Last 100 edited & published articles

Taghavi, K. et al. Screening test Accuracy of Portable Devices that can be used to Perform Colposcopy for Detecting CIN2+ in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-44840/v1 (2020) doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-44840/v1.

Roulet, C. et al. Managing hypertension in frail oldest-old—The role of guideline use by general practitioners from 29 countries. PLoS ONE 15, e0236064 (2020).

Rohner, E. et al. Cervical cancer risk in women living with HIV across four continents: A multicohort study. Int. J. Cancer 146, 601–609 (2020).

Schenk, K. et al. The influence of gestational age in the psychometric testing of the Bernese Pain Scale for Neonates. BMC Pediatr 19, 20 (2019).

Kronenberg, R. M. et al. Statin therapy and recurrent venous thromboembolism in the elderly: a prospective cohort study. Sci Rep 9, 14804 (2019).

Lindemann, F. et al. Assessing the mental wellbeing of next generation general practitioners: a cross-sectional survey. BJGP Open bjgpopen19X101671 (2019) doi:10.3399/bjgpopen19X101671.

Martin, Y. et al. Offering patients a choice for colorectal cancer screening: a quality improvement pilot study in a quality circle of primary care physicians. BMJ Open Qual 8, e000670 (2019).

Phiri, N., Tal, K., Somerville, C., Msukwa, M. T. & Keiser, O. “I do all I can but I still fail them”: Health system barriers to providing Option B+ to pregnant and lactating women in Malawi. PLoS ONE 14, e0222138 (2019).

Streit, S. et al. One in seven Swiss physicians has left patient care - results from a national cohort study from 1980-2009. Swiss Med Wkly (2019) doi:10.4414/smw.2019.20116.

Jungo, K. T. et al. ‘Optimising PharmacoTherapy In the multimorbid elderly in primary CAre’ (OPTICA) to improve medication appropriateness: study protocol of a cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open 9, e031080 (2019).

Braun, A. L. et al. Variation in colorectal cancer testing between primary care physicians: a cross-sectional study in Switzerland. Int J Public Health 64, 1075–1083 (2019).

Simon, G. E., Shortreed, S. M. & Coley, R. Y. Positive Predictive Values and Potential Success of Suicide Prediction Models. JAMA Psychiatry 76, 868 (2019).

Del Giovane, C., Cortese, S. & Cipriani, A. Combining Pharmacological and Nonpharmacological Interventions in Network Meta-analysis in Psychiatry. JAMA Psychiatry 76, 867 (2019).

Martin, Y. et al. Screening Refusal Associated with Choice of Colorectal Cancer Screening Methods. A Cross-sectional Study Among Swiss Primary Care Physicians. J GEN INTERN MED 34, 1409–1411 (2019).

Rohrbasser, A., Kirk, U. B. & Arvidsson, E. Use of quality circles for primary care providers in 24 European countries: an online survey of European Society for Quality and Safety in family practice delegates. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 37, 302–311 (2019).

Wildisen, L. et al. Subclinical thyroid dysfunction and depressive symptoms: protocol for a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies. BMJ Open 9, e029716 (2019).

Brezzi, M. et al. Impact of geographic origin on access to therapy and therapy outcomes in the Swiss Hepatitis C Cohort Study. PLoS ONE 14, e0218706 (2019).

Essig, S. et al. Communicating “cure” to pediatric oncology patients: A mixed‐methods study. Pediatr Blood Cancer 66, e27661 (2019).

Merzouki, A., Estill, J., Tal, K. & Keiser, O. Sociobehavioural characteristics and HIV incidence in 29 sub-Saharan African countries: Unsupervised machine learning analysis. http://biorxiv.org/lookup/doi/10.1101/620450 (2019) doi:10.1101/620450.

Streit, S., Poortvliet, R. K. E., Elzen, W. P. J. den, Blom, J. W. & Gussekloo, J. Systolic Blood Pressure and Cognitive Decline in Older Adults With Hypertension. Ann Fam Med 17, 100–107 (2019).

