[The G-BA innovation fund's project "Avenue-Pal" - analysis and improvement of cross-sectoral and cross-departmental interface and relocation management in palliative care].

Background: About 80% of all people in Germany die in inpatient care. Around every fifth person in inpatient care is relocated to another care area in the last phase of their life. That is more than 150,000 people being relocated, often without indication.

[Improving the care of dying persons taking center of a G-BA innovation fund's project].

Nursing home residents and hospital patients are often relocated to other facilities or within their own facility in their last days of life. This means an additional burden for those affected and their relatives. In the Avenue-Pal project, the current transfer practice of dying persons is to be recorded and analyzed.

"Care for the Common Home": Responses to Pope Francis's Encyclical Letter.

This article aims to build awareness of the growing global crisis in social, economic and environmental terms from different disciplinary approaches. The authors respond to the message of Pope Francis presented in his Encyclical Letter published in 2015. The article provides a short current overview of the discourse and presents three hypotheses anchored in the disciplines of Psychology, Health and Theology for a deeper discussion of Pope Francis's viewpoints on the challenges to humankind and how to address them.

[Empirical findings concerning transfer of dying persons].

Background: Own studies from the years 2013 and 2014 had shown that patients in hospital or inhabitants of nursing home get transferred even in their last, terminal phase of life.

Method: In order to describe such transfers, a 27-item questionnaire was developed in 2016. This was addressed to employees from hospitals and nursing homes.

The Clinical Significance of HbA1c in Operable Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension.

Background: Glycosylated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) has been proposed as an independent predictor of long-term prognosis in pulmonary arterial hypertension. However, the clinical relevance of HbA1c in patients with operable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) remains unknown. The aim of the present study was to investigate the clinical significance of HbA1c as a biomarker in CTEPH.

[Place of death nursing home].

Background: There are no empiric results concerning the quality of care for dying persons at nursing homes up to now. 30-40% of all Germans pass away at nursing homes. This study was carried out in 2014 and is presented now.