The article by Brenna and Spandonaro on interregional mobility for acute hospital care in Italy raises important issues concerning social and territorial equity in a healthcare system. Based on Regions and private providers' strategic behavior, the hypothesis adopted to explain patient cross-border mobility (CBM), demonstrated by statistical analysis, may be further explored using qualitative m...

BACKGROUND Communication with health care providers represents an essential part of access to health care for the over 230 million cross-border migrants around the world. In this article, we explore the complexity of health communication from the perspective of cross-border migrants seeking antenatal care in Cape Town, South Africa in order to highlight the importance of high quality medical in...

Introduction While the popularity of international care is rising, complexity compromises patient safety. To identify risks and propose solutions to improve care, this study explores experiences healthcare workers with handovers in a European border region. Methods A cross-sectional survey design was used reach out 3000 workers, working for hospitals or emergency services three neighboring coun...

Recently, there are two mainly methods for SMEs operating cross-border e-commerce in China. One is online store of firms via the cross-border third party platform. The other is the online store of firms built by themselves for export markets expansion. Based on the analysis of cross-border e-commerce process, we explore four factors which may affect the mode selection of cross-border e-commerce...

BACKGROUND In the European Union and European Economic Area only 38% of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients notified in 2011 completed treatment successfully at 24 months' evaluation. Socio-economic factors and patient factors such as demographic characteristics, behaviour and attitudes are associated with treatment outcomes. Characteristics of healthcare systems also affect health outcom...

To better enable cross-border healthcare delivery, particularly the exchange of ePrescriptions, this global undertaking advances the unique identification of medicinal products (MPs) and patient safety in cross-border settings. Major stakeholders harmonise their respective efforts to deliver • common data models for prescribed MPs • a common vocabulary for unambiguous definition, description, a...