Lew, M. S. et al. Evaluating a childhood obesity program with the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework. Preventive Medicine Reports 13, 321–326 (2019).

Blattner, C. E. Protecting animals within and across borders: extraterritorial jurisdiction and the challenges of globalization. (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Rohrbasser, A., Harris, J., Mickan, S., Tal, K. & Wong, G. Quality circles for quality improvement in primary health care: Their origins, spread, effectiveness and lacunae– A scoping review. PLoS ONE 13, e0202616 (2018).

Tenthani, L. et al. Patterns of caesarean section in HIV infected and non-infected women in Malawi: is caesarean section used for PMTCT? BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 18, (2018).

Studerus, L., Ahrens, R., Häuptle, C., Goeldlin, A. & Streit, S. Optional part-time and longer GP training modules in GP practices associated with more trainees becoming GPs – a cohort study in Switzerland. BMC Family Practice 19, (2018).

Mantelli, S. et al. How general practitioners would deprescribe in frail oldest-old with polypharmacy — the LESS study. BMC Fam Pract 19, 169 (2018).

Frey Nascimento, A. et al. Oncologist Recommendation Matters! - Predictors of Psycho-Oncological Service Uptake in Oncology Outpatients. Psycho-Oncology (2018) doi:10.1002/pon.4948.

Swiss Paediatric Oncology Group (SPOG) et al. Hearing loss and quality of life in survivors of paediatric CNS tumours and other cancers. Quality of Life Research (2018) doi:10.1007/s11136-018-2021-2.

Msukwa, M. T. et al. Weight gain of HIV-exposed, uninfected children born before and after introduction of the ‘Option B+’ programme in Malawi: AIDS 32, 2201–2208 (2018).

Rozsnyai, Z. et al. Swiss students and young physicians want a flexible goal-oriented GP training curriculum. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 36, 249–261 (2018).

Streit, S., Poortvliet, R. K. E. & Gussekloo, J. Lower blood pressure during antihypertensive treatment is associated with higher all-cause mortality and accelerated cognitive decline in the oldest-old. Data from the Leiden 85-plus Study. Age and Ageing 47, 545–550 (2018).

Phiri, N. et al. ‘I found that I was well and strong’: Women’s motivations for remaining on ART under Option B+ in Malawi. PLOS ONE 13, e0197854 (2018).

Tondorf, T. et al. Focusing on cancer patients’ intentions to use psychooncological support: A longitudinal, mixed-methods study. Psycho-Oncology 27, 1656–1663 (2018).

Estill, J. et al. The Effect of Monitoring Viral Load and Tracing Patients Lost to Follow-up on the Course of the HIV Epidemic in Malawi: A Mathematical Model. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 5, (2018).

Floriani, C. et al. Thyroid Dysfunction and Anemia: A Prospective Cohort Study and a Systematic Review. Thyroid 28, 575–582 (2018).

Auer, R. et al. Lifetime marijuana use and subclinical atherosclerosis: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study: Marijuana use and subclinical atherosclerosis. Addiction 113, 845–856 (2018).

Schneider, C. et al. Initial evaluation of thyroid dysfunction - Are simultaneous TSH and fT4 tests necessary? PLOS ONE 13, e0196631 (2018).

Paul, P., Berlin, C., Maessen, M. & Valtonen, H. A comparison of regret-based and utility-based discrete choice modelling – an empirical illustration with hospital bed choice. Applied Economics 1–11 (2018) doi:10.1080/00036846.2018.1444260.

Keiser, O. et al. Trends in hepatitis C-related mortality in Switzerland. Journal of Viral Hepatitis 25, 152–160 (2018).

Chappuis, V. et al. Osseointegration of ultrafine-grained titanium with a hydrophilic nano-patterned surface: an in vivo examination in miniature pigs. Biomaterials Science 6, 2448–2459 (2018).

