Publications by authors named "Isabella Franke"
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- The BETTER-CARE study is investigating a personalized follow-up care system for breast cancer patients in Germany, focusing on individual needs and risks of long-term therapy side effects.
- It is a cluster-randomized controlled trial involving 30 centers aiming to recruit 1,140 patients, with the primary goal of improving health-related quality of life.
- The pilot phase showed that the approach is feasible, and if successful, it could become a part of routine care in Germany.
Although obesity appears to be an important predictor of mortality and morbidity, little data about the impact of body mass index (BMI) on the outcome of severely burned patients are available. Patients admitted to the General Hospital Vienna between 1994 and 2014, who underwent surgery because of burn injuries, were enrolled in this study. BMI was used to divide patients into five groups: BMI 18.
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