Integrating risks for oral diseases into Structured Information Collection: A practice development projectAbstract.Background: Deficient oral hygiene and oral diseases are highly prevalent among nursing staff. Up to now, ...
Experience of nurses using the COVID-19 Early Warning Score in the care of COVID-19 patients: A qualitative studyAbstract:Background: In all phases of the COVID-19 disease, patients are at risk of acute deterioration. In ...
This review article summarizes clinical data on adjuvant long-term oral anticoagulation therapy (OAC) of peripheral arterial disease (PAD). It analyzes the underlying risk model of oral anticoagulation. Definitions of runoff patterns, of major and minor ...
Hintergrund: Der prädiktive Wert von PROCAM, FRAMINGHAM, SCORE und SMART-score zur Abschätzung des kardiovaskulären Risikos bei Patienten mit offensichtlicher Arteriosklerose ist bislang nie beurteilt worden. Patienten und Methoden: 96 konsekutive ...
Background: The relationship between breast artery calcification (BAC) noted on mammography and both coronary artery disease and cardiovascular risk remains controversial. Few studies have examined the clinical significance of BAC in asymptomatic women. ...
Evidence and practical approach of Coronary Risk Assessment in noncardiac surgery are reviewed. Growing literature suggests a benefit of perioperative b-blockade. Therefore, risk stratification and management are described in algorithms in order to ...
Pressure ulcer risk assessment and preventive measures in mobile / chairfast / bedfast hospital patientsAbstract.Background: Internationally, it is recommended to use the clinical view with a validated instrument for ...
Mental disorders and criminal recidivism in male juvenile prisonersAbstract.Objective: Psychiatric disorders in juvenile prisoners exhibit a very high prevalence. However, it remains unclear whether this goes along with ...
Die forensische Psychiatrie und Psychologie beschäftigt sich mit dem Zusammenhang von Straftaten und der psychischen Verfassung der Täter und Opfer. Die Aufgabengebiete im Überschneidungsbereich von Recht und Psychiatrie sind vielfältig. Zentrale Themen ...
Persönlichkeitsstörungen gehören zu den bei psychiatrischen Schuldfähigkeitsbegutachtungen und bei epidemiologischen Untersuchungen in Haftanstalten und im psychiatrischen Maßregelvollzug am häufigsten gestellten Diagnosen. Aus dieser Häufigkeit, aber ...
Living Better with COPDAbstract. The term COPD is not widely known and appreciated, despite being the third most important cause of death worldwide, with more than 4000 deaths annually in Switzerland. The life of COPD patients and their families could ...
Maternity Protection – A Guide for Pregnant Physicians and Their EmployersAbstract. The proportion of women in the medical profession is high and shows an upward trend. When a woman becomes pregnant, she has a legal right to ...
Aims: The consumption of alcoholic beverages has been identified as carcinogenic by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. We aim to summarize the evidence on acetaldehyde as the main mechanism underlying this relation, because humans are ...
Instruments for the assessment of abuse and neglect risksAbstract. Structured and empirical founded instruments for the assessment of abuse and neglect risks can help to qualify youth care. Several instruments are used to demonstrate three risk ...
Risk Assessment in Clinical Practice – Results of the International Risk Survey (IRiS) From GermanyAbstract. Forensic psychologists routinely assess the violence risk of their clients and patients. Nevertheless, there is only little knowledge about which ...
Abstract. When digitalizing work, organizations face the challenge of analyzing, evaluating, and mitigating a potential increase in mental workload for employees and managers. This paper presents an instrument to assess mental stress ...
Abstract. The step from hazard analysis to developing risk-mitigating measures is crucial to improving working conditions but has been scarcely researched to date. We qualitatively investigated protocols of analytical workshops in 33 ...
Identification of adolescents with strong delinquency riskThe aim of the present study was to analyze whether the SPS-J is a suitable risk assessment tool for predicting serious and violent delinquency of juveniles. In a regionally representative ...
Suicide victims frequently have contact with health care professionals in the months before death. The primary aims of this pilot psychological autopsy study were to determine the feasibility of undertaking a full study and to describe the characteristics ...