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"And Then He Got into the Wrong Group": A Qualitative Study Exploring the Effects of Randomization in Recruitment to a Randomized Controlled Trial

scientific article published on 14 March 2020

"Tendency to excuse" and patient satisfaction of those suffering with breast cancer.

scientific article published on 4 September 2012

A Parsonian Approach to Patient Safety: Transformational Leadership and Social Capital as Preconditions for Clinical Risk Management-the GI Factor

scientific article published on 04 June 2020

A longitudinal study of changes in provider-patient interaction in treatment of localized prostate cancer

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A salutogenic model predicting the need for psycho-oncological care and its utilisation-The role of generalised resistance resources and sense of coherence

scientific article published on 04 October 2020

After initial treatment for primary breast cancer: information needs, health literacy, and the role of health care workers

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Analysing the impact of a case management model on the specialised palliative care multi-professional team.

scientific article published on 17 September 2017

Analyzing the "nature" and "specific effectiveness" of clinical empathy: a theoretical overview and contribution towards a theory-based research agenda.

scientific article published on 04 January 2009

Associations Between Hospital and Patient Characteristics and Breast Cancer Patients’ Satisfaction With Nursing Staff ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 May 2012

Associations between emotional exhaustion, social capital, workload, and latitude in decision-making among professionals working with people with disabilities

scientific article published on 8 December 2009

Associations between hospital structures, processes and patient experiences of preparation for discharge in breast cancer centers: A multilevel analysis

scientific article published on 21 February 2019

Barriers to using psycho-oncology services: a qualitative research into the perspectives of users, their relatives, non-users, physicians, and nurses

scientific article published on 2 September 2009

Breast cancer patients' trust in physicians: the impact of patients' perception of physicians' communication behaviors and hospital organizational climate

scientific article published on 09 October 2009

Burnout in nurses - the relationship between social capital in hospitals and emotional exhaustion

scientific article published in April 2010

Can a stressed oncologist be good in a consultation? A qualitative study on the oncologists' perception.

scientific article published on 13 April 2014

Care required by disabled persons: are official severe disability statistics good enough for requirement analyses?

scientific article published on 01 May 2004

Changes over time in the utilization of disease-related Internet information in newly diagnosed breast cancer patients 2007 to 2013

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Child-oriented Drug Counseling in Germany: Evaluating the Implementation of the Program “Fitkids” and Its Association with Readiness for Change

scientific article published in 2019

Communication, social capital and workplace health management as determinants of the innovative climate in German banks.

scientific article published on 13 October 2010

Configural frequency analysis as a method of determining patients' preferred decision-making roles in dialysis

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Cost of HIV and determinants of health care costs in HIV-positive patients in Germany: results of the DAGNÄ K3A Study

scientific article published on 19 September 2012

Determinants and implications of cancer patients' psychosocial needs.

scientific article published on 13 March 2009

Determinants and patient-reported long-term outcomes of physician empathy in oncology: a structural equation modelling approach

scientific article published on 11 September 2007

Differences in cost consciousness between physicians and nurses in German neonatal intensive care units

scientific article published on 26 July 2018

Direct, indirect, and intangible costs after severe trauma up to occupational reintegration - an empirical analysis of 113 seriously injured patients

scientific article published on 17 June 2013

Do breast cancer patients receive less support from physicians in German hospitals with high physician workload? A multilevel analysis.

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Does basic information concerning nutrition improve the information needs of breast cancer patients? An evaluation

scientific article published on 07 March 2020

Effect of guideline orientation on the outcomes of peripheral arterial disease in primary care.

scientific article published on 7 April 2011

Effects of a Classroom Training Program for Promoting Health Literacy Among IT Managers in the Workplace: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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Employees' negative and positive work-home interaction and their association with depressive symptoms.

scientific article published on 19 September 2012

End-of-life research on patients' attitudes in Germany: a feasibility study.

