Ausgabe 1/2017
Inhalt (824 Artikel)
Mandatory TB notification in Mysore city, India: Have we heard the private practitioner’s plea?
Sarabjit Singh Chadha, Sharath Burugina Nagaraja, Archana Trivedi, Sachi Satapathy, Devendrappa N M, Karuna Devi Sagili
Implementation of a recovery-oriented model in a sub-acute Intermediate Stay Mental Health Unit (ISMHU)
Barry G. Frost, Megan Turrell, Ketrina A. Sly, Terry J. Lewin, Agatha M. Conrad, Suzanne Johnston, Srinivasan Tirupati, Kerry Petrovic, Sadanand Rajkumar
Effectiveness of sensor monitoring in an occupational therapy rehabilitation program for older individuals after hip fracture, the SO-HIP trial: study protocol of a three-arm stepped wedge cluster randomized trial
Margriet C. Pol, Gerben ter Riet, Margo van Hartingsveldt, Ben Kröse, Sophia E. de Rooij, Bianca M. Buurman
Quality indicators for the referral process from primary to specialised mental health care: an explorative study in accordance with the RAND appropriateness method
Miriam Hartveit, Kris Vanhaecht, Olav Thorsen, Eva Biringer, Kjell Haug, Aslak Aslaksen
Mental distress following inpatient substance use treatment, modified by substance use; comparing voluntary and compulsory admissions
Adrian R. Pasareanu, John-Kåre Vederhus, Anne Opsal, Øistein Kristensen, Thomas Clausen
Performance-based financing for improving HIV/AIDS service delivery: a systematic review
Amitabh B. Suthar, Jason M. Nagata, Sabin Nsanzimana, Till Bärnighausen, Eyerusalem K. Negussie, Meg C. Doherty
Factors associated with mode of colorectal cancer detection and time to diagnosis: a population level study
Khokan C. Sikdar, James Dickinson, Marcy Winget
Cultural adaptations to augment health and mental health services: a systematic review
Priscilla Healey, Megan L. Stager, Kyler Woodmass, Alan J. Dettlaff, Andrew Vergara, Robert Janke, Susan J. Wells
Co-payments for general practitioners in Denmark: an analysis using two policy models
Camilla Hansen, Despena Andrioti
The treatment of non-malarial febrile illness in Papua New Guinea: findings from cross sectional and longitudinal studies of health worker practice
Olga P. M. Saweri, Manuel W. Hetzel, Ivo Mueller, Peter M. Siba, Justin Pulford
Availability of essential medicines in selected public, primary and secondary health care institutions of a rural Sri Lankan district: a spot survey
Devarajan Rathish, Indika Premarathna, Thiwanka Jayathilake, Chathurika Kandegedara, Kalani Punchihewa, Lakmali Ananda, Thejani Bandara, Channa Jayasumana, Sisira Siribaddana
Conceptualizing the dynamics of workplace stress: a systems-based study of nursing aides
Arif Jetha, Laura Kernan, Alicia Kurowski
An evaluation of the telehealth facilitation of diabetes and cardiovascular care in remote Australian Indigenous communities: - protocol for the telehealth eye and associated medical services network [TEAMSnet] project, a pre-post study design
Laima Brazionis, Alicia Jenkins, Anthony Keech, Chris Ryan, Sven-Erik Bursell
Improving the knowledge of labour and delivery nurses in India: a randomized controlled trial of mentoring and case sheets in primary care centres
Janet Bradley, Krishnamurthy Jayanna, Souradet Shaw, Troy Cunningham, Elizabeth Fischer, Prem Mony, B. M. Ramesh, Stephen Moses, Lisa Avery, Maryanne Crockett, James F. Blanchard
Referring to multimodal rehabilitation for patients with musculoskeletal disorders – a register study in primary health care
Charlotte Post Sennehed, Sara Holmberg, Kjerstin Stigmar, Malin Forsbrand, Ingemar F. Petersson, Anja Nyberg, Birgitta Grahn
Clinical interventions, implementation interventions, and the potential greyness in between -a discussion paper
Ann Catrine Eldh, Joan Almost, Kara DeCorby-Watson, Wendy Gifford, Gill Harvey, Henna Hasson, Deborah Kenny, Sheila Moodie, Lars Wallin, Jennifer Yost
Selection of essential medicines for South Africa - an analysis of in-depth interviews with national essential medicines list committee members
Velisha Ann Perumal-Pillay, Fatima Suleman
Educational level and 30-day outcomes after hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction in Italy
Gianluca Cafagna, Chiara Seghieri
Cultural elements underlying the community health representative – client relationship on Navajo Nation
Vikas Gampa, Casey Smith, Olivia Muskett, Caroline King, Hannah Sehn, Jamy Malone, Cameron Curley, Chris Brown, Mae-Gilene Begay, Sonya Shin, Adrianne Katrina Nelson
Task shifting or shifting care practices? The impact of task shifting on patients’ experiences and health care arrangements in Swaziland
Thandeka Dlamini-Simelane, Eileen Moyer
Intention to leave profession, psychosocial environment and self-rated health among registered nurses from large hospitals in Brazil: a cross-sectional study
Daiana Rangel de Oliveira, Rosane Härter Griep, Luciana Fernandes Portela, Lucia Rotenberg
Mobility as a predictor of all-cause mortality in older men and women: 11.8 year follow-up in the Tromsø study
Astrid Bergland, Lone Jørgensen, Nina Emaus, Bjørn Heine Strand
Sustainability of health information systems: a three-country qualitative study in southern Africa
Corrina Moucheraud, Amee Schwitters, Chantelle Boudreaux, Denise Giles, Peter H. Kilmarx, Ntolo Ntolo, Zwashe Bangani, Michael E St. Louis, Thomas J Bossert
The case of value-based healthcare for people living with complex long-term conditions
Marie Elf, Maria Flink, Marie Nilsson, Malin Tistad, Lena von Koch, Charlotte Ytterberg
MODEM: A comprehensive approach to modelling outcome and costs impacts of interventions for dementia. Protocol paper
Adelina Comas-Herrera, Martin Knapp, Raphael Wittenberg, Sube Banerjee, Ann Bowling, Emily Grundy, Carol Jagger, Nicolas Farina, Daniel Lombard, Klara Lorenz, David McDaid
Interventions following a high violence risk assessment score: a naturalistic study on a Finnish psychiatric admission ward
Jenni Kaunomäki, Markus Jokela, Raija Kontio, Tero Laiho, Eila Sailas, Nina Lindberg
Perceptions and utilization of generic medicines in Guatemala: a mixed-methods study with physicians and pharmacy staff
David Flood, Irène Mathieu, Anita Chary, Pablo García, Peter Rohloff
Fulfillment of administrative and professional obligations of hospitals and mission motivation of physicians
Jeroen Trybou, Paul Gemmel, Sebastian Desmidt, Lieven Annemans
Treating the invisible: Gaps and opportunities for enhanced TB control along the Thailand-Myanmar border
Naomi Tschirhart, Sein Sein Thi, Lei Lei Swe, Francois Nosten, Angel M. Foster
Which factors affect health care use among older Germans? Results of the German ageing survey
André Hajek, Jens-Oliver Bock, Hans-Helmut König
Healthcare system responsiveness in Jiangsu Province, China
Jianqian Chao, Boyang Lu, Hua Zhang, Liguo Zhu, Hui Jin, Pei Liu
A pilot study of a Community Health Agent-led type 2 diabetes self-management program using Motivational Interviewing-based approaches in a public primary care center in São Paulo, Brazil
Thais Moura Ribeiro do Valle Nascimento, Ken Resnicow, Marcia Nery, Alexandra Brentani, Elizabeth Kaselitz, Pooja Agrawal, Simanjit Mand, Michele Heisler
Evaluation of an aged care nurse practitioner service: quality of care within a residential aged care facility hospital avoidance service
Trudy Dwyer, Alison Craswell, Dolene Rossi, Darren Holzberger
Process evaluation of an integrated care pathway in geriatric rehabilitation for people with complex health problems
Irma H. J. Everink, Jolanda C. M. van Haastregt, Jose M. C. Maessen, Jos M. G. A. Schols, Gertrudis I. J. M. Kempen
The integrated care pathway for post stroke patients (iCaPPS): a shared care approach between stakeholders in areas with limited access to specialist stroke care services
Aznida Firzah Abdul Aziz, Nor Azlin Mohd Nordin, Mohd Fairuz Ali, Noor Azah Abd Aziz, Saperi Sulong, Syed Mohamed Aljunid
The safety attitudes questionnaire – ambulatory version: psychometric properties of the Slovenian version for the out-of-hours primary care setting
Zalika Klemenc-Ketis, Matjaz Maletic, Vesna Stropnik, Ellen Tveter Deilkås, Dag Hofoss, Gunnar Tschudi Bondevik
The ecology of medical care on an isolated island in Okinawa, Japan: a retrospective open cohort study
Makoto Kaneko, Masato Matsushima, Greg Irving
Building system capacity for the integration of mental health at the level of primary care in Tunisia: a study protocol in global mental health
Jessica Spagnolo, François Champagne, Nicole Leduc, Myra Piat, Wahid Melki, Fatma Charfi, Marc Laporta
Barriers and facilitators of help-seeking among unemployed persons with mental health problems: a qualitative study
Tobias Staiger, Tamara Waldmann, Nicolas Rüsch, Silvia Krumm
Cost of physician-led home visit care (Zaitaku care) compared with hospital care at the end of life in Japan
Kentaro Kinjo, Tomoko Sairenji, Hidenobu Koga, Yasuhiro Osugi, Shin Yoshida, Hidefumi Ichinose, Yasunori Nagai, Hiroshi Imura, Jeannette E. South-Paul, Mark Meyer, Yoshihisa Honda
Imputing HIV treatment start dates from routine laboratory data in South Africa: a validation study
Mhairi Maskew, Jacob Bor, Cheryl Hendrickson, William MacLeod, Till Bärnighausen, Deenan Pillay, Ian Sanne, Sergio Carmona, Wendy Stevens, Matthew P Fox
COMmunication with Families regarding ORgan and Tissue donation after death in intensive care (COMFORT): protocol for an intervention study
Julie E. Potter, Robert G. Herkes, Lin Perry, Rosalind M. Elliott, Anders Aneman, Jorge L. Brieva, Elena Cavazzoni, Andrew T. H. Cheng, Michael J. O’Leary, Ian M. Seppelt, Val Gebski
Outcome following valve surgery in Australia: development of an enhanced database module
E. Anne Russell, Christopher M Reid, Warren F Walsh, Alex Brown, Graeme P Maguire
Associations between degrees of task delegation and job satisfaction of general practitioners and their staff: a cross-sectional study
Helle Riisgaard, Jens Søndergaard, Maria Munch, Jette V. Le, Loni Ledderer, Line B. Pedersen, Jørgen Nexøe
Medical complexity and time to lung cancer treatment – a three-year retrospective chart review
Trine Stokstad, Sveinung Sørhaug, Tore Amundsen, Bjørn H. Grønberg
Acceptance and attitudes of healthcare staff towards the introduction of clinical pharmacy service: a descriptive cross-sectional study from a tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka
Lelwala Guruge Thushani Shanika, Chandrani Nirmala Wijekoon, Shaluka Jayamanne, Judith Coombes, Ian Coombes, Nilani Mamunuwa, Andrew Hamilton Dawson, Hithanadura Asita De Silva
Access to primary health care for acute vascular events in rural low income settings: a mixed methods study
Shyfuddin Ahmed, Muhammad Ashique Haider Chowdhury, Md. Alfazal Khan, Nafisa Lira Huq, Aliya Naheed
Rate and associated factors of non-retention of mother-baby pairs in HIV care in the elimination of mother-to-child transmission programme, Gulu-Uganda: a cohort study
Gerald Obai, Ruth Mubeezi, Fredrick Makumbi
Effect of patient’s age on the profitability of inpatient cardiac catheterization: a contribution margin analysis of frequently performed procedures over a 5-year period
Gunnar Plehn, Thomas Butz, Petra Maagh, Axel Meissner
A discrete event simulation model to evaluate the use of community services in the treatment of patients with Parkinson’s disease in the United Kingdom
Reda Lebcir, Eren Demir, Raheelah Ahmad, Christos Vasilakis, David Southern
Trends in hospital admissions due to antidepressant-related adverse drug events from 2001 to 2011 in the U.S.
Harish S. Parihar, Hongjun Yin, Jennifer L. Gooch, Shari Allen, Samuel John, Jianwei Xuan
Health literacy of recently hospitalised patients: a cross-sectional survey using the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ)
Rebecca L. Jessup, Richard H. Osborne, Alison Beauchamp, Allison Bourne, Rachelle Buchbinder
Relationship between the presence of baccalaureate-educated RNs and quality of care: a cross-sectional study in Dutch long-term care facilities
Ramona Backhaus, Erik van Rossum, Hilde Verbeek, Ruud J. G. Halfens, Frans E. S. Tan, Elizabeth Capezuti, Jan P. H. Hamers
Developing a framework to guide the de-adoption of low-value clinical practices in acute care medicine: a study protocol
Jeanna Parsons Leigh, Daniel J. Niven, Jamie M. Boyd, Henry T. Stelfox
Influence of age and sex on hospitalization of nursing home residents: A cross-sectional study from Germany
Falk Hoffmann, Guido Schmiemann
The personal and workplace characteristics of uninsured expatriate males in Saudi Arabia
Abdulwahab Alkhamis, Peter Cosgrove, Gamal Mohamed, Amir Hassan
The Saskatchewan/New Brunswick Healthy Start-Départ Santé intervention: implementation cost estimates of a physical activity and healthy eating intervention in early learning centers
Nazmi Sari, Nazeem Muhajarine, Amanda Froehlich Chow
Risk-adjustment methods for all-payer comparative performance reporting in Vermont
Karl Finison, MaryKate Mohlman, Craig Jones, Melanie Pinette, David Jorgenson, Amy Kinner, Tim Tremblay, Daniel Gottlieb
A descriptive survey study of violence management and priorities among psychiatric staff in mental health services, across seventeen european countries
Seamus Cowman, Anna Björkdahl, Eric Clarke, Georgina Gethin, Jim Maguire, Christoph Abderhalden, Adriana Miha, Roger Almvik, Hulya Bilgin, Patrick Callaghan, Thanos Douzenis, Frans Fluttert, Irina Georgieva, Jacob Hvidhjelm, Regina Ketelsen, Peter Lepping, Maria Isabel Dias Marques, Vesna Petrovic, Jon Snorrason, Bart Thomas
A comparative analysis of centralized waiting lists for patients without a primary care provider implemented in six Canadian provinces: study protocol
Mylaine Breton, Michael Green, Sara Kreindler, Jason Sutherland, Jalila Jbilou, Sabrina T. Wong, Jay Shaw, Valorie A. Crooks, Damien Contandriopoulos, Mélanie Ann Smithman, Astrid Brousselle
Introduction of microsystems in a level 3 neonatal intensive care unit—an interprofessional approach
Salhab el Helou, Samira Samiee-Zafarghandy, Gerhard Fusch, Muzafar Gani Abdul Wahab, Lynda Aliberti, Ahmad Bakry, Deborah Barnard, Joanne Doucette, Enas el Gouhary, Michael Marrin, Carrie-Lynn Meyer, Amit Mukerji, Anne Nwebube, David Pogorzelski, Edward Pugh, Karen Schattauer, Jay Shah, Sandesh Shivananda, Sumesh Thomas, Jennifer Twiss, Connie Williams, Sourabh Dutta, Christoph Fusch
Evaluation of a program to strengthen general practice care for patients with chronic disease in Germany
Michel Wensing, Joachim Szecsenyi, Christian Stock, Petra Kaufmann Kolle, Gunter Laux
Characterizing breast conditions at an open-access breast clinic in South Africa: a model that is more than cancer care for a resource-limited setting
Sarah Rayne, Naomi Lince-Deroche, Cheryl Hendrickson, Kate Shearer, Faith Moyo, Pam Michelow, Grace Rubin, Carol Benn, Cynthia Firnhaber
A cohort study of ethnic differences in use of adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation therapy for breast cancer in New Zealand
Sanjeewa Seneviratne, Ian Campbell, Nina Scott, Ross Lawrenson
Alternative financing mechanisms for ART programs in health facilities in Uganda: a mixed-methods approach
Henry Zakumumpa, Sara Bennett, Freddie Ssengooba
Delivery of written and verbal information on healthcare-associated infections to patients: opinions and attitudes of a sample of healthcare workers
Marco Bo, Viola Amprino, Paola Dalmasso, Carla M. Zotti
Study protocol for evaluating the implementation and effectiveness of an emergency department longitudinal patient monitoring system using a mixed-methods approach
Marie Ward, Eilish McAuliffe, Abel Wakai, Una Geary, John Browne, Conor Deasy, Michael Schull, Fiona Boland, Fiona McDaid, Eoin Coughlan, Ronan O’Sullivan
The role of organizational context in moderating the effect of research use on pain outcomes in hospitalized children: a cross sectional study
Janet Yamada, Janet E. Squires, Carole A. Estabrooks, Charles Victor, Bonnie Stevens, Fiona Campbell, Christine Chambers, Janice Cohen, Greta Cummings, G Allen Finley, Denise Harrison, Liisa Holsti, Céleste Johnston, Margot Latimer, Shoo Lee, Sylvie LeMay, Patrick McGrath, Judy Rashotte, Christina Rosmus, Doris Sawatzky-Dickson, Shannon Scott, Souraya Sidani, Jennifer Stinson, Anna Taddio, Fay Warnock, Andrew R. Willan
Role stress among auxiliary nurses midwives in Gujarat, India
Bhaskar Purohit, Paul Vasava
Performance of health laboratories in provision of HIV diagnostic and supportive services in selected districts of Tanzania
Deus S. Ishengoma, Mathias L. Kamugisha, Acleus S. M. Rutta, Gibson B. Kagaruki, Andrew M. Kilale, Amos Kahwa, Erasmus Kamugisha, Vito Baraka, Celine I. Mandara, Godlisten S. Materu, Julius J. Massaga, Stephen M. Magesa, Martha M. Lemnge, Leonard E. G. Mboera
Mixed methods evaluation of the Getting it Right First Time programme - improvements to NHS orthopaedic care in England: study protocol
Helen Barratt, Simon Turner, Andrew Hutchings, Elena Pizzo, Emma Hudson, Tim Briggs, Rob Hurd, Jamie Day, Rachel Yates, Panagiotis Gikas, Stephen Morris, Naomi J Fulop, Rosalind Raine
Barriers to surgical care in Nepal
Joris Adriaan Frank van Loenhout, Tefera Darge Delbiso, Shailvi Gupta, Kapendra Amatya, Adam L. Kushner, Julita Gil Cuesta, Debarati Guha-Sapir
Suicidal patients’ experiences regarding their safety during psychiatric in-patient care: a systematic review of qualitative studies
Siv Hilde Berg, Kristine Rørtveit, Karina Aase
Cost-effectiveness of apixaban versus low molecular weight heparin/vitamin k antagonist for the treatment of venous thromboembolism and the prevention of recurrences
Tereza Lanitis, Robert Leipold, Melissa Hamilton, Dale Rublee, Peter Quon, Chantelle Browne, Alexander T. Cohen
Study protocol of an equivalence randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of three different approaches to collecting Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) data using the Prostate Cancer Outcomes Registry-Victoria (PCOR-VIC)
Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque, Fanny Sampurno, Rasa Ruseckaite, Paula Lorgelly, Sue M. Evans
The economic burden of HIV/AIDS on individuals and households in Nepal: a quantitative study
Ak Narayan Poudel, David Newlands, Padam Simkhada
Quality of care in the intensive care unit from the perspective of patient’s relatives: development and psychometric evaluation of the consumer quality index ‘R-ICU’
Ans Rensen, Margo M. van Mol, Ilse Menheere, Marjan D. Nijkamp, Ellen Verhoogt, Bea Maris, Willeke Manders, Lilian Vloet, Lisbeth Verharen
The cost-effectiveness of changes to the care pathway used to identify depression and provide treatment amongst people with diabetes in England: a model-based economic evaluation
Ben Kearns, R. Rafia, J. Leaviss, L. Preston, J.E. Brazier, S. Palmer, R. Ara
Does involvement in a cohort study improve health and affect health inequalities? A natural experiment
Annie Quick, Jan R. Böhnke, John Wright, Kate E. Pickett
Unconnected and out-of-sight: identifying health care non-users with unmet needs
Elizabeth Hoon, Clarabelle Pham, Justin Beilby, Jonathan Karnon
Why service users do not complain or have ‘voice’: a mixed-methods study from Nepal’s rural primary health care system
Gagan Gurung, Sarah Derrett, Robin Gauld, Philip C. Hill
The Child and Youth Mental Health Assessment (ChYMH): An examination of the psychometric properties of an integrated assessment developed for clinically referred children and youth
Shannon L. Stewart, Chloe A. Hamza
Effect of patient-initiated versus fixed-interval telePRO-based outpatient follow-up: study protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled study
Liv Marit Valen Schougaard, Caroline Trillingsgaard Mejdahl, Klaus Hvam Petersen, Anne Jessen, Annette de Thurah, Per Sidenius, Kirsten Lomborg, Niels Henrik Hjollund
Cost of breast cancer based on real-world data: a cancer registry study in Italy
Stefano Capri, Antonio Russo
Reaching the unreached through trained and skilled birth attendants in Ethiopia: a cluster randomized controlled trial study protocol
Taddese Alemu Zerfu, Henok Taddese, Tariku Nigatu, Girma Tenkolu, Joshua P. Vogel, Dina Khan-Neelofur, Sibhatu Biadgilign, Amare Deribew
Improving safety in care homes: protocol for evaluation of the Walsall and Wolverhampton care home improvement programme
Sarah Damery, Sarah Flanagan, Kiran Rai, Gill Combes
Health outcomes of bedaquiline in the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in selected high burden countries
Xiaoyan Lu, Caitlin Smare, Chrispin Kambili, Antoine C. El Khoury, Lara J. Wolfson
Acceptability of healthcare interventions: an overview of reviews and development of a theoretical framework
Mandeep Sekhon, Martin Cartwright, Jill J. Francis
Economic evaluations of health technologies in Dutch healthcare decision-making: a qualitative study of the current and potential use, barriers, and facilitators
Kitty J. Roseboom, Johanna M. van Dongen, Emile Tompa, Maurits W. van Tulder, Judith E. Bosmans
Identifying social and economic barriers to regular care and treatment for Black men who have sex with men and women (BMSMW) and who are living with HIV: a qualitative study from the Bruthas cohort
Emily A. Arnold, John Weeks, Michael Benjamin, William R. Stewart, Lance M. Pollack, Susan M. Kegeles, Don Operario
Practising proportionate universalism – a study protocol of an extended postnatal home visiting programme in a disadvantaged area in Stockholm, Sweden
Bo Burström, Anneli Marttila, Asli Kulane, Lene Lindberg, Kristina Burström
Healthcare providers’ views on the delivery of preconception care in a local community setting in the Netherlands
M. Poels, M.P.H. Koster, A. Franx, H.F. van Stel
Living with dementia in a nursing home, as described by persons with dementia: a phenomenological hermeneutic study
Marit Mjørud, Knut Engedal, Janne Røsvik, Marit Kirkevold
Predictors of high out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure: an analysis using Bangladesh household income and expenditure survey, 2010
Azaher Ali Molla, Chunhuei Chi, Alicia Lorena Núñez Mondaca
What factors contribute to the continued low rates of Indigenous status identification in urban general practice? - A mixed-methods multiple site case study
Heike Schütze, Lisa Jackson Pulver, Mark Harris
Are performance measurement systems useful? Perceptions from health care
Chiara Demartini, Sara Trucco
A Qualitative study of language barriers between South African health care providers and cross-border migrants
Jo Hunter-Adams, Hanna-Andrea Rother
Money’s (not) on my mind: a qualitative study of how staff and managers understand health care’s triple Aim
Marie Höjriis Storkholm, Pamela Mazzocato, Mairi Savage, Carl Savage
Evaluation of a new Transmural Trauma Care Model (TTCM) for the rehabilitation of trauma patients: a study protocol
Suzanne H. Wiertsema, Johanna M. van Dongen, Edwin Geleijn, Maaike Schothorst, Frank W. Bloemers, Vincent de Groot, Raymond W. J. G. Ostelo
A catalyst for system change: a case study of child health network formation, evolution and sustainability in Canada
Charmaine McPherson, Jenny Ploeg, Nancy Edwards, Donna Ciliska, Wendy Sword
Utilization of institutional delivery service and associated factors in Bench Maji zone, Southwest Ethiopia: community based, cross sectional study
Niguse Tadele, Tafesse Lamaro
Patients’ Satisfaction with Lower-limb Prosthetic and Orthotic Devices and Service delivery in Sierra Leone and Malawi
Lina Magnusson, Gerd Ahlström
Enablers and barriers to evidence based planning in the district health system in Uganda; perceptions of district health managers
Dorcus Kiwanuka Henriksson, Florence Ayebare, Peter Waiswa, Stefan Swartling Peterson, Elly K. Tumushabe, Mio Fredriksson
Training nurses in task-shifting strategies for the management and control of hypertension in Ghana: a mixed-methods study
Joyce Gyamfi, Jacob Plange-Rhule, Juliet Iwelunmor, Debbie Lee, Sarah R. Blackstone, Alicia Mitchell, Michael Ntim, Kingsley Apusiga, Bamidele Tayo, Kwasi Yeboah-Awudzi, Richard Cooper, Gbenga Ogedegbe
Health facility and skilled birth deliveries among poor women with Jamkesmas health insurance in Indonesia: a mixed-methods study
Mohamad I. Brooks, Hasbullah Thabrany, Matthew P. Fox, Veronika J. Wirtz, Frank G. Feeley, Lora L. Sabin
Access and utilisation of primary health care services comparing urban and rural areas of Riyadh Providence, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ghadah Alfaqeeh, Erica J. Cook, Gurch Randhawa, Nasreen Ali
Association between caregivers’ knowledge and care seeking behaviour for children with symptoms of pneumonia in six sub-Saharan African Countries
Aaltje Camielle Noordam, Alyssa B. Sharkey, Paddy Hinssen, GeertJan Dinant, Jochen W. L. Cals
Towards best practice in acute stroke care in Ghana: a survey of hospital services
Leonard Baatiema, Michael Otim, George Mnatzaganian, Ama De-Graft Aikins, Judith Coombes, Shawn Somerset
Effectiveness of the cardiac-diabetes transcare program: protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Chiung-Jung (Jo) Wu, John J. Atherton, Richard J. MacIsaac, Mary Courtney, Anne M. Chang, David R. Thompson, Karam Kostner, Andrew I. MacIsaac, Michael d’Emden, Nick Graves, Steven M. McPhail
Refining a questionnaire to assess breast cancer knowledge and barriers to screening in Kenya: Psychometric assessment of the BCAM
J. Wachira, A. Busakhala, F. Chite, V. Naanyu, J. Kisuya, G. Otieno, A. Keter, A. Mwangi, T. Inui
Hypertension management in rural primary care facilities in Zambia: a mixed methods study
Lily D. Yan, Cindy Chirwa, Benjamin H. Chi, Samuel Bosomprah, Ntazana Sindano, Moses Mwanza, Dennis Musatwe, Mary Mulenga, Roma Chilengi
Validation of work pressure and associated factors influencing hospital nurse turnover: a cross-sectional investigation in Shaanxi Province, China
Huiyun Yang, Jingwen Lv, Xi Zhou, Huitong Liu, Baibing Mi
A realist review of shared medical appointments: How, for whom, and under what circumstances do they work?
