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Organization, structure and delivery of healthcare

This section aims to publish studies looking at how health care is planned, organized and structured, including in terms of relationships among personnel or departments, as well as research on the provision of healthcare to an individual, group, population or community.


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  1. Nursing home residents are prone to acute illness due to their high age, underlying illnesses and immobility. We examined the incidence of acute hospital admissions among nursing home residents versus the age-...

    Authors: Birgitte Graverholt, Trond Riise, Gro Jamtvedt, Anette H Ranhoff, Kjell Krüger and Monica W Nortvedt

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:126

    Content type: Research article

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  2. Health systems are expected to serve the population needs in an effective, efficient and equitable manner. Therefore, the importance of strengthening of public, private and community health systems has been em...

    Authors: Iram Ejaz, Babar T Shaikh and Narjis Rizvi

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:122

    Content type: Research article

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  3. Patient self-management is a key approach to manage non-communicable diseases. A pharmacist-led approach in patient self-management means collaborative care between pharmacists and patients. However, the devel...

    Authors: Fiona YY Wong, Frank WK Chan, Joyce HS You, Eliza LY Wong and EK Yeoh

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:121

    Content type: Research article

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  4. Children with tracheotomy receive health care from an array of providers within various hospital and community health system sectors. Previous studies have highlighted substandard health information exchange b...

    Authors: Jay G Berry, Donald A Goldmann, Kenneth D Mandl, Heather Putney, David Helm, Jane O'Brien, Richard Antonelli and Robin M Weinick

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:117

    Content type: Research article

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  5. Care for patients with chronic diseases is challenging and requires multifaceted interventions to appropriately coordinate the entire treatment process. The effect of such interventions on clinical outcomes ha...

    Authors: Andrea S Fokkens, P Auke Wiegersma, Klaas van der Meer and Sijmen A Reijneveld

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:113

    Content type: Research article

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  6. In the United States, colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most frequently diagnosed cancer and second leading cause of cancer death. Screening is a primary method to prevent CRC, yet screening remains low in ...

    Authors: William J Curry, Eugene J Lengerich, Brenda C Kluhsman, Marie A Graybill, Jason Z Liao, Eric W Schaefer, Angela M Spleen and Mark B Dignan

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:112

    Content type: Research article

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  7. There is an increasing recognition that modelling and simulation can assist in the process of designing health care policies, strategies and operations. However, the current use is limited and answers to quest...

    Authors: Gyuchan T Jun, Zoe Morris, Tillal Eldabi, Paul Harper, Aisha Naseer, Brijesh Patel and John P Clarkson

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:108

    Content type: Research article

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  9. The establishment of crisis resolution teams (CRTs) is part of the national mental health policy in several Western countries. The purpose of the present study is to describe characteristics of CRTs and their ...

    Authors: Nina Hasselberg, Rolf W Gråwe, Sonia Johnson and Torleif Ruud

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:96

    Content type: Research article

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  10. This WHO study aimed to support Turkey in its efforts to strengthen the primary care (PC) system by implementing the WHO Primary Care Evaluation Tool (PCET). This article provides an overview of the organizati...

    Authors: Dionne S Kringos, Wienke GW Boerma, Ernst Spaan and Martina Pellny

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:90

    Content type: Research article

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  11. Strategies to accurately identify the occurrence of specific health care events in administrative data is central to many quality improvement and research efforts. Many health care quality measures have treatm...

    Authors: Alex HS Harris, Rachelle N Reeder, Laura S Ellerbe and Thomas R Bowe

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:73

    Content type: Research article

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  12. With the move to community care and increased involvement of generalist health care providers in mental health, the need for health service partnerships has been emphasised in mental health policy. Within exis...

    Authors: Jeffrey D Fuller, David Perkins, Sharon Parker, Louise Holdsworth, Brian Kelly, Russell Roberts, Lee Martinez and Lyn Fragar

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:72

    Content type: Research article

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  13. The effects of tobacco, physical exercise, diet, and alcohol consumption on morbidity and mortality underline the importance of health promotion and prevention (HPP) at the primary health care (PHC) level. Lik...

    Authors: Carlos Calderón, Laura Balagué, Josep M Cortada and Álvaro Sánchez

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:62

    Content type: Research article

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  14. The relationship between extended work hours and health is well documented among hospital doctors, but the effect of national differences in work hours on health is unexplored. The study examines the relations...

    Authors: Judith Rosta and Olaf G Aasland

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:40

    Content type: Research article

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  15. Administrative data is often used to identify patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), yet the validity of this approach is unclear. We sought to develop a predictive model utilizing adminis...

    Authors: Colin R Cooke, Min J Joo, Stephen M Anderson, Todd A Lee, Edmunds M Udris, Eric Johnson and David H Au

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:37

    Content type: Research article

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  17. The current, place-oriented nurse call systems are very static. A patient can only make calls with a button which is fixed to a wall of a room. Moreover, the system does not take into account various factors s...

    Authors: Femke Ongenae, Dries Myny, Tom Dhaene, Tom Defloor, Dirk Van Goubergen, Piet Verhoeve, Johan Decruyenaere and Filip De Turck

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:26

    Content type: Research article

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  18. Patients on oral anticoagulant therapy (OAT) require regular testing of the prothrombin time (PT) and the international normalised ratio (INR) to monitor their blood coagulation level to avoid complications of...

    Authors: Syed Ghulam Sarwar Shah and Ian Robinson

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:25

    Content type: Research article

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  19. Disease management programmes (DMPs) have been developed to improve effectiveness and economic efficiency within chronic care delivery by combining patient-related, professional-directed, and organisational in...

    Authors: Karin MM Lemmens, Maureen PMH Rutten-Van Mölken, Jane M Cramm, Robbert Huijsman, Roland A Bal and Anna P Nieboer

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2011 11:6

    Content type: Study protocol

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  20. Electronic medical records contain valuable clinical information not readily available elsewhere. Accordingly, they hold important potential for contributing to and enhancing chronic disease registries with th...

    Authors: Stewart B Harris, Richard H Glazier, Jordan W Tompkins, Andrew S Wilton, Vijaya Chevendra, Moira A Stewart and Amardeep Thind

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:347

    Content type: Research article

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  21. Checklists have been used extensively as a cognitive aid in aviation; now, they are being introduced in many areas of medicine. Although few would dispute the positive effects of checklists, little is known ab...

    Authors: Øyvind Thomassen, Guttorm Brattebø, Jon-Kenneth Heltne, Eirik Søfteland and Ansgar Espeland

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:342

    Content type: Research article

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  23. Gaps are typically regarded as a problem to be solved. People are stimulated to close or plug them. Researchers are moved to fill deficits in the literature in order to realise a more complete knowledge base, ...

    Authors: Jeffrey Braithwaite

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:330

    Content type: Research article

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  24. The length of wait lists to access specialist clinics in the public system is problematic for Queensland Health, general practitioners and patients. To address this issue at The Townsville Hospital, the GP Lia...

    Authors: Lesley A Stainkey, Isaac A Seidl, Andrew J Johnson, Gladys E Tulloch and Tilley Pain

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:303

    Content type: Correspondence

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  25. Limited access to weight management care can have a negative impact on the health and well-being of obese children and youth. Our objectives were to describe the characteristics of clients referred to a pediat...

    Authors: Kathryn A Ambler, Douglas WJ Hagedorn and Geoff DC Ball

    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:302

    Content type: Research article

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