Zwahlen, D. et al. Understanding why cancer patients accept or turn down psycho-oncological support: a prospective observational study including patients? and clinicians? perspectives on communication about distress. BMC Cancer 17, (2017).

Goutaki, M. et al. Growth and nutritional status, and their association with lung function: a study from the international Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia Cohort. European Respiratory Journal 50, 1701659 (2017).

Gisler, L. B., Bachofner, M., Moser-Bucher, C. N., Scherz, N. & Streit, S. From practice employee to (co-)owner: young GPs predict their future careers: a cross-sectional survey. BMC Family Practice 18, (2017).

da Costa, B. R. et al. Effect of standardized training on the reliability of the Cochrane risk of bias assessment tool: a prospective study. Systematic Reviews 6, (2017).

Schori, D., Hofmann, K. & Abel, T. Patterns of sports participation, health risk behaviours, and socio-economic position in young Swiss men. European Journal for Sport and Society 1–18 (2017) doi:10.1080/16138171.2017.1380980.

Sengayi, M. M., Kielkowski, D., Egger, M., Dreosti, L. & Bohlius, J. Survival of patients with Kaposi’s sarcoma in the South African antiretroviral treatment era: A retrospective cohort study. South African Medical Journal 107, 871 (2017).

Moser, H., Leitner, M., Baeyens, J.-P. & Radlinger, L. Pelvic floor muscle activity during impact activities in continent and incontinent women: a systematic review. International Urogynecology Journal (2017) doi:10.1007/s00192-017-3441-1.

Aubert, C. E. et al. Association between subclinical thyroid dysfunction and dementia: the Health, Aging and Body Composition (Health ABC) Study. Clinical Endocrinology (2017) doi:10.1111/cen.13458.

Origlia Ikhilor, P. et al. Barrier-Free Communication in Maternity Care of Allophone Migrants: BRIDGE Study Protocol. Journal of Advanced Nursing (2017) doi:10.1111/jan.13441.

da Costa, B. R. et al. Effectiveness of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for the treatment of pain in knee and hip osteoarthritis: a network meta-analysis. The Lancet 390, e21–e33 (2017).

Chimbetete, C. et al. New-onset type 2 diabetes mellitus among patients receiving HIV care at Newlands Clinic, Harare, Zimbabwe: retrospective cohort analysis. Tropical Medicine & International Health (2017) doi:10.1111/tmi.12896.

Koller, M. & Stahel, W. A. Nonsingular subsampling for regression S estimators with categorical predictors. Computational Statistics 32, 631–646 (2017).

Jurca, M. et al. Prevalence of cough throughout childhood: A cohort study. PLOS ONE 12, e0177485 (2017).

Wang, J. et al. Breastfeeding and respiratory tract infections during the first 2 years of life. ERJ Open Research 3, 00143–02016 (2017).

Floriani, C., Gencer, B., Collet, T.-H. & Rodondi, N. Subclinical thyroid dysfunction and cardiovascular diseases: 2016 update. European Heart Journal (2017) doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehx050.

Panczak, R. et al. Regional Variation of Cost of Care in the Last 12 Months of Life in Switzerland: Small-area Analysis Using Insurance Claims Data. Medical Care 55, 155–163 (2017).

Haas, A. D. et al. HIV transmission and retention in care among HIV-exposed children enrolled in Malawi’s prevention of mother-to-child transmission programme. Journal of the International AIDS Society 20, (2017).

World Health Organization and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Policy options on mental health: a WHO-Gulbenkian Mental Health Platform collaboration. (2017).

Rueegg, C. S. et al. No evidence of response bias in a population-based childhood cancer survivor questionnaire survey—Results from the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. PloS one 12, e0176442 (2017).

Rohner, E. et al. Treatment and outcome of AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma in South Africa, Malawi and Zambia: an international comparison. Pan African Medical Journal 28, (2017).

Hoxha, I. et al. Caesarean sections and for-profit status of hospitals: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ open 7, e013670 (2017).

Berger, A. et al. Perinatal mental disorders in Switzerland: prevalence estimates and use of mental-health services. Swiss Medical Weekly 147, (2017).