Susan R. Kirsh, David C. Aron, Kimberly D. Johnson, Laura E. Santurri, Lauren D. Stevenson, Katherine R. Jones, Justin Jagosh
A cross sectional observational study of research activity of allied health teams: is there a link with self-reported success, motivators and barriers to undertaking research?
Rachel J. Wenke, Sharon Mickan, Leanne Bisset
Reducing medical claims cost to Ghana’s National Health Insurance scheme: a cross-sectional comparative assessment of the paper- and electronic-based claims reviews
Eric Nsiah-Boateng, Francis Asenso-Boadi, Lydia Dsane-Selby, Francis-Xavier Andoh-Adjei, Nathaniel Otoo, Patricia Akweongo, Moses Aikins
Implementation and maintenance of patient navigation programs linking primary care with community-based health and social services: a scoping literature review
Ruta K. Valaitis, Nancy Carter, Annie Lam, Jennifer Nicholl, Janice Feather, Laura Cleghorn
Addressing the gaps in diabetes care in first nations communities with the reorganizing the approach to diabetes through the application of registries (RADAR): the project protocol
Dean T. Eurich, Sumit R. Majumdar, Lisa A. Wozniak, Allison Soprovich, Kari Meneen, Jeffrey A. Johnson, Salim Samanani
Challenges, uncertainties and perceived benefits of providing weekend allied health services—a managers’ perspective
Deb Mitchell, Lisa O’Brien, Anne Bardoel, Terry Haines
The challenges of assessing patients' medication beliefs: a qualitative study
Rachael J. Thorneloe, Christopher E.M. Griffiths, Darren M. Ashcroft, Lis Cordingley
Identification of factors that support successful implementation of care bundles in the acute medical setting: a qualitative study
Stuart A. Green, Derek Bell, Nicholas Mays
Managed care and inpatient mortality in adults: effect of primary payer
Anika L. Hines, Susan O. Raetzman, Marguerite L. Barrett, Ernest Moy, Roxanne M. Andrews
Informing the implementation of evidence-informed decision making interventions using a social network analysis perspective; a mixed-methods study
Reza Yousefi Nooraie, Lynne Lohfeld, Alexandra Marin, Robert Hanneman, Maureen Dobbins
Study protocol: improving the transition of care from a non-network hospital back to the patient’s medical home
Roman A. Ayele, Emily Lawrence, Marina McCreight, Kelty Fehling, Jamie Peterson, Russell E. Glasgow, Borsika A. Rabin, Robert Burke, Catherine Battaglia
The effect of the TIM program (Transfer ICU Medication reconciliation) on medication transfer errors in two Dutch intensive care units: design of a prospective 8-month observational study with a before and after period
Bertha Elizabeth Bosma, Edmé Meuwese, Siok Swan Tan, Jasper van Bommel, Piet Herman Gerard Jan Melief, Nicole Geertruida Maria Hunfeld, Patricia Maria Lucia Adriana van den Bemt
An investigation of stigmatizing attitudes towards people living with HIV/AIDS by doctors and nurses in Vientiane, Lao PDR
Savina Vorasane, Masamine Jimba, Kimiyo Kikuchi, Junko Yasuoka, Keiko Nanishi, Jo Durham, Vanphanom Sychareun
Usefulness of an educational lecture focusing on improvement in public awareness of and attitudes toward depression and its treatments
Takashi Yakushi, Teizo Kuba, Yuzuru Nakamoto, Hiroshi Fukuhara, Munenaga Koda, Osamu Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Kondo
Adherence to treatment guidelines: the association between stroke risk stratified comparing CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc score levels and warfarin prescription for adult patients with atrial fibrillation
Scott A. Chapman, Catherine A. St Hill, Meg M. Little, Michael T. Swanoski, Shellina R. Scheiner, Kenric B. Ware, M. Nawal Lutfiyya
Community health service center-based cardiac rehabilitation in patients with coronary heart disease: a prospective study
Lixuan Zhang, Li Zhang, Jing Wang, Fang Ding, Suhua Zhang
Case management of patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional survey in Chongqing, China
Miao He, Jiaqi Gao, Weiwei Liu, Xiaojun Tang, Shenglan Tang, Qian Long
An education programme influencing health professionals to recommend exercise to their type 2 diabetes patients – understanding the processes: a case study from Oxfordshire, UK
Anne Matthews, Natasha Jones, Alastair Thomas, Perdy van den Berg, Charlie Foster
Social networks and expertise development for Australian breast radiologists
Seyedamir Tavakoli Taba, Liaquat Hossain, Karen Willis, Sarah Lewis
Got spirit? The spiritual climate scale, psychometric properties, benchmarking data and future directions
Keith Doram, Whitney Chadwick, Joni Bokovoy, Jochen Profit, Janel D. Sexton, J. Bryan Sexton
Impacts of a navigation program based on health information technology for patients receiving oral anticancer therapy: the CAPRI randomized controlled trial
Chloé Gervès-Pinquié, Fatima Daumas-Yatim, Benoît Lalloué, Anne Girault, Marie Ferrua, Aude Fourcade, François Lemare, Mario Dipalma, Etienne Minvielle
Rankings matter: nurse graduates from higher-ranked institutions have higher productivity
Olga Yakusheva, Marianne Weiss
Measuring medication adherence in patients with incident hypertension: a retrospective cohort study
Karen L. Tang, Hude Quan, Doreen M. Rabi
Evaluation of medicines dispensing pattern of private pharmacies in Rajshahi, Bangladesh
Shuvashis Saha, Md. Tawhid Hossain
What is a hospital bed day worth? A contingent valuation study of hospital Chief Executive Officers
Katie Page, Adrain G. Barnett, Nicholas Graves
Cost-effectiveness analysis for a tele-based health coaching program for chronic disease in primary care
Erja Oksman, Miika Linna, Iiris Hörhammer, Johanna Lammintakanen, Martti Talja
Primary care focus and utilization in the Medicare shared savings program accountable care organizations
Lindsey A. Herrel, John Z. Ayanian, Scott R. Hawken, David C. Miller
Qualitative exploration of why people repeatedly attend emergency departments for alcohol-related reasons
Tom Parkman, Joanne Neale, Ed Day, Colin Drummond
Collaborative leadership and the implementation of community-based fall prevention initiatives: a multiple case study of public health practice within community groups
Maureen Markle-Reid, Cathy Dykeman, Jenny Ploeg, Caralyn Kelly Stradiotto, Angela Andrews, Susan Bonomo, Sarah Orr-Shaw, Niyati Salker
Learning from 2523 trauma deaths in India- opportunities to prevent in-hospital deaths
Nobhojit Roy, Deepa Kizhakke Veetil, Monty Uttam Khajanchi, Vineet Kumar, Harris Solomon, Jyoti Kamble, Debojit Basak, Göran Tomson, Johan von Schreeb
Exploring relationships between hospital patient safety culture and Consumer Reports safety scores
Scott Alan Smith, Naomi Yount, Joann Sorra
Municipal resources and patient outcomes through the first year after a hip fracture
Sabine Ruths, Valborg Baste, Marit Stordal Bakken, Lars Birger Engesæter, Stein Atle Lie, Siren Haugland
State budget transfers to Health Insurance to expand coverage to people outside formal sector work in Latin America
Inke Mathauer, Thorsten Behrendt
Stakeholder perspectives on the implementation of genetic carrier screening in a changing landscape
Kim C.A. Holtkamp, Evelien M. Vos, Tessel Rigter, Phillis Lakeman, Lidewij Henneman, Martina C. Cornel
Accuracy and generalizability of using automated methods for identifying adverse events from electronic health record data: a validation study protocol
Christian M. Rochefort, David L. Buckeridge, Andréanne Tanguay, Alain Biron, Frédérick D’Aragon, Shengrui Wang, Benoit Gallix, Louis Valiquette, Li-Anne Audet, Todd C. Lee, Dev Jayaraman, Bruno Petrucci, Patricia Lefebvre
Assessment of Educational Needs and Quality of Life of Chronic Hepatitis Patients
Ming-Chuan Chen, Hung-Chang Hung, Hsiu-Ju Chang, Sheng-Shun Yang, Wen-Chen Tsai, Shu-Chuan Chang
Coordination between primary and secondary care: the role of electronic messages and economic incentives
Antonella La Rocca, Thomas Hoholm
Language support for linguistic minority chronic hepatitis B/C patients: an exploratory study of availability and clinicians’ perceptions of language barriers in six European countries
Abby M. Falla, Irene K. Veldhuijzen, Amena A. Ahmad, Miriam Levi, Jan Hendrik Richardus
Meaning and barriers to quality care service provision in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives
Nadzeya Svirydzenka, Pablo Ronzoni, Nisha Dogra
The effect of increasing the coinsurance rate on outpatient utilization of healthcare services in South Korea
Hyo Jung Lee, Sung-In Jang, Eun-Cheol Park
The Alice Springs Hospital Readmission Prevention Project (ASHRAPP): a randomised control trial
Gabrielle Diplock, James Ward, Simon Stewart, Paul Scuffham, Penny Stewart, Carole Reeve, Lea Davidson, Graeme Maguire
The characteristics of stroke units in Ontario: a pan-provincial survey
Valeria E. Rac, Yeva Sahakyan, Iris Fan, Luciano Ieraci, Ruth Hall, Linda Kelloway, Gabrielle van der Velde, Moira K. Kapral, Mark Bayley, Murray Krahn
Patient satisfaction with doctor-patient interactions: a mixed methods study among diabetes mellitus patients in Pakistan
Aisha Jalil, Rubeena Zakar, Muhammad Zakria Zakar, Florian Fischer
Factors associated with preferences for long-term care settings in old age: evidence from a population-based survey in Germany
André Hajek, Thomas Lehnert, Annemarie Wegener, Steffi G. Riedel-Heller, Hans-Helmut König
Assessing the feasibility of introducing health insurance in Afghanistan: a qualitative stakeholder analysis
Wu Zeng, Christine Kim, Lauren Archer, Omarzaman Sayedi, Mohammad Yousuf Jabarkhil, Kathleen Sears
What do patients with diabetes and providers think of an innovative Australian model of remote diabetic retinopathy screening? A qualitative study
Nicola M. Glasson, Sarah L. Larkins, Lisa J. Crossland
Leveraging the private sector for child health: a qualitative examination of caregiver and provider perspectives on private sector care for childhood pneumonia in Uttar Pradesh, India
Aurélie Brunie, Rachel Lenzi, Anamika Lahiri, Rasa Izadnegahdar
The impact of community health worker-led home delivery of antiretroviral therapy on virological suppression: a non-inferiority cluster-randomized health systems trial in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Pascal Geldsetzer, Joel M. Francis, Nzovu Ulenga, David Sando, Irene A. Lema, Eric Mboggo, Maria Vaikath, Happiness Koda, Sharon Lwezaula, Janice Hu, Ramadhani A. Noor, Ibironke Olofin, Elysia Larson, Wafaie Fawzi, Till Bärnighausen
Evaluation of rational drug use based on World Health Organization core drug use indicators in selected public hospitals of eastern Ethiopia: a cross sectional study
Mekonnen Sisay, Getnet Mengistu, Bereket Molla, Firehiwot Amare, Tesfaye Gabriel
To what extent are psychiatrists aware of the comorbid somatic illnesses of their patients with serious mental illnesses? – a cross-sectional secondary data analysis
Christina Dornquast, Juliane Tomzik, Thomas Reinhold, Matthias Walle, Norbert Mönter, Anne Berghöfer
The distribution of maternity services across rural and remote Australia: does it reflect population need?
Margaret I Rolfe, Deborah Anne Donoghue, Jo M Longman, Jennifer Pilcher, Sue Kildea, Sue Kruske, Jude Kornelsen, Stefan Grzybowski, Lesley Barclay, Geoffrey Gerard Morgan
Perceptions of telecare training needs in home healthcare services: a focus group study
Veslemøy Guise, Siri Wiig
Erratum to: 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
Clinical trials from the patient perspective: survey in an online patient community
Pronabesh DasMahapatra, Priya Raja, Jeremy Gilbert, Paul Wicks
Changes over time in prescription practices of pain medications in Switzerland between 2006 and 2013: an analysis of insurance claims
Maria M. Wertli, Oliver Reich, Andri Signorell, Jakob M. Burgstaller, Johann Steurer, Ulrike Held
Is the timing of radiological intervention and treatment day associated with economic outcomes in DRG-financed health care systems: a case study
Christoph Napierala, Stefan Boes
Experiences from implementing value-based healthcare at a Swedish University Hospital – a longitudinal interview study
Kerstin Nilsson, Fredrik Bååthe, Annette Erichsen Andersson, Ewa Wikström, Mette Sandoff
Practice change in chronic conditions care: an appraisal of theories
Melanie Harris, Sharon J. Lawn, Andrea Morello, Malcolm W. Battersby, Julie Ratcliffe, R. Doug McEvoy, Jennifer J. Tieman
A mixed-methods needs assessment of adult diabetes mellitus (type II) and hypertension care in Toledo, Belize
Annette M. Dekker, Ashley E. Amick, Cecilia Scholcoff, Ashti Doobay-Persaud
Assessment of primary health care facilities’ service readiness in Nigeria
Abayomi Samuel Oyekale
Reflection of illness and strategies for handling advanced lung cancer – a qualitative analysis in patients and their relatives
Anika Sparla, Sebastian Flach-Vorgang, Matthias Villalobos, Katja Krug, Martina Kamradt, Kadiatou Coulibaly, Joachim Szecsenyi, Michael Thomas, Sinikka Gusset-Bährer, Dominik Ose
Enabling the flow of compassionate care: a grounded theory study
Stephanie Tierney, Kate Seers, Elizabeth Tutton, Joanne Reeve
Does capitation affect the delivery of oral healthcare and access to services? Evidence from a pilot contact in Northern Ireland
Harry Hill, Stephen Birch, Martin Tickle, Ruth McDonald, Michael Donaldson, Donncha O’Carolan, Paul Brocklehurst
Service use of older people who participate in primary care health promotion: a latent class analysis
John A. Ford, Kalpa Kharicha, Caroline S. Clarke, Allan Clark, Steve Iliffe, Claire Goodman, Jill Manthorpe, Nick Steel, Kate Walters
The effect of referral templates on out-patient quality of care in a hospital setting: a cluster randomized controlled trial
Henrik Wåhlberg, Per Christian Valle, Siri Malm, Øistein Hovde, Ann Ragnhild Broderstad
Intimate partner violence and utilization of maternal health care services in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Bedru Hussen Mohammed, Janice Mary Johnston, Joseph I. Harwell, Huso Yi, Katrina Wai-kay Tsang, Jemal Ali Haidar
GPs’ and dentists’ experiences and expectations of interprofessional collaboration: findings from a qualitative study in Germany
Khira Sippli, Monika A. Rieger, Fabian Huettig
Implementation of integrated geriatric care at a German hospital: a case study to understand when and why beneficial outcomes can be achieved
Loraine Busetto, Jörn Kiselev, Katrien Ger Luijkx, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Hubertus Johannes Maria Vrijhoef
Factors associated with alcohol reduction in harmful and hazardous drinkers following alcohol brief intervention in Scotland: a qualitative enquiry
Jean M. McQueen, Claire Ballinger, Tracey E. Howe
Cost-effectiveness of adding novel or group 5 interventions to a background regimen for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Germany
Daniel Wirth, Ramesh Dass, Robert Hettle
Developing a measure of mental health service satisfaction for use in low income countries: a mixed methods study
Rosie Mayston, Kassahun Habtamu, Girmay Medhin, Atalay Alem, Abebaw Fekadu, Alehegn Habtamu, Martin Prince, Charlotte Hanlon
A qualitative exploration of care-seeking pathways for sick children in the rural Oromia region of Ethiopia
Bryan Shaw, Agbessi Amouzou, Nathan P. Miller, Jennifer Bryce, Pamela J. Surkan
Main drivers of health expenditure growth in China: a decomposition analysis
Tiemin Zhai, John Goss, Jinjing Li
Understanding optimal approaches to patient and caregiver engagement in the development of cancer practice guidelines: a mixed methods study
Melissa C. Brouwers, Marija Vukmirovic, Karen Spithoff, Julie Makarski
Quality of the delivery services in health facilities in Northern Ethiopia
Girmatsion Fisseha, Yemane Berhane, Alemayehu Worku, Wondwossen Terefe
Assessment of provider-initiated HIV screening in Nigeria with sub-Saharan African comparison
Felix A. Ogbo, Andrew Mogaji, Pascal Ogeleka, Kingsley E. Agho, John Idoko, Terver Zua Tule, Andrew Page
Continuum of care in maternal, newborn and child health in Pakistan: analysis of trends and determinants from 2006 to 2012
Sarosh Iqbal, Sidra Maqsood, Rubeena Zakar, Muhammad Zakria Zakar, Florian Fischer
Tuberculosis cure rates and the ETR.Net: investigating the quality of reporting treatment outcomes from primary healthcare facilities in Mpumalanga province, South Africa
A. W. Dreyer, D. Mbambo, M. Machaba, C. E. M. Oliphant, M. M. Claassens
Erratum to: The value of informal care in the context of option B+ in Malawi: a contingent valuation approach
Levison Stanely Chiwaula, Gowokani Chijere Chirwa, Fabian Cataldo, 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
Engaging patients in health research: identifying research priorities through community town halls
Holly Etchegary, Lisa Bishop, Catherine Street, Kris Aubrey-Bassler, Dale Humphries, Lidewij Eva Vat, Brendan Barrett
Low contribution of health extension workers in identification of persons with presumptive pulmonary tuberculosis in Ethiopian Somali Region pastoralists
Fentabil Getnet, Abdiwahab Hashi, Sahardid Mohamud, Hassen Mowlid, Eveline Klinkenberg
Modern contraceptive utilization and associated factors among married pastoralist women in Bale eco-region, Bale Zone, South East Ethiopia
Semere Sileshi Belda, Mekonnen Tegegne Haile, Abulie Takele Melku, Abdurehaman Kalu Tololu
Urban Health Extension Services Utilization in Bishoftu Town, Oromia Regional State, Central Ethiopia
Ewunetu Aberra Gebreegziabher, Feleke Hailemichael Astawesegn, Antehun Alemayehu Anjulo, Mirkuzie Woldie Kerie
Understanding the implementation and adoption of a technological intervention to improve medication safety in primary care: a realist evaluation
Mark Jeffries, Denham L. Phipps, Rachel L. Howard, Anthony J. Avery, Sarah Rodgers, Darren M. Ashcroft
Medication-related calls received by a national telenursing triage and advice service in Australia: a retrospective cohort study
Ling Li, Rebecca Lake, Magdalena Z. Raban, Mary Byrne, Maureen Robinson, Johanna Westbrook, Melissa T. Baysari
A study to reduce readmissions after surgery in the Veterans Health Administration: design and methodology
Laurel A. Copeland, Laura A. Graham, Joshua S. Richman, Amy K. Rosen, Hillary J. Mull, Edith A. Burns, Jeff Whittle, Kamal M. F. Itani, Mary T. Hawn
Assessment of hospital length of stay and direct costs of type 2 diabetes in Hubei Province, China
Dajie Chen, Shuai Liu, Xiaodong Tan, Qihan Zhao
A protocol for the methodological steps used to evaluate the alignment of rehabilitation services in the Western Cape, South Africa with the National Rehabilitation Policy
Gubela Mji, Anthea Rhoda, Sue Statham, Conran Joseph
Assessing the reporting of categorised quantitative variables in observational epidemiological studies
Onkabetse V. Mabikwa, Darren C. Greenwood, Paul D. Baxter, Sarah J. Fleming
CogChamps – a model of implementing evidence-based care in hospitals: study protocol
Catherine Travers, Frederick Graham, Amanda Henderson, Elizabeth Beattie
Providers of antenatal care services in Ghana: evidence from Ghana demographic and health surveys 1988–2014
Kwamena Sekyi Dickson, Eugene Kofuor Maafo Darteh, Akwasi Kumi - Kyereme
Exploring implementation practices in results-based financing: the case of the verification in Benin
Matthieu Antony, Maria Paola Bertone, Olivier Barthes
At first glance, informal payments experience on track: why accept or refuse? Patients’ perceive in cardiac surgery department of public hospitals, northeast of Iran 2013
Ali Vafaei Najar, Hossein Ebrahimipour, Arefeh Pourtaleb, Habibollah Esmaily, Mehdi Jafari, Zohre Nejatzadegan, Yasamin Molavi Taleghani
Examining the relationship between therapeutic self-care and adverse events for home care clients in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective cohort study
Winnie Sun, Diane M. Doran, Walter P. Wodchis, Elizabeth Peter
Exploring public sector physicians’ resilience, reactions and coping strategies in times of economic crisis; findings from a survey in Portugal’s capital city area
