Detail

Keywords

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

Research group(s)

• Austrian Reference Center for Postviral Syndromes
  Head: Kathryn Hoffmann
  Research Area: Lead: Eva Untersmayr-Elsenhuber and Kathryn Hoffmann
  Members:
  Kathryn Hoffmann

Research interests

Research focuses: Health services research 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 and Family Medicine.

Techniques, methods & infrastructure

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

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

Selected publications

1. Hoffmann, K. et al. (2024) ‘Interdisciplinary, collaborative D-A-CH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) consensus statement concerning the diagnostic and treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome’, Wiener klinische Wochenschrift, 136(S5), pp. 103–123. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00508-024-02372-y.
2. Kraxner, R. et al. (2024) ‘Access points to different levels of health care over 13 years. Utilization behaviour in a changing health care system. Results of a three-wave cross-sectional series in Austria’, European Journal of Public Health [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae180.
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. (2024) ‘A Practical Approach to Tailor the Term Long COVID for Diagnostics, Therapy and Epidemiological Research for Improved Long COVID Patient Care’, Infectious Diseases and Therapy, 13(9), pp. 1921–1928. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40121-024-01025-x.
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.