Trends in Avoidable Hospitalizations for Heart Failure in Switzerland (1998-2018): A Cross-Sectional Analysis.

: Timely and appropriate outpatient care can prevent potentially avoidable hospitalizations (PAHs) for heart failure (HF). We analyzed the trends, determinants, and consequences of PAHs for HF in Switzerland over two decades.; : Hospital discharge data of Switzerland from 1998 to 2018 were utilized.

Trends in potentially avoidable hospitalizations for diabetes in Switzerland, 1998 to 2018: Data from multiple cross-sectional studies.

Background: Timely and appropriate outpatient care can prevent potentially avoidable hospitalizations (PAH) for diabetes. We analysed the trends, determinants, and consequences of PAH for diabetes in Switzerland over two decades.

Methods: hospital discharge data for years 1998-2018 were used.

Prospective control by reinforcers in human choice: Misallocation and bias, but not time orientation, influences reinforcer control.

Research with nonhuman animals and children suggests reinforcer control is prospective; that is, behaviour is organised according to the likely future, as extrapolated from past experience. The present experiment extended this work to adult choice, and also explored the effects of individual differences in past, present, and future time-orientation on reinforcer control. Participants (N = 163) responded in a concurrent schedule in which the probability of a reinforcer at the same location as the previous reinforcer varied across conditions.

Twenty-year trends of potentially avoidable hospitalizations for hypertension in Switzerland.

We assessed the trends, characteristics, and consequences of potentially avoidable hospitalizations (PAH) for hypertension in Switzerland, for the period 1998 to 2018. Data from 117,507 hospitalizations (62.1% women), minimum age 20 years.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on CVD prevention between different socioeconomic groups in Switzerland.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the continuing management of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in the population. Socioeconomic status (SES) is a major determinant of health. Whether the COVID-19 pandemic increased, the SES gap in CVD risk factors is unknown.