Giuliano Russo, Carlos André Pires, Julian Perelman, Luzia Gonçalves, Pedro Pita Barros
Implementation of evidence-informed practice through central network actors; a case study of three public health units in Canada
Reza Yousefi Nooraie, Alexandra Marin, Robert Hanneman, Lynne Lohfeld, Maureen Dobbins
Understanding low uptake of contraceptives in resource-limited settings: a mixed-methods study in rural Burundi
M. Ndayizigiye, M. C. Smith Fawzi, C. Thompson Lively, N.C. Ware
Erratum to: 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
Readmission and mortality in patients discharged with a diagnosis of medical observation and evaluation (Z03*-codes) from an acute admission unit in Denmark: a prospective cohort study
Kåre Melchior Hansen, Henrik Nielsen, Betina Vest-Hansen, Anders Møllekær, Reimar Wernich Thomsen, Ole Mølgaard, Hans Kirkegaard, Elisabeth Svensson
Hospitals admitting at least 100 patients with stroke a year should have a stroke unit: a case study from Australia
Dominique A. Cadilhac, Monique F. Kilkenny, Nadine E. Andrew, Elizabeth Ritchie, Kelvin Hill, Erin Lalor
PORTALS: design of an innovative approach to anticoagulation management through eHealth
E. P. W. A. Talboom-Kamp, N. A. Verdijk, I. J. S. H. Talboom, L. M. Harmans, M. E. Numans, N. H. Chavannes
Barriers and facilitators of linkage to HIV care among HIV-infected young Chinese men who have sex with men: a qualitative study
Haochu Li, Chongyi Wei, Joseph Tucker, Dianmin Kang, Meizhen Liao, Eleanor Holroyd, Jietao Zheng, Qian Qi, Wei Ma
Erratum to: Treating the invisible: Gaps and opportunities for enhanced TB control along the Thailand-Myanmar border
Naomi Tschirhart, Sein Sein Thi, Lei Lei Swe, Francois Nosten, Angel M. Foster
Erratum to: Training nurses in task-shifting strategies for the management and control of hypertension in Ghana: a mixed-methods study
Joyce Gyamfi, Jacob Plange-Rhule, Juliet Iwelunmor, Debbie Lee, Sarah R. Blackstone, Alicia Mitchell, Michael Ntim, Kingsley Apusiga, Bamidele Tayo, Kwasi Yeboah-Awudzi, Richard Cooper, Gbenga Ogedegbe
The role of consumer perspectives in estimating population need for substance use services: a scoping review
Elaine Hyshka, Kamagaju Karekezi, Benjamin Tan, Linda G. Slater, Jesse Jahrig, T. Cameron Wild
Effects of interdisciplinary teamwork on patient-reported experience of cancer care
Dominique Tremblay, Danièle Roberge, Nassera Touati, Elizabeth Maunsell, Djamal Berbiche
The development of integrated diabetes care in the Netherlands: a multiplayer self-assessment analysis
Nick Zonneveld, Lidewij E. Vat, Hans Vlek, Mirella M. N. Minkman
Variation in readmission and mortality following hospitalisation with a diagnosis of heart failure: prospective cohort study using linked data
Rosemary J. Korda, Wei Du, Cathy Day, Karen Page, Peter S. Macdonald, Emily Banks
Prenatal and post-natal cost of small for gestational age infants: a national study
Alicia Marzouk, Antoine Filipovic-Pierucci, Olivier Baud, Vassilis Tsatsaris, Anne Ego, Marie-Aline Charles, François Goffinet, Danièle Evain-Brion, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski
Using a multimethod approach to develop implementation strategies for a cervical self-sampling program in Kenya
Irene Podolak, Caroline Kisia, Gloria Omosa-Manyonyi, Jarold Cosby
An exploration of the socio-economic profile of women and costs of receiving abortion services at public health facilities of Madhya Pradesh, India
Sushanta K. Banerjee, Rakesh Kumar, Janardan Warvadekar, Vinoj Manning, Kathryn Louise Andersen
Perceptions of interprofessional collaboration of general practitioners and community pharmacists - a qualitative study
Christin Löffler, Carolin Koudmani, Femke Böhmer, Susanne D. Paschka, Jennifer Höck, Eva Drewelow, Martin Stremme, Bernd Stahlhacke, Attila Altiner
Association of admission and patient characteristics with quality of discharge letters: posthoc analysis of a retrospective study
Maaike Langelaan, Rebecca J. Baines, Martine C. de Bruijne, Cordula Wagner
Where’s the evidence? a systematic review of economic analyses of residential aged care infrastructure
Tiffany Easton, Rachel Milte, Maria Crotty, Julie Ratcliffe
Evaluating the sub-national fidelity of national Initiatives in decentralized health systems: Integrated Primary Health Care Governance in Nigeria
Ejemai Amaize Eboreime, Seye Abimbola, Felix Abrahams Obi, Obinna Ebirim, Olalekan Olubajo, John Eyles, Nonhlanhla Lynette Nxumalo, Faith Nankasa Mambulu
Explaining culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) parents’ access of healthcare services for developmental surveillance and anticipatory guidance: qualitative findings from the ‘Watch Me Grow’ study
Pankaj Garg, My Trinh Ha, John Eastwood, Susan Harvey, Sue Woolfenden, Elisabeth Murphy, Cheryl Dissanayake, Bin Jalaludin, Katrina Williams, Anne McKenzie, Stewart Einfeld, Natalie Silove, Kate Short, Valsamma Eapen
Relationships between structure, process and outcome to assess quality of integrated chronic disease management in a rural South African setting: applying a structural equation model
Soter Ameh, Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Kathleen Kahn, Stephen M. Tollman, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch
A structural model of treatment program and individual counselor leadership in innovation transfer
George W. Joe, Jennifer E. Becan, Danica K. Knight, Patrick M. Flynn
Mobile radiography services in nursing homes: a systematic review of residents’ and societal outcomes
Elin Kjelle, Kristin Bakke Lysdahl
The structural and health policy environment for delivering integrated HIV and substance use disorder treatments in Puerto Rico
Jared A. Leff, Diana Hernández, Paul A. Teixeira, Pedro C. Castellón, Daniel J. Feaster, Allan E. Rodriguez, Jorge L. Santana-Bagur, Sandra Miranda De León, José Vargas Vidot, Lisa R. Metsch, Bruce R. Schackman
The FORGE AHEAD clinical readiness consultation tool: a validated tool to assess clinical readiness for chronic disease care mobilization in Canada’s First Nations
Mariam Naqshbandi Hayward, Selam Mequanint, Jann Paquette-Warren, Ross Bailie, Alexandra Chirila, Roland Dyck, Michael Green, Anthony Hanley, Jordan Tompkins, Stewart Harris, Stewart Harris, Ed Barre, Onil Bhattacharyya, David Dannenbaum, Keith Dawson, Roland Dyck, Jo-Ann Episkenew, Michael Green, Anthony Hanley, Barry Lavallee, Ann Macaulay, Alex McComber, Monica Parry, Sonja Reichert, Jon Salsberg, Amardeep Thind, Sheldon Tobe, Ellen Toth, Audrey Walsh, Jay Wortman, Lloy Wylie, Merrick Zwarenstein, Ross Bailie, Kayla Collins, Claire de Oliveira, Michael Hindmarsh, Valeria Rac, Linda Stanley, Joanne Lewis, Marlene Nosé, Brigitte Parent, Stephen Sundquist, Lillian Houle, Amber Houle, Dawn Montour-Lazare, Joelle Emond, Jessica Jacobs, Randy Littlechild, Bonny Graham, Tina Littlechild, Devon Guy, Chalsea Onespot, Ivan Kimble McComb, Emilie Dufour, Verna Jolly, Charlene Diamond, Jennifer Jones, Danna Hadden, April DeYaeger, Theresa O’Keefe, Ada Roberts, Maggie Organ, Shelley Kirkness, Marie Jebb, Carla Constant, Allen Deleary, Rennie Nawash, Lori Sinclair, Heather McDonald, Bonnie Nickel, Mariam Naqshbandi Hayward, Selam Mequanint, Jann Paquette-Warren, Jordan Tompkins, Susan Webster-Bogaert, Braden Te Hiwi, Harsh Zaran, Jim Esler, Meghan Fournie, Marie Tyler, Jackie McLellan, Marnie Orcutt
Family-focused practice within a recovery framework: practitioners’ qualitative perspectives
B. Ward, A. Reupert, F. McCormick, S. Waller, S. Kidd
A questionnaire measuring staff perceptions of Lean adoption in healthcare: development and psychometric testing
Monica Kaltenbrunner, Lars Bengtsson, Svend Erik Mathiassen, Maria Engström
Accessibility of long-term family planning methods: a comparison study between Output Based Approach (OBA) clients verses non-OBA clients in the voucher supported facilities in Kenya
Boniface Oyugi, Urbanus Kioko, Stephen Mbugua Kaboro, Shadrack Gikonyo, Clarice Okumu, Sarah Ogola-Munene, Shaminder Kalsi, Simon Thiani, Julius Korir, Paul Odundo, Billy Baltazaar, Moses Ranji, Nicholas Muraguri, Charles Nzioka
The potential of health literacy to address the health related UN sustainable development goal 3 (SDG3) in Nepal: a rapid review
Shyam Sundar Budhathoki, Paras K. Pokharel, Suvajee Good, Sajani Limbu, Meika Bhattachan, Richard H. Osborne
A process evaluation plan for assessing a complex community-based maternal health intervention in Ogun State, Nigeria
Sumedha Sharma, Olalekan O. Adetoro, Marianne Vidler, Sharla Drebit, Beth A. Payne, David O. Akeju, Akinmade Adepoju, Ebunoluwa Jaiyesimi, John Sotunsa, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Laura A. Magee, Peter von Dadelszen, Olukayode Dada
Task-shifting alcohol interventions for HIV+ persons in Kenya: a cost-benefit analysis
Omar Galárraga, Burke Gao, Benson N. Gakinya, Debra A. Klein, Richard G. Wamai, John E. Sidle, Rebecca K. Papas
Lost in care pathway: a qualitative investigation on the health system delay of extra pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Bangladesh
Malabika Sarker, Din Mohammad, Sukanta Paul, Rahima Akter, Shayla Islam, Goutam Biswas, Asheque Hossain, Akramul Islam
Disparities in receipt of recommended care among younger versus older medicare beneficiaries: a cohort study
Ling Na, Joel E. Streim, Liliana E. Pezzin, Jibby E. Kurichi, Dawei Xie, Hillary R. Bogner, Pui L. Kwong, Steven M. Asch, Sean Hennessy
A comparison of generic drug prices in seven European countries: a methodological analysis
Olivier J. Wouters, Panos G. Kanavos
Do healthier lifestyles lead to less utilization of healthcare resources?
I-Chen Lee, Chao-Sung Chang, Pey-Lan Du
Erratum to: Pharmaceutical cost management in an ambulatory setting using a risk adjustment tool
David Vivas-Consuelo, Ruth Usó-Talamantes, Natividad Guadalajara-Olmeda, José-Luis Trillo-Mata, Carla Sancho-Mestre, Laia Buigues-Pastor
Benchmarking specialty hospitals, a scoping review on theory and practice
A. Wind, W. H. van Harten
Selective enrollment in Disease Management Programs for coronary heart disease in Germany – An analysis based on cross-sectional survey and administrative claims data
Julia Röttger, Miriam Blümel, Reinhard Busse
Patients who restart antiretroviral medication after interruption remain at high risk of unfavorable outcomes in Ethiopia
Alula M. Teklu, Kesetebirhan D. Yirdaw
Is the co-location of GPs in primary care centres associated with a higher patient satisfaction? Evidence from a population survey in Italy
Manila Bonciani, Sara Barsanti, Anna Maria Murante
High pre-diagnosis attrition among patients with presumptive MDR-TB: an operational research from Bhopal district, India
Hemant Deepak Shewade, Arun M Kokane, Akash Ranjan Singh, Manoj Verma, Malik Parmar, Ashish Chauhan, Sanjay Singh Chahar, Manoj Tiwari, Sheeba Naz Khan, Vivek Gupta, Jaya Prasad Tripathy, Mukesh Nagar, Sanjai Kumar Singh, Pradeep Kumar Mehra, Ajay MV Kumar
Outcomes for primary kidney transplantation from donation after Citizens’ death in China: a single center experience of 367 cases
Wujun Xue, Puxun Tian, Heli Xiang, Xiaoming Ding, Xiaoming Pan, Hang Yan, Jun Hou, Xinshun Feng, Linjuan Liu, Chenguang Ding, Xiaohui Tian, Yang Li, Jin Zheng
Barriers and facilitators to improve safety and efficiency of the ICU discharge process: a mixed methods study
Nelleke van Sluisveld, Anke Oerlemans, Gert Westert, Johannes Gerardus van der Hoeven, Hub Wollersheim, Marieke Zegers
A systematic review of strategies to increase access to health services among children in low and middle income countries
Tess Bright, Lambert Felix, Hannah Kuper, Sarah Polack
Cardiovascular care guideline implementation in community health centers in Oregon: a mixed-methods analysis of real-world barriers and challenges
Rachel Gold, Arwen Bunce, Stuart Cowburn, James V. Davis, Celine Hollombe, Christine A. Nelson, Jon Puro, John Muench, Christian Hill, Victoria Jaworski, MaryBeth Mercer, Colleen Howard, Nancy Perrin, Jennifer DeVoe
The level of nurses' knowledge on occupational post exposure to hepatitis B infection in the Tamale metropolis, Ghana
Kennedy Diema Konlan, Millicent Aarah-Bapuah, Joseph M. Kombat, Gifty Mary Wuffele
Informing primary care reform in Greece: patient expectations and experiences (the QUALICOPC study)
Christos Lionis, Sophia Papadakis, Chrysanthi Tatsi, Antonis Bertsias, George Duijker, Prodromos-Bodosakis Mekouris, Wienke Boerma, Willemijn Schäfer, Ioannis Dakoronias, Sah Hamid Alexandros, Aristofanes Paganas, Dimitrios Ellinas, Vesela Polyzou, Ioannis Lentzas
Implementing the Emergency Triage, Assessment and Treatment plus admission care (ETAT+) clinical practice guidelines to improve quality of hospital care in Rwandan district hospitals: healthcare workers’ perspectives on relevance and challenges
Celestin Hategeka, Leah Mwai, Lisine Tuyisenge
Transitions from biomedical to recovery-oriented practices in mental health: a scoping review to explore the role of Internet-based interventions
Monica Strand, Deede Gammon, Cornelia M. Ruland
Avoidable costs of stenting for aortic coarctation in the United Kingdom: an economic model
Maximilian Salcher, Alistair Mcguire, Vivek Muthurangu, Marcus Kelm, Titus Kuehne, Huseyin Naci, Edwin Morley-Fletcher, Titus Kuehne, Anja Hennemuth, David Manset, Alistair Mcguire, Gernot Plank, Olivier Ecabert, Giacomo Pongiglione, Vivek Muthurangu
Sex differences in healthcare expenditures among adults with diabetes: evidence from the medical expenditure panel survey, 2002–2011
Joni S. Williams, Kinfe Bishu, Clara E. Dismuke, Leonard E. Egede
Health care providers’ attitudes towards transfer and transition in young persons with long term illness- a web-based survey
Carina Sparud-Lundin, Malin Berghammer, Philip Moons, Ewa-Lena Bratt
The readiness and motivation interview for families (RMI-Family) managing pediatric obesity: study protocol
Geoff D. C. Ball, Nicholas D. Spence, Nadia E. Browne, Kathleen O’Connor, Suja Srikameswaran, Joanna Zelichowska, Josephine Ho, Rebecca Gokiert, Louise C. Mâsse, Valerie Carson, Katherine M. Morrison, Jennifer L. Kuk, Nicholas L. Holt, Maryam Kebbe, Nicole D. Gehring, Melody Cesar, Heidi Virtanen, Josie Geller
Use of medical services and medicines attributable to type 2 diabetes care in Yaoundé, Cameroon: a cross-sectional study
Clarisse Mapa-Tassou, Leopold K. Fezeu, Zakariaou Njoumemi, Eric Lontchi-Yimagou, Eugène Sobngwi, Jean Claude Mbanya
Measuring health system responsiveness at facility level in Ethiopia: performance, correlates and implications
Bereket Yakob, Busisiwe Purity Ncama
Predictors of dental visits among primary school children in the rural Australian community of Lithgow
James Rufus John, Haider Mannan, Subrat Nargundkar, Mario D’Souza, Loc Giang Do, Amit Arora
The application of DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) window analysis in the assessment of influence on operational efficiencies after the establishment of branched hospitals
Tongying Jia, Huiyun Yuan
Health workers perceptions and attitude about Ghana’s preparedness towards preventing, containing, and managing Ebola Virus Disease
Philip Baba Adongo, Philip Teg-Nefaah Tabong, Emmanuel Asampong, Joana Ansong, Magda Robalo, Richard M. Adanu
Transfer between hospitals as a predictor of delay in diagnosis and treatment of patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer – a register based cohort-study
Maria Iachina, Erik Jakobsen, Anne Kudsk Fallesen, Anders Green
Contraceptive service provider imposed restrictions to contraceptive access in urban Nigeria
Hilary M. Schwandt, Ilene S. Speizer, Meghan Corroon
The social accountability of doctors: a relationship based framework for understanding emergent community concepts of caring
Lionel P. Green-Thompson, Patricia McInerney, Bob Woollard
Government supervision on quality of smoking-cessation counselling in midwifery practices: a qualitative exploration
Sandra F. Oude Wesselink, Annemiek Stoopendaal, Vicki Erasmus, Déan Smits, Johan P. Mackenbach, Hester F. Lingsma, Paul B. M. Robben
Geographic variation within the military health system
Linda Kimsey, Samuel Olaiya, Chad Smith, Andrew Hoburg, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Tracey Koehlmoos, Louis L. Nguyen, Joel S. Weissman
Severe hypertriglyceridemia secondary to venlafaxine use in an older adult on dialysis -case report
Hsiang-Wen Lin, Cory A. Simonavice, Chiung-Ray Lu, Wen-Ling Lin, Po-Lun Wu, Che-Yi Chou, Chun-Hui Liao, Hsieh-Yuan Lane
Factors associated with high-utilization in a safety net setting
Julia Bell, Sara Turbow, Maura George, Mohammed K. Ali
Length of paediatric inpatient stay, socio-economic status and hospital configuration: a retrospective cohort study
Michelle Heys, Matthew Rajan, Mitch Blair
Generic care pathway for elderly patients in need of home care services after discharge from hospital: a cluster randomised controlled trial
Tove Røsstad, Øyvind Salvesen, Aslak Steinsbekk, Anders Grimsmo, Olav Sletvold, Helge Garåsen
Understanding discharge communication behaviours in a pediatric emergency care context: a mixed methods observation study protocol
Janet A. Curran, Andrea Bishop, Amy Plint, Shannon MacPhee, Roger Zemek, Jill Chorney, Mona Jabbour, Stephen Porter, Scott Sawyer
Diagnostic validity of the STRATIFY and Downton instruments for evaluating the risk of falls by hospitalised acute-care patients: a multicentre longitudinal study
Marta Aranda-Gallardo, Margarita Enriquez de Luna-Rodriguez, Maria J. Vazquez-Blanco, Jose C. Canca-Sanchez, Ana B. Moya-Suarez, Jose M. Morales-Asencio
Contraceptive service provider imposed restrictions to contraceptive access in Urban Nigeria
Hilary M. Schwandt, Ilene S. Speizer, Meghan Corroon
Use of Lot quality assurance sampling surveys to evaluate community health worker performance in rural Zambia: a case of Luangwa district
Moses Mwanza, Japhet Zulu, Stephanie M. Topp, Patrick Musonda, Wilbroad Mutale, Roma Chilengi
Feasibility and effectiveness of a telephone-based social support intervention for informal caregivers of people with dementia: Study protocol of the TALKING TIME project
Martin Berwig, Martin Nikolaus Dichter, Bernd Albers, Katharina Wermke, Diana Trutschel, Swantje Seismann-Petersen, Margareta Halek
Variation in rates of ICU readmissions and post-ICU in-hospital mortality and their association with ICU discharge practices
Nelleke van Sluisveld, Ferishta Bakhshi-Raiez, Nicolette de Keizer, Rebecca Holman, Gert Wester, Hub Wollersheim, Johannes G. van der Hoeven, Marieke Zegers
Healthcare utilization in older patients using personal emergency response systems: an analysis of electronic health records and medical alert data
Stephen Agboola, Sara Golas, Nils Fischer, Mariana Nikolova-Simons, Jorn op den Buijs, Linda Schertzer, Joseph Kvedar, Kamal Jethwani
Health care availability, quality, and unmet need: a comparison of transgender and cisgender residents of Ontario, Canada
Rachel Giblon, Greta R. Bauer
In search of quality indicators for Down syndrome healthcare: a scoping review
Francine A. van den Driessen Mareeuw, Mirjam I. Hollegien, Antonia M. W. Coppus, Diana M. J. Delnoij, Esther de Vries
An assessment of the HIV/TB knowledge and skills of home-based carers working in the North West province in South Africa: a cross-sectional study
Justin G. Engelbrecht, Mabjala R. Letsoalo, Admire C. Chirowodza
Workflow standardization of a novel team care model to improve chronic care: a quasi-experimental study
Laura Panattoni, Lily Hurlimann, Caroline Wilson, Meg Durbin, Ming Tai-Seale
Distance traveled for Medicaid-covered abortion care in California
Nicole E. Johns, Diana Greene Foster, Ushma D. Upadhyay
Effectiveness of triple therapy with direct-acting antivirals for hepatitis C genotype 1 infection: application of propensity score matching in a national HCV treatment registry
Emma Gray, David J. Pasta, Suzanne Norris, Aisling O’Leary
Personalized medicine in Europe: not yet personal enough?
