Health care utilisation of asylum seekers and refugees in the South-West of Germany.

Background: Limited evidence on utilisation of health care by recently arrived asylum seekers and refugees in high-income countries is available. This study aims to describe the implementation of an integrated care facility (ICF) in an initial reception centre and measure the utilisation of care and the influence of operational parameters.

Methods: In a retrospective cohort study design, using medical records, we followed inhabitants of a reception centre in Germany between 11.

Patient satisfaction & use of health care: a cross-sectional study of asylum seekers in the Freiburg initial reception centre.

Background: In response to a high number of incoming asylum seekers and refugees (AS&R) in Germany, initial reception centres were established to provide immediate shelter, food and health support. This study evaluates the satisfaction with and use of the health care available at the Freiburg initial reception centre (FIRC) where an integrated health care facility (ICF) was set up in 2015.

Methods: We assessed use and satisfaction with health services available to resident AS&R within and outside the FIRC in a cross-sectional design.

Onset of symptoms, diagnostic confirmation, and occurrence of multiple infective foci in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection: a look into the order of events and potential clinical implications.

Purpose: Data on the systemic dissemination in Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection (SAB) remain sparse. We investigated the timing and the sequence of clinical symptoms, diagnostic confirmation, and occurrence of multiple infective foci in relation to three major infective foci.

Methods: From 2006 to 2011, all adult patients with first-time SAB in Cologne and Freiburg, Germany were followed prospectively.