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Medical end-of-life practices in Swiss cultural regions: a death certificate study by Hurst, Samia A, Zellweger, Ueli, Bosshard, Georg, Bopp, Matthias

“…End-of-life decisions remain controversial. Switzerland, with three main languages shared with surrounding countries and legal suicide assistance, allows…”
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Continuing, Withdrawing, and Withholding Medical Treatment at the End of Life and Associated Characteristics: a Mortality Follow-back Study by Penders, Yolanda W. H., Bopp, Matthias, Zellweger, Ueli, Bosshard, Georg

“…Background Studies on forgoing treatment often ignore treatments that are continued until death. Objective To investigate how often specific treatments are…”
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Cause of death coding in Switzerland: evaluation based on a nationwide individual linkage of mortality and hospital in-patient records by Zellweger, Ueli, Junker, Christoph, Bopp, Matthias

“…Cause of death statistics are an important tool for quality control of the health care system. Their reliability, however, is controversial. Comparing death…”
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Moving to and dying in a nursing home depends not only on health - an analysis of socio-demographic determinants of place of death in Switzerland by Hedinger, Damian, Braun, Julia, Zellweger, Ueli, Kaplan, Vladimir, Bopp, Matthias

“…In developed countries generally about 7 out of 10 deaths occur in institutions such as acute care hospitals or nursing homes. However, less is known about the…”
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Medical end-of-life decisions in Switzerland 2001 and 2013: Who is involved and how does the decision-making capacity of the patient impact? by Schmid, Margareta, Zellweger, Ueli, Bosshard, Georg, Bopp, Matthias

“…In Switzerland, the prevalence of medical end-of-life practices had been assessed on a population level only once - in 2001 - until in 2013/14 an identical…”
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Routine Data Sources Challenge International Diabetes Federation Extrapolations of National Diabetes Prevalence in Switzerland by Bopp, Matthias, Zellweger, Ueli, Faeh, David

“…OBJECTIVE: Information on diabetes prevalence in the general population is scarce and often based on extrapolations. We evaluated whether prevalence could be…”
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Medical End-of-Life Practices in Switzerland: A Comparison of 2001 and 2013 by Bosshard, Georg, Zellweger, Ueli, Bopp, Matthias, Schmid, Margareta, Hurst, Samia A, Puhan, Milo A, Faisst, Karin

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Prevalence of chronic medical conditions in Switzerland: exploring estimates validity by comparing complementary data sources by Zellweger, Ueli, Bopp, Matthias, Holzer, Barbara M, Djalali, Sima, Kaplan, Vladimir

“…Prevalence estimates of chronic medical conditions and their multiples (multimorbidity) in the general population are scarce and often rather speculative in…”
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Obesity management and continuing medical education in primary care: results of a Swiss survey by Huber, Carola A, Mohler-Kuo, Meichun, Zellweger, Ueli, Zoller, Marco, Rosemann, Thomas, Senn, Oliver

“…The worldwide increase in obesity is becoming a major health concern. General practitioners (GPs) play a central role in managing obesity. We aimed to examine…”
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Attitudes of couples towards the destination of surplus embryos: results among couples with cryopreserved embryos in Switzerland by Mohler-Kuo, Meichun, Zellweger, Ueli, Duran, Aysun, Hohl, Michael K., Gutzwiller, Felix, Mutsch, Margot

“…BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate attitudes towards the donation of surplus embryos among couples with cryopreserved embryos/zygotes, and…”
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A recruitment method to obtain community samples of children for survey research in Switzerland by Mohler-Kuo, Meichun, Jann, Ben, Dey, Michelle, Zellweger, Ueli

“…In conducting epidemiological surveys of children in Switzerland, it is often very difcult to recruit large, representative community samples. Mohler-Kuo et al…”
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Physicians’ attitudes towards end-of-life decisions: a comparison between seven countries by Miccinesi, Guido, Fischer, Susanne, Paci, Eugenio, Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Bregje D, Cartwright, Colleen, van der Heide, Agnes, Nilstun, Tore, Norup, Michael, Mortier, Freddy

“…In the context of an European collaborative research project (EURELD), a study on attitudes towards medical end-of-life decisions was conducted among…”
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Physicians' experiences with end-of-life decision-making: survey in 6 European countries and Australia by Löfmark, Rurik, Nilstun, Tore, Cartwright, Colleen, Fischer, Susanne, van der Heide, Agnes, Mortier, Freddy, Norup, Michael, Simonato, Lorenzo, Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Bregje D

“…In this study we investigated (a) to what extent physicians have experience with performing a range of end-of-life decisions (ELDs), (b) if they have no…”
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Differences in health status and health behaviour among young Swiss adults between 1993 and 2003 by Mohler-Kuo, Meichun, Wydler, Hans, Zellweger, Ueli, Gutzwiller, Felix

“…Very few studies specifically have examined the health status of 20-year-olds. The purpose of the present study is to examine the changes in health status and…”
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Groteskes Iliakalaneurysma mit sekundärer Hydronephrose by Degen, Christian, Heller, Georg, Thouet, Rolf, Zellweger, Ueli

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Groteskes Iliakalaneurysma mit sekundärer Hydronephrose by Degen, Christian, Heller, Georg, Thouet, Rolf, Zellweger, Ueli

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Der Sterbeort: ?Wo sterben die Menschen heute in der Schweiz?? by Fischer, S., Bosshard, G., Zellweger, U., Faisst, K.

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Trends in age at AIDS diagnosis in Europe and the United States: evidence of pronounced "ageing' among injecting drug users by Zellweger, U, Wang, J, Heusser, R, Somaini, B

“…To analyse trends in age at diagnosis for adult AIDS cases reported in Europe and the United States. We used AIDS surveillance data for the seven European…”
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