Integration of oncology and palliative care: a Lancet Oncology Commission

S Kaasa, JH Loge, M Aapro, T Albreht… - The lancet …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Full integration of oncology and palliative care relies on the specific knowledge and skills of
two modes of care: the tumour-directed approach, the main focus of which is on treating the …

Digital health: meeting the ethical and policy challenges

E Vayena, T Haeusermann… - Swiss medical …, 2018 - research-collection.ethz.ch
Digital health encompasses a wide range of novel digital technologies related to health and
medicine. Such technologies rely on recent advances in the collection and analysis of ever …

Mapping health disparities in 11 high-income nations

NJ MacKinnon, V Emery, J Waller, B Ange… - JAMA network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Health care delivery faces a myriad of challenges globally with well-documented
health inequities based on geographic location. Yet, researchers and policy makers have a …

[HTML][HTML] Europe's Covid-19 outliers: German, Austrian and Swiss policy responses during the early stages of the 2020 pandemic

Z Desson, L Lambertz, JW Peters, M Falkenbach… - Health policy and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives This paper presents an overview of the policy responses in Germany, Austria and
Switzerland (the DACH region) during the early stages of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic (Feb …

Comparing Charlson and Elixhauser comorbidity indices with different weightings to predict in-hospital mortality: an analysis of national inpatient data

N Sharma, R Schwendimann, O Endrich… - BMC health services …, 2021 - Springer
Background Understanding how comorbidity measures contribute to patient mortality is
essential both to describe patient health status and to adjust for risks and potential …

Administrative costs associated with physician billing and insurance-related activities at an academic health care system

P Tseng, RS Kaplan, BD Richman, MA Shah… - Jama, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Administrative costs in the US health care system are an important component of
total health care spending, and a substantial proportion of these costs are attributable to …

Analysis of the healthcare system in Romania: a brief review

I Petre, F Barna, D Gurgus, LC Tomescu, A Apostol… - Healthcare, 2023 - mdpi.com
This manuscript provides a brief review and analysis of the healthcare system in Romania.
This study aims to comprehensively analyse the healthcare system in Romania, evaluating …

The successes and failures of the initial COVID-19 pandemic response in Romania

S Dascalu - Frontiers in public health, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries around the world varied in the strength
and timeliness of their responses. In Romania, specific challenges were faced with regards …

Stressed and overworked

J Beech, C Fraser, T Gardner, L Buzelli, S Williamson… - 2023 - policycommons.net
GPs in the UK are under extreme strain and public satisfaction with general practice has
plummeted. Pressures on general practice are not unique to the UK and GPs around the …

[HTML][HTML] E-health in Switzerland: The laborious adoption of the federal law on electronic health records (EHR) and health information exchange (HIE) networks

C De Pietro, I Francetic - Health Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
Within the framework of a broader e-health strategy launched a decade ago, in 2015
Switzerland passed a new federal law on patients' electronic health records (EHR). The …