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Health Services Research

Advances in Dental Research, 2003
The major barriers to the collection of primary population-based dental services data are: (1) Dentists do not use standard record systems; (2) few dentists use electronic records; and (3) it is costly to abstract paper dental records. The value of secondary data from paid insurance claims is limited, because dentists code only services delivered and ...
openaire   +7 more sources

Patient waiting time in the outpatient clinic at a central surgical hospital of Vietnam: Implications for resource allocation [version 3; referees: 2 approved]

F1000Research, 2017
Background: Patient waiting time is considered as a crucial parameter in the assessment of healthcare quality and patients’ satisfaction towards healthcare services. Data concerning this has remained limited in Vietnam.
Tho Dinh Tran, Uy Van Nguyen, Vuong Minh Nong, Bach Xuan Tran   +3 more
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Supporting research and development in ambulance services: research for better healthcare in prehospital settings [PDF]

, 2010
Background This paper discusses recent developments in research support for ambulance trusts in England and Wales and how this could be designed to lead to better implementation, collaboration in and initiation of high-quality research to support a truly
Donohoe, R, Phillips, P, Siriwardena, AN, Stephenson, J   +3 more
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Blockchain protocols in clinical trials: Transparency and traceability of consent [version 5; referees: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations, 2 not approved]

F1000Research, 2018
Clinical trial consent for protocols and their revisions should be transparent for patients and traceable for stakeholders. Our goal is to implement a process allowing for collection of patients’ informed consent, which is bound to protocol revisions ...
Mehdi Benchoufi, Raphael Porcher, Philippe Ravaud   +2 more
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Exposing the impact of Citizens Advice Bureau services on health: a realist evaluation protocol [PDF]

, 2016
Introduction Welfare advice services can be used to address health inequalities, for example, through Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB). Recent reviews highlight evidence for the impact of advice services in improving people's financial position and ...
Carr, Susan, Dalkin, Sonia, Forster, Natalie, Hodgson, Philip, Lhussier, Monique   +4 more
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Point-of-contact Interactive Record Linkage (PIRL): A software tool to prospectively link demographic surveillance and health facility data [version 2; referees: 2 approved]

Gates Open Research, 2018
Linking a health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) to data from a health facility that serves the HDSS population generates a research infrastructure for directly observed data on access to and utilization of health facility services.
Christopher T. Rentsch, Chodziwadziwa Whiteson Kabudula, Jason Catlett, David Beckles, Richard Machemba, Baltazar Mtenga, Nkosinathi Masilela, Denna Michael, Redempta Natalis, Mark Urassa, Jim Todd, Basia Zaba, Georges Reniers   +12 more
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Stakeholder views on publication bias in health services research [PDF]

, 2020
Objectives: While the presence of publication bias in clinical research is well documented, little is known about its role in the reporting of health services research.
Ayorinde, Abimbola A, Chen, Yen-Fu, Lilford, Richard J, Mannion, Russell, Skrybant, Magdalena, Song, Fujian, Williams, Iestyn   +6 more
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Patient predictors of poor drug sensitive tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine [version 3; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

F1000Research, 2019
Background: Ukraine has high rates of poor treatment outcomes among drug sensitive tuberculosis (DSTB) patients, while global treatment success rates for DSTB remain high.
Omowunmi Aibana, Andrej Slavuckij, Mariya Bachmaha, Viatcheslav Krasiuk, Natasha Rybak, Timothy P. Flanigan, Vasyl Petrenko, Megan B. Murray   +7 more
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Aspiration in injections: should we continue or abandon the practice? [version 3; referees: 2 approved]

F1000Research, 2017
Aspiration during any kind of injection is meant to ensure that the needle tip is at the desired location during this blind procedure. While aspiration appears to be a simple procedure, it has generated a lot of controversy concerning the perceived ...
Yasir Sepah, Lubna Samad, Arshad Altaf, Muhammad Sohail Halim, Nithya Rajagopalan, Aamir Javed Khan   +5 more
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Smoking related disease risk, area deprivation and health behaviours [PDF]

, 2013
Acknowledgements We thank Professor Luke Vale, Dr Diane Stockton and participants at the Faculty of Public Health conference, Aviemore, Scotland, November 2011 and UK Society for Behavioural Medicine conference, Stirling, Scotland, December 2011 for ...
Craig, Peter, Eberth, Barbara, Ludbrook, Anne, Olajide, Damilola   +3 more
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