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Open AccessHuman resource crises in German hospitals—an explorative study
The complexity of providing medical care in a high-tech environment with a highly specialized, limited labour force makes hospitals more crisis-prone than other industries. An effective defence against crises ...
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Erratum to: Outcomes of medical management of peripheral arterial disease in general practice: follow-up results of the PACE-PAD Study
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Outcomes of medical management of peripheral arterial disease in general practice: follow-up results of the PACE-PAD Study
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD), a marker of elevated vascular risk, is highly prevalent in general practice. We aimed to investigate patient characteristics and outcomes of PAD patients treated according to...
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Economic analysis based on multinational studies: methods for adapting findings to national contexts
Health economic parameters are increasingly considered as variables in health care decisions, but decision makers are interested in country-specific evaluations. However, a large number of studies are performe...
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Applicabilità e generalizzabilità dei risultati dei trials clinici nelle decisioni di politica sanitaria
Randomized controlled trials provide unbiased estimates of treatment effects through reducing the attribution of observed differences in outcome to the play of chance or the treatment of interest. Issues in th...
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Development and Testing of the Insulin Treatment Experience Questionnaire (ITEQ)
Objectives: To develop and psychometrically evaluate a domain-specific questionnaire to assess subtle but clinically relevant differences in treatment experiences and satisfaction over a wide ran...
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Presentation and medical management of peripheral arterial disease in general practice: rationale, aims, design and baseline results of the PACE-PAD Study
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is highly prevalent among individuals of higher age or those with one or more cardiovascular risk factors. Screening for PAD is recommended, since it is often linked to athero...
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The Applicability and Generalizability of Findings from Clinical Trials for Health-Policy Decisions
Randomized controlled trials provide unbiased estimates of treatment effect through reducing the attribution of observed differences in outcome to the play of chance or the treatment of interest. Issues in the...
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Preisregulierung und Kosten-Nutzen-Bewertung von Arzneimitteln im Ländervergleich — Internationale Erfahrungen und Optionen für Deutschland
The 2007 health care reform has introduced maximum prices for prescription drugs in German social health insurance. In contrast to internal reference pricing — which has been introduced in 1989 — maximum price...
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Open AccessNeonatal hearing screening: modelling cost and effectiveness of hospital- and community-based screening
Children with congenital hearing impairment benefit from early detection and management of their hearing loss. These and related considerations led to the recommendation of universal newborn hearing screening....
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Open AccessComparing the clinical effectiveness of different new-born hearing screening strategies. A decision analysis
Children with congenital hearing impairment benefit from early detection and treatment. At present, no model exists which explicitly quantifies the effectiveness of universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) v...
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Auswirkungen der Krankenhausfallpauschalen für Einrichtungen der geriatrischen Rehabilitation
Die Einführung des neuen Fallpauschalenentgeltsystems für den deutschen Krankenhausbereich ab 2003 hat konkrete qualitative, mengenmäßige und wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen auf die Erstellung akuter stationärer...