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- 1From: BMC Health Services Research. (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedBackground The position of nurse consultant (NC) was introduced in Hong Kong by the Hospital Authority in January 2009. Seven NCs were appointed in five clinical specialties: diabetes, renal, wound and stoma care,...
- 2From: BMC Health Services Research. (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedBackground The direction of health service policy in England is for more diversification in the design, commissioning and provision of health care services. The case study which is the subject of this paper was...
- 3From: BMC Health Services Research. (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Helen Dickinson1 , Sara Shaw2,3 , Jon Glasby1 and Judith Smith3 Every health and social care system around the world is concerned with how it can provide care in a way that ensures both high quality and...
- 4From: BMC Health Services Research. (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedBackground Primary health care is recognised as an integral part of a country's health care system. Measuring hospitalisations, that could potentially be avoided with high quality and accessible primary care, is one...
- 5From: BMC Health Services Research. (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedBackground Since 1991, there has been a series of reforms of the English National Health Service (NHS) entailing an increasing separation between the commissioners of services and a widening range of public and...
- 6From: BMC Health Services Research. (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedBackground In recent years joint commissioning has assumed an important place in the policy and practice of English health and social care. Yet, despite much being claimed for this way of working there is a lack of...
- 7From: BMC Health Services Research. (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedBackground Admission to an emergency department (ED) is a key vulnerable moment when patients are at increased risk of medication discrepancies and medication histories are an effective way of ensuring that fewer...
- 8From: BMC Health Services Research. (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedBackground This paper examines NHS secondary care contracting in England and Wales in a period which saw increasing policy divergence between the two systems. At face value, England was making greater use of market...
- 9From: BMC Health Services Research. (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedBackground Field and community evaluation of the routine usage of CD4 T counting platforms is essential in resource-poor countries for efficient and cost-effective monitoring of HIV-infected adults and children...
- 10From: BMC Health Services Research. (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedBackground Improving patient safety has become a major focus of clinical care and research over the past two decades. An institution's patient safety climate represents an essential component of ensuring a safe...
- 11From: BMC Health Services Research. (Vol. 13) Peer-Reviewed
Personalized commissioning, public spaces: the limits of the market in English social care services.
Background The article explores the implications of personal budgets within English social care services, which position the individual as market actor. Rooting the research in the broader personalization agenda, the... - 12From: BMC Health Services Research. (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedBackground Over the past three decades, a limited range of market like mechanisms have been introduced into the hierarchically structured English National Health Service ('NHS'), which is a nationally tax funded,...
- 13From: BMC Health Services Research. (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedBackground In quasi-markets governance over healthcare providers is mediated by commissioners. Different commissioners apply different combinations of six methods of control ('media of power') for exercising...
- 14From: BMC Health Services Research. (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedBackground Historically, primary medical care in the UK has been delivered by general practitioners who are independent contractors, operating under a contract, which until 2004 was subject to little performance...
- 15From: BMC Health Services Research. (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedBackground Before 2007, the disability evaluation was based on the medical model in Taiwan. According to the People with Disabilities Rights Protection Act, from 2012 the assessment of a person's eligibility for...
- 16From: BMC Health Services Research. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Michelle DiGiacomo1 , Patricia Delaney2 , Penelope Abbott2,3 , Patricia M Davidson1 , Joanne Delaney3 and Frank Vincent3 Background Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (hereafter, Aboriginal...
- 17From: BMC Health Services Research. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Zoë Slote Morris1 , Miranda Fyfe2 , Natalie Momen1 , Sarah Hoare1 and Stephen Barclay3 Background Policymakers in many Western countries are attempting to improve the quality of Palliative care and...
- 18From: BMC Health Services Research. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Elizabeth H Shayo1,2 , Leonard EG Mboera2 and Astrid Blystad1 Background The introduction of primary health care implied a focus on enhancing health service provision at the grassroots. In fact, the...
- 19From: BMC Health Services Research. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground To develop a healthcare environment that is congruent with diversity among care providers and care recipients and to eliminate ethnic discrimination, it's important to map out and assess caregivers'...
- 20From: BMC Health Services Research. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Maintaining dignity is an important element of end-of-life care and also of the care given in nursing homes. Factors influencing personal dignity have been studied from both nursing home residents' and...