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The implementation and impacts of the Comprehensive Care Standard in Australian acute care hospitals: a survey study
BackgroundComprehensive care (CC) is becoming a widely acknowledged standard for modern healthcare as it has the potential to improve health service...
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Health system description and assessment: a sco** review of templates for systematic analyses
BackgroundUnderstanding and comparing health systems is key for cross-country learning and health system strengthening. Templates help to develop...
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Access to colorectal cancer screening for Pakistani immigrants in Norway – a qualitative study
BackgroundThe Norwegian colorectal cancer (CRC) screening program started in May 2022. Inequalities in CRC screening participation are a challenge,...
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How is tailored implementation undertaken using a self-guided toolkit? Qualitative study of the ItFits-toolkit in the ImpleMentAll project
BackgroundThe process of tailored implementation is ill-defined and under-explored. The ItFits-toolkit was developed and subsequently tested as a...
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Challenges of pre-hospital emergency care at Addis Ababa Fire and Disaster Risk Management Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a qualitative study
BackgroundA challenge to pre-hospital emergency care is any barrier or obstacle that impedes quality pre-hospital care or impacts community...
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Specialist care visits outside the hospital by South Australian older adults
BackgroundLimited access to specialist medical services is a major barrier to healthcare in rural areas. We compared rural-urban specialist doctor...
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Unveiling the factors influencing public knowledge and behaviours towards medication errors in Jordan: a cross-sectional study
BackgroundMedication errors are preventable incidents resulting from improper use of drugs that may cause harm to patients. They thus endanger...
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Primary health care response to noncommunicable diseases: an assessment of Wellness Clinics in Ghana
BackgroundGlobally, there is a significant unmet need for the rapidly growing burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). Ghana has adopted and...
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Examining the experiences of vulnerably housed patients visiting Kingston, Ontario’s emergency departments: a qualitative analysis
IntroductionVulnerably housed individuals access emergency departments (EDs) more frequently than the general population. Despite Canada’s universal...
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Development and validity testing of a matrix to evaluate maturity of clinical pathways: a case study in Saskatchewan, Canada
BackgroundHealthcare systems are transforming into learning health systems that use data-driven and research-informed approaches to achieve...
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Barriers to and facilitators of implementing colorectal cancer screening evidence-based interventions in federally qualified health centers: a qualitative study
BackgroundThere is an urgent need to increase colorectal cancer screening (CRCS) uptake in Texas federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), which...
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Laryngeal cancer incidence trends in the United States over 2000–2020: a population-based analysis
IntroductionLaryngeal cancers account for one-third of all head and neck cancers. We aimed to report the incidence trends of laryngeal cancer over...
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First, a seat; then, an upgrade
The Sir Stanley Peart Essay Competition is an annual event run by the British and Irish Hypertension Society to encourage Early Career Researchers to...
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Cutoffs for white-coat and masked blood pressure effects: an ambulatory blood pressure monitoring study
The values used to define white-coat and masked blood pressure (BP) effects are usually arbitrary. This study aimed at investigating the accuracy of...
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Prediction of COVID-19 patients’ participation in financing informal care using machine learning methods: willingness to pay and willingness to accept approaches
BackgroundInformal care plays an essential role in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Expanding health insurance packages that reimburse caregivers'...
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Socioeconomic differences in limited lung function: a cross-sectional study of middle-aged and older adults in Germany
BackgroundLimited lung function represents a serious health impairment. However, studies investigating social inequalities in limited lung function...
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Multigenerational inequalities of opportunity in health outcomes
This paper studies multigenerational health transmission mechanisms in Australian panel data. Using inequality-of-opportunity (IOP) models, we...
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Prevalence of human papillomavirus genotypes in women of different ethnicity from rural northwestern Ecuador
BackgroundIn Ecuador, cervical cancer is the third most common cancer among women and the second most common cause of cancer-related death in women....
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Ready to leave? – Adolescents’ and parents’ perceptions of transition from paediatric to adult rheumatology care
BackgroundIn Sweden, approximately 2000 children live with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA). About half of them continue to have an active disease...
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Cost-effectiveness of approaches to cervical cancer screening in Malawi: comparison of frequencies, lesion treatment techniques, and risk-stratified approaches
BackgroundRecently-updated global guidelines for cervical cancer screening incorporated new technologies—most significantly, the inclusion of HPV DNA...