Antonello Di Paolo, François Sarkozy, Bettina Ryll, Uwe Siebert
Perspectives of policy-makers and stakeholders about health care waste management in community-based care in South Africa: a qualitative study
Lydia Hangulu, Olagoke Akintola
Implementation and adaptation of the Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) in five California hospitals: a qualitative research study
S. E. Mitchell, G. M. Weigel, V. Laurens, J. Martin, B. W. Jack
Clinical and cost-effectiveness analysis of early detection of patients at nutrition risk during their hospital stay through the new screening method CIPA: a study protocol
José Pablo Suárez-Llanos, Néstor Benítez-Brito, Laura Vallejo-Torres, Irina Delgado-Brito, Adriá Rosat-Rodrigo, Carolina Hernández-Carballo, Yolanda Ramallo-Fariña, Francisca Pereyra-García-Castro, Juan Carlos-Romero, Nieves Felipe-Pérez, Jennifer García-Niebla, Eduardo Mauricio Calderón-Ledezma, Teresa de Jesús González-Melián, Ignacio Llorente-Gómez de Segura, Manuel Ángel Barrera-Gómez
Using implementation facilitation to foster clinical practice quality and adherence to evidence in challenged settings: a qualitative study
Mona J. Ritchie, Louise E. Parker, Carrie N. Edlund, JoAnn E. Kirchner
Interventions to reduce wait times for primary care appointments: a systematic review
Dominique Ansell, James A. G. Crispo, Benjamin Simard, Lise M. Bjerre
DEMDATA: The Austrian-Czech institutional long term care project – design and protocol of a two-centre cross sectional study
Stefanie Auer, Elisabeth Linsmayer, Anna Beránková, Patrick Pascher, Bernadette Firlinger, Doris Prischl, Paulina Ratajczak, Edith Span, Iva Holmerova
Protocole of a controlled before-after evaluation of a national health information technology-based program to improve healthcare coordination and access to information
Florence Saillour-Glénisson, Sylvie Duhamel, Emmanuelle Fourneyron, Laetitia Huiart, Jean Philippe Joseph, Emmanuel Langlois, Stephane Pincemail, Viviane Ramel, Thomas Renaud, Tamara Roberts, Matthieu Sibé, Frantz Thiessard, Jerome Wittwer, Louis Rachid Salmi
Residents’ satisfaction with primary medical and health services in Western China
Weinan Dong, Qingyu Zhang, Chunsheng Yan, Wanling Fu, Linlin Xu
‘Popping nana back into bed’ - a qualitative exploration of paramedic decision making when caring for older people who have fallen
Paul Simpson, Ric Thomas, Jason Bendall, Bill Lord, Stephen Lord, Jacqueline Close
A cluster randomised control trial to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the Italian medicines use review (I-MUR) for asthma patients
Andrea Manfrin, Michela Tinelli, Trudy Thomas, Janet Krska
Erratum to: High pre-diagnosis attrition among patients with presumptive MDR-TB: an operational research from Bhopal district, India
Hemant Deepak Shewade, Arun M. Kokane, Akash Ranjan Singh, Manoj Verma, Malik Parmar, Ashish Chauhan, Sanjay Singh Chahar, Manoj Tiwari, Sheeba Naz Khan, Vivek Gupta, Jaya Prasad Tripathy, Mukesh Nagar, Sanjai Kumar Singh, Pradeep Kumar Mehra, Ajay M. V. Kumar
Effect of previous utilization and out-of-pocket expenditure on subsequent utilization of a state led public-private partnership scheme “Chiranjeevi Yojana” to promote facility births in Gujarat, India
Sandul Yasobant, Hemant Deepak Shewade, Kranti Suresh Vora, Kristi Sidney Annerstedt, Petros Isaakidis, Nishith B. Dholakia, Dileep V. Mavalankar
“It’s so hard taking pills when you don’t know what they’re for”: a qualitative study of patients’ medicine taking behaviours and conceptualisation of medicines in the context of rheumatoid arthritis
Boitshoko Kobue, Shirra Moch, Jennifer Watermeyer
The quality of Medicaid and Medicare data obtained from CMS and its contractors: implications for pharmacoepidemiology
Charles E. Leonard, Colleen M. Brensinger, Young Hee Nam, Warren B. Bilker, Geralyn M. Barosso, Margaret J. Mangaali, Sean Hennessy
Health care providers’ perspectives regarding the use of chlorhexidine gel for cord care in neonates in rural Kenya: implications for scale-up
Angela Muriuki, Francis Obare, Bill Ayieko, Dennis Matanda, Kenneth Sisimwo, Brian Mdawida
Continuous quality improvement interventions to improve long-term outcomes of antiretroviral therapy in women who initiated therapy during pregnancy or breastfeeding in the Democratic Republic of Congo: design of an open-label, parallel, group randomized trial
Marcel Yotebieng, Frieda Behets, Bienvenu Kawende, Noro Lantoniaina Rosa Ravelomanana, Martine Tabala, Emile W. Okitolonda
Erratum to: Assessing the reporting of categorised quantitative variables in observational epidemiological studies
Onkabetse V. Mabikwa, Darren C. Greenwood, Paul D. Baxter, Sarah J. Fleming
Barriers and facilitators to enrollment and re-enrollment into the community health funds/Tiba Kwa Kadi (CHF/TIKA) in Tanzania: a cross-sectional inquiry on the effects of socio-demographic factors and social marketing strategies
Ntuli A. Kapologwe, Gibson B. Kagaruki, Albino Kalolo, Mariam Ally, Amani Shao, Manoris Meshack, Manfred Stoermer, Amena Briet, Karin Wiedenmayer, Axel Hoffman
The Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) at the patient-clinician interface: a qualitative study of what patients and clinicians mean by their HLQ scores
Melanie Hawkins, Stephen D Gill, Roy Batterham, Gerald R Elsworth, Richard H Osborne
Increasing HIV testing among hard-to-reach groups: examination of RAPID, a community-based testing service in Queensland, Australia
Allyson J. Mutch, Chi-Wai Lui, Judith Dean, Limin Mao, Jime Lemoire, Joseph Debattista, Chris Howard, Andrea Whittaker, Lisa Fitzgerald
Workplace violence against nurses in the Gambia: mixed methods design
Ebrima J. Sisawo, Saide Yacine Y. Arsène Ouédraogo, Song-Lih Huang
Effective communication of public health guidance to emergency department clinicians in the setting of emerging incidents: a qualitative study and framework
Yasmin Khan, Sarah Sanford, Doug Sider, Kieran Moore, Gary Garber, Eileen de Villa, Brian Schwartz
The impact of facility audits, evaluation reports and incentives on motivation and supply management among family planning service providers: an interventional study in two districts in Maputo Province, Mozambique
Heleen Vermandere, Anna Galle, Sally Griffin, Málica de Melo, Lino Machaieie, Dirk Van Braeckel, Olivier Degomme
Avoiding inappropriate urinary catheter use and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI): a pre-post control intervention study
Vicki Parker, Michelle Giles, Laura Graham, Belinda Suthers, Wendy Watts, Tony O’Brien, Andrew Searles
Was federal parity associated with changes in Out-of-network mental health care use and spending?
Susan H. Busch, Emma E. Mcginty, Elizabeth A. Stuart, Haiden A. Huskamp, Teresa B. Gibson, Howard H. Goldman, Colleen L. Barry
Pre/post evaluation of a pilot prevention with positives training program for healthcare providers in North West Province, Republic of South Africa
Christopher G. Kemp, Julia de Kadt, Erushka Pillay, Jennifer M. Gilvydis, Evasen Naidoo, Jessica Grignon, Marcia R. Weaver
Reliability of information on people with disabilities gathered by community health workers in highly consanguineous communities of Northeastern Brazil
Fernando Rocha Lucena Lopes, Karolinne Souza Monteiro, Thalita Figueiredo, Thyago da Costa Wanderley, Thiago de Almeida Pequeno, Shirley Lima, Silvana Santos
“It’s a waiting game” a qualitative study of the experience of carers of patients who require an alternate level of care
Kerry Kuluski, Jennifer Im, Mary McGeown
The barriers and facilitators that indigenous health workers experience in their workplace and communities in providing self-management support: a multiple case study
Jessica Conway, George Tsourtos, Sharon Lawn
Economic and quality of care evaluation of dialysis service models in remote Australia: protocol for a mixed methods study
Gillian Gorham, Kirsten Howard, Samantha Togni, Paul Lawton, Jaquelyne Hughes, Sandawana William Majoni, Sarah Brown, Sue Barnes, Alan Cass
Validation of an instrument for measuring satisfaction of patients undergoing hemodialysis
Mauricio Sanabria-Arenas, Julia Tobón- Marín, María Claudia Certuche-Quintana, Ricardo Sánchez-Pedraza
The role of simulation in mixed-methods research: a framework & application to patient safety
Jeanne-Marie Guise, Matthew Hansen, William Lambert, Kerth O’Brien
Sustainability in Health care by allocating resources effectively (SHARE) 1: introducing a series of papers reporting an investigation of disinvestment in a local healthcare setting
Claire Harris, Sally Green, Wayne Ramsey, Kelly Allen, Richard King
Transcultural adaptation and validation of the patient empowerment in long-term conditions questionnaire
Paloma Garcimartin, Josep Comin-Colet, Pilar Delgado-Hito, Neus Badosa-Marcé, Anna Linas-Alonso
“They made me feel comfortable”: a comparison of methods to measure patient experience in a sexual health clinic
Alison R. Howarth, Sophie Day, Linda Greene, Helen Ward
Menopausal hormone therapy: a systematic review of cost-effectiveness evaluations
Louiza S. Velentzis, Usha Salagame, Karen Canfell
Impact on hospital ranking of basing readmission measures on a composite endpoint of death or readmission versus readmissions alone
Laurent G. Glance, Yue Li, Andrew W. Dick
Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) 2: identifying opportunities for disinvestment in a local healthcare setting
Claire Harris, Kelly Allen, Richard King, Wayne Ramsey, Cate Kelly, Malar Thiagarajan
Sustainability in health care by allocating resources effectively (SHARE) 4: exploring opportunities and methods for consumer engagement in resource allocation in a local healthcare setting
Claire Harris, Henry Ko, Cara Waller, Pamela Sloss, Pamela Williams
Performance of claims-based algorithms for identifying incident thyroid cancer in commercial health plan enrollees receiving antidiabetic drug therapies
Donnie Funch, Douglas Ross, Betsey M. Gardstein, Heather S. Norman, Lauren A. Sanders, Atheline Major-Pedersen, Helge Gydesen, David D. Dore
Key aspects related to implementation of risk stratification in health care systems-the ASSEHS study
Joana Mora, Miren David Iturralde, Lucía Prieto, Cristina Domingo, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Catalina Martínez-Carazo, Anna Giné March, Daniele De Massari, Tino Martí, Marco Nalin, Francesca Avolio, Jean Bousquet, Esteban de Manuel Keenoy, E. de Manuel, J. Mora, M. David, L. Prieto, A. Fullaondo, I. Erreguerena, C. Martinez-Carazo, A. Giné March, C. Domingo, E. Millan, J. Orueta, M. Ogueta, S. Esnaola, E. Valıa, F. Rodenas, S. Pauws, J. op den Buijs, D. De Massari, M. Asim, J. Contel, T. Martı, I. Baroni, M. Romano, M. Nalin, F. Avolio, F. Robusto, V. Lepore, J. Bousquet, A.. Bedbrook, R. Bourret
Time series modelling to forecast prehospital EMS demand for diabetic emergencies
Melanie Villani, Arul Earnest, Natalie Nanayakkara, Karen Smith, Barbora de Courten, Sophia Zoungas
‘Waiting for’ and ‘waiting in’ public and private hospitals: a qualitative study of patient trust in South Australia
Paul R. Ward, Philippa Rokkas, Clinton Cenko, Mariastella Pulvirenti, Nicola Dean, A. Simon Carney, Samantha Meyer
Crisis checklists for in-hospital emergencies: expert consensus, simulation testing and recommendations for a template determined by a multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary learning collaborative
Christian P. Subbe, John Kellett, Paul Barach, Catriona Chaloner, Hayley Cleaver, Tim Cooksley, Erik Korsten, Eilish Croke, Elinor Davis, Ashley JR De Bie, Lesley Durham, Chris Hancock, Jilian Hartin, Tracy Savijn, John Welch, Paul Barach, Helene Beaugrand, Dorothy Breen, Declan Byrne, Catriona Chalmers, Hayley Cleaver, Tim Cooksley, Eilish Croke, Elinor Davis, Ashley De Bie, Peter Donnelly, Eímhín Dunne, Lesley Durham, Bryn Ellis, Rohan Goel, Chris Hancock, Jillian Hartin, Denise Hinge, Mark Holland, Dirk Hueske-Kraus, John Kellett, Sean Kennelly, Erik Korsten, Geoffrey Lighthall, Rebecca Lunn, Michael Müller, Clodagh O’Dwyer, Kerian O’Mahony, Nigel Paice, Lisa Roberts, Tracy Savijn, Christian P. Subbe, Dafydd Thomas, Richard Walsh, Frank Weber, John Welch, Simon Woodworth
Improving access to health care amongst vulnerable populations: a qualitative study of village malaria workers in Kampot, Cambodia
Marco Liverani, Chea Nguon, Ra Sok, Daro Kim, Panharith Nou, Sokhan Nguon, Shunmay Yeung
The redistributive effects of copayment in outpatient prescriptions: evidence from Lombardy
Paolo Berta, Rosella Levaggi, Gianmaria Martini, Stefano Verzillo
Economic burden of comorbidities in psoriasis patients in the United States: results from a retrospective U.S. database
Steven R. Feldman, Haijun Tian, Isabelle Gilloteau, Patrick Mollon, Meng Shu
Staff ratings of occupational engagement among people with severe mental illness – psychometric properties of a screening tool in the day center context
Mona Eklund, Ulrika Bejerholm
Decision-making and referral processes for patients with motor neurone disease: a qualitative study of GP experiences and evaluation of a new decision-support tool
Susan Baxter, Christopher J. McDermott
Sustainability in health care by allocating resources effectively (SHARE) 3: examining how resource allocation decisions are made, implemented and evaluated in a local healthcare setting
Claire Harris, Kelly Allen, Cara Waller, Vanessa Brooke
Task shifting of triage to peer expert informal care providers at a tertiary referral HIV clinic in Malawi: a cross-sectional operational evaluation
Megan Landes, Courtney Thompson, Edson Mwinjiwa, Edith Thaulo, Chrissie Gondwe, Harriet Akello, Adrienne K. Chan
Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) 5: developing a model for evidence-driven resource allocation in a local healthcare setting
Claire Harris, Kelly Allen, Cara Waller, Sally Green, Richard King, Wayne Ramsey, Cate Kelly, Malar Thiagarajan
Cryopreservation of reproductive material before cancer treatment: a qualitative study of health care professionals’ views about ways to enhance clinical care
Karin Hammarberg, Maggie Kirkman, Catharyn Stern, Robert I. McLachlan, Debra Gook, Luk Rombauts, Beverley Vollenhoven, Jane R. W. Fisher
Reaching beyond the review of research evidence: a qualitative study of decision making during the development of clinical practice guidelines for disease prevention in healthcare
Linda Richter Sundberg, Rickard Garvare, Monica Elisabeth Nyström
What makes weekend allied health services effective and cost-effective (or not) in acute medical and surgical wards? Perceptions of medical, nursing, and allied health workers
Lisa O’Brien, Deb Mitchell, Elizabeth H. Skinner, Romi Haas, Marcelle Ghaly, Fiona McDermott, Kerry May, Terry Haines
Quality of care in family planning services in Senegal and their outcomes
Shireen Assaf, Wenjuan Wang, Lindsay Mallick
Calculating hospital length of stay using the Hospital Episode Statistics; a comparison of methodologies
John Busby, Sarah Purdy, William Hollingworth
Frequent use of hospital inpatient services during a nine year period: a retrospective cohort study
Adelle M. Springer, John R. Condon, Shu Q. Li, Steven L. Guthridge
Worlds apart? A scoping review addressing different stakeholder perspectives on barriers to family involvement in the care for persons with severe mental illness
Elleke Landeweer, Bert Molewijk, Marit Helene Hem, Reidar Pedersen
Health literacy and primary health care use of ethnic minorities in the Netherlands
Marieke van der Gaag, Iris van der Heide, Peter M. M. Spreeuwenberg, Anne E. M. Brabers, Jany J. D. J. M. Rademakers
Funding and remuneration of interdisciplinary primary care teams in Canada: a conceptual framework and application
W. Dominika Wranik, Susan M. Haydt, Alan Katz, Adrian R. Levy, Maryna Korchagina, Jeanette M. Edwards, Ian Bower
Predictors of preferred location of care in middle-aged individuals of a municipality in Japan: a cross-sectional survey
Kentaro Sugimoto, Masayo Kashiwagi, Nanako Tamiya
Cervical cancer treatment costs and cost-effectiveness analysis of human papillomavirus vaccination in Vietnam: a PRIME modeling study
Hoang Van Minh, Nguyen Thi Tuyet My, Mark Jit
Acute coronary syndrome patients admitted to a cardiology vs non-cardiology service: variations in treatment & outcome
Deirdre E. O’Neill, Danielle A. Southern, Colleen M. Norris, Blair J. O’Neill, Helen J. Curran, Michelle M. Graham
What is the evidence for the management of patients along the pathway from the emergency department to acute admission to reduce unplanned attendance and admission? An evidence synthesis
Sarah H. Credé, Colin O’Keeffe, Suzanne Mason, Anthea Sutton, Emma Howe, Susan J. Croft, Mike Whiteside
Going to scale: design and implementation challenges of a program to increase access to skilled birth attendants in Nigeria
Edward N. Okeke, Emma Pitchforth, Josephine Exley, Peter Glick, Isa Sadeeq Abubakar, Amalavoyal V. Chari, Usman Bashir, Kun Gu, Obinna Onwujekwe
Identified obstacles and prerequisites in telenurses’ work environment – a modified Delphi study
Annica Bjorkman, Maria Engstrom, Annakarin Olsson, Anna Carin Wahlberg
Assessment of neurologists’ knowledge regarding intravenous fibrinolytic therapy for acute stroke in Shanxi province in China
Liansheng Ma, Xiaoyuan Niu, Wei Zhang, Yalan Fang, Jie Wang
Current status, challenges and the way forward for clinical pharmacy service in Ethiopian public hospitals
Arebu Issa Bilal, Zelalem Tilahun, Gebremedhin Beedemariam Gebretekle, Belete Ayalneh, Bisrat Hailemeskel, Ephrem Engidawork
Description of inter-institutional referrals after admission for labor and delivery: a prospective population based cohort study in rural Maharashtra, India
Archana B. Patel, Amber Abhijeet Prakash, Camille Raynes-Greenow, Yamini V. Pusdekar, Patricia L. Hibberd
Influences on patient satisfaction in healthcare centers: a semi-quantitative study over 5 years
Ruth D. Thornton, Nicole Nurse, Laura Snavely, Stacey Hackett-Zahler, Kenice Frank, Robert A. DiTomasso
A qualitative study of Telehealth patient information leaflets (TILs): are we giving patients enough information?
