Publications by authors named "J Ortner"
Article Synopsis
- The study looked at how getting false positive liver screening results affects people emotionally and behaviorally in Germany.
- Researchers interviewed people who received positive results to understand their feelings and actions.
- They found that clearer communication from doctors could help reduce negative feelings, and patients were generally positive about the idea of liver screening.
Background: Patient safety is currently a main issue in healthcare practice. Adverse events (AEs) management is a key instrument for the application of strategies to prevent harm to patients.
Objective: To analyze the type, severity and preventability, according to validated scales, of AEs occurring annually in the healthcare practice of an Occupational Mutual Insurance Company in order to implement action plans to improve patient safety.
Background: The implementation of an early detection program for liver cirrhosis in a general population has been discussed for some time. Recently, the effectiveness of a structured screening procedure, called SEAL (Structured Early detection of Asymptomatic Liver cirrhosis), using liver function tests (AST and ALT) and APRI to early detect advanced fibrosis and cirrhosis in participants of the German "Check-up 35" was investigated.
Methods: This study identifies the expected diagnostic costs of SEAL in routine care and their drivers and reports on prevailing CLD etiologies in this check-up population.
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic with its protective measures (e. g. lockdown) had far-reaching effects on everyone's well-being.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground & Aims: Detection of patients with early cirrhosis is of importance to prevent the occurrence of complications and improve prognosis. The SEAL program aimed at evaluating the usefulness of a structured screening procedure to detect cirrhosis as early as possible.
Methods: SEAL was a prospective cohort study with a control cohort from routine care data.