui Zhao, Karen E. Hoffman, Benjamin D. Smith, Sharon H. Giordano
Barriers to sexual health care: a survey of Iranian-American physicians in California, USA
Mitra Rashidian, Victor Minichiello, Synnove F. Knutsen, Mark Ghamsary
Demographic and service-use profiles of individuals using the CarePayment program for hospital-related medical debt: results from a nationwide survey of guarantors
Laura Lessard, Julie Solomon
Association of knowledge on ART line of treatment, scarcity of treatment options and adherence
Habib O. Ramadhani, Charles Muiruri, Venance P. Maro, Michael Omondi, Julian B. Mushi, Eileen S. Lirhunde, John A. Bartlett
Utilization of the state led public private partnership program “Chiranjeevi Yojana” to promote facility births in Gujarat, India: a cross sectional community based study
Sandul Yasobant, Kranti Suresh Vora, Hemant Deepak Shewade, Kristi Sidney Annerstedt, Petros Isaakidis, Dileep V. Mavalankar, Nishith B. Dholakia, Ayesha De Costa
Thromboprophylaxis prescribing among junior doctors: the impact of educational interventions
Bethany J. Watt, Dean T. Williams, Lauren Lewis, Christopher J. Whitaker
Assessing the potential of rural and urban private facilities in implementing child health interventions in Mukono district, central Uganda–a cross sectional study
Elizeus Rutebemberwa, Esther Buregyeya, Sham Lal, Sîan E. Clarke, Kristian S. Hansen, Pascal Magnussen, Philip LaRussa, Anthony K. Mbonye
Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review
Claire Goodman, Tom Dening, Adam L. Gordon, Susan L. Davies, Julienne Meyer, Finbarr C. Martin, John R. F. Gladman, Clive Bowman, Christina Victor, Melanie Handley, Heather Gage, Steve Iliffe, Maria Zubair
Do informal caregivers for elderly in the community use support measures? A qualitative study in five European countries
Evi Willemse, Sibyl Anthierens, Maria Isabel Farfan-Portet, Olivier Schmitz, Jean Macq, Hilde Bastiaens, Tinne Dilles, Roy Remmen
Occupational physicians’ perceived barriers and suggested solutions to improve adherence to a guideline on mental health problems: analysis of a peer group training
Marjolein Lugtenberg, Karlijn M. van Beurden, Evelien P. M. Brouwers, Berend Terluin, Jaap van Weeghel, Jac J. L. van der Klink, Margot C. W. Joosen
Utilization of youth friendly services and associated factors among youth in Harar town, east Ethiopia: a mixed method study
Aboma Motuma, Thomas Syre, Gudina Egata, Abera Kenay
Urolithiasis risk: a comparison between healthcare providers and the general population
Ming-Hung Chen, Shih-Feng Weng, Chien-Chin Hsu, Hung-Jung Lin, Shih-Bin Su, Jhi-Joung Wang, How-Ran Guo, Chien-Cheng Huang
Variation in geographic access to chemotherapy by definitions of providers and service locations: a population-based observational study
Mary C. Schroeder, Cole G. Chapman, Matthew C. Nattinger, Thorvardur R. Halfdanarson, Taher Abu-Hejleh, Yu-Yu Tien, John M. Brooks
Post-acute pathways among hip fracture patients: a system-level analysis
Kristen B. Pitzul, Walter P. Wodchis, Michael W. Carter, Hans J. Kreder, Jennifer Voth, Susan B. Jaglal
Analysis of resources assisting in coping with swallowing difficulties for patients with Parkinson’s disease: a cross-sectional study
Aiko Matsushima, Junichi Matsushima, Akihisa Matsumoto, Fumio Moriwaka, Sanae Honma, Kazunori Itoh, Keiko Yamada, Shun Shimohama, Hirofumi Ohnishi, Mitsuru Mori
Health-related quality of life and its influencing factors for patients with hypertension: evidence from the urban and rural areas of Shaanxi Province, China
Yulian Zhang, Zhongliang Zhou, Jianmin Gao, Dan Wang, Qian Zhang, Zhiying Zhou, Min Su, Dan Li
The impact of emergency department segmentation and nursing staffing increase on inpatient mortality and management times
Pierre-Géraud Claret, Xavier Bobbia, Sylvia Olive, Christophe Demattei, Justin Yan, Robert Cohendy, Paul Landais, Jean Emmanuel de la Coussaye
Clients’ satisfaction with HIV treatment services in Bamenda, Cameroon: a cross-sectional study
Buh Amos Wung, Nde Fon Peter, Julius Atashili
Integrating teamwork, clinician occupational well-being and patient safety – development of a conceptual framework based on a systematic review
Annalena Welp, Tanja Manser
Cost of the medical management and prescription pattern for primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) in Ghana–a retrospective cross-sectional study from three referral facilities
Stephen Ocansey, Samuel Kyei, Ama Diafo, Kwabena Nkansah Darfor, Samuel Bert Boadi-Kusi, Peter B. Aglobitse
Coping with tuberculosis and directly observed treatment: a qualitative study among patients from South India
Vijayashree Yellappa, Pierre Lefèvre, Tullia Battaglioli, Devadasan Narayanan, Patrick Van der Stuyft
Human trafficking and severe mental illness: an economic analysis of survivors’ use of psychiatric services
Maria Cary, Siân Oram, Louise M. Howard, Kylee Trevillion, Sarah Byford
What is the effectiveness of the support worker role for people with dementia and their carers? A systematic review
Dianne Goeman, Emma Renehan, Susan Koch
Performance-based financing in the context of the complex remuneration of health workers: findings from a mixed-method study in rural Sierra Leone
Maria Paola Bertone, Mylene Lagarde, Sophie Witter
Availability and utilization of medical devices in Jimma zone hospitals, Southwest Ethiopia: a case study
Beyene Wondafrash Ademe, Bosena Tebeje, Ashagre Molla
Improved drug-use patterns at 6 months post-discharge from inpatient substance use disorder treatment: results from compulsorily and voluntarily admitted patients
Adrian R. Pasareanu, John-Kåre Vederhus, Anne Opsal, Øistein Kristensen, Thomas Clausen
Hospital pharmacists’ knowledge of and attitudes towards the implementation of the National Essential Medicines System: a questionnaire survey in western China
Qian Shen, Caijun Yang, Jie Chang, Lina Wu, Wenwen Zhu, Bing Lv, Dan Ye, Shimin Yang, Yu Fang
Compliance with birth dose of Hepatitis B vaccine in high endemic and hard to reach areas in the Colombian amazon: results from a vaccination survey
Luz Angela Choconta-Piraquive, Fernando De la Hoz-Restrepo, Carlos Arturo Sarmiento-Limas
Quantifying the relationship between increased disability and health care resource utilization, quality of life, work productivity, health care costs in patients with multiple sclerosis in the US
E. Jones, J. Pike, T. Marshall, X. Ye
Perinatal mental health care in a rural African district, Uganda: a qualitative study of barriers, facilitators and needs
Juliet E. M. Nakku, Elialilia S. Okello, Dorothy Kizza, Simone Honikman, Joshua Ssebunnya, Sheila Ndyanabangi, Charlotte Hanlon, Fred Kigozi
The impact of Public Reporting on clinical outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Paolo Campanella, Vladimir Vukovic, Paolo Parente, Adela Sulejmani, Walter Ricciardi, Maria Lucia Specchia
A qualitative study of professional and carer perceptions of the threats to safe hospital discharge for stroke and hip fracture patients in the English National Health Service
Justin Waring, Simon Bishop, Fiona Marshall
Implementing guidelines in nursing homes: a systematic review
Heinz Diehl, Birgitte Graverholt, Birgitte Espehaug, Hans Lund
Is real world evidence influencing practice? A systematic review of CPRD research in NICE guidances
Jessie O. Oyinlola, Jennifer Campbell, Antonis A. Kousoulis
Pathways to potentially preventable hospitalizations for diabetes and heart failure: a qualitative analysis of patient perspectives
Tetine L. Sentell, Todd B. Seto, Malia M. Young, May Vawer, Michelle L. Quensell, Kathryn L. Braun, Deborah A. Taira
Are HIV and reproductive health services adapted to the needs of female sex workers? Results of a policy and situational analysis in Tete, Mozambique
Yves Lafort, Osvaldo Jocitala, Balthazar Candrinho, Letitia Greener, Mags Beksinska, Jenni A. Smit, Matthew Chersich, Wim Delva
Improving mental health service users’ with medical co-morbidity transition between tertiary medical hospital and primary care services: a qualitative study
Kate Cranwell, Meg Polacsek, Terence V. McCann
Emergency Department and Inpatient Healthcare utilization due to Hypertension
Jasvinder A. Singh, Shaohua Yu
Newborn screening and prophylactic interventions for sickle cell disease in 47 countries in sub-Saharan Africa: a cost-effectiveness analysis
Andreas Kuznik, Abdulrazaq G. Habib, Deogratias Munube, Mohammed Lamorde
Advancing scoping study methodology: a web-based survey and consultation of perceptions on terminology, definition and methodological steps
Kelly K. O’Brien, Heather Colquhoun, Danielle Levac, Larry Baxter, Andrea C. Tricco, Sharon Straus, Lisa Wickerson, Ayesha Nayar, David Moher, Lisa O’Malley
Register study of migrants’ hospitalization in Norway: world region origin, reason for migration, and length of stay
Jon Ivar Elstad
Identifying seasonal and temporal trends in the pressures experienced by hospitals related to unscheduled care
NJ Walker, HC Van Woerden, V Kiparoglou, Y Yang
Is the Job Satisfaction Survey a good tool to measure job satisfaction amongst health workers in Nepal? Results of a validation analysis
Neha Batura, Jolene Skordis-Worrall, Rita Thapa, Regina Basnyat, Joanna Morrison
Economic crisis, austerity and unmet healthcare needs: the case of Greece
Dimitris Zavras, Athanasios I. Zavras, Ilias-Ioannis Kyriopoulos, John Kyriopoulos
The influence of social support on healthcare service use following transport-related musculoskeletal injury
Khic-Houy Prang, Janneke Berecki-Gisolf, Sharon Newnam
A cost analysis of introducing an infectious disease specialist-guided antimicrobial stewardship in an area with relatively low prevalence of antimicrobial resistance
Peter Lanbeck, Gunnel Ragnarson Tennvall, Fredrik Resman
New chronic disease medication prescribing by nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and primary care physicians: a cohort study
Zachary A. Marcum, Johanna E. Bellon, Jie Li, Walid F. Gellad, Julie M. Donohue
Hepatitis C virus infection among patients with diabetes mellitus in Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Ebtesam M. Ba-Essa, Eman I. Mobarak, Nasser M. Al-Daghri
Measurement and valuation of health providers’ time for the management of childhood pneumonia in rural Malawi: an empirical study
Fiammetta Maria Bozzani, Matthias Arnold, Timothy Colbourn, Norman Lufesi, Bejoy Nambiar, Gibson Masache, Jolene Skordis-Worrall
Costs of accountable care organization participation for primary care providers: early stage results
Richard A. Hofler, Judith Ortiz
A qualitative study examining healthcare managers and providers’ perspectives on participating in primary care implementation research
Lisa A. Wozniak, Allison Soprovich, Sandra Rees, Steven T. Johnson, Sumit R. Majumdar, Jeffrey A. Johnson
Perception of quality of health delivery and health insurance subscription in Ghana
Joshua Amo-Adjei, Prince Justin Anku, Hannah Fosuah Amo, Mavis Osei Effah
Systematic review of factors influencing length of stay in ICU after adult cardiac surgery
Ahmed Almashrafi, Mustafa Elmontsri, Paul Aylin
Future expenditure risk of silent members: a statistical analysis
Trudy Millard Krause, Elifnur Yay Donderici, Cecilia Ganduglia Cazaban, Luisa Franzini
Responding to the health needs of survivors of human trafficking: a systematic review
Stacey Hemmings, Sharon Jakobowitz, Melanie Abas, Debra Bick, Louise M. Howard, Nicky Stanley, Cathy Zimmerman, Sian Oram
Searching for best practices of youth friendly services - a study protocol using qualitative comparative analysis in Sweden
Isabel Goicolea, Monica Christianson, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Bruno Marchal, Miguel San Sebastian, Maria Wiklund
