• Assessment of the reporting quality of RCTs for novel oral anticoagulants in venous thromboembolic disease based on the CONSORT statement 

      Liampas I., Chlinos A., Siokas V., Brotis A., Dardiotis E. (2019)
      Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the cornerstone of evidence based medicine. Ιt is crucial that RCTs have transparent reporting to facilitate their interpretation. The purpose of the present study is the evaluation ...
    • Burnout and associated factors among Greek substance use disorder treatment providers during economic crisis 

      Rachiotis G., Syrgani C., Symvoulakis E.K., Dadouli K., Papagiannis D., Gourgoulianis K.I., Candilis P.J. (2021)
      Crisis and austerity in Greece could have influenced the risk of burnout among substance use disorder treatment providers. We aimed to investigate the prevalence of burnout and its associated factors among Greek substance ...
    • Cardio-Oncology Rehabilitation and Telehealth: Rationale for Future Integration in Supportive Care of Cancer Survivors 

      Batalik L., Filakova K., Radkovcova I., Dosbaba F., Winnige P., Vlazna D., Batalikova K., Felsoci M., Stefanakis M., Liska D., Papathanasiou J., Pokorna A., Janikova A., Rutkowski S., Pepera G. (2022)
      The direct toxicity of cancer treatment threatens patients and survivors with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease or adverse functional changes with subsequent progression of cardiovascular complications. An ...
    • The current situation of infertility services provision in Europe 

      Messinis I.E., Messini C.I., Daponte A., Garas A., Mahmood T. (2016)
      Infertility is a global medical problem of the reproductive system which may affect the quality of a woman's life. Whether infertility provision varies between different European countries has not been investigated in the ...
    • Diabetic patient assessment of chronic illness care using PACIC+ 

      Malliarou M., Desikou C., Lahana E., Kotrotsiou S., Paralikas T., Nikolentzos A., Kotrotsiou E., Sarafis P. (2020)
      Background: The Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care plus is used in order to assess whether provided care is congruent with the Chronic Care Model, according to patients. The purpose of this study was to correlate ...
    • EBCOG position statement: Inequality in fertility treatment in people of colour 

      Messinis I.E., Messini C.I., Anifandis G.M., Daponde A., Mukhopadhyay S., Mahmood T. (2021)
      Despite advances in promoting sexual and reproductive rights by the United Nations, WHO and UNFPA, inequities in the provision of health care for women exist and are influenced by the socioeconomic status and the ethnicity ...
    • Effect of high-intensity exercise on cardiorespiratory fitness, cardiovascular disease risk and disease activity in patients with inflammatory joint disease: Protocol for the ExeHeart randomised controlled trial 

      Nordén K.R., Dagfinrud H., Semb A.G., Hisdal J., Viktil K.K., Sexton J., Fongen C., Skandsen J., Blanck T., Metsios G.S., Tveter A.T. (2022)
      Introduction Inflammatory joint disease (IJD) is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) fostered by systemic inflammation and a high prevalence of CVD risk factors. Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) ...
    • Healthcare access and quality index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2015: A novel analysis from the global burden of disease study 2015 

