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  Types of Study in Medical Research (10.04.2009)

  //doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2009.0262

  The quality, reliability and possibility of publishing a study are decisively influenced by the selection of a proper study design. The study type is a component of the study design (see the article "Study Design in Medical Research") and must be...

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  Neonatal Screening for Metabolic and Endocrine Disorders (10.01.2011)

  //doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2011.0011

  Screening for treatable congenital endocrinopathies and metabolic disorders is an important preventive measure that is available for all neonates in Germany. Advances in the treatment of congenital metabolic defects have led to the expansion of the...

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  Deaths Due to Physical Restraint (20.01.2012)

  //doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2012.0027

  Freedom-restraining measures (FRM) to prevent falls, to control the movement of patients with behavioral disorders or motor unrest, and to enable treatment to be carried out are employed principally in geriatric medicine and in general care of the...

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  The Prevalence of Gestational Diabetes (16.06.2017)

  http://www.aerzteblatt.de/10.3238/arztebl.2017.0412

  Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is defined as a glucose intolerance which is first diagnosed in pregnancy and remains below the cutoff value for manifest diabetes (1, 2). Although asymptomatic in its clinical course, GDM is associated with an...

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  Sexual Behavior in Germany (21.08.2017)

  //doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2017.0545

  Sexual health is “a state of physical, emotional, mental and social wellbeing in relation to sexuality, and not merely the absence of disease, dysfunction or infirmity“ (1). According to the World Health Organization (2), sexual health is closely...

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  The Post Mortem External Examination (20.08.2010)

  //doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2010.0575

  The Royal Bavarian Instructions for Post Mortem Examination of 6 August 1839 are succinct on the objectives of the medical examination after death: “The purpose of the examination after death is, first, to avoid the burial of those who merely appear...

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  The Prevalence of Gestational Diabetes (16.06.2017)

  //doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2017.0412

  Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is defined as a glucose intolerance which is first diagnosed in pregnancy and remains below the cutoff value for manifest diabetes (1, 2). Although asymptomatic in its clinical course, GDM is associated with an...

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