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How important is income in explaining individuals having forgone healthcare due to cost-sharing payments? Results from a mixed methods sequential explanatory study

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Patients having forgone healthcare because of the costs involved has become more prevalent in recent years. Certain patient characteristics, such as income, are known to be associated with a stronger demand-response to cost-sharing.
Benjamin H. Salampessy, France R. M. Portrait, Marianne Donker, Ismail Ismail, Eric J. E. van der Hijden   +4 more
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Hospital performance comparison of inpatient fall rates; the impact of risk adjusting for patient-related factors: a multicentre cross-sectional survey

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Comparing inpatient fall rates can serve as a benchmark for quality improvement. To improve the comparability of performance between hospitals, adjustments for patient-related fall risk factors that are not modifiable by care are recommended ...
Niklaus S Bernet, Irma HJ Everink, Jos MGA Schols, Ruud JG Halfens, Dirk Richter, Sabine Hahn   +5 more
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Challenges, opportunities, and potential roles of the private primary care providers in tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus collaborative care and control: a qualitative study

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Introduction The comorbidity of tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus (TB-DM) is a looming global co-epidemic problem. Despite the Indonesian Government’s ongoing effort to impose regulation for collaborative TB-DM management, the involvement of private ...
Merita Arini, Dianita Sugiyo, Iman Permana   +2 more
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The risk matrix approach: a helpful tool weighing probability and impact when deciding on preventive and diagnostic interventions

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Clinical guidelines are developed to lower risks, mostly viewed upon as probability. However, in daily practice, risk is perceived as the combination of probability and the impact of desired and adverse events.
Stéphanie M. P. Lemmens, Veronica A. Lopes van Balen, Yvonne C. M. Röselaers, Hubertina C. J. Scheepers, Marc E. A. Spaanderman   +4 more
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Outpatient visit trends for internal medicine ambulatory care sensitive conditions after the COVID-19 pandemic: a time-series analysis

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background The COVID-19 pandemic led to a dramatic shift in the delivery of outpatient medicine with reduced in-person visits and a transition to predominantly virtual visits. We sought to understand trends in visit patterns for ambulatory care sensitive
Ciara Pendrith, Dhruv Nayyar, Cherry Chu, Tara O’Brien, Owen D. Lyons, Payal Agarwal, Danielle Martin, R. Sacha Bhatia, Geetha Mukerji   +8 more
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Evaluating the effectiveness of the Play Active policy intervention and implementation support in early childhood education and care: a pragmatic cluster randomised trial protocol

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Daily physical activity is critical during the early years of life for facilitating children’s health and development. A large proportion of preschool children do not achieve the recommended 3 h of daily physical activity.
Andrea Nathan, Emma Adams, Stewart Trost, Donna Cross, Jasper Schipperijn, Matthew McLaughlin, Ashleigh Thornton, Georgina Trapp, Leanne Lester, Phoebe George, Elizabeth Wenden, Hayley Christian   +11 more
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A foresight whole systems obesity classification for the English UK biobank cohort

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background The number of people living with obesity or who are overweight presents a global challenge, and the development of effective interventions is hampered by a lack of research which takes a joined up, whole system, approach that considers ...
Stephen Clark, Nik Lomax, Mark Birkin, Michelle Morris   +3 more
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Global trends in incidence and death of neonatal disorders and its specific causes in 204 countries/territories during 1990–2019

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Neonatal disorders (ND) are a significant global health issue. This article aimed to track the global trends of neonatal disorders in 204 countries/territories from 1990 to 2019.
Zejin Ou, Danfeng Yu, Yuanhao Liang, Huan He, Wenqiao He, Yongzhi Li, Minyi Zhang, Yuhan Gao, Fei Wu, Qing Chen   +9 more
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A Geodemographic View of the Accessibility of Selected Outpatient Services in Czechia

International Journal of Public Health, 2022
Objectives: Although people use health services throughout their lives, there are important differences in timing, location, and frequency of utilization.
Kateřina Maláková
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Parent-adolescent agreement in reported moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMC Public Health, 2022
Purpose To describe the agreement between parent- and adolescent- reports of adolescent moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA) and to determine sociodemographic factors associated with MVPA reporting differences during the COVID-19 ...
Jason M. Nagata, Catherine A. Cortez, Puja Iyer, Erin E. Dooley, Kyle T. Ganson, Amy A. Conroy, Kelley Pettee Gabriel   +6 more
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