Background Decisions on limiting life-sustaining treatment for patients in the vegetative state (VS) are emotionally and morally challenging. In Germany, doctors have to discuss, together with the ...

How parent dyads organize and share nighttime caregiving, particularly in the context of gender-roles and diverse family structures, has been given little attention. The aim of this study was to ...

1 Independent Researcher, California, USA. 2 School of Media & Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. Although the benefits of established MBE modalities are well documented, ...

Data were analyzed using content analysis with a combined deductive-inductive coding approach in MAXQDA software, achieving high intercoder reliability (Cohen κ=0.93). The study design followed ...

Objectives The increasing number of low-acuity visits to emergency departments (ED) is an important issue in Germany, despite the fact that all costs of inpatient and outpatient treatment are covered ...

Nurses and physicians can influence the patient's will in various ways during intensive care treatment, whereby certain strategies fall into the realm of formal and informal coercion. Understanding ...

Based on a grounded theory approach, the study investigated how university teaching staff are learning from negative feedback in student evaluations of teachers (SETs). To collect qualitative data ...

bInstitute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany cDepartment of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine, LWL University Hospital, Ruhr ...