Publications by authors named "T Peinbauer"

Article Synopsis
  • This study examines how patient care differs among general practitioners in Upper Austria, focusing on various organizational forms like single practices, group practices, and primary health care units.
  • Data collection involved analyzing patient demographics, prescription patterns, and service offerings, revealing that single practices tend to prescribe more medications for chronic conditions while group practices are more common in populated areas.
  • The findings highlight inconsistencies in documenting patient visit reasons and emphasize the importance of standardized practices for better outbreak management in outpatient medicine.
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(1) Background: Classical (=individualized) homeopathic therapy is based on the individual and not on the indication. (2) Methods: The prerequisite for conducting methodologically high-quality studies on indvidualized homeopathy is that the principles of homeopathy are considered, since the selection of the simile (the individually appropriate homeopathic medicinal product) is decisive for the effectiveness of the homeopathic treatment, because only an application lege artis can be effective for the respective patient. Apart from this, criteria for evidence-based medicine must be considered for design, conduction, documentation, and rating of studies in homeopathy.

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The basic principles of homeopathy, and its legal and scientific foundations, are discussed in an overview to address the positions of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the commission of the European Union (EU) on complementary medicine. According to the WHO, the antimicrobial resistance problem poses a global threat. The EU Commission's current One Health Action Plan requests research in complementary medicine, the WHO urges member states to include complementary medicine in their national health policies.

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