Depression Screening and Education: Options to Reduce Barriers to Treatment (DESEO): protocol for an educational intervention study
Katherine Sanchez, Brittany H. Eghaneyan, Madhukar H. Trivedi
Technical analysis, contestation and politics in policy agenda setting and implementation: the rise and fall of primary care maternal services from Ghana’s capitation policy
Augustina Koduah, Han van Dijk, Irene Akua Agyepong
The impact of primary care reform on health system performance in Canada: a systematic review
Renee Carter, Bruno Riverin, Jean-Frédéric Levesque, Geneviève Gariepy, Amélie Quesnel-Vallée
Patient choice, Internet based information sources, and perceptions of health care: Evidence from Sweden using survey data from 2010 and 2013
Emma Wahlstedt, Björn Ekman
Erratum to: Project ACHIEVE – using implementation research to guide the evaluation of transitional care effectiveness
Jing Li, Jane Brock, Brian Jack, Brian Mittman, Mary Naylor, Joann Sorra, Glen Mays, Mark V. Williams
Value-based integrated (renal) care: setting a development agenda for research and implementation strategies
Pim P. Valentijn, Claus Biermann, Marc A. Bruijnzeels
Social capital and refraining from medical care among elderly people in Japan
Masaaki Mizuochi
State-civil society partnerships for HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention in Ghana: exploring factors associated with successes and challenges
Martin Hushie, Cephas N. Omenyo, Jacob J. van den Berg, Michelle A. Lally
Measuring the burden of preventable diabetic hospitalisations in the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS)
David G. Lugo-Palacios, John Cairns, Cynthia Masetto
Implementing shared decision making in federally qualified health centers, a quasi-experimental design study: the Office-Guidelines Applied to Practice (Office-GAP) program
Adesuwa Olomu, William Hart-Davidson, Zhehui Luo, Karen Kelly-Blake, Margaret Holmes-Rovner
Types of health care facilities and the quality of primary care: a study of characteristics and experiences of Chinese patients in Guangdong Province, China
Ruwei Hu, Yu Liao, Zhicheng Du, Yuantao Hao, Hailun Liang, Leiyu Shi
The care center influences the management of lymphoma patients in a universal health care system: an observational cohort study
S. Lamy, C. Bettiol, P. Grosclaude, G. Compaci, G Albertus, C. Récher, J. C. Nogaro, F. Despas, G. Laurent, C. Delpierre
Antenatal care use in urban areas in two European countries: Predisposing, enabling and pregnancy-related determinants in Belgium and the Netherlands
Jana Vanden Broeck, Esther Feijen-de Jong, Trudy Klomp, Koen Putman, Katrien Beeckman
The success of the Uttarakhand Cluster: a case study of organisational change towards disability inclusive development
Nathan Grills, Jubin Varghese, Nicole Hughes, Tamara Jolly, Robert Kumar
Intervention to Improve Quality of life for African-AmericaN lupus patients (IQAN): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of a unique a la carte intervention approach to self-management of lupus in African Americans
Edith M. Williams, Kate Lorig, Saundra Glover, Diane Kamen, Sudie Back, Anwar Merchant, Jiajia Zhang, James C. Oates
“Talk with me”: perspectives on services for men with problem gambling and housing instability
Sara J. T. Guilcher, Sarah Hamilton-Wright, Wayne Skinner, Julia Woodhall-Melnik, Peter Ferentzy, Aklilu Wendaferew, Stephen W. Hwang, Flora I. Matheson
Antiretroviral medication treatment for all HIV-infected individuals: a protocol using innovative multilevel methodologies to evaluate New York City's universal ART policy among problem substance users
Aimee N. C. Campbell, Don Des Jarlais, Cooper Hannah, Sarah Braunstein, Susan Tross, Laura Kersanske, Christine Borges, Martina Pavlicova, Kevin Jefferson, Howard Newville, Laurel Weaver, Margaret Wolff
Overall satisfaction of health care users with the quality of and access to health care services: a cross-sectional study in six Central and Eastern European countries
Tetiana Stepurko, Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot
Acceptability and feasibility of point-of-care CD4 testing on HIV continuum of care in low and middle income countries: a systematic review
Minh D. Pham, Paul A. Agius, Lorena Romero, Peter McGlynn, David Anderson, Suzanne M. Crowe, Stanley Luchters
Factors associated with late stage at diagnosis among Puerto Rico’s government health plan colorectal cancer patients: a cross-sectional study
Karen J. Ortiz-Ortiz, Ruth Ríos-Motta, Heriberto Marín-Centeno, Marcia Cruz-Correa, Ana Patricia Ortiz
Learning from doing: the case for combining normalisation process theory and participatory learning and action research methodology for primary healthcare implementation research
Tomas de Brún, Mary O’Reilly-de Brún, Catherine A. O’Donnell, Anne MacFarlane
Implementation challenges in delivering team-based care (‘TEAMcare’) for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a public hospital setting: a mixed methods approach
Belinda Cochrane, Jann Foster, Robert Boyd, Evan Atlantis
The impact of multiple chronic diseases on hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions
Inês Dantas, Rui Santana, João Sarmento, Pedro Aguiar
Improving children’s health and development in British Columbia through nurse home visiting: a randomized controlled trial protocol
Nicole L. A. Catherine, Andrea Gonzalez, Michael Boyle, Debbie Sheehan, Susan M. Jack, Kaitlyn A. Hougham, Lawrence McCandless, Harriet L. MacMillan, Charlotte Waddell
Evidence of non-response bias in the Press-Ganey patient satisfaction survey
A. R. Tyser, A. M. Abtahi, M. McFadden, A. P. Presson
A descriptive analysis of medical health services utilization of Veterans living in Ontario: a retrospective cohort study using administrative healthcare data
Alice B. Aiken, Alyson L. Mahar, Paul Kurdyak, Marlo Whitehead, Patti A. Groome
MAHILA: a protocol for evaluating a nurse-delivered mHealth intervention for women with HIV and psychosocial risk factors in India
Nancy R. Reynolds, Veena Satyanarayana, Mona Duggal, Meiya Varghese, Lauren Liberti, Pushpendra Singh, Mohini Ranganathan, Sangchoon Jeon, Prabha S. Chandra
The effects of the Norwegian Coordination Reform on the use of rehabilitation services: panel data analyses of service use, 2010 to 2013
Lars C. Monkerud, Trond Tjerbo
Validation and comparison of instruments to identify frail patientes in primary care settings: Study protocol
Itziar Vergara, Francisco Rivas-Ruiz, Kalliopi Vrotsou, Eugenio Contreras-Fernández, Teresa Téllez-Santana, Mónica Machón, Ana Isabel Díez Ruiz, Yolanda de Mesa Berenguer, Andoni Bueno, Jazmina Núñez, M Carmen Saucedo Figueredo, Alonso Montiel-Luque, M Antonia Nava del Val, Raúl Quirós-López, Estefanía Carrasco, Gabor Abellan
The role and impact of research positions within health care settings in allied health: a systematic review
Rachel Wenke, Sharon Mickan
A post-hoc analysis of the comparative efficacy of canagliflozin and glimepiride in the attainment of type 2 diabetes-related quality measures
Charmi A. Patel, Robert A. Bailey, Ujjwala Vijapurkar, Gary Meininger, Lawrence Blonde
A framework to assess patient-reported adverse outcomes arising during hospitalization
Okoniewska Barbara, Santana Maria Jose, Holroyd-Leduc Jayna, Flemons Ward, O’Beirne Maeve, White Deborah, Ocampo Wrochelle, William A. Ghali, Alan J. Forster
Improving childhood nutrition and wellness in South Africa: involving mothers/caregivers of malnourished or HIV positive children and health care workers as co-designers to enhance a local quality improvement intervention
Claire van Deventer, Glenn Robert, Anne Wright
Tuberculosis infection control practices and associated factors among health care workers in health centers of West Gojjam zone, Northwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
Kassahun Tamir, Belaynew Wasie, Muluken Azage
The effectiveness of clinical networks in improving quality of care and patient outcomes: a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative studies
Bernadette Bea Brown, Cyra Patel, Elizabeth McInnes, Nicholas Mays, Jane Young, Mary Haines
Palliative care for patients with heart failure: facilitators and barriers - a cross sectional survey of German health care professionals
Jeanette Ziehm, Erik Farin, Jonas Schäfer, Kathrin Woitha, Gerhild Becker, Stefan Köberich
Effects of procurement practices on quality of medical device or service received: a qualitative study comparing countries
Myriam Lingg, Kaspar Wyss, Luis Durán-Arenas
The evaluation of a healthcare passport to improve quality of care and communication for people living with dementia (EQuIP): a protocol paper for a qualitative, longitudinal study
Gerard Leavey, Aine Abbott, Max Watson, Stephen Todd, Vivien Coates, Sonja McIlfactrick, Brendan McCormack, Bethany Waterhouse-Bradley, Emma Curran
Improving access for community health and sub-acute outpatient services: protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial
Katherine E. Harding, Jennifer J. Watts, Leila Karimi, Mary O’Reilly, Bridie Kent, Michelle Kotis, Sandra G. Leggat, Jackie Kearney, Nicholas F. Taylor
The economic burden of urinary tract infections in women visiting general practices in France: a cross-sectional survey
M. François, T. Hanslik, B. Dervaux, Y. Le Strat, C. Souty, S. Vaux, S. Maugat, C. Rondet, M. Sarazin, B. Heym, B. Coignard, L. Rossignol
Measuring and understanding motivation among community health workers in rural health facilities in India-a mixed method study
Jaya Prasad Tripathy, Sonu Goel, Ajay M. V. Kumar
Trends and area variations in Potentially Preventable Admissions for COPD in Spain (2002–2013): a significant decline and convergence between areas
Julián Librero, Berta Ibañez-Beroiz, Salvador Peiró, M. Ridao-López, Clara L. Rodríguez-Bernal, Francisco J. Gómez-Romero, Enrique Bernal-Delgado, A. Díaz-Martínez, J. A. Goicochea-Salazar, F. Rivas-Ruiz, A. Jiménez-Puente, M. M. Rodríguez del Águila, T. Molina, E. Baños, E. Angulo, E Bernal-Delgado, M. Comendeiro-Maaløe, F. R. Estupiñan-Romero, S. García-Armesto, R. Launa, N. Martínez-Lizaga, M. Ridao-López, M. Seral-Rodríguez, J. M. Abad-Diez, F. Arribas-Monzón, J. Beltrán-Peribáñez, F. Pradas-Arnal, M. Caicoya, F. Suárez, H. Sánchez-Janáriz, J. l. Alonso-Bilbao, D. Fiuza Fiuza-Pérez, G. Romero, M. Marinelli, G. Oliva, V. Ortún-Rubio, T. Salas, E. Vela, A. Sacristán-Salgado, J. García-Crespo, A. Melgosa-Arcos, L. Sangrador-Arenas, M. A. García-Sánchez, R. López-Reneo, G. Atienza-Merino, C. Carballeira-Roca, T. Queiro, M. Castro-Villares, Y. Anes del Amo, G. Montes-Salas, E. J. Castaño-Riera, M. J. Santos-Terrón, M. Zaforteza-Dezcallar, J. Ferrer-Riera, M. V. Martín-Martín, A. Cestafé, C. Bienzobas-López, R. Gómez-Lázaro, J. Palomar-Rodríguez, L. Hernando-Arizaleta, N. Álvarez-Arruti, Y. Montes-García, I. Rodrigo-Rincón, B. Ibáñez-Beroiz, F. Aizpuru, P. M. Latorre-García, A. Latorre, J. Pérez de Arriba, M. Errezola, E. Millán, C. Baixauli-Pérez, J. Librero, S. Peiró, C. L. Rodríguez-Bernal, G. Sanfelix-Gimeno, R. Meneu, R. Sotoca, J. Calabuig
Using systems thinking to identify workforce enablers for a whole systems approach to urgent and emergency care delivery: a multiple case study
Kim Manley, Anne Martin, Carolyn Jackson, Toni Wright
Erratum to: The dominance of the private sector in the provision of emergency obstetric care: studies from Gujarat, India
Mariano Salazar, Kranti Vora, Ayesha De Costa
Technological aids for improving longitudinal research on substance use disorders
David Farabee, Marya Schulte, Rachel Gonzales, Christine E. Grella
How patients think about social responsibility of public hospitals in China?