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Evaluation of a complex integrated, cross-sectoral psycho-oncological care program (isPO): a mixed-methods study protocol

scientific article published on 09 March 2020

Exploring leading nurses' work values and their association with team safety climate: Results from a questionnaire survey in neonatal intensive care units

scientific article published on 06 December 2019

Exploring the Association Between Health Literacy and Psychological Well-Being Among Industry Managers in Germany

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Exploring the association between social capital and depressive symptoms: results of a survey in German information and communication technology companies

scientific article published in January 2012

Feeling severely affected by Multiple Sclerosis: What does this mean? ⬇️

scientific article published on October 31, 2011

From sensitization to adoption? A qualitative study of the implementation of a digitally supported intervention for clinical decision making in polypharmacy

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

General Practitioners' Perspectives on General and Specialized Palliative Home Care in North Rhine, Germany: An Explorative Focus Group Study

scientific article published on 28 April 2020

Grundlagen der Führung

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Health disparities among breast cancer patients with/without disabilities in Germany

scientific article published on 21 November 2019

Health literacy and fear of cancer progression in elderly women newly diagnosed with breast cancer--A longitudinal analysis

scientific article published on 23 December 2015

Health literacy and patient participation in multidisciplinary tumor conferences in breast cancer care: a multilevel modeling approach

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Health literacy of commercial industry managers: an exploratory qualitative study in Germany

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Health literacy, mental disorders and fear of progression and their association with a need for psycho-oncological care over the course of a breast cancer treatment

scientific article published on 02 June 2020

Health-related quality of life in male breast cancer patients

scientific article published on June 2012

How do breast cancer patients experience multidisciplinary tumor conferences? - A description from the patient perspective

scientific article published on 04 January 2019

Hypertension guidelines and their limitations--the impact of physicians' compliance as evaluated by guideline awareness

scientific article published on 01 November 2001

Implementation of Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published on 03 September 2008

Implementation of patient-centred care: which organisational determinants matter from decision maker's perspective? Results from a qualitative interview study across various health and social care organisations

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Importance weighting, expectation fulfilment and satisfaction: an integrative and innovative approach to measuring patient satisfaction with hospital stays.

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Improving regional care in the last year of life by setting up a pragmatic evidence-based Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle: results from a cross-sectional survey

scientific article published on 24 November 2020

Inefficacy of different strategies to improve guideline awareness - 5-year follow-up of the hypertension evaluation project (HEP)

scientific article published on 25 June 2008

Investigating Respondents and Nonrespondents of a Postal Breast Cancer Questionnaire Survey Regarding Differences in Age, Medical Conditions, and Therapy

scientific article published on 27 April 2016

Is Organizational Communication Climate a Precondition for Patient-Centered Care? Insights from a Key Informant Survey of Various Health and Social Care Organizations

scientific article published on 02 November 2020

Is social capital as perceived by the medical director associated with coordination among hospital staff? A nationwide survey in German hospitals

scientific article published on 27 September 2012

Is the Systemic Agency Capacity of Long-Term Care Organizations Enabling Person-Centered Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study of Organizational Resilience

scientific article published in 2022

Issues of "life" and "death" for patients receiving palliative care--comments when confronted with a research tool

scientific article published on 28 April 2010

Last Year of Life Study Cologne (LYOL-C): protocol for a cross-sectional mixed methods study to examine care trajectories and transitions in the last year of life until death.

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Life situation of women impaired by Thalidomide embryopathy in North Rhine-Westphalia - a comparative analysis of a recent cross-sectional study with earlier data

scientific article published on 03 April 2019

Long-term costs of stroke using 10-year longitudinal data from the North East Melbourne Stroke Incidence Study

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Marriage and the psychological consequences of a heart attack: a longitudinal study of adaptation to chronic illness after 3 years

scientific article published on 01 January 1988

Measuring attributes of health literate health care organizations from the patients' perspective: Development and validation of a questionnaire to assess health literacy-sensitive communication (HL-COM).

scientific article published on 09 February 2017

Measuring change attitudes in health care organizations

scientific article published on 18 April 2019

Measuring social capital of healthcare organizations reported by employees for creating positive workplaces - validation of the SOCAPO-E instrument

scientific article published on 31 March 2020

Meeting patients' health information needs in breast cancer center hospitals - a multilevel analysis

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Mental Disorders in People Affected by Thalidomide

scientific article published on March 2017

Mental disorders and utilization of mental health services in newly diagnosed cancer patients: an analysis of German health insurance claims data

scientific article published on 22 October 2020

Multidimensional analysis of factors responsible for the low prevalence of ambulatory peritoneal dialysis in Germany (MAU-PD): a cross-sectional Mixed-Methods Study Protocol

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Multiple sclerosis and palliative care - perceptions of severely affected multiple sclerosis patients and their health professionals: a qualitative study.

