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Kathryn Hoffmann
Univ.-Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Kathryn Hoffmann, MPHHead of the Department of Primary Care Medicine

Center for Public Health (Department of General Practice and Family Medicine)
Position: Professor

ORCID: 0000000187604250
T +43 1 40160 34610
kathryn.hoffmann@meduniwien.ac.at

Further Information

Keywords

Community Health Services; Disease Transmission, Infectious; General Practice; Public Health

Research interests

Research focuses: Health services research and telemedicine in primary care as well as primary care medicine, with a strong focus on post-acute infection syndroms like post-COVID and ME/CFS (research, teaching, guideline establishment, patient care).

In addition, I am intensively involved in the development of the medical curriculum, e.g. due to my role as curriculum coordinator for the KPJ in General Practice.

Techniques, methods & infrastructure

Qualitative and quantitative research methods as well as mixed method approaches.

We are a highly interdiszipllinary team at the department bringing a lot of different insights into research topics.


Selected publications

  1. Hoffmann K, George A, Jirovsky E, Dorner TE. 2019. Re-examining access points to the different levels of health care: a cross-sectional series in Austria, European Journal of Public Health, 29(6) December 2019, pp.1005–1010. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckz05.
  2. Hoffmann, K. et al., 2015. Associations and Synergistic Effects for Psychological Distress and Chronic Back Pain on the Utilization of Different Levels of Ambulatory Health Care. A Cross-Sectional Study from Austria C. van der Feltz-Cornelis, ed. PLoS ONE, 10(7), p.e0134136. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134136.
  3. Hoffmann, K. et al., 2013. Antibiotics and their effects: what do patients know and what is their source of information? The European Journal of Public Health, 24(3), pp.502-507. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckt112.
  4. Hoffmann, K. et al., 2015. Prevalence and resistance patterns of commensal S. aureus in community-dwelling GP patients and socio-demographic associations. A cross-sectional study in the framework of the APRES-project in Austria. BMC Infectious Diseases, 15(1). Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-015-0949-1.
  5. Hoffmann, K. et al., 2019. The ecology of medical care: Access points to the health care system in Austria and other developed countries. Scand J Prim Health Care. 37(4):409-417. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02813432.2019.1663593.