Swiss Medical Weekly - The European Journal of Medical Sciences
"Swiss Medical Weekly", which began publication in 1871, is an international peer-reviewed medical journal.
SMW is an open access publication. All accepted original articles are published immediately in full text in the Internet.
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and mad cows: lessons learnt from yeast cells
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are fatal neurodegenerative diseases that affect mammals including humans. The proteinaceous nature of the infectious agent, the prion, and its propagation, challenge established dogmas in biology.
Nurse-reported patient safety climate in Swiss hospitals
The findings of this study suggest a need to improve the patient safety climate on many units in Swiss hospitals. Leaders in hospitals should strengthen the patient safety climate at unit level by implementing methods, such as root cause analysis or patient safety leadership walk rounds, to improve individual and team skills and redesign work processes. The impact of these efforts should be measured by periodically assessing the patient safety climate with the SOS.
Psychosocial stress and cardiovascular risk – current opinion
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Epidemiologic research of the last half-century has clearly shown that psychosocial factors related to the social environment, personality characteristics, and negative affect increase the risk of incident CVD and also impact prognosis of cardiac patients.