Wenbin Liu, Lizheng Shi, Raymond W. Pong, Yingyao Chen
Implementation of a clinical practice guideline for schizophrenia in a specialist mental health center: an observational study
Ilan Fischler, Sanaz Riahi, Melanie I. Stuckey, Philip E. Klassen
Patient satisfaction is biased by renovations to the interior of a primary care office: a pretest-posttest assessment
Raphaël Tièche, Bruno R. da Costa, Sven Streit
Impact of nurse-delivered community-based CD4 services on facilitating pre-ART care in rural South Africa
T. Kompala, A. P. Moll, N. Mtungwa, R. P. Brooks, G. H. Friedland, S. V. Shenoi
Models of reablement evaluation (MoRE): a study protocol of a quasi-experimental mixed methods evaluation of reablement services in England
Rachel Mann, Bryony Beresford, Gillian Parker, Parvaneh Rabiee, Helen Weatherly, Rita Faria, Mona Kanaan, Alison Laver-Fawcett, Gerald Pilkington, Fiona Aspinal
Intraprofessional collaboration and learning between specialists and general practitioners during postgraduate training: a qualitative study
Loes J. Meijer, Esther de Groot, Mirjam Blaauw-Westerlaken, Roger A. M. J. Damoiseaux
Evaluation of 5536 patients treated in an integrative outpatient tinnitus treatment center–immediate effects and a modeling approach for sustainability
Thomas Ostermann, Katja Boehm, Martin Kusatz
Opportunities for reproductive tourism: cost and quality advantages of Turkey in the provision of in-vitro Fertilization (IVF) services
M. Said Yildiz, M. Mahmud Khan
Stakeholders’ expectations and perceived effects of the pharmacy ownership liberalization reform in Sweden: a qualitative interview study
Kristin Wisell, Ulrika Winblad, Sofia Kälvemark Sporrong
Implementation of integration strategies between primary care units and a regional general hospital in Brazil to update and connect health care professionals: a quasi-experimental study protocol
Mario Maia Bracco, Ana Carolina Cintra Nunes Mafra, Alexandre Hannud Abdo, Fernando Antonio Basile Colugnati, Marcello Dala Bernardina Dalla, Marcelo Marcos Piva Demarzo, Ises Abrahamsohn, Aline Pacífico Rodrigues, Ana Violeta Ferreira de Almeida Delgado, Glauber Alves dos Prazeres, José Carlos Teixeira Jr, Silvio Possa
Centralized or decentralized perinatal surgical care for rural women: a realist review of the evidence on safety
Jude Kornelsen, Kevin McCartney, Kim Williams
Patterns of community follow-up, subsequent health service use and survival among young and mid-life adults discharged from chronic care hospitals: a retrospective cohort study
Kerry Kuluski, Sima Gandhi, Christina Diong, Carolyn Steele Gray, Susan E. Bronskill
Reporting of financial conflicts of interest in clinical practice guidelines: a case study analysis of guidelines from the Canadian Medical Association Infobase
Adrienne Shnier, Joel Lexchin, Mirna Romero, Kevin Brown
Implementation of disease activity measurement for rheumatoid arthritis patients in an academic rheumatology clinic
Alison Bays, Elizabeth Wahl, David I. Daikh, Jinoos Yazdany, Gabriela Schmajuk
Validation of the Dutch language version of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ-NL)
Marck HTM Haerkens, Wouter van Leeuwen, J. Bryan Sexton, Peter Pickkers, Johannes G. van der Hoeven
Effect of care management program structure on implementation: a normalization process theory analysis
Jodi Summers Holtrop, Georges Potworowski, Laurie Fitzpatrick, Amy Kowalk, Lee A. Green
Study protocol: a randomised controlled trial of a nurse-led community-based self-management programme for improving recovery among community-residing stroke survivors
Suzanne Hoi Shan Lo, Anne Marie Chang, Janita Pak Chun Chau
Modification of claims-based measures improves identification of comorbidities in non-elderly women undergoing mastectomy for breast cancer: a retrospective cohort study
Katelin B. Nickel, Anna E. Wallace, David K. Warren, Kelly E. Ball, Daniel Mines, Victoria J. Fraser, Margaret A. Olsen
Community perceptions of behaviour change communication interventions of the maternal neonatal and child health programme in rural Bangladesh: an exploratory study
Atiya Rahman, Margaret Leppard, Sarawat Rashid, Nauruj Jahan, Hashima E. Nasreen
Effect of socio-economic factors in utilization of different healthcare services among older adult men and women in Ghana
B. I. I. Saeed, A. E. Yawson, S. Nguah, Peter Agyei-Baffour, Nakua Emmanuel, Edmund Ayesu
Balancing the use of language to enable care: a qualitative study of oral and written language used in assessments and allocations of community healthcare services for persons with dementia
Anette Hansen, Solveig Hauge, Ådel Bergland
Study protocol: a mixed methods study to assess mental health recovery, shared decision-making and quality of life (Plan4Recovery)
Michael Coffey, Ben Hannigan, Alan Meudell, Julian Hunt, Deb Fitzsimmons
Obstacles to implementation of an intervention to improve surgical services in an Ethiopian hospital: a qualitative study of an international health partnership project
Emma-Louise Aveling, Desalegn Tegabu Zegeye, Michael Silverman
Pharmaceutical cost and multimorbidity with type 2 diabetes mellitus using electronic health record data
Carla Sancho-Mestre, David Vivas-Consuelo, Luis Alvis-Estrada, Martin Romero, Ruth Usó-Talamantes, Vicent Caballer-Tarazona
Focused maternity care in Ghana: results of a cluster analysis
Martin Amogre Ayanore, Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot
Can local staff reliably assess their own programs? A confirmatory test-retest study of Lot Quality Assurance Sampling data collectors in Uganda
Colin A. Beckworth, Robert Anguyo, Francis Cranmer Kyakulaga, Stephen K. Lwanga, Joseph J. Valadez
Inspiring health worker motivation with supportive supervision: a survey of lady health supervisor motivating factors in rural Pakistan
Fauziah Rabbani, Leah Shipton, Wafa Aftab, Kashif Sangrasi, Shagufta Perveen, Aysha Zahidie
A qualitative study assessing the acceptability and adoption of implementing a results based financing intervention to improve maternal and neonatal health in Malawi
Danielle J. Wilhelm, Stephan Brenner, Adamson S. Muula, Manuela De Allegri
Assessing the disparity in spatial access to hospital care in ethnic minority region in Sichuan Province, China
Xiuli Wang, Jay Pan
Development and feasibility of an evidence-informed self-management education program in pediatric concussion rehabilitation
Anne W. Hunt, Luciano De Feo, Jennifer Macintyre, Dayna Greenspoon, Talia Dick, Katherine Mah, Melissa Paniccia, Christine Provvidenza, Nick Reed
Survivorship care and support following treatment for breast cancer: a multi-ethnic comparative qualitative study of women’s experiences
Charlotte Tompkins, Karen Scanlon, Emma Scott, Emma Ream, Seeromanie Harding, Jo Armes
Managing Matajoosh: determinants of first Nations’ cancer care decisions
Josée G. Lavoie, Joseph Kaufert, Annette J. Browne, John D. O’Neil
Effectiveness of interventions utilising telephone follow up in reducing hospital readmission within 30 days for individuals with chronic disease: a systematic review
Amanda Jayakody, Jamie Bryant, Mariko Carey, Breanne Hobden, Natalie Dodd, Robert Sanson-Fisher
The impact of the affordable care Act (ACA) on favorable risk selection and Beneficiaries’ health status in Medicare advantage: a preliminary assessment
Nabil Natafgi, Matthew Nattinger, Patience Ugwi, Fred Ullrich, Fredric D. Wolinsky
Are low-value care measures up to the task? A systematic review of the literature
Eline F. de Vries, Jeroen N. Struijs, Richard Heijink, Roy J. P. Hendrikx, Caroline A. Baan
Exploring factors that influence the spread and sustainability of a dysphagia innovation: an instrumental case study
Irene Ilott, Kate Gerrish, Sabrina A. Eltringham, Carolyn Taylor, Sue Pownall
Process evaluation for complex interventions in health services research: analysing context, text trajectories and disruptions
Jamie Murdoch
The convergence of Chinese county government health expenditures: capitation and contribution
Guoying Zhang, Luwen Zhang, Shaolong Wu, Xiaoqiong Xia, Liming Lu
Interventions for healthcare providers to improve treatment and prevention of female genital mutilation: a systematic review
Julie Balfour, Jasmine Abdulcadir, Lale Say, Michelle J. Hindin
Healthcare seeking practices and barriers to accessing under-five child health services in urban slums in Malawi: a qualitative study
Edgar Arnold Lungu, Regien Biesma, Maureen Chirwa, Catherine Darker
Individual-level needle and syringe coverage in Melbourne, Australia: a longitudinal, descriptive analysis
Daniel O’Keefe, Nick Scott, Campbell Aitken, Paul Dietze
The effect of prior healthcare employment on the wages of registered nurses
Byung-Kwang Yoo, Minchul Kim, Tzu-Chun Lin, Tomoko Sasaki, Debbie Ward, Joanne Spetz
“Perspectives on financing population-based health care towards Universal Health Coverage among employed individuals in Ghanzi district, Botswana: A qualitative study”
Barnabas Africanus Mbogo, Deborah McGill
Evaluating complex health financing interventions: using mixed methods to inform further implementation of a novel PBI intervention in rural Malawi
Shannon A. McMahon, Stephan Brenner, Julia Lohmann, Christopher Makwero, Aleksandra Torbica, Don P. Mathanga, Adamson S. Muula, Manuela De Allegri
Commonalities and differences in the implementation of models of care for arthritis: key informant interviews from Canada
Cheryl A. Cott, Aileen M. Davis, Elizabeth M. Badley, Rosalind Wong, Mayilee Canizares, Linda C. Li, Allyson Jones, Sydney Brooks, Vandana Ahlwalia, Gillian Hawker, Susan Jaglal, Michel Landry, Crystal MacKay, Dianne Mosher
The epidemiology of tuberculosis in health care workers in South Africa: a systematic review
Liesl Grobler, Shaheen Mehtar, Keertan Dheda, Shahieda Adams, Sanni Babatunde, Martie van der Walt, Muhammad Osman
Factors related to non-compliance to HPV vaccination in Roraima—Brazil: a region with a high incidence of cervical cancer
Cibelle Carneiro Farias, Dkaion Vilela Jesus, Hendel Santana Moraes, Ingrid Ferreira Buttenbender, Isabella Seixas Martins, Mayara Gabrielle Souto, Paulo Henrique Brasil Hass Gonçalves Filho, Randielly Mendonça Costa, Sarah de Oliveira Silva, Thais Suelen Israel Ferreira, Valéria Vieira da Silva Coutinho, Helvia Rochelle Tavora Minotto, Allex Jardim Fonseca
The economic evaluation of human papillomavirus vaccination strategies against cervical cancer in women in Lao PDR: a mathematical modelling approach