      Barber R.M., Fullman N., Sorensen R.J.D., Bollyky T., McKee M., Nolte E., Abajobir A.A., Abate K.H., Abbafati C., Abbas K.M., Abd-Allah F., Abdulle A.M., Abdurahman A.A., Abera S.F., Abraham B., Abreha G.F., Adane K., Adelekan A.L., Adetifa I.M.O., Afshin A., Agarwal A., Agarwal S.K., Agarwal S., Agrawal A., Ahmad Kiadaliri A., Ahmadi A., Ahmed K.Y., Ahmed M.B., Akinyemi R.O., Akinyemiju T.F., Akseer N., Al-Aly Z., Alam K., Alam N., Alam S.S., Alemu Z.A., Alene K.A., Alexander L., Ali R., Ali S.D., Alizadeh-Navaei R., Alkerwi A., Alla F., Allebeck P., Allen C., Al-Raddadi R., Alsharif U., Altirkawi K.A., Alvarez Martin E., Alvis-Guzman N., Amare A.T., Amini E., Ammar W., Amo-Adjei J., Amoako Y.A., Anderson B.O., Androudi S., Ansari H., Ansha M.G., Antonio C.A.T., Ärnlöv J., Artaman A., Asayesh H., Assadi R., Astatkie A., Atey T.M., Atique S., Atnafu N.T., Atre S.R., Avila-Burgos L., Avokpaho E.F.G.A., Ayala Quintanilla B.P., Awasthi A., Ayele N.N., Azzopardi P., Ba Saleem H.O., Bärnighausen T., Bacha U., Badawi A., Banerjee A., Barac A., Barboza M.A., Barker-Collo S.L., Barrero L.H., Basu S., Baune B.T., Baye K., Bayou Y.T., Bazargan-Hejazi S., Bedi N., Beghi E., Béjot Y., Bello A.K., Bennett D.A., Bensenor I.M., Berhane A., Bernabé E., Bernal O.A., Beyene A.S., Beyene T.J., Bhutta Z.A., Biadgilign S., Bikbov B., Birlik S.M., Birungi C., Biryukov S., Bisanzio D., Bizuayehu H.M., Bose D., Brainin M., Brauer M., Brazinova A., Breitborde N.J.K., Brenner H., Butt Z.A., Cárdenas R., Cahuana-Hurtado L., Campos-Nonato I.R., Car J., Carrero J.J., Casey D., Caso V., Castañeda-Orjuela C.A., Castillo Rivas J., Catalá-López F., Cecilio P., Cercy K., Charlson F.J., Chen A.Z., Chew A., Chibalabala M., Chibueze C.E., Chisumpa V.H., Chitheer A.A., Chowdhury R., Christensen H., Christopher D.J., Ciobanu L.G., Cirillo M., Coggeshall M.S., Cooper L.T., Cortinovis M., Crump J.A., Dalal K., Danawi H., Dandona L., Dandona R., Dargan P.I., Das Neves J., Davey G., Davitoiu D.V., Davletov K., De Leo D., Del Gobbo L.C., Del Pozo-Cruz B., Dellavalle R.P., Deribe K., Deribew A., Des Jarlais D.C., Dey S., Dharmaratne S.D., Dicker D., Ding E.L., Dokova K., Dorsey E.R., Doyle K.E., Dubey M., Ehrenkranz R., Ellingsen C.L., Elyazar I., Enayati A., Ermakov S.P., Eshrati B., Esteghamati A., Estep K., Fürst T., Faghmous I.D.A., Fanuel F.B.B., Faraon E.J.A., Farid T.A., Farinha C.S.E.S., Faro A., Farvid M.S., Farzadfar F., Feigin V.L., Feigl A.B., Fereshtehnejad S.-M., Fernandes J.G., Fernandes J.C., Feyissa T.R., Fischer F., Fitzmaurice C., Fleming T.D., Foigt N., Foreman K.J., Forouzanfar M.H., Franklin R.C., Frostad J., Ghiwot T.T., Gakidou E., Gambashidze K., Gamkrelidze A., Gao W., Garcia-Basteiro A.L., Gebre T., Gebremedhin A.T., Gebremichael M.W., Gebru A.A., Gelaye A.A., Geleijnse J.M., Genova-Maleras R., Gibney K.B., Giref A.Z., Gishu M.D., Giussani G., Godwin W.W., Gold A., Goldberg E.M., Gona P.N., Goodridge A., Gopalani S.V., Goto A., Graetz N., Greaves F., Griswold M., Guban P.I., Gugnani H.C., Gupta P.C., Gupta R., Gupta R., Gupta T., Gupta V., Habtewold T.D., Hafezi-Nejad N., Haile D., Hailu A.D., Hailu