On the other hand, collaborations between hospitals and basic research institutes are lacking which hinders the development of gerontology and geriatrics.
The location of the hospitals and basic facility characteristics are described in detail elsewhere[ 13].
Although most medical schools are emphasising vertical and horizontal integration and early introduction to clinical medicine, one could argue that integration of an imaging anatomy module into the anatomy curriculum is challenging in the pre-clinical context when students do not have experience of hospital procedures and basic awareness of the pivotal role of imaging in clinical diagnosis.
The health facilities consist of one hospital and 13 basic health centres (locally known as CSPS).
There is a sufficient number of full-service university hospitals, district hospitals and regular and basic care hospitals that can collaborate with doctors in private practice to form a network to provide cancer care of the highest quality for all patients, whether they are covered by statutory or private health insurance.
The selection of the four hospitals intentionally included hospitals in East and West Germany, and hospitals providing maximum and basic healthcare services in an attempt to achieve a form of guided random sampling of German hospitals and hospital-based physicians.
The PHSV data include age, sex, comorbidity (Charlson index [ 19]), medical history (heart failure, pulmonary disease, cerebrovascular disease and dementia), previous living situation (alone, with family, assisted living centre) and functional status before hospital admission [instrumental and basic activities of daily living measured by Lawton [ 20] and Barthel index [ 21] (BI-premorbid)].
The top level includes large-scale tertiary hospitals; the middle level includes medium-scale secondary hospitals; and the basic and primary level includes community health services (CHS) institutions providing primary healthcare services.
These stark disparities are driven to a large degree by the conflict, which has killed hundreds of thousands, forced millions from their homes, and disrupted children's access to schools, hospitals and other basic services.
The township hospitals can be further divided into central hospitals that provide caesarean sections (CS), and basic hospitals which provide vaginal delivery services.
