[Economic aspects of inpatient treatment for decompensated liver cirrhosis: a prospective study employing an evidence-based clinical pathway].

The introduction of the G-DRG reimbursement system has greatly increased the pressure to provide cost effective treatment in German hospitals. Reimbursement based on diagnosis-related groups, which requires stratification of costs incurred is still not sufficiently discriminating the disease severity and severity in relation to the intensive costs in gastroenterology. In a combined retrospective and prospective study at a tertial referral centre we investigated whether this also applies for decompensated liver cirrhosis.

[Secondary data analysis in the field of epidemiology of health care. Potential and limitations].

Due to the challenges of demographic change and rising costs in the health care sector, the epidemiology of population-based health care capacity, demand and quality increasingly moves into the interest of science, politics and public. Epidemiology of health care research contains hypothesis-based analyses as well as development, implementation and evaluation of specific interventions, e.g.

[Extraction of management information from the national quality assurance program].

Background: Starting with clinically motivated projects, the national quality assurance program has established a legislative obligatory framework. Annual feedback of results is an important means of quality control.

Material And Methods: The annual reports cover quality-related information with high granularity.

Using the WWW to teach undergraduate nurses clinical communication.

On-line learning is increasingly being used in nursing education. Nevertheless, there is still insufficient evidence to demonstrate: whether students respond positively when this form of learning is used to teach relatively practical or clinical subjects; whether it is effective; and whether it is fair to students with less access to, or familiarity with, computers and the internet. In 2003, an on-line Unit on clinical communication was developed for Australian undergraduate nurses in partnership between an Australian School of Nursing and the Department of Clinical Psychology.

Scoping workplace aggression in nursing: findings from an Australian study.

Aim: This paper reports a study of workplace aggression among nurses in Tasmania, Australia. There is international concern about a perceived rise in occupational violence as a major worldwide public health problem, with associated financial costs.

Background: There is reason to suspect that aggression towards nurses is increasing.