Phetsavanh Chanthavilay, Daniel Reinharz, Mayfong Mayxay, Keokedthong Phongsavan, Donald E. Marsden, Lynne Moore, Lisa J. White
Opening the black box of transfer systems in public sector health services in a Western state in India
Bhaskar Purohit, Tim Martineau, Kabir Sheikh
Comparison of patient perceptions of Telehealth-supported and specialist nursing interventions for early stage COPD: a qualitative study
Deborah A. Fitzsimmons, Jill Thompson, Claire L. Bentley, Gail A. Mountain
Improving access to medicines for non-communicable diseases in rural India: a mixed methods study protocol using quasi-experimental design
N. S. Prashanth, Maya Annie Elias, Manoj Kumar Pati, Praveenkumar Aivalli, C. M. Munegowda, Srinath Bhanuprakash, S. M. Sadhana, Bart Criel, Maryam Bigdeli, Narayanan Devadasan
Effects of China’s New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme on reducing medical impoverishment in rural Yanbian: An alternative approach
Mei Sun, Jay J. Shen, Chengyue Li, Christopher Cochran, Ying Wang, Fei Chen, Pingping Li, Jun Lu, Fengshui Chang, Xiaohong Li, Mo Hao
Access to timely formal dementia care in Europe: protocol of the Actifcare (ACcess to Timely Formal Care) study
Liselot Kerpershoek, Marjolein de Vugt, Claire Wolfs, Hannah Jelley, Martin Orrel, Bob Woods, Astrid Stephan, Anja Bieber, Gabriele Meyer, Knut Engedal, Geir Selbaek, Ron Handels, Anders Wimo, Louise Hopper, Kate Irving, Maria Marques, Manuel Gonçalves-Pereira, Elisa Portolani, Orazio Zanetti, Frans Verhey, Frans Verhey, Marjolein de Vugt, Claire Wolfs, Ron Handels, Liselot Kerpershoek, Gabriele Meyer, Astrid Stephan, Anja Bieber, Anja Broda, Gabriele Bartoszek, Bob Woods, Martin Orrell, Hannah Jelley, Anders Wimo, Anders Sköldunger, Britt-Marie Sjölund, Knut Engedal, Geir Selbaek, Mona Michelet, Janne Rosvik, Siren Eriksen, Kate Irving, Louise Hopper, Rachael Joyce, Manuel Gonçalves-Pereira, Maria J. Marques, M. Conceição Balsinha, Ana Machado, Orazio Zanetti, Elisa Portolani
Clinical action measures improve the reliability of feedback on quality of care in diabetes centres: a retrospective cohort study
Astrid Lavens, Kris Doggen, Chantal Mathieu, Frank Nobels, Evy Vandemeulebroucke, Michel Vandenbroucke, Ann Verhaegen, Viviane Van Casteren
The effect of increasing the supply of skilled health providers on pregnancy and birth outcomes: evidence from the midwives service scheme in Nigeria
Edward Okeke, Peter Glick, Amalavoyal Chari, Isa Sadeeq Abubakar, Emma Pitchforth, Josephine Exley, Usman Bashir, Kun Gu, Obinna Onwujekwe
The assessment and management of pain in patients with dementia in hospital settings: a multi-case exploratory study from a decision making perspective
Valentina Lichtner, Dawn Dowding, Nick Allcock, John Keady, Elizabeth L. Sampson, Michelle Briggs, Anne Corbett, Kirstin James, Reena Lasrado, Caroline Swarbrick, S. José Closs
Patient experiences and the association with organizational factors in general practice: results from the Norwegian part of the international, multi-centre, cross-sectional QUALICOPC study
Torunn Bjerve Eide, Jørund Straand, Hasse Melbye, Guri Rortveit, Irene Hetlevik, Elin Olaug Rosvold
How often is the office visit needed? Predicting total knee arthroplasty revision risk using pain/function scores
Charles D. Hightower, Lisa S. Hightower, Penny J. Tatman, Patrick M. Morgan, Terence Gioe, Jasvinder A. Singh
Claims for disease-modifying therapy by Alberta non-insured health benefits clients
Cheryl Barnabe, Bonnie Healy, Andrew Portolesi, Gilaad G. Kaplan, Brenda Hemmelgarn, Charles Weaselhead
Medication errors as malpractice-a qualitative content analysis of 585 medication errors by nurses in Sweden
Karin Sparring Björkstén, Monica Bergqvist, Eva Andersén-Karlsson, Lina Benson, Johanna Ulfvarson
Brief case management versus usual care for frequent users of emergency departments: the Coordinated Access to Care from Hospital Emergency Departments (CATCH-ED) randomized controlled trial
Vicky Stergiopoulos, Agnes Gozdzik, Jason Tan de Bibiana, Tim Guimond, Stephen W. Hwang, Donald A. Wasylenki, Molyn Leszcz
A mixed methods study to examine the influence of the neighborhood social context on adolescent health service utilization
Kristin Mmari, Beth Marshall, Trevor Hsu, Ji Won Shon, Amenze Eguavoen
Associations between the patient-centered medical home and preventive care and healthcare quality for non-elderly adults with mental illness: A surveillance study analysis
Jennifer J. Bowdoin, Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio, Elaine Puleo, David Keller, Joan Roche
The CHAP-EMS health promotion program: a qualitative study on participants’ views of the role of paramedics
Madison Brydges, Margaret Denton, Gina Agarwal
Elderly hospitalization and the New-type Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) in China: multi-stage cross-sectional surveys of Jiangxi province
Bingbing Pan, Zhaokang Yuan, Jiaojiao Zou, Daniel M. Cook, Wei Yang
Does capitation payment under national health insurance affect subscribers’ trust in their primary care provider? a cross-sectional survey of insurance subscribers in Ghana
Francis-Xavier Andoh-Adjei, Dennis Cornelissen, Felix Ankomah Asante, Ernst Spaan, Koos van der Velden
Medical encounters for opioid-related intoxications in Southern Nevada: sociodemographic and clinical correlates
Jing Feng, Joseph P. Iser, Wei Yang
Qualitative study on the implementation of professional pharmacy services in Australian community pharmacies using framework analysis
Joanna C. Moullin, Daniel Sabater-Hernández, Shalom I. Benrimoj
Convergent validity of the interRAI-HC for societal costs estimates in comparison with the RUD Lite instrument in community dwelling older adults
Lisanne I. van Lier, Henriëtte G. van der Roest, Hein P. J. van Hout, Liza van Eenoo, Anja Declercq, Vjenka Garms-Homolová, Graziano Onder, Harriet Finne-Soveri, Pálmi V. Jónsson, Cees M. P. M. Hertogh, Judith. E. Bosmans
Working relationships between obstetric care staff and their managers: a critical incident analysis
Effie Chipeta, Susan Bradley, Wanangwa Chimwaza-Manda, Eilish McAuliffe
Social media use in healthcare: A systematic review of effects on patients and on their relationship with healthcare professionals
Edin Smailhodzic, Wyanda Hooijsma, Albert Boonstra, David J. Langley
Budget impact of secondary hyperparathyroidism treatment in chronic kidney disease in an Ecuadorian social security hospital
Luis Manjarres, Pilar Sanchez, María C. Cabezas, Marco Fornasini, Valeria Freire, Adelin Albert
Erratum to: 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
Erratum to: Development of a nurse home visitation intervention for intimate partner violence
Susan M. Jack, Marilyn Ford-Gilboe, C. Nadine Wathen, Danielle M. Davidov, Diane B. McNaughton, Jeffrey H. Coben, David L. Olds, Harriet L. MacMillan
Psychometric properties of the Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture in Norwegian nursing homes
Kathrine Cappelen, Karina Aase, Marianne Storm, Jørn Hetland, Anette Harris
Indirect effects of contextual factors on patients’ consultations with healthcare professionals about health information found online
Younsook Yeo
A qualitative study of community pharmacists’ opinions on the provision of osteoporosis disease state management services in Malaysia
Jah Nik, Pauline Siew Mei Lai, Chirk Jenn Ng, Lynne Emmerton
Hospital discharge communications during care transitions for patients with acute kidney injury: a cross-sectional study
Raquel C. Greer, Yang Liu, Deidra C. Crews, Bernard G. Jaar, Hamid Rabb, L. Ebony Boulware
The impact of health literacy, patient-centered communication and shared decision-making on patients’ satisfaction with care received in German primary care practices
Sibel Vildan Altin, Stephanie Stock
Gender-based generalisations in school nurses’ appraisals of and interventions addressing students’ mental health
Per-Åke Rosvall, Stefan Nilsson
Strengthening patient safety in transitions of care: an emerging role for local medical centres in Norway
Trond Kongsvik, Kristin Halvorsen, Tonje Osmundsen, Gudveig Gjøsund
An exploratory study on equity in funding allocation for essential medicines and health supplies in Uganda’s public sector
Donna Kusemererwa, Anita Alban, Ocwa Thomas Obua, Birna Trap
Pragmatic cluster randomised trial of a free telephone-based health coaching program to support women in managing weight gain during pregnancy: the Get Healthy in Pregnancy Trial
Vanessa Clements, Kit Leung, Santosh Khanal, Jane Raymond, Michelle Maxwell, Chris Rissel
Central intake to improve access to physiotherapy for children with complex needs: a mixed methods case report
Kristy D. M. Wittmeier, Gayle Restall, Kathy Mulder, Brenden Dufault, Marie Paterson, Matthew Thiessen, Lisa M. Lix
Effectiveness of multidisciplinary intervention on blood pressure control in primary health care: a randomized clinical trial
Regina Kuhmmer, Rosmeri Kuhmmer Lazzaretti, Cátia Moreira Guterres, Fabiana Viegas Raimundo, Leni Everson Araújo Leite, Tássia Scholante Delabary, Suhelen Caon, Gisele Alsina Nader Bastos, Carisi Anne Polanczyk
The economic burden of chronic non-communicable diseases in rural Malawi: an observational study
Qun Wang, Stephan Brenner, Olivier Kalmus, Hastings Thomas Banda, Manuela De Allegri
Use of safety-engineered devices by healthcare workers for intravenous and/or phlebotomy procedures in healthcare settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Rami A. Ballout, Batoul Diab, Alain C. Harb, Rami Tarabay, Selma Khamassi, Elie A. Akl
Interprofessional collaborative care characteristics and the occurrence of bedside interprofessional rounds: a cross-sectional analysis
Jed D. Gonzalo, Judy Himes, Brian McGillen, Vicki Shifflet, Erik Lehman
“Where to find those doctors?” A qualitative study on barriers and facilitators in access to and utilization of health care services by Polish migrants in Norway
Elżbieta Anna Czapka, Mette Sagbakken
A time-use study of community health worker service activities in three rural districts of Tanzania (Rufiji, Ulanga and Kilombero)
Kassimu Tani, Allison Stone, Amon Exavery, Mustafa Njozi, Colin D. Baynes, James F. Phillips, Almamy Malick Kanté
Health workers’ perspectives, knowledge and skills regarding community case management of childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia: a qualitative inquiry for an implementation research project “Nigraan” in District Badin, Sindh, Pakistan
