Assistance in dying: Conditions for international comparison.

This special issue of interrogates conditions for conducting international comparisons of assistance in dying regimes, and of related discourses and practices. To do so, it provides comparative social sciences and humanities perspectives on assistance in dying. In this editorial introduction, we first trace the origin of this special issue to the symposium held in 2018 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Virtual anthropology: a preliminary test of macroscopic observation 3D surface scans and computed tomography (CT) scans.

Virtual anthropology (VA) is based on applying anthropological methods currently used to analyse bones to 3D models of human remains. While great advances have been made in this endeavour in the past decade, several interrogations concerning how reliable these models are and what their proper use should be remain unanswered. In this research, a fundamental assumption of VA has been investigated: if the way we perceive and apply an anthropological method is truly similar when looking at bones macroscopically and through various 3D media.

Socio-environmental predictive factors for discharge destination after inpatient rehabilitation in patients with stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Purpose: To identify which of the socio-environmental factors of patients with stroke are predictive for discharge to their home after inpatient rehabilitation. Because discharge planning is a key component of rehabilitation, it is important to recognize the predictive factors for a discharge home. Other systematic reviews demonstrated the value of functional outcome measures.

Implementation of the Swiss ordinance on maternity protection at work in companies in French-speaking Switzerland.

Background: Switzerland's Ordinance on Maternity Protection at Work (OProMa) requires that companies take the necessary measures to ensure that pregnant employees can continue working without danger.

Objective: To investigate the extent of compliance with OProMa within companies in French-speaking Switzerland as well as factors which facilitate and obstruct the ordinance's implementation.

Methods: A stratified random telephone survey of 202 companies from the healthcare and food industry was conducted.

The influence of psychosocial factors on the intention to incorporate complementary and integrative medicine into psychiatric clinical practices.

Unlabelled: Complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) can be of great support to individuals suffering from psychiatric conditions; however, it is still rarely incorporated into clinical practice.

Objective: To examine the influences of psychosocial and sociodemographic factors on health-care professionals' intention to use CIM in their psychiatric clinical practice.

Method: One-hundred-and-five participants completed a questionnaire developed from an adapted version of Triandis' Theory of Interpersonal Behavior (TIB).

Factors influencing diabetes self-management in adults: an umbrella review of systematic reviews.

Objective: The objective of this review was to identify and describe the factors influencing diabetes self-management in adults by summarizing the available evidence concerning their types, categories, and relative importance.

Introduction: A wide range of factors, acting simultaneously, influence diabetes self-management and interfere with its actual application by patients. There is a variety of systematic reviews of these factors; however, a more thorough examination of their influences was lacking.

Relationship between urinary incontinence and back or pelvic girdle pain: a systematic review with meta-analysis.

Introduction And Hypothesis: Many observational studies have suggested the existence of a link between urinary incontinence (UI) and lumbopelvic pain. The aim of our study is to evaluate the association between UI and back pain (BP) or pelvic girdle pain (PGP) in the adult population.

Methods: This systematic review with meta-analysis was registered in PROSPERO under the number 2019:CRD42019120047.

Consequences of Female Genital Mutilation on Women's Sexual Health - Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Background: Female genital mutilation (FGM) can leave a lasting mark on the lives and minds of those affected.

Aim: To assess the consequences of FGM on women's sexual function in women who have undergone FGM compared to women who have not undergone FGM.

Methods: A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted from 3 databases; inclusion and exclusion criterions were determined.

"You Should Maybe Work Together a Little Bit": Formulating Requests in Interprofessional Interactions.

Based on an empirical analysis of video-recorded collaborative practice situations, this article looks at different ways in which a health professional can direct a request to another professional with the aim that he or she performs an action. Using a corpus of video-recorded interactions in different institutional settings and types of situations, it looks at how requests are formulated, showing that they can range from authoritative to mitigated, direct to indirect, and explicit to implicit. The study shows that professionals use a great deal of strategies to preserve politeness and each other's right not to be told what to do, aiming at mitigating the "face-threatening" aspect of requests.

Multimodal sensory evaluation of neuropathic spinal cord injury pain: an experimental study.

Study Design: An experimental study.

Objectives: To investigate the changes in somatosensory functions using the combined application of quantitative sensory testing (QST), contact heat-evoked potentials (CHEPs) and laser-evoked potentials (LEPs) studies in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) in relation to neuropathic pain (NeP).

Setting: Centre for Pain Medicine, Swiss Paraplegic Centre, Nottwil, Switzerland.

Coronavirus biopolitics: the paradox of France's Foucauldian heritage.

