[FG] Hunziker Sabina

Research Focus

Critical Care & Respiratory Medicine

Area of Research

Effects of communication in different clinical settings: comparison of communication directly in front of the patient or preliminary discussion in the room regarding patient knowledge and understanding of diagnosis and therapy. Communicating with relatives of critically ill patients and the impact on morbidity. Effect of communication in emergency situations on medical performance.

Approved Research Projects

• Basel, “COMMUNICATE Study”, Gottfried und Julia Bangerter Stiftung
• “Effect of bedside patient case presentation compared to outside the room case presentation on patient perception of quality of care and patient outcomes: A pragmatic randomized-controlled, multicenter trial” SNF Grant (10531C_182422)
• «Quality of care in general internal medicine in an outpatient or inpatient setting» for the project “Checklist-guided shared decision-making for code status discussions in medical inpatients: A cluster-randomized multicenter trial” SGAIM-Foundation
• “PROPHETIC Study” Gottfried und Julia Bangerter Stiftung, Basel
• ”Checklist-guided Shared Decision-making for Code Status Discussions in Medical Inpatients” SNF Grant (10001C_192850/1)

Collaborations

National Collaborations

• Prof.Stefano Bassetti, University hospital Basel
• Prof.Stephan Marsch, University hospital Basel
• PD Dr. Raoul Sutter, University hospital Basel
• Prof Jens Kuhle, University hospital Basel
• Prof Jens Gaab, faculty of Psychology, University of Basel
• Prof Philipp Schütz, Kantonsspital Aarau
• Prof Drahomir, Aujesky, Inselspital Bern
• Prof Balz Hug, Kantonsspital Luzern
• Prof Jörg Leuppi, Kantonsspital Baselland
• Prof Thomas Peters, St.Claraspital Basel

International Collaborations

• Prof. Randall Burd, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, USA
• Dr. Ed Bunker, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA

Ongoing Research Projects

• Ancillary projects of the trial: Effect of bedside patient case presentation compared to outside the room case presentation on patient perception of quality of care and patient outcomes: A pragmatic randomized-controlled, multicentre trial funded by the Swiss National Foundation (SNF)
• Checklist-guided Shared Decision-making for Code Status Discussions in Medical Inpatients, multicentre trial funded by the Swiss National Foundation (SNF)
• COMMUNICATE/ PROPHETIC Study (observational study after cardiac arrest, planning of an intervention study, expansion of the patient and relatives population to include generally critically ill patients with regard to clinical course, communication deficits and PTSD funded by Gottfried und Julia Bangerter Stiftung, Basel
• Psychosocial stress in COVID patients and relatives
• Various systematic reviews with meta-analysis in the area of physician-patient communication