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Nursing Home Residents Aged over 80-A Cross-Sectional Analysis on Which Activity Traits Correlate to Positive Affect

scientific article published on 21 December 2020

Occupational Physicians' Perspectives on Determinants of Employee Participation in a Randomized Controlled Musculoskeletal Health Promotion Measure: A Qualitative Study

scientific article published on 13 October 2020

Optimizing Patient Information Material for a New Psycho-Oncological Care Program Using a Participatory Health Research Approach in Germany

scientific article published on 29 January 2022

Organization development of the public health system

scientific article published in May 2002

Organizational factors and the attitude toward health promotion in German ICT-companies

scientific article published on 25 August 2011

Participatory Development and Preliminary Psychometric Properties of the User-Friendly Patient Information Material Checklist (UPIM-Check)

scientific article published on 20 August 2021

Patient participation in multidisciplinary tumor conferences

scientific article published on 07 October 2014

Patients feeling severely affected by multiple sclerosis: how do patients want to communicate about end-of-life issues?

scientific article published on 4 April 2012

Patients' Trust in Physician, Patient Enablement, and Health-Related Quality of Life During Colon Cancer Treatment

scientific article published on 21 January 2017

Patients' perceived support from physicians and the role of hospital characteristics

scientific article published on 3 August 2012

People with multimorbidity in outpatient care: patient-focused and needs-oriented healthcare management (MamBo) - protocol for a multiperspective evaluation study

scientific article published on 13 April 2020

Perceived Psychotherapist's Empathy and Therapy Motivation as Determinants of Long-Term Therapy Success-Results of a Cohort Study of Short Term Psychodynamic Inpatient Psychotherapy

Pflege in Zeiten von COVID-19: Onlinebefragung von Leitungskräften zu Herausforderungen, Belastungen und Bewältigungsstrategien

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Physicians' knowledge of and compliance with guidelines: an exploratory study in cardiovascular diseases.

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Pre-traumatic, trauma- and treatment-related determinants of self-rated health after a severe trauma

scientific article published on 12 February 2009

Predicting Health-related Quality of Life of Severely Injured Patients: Sociodemographic, Economic, Trauma, and Hospital Stay-related Determinants

scientific article published on 18 March 2008

Primary care physician's attitude towards the German e-health card project--determinants and implications

scientific article published on 01 June 2009

Psycho-oncology care in breast cancer centres: a nationwide survey

scientific article published on 13 April 2019

Psychometric evaluation of an instrument to assess patient-reported 'psychosocial care by physicians': a structural equation modeling approach

scientific article published on 12 March 2009

Psychometric properties of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture for hospital management (HSOPS_M).

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Recovery opportunities, work-home conflict, and emotional exhaustion among hematologists and oncologists in private practice

scientific article published on 22 September 2016

Reduced patient demands in hospitals and their determinants

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Second opinion in medical encounters - A study among breast cancer patients

scientific article published on 03 June 2017

Selbstbewertung und Qualitätsentwicklung in der primärmedizinischen Versorgung: Ergebnisse der deutschen Pilotstudie mit der Internationalen Maturity Matrix

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Self-rating makes the difference: identifying palliative care needs of patients feeling severely affected by multiple sclerosis

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Shared decision making in breast care centres in North Rhine-Westphalia: results of a 10-year trend analysis

scientific article published on 17 October 2019

Short length of stay and the discharge process: Preparing breast cancer patients appropriately

scientific article published on 10 August 2019

Social capital and risk management in nursing

scientific article published on 01 October 2009

Sociodemographic and disease-related determinants of return to work among women with breast cancer: a German longitudinal cohort study

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Surgical safety and overwork

scientific article published on 01 December 2004

The Cologne Research and Development Network (CoRe-Net) and the value-based approach to healthcare

scientific article published on 18 December 2017

The Influence of Health Literacy on Information Needs Among Women Newly Diagnosed With Breast Cancer, With Special Reference to Employment Status

scientific article published on 18 June 2015

The Relationship Between Transformational Leadership and Social Capital in Hospitals—A Survey of Medical Directors of All German Hospitals ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2012

The Worksite Health Promotion Capacity Instrument (WHPCI): development, validation and approaches for determining companies' levels of health promotion capacity.