G.B., Hakuzimana A., Hamadeh R.R., Hambisa M.T., Hamidi S., Hammami M., Hankey G.J., Hao Y., Harb H.L., Hareri H.A., Haro J.M., Hassanvand M.S., Havmoeller R., Hay R.J., Hay S.I., Hendrie D., Heredia-Pi I.B., Hoek H.W., Horino M., Horita N., Hosgood H.D., Htet A.S., Hu G., Huang H., Huang J.J., Huntley B.M., Huynh C., Iburg K.M., Ileanu B.V., Innos K., Irenso A.A., Jahanmehr N., Jakovljevic M.B., James P., James S.L., Javanbakht M., Jayaraman S.P., Jayatilleke A.U., Jeemon P., Jha V., John D., Johnson C., Johnson S.C., Jonas J.B., Juel K., Kabir Z., Kalkonde Y., Kamal R., Kan H., Karch A., Karema C.K., Karimi S.M., Kasaeian A., Kassebaum N.J., Kastor A., Katikireddi S.V., Kazanjan K., Keiyoro P.N., Kemmer L., Kemp A.H., Kengne A.P., Kerbo A.A., Kereselidze M., Kesavachandran C.N., Khader Y.S., Khalil I., Khan A.R., Khan E.A., Khan G., Khang Y.-H., Khoja A.T.A., Khonelidze I., Khubchandani J., Kibret G.D., Kim D., Kim P., Kim Y.J., Kimokoti R.W., Kinfu Y., Kissoon N., Kivipelto M., Kokubo Y., Kolk A., Kolte D., Kopec J.A., Kosen S., Koul P.A., Koyanagi A., Kravchenko M., Krishnaswami S., Krohn K.J., Kuate Defo B., Kucuk Bicer B., Kuipers E.J., Kulkarni V.S., Kumar G.A., Kumsa F.A., Kutz M., Kyu H.H., Lager A.C.J., Lal A., Lal D.K., Lalloo R., Lallukka T., Lan Q., Langan S.M., Lansingh V.C., Larson H.J., Larsson A., Laryea D.O., Latif A.A., Lawrynowicz A.E.B., Leasher J.L., Leigh J., Leinsalu M., Leshargie C.T., Leung J., Leung R., Levi M., Liang X., Lim S.S., Lind M., Linn S., Lipshultz S.E., Liu P., Liu Y., Lo L.-T., Logroscino G., Lopez A.D., Lorch S.A., Lotufo P.A., Lozano R., Lunevicius R., Lyons R.A., Macarayan E.R.K., Mackay M.T., Magdy Abd El Razek H., Magdy Abd El Razek M., Mahdavi M., Majeed A., Malekzadeh R., Malta D.C., Mantovani L.G., Manyazewal T., Mapoma C.C., Marcenes W., Marks G.B., Marquez N., Martinez-Raga J., Marzan M.B., Massano J., Mathur M.R., Maulik P.K., Mazidi M., McAlinden C., McGrath J.J., McNellan C., Meaney P.A., Mehari A., Mehndiratta M.M., Meier T., Mekonnen A.B., Meles K.G., Memish Z.A., Mengesha M.M., Mengiste D.T., Mengistie M.A., Menota B.G., Mensah G.A., Mereta S.T., Meretoja A., Meretoja T.J., Mezgebe H.B., Micha R., Millear A., Mills E.J., Minnig S., Mirarefin M., Mirrakhimov E.M., Mock C.N., Mohammad K.A., Mohammed S., Mohanty S.K., Mokdad A.H., Mola G.L.D., Molokhia M., Monasta L., Montico M., Moradi-Lakeh M., Moraga P., Morawska L., Mori R., Moses M., Mueller U.O., Murthy S., Musa K.I., Nachega J.B., Nagata C., Nagel G., Naghavi M., Naheed A., Naldi L., Nangia V., Nascimento B.R., Negoi I., Neupane S.P., Newton C.R., Ng M., Ngalesoni F.N., Ngunjiri J.W., Nguyen G., Ningrum D.N.A., Nolte S., Nomura M., Norheim O.F., Norrving B., Noubiap J.J.N., Obermeyer C.M., Ogbo F.A., Oh I.