[Motives, goals and anticipated barriers as experienced by employees engaged in an initiative promoting sustainability at a general hospital - A qualitative analysis].

Background: As a consequence of the climate crisis, a drastic reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and a transformation towards a sustainable economy are indispensable for the health care sector.

Methods: For the present study, barriers and facilitators in implementing a transformation towards more sustainability were evaluated in qualitative interviews with members of an initiative attempting to establish more sustainability at a general hospital.

Results: In 12 interviews, the interviewees were asked about the necessary personal characteristics for their commitment, short- and long-term ideas about how to reduce green house gas emissions, as well as barriers and facilitators of the organization's structure and of the societal context.

LeiKA: an optional German general practice teaching project for first-semester medical students: who is taking part and why? A cross-sectional study.

Objectives: This study investigates students' adoption of LeiKA, a new extracurricular longitudinal general practice (GP) teaching project. LeiKA aims to attract a broad range of students, not only those who are already planning to become GPs. This study compares participants' and non-participants' characteristics, career preferences and job-related value orientations to assess the programme's initial potential to increase the number of students subsequently entering GP careers.

Implementing a disease management intervention for depression in primary care: a random work sampling study.

We describe the daily work activities of 13 Depression Clinical Specialists (DCSs) at 7 national sites who served as care managers in an effective multisite randomized trial of a disease management model for depression in primary care. DCSs carried portable random-reminder beepers for a total of 147 consecutive workdays and recorded 4,030 work activities. Patient care activity comprised the largest percentage of the workday, 49.

Simultaneous multisite endocardial mapping of sustained and non-sustained atrial fibrillation in humans.

The aim of this study was to investigate the differences between sustained and non-sustained forms of human atrial fibrillation (AF) using multielectrode endocardial recordings. Methods. Sixty-four pole basket catheters were deployed in the right atrium (RA) of 3 groups of patients: 1) patients with persistent AF (> 48 hours); 2) induced sustained AF (> 15 minutes); and 3) induced non-sustained AF (< 15 minutes).