Fauziah Rabbani, Shagufta Perveen, Wafa Aftab, Aysha Zahidie, Kashif Sangrasi, Shamim Ahmad Qazi
Determinants of aggregate length of hospital stay in the last year of life in Switzerland
Damian Hedinger, Julia Braun, Vladimir Kaplan, Matthias Bopp
Contextualizing learning to improve care using collaborative communities of practices
Lianne Jeffs, Julie McShane, Virginia Flintoft, Peggy White, Alyssa Indar, Maria Maione, A. J. Lopez, Sue Bookey-Bassett, Lauren Scavuzzo
Impact of interprofessional education about psychological and medical comorbidities on practitioners’ knowledge and collaborative practice: mixed method evaluation of a national program
Christine B. Phillips, Sally Hall, Michelle Irving
Continuity of clinical management and information across care levels: perceptions of users of different healthcare areas in the Catalan national health system
Sina Waibel, Ingrid Vargas, Marta-Beatriz Aller, Jordi Coderch, Joan Farré, M. Luisa Vázquez
Access and utilization of healthcare services in Massachusetts, United States: a qualitative study of the perspectives and experiences of Brazilian-born immigrant women
Ana C. Lindsay, Mariana Gonçalves de Oliveira, Sherrie F. Wallington, Mary L. Greaney, Marcia Maria Tavares Machado, Lorita M. Freitag Pagliuca, Carlos Andre Moura Arruda
“They make money off of us”: a phenomenological analysis of consumer perceptions of corruption in Kenya’s HIV response system
Njeri Kagotho, Alicia Bunger, Kristen Wagner
Experiences of general practitioners, home care nurses, physiotherapists and seniors involved in a multidisciplinary home-based fall prevention programme: a mixed method study
Astrid E. Amacher, Irina Nast, Barbara Zindel, Lukas Schmid, Valérie Krafft, Karin Niedermann
Developing, delivering and evaluating primary mental health care: the co-production of a new complex intervention
Joanne Reeve, Lucy Cooper, Sean Harrington, Peter Rosbottom, Jane Watkins
Advocacy for outpatient cardiac rehabilitation globally
Abraham Samuel Babu, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, Randal J. Thomas, Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai, Artur Haddad Herdy, Jeffrey S. Hoch, Sherry L. Grace
A survey of health care needs of physicians
Khalid Benkhadra, Jayanth Adusumalli, Tamim Rajjo, Philp T. Hagen, Zhen Wang, M. Hassan Murad
Risk-adjustment models for heart failure patients’ 30-day mortality and readmission rates: the incremental value of clinical data abstracted from medical charts beyond hospital discharge record
Jacopo Lenzi, Vera Maria Avaldi, Tina Hernandez-Boussard, Carlo Descovich, Ilaria Castaldini, Stefano Urbinati, Giuseppe Di Pasquale, Paola Rucci, Maria Pia Fantini
Quality assessments for cancer centers in the European Union
Anke Wind, Abinaya Rajan, Wim H. van Harten
The impact of web-based and face-to-face simulation on patient deterioration and patient safety: protocol for a multi-site multi-method design
Simon J. Cooper, Leigh Kinsman, Catherine Chung, Robyn Cant, Jayne Boyle, Loretta Bull, Amanda Cameron, Cliff Connell, Jeong-Ah Kim, Denise McInnes, Angela McKay, Katrina Nankervis, Erika Penz, Thomas Rotter
Relationship between’ patient’s rights charter’ and patients’ satisfaction in gynecological hospitals
Fereshteh Farzianpour, Abbas Rahimi Foroushani, Niusha Shahidi Sadeghi, Saeede Ansari Nosrati
Informing a Canadian paramedic profile: framing concepts, roles and crosscutting themes
Walter Tavares, Ron Bowles, Becky Donelon
Charting health system reconstruction in post-war Liberia: a comparison of rural vs. remote healthcare utilization
Katherine Kentoffio, John D. Kraemer, Thomas Griffiths, Avi Kenny, Rajesh Panjabi, G. Andrew Sechler, Stephen Selinsky, Mark J. Siedner
Implementation of a Transfer Intervention Procedure (TIP) to improve handovers from hospital to home: interrupted time series analysis
Rosanne van Seben, Suzanne E. Geerlings, Kim J. M. Verhaegh, Carina G. J. M. Hilders, Bianca M. Buurman
“Walking in a maze”: community providers’ difficulties coordinating health care for homeless patients
Terri LaCoursiere Zucchero, Sarah McDannold, D. Keith McInnes
Financial protection of rural health insurance for patients with hypertension and diabetes: repeated cross-sectional surveys in rural China
Xiaoyun Liu, Xiaojie Sun, Yang Zhao, Qingyue Meng
Frequency and clinical relevance of potential cytochrome P450 drug interactions in a psychiatric patient population – an analysis based on German insurance claims data
Julia K. Ostermann, Anne Berghöfer, Frank Andersohn, Felix Fischer
Quality of care for remote orthopaedic consultations using telemedicine: a randomised controlled trial
Astrid Buvik, Einar Bugge, Gunnar Knutsen, Arvid Småbrekke, Tom Wilsgaard
End of life hospitalisations differ for older Australian women according to death trajectory: a longitudinal data linkage study
Melissa L. Harris, Xenia Dolja-Gore, Hal Kendig, Julie E. Byles
A pilot study among older adults of the concordance between their self-reports to a health survey and spousal proxy reports on their behalf
Fredric D. Wolinsky, Lioness Ayres, Michael P. Jones, Yiyue Lou, George L. Wehby, Fred A. Ullrich
Stigmatized by association: challenges for abortion service providers in Ghana
Patience Aniteye, Beverley O’Brien, Susannah H. Mayhew
Analysis of the impact of different service levels on the workload of an ambulance service provider
Marco Oberscheider, Patrick Hirsch
Ready, set, go: a cross-sectional survey to understand priorities and preferences for multiple health behaviour change in a highly disadvantaged group
Natasha Noble, Christine Paul, Robert Sanson-Fisher, Heidi Turon, Nicole Turner, Katherine Conigrave
“It’s a complex mesh”- how large-scale health system reorganisation affected the delivery of the immunisation programme in England: a qualitative study
Tracey Chantler, Saumu Lwembe, Vanessa Saliba, Thara Raj, Nicholas Mays, Mary Ramsay, Sandra Mounier-Jack
Understanding the implementation and effectiveness of a group-based early parenting intervention: a process evaluation protocol
Grainne Hickey, Sinead McGilloway, Mairead Furlong, Yvonne Leckey, Tracey Bywater, Michael Donnelly
Design and validation of a questionnaire to assess organizational culture in French hospital wards
F. Saillour-Glénisson, S. Domecq, M. Kret, M. Sibe, J. P. Dumond, P. Michel
Recommendations from primary care providers for integrating mental health in a primary care system in rural Nepal
Bibhav Acharya, Jasmine Tenpa, Poshan Thapa, Bikash Gauchan, David Citrin, Maria Ekstrand
A qualitative analysis of interprofessional healthcare team members’ perceptions of patient barriers to healthcare engagement
Rhea E. Powell, Amanda Doty, Robin J. Casten, Barry W. Rovner, Kristin L. Rising
Utilization of integrated HIV and sexual and reproductive health services among women in Uganda
Gideon Rutaremwa, Allen Kabagenyi
Patient safety culture and associated factors: A quantitative and qualitative study of healthcare workers’ view in Jimma zone Hospitals, Southwest Ethiopia
Sintayehu Daba Wami, Amsalu Feleke Demssie, Molla Mesele Wassie, Ansha Nega Ahmed
Adoption of routine telemedicine in Norwegian hospitals: progress over 5 years
Paolo Zanaboni, Richard Wootton
Measuring safety climate in acute hospitals: Rasch analysis of the safety attitudes questionnaire
Sze-Ee Soh, Anna Barker, Renata Morello, Megan Dalton, Caroline Brand
Help-seeking for mental health problems by employees in the Australian Mining Industry
Ross J. Tynan, Robyn Considine, Jane L. Rich, Jaelea Skehan, John Wiggers, Terry J. Lewin, Carole James, Kerry Inder, Amanda L. Baker, Frances Kay-Lambkin, David Perkins, Brian J. Kelly
Giving formulary and drug cost information to providers and impact on medication cost and use: a longitudinal non-randomized study
Chien-Wen Tseng, Grace A. Lin, James Davis, Deborah A. Taira, Jinoos Yazdany, Qimei He, Randi Chen, Allison Imamura, R. Adams Dudley
Is “disease management” the answer to our problems? No! Population health management and (disease) prevention require “management of overall well-being”
Jane Murray Cramm, Anna Petra Nieboer
Current and projected burden of heart failure in the Australian adult population: a substantive but still ill-defined major health issue
Yih-Kai Chan, Camilla Tuttle, Jocasta Ball, Tiew-Hwa Katherine Teng, Yasmin Ahamed, Melinda Jane Carrington, Simon Stewart
Social support plays a role in the attitude that people have towards taking an active role in medical decision-making
Anne E. M. Brabers, Judith D. de Jong, Peter P. Groenewegen, Liset van Dijk
Effects of public and private health insurance on medical service utilization in the National Health Insurance System: National panel study in the Republic of Korea
Minsung Sohn, Minsoo Jung
The “Universal” in UHC and Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme: policy and implementation challenges and dilemmas of a lower middle income country
Irene Akua Agyepong, Daniel Nana Yaw Abankwah, Angela Abroso, ChangBae Chun, Joseph Nii Otoe Dodoo, Shinye Lee, Sylvester A. Mensah, Mariam Musah, Adwoa Twum, Juwhan Oh, Jinha Park, DoogHoon Yang, Kijong Yoon, Nathaniel Otoo, Francis Asenso-Boadi
Public health facility resource availability and provider adherence to first antenatal guidelines in a low resource setting in Accra, Ghana
Mary Amoakoh-Coleman, Irene Akua Agyepong, Gbenga A. Kayode, Diederick E. Grobbee, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Evelyn K. Ansah
Pre-contact by telephone increases response rates to postal questionnaires in a population of stroke patients: an open ended randomized controlled trial
Mathias Barra, Tone Breines Simonsen, Fredrik Andreas Dahl
A systematic review of the quality of studies on dementia prevalence in Italy
Gianluca Bruti, Elisabetta Cavallucci, Michele Mancini, Alessandro Bitossi, Marzia Baldereschi, Sandro Sorbi
Measuring health literacy in community agencies: a Bayesian study of the factor structure and measurement invariance of the health literacy questionnaire (HLQ)
Gerald R. Elsworth, Alison Beauchamp, Richard H. Osborne
Validity of a stroke severity index for administrative claims data research: a retrospective cohort study
Sheng-Feng Sung, Cheng-Yang Hsieh, Huey-Juan Lin, Yu-Wei Chen, Chih-Hung Chen, Yea-Huei Kao Yang, Ya-Han Hu
Comparing healthcare utilization among health survey respondents with the total population – are respondents representative?
