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Prof. Dr. med.
Regina Kunz
Department of Clinical Research
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Regina Kunz is a clinician-researcher, clinical epidemiologist / methodologist, public health doctor and educator. Over the past decade, she has focused on the implementation of applied research in insurance medicine and its societal impact on individual patients, the workplace, and health and social care systems in order to strengthen an evidence-based approach of decision making.

Selected Publications
Kunz, Regina, von Allmen, David Y., Marelli, Renato, Hoffmann-Richter, Ulrike, Jeger, Joerg, Mager, Ralph, Colomb, Etienne, Schaad, Heinz J., Bachmann, Monica, Vogel, Nicole, Busse, Jason W., Eichhorn, Martin, Bänziger, Oskar, Zumbrunn, Thomas, de Boer, Wout E. L., & Fischer, Katrin. (2019). The reproducibility of psychiatric evaluations of work disability: two reliability and agreement studies. BMC Psychiatry, 19(1), 205. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-019-2171-y
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Barth, Jürgen, de Boer, Wout EL, Busse, Jason W., Hoving, Jan L., Kedzia, Sarah, Couban, Rachel, Fischer, Katrin, von Allmen, David Y., Spanjer, Jerry, & Kunz, Regina. (2017). Inter-rater agreement in evaluation of disability: systematic review of reproducibility studies. British Medical Journal, 356(j14), j14. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j14
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Bachmann, M., de Boer, W., Schandelmaier, S., Schandelmaier, S., Leibold, A., Marelli, R., Jeger, J., Hoffmann-Richter, U., Mager, R., Schaad, H., Zumbrunn, T., Vogel, N., Banziger, O., Busse, J. W., Fischer, K., & Kunz, R. (2016). Use of a structured functional evaluation process for independent medical evaluations of claimants presenting with disabling mental illness: rationale and design for a multi-center reliability study. BMC Psychiatry, 16, 271. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-0967-6
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Selected Projects & Collaborations
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Basel Fairness Questionnaire
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There are some anecdotic reports that claimants for disability benefits sometimes consider themselves unfairly treated during work disability evaluations. In such cases, claimants might miss an atmosphere of trust and respect or the medical expert might not let them finish talking. Perceived fairness has yet not been systematically studied in Swiss work disability evaluations. For this purpose, we developed the Basel Fairness Questionnaire (BFQ). In a first study on 305 claimants, we found that only few of them perceived the work disability evaluation as unfair. However, this initial finding needs to be interpreted with some caution, as only 4 out of 29 Swiss assessment centers participated in the study. For future studies, we plan to compare mono-, bi-, and polydisciplinary work disability evaluations, as well as different medical disciplines.