Interprofessional Collaboration in Fall Prevention: Insights from a Qualitative Study.

(1) Background and objective: to explore the experiences of Swiss health care providers involved in a community fall prevention pilot project on barriers and facilitations in interprofessional cooperation between 2016 and 2017 in three regions of Switzerland. (2) Methods: semi-structured interviews with health care providers assessed their perspective on the evaluation of jointly developed tools for reporting fall risk, continuous training of the health care providers, sensitizing media campaigns, and others. (3) Results: One of the project's strengths is the interprofessional continuous trainings.

Selecting home care quality indicators based on the Resident Assessment Instrument-Home Care (RAI-HC) for Switzerland: A public health and healthcare providers' perspective.

Background: Despite an increasing importance of home care, quality assurance in this healthcare sector in Switzerland is hardly established. In 2010, Swiss home care quality indicators (QIs) based on the Resident Assessment Instrument-Home Care (RAI-HC) were developed. However, these QIs have not been revised since, although internationally new RAI-HC QIs have emerged.

[Evaluation of a prostate cancer E‑health tutorial : Development and testing of the website prostata-information.ch].

Background: Due to the multitude of therapy options, the treatment decision after diagnosis of localized prostate cancer is challenging. Compared to printed booklets, web-based information technology offers more possibilities to tailor information to patients' individual needs.

Objectives: To support the decision-making process as well as the communication with patients, we developed an online tutorial in a systematic process in the German-speaking part of Switzerland and then tested it in a pilot study.

Temporal change to self-rated health in the Swiss population from 1997 to 2012: the roles of age, gender, and education.

Objectives: Our study aimed to describe the temporal changes in self-rated health status (SRH) from 1997 to 2012 in adults aged 25 to 84 residing in Switzerland, with a view to identifying groups at risk for declining health.

Study Design: Secondary analysis of population-based cross-sectional health surveys.

Methods: Data were collected from the cross-sectional, population-based, five-year Swiss Health Survey, from 1997, 2002, 2007 and 2012.

[Older persons’ and their families’ experience with live-in foreign home care workers. A grounded theory study].

Background: Live-in arrangements with migrant care workers have considerably increased over the last years since they allow older frail persons to age-in-place despite functional limitations. However, little is known about the ramifications live-in care arrangements for families. Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate families’ experience with live-in migrant care workers and indicators of quality from their perspective.

Information needs of early-stage prostate cancer patients: within- and between-group agreement of patients and health professionals.

Purpose: The aims of this study were to analyze agreement on information needs within a group of early-state prostate cancer patients and to compare information preferences of patients with the view of health-care professionals about patients' needs.

Methods: Sample consists of patients (n = 128) and six subgroups of health-care professionals (urologists, n = 32; nurses, n = 95; radiotherapy technologists (RTTs), n = 36; medical oncologists, n = 19; radiation oncologists, n = 12; general practitioners (GPs), n = 10). Information needs have been assessed with 92 questions concerning prostate cancer and its treatment.

Individual Characteristics Associated with Blood Donation: A Cross-National Comparison of the German and Swiss Population between 1994 and 2010.

Objective: The aim of this study is to compare individual characteristics associated with blood donation in the German and Swiss population between 1994 and 2010.

Methods: Population-based survey data from the Eurobarometer 1994 and 2009, the Swiss Health Survey 1997, and the Swiss Blood Donation Survey 2010 were used to compare age-adjusted percentages of German and Swiss adults ever having donated blood (n = 8,746). A multivariate logistic regression was applied to the pooled data to estimate odds ratios (OR).

Fruit and vegetable consumption among migrants in Switzerland.

Objective: To assess the relative risk of low daily fruit and vegetable consumption for six large migrant groups in Switzerland.

Design: Cross-sectional health survey carried out 2007 (Swiss Health Survey) and 2010 (Swiss Migrant Health Survey) in Switzerland. Multinomial logistic regression models were used to estimate relative risk rates (RRR) of migrants relative to Swiss nationals.

[Information needs of patients with prostate cancer. Pronounced differences between individuals after diagnosis of localised prostate carcinoma].

Background: In the context of shared decision-making it is important to know more about information needs of prostate cancer patients. Therefore, this study investigates content and extent of these information needs.

Material And Methods: We surveyed 330 patients of 4 urological Clinics in Switzerland with a well-established written questionnaire between 3 and 24 months after their diagnosis of an early-stage prostate cancer.

Need for weight management in Switzerland: findings from National Blood Pressure Week 2009.

Background: The Swiss Health Survey (SHS) provides the only source of data for monitoring overweight and obesity in the general population in Switzerland. However, this survey reports body mass index (BMI) based on self-reported height and weight, and is therefore subject to measurement errors. Moreover, it is not possible to differentiate between overall and abdominal overweight.

Effects of cost sharing on seeking outpatient care: a propensity-matched study in Germany and Switzerland.

Background: Several studies have assessed the effect of cost sharing on health service utilization (HSU), mostly in the USA. Results are heterogeneous, showing different effects. Whereas previous studies compared insurants within one health care system but different modes of insurance, we aimed at comparing two different health care systems in Europe: Germany and Switzerland.

