Publications by authors named "T Szucs"
Aims: We aimed to explore atrial fibrillation (AF)-induced productivity losses in working-age atrial fibrillation patients and to estimate atrial fibrillation-related indirect costs.
Methods: Between 2014 and 2017, the Swiss Atrial Fibrillation prospective cohort study (Swiss-AF) enrolled 217 working-age patients with documented atrial fibrillation. Self-reported changes in professional activity and the reasons thereof were descriptively analysed over 8 years of follow-up or until patients reached the retirement age.
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- The FDA's Accelerated Approval (AA) pathway has been used more frequently from 2015 to 2022, with 156 drug-indication pairs receiving approval amidst ongoing debates about its efficacy.
- Pre-approval studies showed a trend towards single-arm designs with a majority being small-scale, while post-approval studies initially decreased in rigor before rebounding in later years.
- The data indicates notable trends, including variations in study designs and participant numbers over the years, suggesting shifts in the FDA's approach to drug approval.
The development of Swiss medical law is closely linked to social and medical development. In the early days and in the Middle Ages, healers and monasteries shaped medical care, with canon law playing an important role. In the early modern period, the first regional regulations for the medical profession emerged.
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- Swiss medical law separates substantive law (which defines rights and duties) from procedural law (which governs how those rights are enforced).
- It also differentiates between objective law (the overall legal norms) and subjective law (individual rights).
- Private regulations like the FMH Code and SAMS guidelines add ethical standards to the legal framework, while social insurance law's definition of illness is crucial for legal clarity in medical practice.
Legal aspects play an increasingly big role in everyday medical practice. This can lead to uncertainties when dealing with medicolegal issues, which could negatively impact the healthcare system and its involved parties. In this study, the medicolegal knowledge of medical students and physicians in Switzerland was examined to give recommendations for undergraduate, postgraduate and further education.
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