Janne Agerholm, Daniel Bruce, Bo Burström
Incidences and variations of hospital acquired venous thromboembolism in Australian hospitals: a population-based study
Hassan Assareh, Jack Chen, Lixin Ou, Ken Hillman, Arthas Flabouris
Performance of EQ-5D, howRu and Oxford hip & knee scores in assessing the outcome of hip and knee replacements
Tim Benson, Dan H Williams, Henry W W Potts
Short time effect of a self-referral to inpatient treatment for patients with severe mental disorders: a randomized controlled trial
Inger Elise Opheim Moljord, Kristel Antine Helland-Hansen, Øyvind Salvesen, Turid Møller Olsø, Camilla Buch Gudde, Marit By Rise, Aslak Steinsbekk, Lasse Eriksen
Meaningful conversations in living with and treating chronic conditions: development of the ICAN discussion aid
Kasey R. Boehmer, Ian G. Hargraves, Summer V. Allen, Marc R. Matthews, Christina Maher, Victor M. Montori
Pharmacy use by dual-eligible non-elderly veterans with private healthcare insurance
Brian C. Lund, Mary E. Charlton, Alan N. West
Computer-assisted client assessment survey for mental health: patient and health provider perspectives
Manuela Ferrari, Farah Ahmad, Yogendra Shakya, Cliff Ledwos, Kwame McKenzie
The role of middle managers in tobacco control after a national smoke-free hospital campus ban
Cristina Martínez, Montse Ballbè, Miquel Vilardell, Marcela Fu, Esteve Fernández
Palliative care in Dutch hospitals: a rapid increase in the number of expert teams, a limited number of referrals
A. Brinkman-Stoppelenburg, M. Boddaert, J. Douma, A. van der Heide
Breast cancer screening attendance in two Swiss regions dominated by opportunistic or organized screening
Monika Eichholzer, Aline Richard, Sabine Rohrmann, Seraina M. Schmid, Cornelia Leo, Dorothy J. Huang, Uwe Güth
Economic evaluation of trimetazidine in the management of chronic stable angina in Greece
Georgia Kourlaba, George Gourzoulidis, George Andrikopoulos, Konstantinos Tsioufis, Alexandra Beletsi, Nikos Maniadakis
The cost-effectiveness of hospital-based telephone coaching for people with type 2 diabetes: a 10 year modelling analysis
J. E. Varney, D. Liew, T. J. Weiland, W. J. Inder, G. A. Jelinek
Mandating influenza vaccinations for health care workers: analysing opportunities for policy change using Kingdon’s agenda setting framework
Angela Jackson-Lee, Neil G. Barr, Glen E. Randall
The acceptability and feasibility of using the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) to inform practice in care homes
Ann-Marie Towers, Nick Smith, Sinead Palmer, Elizabeth Welch, Ann Netten
Intervention for Diabetes with Education, Advancement and Support (IDEAS) study: protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial
Jun Yang Lee, Carina Ka Yee Chan, Siew Siang Chua, Chirk Jenn Ng, Thomas Paraidathathu, Kenneth Kwing-Chin Lee, Shaun Wen Huey Lee
A qualitative synthesis of the positive and negative impacts related to delivery of peer-based health interventions in prison settings
Jane South, James Woodall, Karina Kinsella, Anne-Marie Bagnall
Integrating informal providers into a people-centered health systems approach: qualitative evidence from local health systems in rural Nigeria
Maia Sieverding, Naomi Beyeler
Evaluation of medicine retail outlets for sale of typhoid fever vaccine among adults in two urban and rural settings in western Kenya: a proof-of-concept study
Julius Ho, Gladys Odhiambo, Lucy W. Meng’anyi, Rosemary M. Musuva, Joseph M. Mule, Zakayo S. Alaly, Maurice R. Odiere, Pauline N. Mwinzi, Lisa Ganley-Leal
Mortality and treatment costs of hospitalized chronic kidney disease patients between the three major health insurance schemes in Thailand
Sirirat Anutrakulchai, Pisaln Mairiang, Cholatip Pongskul, Kaewjai Thepsuthammarat, Chitranon Chan-on, Bandit Thinkhamrop
Measuring time utilization of pharmacists in the Birmingham Free Clinic dispensary
Arielle M. Fisher, Michael Q. Ding, Harry Hochheiser, Gerald P. Douglas
A modelling tool for capacity planning in acute and community stroke services
Thomas Monks, David Worthington, Michael Allen, Martin Pitt, Ken Stein, Martin A. James
Development and validation of a survey to measure features of clinical networks
Bernadette Bea Brown, Mary Haines, Sandy Middleton, Christine Paul, Catherine D’Este, Emily Klineberg, Elizabeth Elliott
Perceptions of health managers and professionals about mental health and primary care integration in Rio de Janeiro: a mixed methods study
Karen Athié, Alice Lopes do Amaral Menezes, Angela Machado da Silva, Monica Campos, Pedro Gabriel Delgado, Sandra Fortes, Christopher Dowrick
Awareness and implementation of nine World Health Organization’s patient safety solutions among three groups of healthcare workers in Oman
Ahmed Al-Mandhari, Ibrahim Al-Zakwani, Samir Al-Adawi, Samra Al-Barwani, Lakshmanan Jeyaseelan
Mechanisms of action of an implementation intervention in stroke rehabilitation: a qualitative interview study
Louise A. Connell, Naoimh E. McMahon, Sarah F. Tyson, Caroline L. Watkins, Janice J. Eng
“I go I die, I stay I die, better to stay and die in my house”: understanding the barriers to accessing health care in Timor-Leste
Jennifer A. Price, Ana I. F. Sousa Soares, Augustine D. Asante, Joao S. Martins, Kate Williams, Virginia L. Wiseman
The influence of power and actor relations on priority setting and resource allocation practices at the hospital level in Kenya: a case study
Edwine W. Barasa, Susan Cleary, Mike English, Sassy Molyneux
Identifying neuropsychiatric disorders in the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey: the benefits of combining health survey and claims data
Sophia Miryam Schüssler-Fiorenza Rose, Dawei Xie, Joel E. Streim, Qiang Pan, Pui L. Kwong, Margaret G. Stineman
Using a complex adaptive system lens to understand family caregiving experiences navigating the stroke rehabilitation system
Andrea Ghazzawi, Craig Kuziemsky, Tracey O’Sullivan
International changes in end-of-life practices over time: a systematic review
Yi-Sheng Chao, Antoine Boivin, Isabelle Marcoux, Geneviève Garnon, Nicholas Mays, Pascale Lehoux, Marie-Claude Prémont, Evert van Leeuwen, Raynald Pineault, Jeff Blackmer, Marie-Dominique Beaulieu, Bill Sullivan, Pierre Deschamps, Bernard Grenier, Ann Soden, Robert Delorme, Jean Rodrigue, Jeanine Auger, Louis Dufresne, Justine Farley, Danielle Drouin, Ghislaine de Langavant
Quality of diabetes care and health insurance coverage: a retrospective study in an outpatient academic public hospital in Switzerland
Yves Jackson, Juan Carlos Lozano Becerra, Marc Carpentier
Economic evaluation of treatments for patients with localized prostate cancer in Europe: a systematic review
Virginia Becerra, Mónica Ávila, Jorge Jimenez, Laura Cortes-Sanabria, Yolanda Pardo, Olatz Garin, Angels Pont, Jordi Alonso, Francesc Cots, Montse Ferrer
The impact of reimbursement systems on equity in access and quality of primary care: A systematic literature review
Wenjing Tao, Janne Agerholm, Bo Burström
A scoping review of Australian allied health research in ehealth
Teresa Iacono, Kellie Stagg, Natalie Pearce, Alana Hulme Chambers
Enhancing health care equity with Indigenous populations: evidence-based strategies from an ethnographic study
Annette J. Browne, Colleen Varcoe, Josée Lavoie, Victoria Smye, Sabrina T. Wong, Murry Krause, David Tu, Olive Godwin, Koushambhi Khan, Alycia Fridkin
Design of an orthopaedic-specific discharge summary
Christine Soong, Bochra Kurabi, Kathleen Exconde, Faiqa Tajammal, Chaim M. Bell
Circle of care modelling: an approach to assist in reasoning about healthcare change using a patient-centric system
Morgan Price
User involvement and experiential knowledge in interprofessional rehabilitation: a grounded theory study
Mirela Slomic, Bjørg Christiansen, Helene L. Soberg, Unni Sveen
Why hospital physicians attend work while ill? The spiralling effect of positive and negative factors
Fay Giæver, Signe Lohmann-Lafrenz, Lise Tevik Løvseth
Use of email, cell phone and text message between patients and primary-care physicians: cross-sectional study in a French-speaking part of Switzerland
Jonathan Dash, Dagmar M. Haller, Johanna Sommer, Noelle Junod Perron
Testing the construct validity of hospital care quality indicators: a case study on hip replacement
Claudia Fischer, Hester F. Lingsma, Helen A. Anema, Job Kievit, Ewout W. Steyerberg, Niek Klazinga
The organisation of physiotherapy for people with multiple sclerosis across Europe: a multicentre questionnaire survey
Kamila Rasova, Jenny Freeman, Patricia Martinkova, Marketa Pavlikova, Davide Cattaneo, Johanna Jonsdottir, Thomas Henze, Ilse Baert, Paul Van Asch, Carme Santoyo, Tori Smedal, Antonie Giæver Beiske, Małgorzata Stachowiak, Mariusz Kovalewski, Una Nedeljkovic, Daphne Bakalidou, José Manuel Alves Guerreiro, Ylva Nilsagård, Erieta Nikolikj Dimitrova, Mario Habek, Kadriye Armutlu, Cécile Donzé, Elaine Ross, Ana Maria Ilie, Andrej Martić, Anders Romberg, Peter Feys
Keys to successful implementation of a French national quality indicator in health care organizations: a qualitative study
Mathias Waelli, Marie-Léandre Gomez, Claude Sicotte, Adrian Zicari, Jean-Yves Bonnefond, Philippe Lorino, Etienne Minvielle
Development of a video-based education and process change intervention to improve advance cardiopulmonary resuscitation decision-making
Nicholas Waldron, Claire E. Johnson, Peter Saul, Heidi Waldron, Jeffrey C. Chong, Anne-Marie Hill, Barbara Hayes
Drug prescribing patterns at primary health care level and related out-of-pocket expenditures in Tajikistan
Morgane Donadel, Gulzira Karimova, Ruslan Nabiev, Kaspar Wyss
A knowledge translation intervention to enhance clinical application of a virtual reality system in stroke rehabilitation
Danielle Levac, Stephanie M. N. Glegg, Heidi Sveistrup, Heather Colquhoun, Patricia A. Miller, Hillel Finestone, Vincent DePaul, Jocelyn E. Harris, Diana Velikonja
Achieving universal health coverage in South Africa through a district health system approach: conflicting ideologies of health care provision
Adam Fusheini, John Eyles
Estimating the costs for the treatment of abortion complications in two public referral hospitals: a cross-sectional study in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Patrick G. C. Ilboudo, Giulia Greco, Johanne Sundby, Gaute Torsvik
Improvement in delivery of type 2 diabetes services differs by mode of care: a retrospective longitudinal analysis in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care setting
Gill Schierhout, Veronica Matthews, Christine Connors, Sandra Thompson, Ru Kwedza, Catherine Kennedy, Ross Bailie
The promise and the reality: a mental health workforce perspective on technology-enhanced youth mental health service delivery
Simone Orlowski, Sharon Lawn, Ben Matthews, Anthony Venning, Kaisha Wyld, Gabrielle Jones, Megan Winsall, Gaston Antezana, Geoffrey Schrader, Niranjan Bidargaddi
Cost-effectiveness analysis of microscopic observation drug susceptibility test versus Xpert MTB/Rif test for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV patients in Uganda
Simon Walusimbi, Brendan Kwesiga, Rashmi Rodrigues, Melles Haile, Ayesha de Costa, Lennart Bogg, Achilles Katamba
Roles of disease severity and post-discharge outpatient visits as predictors of hospital readmissions
Hao Wang, Carol Johnson, Richard D. Robinson, Vicki A. Nejtek, Chet D. Schrader, JoAnna Leuck, Johnbosco Umejiego, Allison Trop, Kathleen A. Delaney, Nestor R. Zenarosa
Measuring care trajectories using health administrative databases: a population-based investigation of transitions from emergency to acute care
John Paul Kuwornu, Lisa M. Lix, Jacqueline M. Quail, Xiaoyun Eric Wang, Meric Osman, Gary F. Teare
Health worker perspectives on the possible use of intramuscular artesunate for the treatment of severe malaria at lower-level health facilities in settings with poor access to referral facilities in Nigeria: a qualitative study
Olatunde Adesoro, Constance Shumba, John Kpamor, Jane Achan, Harriet Kivumbi, John Dada, Kolawole Maxwell, James Tibenderana, Madeline Marasciulo, Prudence Hamade, Olusola Oresanya, Joanita Nankabirwa, Ebenezer Baba
Perceived discrimination and health outcomes among Asian Indians in the United States
Ranjita Misra, Haslyn Hunte
Public accountability needs to be enforced –a case study of the governance arrangements and accountability practices in a rural health district in Ghana
Sara Van Belle, Susannah H. Mayhew
From personal crisis care to convenience shopping: an interpretive description of the experiences of people with mental illness and addictions in community pharmacies
Andrea L. Murphy, Ruth Martin-Misener, Stan P. Kutcher, Claire L. O’Reilly, Timothy F. Chen, David M. Gardner
Patient activation in Europe: an international comparison of psychometric properties and patients’ scores on the short form Patient Activation Measure (PAM-13)
Jany Rademakers, Helle Terkildsen Maindal, Aslak Steinsbekk, Jochen Gensichen, Katja Brenk-Franz, Michelle Hendriks
Coordination of care in the Chinese health care systems: a gap analysis of service delivery from a provider perspective
Xin Wang, Stephen Birch, Weiming Zhu, Huifen Ma, Mark Embrett, Qingyue Meng
Self-perception of leadership styles and behaviour in primary health care
Glòria Jodar i Solà, Joan Gené i Badia, Pilar Delgado Hito, M. Antonia Campo Osaba, Jose Luís Del Val García
Key-interventions derived from three evidence based guidelines for management and follow-up of patients with HFE haemochromatosis
Annick Vanclooster, Hub Wollersheim, Kris Vanhaecht, Dorine Swinkels, Bert Aertgeerts, David Cassiman, Rene Westhovens, Johan Van Cleemput, Vincent Maertens, Hans Van Vlierberghe, Rudy Harlet, Patrick Verschueren, Walter Droogne, Koen Theunissen, Neree Claes, Hannelore Van Droogenbroek, Patrik Vankrunkelsven, Chantal Mathieu, Sabien Severi, Ilse Scherens, Sandra Rottiers
Are performance indicators used for hospital quality management: a qualitative interview study amongst health professionals and quality managers in The Netherlands
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Experiences and lessons learned from 29 HPV vaccination programs implemented in 19 low and middle-income countries, 2009-2014
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Technical efficiency of women’s health prevention programs in Bucaramanga, Colombia: a four-stage analysis
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Individual and organizational predictors of health care aide job satisfaction in long term care
Stephanie A. Chamberlain, Matthias Hoben, Janet E. Squires, Carole A. Estabrooks
Embedding systematic quality assessments in supportive supervision at primary healthcare level: application of an electronic Tool to Improve Quality of Healthcare in Tanzania
Dominick Mboya, Christopher Mshana, Flora Kessy, Sandra Alba, Christian Lengeler, Sabine Renggli, Bart Vander Plaetse, Mohamed A. Mohamed, Alexander Schulze