[Developing and testing quality indicators of home care in Switzerland].

Purpose: The aim of this study was to develop and examine quality indicators of home care in Switzerland using the Swiss version of the RAI-HC (Resident Assessment Instrument Home Care). The quality indicators are part of the quality management strategy of the 'Spitex Verband Schweiz', the organisation of Swiss home care institutions.

Methods: The study consisted of four steps.

Occupation, social support and quality of life in persons with schizophrenic or affective disorders.

Background: Most people suffering from severe mental illness (SMI) lack paid employment. This study investigates the relationship between work status and objective as well as subjective quality of life (QoL) in people with SMI.

Methods: The sample consists of 261 subjects (102 women, 159 men) aged 35 (men) and 38 (women) years on average, of whom 158 suffer from a schizophrenic disorder (ICD-10: F2) and 103 were diagnosed as having an affective disorder (ICD-10: F3).

Perceived stigmatization of mentally ill people and its consequences for the quality of life in a Swiss population.

The awareness of social conceptions of mental illness is essential in understanding the social realities of people with mental illness. Labeling due to psychiatric hospitalization can have a powerful influence on people's life chances. Little is known about subjective perceptions of stigmatization and discrimination and the influence of these beliefs on the quality of life of mentally ill people.

[A risk profile of the aggressive psychiatric inpatient: can it be identified?].

Violent behavior of psychiatric inpatients has grown in interest. Within the scope of a prospective study,patient assaults in six psychiatric hospitals of the Swiss Canton of Zurich were assessed during a period of 6 months, from November 1999 until May 2000. Three hundred eighty-eight of 5,251 inpatients (7.

[Employment situation of psychiatric in-patients with schizophrenic or affective disorders].

Objective: This study is on employment on the competitive as well as the sheltered work market of psychiatric in-patients suffering from schizophrenia or affective disorders. Furthermore it investigates the importance of characteristics of disorder and of educational and vocational background as predictors of occupation.

Methods: A sample of 251 in-patients participated in a structured interview during their hospitalization.

Comparison of four groups of substance-abusing in-patients with different psychiatric comorbidity.

Objective: Comparisons of different groups of dual patients are rare, yet potential differences could have therapeutic implications. In this study, four groups of psychiatric in-patients with substance use disorder were compared to each other: patients with no psychiatric comorbidity, patients with comorbid schizophrenia and patients with affective and personality disorder.

Method: Apart from sociodemographic, therapy-related variables and a detailed survey of their substance use, all subjects were assessed with BPRS and SCL-90-R.

Effectiveness of inpatient drug detoxification: links between process and outcome variables.

The Psychiatric University Hospital of Zürich offers a 2-week residential detoxification treatment program for patients abusing illegal drugs. 96 out of 160 patients were interviewed at three intervals: upon admission, on the 10th day of treatment, and about 1 month after leaving the clinic. Approximately 17% of the patients were completely abstinent 1 month after treatment.

[Who is rehospitalized in a psychiatric hospital? Psychiatric hospitalization rates and social indicators in the Zurich canton (Switzerland)].

There are two approaches in the research on the relation between social conditions and mental disorder: The ecological approach is concerned with characteristics of the social composition of a certain geographical area and their relation to the frequency of disorders, whereas for the individualistic view variables of the psychosocial background of the individual are of interest. This study is on the risk for psychiatric admission (first and re-admission). While considering variables of the social context of the community as well as of the background of the individual, it tries to take into account both the ecological and the individualistic view of the relationship between social conditions and (treated) mental disorder.

Effect of intra-abdominally induced pressure on the urethral pressure profiles of healthy and incontinent bitches.

Objective: To determine whether reduced pressure transmission is of importance in the pathophysiologic mechanism of urinary incontinence in bitches.

Animals: 20 sexually intact, continent bitches and 21 spayed, incontinent bitches.

Procedure: Urethral pressure profiles before (resting) and after (stressed) insufflation of gas in the abdominal cavity were recorded in bitches under general anesthesia.

A prospective study of surgically treated acetabular fractures.

Between November 1988 and March 1993, 101 patients with 102 fractures of the acetabulum were referred to the authors' institution. They included 31 both column; 25 transverse associated posterior wall; 16 anterior column associated posterior hemitransverse; 9 posterior wall; 7 posterior column associated posterior wall; 7 anterior column; 5 T shaped; and 2 transverse fractures. Thirteen fractures were excluded, leaving 89 patients with 89 operatively treated fractures available for followup.

Reproducibility of urethral pressure profiles in clinically normal sexually intact female dogs by use of microtransducer catheters.

Urethral pressures profiles (UPP) obtained by use of microtransducer catheters were determined in 8 anestrous sexually intact female Beagles during general anesthesia. A UPP study consisted of 3 consecutive recordings, and 4 UPP studies were repeated at an interval of 5 days in each dog. Maximal urethral pressure (cm of H2O), bladder pressure (cm of H2O), and anatomic urethral length (cm) were recorded.