Reem Kayyali, Iman Hesso, Evelyn Ejiko, Shereen Nabhani Gebara
Microblogging violent attacks on medical staff in China: a case study of the Longmen County People’s Hospital incident
Jia Tian, Li Du
Exploring “patient-centered” hospitals: a systematic review to understand change
Irene Gabutti, Daniele Mascia, Americo Cicchetti
Resource Use and Disease Course in dementia - Nursing Home (REDIC-NH), a longitudinal cohort study; design and patient characteristics at admission to Norwegian nursing homes
Irene Røen, Geir Selbæk, Øyvind Kirkevold, Knut Engedal, Ingelin Testad, Sverre Bergh
Development and validation of the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEI) induced angioedema investigator rating scale and proposed discharge criteria
Nicola Bonner, Charlotte Panter, Alan Kimura, Rich Sinert, Joseph Moellman, Jonathan A. Bernstein
Socioeconomic inequalities in the uptake of maternal healthcare services in Ethiopia
Markos Mezmur, Kannan Navaneetham, Gobopamang Letamo, Hadgu Bariagaber
Trends in healthcare expenditure in United States adults with chronic kidney disease: 2002–2011
Mukoso N. Ozieh, Kinfe G. Bishu, Clara E. Dismuke, Leonard E. Egede
Three approaches to glucose monitoring in non-insulin treated diabetes: a pragmatic randomized clinical trial protocol
Laura A. Young, John B. Buse, Mark A. Weaver, Maihan B. Vu, April Reese, C. Madeline Mitchell, Tamara Blakeney, Kimberlea Grimm, Jennifer Rees, Katrina E. Donahue
Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) 6: investigating methods to identify, prioritise, implement and evaluate disinvestment projects in a local healthcare setting
Claire Harris, Kelly Allen, Vanessa Brooke, Tim Dyer, Cara Waller, Richard King, Wayne Ramsey, Duncan Mortimer
Comprehensive taxonomy and worldwide trends in pharmaceutical policies in relation to country income status
N. Maniadakis, G. Kourlaba, J. Shen, A. Holtorf
Engaging the Canadian public on reimbursement decision-making for drugs for rare diseases: a national online survey
Julie Polisena, Michael Burgess, Craig Mitton, Larry D. Lynd
Understanding and addressing contraceptive stockouts to increase family planning access and uptake in Senegal
Leah Hasselback, Modibo Dicko, Claire Viadro, Soussaba Ndour, Oumy Ndao, Jennifer Wesson
An analysis of policy success and failure in formal evaluations of Australia’s national mental health strategy (1992–2012)
Francesca C. Grace, Carla S. Meurk, Brian W. Head, Wayne D. Hall, Meredith G. Harris, Harvey A. Whiteford
Characteristics of therapeutic alliance in musculoskeletal physiotherapy and occupational therapy practice: a scoping review of the literature
Folarin Babatunde, Joy MacDermid, Norma MacIntyre
Comparison of methods to identify long term care nursing home residence with administrative data
James S. Goodwin, Shuang Li, Jie Zhou, James E. Graham, Amol Karmarkar, Kenneth Ottenbacher
Measurement of special access to home visit nursing services among Japanese disabled elderly people: using GIS and claim data
Takashi Naruse, Hiroshige Matsumoto, Mahiro Fujisaki-Sakai, Satoko Nagata
Introducing onsite antenatal syphilis screening in Burkina Faso: implementation and evaluation of a feasibility intervention tailored to a local context
Fadima Yaya Bocoum, Grissoum Tarnagda, Fabrice Bationo, Justin R. Savadogo, Sarata Nacro, Séni Kouanda, Christina Zarowsky
Development and evaluation of an “emergency access button” in Danish out-of-hours primary care: a study protocol of a randomized controlled trial
J. F. Ebert, L. Huibers, F. K. Lippert, B. Christensen, M. B. Christensen
Reliability, feasibility, and validity of the quality of interactions schedule (QuIS) in acute hospital care: an observational study
Christopher McLean, Peter Griffiths, Ines Mesa – Eguiagaray, Ruth M. Pickering, Jackie Bridges
Team social cohesion, professionalism, and patient-centeredness: Gendered care work, with special reference to elderly care – a mixed methods study
Ann Öhman, Britt-Inger Keisu, Birgit Enberg
Unplanned pregnancy-risks and use of emergency contraception: a survey of two Nigerian Universities
Anthony Idowu Ajayi, Ezebunwa Ethelbert Nwokocha, Oladele Vincent Adeniyi, Daniel Ter Goon, Wilson Akpan
Implementation fidelity of a nurse-led falls prevention program in acute hospitals during the 6-PACK trial
Renata T. Morello, Anna L. Barker, Darshini R. Ayton, Fiona Landgren, Jeannette Kamar, Keith D. Hill, Caroline A. Brand, Catherine Sherrington, Rory Wolfe, Sheral Rifat, Johannes Stoelwinder
Adult patients’ experiences of NHS specialist services for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME): a qualitative study in England
Jessica Broughton, Sarah Harris, Lucy Beasant, Esther Crawley, Simon M Collin
Characterization and effectiveness of pay-for-performance in ophthalmology: a systematic review
Tim Herbst, Martin Emmert
Promoting early presentation of breast cancer in older women: sustained effect of an intervention to promote breast cancer awareness in routine clinical practice
Rachael H. Dodd, Alice S. Forster, Sarah Sellars, Julietta Patnick, Amanda J. Ramirez, Lindsay J. L. Forbes
Improving Hospital at Home for frail older people: insights from a quality improvement project to achieve change across regional health and social care sectors
M. Pearson, A. Hemsley, R. Blackwell, L. Pegg, L. Custerson
Using technology to engage hospitalised patients in their care: a realist review
Shelley Roberts, Wendy Chaboyer, Ruben Gonzalez, Andrea Marshall
Quality of anticoagulation management with warfarin among outpatients in a tertiary hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a retrospective cross-sectional study
Teferi Gedif Fenta, Tamrat Assefa, Bekele Alemayehu
Building freeways: piloting communication skills in additional languages to health service personnel in Cape Town, South Africa
Joel Claassen, Zukile Jama, Nayna Manga, Minnie Lewis, Derek Hellenberg
Perceived barriers to effective implementation of public reporting of hospital performance data in Australia: a qualitative study
Rachel Canaway, Marie Bismark, David Dunt, Margaret Kelaher
Perceptions of quality across the maternal care continuum in the context of a health financing intervention: Evidence from a mixed methods study in rural Malawi
Christabel Kambala, Julia Lohmann, Jacob Mazalale, Stephan Brenner, Malabika Sarker, Adamson S. Muula, Manuela De Allegri
The association between number of doctors per bed and readmission of elderly patients with pneumonia in South Korea
Joo Eun Lee, Tae Hyun Kim, Kyoung Hee Cho, Kyu-Tae Han, Eun-Cheol Park
Agility assessment using fuzzy logic approach: a case of healthcare dispensary
M. Suresh, Rojalin Patri
Surgeons’ knowledge regarding the diagnosis and management of pancreatic cancer in China: a cross-sectional study
Bing-Qi Li, Li Wang, Jian Li, Li Zhou, Tai-Ping Zhang, Jun-Chao Guo, Yu-Pei Zhao
Developing a standardized healthcare cost data warehouse
Sue L. Visscher, James M. Naessens, Barbara P. Yawn, Megan S. Reinalda, Stephanie S. Anderson, Bijan J. Borah
Care cascade structural intervention versus standard of care in the diagnosis and treatment of HIV in China: a cluster-randomized controlled trial protocol
Yurong Mao, Zunyou Wu, Jennifer M. McGoogan, David Liu, Diane Gu, Lynda Erinoff, Walter Ling, Paul VanVeldhuisen, Roger Detels, Albert L. Hasson, Robert Lindblad, Julio S. G. Montaner, Zhenzhu Tang, Yan Zhao
Costs of major intracranial, gastrointestinal and other bleeding events in patients with atrial fibrillation – a nationwide cohort study
Marie Jakobsen, Christophe Kolodziejczyk, Eskild Klausen Fredslund, Peter Bo Poulsen, Lars Dybro, Søren Paaske Johnsen
Improving primary health care facility performance in Ghana: efficiency analysis and fiscal space implications
Jacob Novignon, Justice Nonvignon
Associations between patient factors and adverse events in the home care setting: a secondary data analysis of two canadian adverse event studies
Nancy A. Sears, Régis Blais, Michael Spinks, Michèle Paré, G. Ross Baker
Moderating effects of coping on work stress and job performance for nurses in tertiary hospitals: a cross-sectional survey in China
Li Li, Hua Ai, Lei Gao, Hao Zhou, Xinyan Liu, Zhong Zhang, Tao Sun, Lihua Fan
Social accountability in primary health care in West and Central Africa: exploring the role of health facility committees
Elsbet Lodenstein, Eric Mafuta, Adolphe C. Kpatchavi, Jean Servais, Marjolein Dieleman, Jacqueline E. W. Broerse, Alpha Amadou Bano Barry, Thérèse M. N. Mambu, Jurrien Toonen
Evaluation of community provision of a preventive cardiovascular programme - the National Health Service Health Check in reaching the under-served groups by primary care in England: cross sectional observational study
Maria Woringer, Elizabeth Cecil, Hillary Watt, Kiara Chang, Fozia Hamid, Kamlesh Khunti, Elizabeth Dubois, Julie Evason, Azeem Majeed, Michael Soljak
Are physicians aware enough of patient radiation protection? Results from a survey among physicians of Pavia District– Italy
Francesca Campanella, Laura Rossi, Elio Giroletti, Piero Micheletti, Fabio Buzzi, Simona Villani
Burnout among workers in emergency Departments in Palestinian hospitals: prevalence and associated factors
Motasem Hamdan, Asma’a Abu Hamra
Making HIV testing work at the point of care in South Africa: a qualitative study of diagnostic practices
Nora Engel, Malika Davids, Nadine Blankvoort, Keertan Dheda, Nitika Pant Pai, Madhukar Pai
Factors influencing professional life satisfaction among neurologists
Stephanie M. Teixeira-Poit, Michael T. Halpern, Heather L. Kane, Michael Keating, Murrey Olmsted
Cross-cultural validation of health literacy measurement tools in Italian oncology patients
Paola Zotti, Simone Cocchi, Jerry Polesel, Chiara Cipolat Mis, Donato Bragatto, Silvio Cavuto, Alice Conficconi, Carla Costanzo, Melissa De Giorgi, Christina A. Drace, Federica Fiorini, Laura Gangeri, Andrea Lisi, Rosalba Martino, Paola Mosconi, Angelo Paradiso, Valentina Ravaioli, Ivana Truccolo, Paolo De Paoli, Marta De Conti, Francesca Agostina Masutti, Silvia Flora, Sara Francescon, Valentina Tomasi, Carla Bagnacani, Angela Nardi, Cristina Nanni, Petrina Mariana Braghesiu
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Jennifer Coury, Jennifer L. Schneider, Jennifer S. Rivelli, Amanda F. Petrik, Evelyn Seibel, Brieshon D’Agostini, Stephen H. Taplin, Beverly B. Green, Gloria D. Coronado
Conceptualisation of job-related wellbeing, stress and burnout among healthcare workers in rural Ethiopia: a qualitative study
Medhin Selamu, Graham Thornicroft, Abebaw Fekadu, Charlotte Hanlon
Cost-effectiveness of lung cancer screening and treatment methods: a systematic review of systematic reviews
Farbod Ebadifard Azar, Saber Azami-Aghdash, Fatemeh Pournaghi-Azar, Alireza Mazdaki, Aziz Rezapour, Parvin Ebrahimi, Negar Yousefzadeh
Impact of pharmacy channel on adherence to oral oncolytics
Michael Stokes, Carolina Reyes, Yu Xia, Veronica Alas, Hans-Peter Goertz, Luke Boulanger
Understanding consumer and clinician preferences and decision making for rehabilitation following arthroplasty in the private sector
Mark A. Buhagiar, Justine M. Naylor, Grahame Simpson, Ian A. Harris, Friedbert Kohler
Can formalizing links among community health workers, accredited drug dispensing outlet dispensers, and health facility staff increase their collaboration to improve prompt access to maternal and child care? A qualitative study in Tanzania
Angel Dillip, Suleiman Kimatta, Martha Embrey, John C Chalker, Richard Valimba, Mariam Malliwah, John Meena, Rachel Lieber, Keith Johnson
Parents’ and guardians’ perceptions on availability and pricing of medicines and healthcare for children in eThekwini, South Africa – a qualitative study
Velisha Ann Perumal-Pillay, Fatima Suleman
International validation of quality indicators for evaluating priority setting in low income countries: process and key lessons
Lydia Kapiriri
The development and appraisal of a tool designed to find patients harmed by falsely labelled, falsified (counterfeit) medicines
Marija Anđelković, Einar Björnsson, Virgilio De Bono, Nenad Dikić, Katleen Devue, Daniel Ferlin, Miroslav Hanževački, Freyja Jónsdóttir, Mkrtich Shakaryan, Sabine Walser
Evaluating the impact of prescription drug monitoring program implementation: a scoping review
Erin P. Finley, Ashley Garcia, Kristen Rosen, Don McGeary, Mary Jo Pugh, Jennifer Sharpe Potter
Relationships of work characteristics to job satisfaction, turnover intention, and burnout among doctors in the district public-private mixed health system of Bangladesh
Ashim Roy, Trudy van der Weijden, Nanne de Vries
Knowledge of antibiotic resistance and antibiotic prescription practices among prescribers in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana; a cross-sectional study
Kwaku Poku Asante, Ellen Abrafi Boamah, Martha Ali Abdulai, Kwame Ohene Buabeng, Emmanuel Mahama, Francis Dzabeng, Edith Gavor, Edith Andrews Annan, Seth Owusu-Agyei, Martha Gyansa-Lutterodt
The influence of total hysterectomy in a cervical cancer screening population: a register-based cross-sectional study
Mette Bach Larsen, Ellen M. Mikkelsen, Ulla Jeppesen, Hans Svanholm, Berit Andersen
Patient safety culture in Norwegian nursing homes
Gunnar Tschudi Bondevik, Dag Hofoss, Bettina Sandgathe Husebø, Ellen Catharina Tveter Deilkås
Typology of birth centres in the Netherlands using the Rainbow model of integrated care: results of the Dutch Birth Centre Study
Inge C. Boesveld, Marc A. Bruijnzeels, Marit Hitzert, Marieke A. A. Hermus, Karin M. van der Pal-de Bruin, M. E. van den Akker-van Marle, Eric A. P. Steegers, Arie Franx, Raymond G. de Vries, Therese A. Wiegers
Health and safety matters! Associations between organizational practices and personal support workers’ life and work stress in Ontario, Canada
Isik U. Zeytinoglu, Margaret Denton, Catherine Brookman, Sharon Davies, Firat K. Sayin
Mental disorders and the use of primary health care services among homeless shelter users in the Helsinki metropolitan area, Finland
Agnes Stenius-Ayoade, Peija Haaramo, Elisabet Erkkilä, Niko Marola, Kirsi Nousiainen, Kristian Wahlbeck, Johan G. Eriksson
Impact of free delivery policy on utilization of maternal health services in county referral hospitals in Kenya
John Njuguna, Njoroge Kamau, Charles Muruka
Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) 7: supporting staff in evidence-based decision-making, implementation and evaluation in a local healthcare setting
Claire Harris, Kelly Allen, Cara Waller, Tim Dyer, Vanessa Brooke, Marie Garrubba, Angela Melder, Catherine Voutier, Anthony Gust, Dina Farjou
Diabetes care in a complex humanitarian emergency setting: a qualitative evaluation
Adrianna Murphy, Michel Biringanine, Bayard Roberts, Beverley Stringer, Pablo Perel, Kiran Jobanputra
Dignity in people with frontotemporal dementia and similar disorders — a qualitative study of the perspective of family caregivers
Mette Sagbakken, Dagfinn Nåden, Ingun Ulstein, Kari Kvaal, Birgitta Langhammer, May-Karin Rognstad
A cohort study of a general surgery electronic consultation system: safety implications and impact on surgical yield
Jesus G. Ulloa, Marika D. Russell, Alice Hm Chen, Delphine S. Tuot
The impact of mobile phone based messages on maternal and child healthcare behaviour: a retrospective cross-sectional survey in Bangladesh
Mafruha Alam, Catherine D’Este, Cathy Banwell, Kamalini Lokuge
Assessing the impact of health research on health policies: a study of the Dodowa Health Research Centre, Ghana
Blanca Escribano-Ferrer, Jayne Webster, Margaret Gyapong
Not all waits are equal: an exploratory investigation of emergency care patient pathways
Dawn Swancutt, Sian Joel-Edgar, Michael Allen, Daniel Thomas, Heather Brant, Jonathan Benger, Richard Byng, Jonathan Pinkney
Supporting nurse practitioners’ practice in primary healthcare settings: a three-level qualitative model
Véronique Chouinard, Damien Contandriopoulos, Mélanie Perroux, Catherine Larouche
Potential accessibility scores for hospital care in a province of Japan: GIS-based ecological study of the two-step floating catchment area method and the number of neighborhood hospitals
Takashi Nakamura, Akihisa Nakamura, Kengo Mukuda, Masanori Harada, Kazuhiko Kotani
Evaluation of real-time use of electronic patient-reported outcome data by nurses with patients in home dialysis clinics
Kara Schick-Makaroff, Anita E. Molzahn
Perspectives of health care professionals on the facilitators and barriers to the implementation of a stroke rehabilitation guidelines cluster randomized controlled trial
Sarah E. P. Munce, Ian D. Graham, Nancy M. Salbach, Susan B. Jaglal, Carol L. Richards, Janice J. Eng, Johanne Desrosiers, Marilyn MacKay-Lyons, Sharon Wood-Dauphinee, Nicol Korner-Bitensky, Nancy E. Mayo, Robert W. Teasell, Merrick Zwarenstein, Jennifer Mokry, Sandra Black, Mark T. Bayley
Patients’ satisfaction towards radiological service and associated factors in Hawassa University Teaching and referral hospital, Southern Ethiopia
Teshome Mulisa, Fasil Tessema, Hailu Merga
Early postnatal care use by postpartum mothers in Mundri East County, South Sudan
Jonathan Izudi, Grace Denise Akwang, Dinah Amongin
Challenges and potential improvements in the admission process of patients with spinal cord injury in a specialized rehabilitation clinic – an interview based qualitative study of an interdisciplinary team
Fabian Röthlisberger, Stefan Boes, Sara Rubinelli, Klaus Schmitt, Anke Scheel-Sailer
Greater involvement of HIV-infected peer-mothers in provision of reproductive health services as “family planning champions” increases referrals and uptake of family planning among HIV-infected mothers
Peter Mudiope, Ezra Musingye, Carolyne Onyango Makumbi, Danstan Bagenda, Jaco Homsy, Mai Nakitende, Mike Mubiru, Linda Barlow Mosha, Mike Kagawa, Zikulah Namukwaya, Mary Glenn Fowler
The effectiveness of emergency nurse practitioner service in the management of patients presenting to rural hospitals with chest pain: a multisite prospective longitudinal nested cohort study
Tina E. Roche, Glenn Gardner, Leanne Jack
A systematic literature review of time to return to work and narcotic use after lumbar spinal fusion using minimal invasive and open surgery techniques
Xuan Wang, Benny Borgman, Simona Vertuani, Jonas Nilsson
Supporting medication discontinuation: provider preferences for interventions to facilitate deprescribing
Amy Linsky, Mark Meterko, Kelly Stolzmann, Steven R. Simon
Explaining time elapsed prior to cancer diagnosis: patients’ perspectives
Astrid Brousselle, Mylaine Breton, Lynda Benhadj, Dominique Tremblay, Sylvie Provost, Danièle Roberge, Raynald Pineault, Pierre Tousignant
Use of generic and essential medicines for prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases in Portugal
Helena Gama, Carla Torre, José Pedro Guerreiro, Ana Azevedo, Suzete Costa, Nuno Lunet
Monitoring and evaluation of disaster response efforts undertaken by local health departments: a rapid realist review
Kate Gossip, Hebe Gouda, Yong Yi Lee, Sonja Firth, Raoul Bermejo III, Willibald Zeck, Eliana Jimenez Soto
What is appropriate care? An integrative review of emerging themes in the literature
Joelle Robertson-Preidler, Nikola Biller-Andorno, Tricia J. Johnson
Preventing blood transfusion failures: FMEA, an effective assessment method
Zhila Najafpour, Mojtaba Hasoumi, Faranak Behzadi, Efat Mohamadi, Mohamadreza Jafary, Morteza Saeedi
The Association of Health Insurance with institutional delivery and access to skilled birth attendants: evidence from the Kenya Demographic and health survey 2008–09
Lawrence P.O. Were, Edwin Were, Richard Wamai, Joseph Hogan, Omar Galarraga
A qualitative analysis of the effectiveness of telehealthcare devices (i) are they meeting the needs of end-users?
Natasha C. Campling, David G. Pitts, Paul V. Knight, Richard Aspinall
Assessment of the efficiency of language interpreter services in a busy surgical and procedural practice
Christopher M. Burkle, Kathleen A. Anderson, YaPa Xiong, Andrea E. Guerra, Daniel A. Tschida-Reuter
Clustering patient mobility patterns to assess effectiveness of health-service delivery
Selman Delil, Rahmi Nurhan Çelik, Sayın San, Murat Dundar
Managing expectations: cognitive authority and experienced control in complex healthcare processes
Katherine J. Hunt, Carl R. May
Strengthening close to community provision of maternal health services in fragile settings: an exploration of the changing roles of TBAs in Sierra Leone and Somaliland
Evelyn Orya, Sunday Adaji, Thidar Pyone, Haja Wurie, Nynke van den Broek, Sally Theobald
Hepatitis C hospitalizations in Spain, 2004-2013: a retrospective epidemiological study
R. Boix, R. Cano, P. Gallego, F. Vallejo, R. Fernández-Cuenca, I. Noguer, A. Larrauri
Understanding sexual healthcare seeking behaviour: why a broader research perspective is needed
Fiona Mapp, Kaye Wellings, Ford Hickson, Catherine H. Mercer
Patients’ perceptions of healthcare professionalism—a Romanian experience
Daniela Popa, Daniela Druguș, Florin Leașu, Doina Azoicăi, Angela Repanovici, Liliana Marcela Rogozea
Understanding the impact of supervision on reducing medication risks: an interview study in long-term elderly care
J. A. Vermeulen, S. M. Kleefstra, E. M. Zijp, R. B. Kool
Adverse events and in-hospital mortality: an analysis of all deaths in a Norwegian health trust during 2011
Hans Flaatten, Guttorm Brattebø, Bjørn Alme, Kjersti Berge, Jan H. Rosland, Asgaut Viste, Bjørn Bertelsen, Stig Harthug, Sidsel Aardal
A qualitative analysis of the effectiveness of telehealthcare devices (ii) barriers to uptake of telehealthcare devices
Natasha C. Campling, David G. Pitts, Paul V. Knight, Richard Aspinall
Building COPD care on shaky ground: a mixed methods study from Swedish primary care professional perspective
Sara Lundell, Malin Tistad, Börje Rehn, Maria Wiklund, Åsa Holmner, Karin Wadell
Psychological, situational and application-related determinants of the intention to self-test: a factorial survey among students
Pinar Kuecuekbalaban, Tim Rostalski, Silke Schmidt, Holger Muehlan
Hospital daily outpatient visits forecasting using a combinatorial model based on ARIMA and SES models
Li Luo, Le Luo, Xinli Zhang, Xiaoli He
Unsuccessful TB treatment outcomes with a focus on HIV co-infected cases: a cross-sectional retrospective record review in a high-burdened province of South Africa
M. C Engelbrecht, N. G Kigozi, P. Chikobvu, S. Botha, H. C. J. van Rensburg
Intentions and experiences of effective practice in mental health specific supported accommodation services: a qualitative interview study
Sima Sandhu, Stefan Priebe, Gerard Leavey, Isobel Harrison, Joanna Krotofil, Peter McPherson, Sarah Dowling, Maurice Arbuthnott, Sarah Curtis, Michael King, Geoff Shepherd, Helen Killaspy
Validation of an instrument to assess the delivery of patient-centred care to people with intellectual disabilities as perceived by professionals
Jane Murray Cramm, Anna Petra Nieboer
Two-year post-discharge costs of care among patients treated with transcatheter or surgical aortic valve replacement in Germany
Klaus Kaier, Frederike von Kampen, Hardy Baumbach, Constantin von zur Mühlen, Philip Hehn, Werner Vach, Manfred Zehender, Christoph Bode, Jochen Reinöhl
The relevance of different trust models for representation in patient organizations: conceptual considerations
Helene Gerhards, Karin Jongsma, Silke Schicktanz
Factors associated with medication amounts considered excessive among university students: a questionnaire survey of pharmacy students and those in non-medical schools
Megumi Saito, Noriko Ando-Tanabe, Etsuko Arita
Patients’ preferences for primary health care – a systematic literature review of discrete choice experiments
Kim-Sarah Kleij, Ulla Tangermann, Volker E. Amelung, Christian Krauth
Who is responsible for providing care? Investigating the role of care tasks and past experiences in a cross-sectional survey in the Netherlands
R. J. Hoefman, T. M. Meulenkamp, J. D. De Jong
Deregulation of sale of over-the-counter drugs outside of pharmacies in the Republic of Korea: interrupted-time-series analysis of outpatient visits before and after the policy
Sung-Youn Chun, Hye-Ki Park, Kyu-Tae Han, Woorim Kim, Hyo-Jung Lee, Eun-Cheol Park
How well do ICD-9 physician claim diagnostic codes identify confirmed pertussis cases in Alberta, Canada? A Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) Study
Sumana Fathima, Kimberley A. Simmonds, Steven J. Drews, Lawrence W. Svenson, Jeffrey C. Kwong, Salaheddin M. Mahmud, Susan Quach, Caitlin Johnson, Kevin L. Schwartz, Natasha S. Crowcroft, Margaret L. Russell, Natasha Crowcroft, Jeffrey C. Kwong, Margaret L. Russell, Lawrence W. Svenson, Steven J. Drews, Kimberley A. Simmonds, Salaheddin M. Mahmud, Shelley Deeks, Frances Jamieson, Sarah Wilson
Expanding co-payment for methadone maintenance services in Vietnam: the importance of addressing health and socioeconomic inequalities
Bach Xuan Tran, Quyen Le Nguyen, Long Hoang Nguyen, Huong Thu Thi Phan, Huong Thi Le, Tho Dinh Tran, Thuc Thi Minh Vu, Carl A. Latkin
The three paradoxes of patient flow: an explanatory case study
Sara A. Kreindler
The application of geographic information systems (GIS) in identifying the priority areas for maternal care and services
Fatemeh Salehi, Leila Ahmadian
Do elections matter for private-sector healthcare management in Brazil? An analysis of municipal health policy
Alecia J. McGregor, Carlos Eduardo Siqueira, Alan M. Zaslavsky, Robert J. Blendon
Medical condition and care of undocumented migrants in ambulatory clinics in Tel Aviv, Israel: assessing unmet needs
Zohar Mor, Yuval Raveh, Ido Lurie, Alex Leventhal, Roni Gamzu, Nadav Davidovitch, Orel Benari, Itamar Grotto
Delay along the care-seeking journey of patients with ocular surface squamous neoplasia in Kenya
Stephen Gichuhi, Joy Kabiru, Alain M’bongo Zindamoyen, Hillary Rono, Ernest Ollando, Joseph Wachira, Rhoda Munene, Timothy Onyuma, Mandeep S. Sagoo, David Macleod, Helen A. Weiss, Matthew J. Burton
What characterizes the work culture at a hospital unit that successfully implements change – a correlation study
Beate André, Endre Sjøvold
Do public nursing home care providers deliver higher quality than private providers? Evidence from Sweden
Ulrika Winblad, Paula Blomqvist, Andreas Karlsson
Specialist treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome/ME: a cohort study among adult patients in England
Simon M Collin, Esther Crawley
Satisfaction, discomfort, obligations, and concerns in population-based breast cancer screening: cross-sectional study in a Danish population
Pernille Gabel, Mette Bach Larsen, Pernille Bjørnholt Nielsen, Dorte Brandt Svendstrup, Berit Andersen
Assessing the link between implementation fidelity and health outcomes for a trial of intensive case management by community health workers: a mixed methods study protocol
Barbara Schmidt, Kerrianne Watt, Robyn McDermott, Jane Mills
Prevalence of and factors associated with burnout among health care professionals in Arab countries: a systematic review
I. Elbarazi, T. Loney, S. Yousef, A. Elias
The German day-care study: multicomponent non-drug therapy for people with cognitive impairment in day-care centres supplemented with caregiver counselling (DeTaMAKS) – study protocol of a cluster-randomised controlled trial
Elisa-Marie Behrndt, Melanie Straubmeier, Hildegard Seidl, Stephanie Book, Elmar Graessel, Katharina Luttenberger
Advancing team-based primary health care: a comparative analysis of policies in western Canada
Esther Suter, Sara Mallinson, Renee Misfeldt, Omenaa Boakye, Louise Nasmith, Sabrina T. Wong
Psychometric properties and relations with coping and family strain of the Health Services and Caregiver Experience questionnaire (HSCE): an outcome measure of informal caregivers’ experience for inpatient care in Italy
Anna Coluccia, Fabio Ferretti, Andrea Fagiolini, Andrea Pozza
“We and the nurses are now working with one voice”: How community leaders and health committee members describe their role in Sierra Leone’s Ebola response
Shannon A. McMahon, Lara S. Ho, Kerry Scott, Hannah Brown, Laura Miller, Ruwan Ratnayake, Rashid Ansumana
Cancer related fatigue: implementing guidelines for optimal management
Elizabeth J. M. Pearson, Meg E. Morris, Carol E. McKinstry
A qualitative study of clinic and community member perspectives on intervention toolkits: “Unless the toolkit is used it won’t help solve the problem”
Melinda M. Davis, Sonya Howk, Margaret Spurlock, Paul B McGinnis, Deborah J. Cohen, Lyle J. Fagnan
Changing nutrition care practices in hospital: a thematic analysis of hospital staff perspectives
Celia Laur, Renata Valaitis, Jack Bell, Heather Keller
Legal access to medications: a threat to Brazil’s public health system?
