Table of contents (5/2019 - selection)

• Liposuction – a Successful Approach in the Treatment of Lipedema?

  QuestionLipedema is a quite common disproportional growth of adipose tissue, mostly in women. The origin of the disorder is unknown. Hips and legs are most frequently...

  Andreas Sönnichsen

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• What do Patients Know about Antibiotics and How Often do They Expect an Antibiotic Prescription?

  Background: Doctors sometimes overestimate patients’ requests for an antibiotic prescription. In order to include patients’ experiences and expectations, a patient...

  Anja Klingenberg, Tonia Brand, Edith Andres, Petra Kaufmann-Kolle, Veit Wambach, Joachim Szecsenyi

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• The Family Physician: a Coordinator in the Emergency System

  Background: Currently there are nationwide discussions about an increased number of emergency patients in German emergency departments. Research questions focus on the...

  Christina Adamczyk, Markus Huber, Christian Engelbrecht, Lena Kowalski, Linda Sanftenberg, Jörg Schelling, Oliver Abbushi

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• Evaluation of Symptomatology of COPD-Patients in Practice

  Background: Unlike in asthma, COPD therapy is not adjusted to the results of quantitative measurements, but to symptoms and the number of exacerbations. For assessment...

  Thomas Hausen

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• Against a Compulsory Vaccination in Germany – a Polemic

  Summary: The claim for compulsory vaccinations seems an answer regularly given at every outbreak of vaccine-preventable diseases not only in Germany. This paper...

  Steffen Rabe

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• Maximize Vaccination Rates in a Cool-Headed Way

  Martin Scherer, Eva Hummers

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• Case-based Learning in the Module Family Medicine

  Background: Case-based learning (CBL) was integrated as a new teaching and learning format in the module family medicine in the third year of the basic medical...

  Kambiz Afshar, Bettina Engel, Tina Hellmuth, Nils Schneider, Jutta Bleidorn

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• The Evaluation of Psychometric Properties of the German Version MAAS-Global

  Background: Structured training of communication competencies on the basis of the Maastricht history taking and advice scoring list (MAAS-Global) in medical education...

  Karola Böhmer, Katja Götz, Jennifer van der Bey, Alexander Waschkau, Jost Steinhäuser

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