Financial incentives for participants in health research: when are they ethical?

Defining when financial incentives might be suitable or not in health research studies is an important task ahead.

Number of comorbidities and their impact on perioperative outcome and costs – a single centre cohort study

Multimorbidity in perioperative patients is highly prevalent and has a relevant impact on hospital costs. Incorporating multimorbidity into the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) classification might be warranted to improve its predictive ability and support adequate reimbursement.

In-hospital cost analysis of aquablation compared with transurethral resection of the prostate in the treatment of benign prostatic enlargement

In-hospital costs are significantly higher for aquablation than for TURP, mainly due to higher costs of medical supplies for the procedure. This difference should be taken into consideration, at least in patients for whom the different side effect profiles of both treatments are irrelevant.

Bottom-up feedback to improve clinical teaching: validation of the Swiss System for Evaluation of Teaching Qualities (SwissSETQ)

Clinical teaching is essential in preparing trainees for independent practice. To improve teaching quality, clinical teachers should be provided with meaningful and reliable feedback from trainees (bottom-up feedback) based on up-to-date educational concepts.

Derivation and validation of a prediction model to establish nursing-sensitive quality benchmarks in medical inpatients: a secondary data analysis of a prospective cohort study

The application of risk adjustment when comparing nursing care quality is crucial and enables a more objective assessment across hospitals or wards with heterogeneous patient populations. This approach has potential to establish a set of benchmarks that could allow comparison of outcomes and quality of nursing care between different hospitals and wards.

Confident and altruistic – parents’ motives to vaccinate their children against COVID-19: a cross-sectional online survey in a Swiss vaccination centre

Campaigns on COVID-19 vaccination for children may increase the intention of parents to have a child vaccinated when they address collective responsibility and calculation. Parents of younger children favour their paediatrician or family doctor over vaccination centres as the vaccination setting for their child.