Ana Luiza Chieffi, Rita De Cassia Barata Barradas, Moisés Golbaum
A qualitative study exploring perceptions and attitudes of community pharmacists about extended pharmacy services in Lahore, Pakistan
Furqan K. Hashmi, Mohamed Azmi Hassali, Adnan Khalid, Fahad Saleem, Hisham Aljadhey, Zaheer ud Din Babar, Mohammad Bashaar
Development of an optimised key worker framework for people with dementia, their family and caring unit living in the community
Emma Renehan, Dianne Goeman, Susan Koch
Linking clinical quality indicators to research evidence - a case study in asthma management for children
Miew Keen Choong, Guy Tsafnat, Peter Hibbert, William B. Runciman, Enrico Coiera
Impact of the change of copay policy in Medicare Part D on zoster vaccine uptake among Medicare beneficiaries in a managed care organization
Rulin C. Hechter, Lei Qian, Songkai Yan, Yi Luo, Girishanthy Krishnarajah, Hung-Fu Tseng
Frequency, associated features, and burden of neurological disorders in older adult inpatients in Brazil: a retrospective cross-sectional study
Aroldo Bacellar, Bruno B. Pedreira, Gersonita Costa, Telma Assis
Effectiveness of trauma team on medical resource utilization and quality of care for patients with major trauma
Chih-Jung Wang, Shu-Ting Yen, Shih-Fang Huang, Su-Chen Hsu, Jeremy C. Ying, Yan-Shen Shan
Benchmarked performance charts using principal components analysis to improve the effectiveness of feedback for audit data in HIV care
Skevi Michael, Mark Gompels, Caroline Sabin, Hilary Curtis, Margaret T. May
Understanding clinician attitudes towards implementation of guided self-help cognitive behaviour therapy for those who hear distressing voices: using factor analysis to test normalisation process theory
Cassie M. Hazell, Clara Strauss, Mark Hayward, Kate Cavanagh
Health system preparedness for integration of mental health services in rural Liberia
Wilfred S. Gwaikolo, Brandon A. Kohrt, Janice L. Cooper
Differences in primary health care use among sub-Saharan African immigrants in Norway: a register-based study
Esperanza Diaz, Vivian N. Mbanya, Abdi A. Gele, Bernadette Kumar
Healthcare Quality Improvement and ‘work engagement’; concluding results from a national, longitudinal, cross-sectional study of the ‘Productive Ward-Releasing Time to Care’ Programme
Mark White, Tony Butterworth, John SG Wells
Costs of health care across primary care models in Ontario
Maude Laberge, Walter P Wodchis, Jan Barnsley, Audrey Laporte
Compliance with telephone triage advice among adults aged 45 years and older: an Australian data linkage study
Duong Thuy Tran, Amy Gibson, Deborah Randall, Alys Havard, Mary Byrne, Maureen Robinson, Anthony Lawler, Louisa R. Jorm
Development of the organisational health literacy responsiveness (Org-HLR) framework in collaboration with health and social services professionals
Anita Trezona, Sarity Dodson, Richard H Osborne
Sustainability and scalability of a volunteer-based primary care intervention (Health TAPESTRY): a mixed-methods analysis
Monika Kastner, Radha Sayal, Doug Oliver, Sharon E. Straus, Lisa Dolovich
The relationship of primary care providers to dental practitioners in rural and remote Australia
Tony Barnett, Ha Hoang, Jackie Stuart, Len Crocombe
Improving patient safety culture in Saudi Arabia (2012–2015): trending, improvement and benchmarking
Khalid Alswat, Rawia Ahmad Mustafa Abdalla, Maher Abdelraheim Titi, Maram Bakash, Faiza Mehmood, Beena Zubairi, Diana Jamal, Fadi El-Jardali
Water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure and quality in rural healthcare facilities in Rwanda
Alexandra Huttinger, Robert Dreibelbis, Felix Kayigamba, Fidel Ngabo, Leodomir Mfura, Brittney Merryweather, Amelie Cardon, Christine Moe
Perspectives of policy and political decision makers on access to formal dementia care: expert interviews in eight European countries
Anja Broda, Anja Bieber, Gabriele Meyer, Louise Hopper, Rachael Joyce, Kate Irving, Orazio Zanetti, Elisa Portolani, Liselot Kerpershoek, Frans Verhey, Marjolein de Vugt, Claire Wolfs, Siren Eriksen, Janne Røsvik, Maria J. Marques, Manuel Gonçalves-Pereira, Britt-Marie Sjölund, Bob Woods, Hannah Jelley, Martin Orrell, Astrid Stephan
Health insurance for patients with HIV/AIDS in Vietnam: coverage and barriers
Quyen Le Thi Nguyen, Tuong Van Phan, Bach Xuan Tran, Long Hoang Nguyen, Chau Ngo, Huong Thi Thu Phan, Carl A. Latkin
Understanding health care provider barriers to hospital affiliated medical fitness center facility referral: a questionnaire survey and semi structured interviews
Carissa Smock, Sonia Alemagno
Does the impact of case management vary in different subgroups of multimorbidity? Secondary analysis of a quasi-experiment
Jonathan Stokes, Søren Rud Kristensen, Kath Checkland, Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi, Peter Bower
Balanced performance measurement in research hospitals: the participative case study of a haematology department
Simona Catuogno, Claudia Arena, Sara Saggese, Fabrizia Sarto
An economic analysis of a system wide Lean approach: cost estimations for the implementation of Lean in the Saskatchewan healthcare system for 2012–2014
Nazmi Sari, Thomas Rotter, Donna Goodridge, Liz Harrison, Leigh Kinsman
Health service changes to address diabetes in pregnancy in a complex setting: perspectives of health professionals
R. Kirkham, J. A. Boyle, C. Whitbread, M. Dowden, C. Connors, S. Corpus, L. McCarthy, J. Oats, H. D. McIntyre, E. Moore, K. O’Dea, A. Brown, L. Maple-Brown
Factors associated with chronic frequent emergency department utilization in a population with diabetes living in metropolitan areas: a population-based retrospective cohort study
Catherine Hudon, Josiane Courteau, Cynthia Krieg, Alain Vanasse
For U.S. Black women, shift of hysterectomy to outpatient settings may have lagged behind White women: a claims-based analysis, 2011–2013
Whitney R. Robinson, Mariah M. Cheng, Annie Green Howard, William R. Carpenter, Wendy R. Brewster, Kemi M. Doll
Deliberate and emergent strategies for implementing person-centred care: a qualitative interview study with researchers, professionals and patients
Öncel Naldemirci, Axel Wolf, Mark Elam, Doris Lydahl, Lucy Moore, Nicky Britten
Development of the Korean framework for senior-friendly hospitals: a Delphi study
Yoon-Sook Kim, Seol-Heui Han, Jeong-Hae Hwang, Jae-Min Park, Jongmin Lee, Jaekyung Choi, Yeonsil Moon, Hee Joung Kim, Grace Jung Eun Shin, Ji-Sun Lee, Ye Ji Choi, Kyeong Eun Uhm, In Ae Kim, Ji-Won Nam
“I want to know everything”: a qualitative study of perspectives from patients with chronic diseases on sharing health information during hospitalization
Marge Benham-Hutchins, Nancy Staggers, Michael Mackert, Alisha H. Johnson, Dave deBronkart
(In-)formal caregivers’ and general practitioners’ views on hospitalizations of people with dementia - an exploratory qualitative interview study
Nadine Janis Pohontsch, Martin Scherer, Marion Eisele
A qualitative study describing nursing home nurses sensemaking to detect medication order discrepancies
Amy Vogelsmeier, Ruth A. Anderson, Allison Anbari, Lawrence Ganong, Amany Farag, MaryAnn Niemeyer
Evaluation of the use of health care services for non-communicable disease and prevention by children and adolescents in south Italy
Flora Ascione, Diana Cascone, Francesco Napolitano, Gabriella Di Giuseppe
A combination of process of care and clinical target among type 2 diabetes mellitus patients in general medical clinics and specialist diabetes clinics at hospital levels
Sokha Sieng, Cameron Hurst
Nationwide citizen access to their health data: analysing and comparing experiences in Denmark, Estonia and Australia
Christian Nøhr, Liisa Parv, Pille Kink, Elizabeth Cummings, Helen Almond, Jens Rahbek Nørgaard, Paul Turner
An in-depth investigation of the causes of persistent low membership of community-based health insurance: a case study of the mutual health organisation of Dar Naïm, Mauritania
Maria-Pia Waelkens, Yves Coppieters, Samia Laokri, Bart Criel
Measuring patient outcomes in chronic heart failure: psychometric properties of the Care-Related Quality of Life survey for Chronic Heart Failure (CaReQoL CHF)
Paul van Kessel, Dolf de Boer, Michelle Hendriks, Anne Marie Plass
Cost-effectiveness of an electronic clinical decision support system for improving quality of antenatal and childbirth care in rural Tanzania: an intervention study
Happiness Pius Saronga, Els Duysburgh, Siriel Massawe, Maxwell Ayindenaba Dalaba, Peter Wangwe, Felix Sukums, Melkizedeck Leshabari, Antje Blank, Rainer Sauerborn, Svetla Loukanova
Willingness to pay and willingness to accept in a patient-centered blood pressure control study
Julie Gleason-Comstock, Alicia Streater, Allen Goodman, James Janisse, Aaron Brody, LynnMarie Mango, Rachelle Dawood, Phillip Levy
Moving towards a more inclusive patient and public involvement in health research paradigm: the incorporation of a trauma-informed intersectional analysis
Carolyn Shimmin, Kristy D. M. Wittmeier, Josée G. Lavoie, Evan D. Wicklund, Kathryn M. Sibley
Pediatric HIV care and treatment services in Tanzania: implications for survival
G Somi, M Majigo, J Manyahi, J Nondi, J Agricola, V Sambu, J Todd, A Rwebembera, N Makyao, A Ramadhani, MIN Matee
Barriers to utilization of postnatal care at village level in Klaten district, central Java Province, Indonesia
Ari Probandari, Akhda Arcita, Kothijah Kothijah, Eti Poncorini Pamungkasari
Hospitalisation costs of metastatic melanoma in France; the MELISSA study (MELanoma In hoSpital coSts Assessment)
Jérôme Fernandes, Bruno Bregman, Patrick Combemale, Camille Amaz, Lucie de Léotoing, Alexandre Vainchtock, Anne-Françoise Gaudin
The influential role of personal advice networks on general practitioners’ performance: a social capital perspective
Stefano Calciolari, Laura G. González-Ortiz, Federico Lega
Stakeholders’ views on the strengths and weaknesses of maternal care financing and its reform in Georgia
Lela Shengelia, Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot
Factors associated with the effectiveness and reach of NHS stop smoking services for pregnant women in England
L. R. Vaz, T. Coleman, S. J. Fahy, S. Cooper, L. Bauld, L. Szatkowski, J. Leonardi-Bee
Exploring the relationship between general practice characteristics and attendance at Walk-in Centres, Minor Injuries Units and Emergency Departments in England 2009/10–2012/2013: a longitudinal study
Peter Tammes, Richard W. Morris, Emer Brangan, Kath Checkland, Helen England, Alyson Huntley, Daniel Lasserson, Fiona MacKichan, Chris Salisbury, Lesley Wye, Sarah Purdy
The impact of a hospital electronic prescribing and medication administration system on medication administration safety: an observational study
Seetal Jheeta, Bryony Dean Franklin
The path from a volunteer initiative to an established institution: evaluating 15 years of the development and contribution of the Lighthouse trust to the Malawian HIV response
Sam Phiri, Florian Neuhann, Nicola Glaser, Thomas Gass, Thom Chaweza, Hannock Tweya
The prevalence of non-cardiac chest pain (NCCP) using emergency department (ED) data: a Northern Ireland based study
Orla McDevitt-Petrovic, Karen Kirby, Mark Shevlin
The role of hospitals in bridging the care continuum: a systematic review of coordination of care and follow-up for adults with chronic conditions
Melissa De Regge, Kaat De Pourcq, Bert Meijboom, Jeroen Trybou, Eric Mortier, Kristof Eeckloo
Work stress associated cool down reactions among nurses and hospital physicians and their relation to burnout symptoms
Arndt Büssing, Zarah Falkenberg, Carina Schoppe, Daniela Rodrigues Recchia, Désirée Poier
Do expanded seven-day NHS services improve clinical outcomes? Analysis of comparative institutional performance from the “NHS Services, Seven Days a Week” project 2013–2016
Hoong-Wei Gan, Danny Jon Nian Wong, Benjamin John Floyd Dean, Alistair Scott Hall
Perceptions of patients and providers on myocardial perfusion imaging for asymptomatic patients, choosing wisely, and professional liability
Kristopher P. Kline, Leslee Shaw, Rebecca J. Beyth, Jared Plumb, Linda Nguyen, Tianyao Huo, David E. Winchester
Development and evaluation of the content validity, practicability and feasibility of the Innovative dementia-oriented Assessment system for challenging behaviour in residents with dementia
Margareta Halek, Daniela Holle, Sabine Bartholomeyczik
Impact of inpatient Care in Emergency Department on outcomes: a quasi-experimental cohort study
Aisha Lateef, Soo Hoon Lee, Dale Andrew Fisher, Wei-Ping Goh, Hui Fen Han, Uma Chandra Segara, Tiong Beng Sim, Malcolm Mahadehvan, Khean Teik Goh, Noel Cheah, Aymeric YT Lim, Phillip H. Phan, Reshma A Merchant
Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of antenatal syphilis screening and treatment for the prevention of congenital syphilis in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia: results of qualitative formative research
Dalau Nkamba, Musaku Mwenechanya, Arlette Mavila Kilonga, Maria Luisa Cafferata, Amanda Mabel Berrueta, Agustina Mazzoni, Fernando Althabe, Ezequiel Garcia-Elorrio, Antoniette K. Tshefu, Elwyn Chomba, Pierre M. Buekens, Maria Belizan
Improving access to mental health care in an Orthodox Jewish community: a critical reflection upon the accommodation of otherness
Phil McEvoy, Tracey Williamson, Raphael Kada, Debra Frazer, Chardworth Dhliwayo, Linda Gask
Service provider perceptions of transitioning from audio to video capability in a telehealth system: a qualitative evaluation
Robyn Clay-Williams, Melissa Baysari, Natalie Taylor, Dianne Zalitis, Andrew Georgiou, Maureen Robinson, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Johanna Westbrook
A falls prevention programme to improve quality of life, physical function and falls efficacy in older people receiving home help services: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Maria Bjerk, Therese Brovold, Dawn A. Skelton, Astrid Bergland
Real-world costs of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease in the Nordics
Daniel Eriksson, Linda Karlsson, Oskar Eklund, Hans Dieperink, Eero Honkanen, Jan Melin, Kristian Selvig, Johan Lundberg
The influence of family accommodation on pediatric hospital experience in Canada
Linda S. Franck, Deron Ferguson, Sarah Fryda, Nicole Rubin
Implementation of a guideline for local health policy making by regional health services: exploring determinants of use by a web survey
Theo J.M. Kuunders, Monique A.M. Jacobs, Ien A.M. van de Goor, Marja J.H. van Bon-Martens, Hans A.M. van Oers, Theo G.W.M. Paulussen
Erratum to: A framework to assess patient-reported adverse outcomes arising during hospitalization
B. Okoniewska, M. J. Santana, J. Holroyd-Leduc, W. Flemons, M. O’Beirne, D. White, W. Ocampo, W. A. Ghali, A. J. Forster
The effect of facility-based antiretroviral therapy programs on outpatient services in Kenya and Uganda
Alexandra Wollum, Emily Dansereau, Nancy Fullman, Jane Achan, Kelsey A. Bannon, Roy Burstein, Ruben O. Conner, Brendan DeCenso, Anne Gasasira, Annie Haakenstad, Michael Hanlon, Gloria Ikilezi, Caroline Kisia, Aubrey J. Levine, Samuel H. Masters, Pamela Njuguna, Emelda A. Okiro, Thomas A. Odeny, D. Allen Roberts, Emmanuela Gakidou, Herbert C. Duber
Data collection of patients with diabetes in family medicine: a study in north-eastern Italy
Alberto Vaona, Franco Del Zotti, Sandro Girotto, Claudio Marafetti, Giulio Rigon, Alessandro Marcon
The research activities of Ontario’s large community acute care hospitals: a scoping review
Giulio DiDiodato, John Alexander DiDiodato, Aidan Samuel McKee
Hospital characteristics related to the hospital length of stay among inpatients receiving invasive cervical discectomy due to road traffic accidents under automobile insurance in South Korea
Kyoung Won Shin, Hyo Jung Lee, Chung Mo Nam, Ki Tae Moon, Eun-Cheol Park
A review of national policies and strategies to improve quality of health care and patient safety: a case study from Lebanon and Jordan
Fadi El-Jardali, Racha Fadlallah
Erratum to: A governance model for integrated primary/secondary care for the health-reforming first world – results of a systematic review
Caroline Nicholson, Claire Jackson, John Marley
A longitudinal study of the implementation experiences of the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme: investigating transformative policy change
Gemma Carey, Helen Dickinson
Use of hospital-based health care services among children aged 1 through 9 years who were born very preterm - a population-based study
Søren T. Klitkou, Tor Iversen, Hans J. Stensvold, Arild Rønnestad
Comparing chronic condition rates using ICD-9 and ICD-10 in VA patients FY2014–2016
Jean Yoon, Adam Chow
Gender differentials in readiness and use of mHealth services in a rural area of Bangladesh
Fatema Khatun, Anita E. Heywood, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi, M. Shafiqur Rahman, Pradeep K. Ray, Siaw-Teng Liaw, Abbas Bhuiya
Patient reported outcome measures for measuring dignity in palliative and end of life care: a scoping review
Bridget Johnston, Kate Flemming, Melanie Jay Narayanasamy, Carolyn Coole, Beth Hardy
Using mobile phones to ensure that referred tuberculosis patients reach their treatment facilities: a call that makes a difference
Kimcheng Choun, Shanta Achanta, Balaji Naik, Jaya Prasad Tripathy, Sopheak Thai, Natalie Lorent, Kim Eam Khun, Johan van Griensven, Ajay M. V. Kumar, Rony Zachariah
Chinese non-psychiatric hospital doctors’ attitudes toward management of psychological/psychiatric problems
Jun Wang, Qun Wang, Inoka Wimalaratne, David Benjamin Menkes, Xiaoping Wang
An economic evaluation of the healthcare cost of tinnitus management in the UK
David Stockdale, Don McFerran, Peter Brazier, Clive Pritchard, Tony Kay, Christopher Dowrick, Derek J Hoare
Hospital quality measures: are process indicators associated with hospital standardized mortality ratios in French acute care hospitals?
Marcus Ngantcha, Marie-Annick Le-Pogam, Sophie Calmus, Catherine Grenier, Isabelle Evrard, Agathe Lamarche-Vadel, Grégoire Rey
A network perspective on patient experiences and health status: the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey 2004 to 2011
Yi-Sheng Chao, Hau-tieng Wu, Marco Scutari, Tai-Shen Chen, Chao-Jung Wu, Madeleine Durand, Antoine Boivin
Exploring attitudes and perceptions of patients and staff towards an after-hours co-pay clinic supplementing free HIV services in Kampala, Uganda
Adelline Twimukye, Rachel King, Walter Schlech, Faridah Mayanja Zawedde, Tom Kakaire, Rosalind Parkes-Ratanshi
Health care needs assessment among adolescents in correctional institutions in Zambia: an ethical analysis
Maureen Kumwenda, Selestine Nzala, Joseph M. Zulu
Understanding middle managers’ influence in implementing patient safety culture
Jennifer Gutberg, Whitney Berta
A scoping review of the potential for chart stimulated recall as a clinical research method
Carol Sinnott, Martina A. Kelly, Colin P. Bradley
Trends in substance use admissions among older adults
Sumedha Chhatre, Ratna Cook, Eshita Mallik, Ravishankar Jayadevappa
Relationship preferences and experience of primary care patients in continuity of care: a case study in Beijing, China
Chaojie Liu, Yeqing Wu, Xueyang Chi
Diabetes knowledge and utilization of healthcare services among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Md. Kaoser Bin Siddique, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Palash Chandra Banik, Lal B. Rawal
The KTx360°-study: a multicenter, multisectoral, multimodal, telemedicine-based follow-up care model to improve care and reduce health-care costs after kidney transplantation in children and adults
L Pape, M de Zwaan, U Tegtbur, F Feldhaus, JK Wolff, L Schiffer, C Lerch, N Hellrung, V Kliem, G Lonnemann, HD Nolting, M Schiffer
Migrant’s access to preventive health services in five EU countries
Aldo Rosano, Marie Dauvrin, Sandra C. Buttigieg, Elena Ronda, Jean Tafforeau, Sonia Dias
Collaboration in teams with nurse practitioners and general practitioners during out-of-hours and implications for patient care; a qualitative study
Mieke van der Biezen, Michel Wensing, Lusine Poghosyan, Regi van der Burgt, Miranda Laurant
The safety attitudes questionnaire in Chinese: psychometric properties and benchmarking data of the safety culture in Beijing hospitals
Ying Cui, Xiuming Xi, Jinsheng Zhang, Jiang Feng, Xiaoxiao Deng, Ang Li, Jianxin Zhou
Measures of organizational characteristics associated with adoption and/or implementation of innovations: A systematic review
Jennifer D. Allen, Samuel D. Towne Jr, Annette E. Maxwell, Lisa DiMartino, Bryan Leyva, Deborah J Bowen, Laura Linnan, Bryan J. Weiner
Primary care in an unstable security, humanitarian, economic and political context: the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Ali R. Shukor, Niek S. Klazinga, Dionne S. Kringos
Role enactment of facilitation in primary care – a qualitative study
Tina Drud Due, Thorkil Thorsen, Frans Boch Waldorff, Marius Brostrøm Kousgaard
The modified south African triage scale system for mortality prediction in resource-constrained emergency surgical centers: a retrospective cohort study
Jacques Massaut, Pola Valles, Arnold Ghismonde, Claudinette Jn Jacques, Liseberth Pierre Louis, Abdulmutalib Zakir, Rafael Van den Bergh, Lunick Santiague, Rose Berly Massenat, Nathalie Edema
Improving preconception health and care: a situation analysis
Ashley Goodfellow, John Frank, John McAteer, Jean Rankin
Facilitators and barriers of change toward an elder-friendly surgical environment: perspectives of clinician stakeholder groups
Heather M. Hanson, Lindsey Warkentin, Roxanne Wilson, Navtej Sandhu, Susan E. Slaughter, Rachel G. Khadaroo
Insulin prices, availability and affordability: a cross-sectional survey of pharmacies in Hubei Province, China
Chenxi Liu, Xinping Zhang, Chaojie Liu, Margaret Ewen, Zinan Zhang, Guoqin Liu
Safe medication management in specialized home healthcare - an observational study
Marléne Lindblad, Maria Flink, Mirjam Ekstedt
From habits of attrition to modes of inclusion: enhancing the role of private practitioners in routine disease surveillance
Revati K. Phalkey, Carsten Butsch, Kristine Belesova, Marieke Kroll, Frauke Kraas
A systematic review of the effectiveness of policies restricting access to pregabalin
Brett R. Stacey, Jonathan Liss, Regina Behar, Alesia Sadosky, Bruce Parsons, Elizabeth T. Masters, Patrick Hlavacek
Responding to health and social needs of aging Latinos in new-growth communities: a qualitative study
Kim Larson, Holly F. Mathews, Essie Torres, C. Suzanne Lea
Reflections on two years after establishing an orthogeriatric unit: a focus group study of healthcare professionals’ expectations and experiences
C. Abrahamsen, B. Nørgaard, E. Draborg, D. Nielsen
Introducing voluntary private health insurance in a mixed medical economy: are Hong Kong citizens willing to subscribe?
