Dtsch Arztebl Int
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Editorial Comment
Equality in Living Conditions as a Prerequisite for Health Equity.
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Spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) is an underdiagnosed disease. Its incidence is estimated at 5 per 100 000 persons per year. ⋯ The management of patients with SIH calls for complementary imaging studies to demonstrate the causative spinal CSF leak. Often, successful treatment requires surgical closure of the leak. In view of the sparse evidence available to date, controlled studies should be performed.
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Few data are available on the characteristics of inpatient treatment and subsequent outpatient treatment for depression in Germany. In this study, we aimed to characterize the inpatient and outpatient treatment phases, to determine the rates of readmission and mortality, and to identify risk factors. ⋯ The recommendations of the national (German) S3 guidelines for the further care of patients who have been hospitalized for depression are inadequately implemented at present in the sectored structures of in- and outpatient care in the German health care system. This patient group has marked excess mortality.