-H., Okoro A., Oladimeji O., Olagunju A.T., Olivares P.R., Olsen H.E., Olusanya B.O., Olusanya J.O., Opio J.N., Oren E., Ortiz A., Osborne R.H., Osman M., Owolabi M.O., Mahesh P.A., Pain A.W., Pakhale S., Palomares Castillo E., Pana A., Papachristou C., Parsaeian M., Patel T., Patton G.C., Paudel D., Paul V.K., Pearce N., Pereira D.M., Perez-Padilla R., Perez-Ruiz F., Perico N., Pesudovs K., Petzold M., Phillips M.R., Pigott D.M., Pillay J.D., Pinho C., Polinder S., Pond C.D., Prakash V., Purwar M., Qorbani M., Quistberg D.A., Radfar A., Rafay A., Rahimi K., Rahimi-Movaghar V., Rahman M., Rahman M.H.U., Rai R.K., Ram U., Rana S.M., Rankin Z., Rao P.V., Rao P.C., Rawaf S., Rego M.A.S., Reitsma M., Remuzzi G., Renzaho A.M.N.N., Resnikoff S., Rezaei S., Rezai M.S., Ribeiro A.L., Roba H.S., Rokni M.B., Ronfani L., Roshandel G., Roth G.A., Rothenbacher D., Roy N.K., Sachdev P.S., Sackey B.B., Saeedi M.Y., Safiri S., Sagar R., Sahraian M.A., Saleh M.M., Salomon J.A., Samy A.M., Sanabria J.R., Sanchez-Niño M.D., Sandar L., Santos I.S., Santos J.V., Santric Milicevic M.M., Sarmiento-Suarez R., Sartorius B., Satpathy M., Savic M., Sawhney M., Saylan M.I., Schöttker B., Schutte A.E., Schwebel D.C., Seedat S., Seid A.M., Seifu C.N., Sepanlou S.G., Serdar B., Servan-Mori E.E., Setegn T., Shackelford K.A., Shaheen A., Shahraz S., Shaikh M.A., Shakh-Nazarova M., Shamsipour M., Shariful Islam S.M., Sharma J., Sharma R., She J., Sheikhbahaei S., Shen J., Shi P., Shigematsu M., Shin M.-J., Shiri R., Shoman H., Shrime M.G., Sibamo E.L.S., Sigfusdottir I.D., Silva D.A.S., Silveira D.G.A., Sindi S., Singh A., Singh J.A., Singh O.P., Singh P.K., Singh V., Sinke A.H., Sinshaw A.E., Skirbekk V., Sliwa K., Smith A., Sobngwi E., Soneji S., Soriano J.B., Sousa T.C.M., Sposato L.A., Sreeramareddy C.T., Stathopoulou V., Steel N., Steiner C., Steinke S., Stokes M.A., Stranges S., Strong M., Stroumpoulis K., Sturua L., Sufiyan M.B., Suliankatchi R.A., Sun J., Sur P., Swaminathan S., Sykes B.L., Tabarés-Seisdedos R., Tabb K.M., Taffere G.R., Talongwa R.T., Tarajia M., Tavakkoli M., Taveira N., Teeple S., Tegegne T.K., Tehrani-Banihashemi A., Tekelab T., Tekle D.Y., Temam Shifa G., Terkawi A.S., Tesema A.G., Thakur J.S., Thomson A.J., Tillmann T., Tiruye T.Y., Tobe-Gai R., Tonelli M., Topor-Madry R., Tortajada M., Troeger C., Truelsen T., Tura A.K., Uchendu U.S., Ukwaja K.N., Undurraga E.A., Uneke C.J., Uthman O.A., Van Boven J.F.M., Van Dingenen R., Varughese S., Vasankari T., Venketasubramanian N., Violante F.S., Vladimirov S.K., Vlassov V.V., Vollset S.E., Vos T., Wagner J.A., Wakayo T., Waller S.G., Walson J.L., Wang H., Wang Y.-P., Watkins D.A., Weiderpass E., Weintraub R.G., Wen C.-P., Werdecker A., Wesana J., Westerman R., Whiteford H.A., Wilkinson J.D., Wiysonge C.S., Woldeyes B.G., Wolfe C.D.A., Won S., Workicho A., Workie S.B., Wubshet M., Xavier D., Xu G., Yadav A.K., Yaghoubi M., Yakob B., Yan L.L., Yano Y., Yaseri M., Yimam H.H., Yip P., Yonemoto N., Yoon S.-J., Younis M.Z., Yu C., Zaidi Z., El Sayed Zaki M., Zambrana-Torrelio C., Zapata T., Zenebe Z.M., Zodpey S., Zoeckler L., Zuhlke L.J., Murray C.J.L., GBD 2015 Healthcare Access and Quality Collaborators (2017)
      Background National levels of personal health-care access and quality can be approximated by measuring mortality rates from causes that should not be fatal in the presence of effective medical care (ie, amenable mortality). ...
    • Impact of the financial crisis on COPD burden: Greece as a case study 

