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Against the backdrop of increasing population aging, the uncertainty and irreversibility of climate change have a significant impact on the health and healthcare burden of the elderly. However, it remains unce...
To analyze the allocation efficiency of health resources in the western region of China, and to explore the influence of external environmental factors on the allocation efficiency, to provide reference for op...
Health-related social needs (HRSN) are increasingly recognized as important factors influencing healthcare outcomes and utilization. This study examined the association between unmet HRSNs and emergency depart...
Physicians impact and promote patient empowerment at various levels. Elective or contracted physicians uniquely provide specialised ambulatory care in Austria. The difference between the two groups is due to t...
Emergency departments (EDs) are often the first access point for children and youth seeking mental health (MH) and addiction care. However, many EDs are unprepared to manage large volumes of pediatric MH patie...
Although hospital pharmacies have played a central role in managing the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a lack of crisis management theory-based empirical research on the topic. The purpose of this study was to fi...
Autism Adapted Safety Plans (AASP) have been proposed to help prevent self-harm and suicidality among autistic adults. The introduction of such plans not only needs to be clinically effective but also cost-eff...
Trauma is a leading cause of mortality and disability in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Among African nations, Ethiopia has one of the highest trauma fatality rates at 26.7% per 100,000 population, ...
Globally, Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments as a share of Total Health Expenditure (THE) has always been a focus of attention in the field of health economics, which affects the economic burden of medical treatment...
The advent of novel robotic platforms requires that managers base their decisions on the value these platforms generate. This study showcases how micro-costing methodologies can assist managers in the decision...
The COVID-19 pandemic has tested health systems worldwide, exposing significant weaknesses and vulnerabilities, particularly its toll on healthcare workers (HCWs). This study aimed to identify risk factors lea...
The COVID-19 pandemic severely affected social welfare, the economy, and global health, making delivering even the essential health service impossible. Surgical and anesthetic care was one of the essential par...
Domestic and family violence (DFV) is a significant issue in Australia, with one in four women experiencing DFV in their lifetime. Emergency departments (EDs) within public hospitals are a priority setting for...
Decentralizing HIV services is an evidence-based strategy recommended by the World Health Organization to expand healthcare access by shifting most HIV care from specialty (SHCs) to primary health centers (PHC...
This study explores the prevalence and co-occurrence of workplace mistreatment of nurses and physicians and their perpetrators. We explore the distribution of incivility and identity-based harassment (ethnicit...
Pharmacists are among the most crucial resources, playing a pivotal role in the establishment and growth of any medical organization. Therefore, the engagement of pharmacists with the organization is an import...
Midwifery continuity of care during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum is essential for improving maternal and neonatal health outcomes. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), however, challenges such...
People with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) identify emotional well-being as a key unmet care need. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) can improve emotional well-being in PwMS; however, there is a lack of informa...
Visual Electro-Diagnostic Testing (EDTs) are a highly specialised service in the NHS. The high cost of tests and a paucity of trained visual electrophysiologists has resulted in very few services across the UK...
Long-term care (LTC) for older people is an area of focus for many health and social policies in high- and middle-income countries. Performance Indicators are used to provide national and subnational jurisdict...
Eliminating AIDS by 2030 will remain a mirage if obstacles to achieving zero new HIV infections and viral suppression, like stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV (PLHIV) are not eliminated. ...
Access to primary health care (PHC) has declined in Finland in recent years. To address this, the city of Vantaa, Finland, transitioned from a named general practitioner (GP) model to a restricted-list GP mode...
Continuous quality improvement (CQI) initiatives are commonly used to enhance patient safety and quality of care. A novel South Australian Local Health Network (SALHN) Continuous Improvement Program (CIP009) h...
To improve equity in medical insurance benefits, the Chinese government integrated the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme for rural residents and the Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance for nonworking urb...
Stressful and potentially traumatic life events (SLEs/PTEs) can have a profound negative impact on the individual’s mental and physical wellbeing and health. Consequently, an association of SLEs/PTEs with incr...
