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Open AccessParents’ and neonatal healthcare professionals’ views on barriers and facilitators to parental presence in the neonatal unit: a qualitative study
Parent and infant separation in the neonatal unit is associated with adverse health outcomes. Family-integrated care has several advantages and the potential to reduce these adverse outcomes but requires paren...
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Open AccessKee** up with evidence-based recommendations – a qualitative interview study with general practitioners in Germany on information-seeking behaviour in cardiovascular care
Due to the nature of their work, general practitioners (GPs) need to be up to date with evidence in various medical domains. While much synthesised research evidence is easily accessible nowadays, in practice,...
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Social Networks Analysis in Health Services Research
Social networks research has gained popularity in health services research in recent years. Social networks are one way to conceptualise and examine the role of social context in sha** phenomena. The connect...
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Continuity of Care: New Approaches to a Classic Topic of Health Services Research
Continuity of care refers to the degree to which healthcare provision is a consistent and interconnected process. It has three dimensions: relational continuity, informational continuity and management continu...
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Open AccessOpinion seeking behaviour of healthcare providers in ambulatory cardiovascular care in Germany: a cross-sectional study
Healthcare providers’ inclination to seek or lead other providers’ opinions on clinical topics may influence healthcare practices, particularly regarding their alignment across different providers in controver...
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Open AccessNurses’ competence in recognition and management of delirium in older patients: development and piloting of a self-assessment tool
Delirium is a common condition in elderly inpatients. Health care professionals play a crucial role in recognizing delirium, initiating preventive measures and implementing a multicomponent treatment strategy....
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Open AccessMeasuring continuity of ambulatory cardiovascular care: a cross-sectional study on the applicability of the Nijmegen Continuity Questionnaire in Germany
Chronic cardiovascular diseases demand continuous care from general practitioners and medical specialists. Especially in fragmented healthcare systems, such as in Germany, a large body of research is devoted t...
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Open AccessPatient-reported continuity of care and the association with patient experience of cardiovascular prevention: an observational study in Germany
Cardiovascular diseases are often accompanied by comorbidities, which require good coordination of care. Especially in fragmented healthcare systems, it is important to apply strategies such as case management...
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Open AccessInformation exchange networks for chronic diseases in primary care practices in Germany: a cross-sectional study
Coordination of care requires information exchange between health workers. The structure of their information exchange networks may influence the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery. The aim of this ...
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Open AccessContextual factors influencing physicians’ perception of antibiotic prescribing in primary care in Germany — a prospective observational study
Antimicrobial resistance is a worldwide challenge for health services and systems alike. To reduce the overuse of antibiotics, multifaceted interventions are often used to achieve sustainable effects. It can b...
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Analysis of the Localization of NLRs upon Shigella flexneri Infection Exemplified by NOD1
NOD-like receptors (NLRs) are a family of pattern recognition receptors, able to respond to conserved microbial structures and endogenous danger signals. The NLR NOD1 responds to bacterial peptidoglycan, leadi...
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Open AccessEffects of personalized invitation letters on research participation among general practitioners: a randomized trial
Participation of general practitioners is crucial for health care studies. However, recruiting them is an ongoing challenge and participation rates of general practitioners around the globe are often low. One ...
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Open AccessInfluence of physician networks on prescribing a new ingredient combination in heart failure: a longitudinal claim data-based study
Since 2016, the combination of sacubitril/valsartan, which combines an angiotensin receptor and neprilysin inhibitor (ARNI), has been recommended in the guidelines for the treatment of heart failure. The adopt...
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Open AccessCooperation networks of ambulatory health care providers: exploration of mechanisms that influence coordination and uptake of recommended cardiovascular care (ExKoCare): a mixed-methods study protocol
As the number of elderly and multimorbid patients increases, healthcare has become more complex. This requires good coordination of treatment and care given the various health care professionals involved (e.g...
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Policy Clusters: Government’s Agenda Across Policies and Time
In the last decade, Machine Learning research has developed several data analysis algorithms for real-world problems. On the other hand, analyzing the attention governments allocate to different policy areas i...
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Transfer Credits in Higher Education: The Path to Globalization
Higher education has created global citizens who wish to move seamlessly through learning in ways that transcend cultural and political boundaries. In North America, many issues in policy development and insti...
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Wide distribution of the cysteine string proteins in Drosophila tissues revealed by targeted mutagenesis
The “cysteine string protein” (CSP) genes of higher eukaryotes code for a novel family of proteins characterized by a “J” domain and an unusual cysteine-rich region. Previous studies had localized the proteins...
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Inheritance and effect on ripening of antisense polygalacturonase genes in transgenic tomatoes
The role of the cell wall hydrolase polygalacturonase (PG) during fruit ripening was investigated using novel mutant tomato lines in which expression of the PG gene has been down regulated by antisense RNA. To...
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Control and manipulation of gene expression during tomato fruit ripening
Ripening is a complex developmental process involving changes in the biochemistry, physiology and gene expression of the fruit. It is an active process characterised by changes in all cellular compartments. cD...