Efficacy of high dose Vitamin D supplementation in improving serum 25(OH)D among migrant and non migrant population: a retrospective study
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The choice and preference for public-private health care among urban residents in China: evidence from a discrete choice experiment
Chengxiang Tang, Judy Xu, Meng Zhang
Comparison of survival in adult antiretroviral treatment naïve patients treated in primary health care centers versus those treated in hospitals: retrospective cohort study; Oromia region, Ethiopia
Abebe Megerso, Sileshi Garoma
Patient activation in older people with long-term conditions and multimorbidity: correlates and change in a cohort study in the United Kingdom
Amy Blakemore, Mark Hann, Kelly Howells, Maria Panagioti, Mark Sidaway, David Reeves, Peter Bower
Leveraging quality improvement through use of the Systems Assessment Tool in Indigenous primary health care services: a mixed methods study
Frances C. Cunningham, Sue Ferguson-Hill, Veronica Matthews, Ross Bailie
Accounting for variations in ART program sustainability outcomes in health facilities in Uganda: a comparative case study analysis
Henry Zakumumpa, Sara Bennett, Freddie Ssengooba
Geographic variation in access among adults with kidney disease: evidence from medical expenditure panel survey, 2002–2011
Mukoso N. Ozieh, Kinfe G. Bishu, Rebekah J. Walker, Jennifer A. Campbell, Leonard E. Egede
Implementation of the Quebec mental health reform (2005–2015)
Marie-Josée Fleury, Guy Grenier, Catherine Vallée, Denise Aubé, Lambert Farand, Jean-Marie Bamvita, Geneviève Cyr
Accessibility of general practitioners and selected specialist physicians by car and by public transport in a rural region of Germany
Ulrike Stentzel, Jens Piegsa, Daniel Fredrich, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Neeltje van den Berg
Does lean muddy the quality improvement waters? A qualitative study of how a hospital management team understands lean in the context of quality improvement
Carl Savage, Louise Parke, Mia von Knorring, Pamela Mazzocato
Randomised trials comparing different healthcare settings: an exploratory review of the impact of pre-trial preferences on participation, and discussion of other methodological challenges
Mark S. Corbett, Judith Watson, Alison Eastwood
Costs of a school-based dental mobile service in South Africa
M. P. Molete, L. Chola, K. J. Hofman
Embedding new technologies in practice – a normalization process theory study of point of care testing
Caroline H. D. Jones, Margaret Glogowska, Louise Locock, Daniel S. Lasserson
The impact of predisposing, enabling, and need factors in utilization of health services among rural residents in Guangxi, China
Yan-Ning Li, Dong-xiao Nong, Bo Wei, Qi-Ming Feng, Hong-ye Luo
Effect of the new rural cooperative medical system on farmers’ medical service needs and utilization in Ningbo, China
Jianhua Chen, Hai Yu, Hengjin Dong
Individual predictors of frequent emergency department use: a scoping review
Cynthia Krieg, Catherine Hudon, Maud-Christine Chouinard, Isabelle Dufour
The impact of user fees on health services utilization and infectious disease diagnoses in Neno District, Malawi: a longitudinal, quasi-experimental study
S. I. Watson, E. B. Wroe, E. L. Dunbar, J. Mukherjee, S. B. Squire, L. Nazimera, L. Dullie, R. J. Lilford
Health system’s barriers hindering implementation of public-private partnership at the district level: a case study of partnership for improved reproductive and child health services provision in Tanzania
Denice Kamugumya, Jill Olivier
Bypassing birthing centres for child birth: a community-based study in rural Chitwan Nepal
Rajani Shah
Adding non-randomised studies to a Cochrane review brings complementary information for healthcare stakeholders: an augmented systematic review and meta-analysis
Chantal Arditi, Bernard Burnand, Isabelle Peytremann-Bridevaux
Improving prevention and care for HIV and sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men in Cambodia: the sustainable action against HIV and AIDS in communities (SAHACOM)
Siyan Yi, Sovannary Tuot, Pheak Chhoun, Khuondyla Pal, Chanrith Ngin, Sok Chamreun Choub, Carinne Brody
Maternal and child health voucher scheme in Myanmar: a review of early stage implementation
Songyot Pilasant, Wantanee Kulpeng, Pitsaphun Werayingyong, Nattha Tritasavit, Inthira Yamabhai, Yot Teerawattananon, Sangay Wangmo, Sripen Tantivess
Building the capacity of policy-makers and planners to strengthen mental health systems in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
Roxanne Keynejad, Maya Semrau, Mark Toynbee, Sara Evans-Lacko, Crick Lund, Oye Gureje, Sheila Ndyanabangi, Emilie Courtin, Jibril O. Abdulmalik, Atalay Alem, Abebaw Fekadu, Graham Thornicroft, Charlotte Hanlon
Effects of financial support on treatment of adolescents with growth hormone deficiency: a retrospective study in Japan
Eri Maeda, Takahiro Higashi, Tomonobu Hasegawa, Susumu Yokoya, Takahiro Mochizuki, Tomohiro Ishii, Junko Ito, Susumu Kanzaki, Akira Shimatsu, Koji Takano, Toshihiro Tajima, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yusuke Tanahashi, Akira Teramoto, Toshiro Nagai, Kunihiko Hanew, Reiko Horikawa, Toru Yorifuji, Naohiro Wada, Toshiaki Tanaka
Informal care and gifts to and from older people in Europe: The interlinks between giving and receiving
Florian Tomini, Wim Groot, Sonila M. Tomini
The activities of a dietitian-led gastroenterology clinic using extended scope of practice
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Comparing routine administrative data with registry data for assessing quality of hospital care in patients with myocardial infarction using deterministic record linkage
Birga Maier, Katrin Wagner, Steffen Behrens, Leonhard Bruch, Reinhard Busse, Dagmar Schmidt, Helmut Schühlen, Roland Thieme, Heinz Theres
Copayment and recommended strategies to mitigate its impacts on access to emergency medical services under universal health coverage: a case study from Thailand
Paibul Suriyawongpaisal, Wichai Aekplakorn, Samrit Srithamrongsawat, Chaisit Srithongchai, Orawan Prasitsiriphon, Rassamee Tansirisithikul
Implementing a video-based intervention to empower staff members in an autism care organization: a qualitative study
Alex Hall, Tracy Finch, Niina Kolehmainen, Deborah James
Advanced Practice Pharmacists: a retrospective evaluation of the efficacy and cost of ClinicaL Pharmacist PractitionErs managing ambulatory Medicare patients in North Carolina (APPLE-NC)
Michèle M. Kislan, Adam T. Bernstein, Loretta R. Fearrington, Timothy J. Ives
Estimating healthcare mobility in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System
Karen H. Wang, Joseph L. Goulet, Constance M. Carroll, Melissa Skanderson, Samah Fodeh, Joseph Erdos, Julie A. Womack, Erica A. Abel, Harini Bathulapalli, Amy C. Justice, Marcella Nunez-Smith, Cynthia A. Brandt
External validation of a multivariable claims-based rule for predicting in-hospital mortality and 30-day post-pulmonary embolism complications
Craig I. Coleman, W. Frank Peacock, Gregory J. Fermann, Concetta Crivera, Erin R. Weeda, Michael Hull, Mary DuCharme, Laura Becker, Jeff R. Schein
More frequent, more costly? Health economic modelling aspects of monitoring glaucoma patients in England
Trishal Boodhna, David P. Crabb
Towards comprehensive early abortion service delivery in high income countries: insights for improving universal access to abortion in Australia
Angela Dawson, Deborah Bateson, Jane Estoesta, Elizabeth Sullivan
Frequency of satisfaction and dissatisfaction with practice among rural-based, group-employed physicians and non-physician practitioners
Anthony C. Waddimba, Melissa Scribani, Nicole Krupa, John J. May, Paul Jenkins
Erratum to: Mortality and treatment costs of hospitalized chronic kidney disease patients between the three major health insurance schemes in Thailand
Sirirat Anutrakulchai, Pisaln Mairiang, Cholatip Pongskul, Kaewjai Thepsuthammarat, Chitranon Chan-on, Bandit Thinkhamrop
A systematic review of the quality of studies on dementia prevalence in Italy
Gianluca Bruti, Elisabetta Cavallucci, Michele Mancini, Alessandro Bitossi, Marzia Baldereschi, Sandro Sorbi
Assessment of a multimedia-based prospective method to support public deliberations on health technology design: participant survey findings and qualitative insights
P. Lehoux, J. Jimenez-Pernett, F. A. Miller, B. Williams-Jones
Identifying the barriers and enablers in the implementation of the New Zealand and Australian Antenatal Corticosteroid Clinical Practice Guidelines
E. L. Mc Goldrick, T Crawford, J. A. Brown, K. M. Groom, C. A. Crowther
The Newfoundland and Labrador Bariatric Surgery Cohort Study: Rational and Study Protocol
Laurie K. Twells, Deborah M. Gregory, William K. Midodzi, Carla Dillon, Christopher S. Kovacs, Don MacDonald, Kendra K. Lester, David Pace, Chris Smith, Darrell Boone, Raleen Murphy
Erratum to: Access to timely formal dementia care in Europe: protocol of the Actifcare (ACcess to Timely Formal Care) study
Liselot Kerpershoek, Marjolein de Vugt, Claire Wolfs, Hannah Jelley, Martin Orrell, Bob Woods, Astrid Stephan, Anja Bieber, Gabriele Meyer, Knut Engedal, Geir Selbaek, Ron Handels, Anders Wimo, Louise Hopper, Kate Irving, Maria Marques, Manuel Gonçalves-Pereira, Elisa Portolani, Orazio Zanetti, Frans Verhey
Total joint arthroplasty: practice variation of physiotherapy across the continuum of care in Alberta
C. Allyson Jones, Ruben San Martin, Marie D. Westby, Lauren A. Beaupre
Primary health care centers, extent of challenges and demand for oral health care in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Abeer Al-Jaber, Omar B. Da’ar
Erratum to: The impact of user fees on health services utilization and infectious disease diagnoses in Neno District, Malawi: a longitudinal, quasi-experimental study
S. I. Watson, E. B. Wroe, E. L. Dunbar, J. Mukherjee, S. B. Squire, L. Nazimera, L. Dullie, R. J. Lilford
Testing a counselling intervention in antenatal care for women experiencing partner violence: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial in Johannesburg, South Africa
Christina Pallitto, Claudia García-Moreno, Heidi Stöeckl, Abigail Hatcher, Catherine MacPhail, Keneoue Mokoatle, Nataly Woollett
Advancing services for adult ADHD: the development of the ADHD Star as a framework for multidisciplinary interventions
Marios Adamou, Katharine Graham, Joy MacKeith, Sara Burns, Lisa-Marie Emerson
An ideal-typical model for comparing interprofessional relations and skill mix in health care
Walter Schönfelder, Elin Anita Nilsen
Stakeholders’ perceptions of ways to support decisions about health insurance marketplace enrollment: a qualitative study
A. J. Housten, K. Furtado, K. A. Kaphingst, C. Kebodeaux, T. McBride, B. Cusanno, M. C. Politi
Case management for the elderly with complex needs: cross-linking the views of their role held by elderly people, their informal caregivers and the case managers
Frédéric Balard, Marie-Christine Gely-Nargeot, Aline Corvol, Olivier Saint-Jean, Dominique Somme
The household economic burden for acute coronary syndrome survivors in Australia
Karice K. Hyun, Beverley M. Essue, Mark Woodward, Stephen Jan, David Brieger, Derek Chew, Kellie Nallaiah, Tegwen Howell, Tom Briffa, Isuru Ranasinghe, Carolyn Astley, Julie Redfern
Reconfiguring health workforce: a case-based comparative study explaining the increasingly diverse professional roles in Europe
Antoinette de Bont, Job van Exel, Silvia Coretti, Zeynep Güldem Ökem, Maarten Janssen, Kristin Lofthus Hope, Tomasz Ludwicki, Britta Zander, Marie Zvonickova, Christine Bond, Iris Wallenburg
Understanding the local context and its possible influences on shaping, implementing and running social accountability initiatives for maternal health services in rural Democratic Republic of the Congo: a contextual factor analysis
Eric M. Mafuta, Lisanne Hogema, Thérèse N. M. Mambu, Pontien B. Kiyimbi, Berthys P. Indebe, Patrick K. Kayembe, Tjard De Cock Buning, Marjolein A. Dieleman
General practitioners’ perceptions of public reporting of institution and individual medicine prescribing data
Xin Du, Xinping Zhang, Yuqing Tang
Somatic healthcare utilisation patterns among older people with intellectual disability: an 11-year register study
Magnus Sandberg, Gerd Ahlström, Anna Axmon, Jimmie Kristensson
Assessment of drug use patterns in terms of the WHO patient-care and facility indicators at four hospitals in Southern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
Kassa Daka Gidebo, Temesgen Sidamo Summoro, Zewde Zema Kanche, Eskinder Wolka Woticha
Readiness of healthcare providers for eHealth: the case from primary healthcare centers in Lebanon
Shadi Saleh, Rawya Khodor, Mohamad Alameddine, Maysa Baroud
A prospective evaluation of first people’s health promotion program design in the goulburn-murray rivers region
Joyce Doyle, Sharon Atkinson-Briggs, Petah Atkinson, Bradley Firebrace, Julie Calleja, Rachel Reilly, Margaret Cargo, Therese Riley, Tui Crumpen, Kevin Rowley
Strengthening referral of sick children from the private health sector and its impact on referral uptake in Uganda: a cluster randomized controlled trial protocol
Esther Buregyeya, Elizeus Rutebemberwa, Philip LaRussa, Anthony Mbonye
Using guidelines to improve neonatal health in China and Vietnam: a qualitative study
Joanna Raven, Xiaoyun Liu, Dan Hu, Weiming Zhu, Dinh Thi Phuong Hoa, Le Minh Thi, Doan Thi Thuy Duong, Alvaro Alonso-Garbayo, Tim Martineau
Evaluating the implementation of a national disclosure policy for large-scale adverse events in an integrated health care system: identification of gaps and successes
Elizabeth M. Maguire, Barbara G. Bokhour, Todd H. Wagner, Steven M. Asch, Allen L. Gifford, Thomas H. Gallagher, Janet M. Durfee, Richard A. Martinello, A. Rani Elwy
Practical lessons for bringing policy-makers on board in sexual and reproductive health research
Aurore Guieu, Wei-Hong Zhang, Yves Lafort, Peter Decat, Sara De Meyer, Shuchen Wang, Birgit Kerstens, Els Duysburgh
Experiences of general practitioner continuity among women with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis: a cross-sectional study
Anne Helen Hansen, Olaug S. Lian
Inconsistent approaches of the G-BA regarding acceptance of primary study endpoints as being relevant to patients - an analysis of three disease areas: oncological, metabolic, and infectious diseases
Thomas Staab, Georg Isbary, Volker E. Amelung, Jörg Ruof
Design of the Indian NCA study (Indian national collaboration on AIDS): a cluster randomized trial to evaluate the effectiveness of integrated care centers to improve HIV outcomes among men who have sex with men and persons who inject drugs in India
Sunil S. Solomon, Gregory M. Lucas, David D. Celentano, Allison M. McFall, Elizabeth Ogburn, Lawrence H. Moulton, Aylur K. Srikrishnan, M. Suresh Kumar, Santhanam Anand, Suniti Solomon, Shruti H. Mehta
Does the new cooperative medical scheme reduce inequality in catastrophic health expenditure in rural China?
