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Case-crossover study to examine the change in postpartum risk of pulmonary embolism over time

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2017
Background Although the current guidelines recommend anticoagulation up until 6 weeks after delivery in women at high risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE), the risk of VTE may extend beyond 6 weeks.
Grégoire Ficheur, Alexandre Caron, Jean-Baptiste Beuscart, Laurie Ferret, Yu-Jin Jung, Charles Garabedian, Régis Beuscart, Emmanuel Chazard   +7 more
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A systematic comparison of different composite measures (DAS 28, CDAI, SDAI, and Boolean approach) for determining treatment effects on low disease activity and remission in rheumatoid arthritis

BMC Rheumatology, 2022
Background Some composite measures for determining the treatment effects of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs on remission and low disease activity (LDA) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may produce misleading results if they include an acute phase ...
Kirsten Janke, Corinna Kiefer, Natalie McGauran, Bernd Richter, Dietmar Krause, Beate Wieseler   +5 more
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Quality of health care: informatics foundations [PDF]

Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 2003
Abstract:In this article we will discuss in what ways computer systems can contribute to the quality of healthcare and on which principles of informatics successful systems are founded. Section 2 presents an overview of studies that investigate the usefulness of decision support, and Section 3 discusses factors that determine the success of decision ...
Hasman, A., Safran, C., Takeda, H.
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Competition, Quality and Integrated Health Care

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
Integration of health care services has been promoted in several countries to improve the quality and coordination of care. We investigate the effects of such integration in a model where providers compete on quality to attract patients under regulated prices. We identify countervailing effects of integration on quality of care. While integration makes
Brekke, Kurt, Siciliani, Luigi, Straume, Odd Rune   +2 more
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Amputation rates of the lower limb by amputation level – observational study using German national hospital discharge data from 2005 to 2015

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background In international comparisons, rates of amputations of the lower limb are relatively high in Germany. This study aims to analyze trends in lower limb amputations over time, as well as outcomes of care concerning in-hospital mortality and ...
Melissa Spoden, Ulrike Nimptsch, Thomas Mansky   +2 more
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The influence of depressive symptoms on the effectiveness of a short-term group form of Schema Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for personality disorders: a naturalistic study

BMC Psychiatry, 2020
Background This naturalistic study examined the outcomes of Short-Term Schema Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in groups with personality disorders, and with high and low severity of depressive symptoms.
David Koppers, Henricus Van, Jaap Peen, Jet Alberts, Jack Dekker   +4 more
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Health Care Personnel’s Perspectives on Quality of Palliative Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic – A Cross-Sectional Study

Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 2023
Marie Dahlen Granrud,1 Vigdis Abrahamsen Grøndahl,2 Ann Karin Helgesen,2 Carina Bååth,2,3 Cecilia Olsson,3,4 Maria Tillfors,5 Christina Melin-Johansson,6 Jane Österlind,7 Maria Larsson,3 Reidun Hov,8 Tuva Sandsdalen9 1Department of Social Sciences and ...
Granrud MD, Grøndahl VA, Helgesen AK, Bååth C, Olsson C, Tillfors M, Melin-Johansson C, Österlind J, Larsson M, Hov R, Sandsdalen T   +10 more
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Acute stroke awareness of family physicians: translation of policy to practice

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2020
Background Translating clinical guidelines into routine clinical practice is mandatory to achieve population level improvement of health. Emergence of specific therapy for acute stroke yielded the ‘time is brain’ concept introducing the need for ...
Szilvia Harsanyi, Nandor Balogh, Laszlo Robert Kolozsvari, Laszlo Mezes, Csaba Papp, Judit Zsuga   +5 more
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Correction to: Amputation rates of the lower limb by amputation level – observational study using German national hospital discharge data from 2005 to 2015

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
In the original publication of this article [1], some numbers in the below sentence errors in the Results section of the Abstract:
Melissa Spoden, Ulrike Nimptsch, Thomas Mansky   +2 more
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Health literate-sensitive shared decision-making in maternity care: needs for support among maternity care professionals in the Netherlands

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2023
Background Shared decision-making (SDM) in maternity care is challenging when clients have insufficient health literacy (HL) skills. This study gained insight in how professionals apply HL-sensitive SDM in Dutch maternity care and their needs for support
Laxsini Murugesu, Olga C. Damman, Danielle R. M. Timmermans, Sanne de Wit, Marianne Nieuwenhuijze, Ellen M. A. Smets, Mirjam P. Fransen   +6 more
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