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The association between active participation in a sports club, physical activity and social network on the development of lung cancer in smokers: a case-control study

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The association between psychosocial care by physicians and patients' trust: a retrospective analysis of severely injured patients in surgical intensive care units ⬇️

scientific article published on September 27, 2012

The desire to die in palliative care: a sequential mixed methods study to develop a semi-structured clinical approach

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

The health literate health care organization 10 item questionnaire (HLHO-10): development and validation

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The impact of the hospital work environment on social support from physicians in breast cancer care.

scientific article published on 18 July 2014

The influence of occupational stress factors on the nicotine dependence: a cross sectional study

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The influence of transformational leadership on employee well-being: results from a survey of companies in the information and communication technology sector in Germany

scientific article published in July 2013

The initial clinical interview--can it reduce cancer patients' fear?

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The relationship between perceived social capital and the health promotion willingness of companies: a systematic telephone survey with chief executive officers in the information and communication technology sector

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

The relationship between social capital in hospitals and emotional exhaustion in clinicians: a study in four German hospitals.

scientific article published on 27 July 2010

The relationship between social capital in hospitals and physician job satisfaction

scientific article published on 16 May 2009

The relationship between social support, shared decision-making and patient's trust in doctors: a cross-sectional survey of 2,197 inpatients using the Cologne Patient Questionnaire

scientific article published on 13 November 2010

The size of the population potentially in need of palliative care in Germany--an estimation based on death registration data

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Thrombolyse des akuten Schlaganfalls - Eine deutschlandweite Analyse der regionalen Versorgung

scientific article published on 30 September 2013

Trends in the association of different forms of precarious employment and self-rated health in Germany. An analysis with the German Socio-Economic Panel between 1995 and 2015

scientific article published on 12 September 2019

Trust, social support and patient type--associations between patients perceived trust, supportive communication and patients preferences in regard to paternalism, clarification and participation of severely injured patients

scientific article published on 01 November 2008

Unmet information needs and limited health literacy in newly diagnosed breast cancer patients over the course of cancer treatment

scientific article published on 25 June 2016

Unmet needs of caregivers of severely affected multiple sclerosis patients: A qualitative study

scientific article published on 17 June 2015

Unmet needs of patients feeling severely affected by multiple sclerosis in Germany: a qualitative study.

scientific article published on 14 February 2014

Unmet needs of severely affected multiple sclerosis patients: The health professionals’ view ⬇️

scientific article published on May 4, 2011

Validation of a theory-based instrument measuring patient-reported psychosocial care by physicians using a multiple indicators and multiple causes model

scientific article published on 01 July 2010

Validation of the "SmoCess-GP" instrument - a short patient questionnaire for assessing the smoking cessation activities of general practitioners: a cross-sectional study

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Validation of the German version of the Schedule of Attitudes Toward Hastened Death (SAHD-D) with patients in palliative care.

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Validation of the Work-Life Balance Culture Scale (WLBCS).

scientific article published in January 2014

Variation across operating sites in urinary and sexual outcomes after radical prostatectomy in localized and locally advanced prostate cancer

scientific article published in 2022

Versorgungsforschung und Geriatrie

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Waiting time, communication quality, and patient satisfaction: An analysis of moderating influences on the relationship between perceived waiting time and the satisfaction of breast cancer patients during their inpatient stay

scientific article published on 17 November 2019

Who does it first? The uptake of medical innovations in the performance of thrombolysis on ischemic stroke patients in Germany: a study based on hospital quality data

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Why do newly diagnosed breast cancer patients seek a second opinion? - Second opinion seeking and its association with the physician-patient relationship

scientific article published on 13 December 2018

Work engagement of hospital physicians: do social capital and personal traits matter?

scientific article published on 25 March 2013

Work-life balance culture, work-home interaction, and emotional exhaustion: a structural equation modeling approach

scientific article published in January 2013

["Crazy bitch!"-Experienced aggression and violence in the daily clinical routine of pediatricians]

scientific article published on 16 October 2020

[Adjusting for patient characteristics when evaluating questionnaire data].

