Dr. sc. Rebecca Tomaschek
Research Assistant
T +41 41 229 59 42 • Inseliquai 10, Room 209 • rebecca.tomaschek@unilu.ch
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Rebecca Tomaschek is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Primary and Community Care. She is interested in research focusing on interdisciplinary and interprofessional collaboration in primary and community care. Rebecca holds a PhD in Health Sciences (2023) and a Master’s degree in Health Sciences with a major in health services research (2018) from the University of Lucerne. Prior to that, she studied International Business and Social Sciences (2016) at the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences. Alongside her education, she worked in rehabilitation quality management, continuous medical education and healthcare public relations.
Research
- Health Services Research
- Primary and Community Care
- Collaboration and Role Distribution
- Guideline Development
Publications
- Tomaschek, R., Beeler, P. E., Grgicevic, K., Müller, L., Merlo, C., & Hug, B. L. (2024). Communication and Information Exchange Between Practices and Hospitals: a Survey Among Primary Care Practitioners in Central Switzerland. Swiss Medical Weekly.
- Enhancing communication and care coordination: A scoping review of encounter notification systems between emergency departments and primary care providers: International Journal of Medical Informatics. (2024). International Journal of Medical Informatics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2024.105579
- Improving collaboration between specialists and general practitioners in services for individuals with chronic spinal cord injury living in rural areas of Switzerland: Baseline results from the SCI-Co study. (2024). The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1080/10790268.2022.2097996
- Kegreiss, S., Beeler, P., Studer, C., Essig, S., & Tomaschek, R. (2023). Impact of primary care physicians working part-time on quality of patient care: A scoping review. European Journal of General Practice, 29 (1), 2271167 ff.
- Improvement Strategies for the Challenging Collaboration of General Practitioners and Specialists for Patients with Complex Chronic Conditions: A Scoping Review. (2022). International Journal of Integrated Care, 22 (3), 4–13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7327195
- Tomaschek, R., Gemperli, A., & Essig, Stefan. (2022). Improving collaboration between specialists and general practitioners in services for individuals with chronic spinal cord injury living in rural areas of Switzerland: Baseline results from the SCI-Co study. Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7327197
- Tomaschek, R., Gemperli, A., Baumberger, M., Debecker, I., Merlo, C., Scheel-Sailer, A., … Essig, Stefan. (2022). Role distribution and collaboration between specialists and rural general practitioners in long-term chronic care: A qualitative study in Switzerland. Swiss Medical Weekly. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7410412
- Shared responsibility between general practitioners and highly specialized physicians in chronic spinal cord injury: Study protocol for a nationwide pragmatic nonrandomized interventional study. (2021). Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 24 (100873), 100873–7. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5821796
- Tomaschek, R., Touhami, D., Essig, S., & Gemperli, A. (2021). Shared responsibility between general practitioners and highly specialized physicians in chronic spinal cord injury: Study protocol for a nationwide pragmatic nonrandomized interventional study. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conctc.2021.100873
- Tomaschek, R., Gemperli, A., Rupp, R., Geng, V., & Scheel-Sailer, A. (2019). A systematic review of outcome measures in initial rehabilitation of individuals with newly acquired spinal cord injury: providing evidence for clinical practice guidelines. European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 55 (5), 605–617. https://doi.org/10.23736/S1973-9087.19.05676-4