Alex Jingwei He
“Always paracetamol, they give them paracetamol for everything”: a qualitative study examining Eastern European migrants’ experiences of the UK health service
Hannah Madden, Jane Harris, Christian Blickem, Rebecca Harrison, Hannah Timpson
Measurement properties of the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) among older adults who present to the emergency department after a fall: a Rasch analysis
Rebecca L. Morris, Sze-Ee Soh, Keith D. Hill, Rachelle Buchbinder, Judy A. Lowthian, Julie Redfern, Christopher D. Etherton-Beer, Anne-Marie Hill, Richard H. Osborne, Glenn Arendts, Anna L. Barker
Social and economic value of Portuguese community pharmacies in health care
Jorge Félix, Diana Ferreira, Marta Afonso-Silva, Marta Vargas Gomes, César Ferreira, Björn Vandewalle, Sara Marques, Melina Mota, Suzete Costa, Maria Cary, Inês Teixeira, Ema Paulino, Bruno Macedo, Carlos Maurício Barbosa
Exploring the concurrent validity of the nationwide assessment of permanent nursing home residence in Denmark - A cross-sectional data analysis using two administrative registries
Anna Bebe, Anni Brit Sternhagen Nielsen, Tora Grauers Willadsen, Jens Søndergaard, Volkert Siersma, Dagný Rós Nicolaisdóttir, Jakob Kragstrup, Frans Boch Waldorff
Primary care clinical practice guidelines in South Africa: qualitative study exploring perspectives of national stakeholders
Tamara Kredo, Amber Abrams, Taryn Young, Quinette Louw, Jimmy Volmink, Karen Daniels
The relationship between working conditions and self-rated health among medical doctors: evidence from seven waves of the Medicine In Australia Balancing Employment and Life (Mabel) survey
Allison Milner, Katrina Witt, Matthew J. Spittal, Marie Bismark, Melissa Graham, Anthony D. LaMontagne
Perception and attitude of Korean physicians towards generic drugs
Mikyung Ryu, Juyoung Kim
First-dollar cost-sharing for skilled nursing facility care in medicare advantage plans
Laura M. Keohane, Regina C. Grebla, Momotazur Rahman, Dana B. Mukamel, Yoojin Lee, Vincent Mor, Amal Trivedi
Behavioral Health and the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) Initiative: findings from the 2014 CPC behavioral health survey
Kara Zivin, Benjamin F. Miller, Bruce Finke, Asaf Bitton, Perry Payne, Edith C. Stowe, Ashok Reddy, Timothy J. Day, Pauline Lapin, Janel L. Jin, Laura L. Sessums
Cancer drug funding decisions in Scotland: impact of new end-of-life, orphan and ultra-orphan processes
Liz Morrell, Sarah Wordsworth, Howell Fu, Sian Rees, Richard Barker
The quality, safety and governance of telephone triage and advice services – an overview of evidence from systematic reviews
Rebecca Lake, Andrew Georgiou, Julie Li, Ling Li, Mary Byrne, Maureen Robinson, Johanna I. Westbrook
Adaption, implementation and evaluation of collaborative service improvements in the testing and result communication process in primary care from patient and staff perspectives: a qualitative study
Ian J. Litchfield, Louise M. Bentham, Richard J. Lilford, Richard J. McManus, Ann Hill, Sheila Greenfield
Erratum to: Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) 5: developing a model for evidence-driven resource allocation in a local healthcare setting
Claire Harris, Kelly Allen, Cara Waller, Sally Green, Richard King, Wayne Ramsey, Cate Kelly, Malar Thiagarajan
Healthcare professionals’ views of the enhanced recovery after surgery programme: a qualitative investigation
Georgia Herbert, Eileen Sutton, Sorrel Burden, Stephen Lewis, Steve Thomas, Andy Ness, Charlotte Atkinson
Ready for goal setting? Process evaluation of a patient-specific goal-setting method in physiotherapy
Anita Stevens, Albère Köke, Trudy van der Weijden, Anna Beurskens
Few opportunities to influence decisions regarding the care and treatment of an older hospitalized family member: a qualitative study among family members
Ingrid Nyborg, Lars Johan Danbolt, Marit Kirkevold
Who benefits from free institutional delivery? evidence from a cross sectional survey of North Central and Southwestern Nigeria
Anthony I. Ajayi, Wilson Akpan
Using total quality management approach to improve patient safety by preventing medication error incidences**
Nadin Yousef, Farah Yousef
Mapping infectious disease hospital surge threats to lessons learnt in Singapore: a systems analysis and development of a framework to inform how to DECIDE on planning and response strategies
Shweta R. Singh, Richard Coker, Hubertus J-M Vrijhoef, Yee Sin Leo, Angela Chow, Poh Lian Lim, Qinghui Tan, Mark I-Cheng Chen, Zoe Jane-Lara Hildon
The contribution of female community health volunteers (FCHVs) to maternity care in Nepal: a qualitative study
Sarita Panday, Paul Bissell, Edwin van Teijlingen, Padam Simkhada
Assessing the impact of the introduction of an electronic hospital discharge system on the completeness and timeliness of discharge communication: a before and after study
Rajnikant L. Mehta, Bryn Baxendale, Katie Roth, Victoria Caswell, Ivan Le Jeune, Jack Hawkins, Haya Zedan, Anthony J. Avery
Improving Emergency Department radiology transportation time: a successful implementation of lean methodology
Eveline A. Hitti, Ghada R. El-Eid, Hani Tamim, Rana Saleh, Miriam Saliba, Lena Naffaa
Determinants of first-time utilization of long-term care services in the Netherlands: an observational record linkage study
Laurentius C.J. Slobbe, Albert Wong, Robert A. Verheij, Hans A.M. van Oers, Johan J. Polder
A descriptive qualitative examination of knowledge translation practice among health researchers in Manitoba, Canada
Kathryn M. Sibley, Patricia L. Roche, Courtney P. Bell, Beverley Temple, Kristy D.M. Wittmeier
Evaluating a Dutch cardiology primary care plus intervention on the Triple Aim outcomes: study design of a practice-based quantitative and qualitative research
Tessa C.C. Quanjel, Marieke D. Spreeuwenberg, Jeroen N. Struijs, Caroline A. Baan, Dirk Ruwaard
Wait time management strategies for total joint replacement surgery: sustainability and unintended consequences
Marie-Pascale Pomey, Nathalie Clavel, Claudia Amar, Juan Carlos Sabogale-Olarte, Claudia Sanmartin, Carolyn De Coster, Tom Noseworthy
Care-managers’ professional choices: ethical dilemmas and conflicting expectations
Siri Tønnessen, Gøril Ursin, Berit Støre Brinchmann
The influence of institutional discourses on the work of informal carers: an institutional ethnography from the perspective of informal carers
Guro Wisth Øydgard
Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) 10: operationalising disinvestment in a conceptual framework for resource allocation
Claire Harris, Sally Green, Adam G. Elshaug
Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) 9: conceptualising disinvestment in the local healthcare setting
Claire Harris, Sally Green, Wayne Ramsey, Kelly Allen, Richard King
Gaps in care for patients with memory deficits after stroke: views of healthcare providers
Eugene Yee Hing Tang, Christopher Price, Blossom Christa Maree Stephan, Louise Robinson, Catherine Exley
Patient involvement in the development of patient-reported outcome measures: The developers’ perspective
Bianca Wiering, Dolf de Boer, Diana Delnoij
What do we know about the needs and challenges of health systems? A scoping review of the international literature
Federico Roncarolo, Antoine Boivin, Jean-Louis Denis, Rejean Hébert, Pascale Lehoux
An Australian general practice based strategy to improve chronic disease prevention, and its impact on patient reported outcomes: evaluation of the preventive evidence into practice cluster randomised controlled trial
Mark Fort Harris, Sharon M. Parker, John Litt, Mieke van Driel, Grant Russell, Danielle Mazza, Upali W. Jayasinghe, Jane Smith, Chris Del Mar, Riki Lane, Elizabeth Denney-Wilson
Impact of pharmacy worker training and deployment on access to essential medicines for children under five in Malawi: a cluster quasi-experimental evaluation
Joseph B. Babigumira, Solomon J. Lubinga, Alisa M. Jenny, Erin Larsen-Cooper, Jessica Crawford, Charles Matemba, Andy Stergachis
Oncologist burnout and compassion fatigue: investigating time pressure at work as a predictor and the mediating role of work-family conflict
Sibyl Kleiner, Jean E. Wallace
How is success achieved by individuals innovating for patient safety and quality in the NHS?
Laura Sheard, Cath Jackson, Rebecca Lawton
Is the role of Health Extension Workers in the delivery of maternal and child health care services a significant attribute? The case of Dale district, southern Ethiopia
Abel Negussie, Gedion Girma
A tale of two systems: practice patterns of a single group of emergency medical physicians in Taiwan and China
I-Anne Huang, Tang-Her Jaing, Chang-Teng Wu, Chee-Jen Chang, Shan-Hsuan Hsia, Nicole Huang
A review of Grey and academic literature of evaluation guidance relevant to public health interventions
Sarah Denford, Charles Abraham, Margaret Callaghan, Peter Aighton, Frank De Vocht, Steven Arris
The utilization of formal and informal home care by older patients with cancer: a Belgian cohort study with two control groups
Abdelbari Baitar, Frank Buntinx, Tine De Burghgraeve, Laura Deckx, Paul Bulens, Hans Wildiers, Marjan van den Akker
Nursing care needs and services utilised by home-dwelling elderly with complex health problems: observational study
Gro Næss, Marit Kirkevold, Wenche Hammer, Jørund Straand, Torgeir Bruun Wyller
Care beyond the hospital ward: understanding the socio-medical trajectory of herpes simplex virus encephalitis
Jessie Cooper, Ciara Kierans, Sylviane Defres, Ava Easton, Rachel Kneen, Tom Solomon, Ruth Backman, Gus Baker, Nicholas Beeching, Rachel Breen, David Brown, Chris Cheyne, Enitan Carrol, Nick Davies, Sylviane Defres, Ava Easton, Martin Eccles, Robbie Foy, Marta Garcia-Finana, Julia Granerod, Julia Griem, Michael Griffiths, Alison Gummery, Lara Harris, Helen Hickey, Helen Hill, Ann Jacoby, Hayley Hardwick, Ciara Kierans, Michael Kopelman, Rachel Kneen, Gill Lancaster, Michael Levin, Rebecca McDonald, Antonieta Medina-Lara, Esse Menson, Benedict Michael, Natalie Martin, Manish Sadarangani, Andrew Pennington, Andrew Pollard, Julie Riley, Anne Christine Salter, Maria Thornton, Angela Vincent, Charles Warlow
A two-state comparative implementation of peer-support intervention to link veterans to health-related services after incarceration: a study protocol
Molly M. Simmons, Benjamin G. Fincke, Mari-Lynn Drainoni, Bo Kim, Tom Byrne, David Smelson, Kevin Casey, Marsha L. Ellison, Christy Visher, Jessica Blue-Howells, D. Keith McInnes
Domains associated with successful quality improvement in healthcare – a nationwide case study
Aleidis Skard Brandrud, Bjørnar Nyen, Per Hjortdahl, Leiv Sandvik, Gro Sævil Helljesen Haldorsen, Maria Bergli, Eugene C. Nelson, Michael Bretthauer
Uptake of health services among truck drivers in South Africa: analysis of routine data from nine roadside wellness centres
Samanta Tresha Lalla-Edward, Sydney Ncube, Paul Matthew, Catherine A. Hankins, W.D. Francois Venter, Gabriela B. Gomez
Erratum to: Using technology to engage hospitalised patients in their care: a realist review
Shelley Roberts, Wendy Chaboyer, Ruben Gonzalez, Andrea Marshall
Costs associated with adverse events among acute patients
Jakob Kjellberg, Rasmus Trap Wolf, Marie Kruse, Susanne R. Rasmussen, Jesper Vestergaard, Kent J. Nielsen, Kurt Rasmussen
Experiences with out-patient hospital service utilisation among older persons in the Asante Akyem North District- Ghana
Jonathan Bayuo
Supporting research readiness in social enterprise health services
Nat M. J. Wright, Philippa Hearty, Linda Harris, Andrew Burnell, Sue Pender, Chris Oxnard, George Charlesworth
Strategies for the quality assessment of the health care service providers in the treatment of Gastric Cancer in Colombia
María del Pilar Villamil, David Barrera, Nubia Velasco, Oscar Bernal, Esteban Fajardo, Carlos Urango, Sebastian Buitrago
The relationship between burden of childhood disease and foreign aid for child health
J. Clay Bavinger, Paul Wise, Eran Bendavid
Fall prevention: is the STRATIFY tool the right instrument in Italian Hospital inpatient? A retrospective observational study
Greta Castellini, Antonia Demarchi, Monica Lanzoni, Silvana Castaldi
"Maybe we should talk about it anyway": a qualitative study of understanding expectations and use of an established technology innovation in caring practices
Randi Stokke
Cultural adaptation of a pediatric functional assessment for rehabilitation outcomes research
Kristen E. Arestad, David MacPhee, Chun Y. Lim, Mary A. Khetani
Towards the development of a wellbeing model for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living with chronic disease
Carol Davy, Elaine Kite, Leda Sivak, Alex Brown, Timena Ahmat, Gary Brahim, Anna Dowling, Shaun Jacobson, Tania Kelly, Kaylene Kemp, Fiona Mitchell, Tina Newman, Margaret O’Brien, Jason Pitt, Kesha Roesch, Christine Saddler, Maida Stewart, Tiana Thomas
Does one workshop on respecting cultural differences increase health professionals’ confidence to improve the care of Australian Aboriginal patients with cancer? An evaluation
Angela Durey, Georgia Halkett, Melissa Berg, Leanne Lester, Marion Kickett
Mediation effects of medication information processing and adherence on association between health literacy and quality of life
Sunmi Song, Seung-Mi Lee, Sunmee Jang, Yoon Jin Lee, Na-Hyun Kim, Hye-Ryoung Sohn, Dong-Churl Suh
Professional groups driving change toward patient-centred care: interprofessional working in stroke rehabilitation in Denmark
Viola Burau, Kathrine Carstensen, Stina Lou, Ellen Kuhlmann
The economic burden of advanced gastric cancer in Taiwan
Jihyung Hong, Yiling Tsai, Diego Novick, Frank Chi-huang Hsiao, Rebecca Cheng, Jen-Shi Chen
Development of an Arabic inpatient satisfaction survey: application in acute medical rehabilitation setting in Saudi Arabia
Ahmed Aboabat, Hazem Qannam
Cost benefit of investment on quality in pharmaceutical manufacturing: WHO GMP pre- and post-certification of a Nigerian pharmaceutical manufacturer
Chimezie Anyakora, Obinna Ekwunife, Faith Alozie, Mopa Esuga, Jonathan Ukwuru, Steve Onya, Jude Nwokike
Moderate sensitivity and high specificity of emergency department administrative data for transient ischemic attacks
Amy Y. X. Yu, Hude Quan, Andrew McRae, Gabrielle O. Wagner, Michael D. Hill, Shelagh B. Coutts
Impact of nursing home admission on health care use and disease status elderly dependent people one year before and one year after skilled nursing home admission based on 2012–2013 SNIIRAM data
A. Atramont, I. Bourdel-Marchasson, D. Bonnet-Zamponi, I. Tangre, A. Fagot-Campagna, P. Tuppin
Trends in the use and costs of round-the-clock long-term care in the last two years of life among old people between 2002 and 2013 in Finland
Leena Forma, Marja Jylhä, Jutta Pulkki, Mari Aaltonen, Jani Raitanen, Pekka Rissanen
Unit cost of healthcare services at 200-bed public hospitals in Myanmar: what plays an important role of hospital budgeting?
Thet Mon Than, Yu Mon Saw, Moe Khaing, Ei Mon Win, Su Myat Cho, Tetsuyoshi Kariya, Eiko Yamamoto, Nobuyuki Hamajima
Implementing non-invasive prenatal testing for aneuploidy in a national healthcare system: global challenges and national solutions
Rachèl V. van Schendel, Carla G. van El, Eva Pajkrt, Lidewij Henneman, Martina C. Cornel
Agency responses to a system-driven implementation of multiple evidence-based practices in children’s mental health services
Jennifer Regan, Anna S. Lau, Miya Barnett, Nicole Stadnick, Alison Hamilton, Keri Pesanti, Lillian Bando, Lauren Brookman-Frazee
Progress and outcomes of health systems reform in the United Arab Emirates: a systematic review
Erik Koornneef, Paul Robben, Iain Blair
Allocation of home care services by municipalities in Norway: a document analysis
Solrun G. Holm, Terje A. Mathisen, Torill M. Sæterstrand, Berit S. Brinchmann
Impact of basic life-support training on the attitudes of health-care workers toward cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillation
Mostafa A. Abolfotouh, Manal A. Alnasser, Alamin N. Berhanu, Deema A. Al-Turaif, Abdulrhman I. Alfayez
Assessment of community health volunteers’ knowledge on cervical cancer in Kadibo Division, Kisumu County: a cross sectional survey
Edwin Onyango Ochomo, Harrysone Atieli, Sussy Gumo, Collins Ouma
Surgical referral coordination from a first-level hospital: a prospective case study from rural Nepal
Matthew Fleming, Caroline King, Sindhya Rajeev, Ashma Baruwal, Dan Schwarz, Ryan Schwarz, Nirajan Khadka, Sami Pande, Sumesh Khanal, Bibhav Acharya, Adia Benton, Selwyn O. Rogers, Maria Panizales, David Gyorki, Heather McGee, David Shaye, Duncan Maru
A model for a drug distribution system in remote Australia as a social determinant of health using event structure analysis
John P. Rovers, Michelle D. Mages
New Zealand’s emergency department target – did it reduce ED length of stay, and if so, how and when?
Tim Tenbensel, Linda Chalmers, Peter Jones, Sarah Appleton-Dyer, Lisa Walton, Shanthi Ameratunga
Utilization of community-based health planning and services compounds in the Kintampo North Municipality: a cross-sectional descriptive correlational study
Kenneth Wiru, Akwasi Kumi-Kyereme, Emmanuel N. Mahama, Seeba Amenga-Etego, Seth Owusu-Agyei
‘Work it out’: evaluation of a chronic condition self-management program for urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, with or at risk of cardiovascular disease
Kyly Mills, Michelle L. Gatton, Ray Mahoney, Alison Nelson
Determinants of effective vaccine coverage in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review and interpretive synthesis
David E. Phillips, Joseph L. Dieleman, Stephen S. Lim, Jessica Shearer
Public and patient involvement in needs assessment and social innovation: a people-centred approach to care and research for congenital disorders of glycosylation
Cláudia de Freitas, Vanessa dos Reis, Susana Silva, Paula A. Videira, Eva Morava, Jaak Jaeken
Disability, residential environment and social participation: factors influencing daily mobility of persons living in residential care facilities in two regions of France
Noémie Rapegno, Jean-François Ravaud
Introducing leprosy post-exposure prophylaxis into the health systems of India, Nepal and Indonesia: a case study
A. Tiwari, L. Mieras, K. Dhakal, M. Arif, S. Dandel, J. H. Richardus
Evaluating patient experiences in decentralised acute care using the Picker Patient Experience Questionnaire; methodological and clinical findings
Ann-Chatrin Linqvist Leonardsen, Vigdis Abrahamsen Grøndahl, Waleed Ghanima, Espen Storeheier, Anders Schönbeck, Thor-Asbjørn Løken, Nina Carine Mikkelsen Bakken, Guro Steine Letting, Réné Holst, Lars-Petter Jelsness-Jørgensen
Knowledge translation tools for parents on child health topics: a scoping review
Lauren Albrecht, Shannon D. Scott, Lisa Hartling
The challenge of complexity in evaluating health policies and programs: the case of women’s participatory groups to improve antenatal outcomes
Sara Van Belle, Susan Rifkin, Bruno Marchal
The quality of medical death certification of cause of death in hospitals in rural Bangladesh: impact of introducing the International Form of Medical Certificate of Cause of Death
Riley H. Hazard, Hafizur Rahman Chowdhury, Tim Adair, Adnan Ansar, A. M. Quaiyum Rahman, Saidul Alam, Nurul Alam, Rasika Rampatige, Peter Kim Streatfield, Ian Douglas Riley, Alan D. Lopez
Factors affecting residents transition from long term care facilities to the community: a scoping review
Shannon Freeman, Kristen Bishop, Lina Spirgiene, Erica Koopmans, Fernanda C. Botelho, Trina Fyfe, Beibei Xiong, Stacey Patchett, Martha MacLeod
Erratum to: costs of major intracranial, gastrointestinal and other bleeding events in patients with atrial fibrillation – a nationwide cohort study
Marie Jakobsen, Christophe Kolodziejczyk, Eskild Klausen Fredslund, Peter Bo Poulsen, Lars Dybro, Søren Paaske Johnsen
Understanding collaborative care implementation in the Department of Veterans Affairs: core functions and implementation challenges
Jessica M. Lipschitz, Justin K. Benzer, Christopher Miller, Siena R. Easley, Jenniffer Leyson, Edward P. Post, James F. Burgess Jr
Trial and error: evaluating and refining a community model of HIV testing in Australia
Kathleen E. Ryan, Alisa Pedrana, David Leitinger, Anna L. Wilkinson, Peter Locke, Margaret E. Hellard, Mark Stoové
The impact of patient advisors on healthcare outcomes: a systematic review
Anjana E. Sharma, Margae Knox, Victor L. Mleczko, J. Nwando Olayiwola
Correction to: factors affecting residents transition from long term care facilities to the community: a scoping review
Shannon Freeman, Kristen Bishop, Lina Spirgiene, Erica Koopmans, Fernanda C. Botelho, Trina Fyfe, Beibei Xiong, Stacey Patchett, Martha MacLeod
Correction to: Opportunities for reproductive tourism: cost and quality advantages of Turkey in the provision of in-vitro Fertilization (IVF) services
M. S. Yildiz, M. Mahmud Khan
Variability in market uptake of psychotropic medications in Europe reflects cultural diversity
J. M. Hoebert, A. K. Mantel-Teeuwisse, H. G. M. Leufkens, L. van Dijk
Role of mHealth applications for improving antenatal and postnatal care in low and middle income countries: a systematic review
Anam Feroz, Shagufta Perveen, Wafa Aftab
“Helping my neighbour is like giving a loan…” –the role of social relations in chronic illness in rural Uganda
Jovita Amurwon, Flora Hajdu, Dominic Bukenya Yiga, Janet Seeley
Telephone triage utilization among patients with limited English proficiency
Jane W. Njeru, Swathi Damodaran, Frederick North, Debra J. Jacobson, Patrick M. Wilson, Jennifer L. St Sauver, Carmen Radecki Breitkopf, Mark L. Wieland
“No generics, Doctor!” The perspective of general practitioners in two French regions
Béatrice Riner, Adèle Bussy, Jeannie Hélène-Pelage, Nycrees Moueza, Sébastien Lamy, Philippe Carrère
The exploration of medical resources utilization among inguinal hernia repair in Taiwan diagnosis-related groups
Yu-Hua Yan, Chih-Ming Kung, Yi Chen
A longitudinal study looking at and beyond care recipient health as a predictor of long term care home admission
Raquel S. D. Betini, John P. Hirdes, Donna S. Lero, Susan Cadell, Jeff Poss, George Heckman
Predicting health-related quality of life in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy: a structural equation approach using the self-control model
Yu-Ri Park, Eun-Young Park, Jung-Hee Kim
An analysis on intersectional collaboration on non-communicable chronic disease prevention and control in China: a cross-sectional survey on main officials of community health service institutions
Xing-ming Li, Alon Rasooly, Bo Peng, JianWang, Shu-yu Xiong
Expectations towards participation in easily accessible pain management interventions: a qualitative study
Torunn Hatlen Nøst, Aslak Steinsbekk, Liv Riseth, Ola Bratås, Kjersti Grønning
Public-on-private dual practice among physicians in public hospitals of Tigray National Regional State, North Ethiopia: perspectives of physicians, patients and managers
Goitom Gigar Abera, Yibeltal Kiflie Alemayehu, Jeph Herrin
Cost of illness of atrial fibrillation: a nationwide study of societal impact
Søren Paaske Johnsen, Lene Worsaae Dalby, Tomas Täckström, Jens Olsen, Anina Fraschke
Determinants of patterns of maternal and child health service utilization in a rural community in south eastern Nigeria
C. C. Agunwa, I. E. Obi, A. C. Ndu, I. B. Omotowo, C. A. Idoko, A. K. Umeobieri, E. C. Aniwada
Effect of having private health insurance on the use of health care services: the case of Spain
David Cantarero-Prieto, Marta Pascual-Sáez, Noelia Gonzalez-Prieto
The effectiveness of community-based coordinating interventions in dementia care: a meta-analysis and subgroup analysis of intervention components
Amy Backhouse, Obioha C. Ukoumunne, David A. Richards, Rose McCabe, Ross Watkins, Chris Dickens
Women’s autonomy and maternal healthcare service utilization in Ethiopia
Fentanesh Nibret Tiruneh, Kun-Yang Chuang, Ying-Chih Chuang
Criteria for prioritization of HIV programs in Viet Nam: a discrete choice experiment
Ali Safarnejad, Milena Pavlova, Vo Hai Son, Huynh Lan Phuong, Wim Groot
Hospital choice in Germany from the patient’s perspective: a cross-sectional study
Werner de Cruppé, Max Geraedts
Risk of falling among hospitalized patients with high modified Morse scores could be further Stratified
Irina Gringauz, Yael Shemesh, Amir Dagan, Irina Israelov, Dana Feldman, Naama Pelz-Sinvani, Dan Justo, Gad Segal
Impact of pharmacist-led medication management in care transitions
Seungwon Yang
The impacts of implementation of National Essential Medicines Policies on primary healthcare institutions: a cross-sectional study in China
Zhigang Guo, Xiaodong Guan, Luwen Shi
The primary health care in the emirate of Abu Dhabi: are they aligned with the chronic care model elements?
