Vol. 155 No. 6 (2025) | Swiss Medical Weekly

Maryam Pavlicek-Bahlo, Barbara Hasse, Michelle Frank, Anna Conen, Matthaios Papadimitriou-Olivgeris, Benoit Guery, Alain M. Bernheim, Philipp K.A. Agyeman, Walter Knirsch, Michael M. Bornstein, Matthias Greutmann, Parham Sendi (Author)

Update on prevention and antimicrobial prophylaxis of infective endocarditis
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Boris Tutschek, Luigi Raio, David Baud (Author)

Non-invasive prenatal testing is not a substitute for first trimester ultrasound screening
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Kristin Marie Bivens, Amélie J. A. A. Guyon, Valerie Behan, Eva Segelov (Author)

An approach to implementing patient and public involvement in investigator-initiated clinical trials
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Michael von Rhein, Niklaus Krayenbühl, Andreas Meyer-Heim, Sergio Manzano, Gianluca Gualco, Renato Gualtieri, Fabrizio Romano, Alexander Mack, Larissa Hauser-Angst, Michelle Seiler (Author)

High data retrieval rates with SwissPedData for paediatric traumatic brain injuries in children’s hospitals: a multicentre, point-prevalence study
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Lucia Gasparovic, Dominik Stämpfli, Shanzeh Chaudhry, Mina Tadrous, Andrea M. Burden (Author)

Opioid-containing antitussives in Switzerland: a descriptive cross-sectional time-series analysis of pharmacy sales 2013–2022
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Jelena Dunaiceva, Noémie Boillat-Blanco, Danyu Li, Anne Niquille , Arnaud Peytremann, Catherine Plüss-Suard, Yolanda Mueller (Author)

Do Swiss family physicians prescribe antibiotics in line with national guidelines? A cross-sectional study
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Joana Krättli, Deborah Buess, Matthias Diebold, Caroline Wehmeier, Daniel Sidler, Dela Golshayan, Tobias Zingg, Sophie de Seigneux, Fadi Haidar, Isabelle Binet, Alexander Ritter, Kerstin Hübel, Fabian Rössler, Jürg Steiger, Patricia Hirt-Minkowski (Author)

Metabolic risk after living kidney donation: an analysis of the Swiss Organ Living-Donor Health Registry
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Martin Müller, Patrick Micallef, Sebastian Jud, Aristomenis Exadaktylos, Dominik A. Jakob, Urs Pietsch, and the Swiss Trauma Registry (Author)

Characteristics of severely injured trauma patients transported by helicopter emergency medical services in Switzerland: a retrospective cohort study
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Leonore Ingold, Michael Dickenmann, Thomas Menter, Helmut Hopfer, Patricia Hirt-Minkowski (Author)

Successful targeting of the alternative complement cascade with iptacopan for the treatment of IgA nephropathy: a case report
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Dem Aliaj, Guido Schüpfer, Gabriela Studer (Author)

A comparative cost analysis of 25-fraction vs 5-fraction postoperative radiotherapy regimens for breast cancer
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Federica Zavattaro, Paola Daniore, Viktor von Wyl, Felix Gille (Author)

The sociopolitical discourse on health data sharing in Switzerland: lessons learned from 1992 to 2023 for present public trust building – a multi-method study
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Sophie Guerin, Christian Bieli, Regula Corbelli, Thomas Ferry, Miriam Giaranna, Matthias Horn, Silvia Miano, Nicolas Regamey, Daniel Trachsel, Sylvain Blanchon (Author)

Registry-based surveillance of paediatric home respiratory support in Switzerland: methodology and initial findings
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Sara Imboden, Selina Lang, Antonella Martino, Peter Martin Fehr, Lea Duempelmann, Cloé Vaineau, Heike Willi, Nicolas Samartzis, Simone Kamm, Dimitri Sarlos, Stephanie Verta, Tina Rohrbach, Christian Polli, Alexandra Kochanowski, Michael Mueller (Author)

The Swiss Endometriosis Database: a retrospective multicentre cohort study on pain levels and multimodal treatment needs of endometriosis patients
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Melina Bigler, Malina Vaucher, Manuel Wiederkehr, Sophia Brülisauer, Werner C. Albrich, Sarah Dräger, Valentin Gisler, Isabel Akers, Daniel Mäusezahl (Author)

Long-term impacts of Legionnaires’ disease on health and wellbeing: rationale, study design and baseline findings of a matched cohort study (LongLEGIO)
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Viviane Richard, Elsa Lorthe, Roxane Dumont, Andrea Loizeau, Hélène Baysson, María-Eugenia Zaballa, Julien Lamour, Mayssam Nehme, Rémy P. Barbe, Klara M. Posfay-Barbe, Idris Guessous, Silvia Stringhini (Author)

Determinants and health-related consequences of screen time in children and adolescents: post-COVID-19 insights from a prospective cohort study
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Carina Fähndrich, Armin Gemperli, Michael Baumberger, Michael Harder, Dirk J. Schaefer, Reto Wettstein, Anke Scheel-Sailer (Author)

Risk prediction for major postoperative complications in people with chronic spinal cord injury/disorder and stage III and IV pressure injury
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Céline Fontana, Matthias Diebold, Patrizia Amico, Patricia Hirt-Minkowski, Caroline Wehmeier, Helmut Hopfer, Thomas Menter, Stefan Schaub, Juerg Steiger, Michael Dickenmann (Author)

Bleeding risk after native and transplant kidney biopsy – a single-centre observational study
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Volume 155, No. 6

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Update on prevention and antimicrobial prophylaxis of infective endocarditis

Non-invasive prenatal testing is not a substitute for first trimester ultrasound screening

An approach to implementing patient and public involvement in investigator-initiated clinical trials

Original article

High data retrieval rates with SwissPedData for paediatric traumatic brain injuries in children’s hospitals: a multicentre, point-prevalence study

Opioid-containing antitussives in Switzerland: a descriptive cross-sectional time-series analysis of pharmacy sales 2013–2022

Do Swiss family physicians prescribe antibiotics in line with national guidelines? A cross-sectional study

Metabolic risk after living kidney donation: an analysis of the Swiss Organ Living-Donor Health Registry

Characteristics of severely injured trauma patients transported by helicopter emergency medical services in Switzerland: a retrospective cohort study

Successful targeting of the alternative complement cascade with iptacopan for the treatment of IgA nephropathy: a case report

A comparative cost analysis of 25-fraction vs 5-fraction postoperative radiotherapy regimens for breast cancer

The sociopolitical discourse on health data sharing in Switzerland: lessons learned from 1992 to 2023 for present public trust building – a multi-method study

Registry-based surveillance of paediatric home respiratory support in Switzerland: methodology and initial findings

The Swiss Endometriosis Database: a retrospective multicentre cohort study on pain levels and multimodal treatment needs of endometriosis patients

Long-term impacts of Legionnaires’ disease on health and wellbeing: rationale, study design and baseline findings of a matched cohort study (LongLEGIO)

Determinants and health-related consequences of screen time in children and adolescents: post-COVID-19 insights from a prospective cohort study

Risk prediction for major postoperative complications in people with chronic spinal cord injury/disorder and stage III and IV pressure injury

Bleeding risk after native and transplant kidney biopsy – a single-centre observational study