Canton of Zurich, Directorate of Justice and the Interior, Office of Corrections, Zurich, Switzerland / Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Germany.
Canton of Zurich, Directorate of Justice and the Interior, Office of Corrections, Zurich, Switzerland / Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Germany.
Canton of Zurich, Directorate of Justice and the Interior, Office of Corrections, Zurich, Switzerland / Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Germany / Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel, Switzerland.
Recent studies from the United States and Germany have shown a general decline in the number of surgical residents, as trainees increasingly prioritize a positive work-life balance. The current study ...
Members of the Swiss College of Surgeons, being surgical consultant or attending regardless of specialty, were surveyed online as to their purported career goals, future employment ideals, aspired lea...
A total of 269 questionnaires were analysed. Most participants (93%) were board- certified and 30% of participants were female. With regard to desired specialty, 50% of participants intended to pursue...
The current study found that surgeons in Switzerland remain highly motivated to pursue leadership positions in their respective fields. Going forward, the challenge will lie in reconciling the needs o...
Survival probability among individuals critically buried by avalanche is highly time dependent, which was demonstrated 30 years ago. However, it remains unclear whether avalanche survival probability ...
To assess the avalanche survival rate and probability as well as the rescue probability over the past 4 decades....
In this cohort study, avalanche data from Switzerland that were collected by the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) in Davos were analyzed from the winter beginning in 1981 to that be...
Critical avalanche burial (ie, burial involving the head and chest)....
Survival rate among individuals critically buried by avalanche, survival probability, and rescue probability in relation to time buried under the avalanche....
The study included 1643 individuals critically buried by avalanche (mean [SD] age, 37 [13.7] years; 1090 of 1342 with known sex [81.2%] were male) among 3805 avalanches involving 7059 persons. Compare...
This cohort study of 1643 individuals critically buried by avalanche found that over the past 4 decades, total survival rates considerably increased and rescue times decreased. Survival rates among th...
Emergency physicians are the most at-risk medical specialist group for burnout. Given its consequences for patient care and physician health and its resulting increased attrition rates, ensuring the w...
This analysis examines the effect of COVID-19 on public mental health in Switzerland. Following an event-study framework, we compare helpline call volume and duration before and after the outbreak of ...
The use of psychotropic drugs among students is well known, but very few studies have been carried out outside North America, and data on Switzerland are particularly scarce. This study investigates t...
Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is an orthopedic intervention that generates substantial costs to national healthcare systems due to the number of interventions and the cost per intervention. We performe...
Data from the national joint arthroplasty register in Switzerland and internal information from the national healthcare services in Austria and Switzerland were compared for patient demographics, inte...
The average age for primary THA in Austria was from 67.4 to 67.8 years with 55.9-57.2 percent female patients and from 68.5 to 69.3 years with 52.4-53.8 percent female patients in Switzerland. The ann...
The patient population was comparable while patients undergoing primary THA in Austria stay longer in hospital and have relatively higher costs when adjusted for currency, purchasing power, and inflat...
Potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) exposes patients to an increased risk of adverse outcomes. Many lists of explicit criteria provide guidance on identifying PIM and recommend alternative pres...
To determine PIM prevalence and the most frequently prescribed PIMs according to 6 well-known PIM lists and to develop a best practice synthesis for clinicians....
This cross-sectional study used anonymized electronic health record data of Swiss primary care patients aged 65 years or older with drug prescriptions from January 1, 2020, to December 31, 2021, extra...
PIM prescription according to PIM criteria operationalized for use with FIRE data....
The primary outcomes were PIM prevalence (percentage of patients with 1 or more PIMs) and PIM frequency (percentage of prescriptions identified as PIMs) according to the individual PIM lists and a com...
This study included 115 867 patients 65 years or older (mean [SD] age, 76.0 [7.9] years; 55.8% female) with 1 211 227 prescriptions. Among all patients, 86 715 (74.8%) were aged 70 years or older, and...
In this cross-sectional study of adults aged 65 or older, PIM prevalence was high, varied considerably depending on the criteria applied, and increased consistently with age. However, only few drug cl...
To establish a national consensus on contraindications for corneal donation for transplantation in Switzerland....
Swisstransplant (SWT), the Swiss national foundation coordinating tissue and organ donations, convened a working group consisting of six national corneal surgeons and eye bankers and donation experts ...
From March 2021 to November 2021, the study group held six meetings and created a standardized minimal contraindication list for corneal donation in Switzerland. Thanks to this list, SWT has created a...
Given that corneal transplantation is the most commonly performed transplantation, establishing a consensus on contraindications is crucial for recipient safety. The creation of a consensus on contrai...
Syphilis remains a global public health problem, with growing incidence in most regions of the world, particularly among women of childbearing age. This alarming trend has led to an increase in cases ...
The prevalence of obesity has increased significantly in recent decades. Today, it is estimated that more than one-third of the world's population has overweight or obesity, rendering it one of the mo...
Prevalence of overweight and obesity based on the BMI reported in the 2017 Swiss Health Survey was extrapolated to 2021. Systematic literature searches were performed to identify treatment costs and e...
More than 3.1 million inhabitants of Switzerland aged ≥15 years met the criteria for overweight or obesity in 2021. The prevalence of overweight increase over the past decades from 30.4% in 1992 to 41...
Overweight and obesity impose a significant cost impact on the Swiss healthcare system, accounting for 4.2-6.1% of total healthcare expenditures in 2021. Notably, direct treatment of overweight and ob...
