- Healthcare professionals' awareness of climate change and its association with eco-anxiety and environmental sensitivity: a cross-sectional study. [Journal Article]BMC Health Serv Res. 2026 Oct 01; 26(1).BH
- CONCLUSIONS: The findings indicate that cognitive engagement with climate-related concerns, climate awareness, and certain demographic characteristics are associated with environmental sensitivity among healthcare professionals. Enhancing educational efforts, institutional support, and environmental policies may strengthen their capacity to address climate-related health risks and promote environmentally responsible practices in healthcare settings.
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- Occupational burnout, self-compassion, and general health among dietitians in Türkiye: a cross-sectional study. [Journal Article]BMC Health Serv Res. 2026 Jul 25; 26(1).BH
- CONCLUSIONS: Burnout among dietitians in Türkiye was associated with both occupational context and individual psychological factors. Higher self-compassion and better general psychological health were associated with lower burnout scores. These findings suggest that workplace conditions and psychological resources should be considered in future longitudinal research and intervention planning aimed at supporting dietitians' occupational well-being and psychological resilience.
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- Exploring long-term retention intention and influencing factors among rural-oriented medical students in primary care in Guangxi, China: a qualitative study. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: To enhance long-term retention among rural-oriented medical students in primary care, interventions should focus on strengthening leadership capacity among township health centre directors, promoting work-family balance, and improving career mobility mechanisms after the mandatory service period. This study provides empirical support for applying person-environment fit theory to contract-based health workforce programmes and offers transferable insights for other countries facing similar rural health workforce challenges.
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- Patients' experiences of musculoskeletal pain self-management and perspectives on virtual physiotherapy in Saudi Arabia: a reflexive thematic analysis. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Patients described relying on informal self-management strategies, which they attributed to the systemic lack of timely access to professional care. To our knowledge, a culturally specific finding that has received limited attention in the musculoskeletal self-management literature is patients' need for guidance on adapting Islamic prayer (Salah) during MSK pain. These findings informed the development of a culturally adapted hybrid virtual self-management programme, with implications for patient education and physiotherapy service design at the study institution and similar tertiary settings in Saudi Arabia, aligned with the national Vision 2030 health strategy.
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- Economic and productivity outcomes of workplace health programmes incorporating blood-based laboratory screening: a systematic review. [Systematic Review]
- CONCLUSIONS: Workplace programmes incorporating blood-based screening were associated with favourable healthcare-cost and return-on-investment results in most studies, but the return-on-investment signal showed no attenuation with study quality and is hard to separate from reporting and selection bias; absenteeism was inconsistent and productivity rarely assessed. Favourable economics appeared almost exclusively where screening was coupled to a structured, coordinator- or physician-led pathway, not offered alone-a contrast to read cautiously, since screening-only programmes were seldom evaluated economically. The evidence does not support blood-based screening as a stand-alone cost-saving measure and suggests, as a hypothesis, that its value lies less in testing than in support that turns detection into sustained behaviour or treatment change. Rigorous, controlled, non-US studies with validated productivity measures are needed.
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- Between opportunity and equity: navigating medical tourism in Türkiye's public hospitals. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Stakeholders viewed selected public hospitals as possible settings for medical tourism, but physical infrastructure alone was not considered evidence of operational readiness. Public-sector involvement would require hospital-specific assessment of workforce capacity, financing, governance, local patient access, and equity implications. Given the uncertainty surrounding funding sources, net public benefit, and public acceptability, any expansion should be preceded by feasibility, budget-impact, and equity assessments and should initially be considered only in institutions with demonstrable excess capacity.
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- Implementation and feasibility evaluation of a standard set of intensive care unit discharge criteria in a prospective before-after observational pilot study. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: A core set of eleven criteria indicated ICU discharge readiness in clinical routine. Organization-specific criteria can support adaptation to different patient subgroups and pathways. Workflow integration may support timely and safe transfers, but patient flow and safety effects require validation in larger studies. Holistic discharge readiness assessment requires coordinated pathway-management processes along the care continuum. Future implementation should prioritize reporting automation, intuitive visualization, and workflow-integrated documentation, ideally supported by a patient data management system.
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- Between support and uncertainty: employers' perspectives on workplace inclusion of people with mental health problems. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Addressing these organisational dynamics may help inform more context-sensitive strategies to promote sustainable labour market participation.
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- Caught between worlds: West African immigrant mothers` experiences with the Finnish healthcare system: a qualitative study using the socioecological model. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Although the findings are grounded mainly in maternity and child health contexts, they point to broader implications for trust and healthcare engagement that may extend to non-communicable disease prevention and management. They also highlight opportunities to strengthen culturally responsive policies and practices, build trust through community-based approaches, enhance healthcare professionals' cultural competence, and develop interventions responsive to the needs of West African immigrant mothers.
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- Why are voluntary health insurance holders willing to pay tax towards public healthcare? A qualitative study from Sweden. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: These accounts suggest that the growth of employer-funded VHI does not by itself erode the willingness to fund public healthcare, and that the egalitarian principles underpinning a universal system can sustain a sense of obligation to contribute even among those who use private healthcare. The ambivalence respondents expressed indicates that contributing on egalitarian grounds and benefiting from privileged access are not easily reconciled.
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- Prevention of sickness absence through early identification and rehabilitation of at-risk patients with musculoskeletal disorders (PREVSAM): a cost-effectiveness analysis comparing team-based rehabilitation in primary care vs treatment as usual. [Randomized Controlled Trial]
- CONCLUSIONS: The PREVSAM model and treatment as usual led to similar health outcomes and to similar total societal costs. Neither strategy was shown to be preferable on economic grounds at conventional cost-effectiveness thresholds. High individual variation implies that the screening process needs to be further refined to better identify those patients truly in need of team-based care and to facilitate appropriate resource stratification.
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- Nurses' perspectives on obtaining best possible medication histories in a virtual care setting: a qualitative study. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Nurse-led BPMH is feasible in a virtual care setting when supported by multidisciplinary governance, structured education, and integrated support systems. This study provides novel insights into a scalable nurse-led BPMH workforce model within virtual care.
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- Patient-reported experience measures (PREMs), coercion, and mental health outcomes in psychiatric inpatient care: a national mixed-methods study comparing immigrant and majority populations. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: While overall patient experience scores were largely similar, some immigrant groups reported higher coercion and less favorable mental health trajectories. Qualitative findings highlighted contextual factors that may shape how patients experience and report care. These results underline the importance of culturally sensitive psychiatric care delivery and culturally appropriate measurement of patient experiences across diverse populations.
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- The importance of "being seen": a qualitative interview study of patient and clinician experiences of virtual and face-to-face TIA clinics in one region of England. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Virtual TIA clinics were perceived more positively by HPs than patients, who particularly valued face-to-face consultations. Yet HPs also identified distinct benefits of face-to-face consultations. Whilst further research is needed, our findings indicate that TIA service model design should consider how HPs interact with patients during assessment and diagnosis. A hybrid model of TIA clinic care may offer the greatest potential benefits to patients and clinicians. Offering choice of TIA clinic modality could be a priority, along with improved referral that reflects which patients are best suited to virtual or face-to-face care.
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