      Kotsiou O.S., Zouridis S., Kosmopoulos M., Gourgoulianis K.I. (2018)
      Poverty and low socioeconomic status have been associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The current financial crisis has forced millions back into poverty. Greece is one of the countries hit the hardest, ...
    • Interventions to improve cardiopulmonary resuscitation: A review of meta-analyses and future agenda 

      Chalkias A., Ioannidis J.P.A. (2019)
      [No abstract available]
    • Investigating Nursing Leadership in Intensive Care Units of Hospitals of Northern Greece and Its Relationship to the Working Environment 

      Intas G., Simeon M., Eleni L., Platis C., Chalari E., Stergiannis P. (2021)
      Introduction: The relationship between leadership and the work environment has been studied by many authors at the organization level, but not specifically in intensive care units (ICUs). The aim of this study was to ...
    • Maintenance of Acute Stroke Care Service during the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown 

      Altersberger V.L., Stolze L.J., Heldner M.R., Henon H., Martinez-Majander N., Hametner C., Nordanstig A., Zini A., Nannoni S., Gonçalves B., Nolte C.H., Baumgartner P., Kastrup A., Papanagiotou P., Kägi G., Leker R.R., Zedde M., Padovani A., Pezzini A., Padjen V., Cereda C.W., Ntaios G., Bonati L.H., Rinkel L.A., Fischer U., Scheitz J.F., Wegener S., Turc G., Michel P., Gentile M., Rentzos A., Ringleb P.A., Curtze S., Cordonnier C., Arnold M., Nederkoorn P.J., Engelter S.T., Gensicke H., TRISP Collaborators (2021)
      BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Timely reperfusion is an important goal in treatment of eligible patients with acute ischemic stroke. However, during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, prehospital and in-hospital ...
    • Measuring performance on the Healthcare Access and Quality Index for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational locations: A systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 

