The Patient Enrolled in a Managed Care Insurance Plan or the Physician Being Part of a Network: What Drives the Efficiency Gain?Abstract. Aim: To evaluate the role of physician-related as compared to patient-related factors, we compared the efficiency ...
Going Paperless – What Is the State of Affairs? Data from the Work Force Study 2015Abstract. The electronic health record (EHR) is a topic of high political relevancy particularly with regards to the launch of the ’electronic patient’s dossier’ 2017. To ...
Abstract. We evaluated prevalence of VitD deficiency and possible seasonal fluctuations in inhabitants of Southern Switzerland. We analysed clinical data (age, sex, diagnosis, comorbidity, number of drugs) as indicators for ...
Vitamin D Level in Employees of a Swiss University Geriatric HospitalAbstract. Vitamin D plays an important role in health. The aim of this study was to determine the vitamin D level in hospital employees from different age, ...
Advance Care Planning in Swiss Nursing Homes: Results of a Focus Group StudyAbstract. Advance Care Planning (ACP) is a standardized consultation process in which patients define their therapy goals for future medical ...
Diving Accidents in Lakes – a Retrospective Study of a Level-1 Emergency Centre in SwitzerlandAbstract. Switzerland is a country in the middle of Europe without access to an open sea. Here one does not assume a noteworthy ...
Tuberculous Spondylitis – Diagnosis and ManagementAbstract. Despite a decreasing incidence of tuberculosis (TB) over the last decades in Switzerland, the frequency of newly diagnosed tuberculous spondylitis has ...
Lessons Learned – Observational Study After One Year of ’Domestic Violence Consultation’ at the University Emergency Department BernAbstract. The number of violent crimes in domestic violence has been steadily increasing in ...
Bio-Psycho-Social Needs Assessment in Family Medicine: Acceptability of the Intermed Self-AssessmentAbstract. In view of the increasing number of patients with somato-psychic comorbidities, a tool for identifying complex ...
Frequency of Prescription of Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs: Analysis of Compulsory Health Insurance Billing DataAbstract. According to the nephrology recommendation in the Choosing Wisely campaign, non-steroidal ...
Abstract. The study identified factors that make an evaluation of decision-making capacity (DMC) difficult for clinicians in their daily work. Semistructured interviews were carried out with 24 healthcare ...
Is there a reduction in crime through social reintegration in the context of the Swiss heroin trials?<B>Aim:</B> The present study examines whether on an individual level the reduction in crime associated with heroin-assisted treatment is related to ...
<span class="fett">Aims:</span> To measure alcohol-attributable burden of disease in Switzerland in 2002 and to discuss implications of this burden for policy. </p><p> <span class="fett">Method:</span> Prevalence of alcohol consumption and relative risk ...
The social situation of patients and ex-patients of heroin-assisted
treatment in Switzerland a six-year follow-up studyAim: Heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) for people
with opioid addiction has been offered in Switzerland
since January 1994. Results ...
Validity of self-reported
drug use in
heroin-assisted
treatment
in SwitzerlandObjective: This study examined the
validity of self-reports on drug-abuse
in heroin-assisted treatment.
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Methods: To determine validity, 167
patients were asked ...
Zusammenfassung. Die Verwendung des Begriffs “Qualitätssicherung” wird als pädagogischer Slogan, “stark im Appellcharakter, schwach in der Bezeichnungsfähigkeit”, entlarvt. Wird nach der Qualität von Schulen gefragt, ist nach der Systemgeschichte der ...
Characteristics of the most frequently cited English-language journal publications 1981 – 2010 of psychology from the German-speaking countriesThe results of publication-based citation analyses for 28,383 English-language journal psychology publications ...
Applied sport psychology in Switzerland: Training concept and perspectives of the professional fieldAbstract. In Switzerland, sport psychology started in the 1960s. A historical retrospective reveals that, unlike Germany, it did not become established at ...