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Gudrun Theile
Researcher at University of Zurich
Publications - 29
Citations - 656
Gudrun Theile is an academic researcher from University of Zurich. The author has contributed to research in topics: Quality of life (healthcare) & Palliative care. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 27 publications receiving 554 citations. Previous affiliations of Gudrun Theile include Hannover Medical School.
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Prevalence and predictors of polypharmacy among older primary care patients in Germany
TL;DR: This older general practice population in Germany is among the top pharmaceutical user group of European study samples and GPs should be aware that low subjective health and medication disagreement are independent predictors of polypharmacy.
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Home visits - central to primary care, tradition or an obligation? A qualitative study
TL;DR: To guarantee an unaltered quality of primary home care, German GPs and health care policy makers should actively initiate a debate on the need for and nature of home visits in the future.
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Prerequisites for a new health care model for elderly people with multimorbidity: the PRISCUS research consortium.
Ulrich Thiem,Gudrun Theile,Ulrike Junius-Walker,S. Holt,Petra A. Thürmann,Timo Hinrichs,Petra Platen,C. Diederichs,Klaus Berger,Jan-Marc Hodek,Wolfgang Greiner,Shoma Berkemeyer,Ludger Pientka,Hans J. Trampisch +13 more
TL;DR: The results of the PRISCUS research consortium will enable an epidemiologic characterization and description of consequences of multimorbidity, while illustrating new approaches towards prevention, diagnosis, and management of multimorbide, ältere Patienten zu schaffen.
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[Home visits in German general practice: findings from routinely collected computer data of 158,000 patients].
E. A. Snijder,Markus Kersting,Gudrun Theile,Carsten Kruschinski,J. Koschak,Eva Hummers-Pradier,Ulrike Junius-Walker +6 more
TL;DR: Compared to general practices in other European countries, the workload caused by house calls seems high in this German sample, and the target group has increasingly been restricted to old patients.
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[Prerequisites for a new health care model for elderly people with multiple morbidities: results and conclusions from 3 years of research in the PRISCUS consortium].
Ulrich Thiem,Timo Hinrichs,Christiane A Müller,S. Holt-Noreiks,A. Nagl,Claudio Bucchi,Ulrike Trampisch,Anna Moschny,Petra Platen,E. Penner,Ulrike Junius-Walker,Eva Hummers-Pradier,Gudrun Theile,S. Schmiedl,Petra A. Thürmann,Stefan Scholz,Wolfgang Greiner,Renate Klaassen-Mielke,Ludger Pientka,Hans J. Trampisch +19 more
TL;DR: The results of the PRISCUS research consortium allow a better description of consequences of multimorbidity and illustrate at least some new approaches towards prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of patients suffering from multimor bidity.