      Fullman N., Yearwood J., Abay S.M., Abbafati C., Abd-Allah F., Abdela J., Abdelalim A., Abebe Z., Abebo T.A., Aboyans V., Abraha H.N., Abreu D.M.X., Abu-Raddad L.J., Adane A.A., Adedoyin R.A., Adetokunboh O., Adhikari T.B., Afarideh M., Afshin A., Agarwal G., Agius D., Agrawal A., Agrawal S., Ahmad Kiadaliri A., Aichour M.T.E., Akibu M., Akinyemi R.O., Akinyemiju T.F., Akseer N., Al Lami F.H., Alahdab F., Al-Aly Z., Alam K., Alam T., Alasfoor D., Albittar M.I., Alene K.A., Al-Eyadhy A., Ali S.D., Alijanzadeh M., Aljunid S.M., Alkerwi A., Alla F., Allebeck P., Allen C., Alomari M.A., Al-Raddadi R., Alsharif U., Altirkawi K.A., Alvis-Guzman N., Amare A.T., Amenu K., Ammar W., Amoako Y.A., Anber N., Andrei C.L., Androudi S., Antonio C.A.T., Araújo V.E.M., Aremu O., Ärnlöv J., Artaman A., Aryal K.K., Asayesh H., Asfaw E.T., Asgedom S.W., Asghar R.J., Ashebir M.M., Asseffa N.A., Atey T.M., Atre S.R., Atteraya M.S., Avila-Burgos L., Avokpaho E.F.G.A., Awasthi A., Ayala Quintanilla B.P., Ayalew A.A., Ayele H.T., Ayer R., Ayuk T.B., Azzopardi P., Azzopardi-Muscat N., Babalola T.K., Badali H., Badawi A., Banach M., Banerjee A., Banstola A., Barber R.M., Barboza M.A., Barker-Collo S.L., Bärnighausen T., Barquera S., Barrero L.H., Bassat Q., Basu S., Baune B.T., Bazargan-Hejazi S., Bedi N., Beghi E., Behzadifar M., Behzadifar M., Bekele B.B., Belachew A.B., Belay S.A., Belay Y.A., Bell M.L., Bello A.K., Bennett D.A., Bennett J.R., Bensenor I.M., Berhe D.F., Bernabé E., Bernstein R.S., Beuran M., Bhalla A., Bhatt P., Bhaumik S., Bhutta Z.A., Biadgo B., Bijani A., Bikbov B., Birungi C., Biryukov S., Bizuneh H., Bolliger I.W., Bolt K., Bou-Orm I.R., Bozorgmehr K., Brady O.J., Brazinova A., Breitborde N.J.K., Brenner H., Britton G., Brugha T.S., Butt Z.A., Cahuana-Hurtado L., Campos-Nonato I.R., Campuzano J.C., Car J., Car M., Cárdenas R., Carrero J.J., Carvalho F., Castañeda-Orjuela C.A., Castillo Rivas J., Catalá-López F., Cercy K., Chalek J., Chang H.-Y., Chang J.-C., Chattopadhyay A., Chaturvedi P., Chiang P.P.-C., Chisumpa V.H., Choi J.-Y.J., Christensen H., Christopher D.J., Chung S.-C., Ciobanu L.G., Cirillo M., Colombara D., Conti S., Cooper C., Cornaby L., Cortesi P.A., Cortinovis M., Costa Pereira A., Cousin E., Criqui M.H., Cromwell E.A., Crowe C.S., Crump J.A., Daba A.K., Dachew B.A., Dadi A.F., Dandona L., Dandona R., Dargan P.I., Daryani A., Daryani M., Das J., Das S.K., Das Neves J., Davis Weaver N., Davletov K., De Courten B., De Leo D., De Neve J.-W., Dellavalle R.P., Demoz G., Deribe K., Des Jarlais D.C., Dey S., Dharmaratne S.D., Dhimal M., Djalalinia S., Doku D.T., Dolan K., Dorsey E.R., Dos Santos K.P.B., Doyle K.E., Driscoll T.R., Dubey M., Dubljanin E., Duncan B.B., Echko M., Edessa D., Edvardsson D., Ehrlich J.R., Eldrenkamp E., El-Khatib Z., Endres M., Endries A.Y., Eshrati B., Eskandarieh S., Esteghamati A., Fakhar M., Farag T., Faramarzi M., Faraon E.J.A., Faro A., Farzadfar F., Fatusi A., Fazeli M.S., Feigin V.L., Feigl 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V.H., Herteliu C., Hibstu D.T., Hiluf M.K., Hoek H.W., Homaie Rad E., Horita N., Hosgood H.D., Hosseini M., Hosseini S.R., Hostiuc M., Hostiuc S., Hoy D.G., Hsairi M., Htet A.S., Hu G., Huang J.J., Iburg K.M., Idris F., Igumbor E.U., Ikeda C., Ileanu B.V., Ilesanmi O.S., Innos K., Irvani S.S.N., Irvine C.M.S., Islami F., Jacobs T.A., Jacobsen K.H., Jahanmehr N., Jain R., Jain S.K., Jakovljevic M.M., Jalu M.T., Jamal A.A., Javanbakht M., Jayatilleke A.U., Jeemon P., Jha R.P., Jha V., Józwiak J., John O., Johnson S.C., Jonas J.B., Joshua V., Jürisson M., Kabir Z., Kadel R., Kahsay A., Kalani R., Kar C., Karanikolos M., Karch A., Karema C.K., Karimi S.M., Kasaeian A., Kassa D.H., Kassa G.M., Kassa T.D., Kassebaum N.J., Katikireddi S.V., Kaul A., Kawakami N., Kazanjan K., Kebede S., Keiyoro P.N., Kemp G.R., Kengne A.P., Kereselidze M., Ketema E.B., Khader Y.S., Khafaie M.A., Khajavi A., Khalil I.A., Khan E.A., Khan G., Khan M.N., Khan M.A., Khanal M.N., Khang Y.-H., Khater M.M., Khoja 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    • Measuring the efficiency among secondary and university pulmonary hospital clinics in Greece 

