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Establishing a student-run free clinic in a major city in Northern Europe: a 1-year experience from Hamburg, Germany
BACKGROUND: Student-Run Free Clinics (SRFCs) have been an integral part of US medical schools since the 1960s and provide health care to underserved populations. In 2018, we established an SRFC in Hamburg, Germany, a major city in Northern Europe. The aim of this study was to describe the central pr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7685854/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31840742 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdz165 |
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author | Drexler, Richard Fröschle, Felix Predel, Christopher Sturm, Berit Ustorf, Klara Lehner, Louisa Janzen, Jara Valentin, Lisa Scheer, Tristan Lehnert, Franziska Tadzic, Refmir Oldhafer, Karl Jürgen Meyer, Tobias N |
author_facet | Drexler, Richard Fröschle, Felix Predel, Christopher Sturm, Berit Ustorf, Klara Lehner, Louisa Janzen, Jara Valentin, Lisa Scheer, Tristan Lehnert, Franziska Tadzic, Refmir Oldhafer, Karl Jürgen Meyer, Tobias N |
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description | BACKGROUND: Student-Run Free Clinics (SRFCs) have been an integral part of US medical schools since the 1960s and provide health care to underserved populations. In 2018, we established an SRFC in Hamburg, Germany, a major city in Northern Europe. The aim of this study was to describe the central problems and to investigate the usefulness of an SRFC in a country with free access to medical care, such as Germany. METHODS: All consecutive patients treated at the SRFC Hamburg between February 2018 and March 2019 that consented to this study were analyzed regarding clinical characteristics, diagnosis, readmission rate and country of origin. RESULTS: Between February 2018 and March 2019, 229 patients were treated at the SRFC in Hamburg. The patients came from 33 different countries with a majority (n = 206, 90%) from countries inside the European Union. The most common reasons for visiting the SRFC were infections (23.2%), acute or chronic wounds (13.5%) and fractures (6.3%). CONCLUSION: Our multicultural patients suffer mainly from infections and traumatological and dermatological diseases. We find similarities to published Canadian SRFC patient cohorts but differences in diseases and treatment modalities compared to US SRFCs. Importantly, we demonstrate the relevance and necessity of the SRFC in a major city in Northern Europe. |
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spelling | pubmed-76858542020-12-01 Establishing a student-run free clinic in a major city in Northern Europe: a 1-year experience from Hamburg, Germany Drexler, Richard Fröschle, Felix Predel, Christopher Sturm, Berit Ustorf, Klara Lehner, Louisa Janzen, Jara Valentin, Lisa Scheer, Tristan Lehnert, Franziska Tadzic, Refmir Oldhafer, Karl Jürgen Meyer, Tobias N J Public Health (Oxf) Perspectives BACKGROUND: Student-Run Free Clinics (SRFCs) have been an integral part of US medical schools since the 1960s and provide health care to underserved populations. In 2018, we established an SRFC in Hamburg, Germany, a major city in Northern Europe. The aim of this study was to describe the central problems and to investigate the usefulness of an SRFC in a country with free access to medical care, such as Germany. METHODS: All consecutive patients treated at the SRFC Hamburg between February 2018 and March 2019 that consented to this study were analyzed regarding clinical characteristics, diagnosis, readmission rate and country of origin. RESULTS: Between February 2018 and March 2019, 229 patients were treated at the SRFC in Hamburg. The patients came from 33 different countries with a majority (n = 206, 90%) from countries inside the European Union. The most common reasons for visiting the SRFC were infections (23.2%), acute or chronic wounds (13.5%) and fractures (6.3%). CONCLUSION: Our multicultural patients suffer mainly from infections and traumatological and dermatological diseases. We find similarities to published Canadian SRFC patient cohorts but differences in diseases and treatment modalities compared to US SRFCs. Importantly, we demonstrate the relevance and necessity of the SRFC in a major city in Northern Europe. Oxford University Press 2019-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7685854/ /pubmed/31840742 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdz165 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Perspectives Drexler, Richard Fröschle, Felix Predel, Christopher Sturm, Berit Ustorf, Klara Lehner, Louisa Janzen, Jara Valentin, Lisa Scheer, Tristan Lehnert, Franziska Tadzic, Refmir Oldhafer, Karl Jürgen Meyer, Tobias N Establishing a student-run free clinic in a major city in Northern Europe: a 1-year experience from Hamburg, Germany |
title | Establishing a student-run free clinic in a major city in Northern Europe: a 1-year experience from Hamburg, Germany |
title_full | Establishing a student-run free clinic in a major city in Northern Europe: a 1-year experience from Hamburg, Germany |
title_fullStr | Establishing a student-run free clinic in a major city in Northern Europe: a 1-year experience from Hamburg, Germany |
title_full_unstemmed | Establishing a student-run free clinic in a major city in Northern Europe: a 1-year experience from Hamburg, Germany |
title_short | Establishing a student-run free clinic in a major city in Northern Europe: a 1-year experience from Hamburg, Germany |
title_sort | establishing a student-run free clinic in a major city in northern europe: a 1-year experience from hamburg, germany |
topic | Perspectives |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7685854/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31840742 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdz165 |
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