Marília Silva Paulo, Tom Loney, Luís Velez Lapão
Descriptive study of interprofessional collaboration between physicians and osteopaths for the pediatric population in Quebec, Canada
Chantal Morin, Johanne Desrosiers, Isabelle Gaboury
Distribution of essential medicines to primary care institutions in Hubei of China: effects of centralized procurement arrangements
Lianping Yang, Cunrui Huang, Chaojie Liu
Social relations and healthcare utilisation among middle-aged and older people: study protocol for an implementation and register-based study in Denmark
Anne Sophie Bech Mikkelsen, Rikke Lund, Maria Kristiansen
Tobacco use and health insurance literacy among vulnerable populations: implications for health reform
Robert T. Braun, Yaniv Hanoch, Andrew J. Barnes
Repeat testing for chlamydia trachomatis, a “safe approach” to unsafe sex? a qualitative exploration among youth in Stockholm
Anna Nielsen, Ayesha De Costa, Kristina Gemzell Danielsson, Mariano Salazar
Differences in the prevalence of hospitalizations and utilization of emergency outpatient services for ambulatory care sensitive conditions between asylum-seeking children and children of the general population: a cross-sectional medical records study (2015)
Célina Lichtl, Thomas Lutz, Joachim Szecsenyi, Kayvan Bozorgmehr
Seasonal influenza vaccination of healthcare workers: systematic review of qualitative evidence
Theo Lorenc, David Marshall, Kath Wright, Katy Sutcliffe, Amanda Sowden
Low uptake of Aboriginal interpreters in healthcare: exploration of current use in Australia’s Northern Territory
Anna P. Ralph, Anne Lowell, Jean Murphy, Tara Dias, Deborah Butler, Brian Spain, Jaquelyne T. Hughes, Lauren Campbell, Barbara Bauert, Claire Salter, Kylie Tune, Alan Cass
What do Australian consumers, pharmacists and prescribers think about documenting indications on prescriptions and dispensed medicines labels?: A qualitative study
Mona Garada, Andrew J. McLachlan, Gordon D. Schiff, Elin C. Lehnbom
Declining amenable mortality: a reflection of health care systems?
Maria Michela Gianino, Jacopo Lenzi, Maria Pia Fantini, Walter Ricciardi, Gianfranco Damiani
Patient influence in home-based reablement for older persons: qualitative research
Aud Moe, Kari Ingstad, Hildfrid V. Brataas
Health related quality of life of HIV/AIDS patients on highly active anti-retroviral therapy at a university referral hospital in Ethiopia
Abdrrahman Shemsu Surur, Fitsum Sebsibe Teni, Wondwessen Wale, Yihenew Ayalew, Betel Tesfaye
Identification of outliers and positive deviants for healthcare improvement: looking for high performers in hypoglycemia safety in patients with diabetes
Brigid Wilson, Chin-Lin Tseng, Orysya Soroka, Leonard M. Pogach, David C. Aron
A path analysis study of factors influencing hospital staff perceptions of quality of care factors associated with patient satisfaction and patient experience
Sandra G. Leggat, Leila Karimi, Timothy Bartram
Access to health care for persons with disabilities in rural South Africa
R. Vergunst, L. Swartz, K.-G. Hem, A. H. Eide, H. Mannan, M. MacLachlan, G. Mji, S. H. Braathen, M. Schneider
Cost of delivering health care services at primary health facilities in Ghana
Maxwell Ayindenaba Dalaba, Paul Welaga, Chieko Matsubara
Improving access to school health services as perceived by school professionals
Janine Bezem, Debbie Heinen, Ria Reis, Simone E. Buitendijk, Mattijs E. Numans, Paul L. Kocken
How do occupational rehabilitation clinicians approach participants on long-term sick leave in order to facilitate return to work? A focus group study
M. Eftedal, A. M. Kvaal, E. Ree, I. Øyeflaten, S. Maeland
Quality of care for people with multimorbidity – a case series
Michaela L. Schiøtz, Dorte Høst, Mikkel B. Christensen, Helena Domínguez, Yasmin Hamid, Merete Almind, Kim L. Sørensen, Thomas Saxild, Rikke Høgsbro Holm, Anne Frølich
Barriers and facilitators to implementing an evidence-based woman-focused intervention in South African health services
Brittni N. Howard, Richard Van Dorn, Bronwyn J. Myers, William A. Zule, Felicia A. Browne, Tara Carney, Wendee M. Wechsberg
Antimicrobial stewardship: a qualitative study of the development of national guidelines for antibiotic use in hospitals
Eli Feiring, Anne Berit Walter
Implementation and use of standardized outcome measures by physical therapists in Saudi Arabia: barriers, facilitators and perceptions
Tahani N. Al-Muqiren, Einas S. Al-Eisa, Ahmad H. Alghadir, Shahnawaz Anwer
The implementation of medical revalidation: an assessment using normalisation process theory
Abigail Tazzyman, Jane Ferguson, Charlotte Hillier, Alan Boyd, John Tredinnick-Rowe, Julian Archer, Sam Regan de Bere, Kieran Walshe
Organizational and provider level factors in implementation of trauma-informed care after a city-wide training: an explanatory mixed methods assessment
April Joy Damian, Joseph Gallo, Philip Leaf, Tamar Mendelson
Integrating acute stroke telemedicine consultations into specialists’ usual practice: a qualitative analysis comparing the experience of Australia and the United Kingdom
Kathleen L. Bagot, Dominique A. Cadilhac, Christopher F. Bladin, Caroline L. Watkins, Michelle Vu, Geoffrey A. Donnan, Helen M. Dewey, Hedley C. A. Emsley, D. Paul Davies, Elaine Day, Gary A. Ford, Christopher I. Price, Carl R. May, Alison S. R. McLoughlin, Josephine M. E. Gibson, Catherine E. Lightbody
Patient safety culture in care homes for older people: a scoping review
Emily Gartshore, Justin Waring, Stephen Timmons
Development and validation of a structured observation scale to measure responsiveness of physicians in rural Bangladesh
Taufique Joarder, Ilias Mahmud, Malabika Sarker, Asha George, Krishna Dipankar Rao
Threats to patient safety in primary care reported by older people with multimorbidity: baseline findings from a longitudinal qualitative study and implications for intervention
Rebecca Hays, Gavin Daker-White, Aneez Esmail, Wendy Barlow, Brian Minor, Benjamin Brown, Thomas Blakeman, Caroline Sanders, Peter Bower
How are compassion fatigue, burnout, and compassion satisfaction affected by quality of working life? Findings from a survey of mental health staff in Italy
Gaia Cetrano, Federico Tedeschi, Laura Rabbi, Giorgio Gosetti, Antonio Lora, Dario Lamonaca, Jill Manthorpe, Francesco Amaddeo
Identifying competitive strategies to improve the performance of hospitals in a competitive environment
Chuan-Hui Chang, Yu-Ching Chiao, Yafang Tsai
Tribes and tribulations: interdisciplinary eHealth in providing services for people with a traumatic brain injury (TBI)
M. Hines, M. Brunner, S. Poon, M. Lam, V. Tran, D. Yu, L. Togher, T. Shaw, E. Power
From policy to practice: exploring the implementation of antiretroviral therapy access and retention policies between 2013 and 2016 in six sub-Saharan African countries
Julie Ambia, Jenny Renju, Alison Wringe, Jim Todd, Eveline Geubbels, Jessica Nakiyingi-Miiro, Mark Urassa, Tom Lutalo, Amelia C. Crampin, Daniel Kwaro, Catherine Kyobutungi, Natsayi Chimbindi, F. Xavier Gomez-Olive, Malebogo Tlhajoane, Brian Njamwea, Basia Zaba, Paul Mee
Patient navigation to improve diabetes outpatient care at a safety-net hospital: a retrospective cohort study
Michal Horný, Wiljeana Glover, Gouri Gupte, Aruna Saraswat, Varsha Vimalananda, James Rosenzweig
Patient perspectives on continuity of care: adaption and preliminary psychometric assessment of a Norwegian version of the Nijmegen Continuity Questionnaire (NCQ-N)
Øystein Hetlevik, Merethe Hustoft, Annemarie Uijen, Jörg Aßmus, Sturla Gjesdal
Applying systems biology to biomedical research and health care: a précising definition of systems medicine
Sebastian Schleidgen, Sandra Fernau, Henrike Fleischer, Christoph Schickhardt, Ann-Kristin Oßa, Eva C. Winkler
Carer involvement in compulsory out-patient psychiatric care in England
Jorun Rugkåsa, Krysia Canvin
Continuity of care as experienced by mental health service users - a qualitative study
Eva Biringer, Miriam Hartveit, Bengt Sundfør, Torleif Ruud, Marit Borg
The role of primary care in adult weight management: qualitative interviews with key stakeholders in weight management services
David N. Blane, Sara Macdonald, David Morrison, Catherine A. O’Donnell
Barriers to data quality resulting from the process of coding health information to administrative data: a qualitative study
Kelsey Lucyk, Karen Tang, Hude Quan
Stakeholders perspectives on the key components of community-based interventions coordinating care in dementia: a qualitative systematic review
Amy Backhouse, David A. Richards, Rose McCabe, Ross Watkins, Chris Dickens
Do effects of common case-mix adjusters on patient experiences vary across patient groups?
Dolf de Boer, Lucas van der Hoek, Jany Rademakers, Diana Delnoij, Michael van den Berg
Inpatient satisfaction with medical information received from caregivers: an observational study on the effect of social deprivation
L. Moret, E. Anthoine, A. Pourreau, F. Beaudeau, B. Leclère
Positioning pharmacists’ roles in primary health care: a discourse analysis of the compensation plan in Alberta, Canada
Christine A. Hughes, Rene R. Breault, Deborah Hicks, Theresa J. Schindel
Evaluation of a practical expert defined approach to patient population segmentation: a case study in Singapore
Lian Leng Low, Yu Heng Kwan, Nan Liu, Xuan Jing, Edwin Cheng Tee Low, Julian Thumboo
Health state utilities associated with attributes of weekly injection devices for treatment of type 2 diabetes
Louis S. Matza, Kristina S. Boye, Katie D. Stewart, Evan W. Davies, Rosirene Paczkowski
Derivation and validation of the Personal Support Algorithm: an evidence-based framework to inform allocation of personal support services in home and community care
Chi-Ling Joanna Sinn, Aaron Jones, Janet Legge McMullan, Nancy Ackerman, Nancy Curtin-Telegdi, Leslie Eckel, John P. Hirdes
Urban-rural difference in satisfaction with primary healthcare services in Ghana
Sanni Yaya, Ghose Bishwajit, Michael Ekholuenetale, Vaibhav Shah, Bernard Kadio, Ogochukwu Udenigwe
Clinical factors contributing to high cost hospitalizations in a Canadian tertiary care centre
Babak Rashidi, Daniel M. Kobewka, David J. T. Campbell, Alan J. Forster, Paul E. Ronksley
Does having a usual primary care provider reduce patient self-referrals in rural China’s rural multi-tiered medical system? A retrospective study in Qianjiang District, China
Da Feng, Donglan Zhang, Boyang Li, Yan Zhang, Ray Serrano, Danxiang Shi, Yuan Liu, Liang Zhang
Evaluation of the three-in-one team-based care model on hierarchical diagnosis and treatment patterns among patients with diabetes: a retrospective cohort study using Xiamen’s regional electronic health records
Xuejun Li, Zhibin Li, Changqin Liu, Junfeng Zhang, Zhonghai Sun, Yuji Feng, Jing Mei, Chengming Gu, Xiaoying Li, Shuyu Yang
Determining requirements for patient-centred care: a participatory concept mapping study
Kathryn Ogden, Jennifer Barr, David Greenfield
What is the impact of a clinically related readmission measure on the assessment of hospital performance?
Roger K. Khouri Jr, Hechuan Hou, Apoorv Dhir, Juan J. Andino, James M. Dupree, David C. Miller, Chad Ellimoottil
The development, implementation and evaluation of clinical pathways for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Saskatchewan: protocol for an interrupted times series evaluation
Thomas Rotter, Christopher Plishka, Mohammed Rashaad Hansia, Donna Goodridge, Erika Penz, Leigh Kinsman, Adegboyega Lawal, Sheryl O’Quinn, Nancy Buchan, Patricia Comfort, Prakesh Patel, Sheila Anderson, Tanya Winkel, Rae Lynn Lang, Darcy D. Marciniuk
Reasons for encounters and psychiatric comorbidity in an urban Bavarian primary care out-of-hour service - results of a cross sectional study
Constanze Storr, Lucia Marieke Gahbler, Klaus Linde, Antonius Schneider
Patient preferences for direct-to-consumer telemedicine services: a nationwide survey
Brandon M. Welch, Jillian Harvey, Nathaniel S. O’Connell, James T. McElligott
Integrated community case management in a peri-urban setting: a qualitative evaluation in Wakiso District, Uganda
Robin Altaras, Mark Montague, Kirstie Graham, Clare E. Strachan, Laura Senyonjo, Rebecca King, Helen Counihan, Denis Mubiru, Karin Källander, Sylvia Meek, James Tibenderana
Does clinical supervision of healthcare professionals improve effectiveness of care and patient experience? A systematic review
David A. Snowdon, Sandra G. Leggat, Nicholas F. Taylor
Operational integration in primary health care: patient encounters and workflows
Dimitra Sifaki-Pistolla, Vasiliki-Eirini Chatzea, Adelais Markaki, Kyriakos Kritikos, Elena Petelos, Christos Lionis
Development of a monitoring instrument to assess the performance of the Swiss primary care system
Sonja T. Ebert, Valérie Pittet, Jacques Cornuz, Nicolas Senn
Fostering development of nursing practices to support integrated care when implementing integrated care pathways: what levers to use?
Caroline Longpré, Carl-Ardy Dubois
In-hospital prescription changes and documentation in the medical records of the primary care provider: results from a medical record review study
Judith M. Poldervaart, Marije A. van Melle, Sanne Willemse, Niek J. de Wit, Dorien L.M. Zwart
Rheumatic heart disease: infectious disease origin, chronic care approach
Judith M Katzenellenbogen, Anna P Ralph, Rosemary Wyber, Jonathan R Carapetis
What systemic factors contribute to collaboration between primary care and public health sectors? An interpretive descriptive study
Sabrina T. Wong, Marjorie MacDonald, Ruth Martin-Misener, Donna Meagher-Stewart, Linda O’Mara, Ruta K. Valaitis
An economic model of advance care planning in Australia: a cost-effective way to respect patient choice
Kim-Huong Nguyen, Marcus Sellars, Meera Agar, Sue Kurrle, Adele Kelly, Tracy Comans
Development and testing of the KERNset: an instrument to assess the quality of telephone triage in out-of-hours primary care services
Marleen Smits, Ellen Keizer, Paul Ram, Paul Giesen
Cross-cultural validation and psychometric testing of the Norwegian version of the TeamSTEPPS® teamwork perceptions questionnaire
Randi Ballangrud, Sissel Eikeland Husebø, Marie Louise Hall-Lord
The choice that matters: the relative influence of socioeconomic status indicators on chronic back pain- a longitudinal study
Michael Fliesser, Jessie De Witt Huberts, Pia-Maria Wippert
Cost analysis of two community-based HIV testing service modalities led by a Non-Governmental Organization in Cape Town, South Africa
Sue-Ann Meehan, Nulda Beyers, Ronelle Burger
Simulation modeling for stratified breast cancer screening – a systematic review of cost and quality of life assumptions
Matthias Arnold
Beyond quality improvement: exploring why primary care teams engage in a voluntary audit and feedback program
Daniel J. Wagner, Janet Durbin, Jan Barnsley, Noah M. Ivers
Qualitative evaluation of trauma delays in road traffic injury patients in Maringá, Brazil
Anjni Patel, João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Michael Hocker, Enio Molina, Nelly Moraes Gil, Catherine Staton
Correction to: Public-on-private dual practice among physicians in public hospitals of Tigray National Regional State, North Ethiopia: perspectives of physicians, patients and managers
Goitom Gigar Abera, Yibeltal Kiflie Alemayehu, Jeph Herrin
Pilot randomised controlled trial of culturally adapted cognitive behavior therapy for psychosis (CaCBTp) in Pakistan
Muhammed Omair Husain, Imran B. Chaudhry, Nasir Mehmood, Raza ur Rehman, Ajmal Kazmi, Munir Hamirani, Tayyeba Kiran, Ameer Bukhsh, Paul Bassett, Muhammad Ishrat Husain, Farooq Naeem, Nusrat Husain
Health workers’ perceptions of private-not-for-profit health facilities’ organizational culture and its influence on retention in Uganda
Constance Sibongile Shumba, Karina Kielmann, Sophie Witter
Protocol for project IMPACT (improving millions hearts for provider and community transformation): a quasi-experimental evaluation of an integrated electronic health record and community health worker intervention study to improve hypertension management among South Asian patients
Priscilla M. Lopez, Jennifer Zanowiak, Keith Goldfeld, Katarzyna Wyka, Ahmad Masoud, Susan Beane, Rashi Kumar, Phoebe Laughlin, Chau Trinh-Shevrin, Lorna Thorpe, Nadia Islam
Identifying models of HIV care and treatment service delivery in Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia using cluster analysis and Delphi survey
Sharon Tsui, Julie A. Denison, Caitlin E. Kennedy, Larry W. Chang, Olivier Koole, Kwasi Torpey, Eric Van Praag, Jason Farley, Nathan Ford, Leine Stuart, Fred Wabwire-Mangen
Health-care utilization of patients with chronic back pain before and after rehabilitation
Magdalena Görge, Jeanette Ziehm, Erik Farin
Nurse health and lifestyle modification versus standard care in 40 to 70 year old regional adults: study protocol of the Management to Optimise Diabetes and mEtabolic syndrome Risk reduction via Nurse-led intervention (MODERN) randomized controlled trial
Melinda J. Carrington, Paul Zimmet
Refugees’ experiences of healthcare in the host country: a scoping review
Elisabeth Mangrio, Katarina Sjögren Forss
Cost-effectiveness of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination in Nigeria: a decision analysis using pragmatic parameter estimates for cost and programme coverage
Obinna I. Ekwunife, Stefan K. Lhachimi
Early winners and losers in dialysis center pay-for-performance
Milda R. Saunders, Haena Lee, Marshall H. Chin
Measuring self-rated health status among resettled adult refugee populations to inform practice and policy – a scoping review
Alison Dowling, Joanne Enticott, Grant Russell
Mental health professionals’ family-focused practice with families with dependent children: a survey study
Patraporn Tungpunkom, Darryl Maybery, Andrea Reupert, Nick Kowalenko, Kim Foster
Predictors of need for help with weight loss among overweight and obese men and women in the Netherlands: a cross-sectional study
S. N. W. Bunt, S. Y. M. Mérelle, I. H. M. Steenhuis, W. Kroeze
Correction to: Characteristics of therapeutic alliance in musculoskeletal physiotherapy and occupational therapy practice: a scoping review of the literature
Folarin Babatunde, Joy MacDermid, Norma MacIntyre
Development and assessment of an active strategy for the implementation of a collaborative care approach for depression in primary care (the INDI·i project)
Enric Aragonès, Diego Palao, Germán López-Cortacans, Antonia Caballero, Narcís Cardoner, Pilar Casaus, Myriam Cavero, José Antonio Monreal, Víctor Pérez-Sola, Miquel Cirera, Maite Loren, Eva Bellerino, Catarina Tomé-Pires, Laura Palacios
Adherence to the integrated management of childhood illness guidelines in Namibia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda: evidence from the national service provision assessment surveys
Carsten Krüger, Monika Heinzel-Gutenbrunner, Mohammed Ali
Integration of eye health into primary care services in Tanzania: a qualitative investigation of experiences in two districts
Emma Jolley, Milka Mafwiri, Joanna Hunter, Elena Schmidt
The determinants and consequences of adult nursing staff turnover: a systematic review of systematic reviews
Mary Halter, Olga Boiko, Ferruccio Pelone, Carole Beighton, Ruth Harris, Julia Gale, Stephen Gourlay, Vari Drennan
Like a hotel, but boring: users’ experience with short-time community-based residential aftercare
Eirik Roos, Ottar Bjerkeset, Margrét Hrönn Svavarsdóttir, Aslak Steinsbekk
Construction of a simulation model and evaluation of the effect of potential interventions on the incidence of diabetes and initiation of dialysis due to diabetic nephropathy in Japan
Takehiro Sugiyama, Sayuri Goryoda, Kaori Inoue, Noriko Sugiyama-Ihana, Nobuo Nishi
Optimizing clinical and organizational practice in cancer survivor transitions between specialized oncology and primary care teams: a realist evaluation of multiple case studies
Dominique Tremblay, Catherine Prady, Karine Bilodeau, Nassera Touati, Maud-Christine Chouinard, Martin Fortin, Isabelle Gaboury, Jean Rodrigue, Marie-France L’Italien
The impact of a social prescribing service on patients in primary care: a mixed methods evaluation
Dawn Carnes, Ratna Sohanpal, Caroline Frostick, Sally Hull, Rohini Mathur, Gopalakrishnan Netuveli, Jin Tong, Patrick Hutt, Marcello Bertotti
Long-term trends in supply and sustainability of the health workforce in remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory of Australia
Yuejen Zhao, Deborah J. Russell, Steven Guthridge, Mark Ramjan, Michael P. Jones, John S. Humphreys, Timothy A. Carey, John Wakerman
Using an intervention mapping approach to develop a discharge protocol for intensive care patients
Margo van Mol, Marjan Nijkamp, Christine Markham, Erwin Ista
The impact of healthcare reform on the efficiency of public county hospitals in China
Shuai Jiang, Rui Min, Peng-qian Fang
Identifying gaps in the practices of rural health extension workers in Ethiopia: a task analysis study
Firew Ayalew Desta, Girma Temam Shifa, Damtew WoldeMariam Dagoye, Catherine Carr, Jos Van Roosmalen, Jelle Stekelenburg, Assefa Bulcha Nedi, Adrienne Kols, Young Mi Kim
Prevalence and determinants of polypharmacy in Switzerland: data from the CoLaus study
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Academic detailers’ and general practitioners’ views and experiences of their academic detailing visits to improve the quality of analgesic use: process evaluation alongside a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial
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Doctors’ opinion on the contribution of coordination mechanisms to improving clinical coordination between primary and outpatient secondary care in the Catalan national health system
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PROPEL: implementation of an evidence based pelvic floor muscle training intervention for women with pelvic organ prolapse: a realist evaluation and outcomes study protocol
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Determinants of facility readiness for integration of family planning with HIV testing and counseling services: evidence from the Tanzania service provision assessment survey, 2014–2015
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A systematic review of adherence in Indigenous Australians: an opportunity to improve chronic condition management
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Identifying gaps in the continuum of care for hypertension and diabetes in two Indian communities
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Knowledge, attitudes and practices of community pharmacists on generic medicines in Palestine: a cross-sectional study
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Gender differences in job quality and job satisfaction among doctors in rural western China
Yang Miao, Lingui Li, Ying Bian
The effects of patients initiated aggression on Chinese medical students’ career planning
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A systematic review of the economic impact of rapid diagnostic tests for dengue
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Satisfaction of doctors with their training: evidence from UK
Simon Gregory, Chiara Demartini
Improving equity in health care financing in China during the progression towards Universal Health Coverage
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Patient experiences of engagement with care plans and healthcare professionals’ perceptions of that engagement
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Impact on healthcare resource utilization of multiple sclerosis in Spain
Antoni Sicras-Mainar, Elena Ruíz-Beato, Ruth Navarro-Artieda, Jorge Maurino