      Geitona, M.; Androutsou, L.; Kotsopoulos, N.; Gourgoulianis, K. (2014)
      Background: The need for efficient use of healthcare resources intensifies in times of economic recession and budgetary constraints. AIM: The scope of this study is to measure the efficiency among secondary and university ...
    • Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): Investigating care practices pointed out to disparities in diagnosis and treatment across European Union 

      Strand E.B., Nacul L., Mengshoel A.M., Helland I.B., Grabowski P., Krumina A., Alegre-Martin J., Efrim-Budisteanu M., Sekulic S., Pheby D., Sakkas G.K., Sirbu C.A., Authier F.J., Murovska M., Lacerda E., Estevez Lopez F., Scheibenbogen C., Shi-Kova-Lekova E., Lorusso L., Berkis U., Westermeier F., Riederer M., Tobback E., Meeus M., Shikova-Lekova E., Nielsen H., Brandslund I., Polo O., De Korwin J.-D., Scheibenbogen C., Harrer T., Prusty B., Freitag H., Trepel D., Cullinan J., Capelli E., Nora-Krukle Z., Rasa S., Vermeulen R., Menhshoel A.M., Helland I.B., Zalewski P., Sepulveda N., Sirbu C.A., Sekulic S., Vukadinovic M., Marusic U., Pisot R., Castro-Marrero J., Blanco J., Oltra E., Miro J., Berquist J., Blomberg J., Pheby D., Edwards J., Wang X., European Network on ME/CFS (EUROMENE) (2019)
      ME/CFS is a chronic, complex, multisystem disease that often limits the health and functioning of the affected patients. Diagnosing patients with ME/CFS is a challenge, and many different case definitions exist and are ...
    • Personal protection equipment for orthopaedic and trauma surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic:The results of an EFORT survey initiative 

      Karachalios T., Maasalu K., Felländer-Tsai L. (2022)
      • Orthopaedic and trauma surgeons performing surgery in the COVID-19 pandemic environment faced problems with availability, use, rationing, modification, compliance and recycling of personal protection equipment (PPE). • ...
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      Kamp M.A., Malzkorn B., von Sass C., DiMeco F., Hadjipanayis C.G., Senft C., Rapp M., Gepfner-Tuma I., Fountas K., Krieg S.M., Neukirchen M., Florian I.Ș., Schnell O., Mijderwijk H.-J., Perin A., Baumgarten P., van Lieshout J.H., Thon N., Renovanz M., Kahlert U., Spoor J.K.H., Hänggi D., McLean A.L., Mäurer M., Sarrubbo S., Freyschlag C.F., Schmidt N.O., Vergani F., Jungk C., Stein M., Forster M.-T., Weinberg J.S., Sinclair J., Belykh E., Bello L., Mandonnet E., Moiyadi A., Sabel M. (2021)
      Objective: The aim of this work is to define competencies and entrustable professional activities (EPAs) to be imparted within the framework of surgical neuro-oncological residency and fellowship training as well as the ...
    • Quality of life and vocational education service quality in students with intellectual disability 

      Georgiadou I., Vlachou A., Stavroussi P. (2022)
      The aim of the study was to investigate the relation between subjective quality of life and quality of vocational education services from the view of students with intellectual disability who participate in public special ...
    • Reporting quality of randomized-controlled trials in multiple sclerosis from 2000 to 2015, based on CONSORT statement 

      Rikos D., Dardiotis E., Tsivgoulis G., Zintzaras E., Hadjigeorgiou G.M. (2016)
      Background Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the best tool to evaluate the effectiveness of clinical interventions. The CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) statement is an evidence-based approach to ...
    • The role of learning and customer orientation for delivering service quality to patients 

      Bellou, V. (2010)
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