Please mind the gap between guidelines & behavior change: A systematic review and a consideration on effectiveness in healthcare.

Background & Objective: This systematic review evaluates the impact of guidelines on healthcare professionals' behavior and explores the resulting outcomes.

Methods: Using PRISMA methodology, Scopus and Web of Science databases were searched, yielding 624 results. After applying inclusion criteria, 67 articles were selected for in-depth analysis.

Determinants of women's preferences for surgical versus conservative management for pelvic organ prolapse: a survey-based study from Italy.

Background And Objective: Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) affects 40% of women, with a 12%-19% lifetime surgical risk. Italy showed high practice variation in POP surgery, possibly impacting equity of access to healthcare services, a central goal of Beveridge-like health systems. According to the literature, unwarranted variation, influenced by physician attitudes or resource allocation, must be reduced.

Liberté, Égalité, Crédibilité: An experimental study of citizens' perceptions of government responses to COVID-19 in eight countries.

During a global pandemic, individual views of government can be linked to citizens' trust and cooperation with government and their propensity to resist state policies or to take action that influences the course of a pandemic. This article explores citizens' assessments of government responses to COVID-19 as a function of policy substance (restrictions on civil liberties), information about performance, and socioeconomic inequity in outcomes. We conducted a survey experiment and analyzed data on over 7000 respondents from eight democratic countries.

Patient expectations do matter - Experimental evidence on antibiotic prescribing decisions among hospital-based physicians.

Background: The global public health crisis of antibiotic resistance is being driven in part by over prescription of antibiotics. We aimed to assess the relative weight of patient expectations, clinical uncertainty, and past behaviour on hospital-based physicians' antibiotic prescribing decisions.

Methods: A discrete choice experiment was administered among hospital-based physicians in Tuscany, Italy.

The relationship between healthcare service provision models and patient experience.

Purpose: User experience is key for measuring and improving the quality of services, especially in high personal and relation-intensive sectors, such as healthcare. However, evidence on whether and how the organizational model of healthcare service delivery can affect the patient experience is at an early stage. This study investigates the relationship between healthcare service provision models and patient experience by focusing on the nursing care delivery.

Nudging influenza vaccination among health care workers.

Our online randomized controlled trial on 6230 healthcare workers (HCWs) tests the impact that three nudges - social norms, reminding the impact on beneficiaries, and defaults - have on the intention to vaccinate against seasonal influenza across job families. Willingness to get a flu shot was higher among subjects invited to imagine themselves working at the local health authority (LHA) with the greatest immunization coverage within their region relative to their counterparts prompted to imagine working at the LHA with the lowest coverage. Reminding the impact of flu vaccination on beneficiaries had different effects across job families, with physicians caring more benefits for themselves, nurses about patients' benefits, and technicians about family and friends.