Table of contents (02/2009 - selection)

Editorial

Miscellaneous

Letters to the Editor

Special Article

Review

• Narrative based Medicine – What it is, what it is good for, and how to put it into practice

  Abstract: Narratives have always been a vital part of medicine. With the rise of „modern” medicine narratives have been more and more neglected in favour of „facts and...

  Peter F. Matthiessen, Stefan Wilm, Vera Kalitzkus

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Commentary / Opinion

• The Specifity of General practice – and how it is threatened by others and us

  Abstract: History of Medicine of the last 30 years is shown as one of industrialisation and particularisation of those acting within the system resulting into...

  Heinz Harald Abholz

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Original Papers

• Ergebnisse einer Versichertenbefragung von DMP-Teilnehmern und nichtteilnehmenden Diabetikern

  Is there a selection bias in disease management programmes for diabetes care? Results of a national insurance survey regarding DMP-participants and non-participants

  Background: Since 2003, Disease Management Programmes (DMP) have been introduced in Germany to provide improved care for the chronically ill. The first evaluation data...

  Wolf Kirschner, Thomas Elkeles, Christian Graf

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Health Care

• – Eine kritische Einschätzung

  Implementation of a skin cancer screening in Germany – some critical reflections

  Abstract: Germany has been the first country implementing a population wide skin cancer screening at the age of 35 on July 1, 2008 – this without evidence of its...

  Heinz Harald Abholz, Günther Egidi, Klaus Giersiepen

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Congress