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Background
In lung cancer screening, a nodule management protocol describes nodule assessment and thresholds for nodule size and growth rate to identify patients who require immediate diagnostic evaluation or additional imaging exams. The Netherlands-Leuvens Screening Trial and the National Lung Screening Trial used different selection criteria and...
Zusammenfassung
Entscheidungen im Gesundheitswesen sollten sich auf verlässliche und aktuelle Daten stützen. Da solche Daten besonders aus dem ambulanten Sektor kaum vorhanden und/oder nur schwer und zeitverzögert zugänglich sind, soll das neu eingerichtete BeoNet-Register (BNR) die medizinische Versorgungsrealität und -qualität des ambulanten Sekt...
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In the face of rising expenditure among statutory sickness funds in Germany it is necessary to start a discussion about priority setting in the healthcare system. For a long time this issue was avoided in healthcare debates. As a result, normative directives are still missing, which can lead to priority setting among healthca...
Background
Smoking is a major risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). For current smokers who are diagnosed with COPD, their first treatment option is to stop smoking. Motivation is necessary for long-term smoking cessation; therefore, when designing smoking cessation programs, the patients’ needs and preferences should be con...
Aim of the Study: Through the promotion of smoking cessation premature mortality can be prevented. Therefore it is necessary to provide effective and cost-effective smoking cessation interventions. In Germany the cost of pharmacological smoking cessation measures are not yet reimbursed by the statutory health insurance. The aim of this study is to...
Background: Smoking cessation is a challenging task with a high risk of relapse. Depending on the choice of medication and duration of therapy, the costs of using a smoking cessation aid can be high. Information on willingness to use (WTU) and willingness to pay (WTP) for smoking cessation aids is valuable for developing different smoking cessation...
Background: Most of patients in pneumological rehabilitation suffer from Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). A successful rehabilitation can improve the health status of the patients and depends on the patients´motivation. This study analysed the preferences of patients with COPD and Asthma for different components of an inpati...
Abridged version of the study in English.
Background
Smoking cessation is a challenging task with a high risk of relapse. Depending on the choice of medication and duration of therapy, the costs of using a smoking cessation aid can be high. Additionally, these costs are not covered by health insurance in Germany. Information on willingness to use (WTU) and willingness to pay (WTP) for smok...
With the shift towards patient-centered healthcare, patient- and person-reports of health-related factors, including outcomes, are seen as important determinants for evaluating and improving healthcare. However, a comprehensive, systematic categorization of patient- and person-reports is currently lacking in the literature. This study aims at devel...
Background:
The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), developed by Saaty in the late 1970s, is one of the methods for multi-criteria decision making. The AHP disaggregates a complex decision problem into different hierarchical levels. The weight for each criterion and alternative are judged in pairwise comparisons and priorities are calculated by the...
With the shift towards patient-centered healthcare, patient- and person-reports of health-related factors, including outcomes, are seen as important determinants for evaluating and improving healthcare. However, a comprehensive, systematic categorization of patient- and person-reports is currently lacking in the literature. This study aims at devel...
Background:
Lung cancer is one of the most common types of cancer worldwide, and it causes significant challenges for patients due to the poor survival rate and treatment-related side-effects. Because of lung cancer's great burden, identification and use of the patients' preferences can help to improve patients' quality of life.
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Inter...
Background: The DZL-BeoNet (“ Beo bachtungspraxen- Net z”)-Registry gathers complete routine data from electronic patient records from primary care practices and combines these data with patient-reported outcome measurements. BeoNet provides a quality-controlled database for health services and health economics research into COPD and other diseases...
Hintergrund In Deutschland leben schätzungsweise 4 Mio. Patienten mit einer seltenen Erkrankung. Ihre Versorgung ist aufgrund der Seltenheit und Heterogenität der unterschiedlichen Erkrankungsbilder problematisch. Das Bundesministerium für Gesundheit hat deshalb im Jahr 2009 einen Forschungsbericht zum Thema „Maßnahmen zur Verbesserung der gesundhe...
BACKGROUND:
Approximately 4 million patients with a rare disease live in Germany. The medical care of these patients is problematic because of the rarity and heterogeneity of different clinical pictures. The Federal Ministry of Health has therefore published a research report on "Measures to improve the health situation of people with rare diseases...
Background:
The aim of this study was to identify the prevalence and incidence as well as the health care costs of asthma specifically in the German setting.
Methods:
Two systematic literature searches were conducted in PubMed in December 2012 (updated in March 2014). All publications in German and English were included.
Results:
After review...
Objectives: Reliable primary care data are needed for health services and health economic research in lung disease like COPD and ELD. Within the German Center for Lung Research, the BeoNet- (“Beobachtungspraxen-Netzwerk”) Registry will gather full primary care routine data from electronic patient records for real-time monitoring as well as for long...
Hintergrund: Da umfassende Daten zu vielen chronischen Lungenerkrankungen aus dem ambulanten Bereich kaum vorhanden sind, wird in Versorgungsforschung und Gesundheitsokonomie mit nur bedingt aussagefahigen prognostischen Modellen bzw. Substitutionen gearbeitet. Eine zukunftsweisende Problemlosung entsteht im Deutschen Zentrum fur Lungenforschung (D...
Die chronisch obstruktive Lungenerkrankung (COPD) ist eine der haufigsten Erkrankungen weltweit. Ziel dieser Studie ist die Verbreitung der COPD sowie die gesundheitsokonomische Bedeutung der Erkrankung in Deutschland darzulegen. Im Dezember 2012 wurden 2 systematische Literaturrecherchen in der Datenbank PubMed/Medline durchgefuhrt, um die fur Deu...