In this short paper we analyse some paradoxical aspects of France's Foucauldian heritage: (1) while several French scholars claim the COVID-19 pandemic is a perfect example of what Foucault called biopolitics, popular reaction instead suggests a biopolitical failure on the part of the government; (2) One of these failures concerns the government's inability to produce reliable biostatistical data, especially regarding health inequalities in relation to COVID-19. We interrogate whether Foucaldianism contributed, in the past as well today, towards a certain myopia in France regarding biostatistics and its relation to social inequalities in health. One might ask whether this very data could provide an appropriate response to the Foucauldian question: What kind of governance of life is the pandemic revealing to us?

Effect of a peer-led intervention combining mental health promotion with coping-strategy-based workshops on mental health awareness, help-seeking behavior, and wellbeing among university students in Hong Kong.

Background: The psychological well-being of university students is an important factor in successfully coping with the demands of academic life. This study aimed to assess the impact of a peer-led intervention of mental health promotion combined with coping-strategy-based group workshops on mental health awareness and help-seeking behavior among university students in Hong Kong.

Method: A mixed-method concurrent design was used for this study.

Effects of environmental distractors on nurse emergency triage accuracy: a pilot study protocol.

Background: The clinical decisions of emergency department triage nurses need to be of the highest accuracy. However, studies have found repeatedly that these nurses over- or underestimate the severity of patient health conditions. This has major consequences for patient safety and patient flow management.

Ultrastructural comparison of dendritic spine morphology preserved with cryo and chemical fixation.

Previously, we showed that cryo fixation of adult mouse brain tissue gave a truer representation of brain ultrastructure in comparison with a standard chemical fixation method (Korogod et al., 2015). Extracellular space matched physiological measurements, there were larger numbers of docked vesicles and less glial coverage of synapses and blood capillaries.

[Interest of mobile and internet applications in the management of stress urinary incontinence in women. A systematic review].

Introduction: Current recommendations for the management of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) include conservative interventions as first-line treatments. New approaches are emerging with the arrival of health applications on smartphones. The objective of this review is to evaluate the interest of mobile and Internet applications in the treatment of SUI in women.

Association of cervical spine signs and symptoms with temporomandibular disorders in adults: a systematic review protocol.

Objective: The objective of this systematic review is to assess the evidence of association of cervical spine signs and symptoms with temporomandibular disorders (TMD). This will help to lend credence to mechanisms supporting the association in order to improve care strategies for this condition.

Introduction: The association of cervical spine impairments (in relation to neck posture, cervical spine mobility, muscle tenderness, muscle activity, and neck disability) with TMD has been widely discussed in the literature.

A Multidisciplinary Approach for Improving Quality of Life and Self-Management in Diabetic Kidney Disease: A Crossover Study.

Individuals with diabetic kidney disease are at high risk of complications and challenged to self-manage. Previous research suggested that multidisciplinary approaches would improve health outcomes. This study investigated the effect of a multidisciplinary self-management approach of diabetic kidney disease on quality of life, and self-management, glycemic control, and renal function.

User-Centered Design for Promoting Patient Engagement in Chronic Diseases Management: The Development of CONCERTO.

Multimorbidity increases care needs among people with chronic diseases. In order to support communication between patients, their informal caregivers and their healthcare teams, we developed CONCERTO+, a patient portal for chronic disease management in primary care. A user-centered design comprising 3 iterations with patients and informal caregivers was performed.

e-Health interventions for healthy aging: a systematic review.

Background: Healthy aging (HA) is a contemporary challenge for population health worldwide. Electronic health (e-Health) interventions have the potential to support empowerment and education of adults aged 50 and over.

Objectives: To summarize evidence on the effectiveness of e-Health interventions on HA and explore how specific e-Health interventions and their characteristics effectively impact HA.

Reduction of visual acuity decreases capacity to evaluate radiographic image quality.

Introduction: To determine the impact of reduced visual acuity on the evaluation of a test object and appendicular radiographs.

Methods: Visual acuity was reduced by two different magnitudes using simulation glasses and compared to normal vision (no glasses). During phase one phantom images were produced for the purpose of counting objects by 13 observers and on phase 2 image appraisal of anatomical structures was performed on anonymized radiographic images by 7 observers.

Describing adverse events in Swiss hospitalized oncology patients using the Global Trigger Tool.

Background And Aims: The occurrence rate of adverse events (AEs) related to care among hospitalized oncology patients in Switzerland remains unknown. The primary objective of this study was to describe, for the first time, the occurrence rate, type, severity of harm, and preventability of AEs related to care, reported in health records of hospitalized hematological and solid-tumor cancer patients in three Swiss hospitals.

Methods: Using an adapted version of the validated Global Trigger Tool (GTT) from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, we conducted a retrospective record review of patients discharged from oncology units over a 6-week period during 2018.