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[Correction: Influence of Sociodemographic Factors on Type of and Stage at Diagnosis in Breast Cancer]

scientific article published on 09 September 2019

[DNVF Memorandum Health Services Research in Oncology]

scientific article published on 28 August 2020

[DNVF-Memorandum III - Methods For Health Services Research, Part 4 - Concept and Methods For Organizational Health Services Research. Chapter 1 - Definition and Concept of Organizational Health Services Research]

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

[DNVF-Memorandum III - Methods for Health Services Research, Part 4 - Concept and Methods for Organizational Health Services Research: Short Version]

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

[Demands on and benefit from insurance-orientated hospital management - findings from qualitative interviews with executive members of statutory health insurance]

scientific article published on 01 April 2004

[Determinants of workplace health promotion in the insurance sector: results of a complete survey of German insurance companies in 2006]

scientific article published on 11 May 2009

[Educational Programmes in Health Services Research in Germany: Current State and Future Perspectives]

scientific article published on 10 December 2020

[Elderly prostate cancer patients: patient information and shared decision making]

scientific article published on 01 June 2013

[Health care research: the last mile in sight]

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

[Health services research activities in North Rhine-Westphalia. An analysis of the project database health services research NRW]

scientific article published on 16 June 2009

[Health services research: essential for allocation decisions - joint statement]

scientific article published on 12 October 2011

[Influence of Sociodemographic Factors on Type of and Stage at Diagnosis in Breast Cancer]

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

[Is There An Association Between Audit Results and Patient Experiences at Breast Centres in North Rhine-Westphalia?]

scientific article published on 09 January 2019

[Medication after hospitalization for acute coronary syndrome: Determinants of individual drug changes]

scientific article published on 17 March 2009

[Memorandum III: "Methods for Health Services Research" (Part 1)]

scientific article published on 20 August 2009

[Memorandum about preventive medicine research in Germany]

scientific article published on 01 April 2004

[Methods for organisational health services research]

scientific article published on 05 October 2009

[Patient satisfaction and geriatric care - an empirical study]

scientific article published on 01 February 2006

[Patient surveys as an element of quality management in outpatient care: development and assessment of a questionnaire]

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

[Patient- and hospital-related determinants of satisfaction with hospital stay of severely injured patients].

scientific article published in August 2006

[Position statement: Thrombolysis for acute stroke--regional healthcare in Germany]

scientific article published on 20 January 2014

[Project database health services research Germany]

scientific article published on 22 December 2011

[Psychometric evaluation of the German version of the "Consultation and Relational Empathy" (CARE) measure at the example of cancer patients]

scientific article published on 11 April 2007

[Safety culture: definition, models and design]

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

[Shared decision making as a chance of implementing disease management programs]

scientific article published on 01 March 2004

[Shared decision making: an overview of international research literature]

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

[Shared decision-making as a new quality indicator in nephrology: a nationwide survey in Germany]

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

[Sustainable Infrastructure for Health Services Research: Development of a Regional SHI Routine Database]

scientific article published on 12 November 2020

[The "tendency to excuse" of inpatients. The relevance of the "tendency to excuse" in the interpretation of patient surveys]

scientific article published on 01 August 2008

[The Junior Research Academy 2017 of the German Research Foundation (DFG) - Promotion of Young Researchers in Health Services]

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

[The ambulatory-stationary interface in medical health care: problems, model of explanation, and possible solutions]

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

[The importance of the specialty "medical sociology" for teaching and research at university medical faculties in Germany]

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

[To our readers]

scientific article published on 27 January 2009

[Transparency as a prerequisite of innovation in health services research: deficits in the reporting of model projects concerning managed care]

scientific article published on 12 November 2009

[Upcoming challenges in providing care for thalidomide impaired individuals]

scientific article published on 22 March 2019

“I’ll leave that to the case managers.” Healthcare Service Providers‘ Perceptions of Organizational Readiness for Change in a Randomized Controlled Trial—A Qualitative Analysis Exploring Implementation Success

scientific article published in 2022

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