Tièche, R., da Costa, B. R. & Streit, S. Patient satisfaction is biased by renovations to the interior of a primary care office: a pretest-posttest assessment. BMC Health Services Research 16, (2016).

Lingg, M., Wyss, K. & Durán-Arenas, L. Effects of procurement practices on quality of medical device or service received: a qualitative study comparing countries. BMC Health Services Research 16, (2016).

Krause, C., Sommerhalder, K., Beer-Borst, S. & Abel, T. Just a subtle difference? Findings from a systematic review on definitions of nutrition literacy and food literacy. Health Promotion International daw084 (2016) doi:10.1093/heapro/daw084.

Belle, F. et al. Low adherence to dietary recommendations in adult childhood cancer survivors. Clinical Nutrition (2016) doi:10.1016/j.clnu.2016.08.012.

Weiss, A. et al. Long-term auditory complications after childhood cancer: A report from the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study: Weiss et al. Pediatric Blood & Cancer (2016) doi:10.1002/pbc.26212.

Bohlius, J. & Pediatric AIDS-Defining Cancer Project Working Group for IeDEA Southern Africa, TApHOD, and COHERE in EuroCoorda. Kaposi Sarcoma Risk in HIV-Infected Children and Adolescents on Combination Antiretroviral Therapy From Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and Asia. Clinical Infectious Diseases ciw519 (2016) doi:10.1093/cid/ciw519.

Begré, L., Rohner, E., Mbulaiteye, S. M., Egger, M. & Bohlius, J. Is human herpesvirus 8 infection more common in men than in women? Systematic review and meta-analysis: HHV-8 infection in men and women. International Journal of Cancer 139, 776–783 (2016).

Salazar-Vizcaya, L. et al. Hepatitis C virus transmission among HIV-infected men who have sex with men: Modeling the effect of behavioral and treatment interventions. Hepatology (2016) doi:10.1002/hep.28769.

Essig, S., Steiner, C., Kuehni, C. E., Weber, H. & Kiss, A. Improving Communication in Adolescent Cancer Care: A Multiperspective Study: Communication in Adolescent Cancer Care. Pediatric Blood & Cancer 63, 1423–1430 (2016).

Haas, A. D. et al. Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy During and After Pregnancy: Cohort Study on Women Receiving Care in Malawi’s “Option B+” programme. Clinical Infectious Diseases ciw500 (2016) doi:10.1093/cid/ciw500.

Schindler, M. et al. Cause-specific long-term mortality in survivors of childhood cancer in Switzerland: A population-based study: Long-term mortality in survivors of childhood cancer. International Journal of Cancer 139, 322–333 (2016).

Bohlius, J. et al. Incidence of AIDS-defining and Other Cancers in HIV-positive Children in South Africa: Record Linkage Study. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 35, e164–e170 (2016).

Bertisch, B. et al. Characteristics of Foreign-Born Persons in the Swiss Hepatitis C Cohort Study: Implications for Screening Recommendations. PLOS ONE 11, e0155464 (2016).

Wengenroth, L. et al. Income in Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer. PLOS ONE 11, e0155546 (2016).

Tonia, T., Van Oyen, H., Berger, A., Schindler, C. & Künzli, N. If I tweet will you cite? The effect of social media exposure of articles on downloads and citations. International Journal of Public Health 61, 513–520 (2016).

Berlin, C., Jüni, P., Endrich, O. & Zwahlen, M. Revascularization Treatment of Emergency Patients with Acute ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction in Switzerland: Results from a Nationwide, Cross-Sectional Study in Switzerland for 2010-2011. PLOS ONE 11, e0153326 (2016).

Haas, A. D. et al. Retention in care during the first 3 years of antiretroviral therapy for women in Malawi’s option B+ programme: an observational cohort study. Lancet HIV 3, e175–e182 (2016).