Na Guo, Tor Iversen, Mingshan Lu, Jian Wang, Luwen Shi
The potential effectiveness of the nutrition improvement program on infant and young child feeding and nutritional status in the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon, Central Africa
Kate Reinsma, Godlove Nkuoh, Emmanuel Nshom
Appropriate and inappropriate care in the last phase of life: an explorative study among patients and relatives
Eva Elizabeth Bolt, H Roeline Willemijn Pasman, Dick Willems, Bregje Dorien Onwuteaka-Philipsen
Perceived coercion to enter treatment among involuntarily and voluntarily admitted patients with substance use disorders
Anne Opsal, Øistein Kristensen, John Kåre Vederhus, Thomas Clausen
Exploring resistance to implementation of welfare technology in municipal healthcare services – a longitudinal case study
Etty R. Nilsen, Janne Dugstad, Hilde Eide, Monika Knudsen Gullslett, Tom Eide
Predictors of nurses’ and midwives’ intentions to provide maternal and child healthcare services to adolescents in South Africa
Kim Jonas, Priscilla Reddy, Bart van den Borne, Ronel Sewpaul, Anam Nyembezi, Pamela Naidoo, Rik Crutzen
Exploration of social factors associated to maternal deaths due to haemorrhage and convulsions: Analysis of 28 social autopsies in rural Bangladesh
Animesh Biswas, M. A. Halim, Koustuv Dalal, Fazlur Rahman
Shifting human resources for health in the context of ART provision: qualitative and quantitative findings from the Lablite baseline study
Misheck J. Nkhata, Margaret Muzambi, Deborah Ford, Adrienne K. Chan, George Abongomera, Harriet Namata, Ivan Mambule, Annabelle South, Paul Revill, Caroline Grundy, Travor Mabugu, Levison Chiwaula, James Hakim, Cissy Kityo, Andrew Reid, Elly Katabira, Sumeet Sodhi, Charles F. Gilks, Diana M. Gibb, Janet Seeley, Fabian Cataldo, F. Cataldo, A. K. Chan, L. Chiwaula, M. J. Nkhata, F. Mirimo, S. Kiwuwa, J. Seeley, G. Abongomera, C. Kityo, H. Namata, J. Hakim, T. Mabugu, M. Muzambi, A. Reid, S. Kaggwa, E. Katabira, I. Mambule, C. F. Gilks, P. Revill, D. Ford, D. M. Gibb, C. Grundy, S. Hoskins, S. Joseph, A. South, M. Thomason, I. Weller, Alfred Matengeni, Florence Chinguwo, Nwaka Mwambene, Kenneth Phiri
Development of an intervention to improve appropriate polypharmacy in older people in primary care using a theory-based method
Cathal A. Cadogan, Cristín Ryan, Jill J. Francis, Gerard J. Gormley, Peter Passmore, Ngaire Kerse, Carmel M. Hughes
Gender and physician specialization and practice settings in Ecuador: a qualitative study
Rita Bedoya-Vaca, Kathryn P. Derose, Natalia Romero-Sandoval
Methods used to address fidelity of receipt in health intervention research: a citation analysis and systematic review
Lorna Rixon, Justine Baron, Nadine McGale, Fabiana Lorencatto, Jill Francis, Anna Davies
Costs of conservative management of early-stage prostate cancer compared to radical prostatectomy–a claims data analysis
Alina Brandes, Florian Koerber, Larissa Schwarzkopf, Matthias Hunger, Wolf H. Rogowski, Raphaela Waidelich
Building a competent health manager at district level: a grounded theory study from Eastern Uganda
Moses Tetui, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Elizabeth Ekirpa-Kiracho, Suzanne N. Kiwanuka, Anna-Britt Coe
Factors affecting the delivery of community pharmacist-led medication reviews: evidence from the MedsCheck annual service in Ontario
Petros Pechlivanoglou, Lusine Abrahamyan, Linda MacKeigan, Giulia P. Consiglio, Lisa Dolovich, Ping Li, Suzanne M. Cadarette, Valeria E. Rac, Jonghyun Shin, Murray Krahn
Work hours and turnover intention among hospital physicians in Taiwan: does income matter?
Yu-Hsuan Tsai, Nicole Huang, Li-Yin Chien, Jen-Huai Chiang, Shu-Ti Chiou
Improving the quality of primary care by allocating performance-based targets, in a diverse insured population
Ronit Peled, Avi Porath, Rachel Wilf-Miron
A mother’s choice: a qualitative study of mothers’ health seeking behaviour for their children with acute diarrhoea
Lucy Cunnama, Ayako Honda
Study Protocol: Evaluation of a DVD intervention designed to meet the informaton needs of patients with head and neck cancer and their partner, carer and families
Vicki Parker, Leearna Bennett, Douglas Bellamy, Benjamin Britton, Sylvia Lambert
Effects of longitudinal changes in Charlson comorbidity on prognostic survival model performance among newly diagnosed patients with hypertension
Peter Rymkiewicz, Pietro Ravani, Brenda R. Hemmelgarn, Finlay A. McAlister, Danielle A. Southern, Robin Walker, Guanmin Chen, Hude Quan
General practitioners in German metropolitan areas – distribution patterns and their relationship with area level measures of the socioeconomic status
Jan Bauer, Doerthe Brueggmann, Daniela Ohlendorf, David A. Groneberg
Erratum to: Advanced Practice Pharmacists: a retrospective evaluation of the efficacy and cost of ClinicaL Pharmacist PractitionErs managing ambulatory Medicare patients in North Carolina (APPLE-NC)
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Effect of continuity of care on health-related quality of life in adult patients with hypertension: a cohort study in China
Ting Ye, Xiaowei Sun, Wenxi Tang, Yudong Miao, Yan Zhang, Liang Zhang
The family experiences of in-hospital care questionnaire in severe traumatic brain injury (FECQ-TBI): a validation study
Audny Anke, Unn Sollid Manskow, Oddgeir Friborg, Cecilie Røe, Cathrine Arntzen
The patient reporting and action for a safe environment (PRASE) intervention: a feasibility study
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Which aspects of health care are most valued by people living with HIV in high-income countries? A systematic review
V. Cooper, J. Clatworthy, E. Youssef, C. Llewellyn, A. Miners, M. Lagarde, M. Sachikonye, N. Perry, E. Nixon, A. Pollard, C. Sabin, C. Foreman, M. Fisher
Shifting tides in the emigration patterns of Canadian physicians to the United States: a cross-sectional secondary data analysis
Thomas R. Freeman, Stephen Petterson, Sean Finnegan, Andrew Bazemore
Factors associated with No-Shows and rescheduling MRI appointments
Majeed O. AlRowaili, Anwar E. Ahmed, Hasan A. Areabi
Navigating the journey of Aboriginal childhood disability: a qualitative study of carers’ interface with services
Anna Green, Penelope Abbott, Patricia Delaney, Patrick Patradoon-Ho, John Delaney, Patricia Mary Davidson, Michelle DiGiacomo
Cost analysis of large-scale implementation of the ‘Helping Babies Breathe’ newborn resuscitation-training program in Tanzania
Sumona Chaudhury, Lauren Arlington, Shelby Brenan, Allan Kaijunga Kairuki, Amunga Robson Meda, Kahabi G. Isangula, Victor Mponzi, Dunstan Bishanga, Erica Thomas, Georgina Msemo, Mary Azayo, Alice Molinier, Brett D. Nelson
Demographic profile of physician participants in short-term medical missions
Paul H. Caldron, Ann Impens, Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot
Socioeconomic inequalities in dental health services in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2003–2008
Camila Nascimento Monteiro, Mariëlle A. Beenackers, Moisés Goldbaum, Marilisa Berti de Azevedo Barros, Reinaldo José Gianini, Chester Luiz Galvão Cesar, Johan P. Mackenbach
Assessment of core drug use indicators using WHO/INRUD methodology at primary healthcare centers in Bahawalpur, Pakistan
Muhammad Atif, Muhammad Rehan Sarwar, Muhammad Azeem, Mubeen Naz, Salma Amir, Kashaf Nazir
Motives for self-referral to the emergency department: a systematic review of the literature
Nicole Kraaijvanger, Henk van Leeuwen, Douwe Rijpsma, Michael Edwards
A quantitative study on factors influencing enrolment of dairy farmers in a community health insurance scheme
Tineke de Groot-de Greef, Lydia V. Monareng, Janetta H Roos
Quantitative evaluation of essential medicines lists: the South African case study
Velisha Ann Perumal-Pillay, Fatima Suleman
The economic impact of mental healthcare consumption before and after stroke in a cohort of stroke patients in the Netherlands: a record linkage study
M. van Eeden, G. A. P. G. van Mastrigt, S. M. A. A. Evers, E. P. M. van Raak, G. A. M. Driessen, C. M. van Heugten
China’s community-based strategy of universal preconception care in rural areas at a population level using a novel risk classification system for stratifying couples´ preconception health status
Qiongjie Zhou, Shikun Zhang, Qiaomei Wang, Haiping Shen, Weidong Tian, Jingqi Chen, Ganesh Acharya, Xiaotian Li
Assessing key cost drivers associated with caring for chronic kidney disease patients
Paul Damien, Holly J. Lanham, Murali Parthasarathy, Nikhil L. Shah