Acutely ill and frail older adults and their next of kin are often poorly involved in planning of decisions regarding treatment and care during the final phase of life. Although advance care planning is a well...
Providing compassionate and respectful care is essential to quality health care, and it is the backbone of our health care system. This study was conducted to assess the provision of respectful care and human ...
There are no existing standards of care for integrating trauma-informed care into prenatal care in a patient-centered manner. This study aims to explore preferences of pregnant people regarding prenatal care, ...
Despite the growing popularity of osteopathy in France, little is known about how French osteopaths conceptualise key aspects of their practice, including skills, knowledge, and decision-making. This study aim...
Literature surrounding patient decision aid (PDA) focus on testing effectiveness such as measuring patient or practice outcomes, while few studies looked into evaluation of implementation outcomes. It is impor...
Despite Ethiopia’s substantial progress in comprehensive abortion care, the consequences of abortion remain a major public health challenge. This study aimed to assess the implementation status and its determi...
Awareness among medical specialists about patient work concerns is important because work and health are linked. In Clinical Work-Integrating Care (CWIC), specialists adopt the notion that work can affect heal...
There is a need of research to evaluate and compare the competencies of nurses in integrating patients’ religion and spirituality into nursing practice in various settings, including general and psychiatric ho...
The time a patient spends in the hospital from admission to discharge is known as the length of stay (LOS). Predicting LOS is crucial for enhancing patient care, managing hospital resources, and optimizing the...
The ‘Service Navigation Measure’ (SNM) initiative was introduced in 2020 as part of Commonwealth Psychosocial supports delivered through the Primary Health Networks (PHNs) in Australia. The aim of this study w...
Falls among older adults (65 + years) is an important issue in municipal home care. Screening using the World Falls Guidelines’ three key questions (3KQ) is recommended to identify older adults at increased fa...
Lay people’s knowledge influences healthcare service utilisation, but the literature on people’s knowledge-seeking and sharing about different healthcare services across social networks is patchy and not well ...
Healthcare-associated infections affect the safety of patients, health personnel, and families and generate expenses for health systems. The Theory of Change allows us to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses ...
The well-known anti-seizure medication, sodium valproate, is used to treat epilepsy, bipolar disorder, and other mental health conditions.
Missed nursing care (MNC) is a major challenge faced by nurses working in intensive care units (ICU). Workplace characteristics, including teamwork and workload, can affect the extent of missed nursing care. E...
The high dropout rate among Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) patients poses a significant challenge to drug dependence treatment programs, especially in regions with prevalent drug use and HIV transmissio...
The Covid-19 pandemic stretched health systems globally including in Iran. Hospital demand and performance was affected both directly and indirectly as a result of the pandemic. Analyzing hospital indicators c...
Implementation determinant frameworks identify factors that may impede or facilitate implementation of evidence-based innovations (EBI) in new contexts, including diverse community settings. For health equity ...
To identify barriers to HIV care from the perspectives of HIV service providers in Manitoba (MB), Canada during the 2020–2022 period of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Organising integrated health services beyond domains in interorganizational networks, can be supported by conceptual models to overview the complexity. The Development Model for Integrated Care (DMIC) is a sys...
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is sub-optimally managed for many in Aotearoa New Zealand, and disproportionately affects Māori and Pacific peoples. In February 2021, SGLT2i/GLP1RA agents were funded for use for the fir...
The population in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) suffers poor health, as manifested in low life expectancy at birth. Public health expenditure (PHE) has long been viewed as having the pot...
People who identify as transgender have a gender identity or expression that differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. Because of this, transgender people may encounter widespread stigma, discriminatio...
In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the Test and Treat policy which supports antiretroviral treatment for all people with HIV, irrespective of CD4 count or clinical stage. This was adopted in...
Despite patient experience being an important topic in healthcare management, most research does not concentrate on initiatives targeted to patients experiencing vulnerabilities, for whom it is challenging to ...
