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Hanne Marie Rostad, Lucille Xiang, Elizabeth M. White • BMC Health Services Research
(2025)
Abstract Background Health disparities exist across healthcare settings, including nursing homes, contributing to preventable differences in care quality. Health disparities are a global issue, yet most studies on nursing home health dispar...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12913-025-13071-3
Renaldo N. Battista, Brigitte Côté, Matthew J. Hodge, Don Husereau • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care
(2009)
Canada's health system is a unique combination of public financing and private provision. With the significant government role in financing health services, health technology assessment (HTA) has found a ready audience as a form of policy r...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462309090424
Carlo Favaretti, Americo Cicchetti, Giovanni Maria Guarrera, Marco Marchetti et al. • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care
(2009)
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to review the history of health technology assessment (HTA) in Italy. METHODS: Founded in 1978, the Italian National Health Service (NHS) has been strongly regionalized mainly after a constitutional ref...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462309090539
Kapil Sayal, Laura Wyatt, Louise Thomson, Grace Holt et al. • Health Technology Assessment
(2025)
Background Emotional disorders are common in children and young people and can significantly impair their quality of life. Evidence-based treatments require a timely and appropriate diagnosis. The utility of standardised diagnostic assessme...
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DOI: 10.3310/GJKS0519
Caroline Free, Gemma Phillips, Lambert M. Felix, Leandro Galli et al. • BMC Research Notes
(2010)
BACKGROUND: The application of mobile computing and communication technology is rapidly expanding in the fields of health care and public health. This systematic review will summarise the evidence for the effectiveness of mobile technology ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-3-250
PMC: 2976743
Vitantonio Di Bello, Gianni Tonti, Giuseppe Barletta, Giovanni Di Salvo et al. • Journal of Cardiovascular Echography
(2012)
Abstract The objective of this review is to introduce the readers of this journal to the knowledge of some basic aspects of Health Technology Assessment (HTA). HTA starts from the need of the “political governance” to provide adequate healt...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcecho.2012.05.002
Narendra Javadekar, Archana Javadekar, Deepa Thakur • Industrial Psychiatry Journal
(2024)
Mental illnesses have a significant impact on the lives of people not only because of their morbidity but also because of their noticeable impact on economic wellbeing. Out-of-pocket expenditure for mental healthcare services is significant...
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DOI: 10.4103/ipj.ipj_155_24
Caity Roleston, Umasha Ukwatte, Nia Roberts, Gail N. Hayward et al. • Diagnostic and Prognostic Research
(2026)
Abstract Background Development of new diagnostic health technologies is increasing, alongside interest in how they can be implemented into health services. Evaluation of new diagnostic tests has typically consisted of technical and diagnos...
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DOI: 10.1186/s41512-026-00240-z
Irene A. Kretchy, Edem K. Blewuada, Akosua B. Debrah • Scientific African
(2021)
Community pharmacists are involved in the health delivery sector through the provision of services that result in improved patient outcomes and optimization of pharmaceutical care. With growing concern about increasing prevalence of mental ...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.sciaf.2021.e00969
Stefan Rennick‐Egglestone, Sarah E. Knowles, Gill R. Toms, Penny Bee et al. • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
(2016)
The widespread deployment of technology by professional health services will provide a substantial opportunity for studies that consider usage in naturalistic settings. Our study has documented experiences of engaging with technologies inte...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858128
Sanjeewa Kularatna, Ratilal Lalloo, Jeroen Kroon, Santosh K. K. Tadakamadla et al. • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
(2020)
Abstract Background The oral health of Indigenous children in remote communities is much worse than other population groups in Australia. Providing and maintaining an oral health service is challenging due to the remoteness of communities, ...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12955-020-01300-8
Fatemeh Baji, Fereydoun Azadeh, Parastoo Parsaei-Mohammadi, Shoukat Parmah • مدیریت اطلاعات سلامت
(2018)
Introduction: Creating an image of the conceptual structure of health literacy area, as well as the study of interdisciplinary and the relationship between its domains seems necessary. The present study examined the intellectual structure o...
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DOI: 10.22122/him.v15i3.3577
Mina M. Fahim, Richard P. Golonka, Robin L. Walker, Alka B. Patel et al. • Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
(2025)
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted primary health care systems worldwide, prompting rapid changes in how care was delivered. In Alberta, this included a significant shift from in-person to virtual care. This study examines trends i...
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DOI: 10.1177/21501319251338376
Aihui Ye, Runtong Zhang, Hongmei Zhao • Health Informatics Journal
(2024)
Objectives: Online health communities (OHCs) facilitate patient-physician interaction and the adoption of online health services. However, few studies explored the impact of network effects on patients’ continuance intentions in OHCs. This ...
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DOI: 10.1177/14604582241300422
Vonthanak Saphonn, Siyan Yi, Chhavarath Dary, Sreymom Oy et al. • BMJ Health & Care Informatics
(2026)
Objectives In Cambodia, village health support groups (VHSGs) are central to maternal and child health (MCH) service delivery, yet maternal mortality remains high with regional disparities. Although digital health solutions show promise, th...
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DOI: 10.1136/bmjhci-2025-101691
Xuling Lin, Joanne Yong Ern Yuen, Wei Quan Jeremy Chan, Tushar Gosavi Divakar et al. • Pilot and Feasibility Studies
(2023)
Abstract Background In Singapore, research teams seek informed patient consent on an ad hoc basis for specific clinical studies and there is typically a role separation between operational and research staff. With the enactment of the Human...
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DOI: 10.1186/s40814-023-01234-0
Juma Adinan, Rachel Manongi, Gloria August Temu, Ntuli Kapologwe et al. • BMC Health Services Research
(2019)
Abstract Background Hypertension and Diabetes mellitus are risk factors for cardiovascular diseases that cause 17 million deaths globally. Many of these deaths could have been prevented if hypertensive and diabetic patients had their blood ...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12913-019-4316-6
Jakob Svensson, Johan Bergström • BMC Health Services Research
(2020)
Abstract Background As healthcare becomes increasingly complex, new methods are needed to identify weaknesses in the system that could lead to increased risk. Traditionally, the focus for patient safety is to study incident reports and adve...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12913-020-05642-3
Sahalu Balarabe Junaid, Abdullahi Abubakar Imam, Abdullateef Oluwagbemiga Balogun, Liyanage Chandratilak De Silva et al. • Healthcare
(2022)
In recent times, the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and Blockchain technologies have quickly gained pace as a new study niche in numerous collegiate and industrial sectors, notably in the healthcare se...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10101940
PMC: 9601636
Lee Lan Low, Fathullah Iqbal Ab Rahim, Mohammad Zabri Johari, Zalilah Abdullah et al. • BMC Health Services Research
(2019)
Abstract Background Amid the current burden of non-communicable (NCD) diseases in Malaysia, there is a growing demand for more efficient service delivery of primary healthcare. A complex intervention is proposed to improve NCD management in...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12913-019-4312-x