Giudici, F. et al. Access to therapy and therapy outcomes in the Swiss Hepatitis C Cohort Study: a person-centred approach. Journal of Viral Hepatitis n/a-n/a (2016) doi:10.1111/jvh.12535.

Steiner, A. et al. Managing research and surveillance projects in real-time with a novel open-source e Management tool designed for under-resourced countries. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association ocv185 (2016) doi:10.1093/jamia/ocv185.

Dysli, M. & Abegg, M. Gaze-dependent phoria and vergence adaptation. Journal of Vision 16, 2 (2016).

Zahnd, C. et al. Modelling the impact of deferring HCV treatment on liver-related complications in HIV coinfected men who have sex with men. Journal of Hepatology (2016) doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2016.02.030.

Smolka, J. & Pirker, B. International Law and Pragmatics -- An Accont of Interpretaton in International Law. Int J of Language  Law 5, 1–40 (2016).

Koller, M. robustlmm : An R Package for Robust Estimation of Linear Mixed-Effects Models. Journal of statistical software 75, (2016).

Berlin, C. Cardiovascular disease in Switzerland - health care, mortality and geographical pattern. (2016) doi:10.7892/boris.82534.

Magi, T. et al. Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Children with Cancer: A Study at a Swiss University Hospital. PLOS ONE 10, e0145787 (2015).

Streit, S., Limacher, A., Zeller, A. & Bürge, M. Detecting dementia in patients with normal neuropsychological screening by Short Smell Test and Palmo-Mental Reflex Test: an observational study. BMC Geriatrics 15, (2015).

Sommer, G. et al. Health-Related Quality of Life of Young Adults Treated with Recombinant Human Growth Hormone during Childhood. PLOS ONE 10, e0140944 (2015).

Blaser, N. et al. Tuberculosis in Cape Town: An age-structured transmission model. Epidemics (2015) doi:10.1016/j.epidem.2015.10.001.

Pilgrim, T. et al. Age- and Gender-related Disparities in Primary Percutaneous Coronary Interventions for Acute ST-segment elevation Myocardial Infarction. PLOS ONE 10, e0137047 (2015).

Lupatsch, J. E. et al. Follow-up care of adolescent survivors of childhood cancer: The role of health beliefs: Follow-Up Care of Adolescent Survivors. Pediatric Blood & Cancer n/a-n/a (2015) doi:10.1002/pbc.25755.

Kuehni, C. E. & Barben, J. Protecting children from second-hand smoke. European Respiratory Journal 46, 601–603 (2015).

Tenthani, L. et al. Brief Report: HIV Testing Among Pregnant Women Who Attend Antenatal Care in Malawi. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 69, 610–614 (2015).

Lyson Tenthani et al. HIV testing among pregnant women who attend antenatal care in Malawi. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 69, 610–614 (2015).

Rohner, E. et al. HIV and human herpesvirus 8 co-infection across the globe: Systematic review and meta-analysis: HIV and Human Herpesvirus 8 Co-Infection. International Journal of Cancer n/a-n/a (2015) doi:10.1002/ijc.29687.

Cutler, W. et al. Invasive Breast Cancer Incidence in 2,305,427 Screened Asymptomatic Women: Estimated Long Term Outcomes during Menopause Using a Systematic Review. PLOS ONE 10, e0128895 (2015).

Gerger, H., Hlavica, M., Gaab, J., Munder, T. & Barth, J. Does It Matter Who Provides Psychological Interventions for Medically Unexplained Symptoms? A Meta-Analysis. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 217–226 (2015) doi:10.1159/000380914.

Wengenroth, L. et al. Concentration, working speed and memory: Cognitive problems in young childhood cancer survivors and their siblings: Cognitive Problems After Childhood Cancer. Pediatric Blood & Cancer 62, 875–882 (2015).

Pescatore, A. M., Spycher, B. D., Jurca, M., Gaillard, E. A. & Kuehni, C. E. Environmental and socioeconomic data do not improve the Predicting Asthma Risk in Children (PARC) tool. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 135, 1395-1397.e3 (2015).