Robert Bosch Stiftung

About: Robert Bosch Stiftung is a nonprofit organization based out in Stuttgart, Germany. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Health care & Poison control. The organization has 44 authors who have published 71 publications receiving 923 citations. The organization is also known as: Robert-Bosch-Stiftung & Robert Bosch Foundation.

Naturheilkunde und Komplementärmedizin in medizinischen Leitlinien - können europäische Normen Leitlinien für Naturheilkunde und Komplementärmedizin verdrängen?

Abstract: Leitlinien machen in der Komplementarmedizin, wie das Beispiel der Naturheilkunde zeigt, durchaus Sinn. Sie erganzen zum Wohle des Patienten und zur besseren Orientierung des Therapeuten die bislang, auch auf europaischer Ebene, bereits bestehenden Leitlinien, die standig weiterentwickelt werden. Diese Erganzung ist dringend notwendig, weil die meisten der vorliegenden Leitlinien einzelner Fachgesellschaften die Forschungsergebnisse der Komplementarmedizin, die zum Teil beachtlich und auch evidenzbasiert sind, zum Nachteil des Patienten ignorieren. Es ist bedauerlich, dass einige Richtungen der Komplementarmedizin jedoch meinen, dass eine europaische Norm, wie sie beispielsweise Osteopathen und Homoopathen mithilfe des europaischen Normungsinstituts (CEN) durchzusetzen hoffen, sie in ihrem Kampf um Anerkennung weiterbringen wird. Der Patient, der auf eine individuelle und bestmogliche Behandlung wert legt, wird jedenfalls davon nicht profitieren.

[Urology and alternative medicine (1900-1970)].

Abstract: Disorders of the lower abdomen were often associated with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) or related conditions. The urological diagnostic workup and treatment was based on the idea that technical devices and objective scientific examination methods would lead to targeted success. The fact that illnesses such as urinary retention, urinary incontinence, urge incontinence, orchitis or urethritis often implicated psychosomatic complications and had a possibly far more important impact on sexual life did not play a role in the early years of urology. In contrast, the concepts of naturopaths and homoeopaths were based on the humoral pathology view that was rejected by conventional medicine after 1850. They advocated abstinence and the use of hydrotherapeutic measures instead of urological surgery or potassium bromide treatment commonly prescribed by psychiatrists. The success of the naturopaths and homeopaths was based on several factors: they relied on taking into account a comprehensive patient history including psychosomatic factors and a combined dietary and pharmacological treatment. Naturopathic or homeopathic treatment was cheaper and more acceptable to the patient than conventional medical treatment or use of catheters and dilators. In addition, lay practitioners often came from the same milieu as their patients, so that the physician-patient communication, which is extremely important for psychosomatic disorders, was much easier.

Unbeugsam und unbelehrbar

Abstract: Die Syphilis ist keine todliche Krankheit mehr, weil Antibiotika helfen. Doch vor den Antibiotika gab es das Medikament Salvarsan, entwickelt von Paul Ehrlich. Seine Wirkung war umstritten und der wichtigste Gegner von Medikament und Entwickler war der Berliner Arzt Heinrich Dreuw. Er wird als Antisemit und Quacksalber gesehen, doch konnte es sein, dass ihm dadurch Unrecht getan wird.

Interprofessional Teaching and Learning in Germany: The “Operation Team” Support Program

Abstract: It is not simply in the wake of social change and demographic developments that demands on stakeholders in the health care system have grown. The increasing rationalization and mechanization of care processes, as well as an ongoing professionalization of the health care professions, have also played a major role here. Such developments pose particular challenges, such as in the form of rising patient numbers, shorter hospital stays, and increasingly complex treatment options and needs. As a result of such factors, the respective expertise of the various health care professions is in equal demand. In this context, neither patient needs nor the increasingly complex requirements of modern care processes adhere to occupational boundaries.