Factors promoting willingness to practice medicine in rural regions and awareness of rural regions in the university's catchment area - cross-sectional survey among medical students in central Germany.

Aim: Many universities offer rural medical internships for medical students. The present survey was designed to show how rural medical work is perceived by students, whether these perceptions are associated with origin and previous experience, and how well medical students know rural regions in the vicinity of their university. In addition, students were asked how to support and inspire medical students to later work in a rural region.

[Acute respiratory tract infections and antibiotic prescriptions: What are patients' expectations?].

Introduction: The use of antibiotics in human medicine is partly responsible for the global increase in antibiotic resistance. Significant reductions in antibiotic prescribing were realised through educational campaigns, communication training and prescribing feedback. Based on data from the cluster-randomised CHANGE-3 trial, the present analysis focuses on the question of patient expectations for an antibiotic in acute respiratory infections.

[Acute respiratory tract infections and antibiotic prescriptions: What are patients' expectations?].

Introduction: The use of antibiotics in human medicine is partly responsible for the global increase in antibiotic resistance. Significant reductions in antibiotic prescribing were realised through educational campaigns, communication training and prescribing feedback. Based on data from the cluster-randomised CHANGE-3 trial, the present analysis focuses on the question of patient expectations for an antibiotic in acute respiratory infections.

Task sharing in an interprofessional medication management program - a survey of general practitioners and community pharmacists.

Background: Pharmacist-led medication review and medication management programs (MMP) are well-known strategies to improve medication safety and effectiveness. If performed interprofessionally, outcomes might even improve. However, little is known about task sharing in interprofessional MMP, in which general practitioners (GPs) and community pharmacists (CPs) collaboratively perform medication reviews and continuously follow-up on patients with designated medical and pharmaceutical tasks, respectively.

[Measuring, assessing, acting: A practice test of quality indicators for coronary heart disease].

Background: There are only limited possibilities for doctors in outpatient services to establish quality management that is based on data-driven feedback regarding the quality of health care. However, transparency about one's own activities is a prerequisite for refining this quality. The aim of this project was to make the quality of care for patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) more transparent, use this as a basis to initiate improvement processes, and explore the framework conditions and factors promoting or inhibiting the intended improvement of health care quality.

[Assessment of the severity of postoperative complications from the patient and doctor perspective].

Aim Of The Study: This study compares doctors' and patients' assessments of the severity of postoperative complications reported by patients. Within the context of quality assurance and patient safety, the study aims to contribute to developing instruments to include patients' views for measuring postoperative complications.

Methods: In a questionnaire development study 474 patients who had undergone different kinds of surgery were given a questionnaire and asked whether postoperative complications occurred, and if so, to describe these complications in free text and assesses their severity as "slight, temporary" or "extensive".

Sustainable reduction of antibiotic-induced antimicrobial resistance (ARena) in German ambulatory care: study protocol of a cluster randomised trial.

Background: Despite many initiatives to enhance the rational use of antibiotics, there remains substantial room for improvement. The overall aim of this study is to optimise the appropriate use of antibiotics in German ambulatory care in patients with acute non-complicated infections (respiratory tract infections, such as bronchitis, sinusitis, tonsillitis and otitis media), community-acquired pneumonia and non-complicated cystitis, in order to counter the advancing antimicrobial resistance development.

Methods: A three-armed cluster randomised trial will be conducted in 14 practice networks in two German federal states (Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia) and an added cohort that reflects standard care.

[Structured Outpatient Care in a New Orthopaedic Healthcare Program: Patients' Experiences as Criterion for Quality].

In 2015 a survey was conducted in Baden-Württemberg (Germany) among patients treated by orthopaedic specialists participating in a medical specialists' contract between doctors and statutory health insurance funds, in accordance with § 73c of the German Social Code, Book V (SGB V). This contract aims to improve orthopaedic care by structured cooperation between orthopaedic specialists and general practitioners, who are the central coordinators of care, and refer patients to a specialist if necessary. The program is intended to achieve patient-centred care by taking into account the physical, psychological and social aspects of the patients' orthopaedic complaints, as well as informing and motivating patients for self-management and health promoting activities.

Involving patients in detecting quality gaps in a fragmented healthcare system: development of a questionnaire for Patients' Experiences Across Health Care Sectors (PEACS).

Objective: The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a generic questionnaire to evaluate experiences and reported outcomes in patients who receive treatment across a range of healthcare sectors.

Design: Mixed-methods design including focus groups, pretests and field test.

Setting: The patient questionnaire was developed in the context of a nationwide program in Germany aimed at quality improvements across the healthcare sectors.

Evaluation of patient perspective on quality of oral health care in Germany--an exploratory study.

Background: Patients' evaluation of care presents an essential dimension of the quality of care. The aim of this exploratory study was to determine which factors of EUROPEP-Dental were associated with overall patients' evaluation of oral health care.

Methods: Data were collected from 8,160 patients from 106 dental practices (response rate 77%) who completed the 30-item EUROPEP-Dental questionnaire.

[Evaluation of special GP-centered health care contracts in Germany by the participating GPs. present situation and future perspectives].

Background And Purpose: In 2004, German statutory health care funds were given the possibility to offer their insured a special general practitioner-( GP-)centered health care contract (HZV), since 2007 they are obliged to do so. The aim of these contracts is to strengthen the role of the GP as a coordinator in the health care system. Until now, the evidence regarding the GPs' view on these contracts is poor.

Patient satisfaction with availability of general practice: an international comparison.

Objective: To identify associations between the characteristics of general practitioners and practices, and patients' evaluations of the availability of general practice.

Design: Written surveys completed by patients.

Setting: General practice care in nine European countries: Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, UK, Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia), Switzerland, Slovenia and Spain.