Dr. Reto Bürgin

Projects

• Better quality of life with Live4all: Intelligent wheelchair cushion to prevent pressure-related tissue damage / Team member / ongoing
• Developing Data Anonymization Solutions and Services / Team member / ongoing
• DSembedded: Integrating discipline-specific Know How into Data Stewardship / Team member / completed
• Detailed meal forecast for the restaurant industry / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Bürgin, R. et al. (2023) 'A space-time model for demand in free-floating carsharing systems', Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2023(6610624). doi: 10.1155/2023/6610624.
• Spurk, C. et al. (2023) 'Farmers' innovativeness and positive affirmation as main drivers of adoption of soil fertility management practices : evidence across sites in Africa', The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 31(1), pp. 4–28. doi: 10.1080/1389224X.2023.2281909.
• Peter, K. A. et al. (2023) 'Extent and predictors of presenteeism among healthcare professionals working in Swiss hospitals, nursing homes and home care organizations', Scientific Reports, 13(12042). doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-39113-6.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Lekar, R. et al. (2025) 'Enhancing orthopedic surgical training with interactive photorealistic 3D visualization', in 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery (CAOS), Davos, Switzerland, 16-18 June 2025. arXiv. doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.13389.
• Bürgin, R. et al. (2024) 'Improving risk adjustment in Switzerland with pharmaceutical cost groups', in 6th Swiss Health Economic Workshop, Lucerne, Switzerland, 7 June 2024.

Other publications

• Bürgin, R. et al. (2024) Wirkungsanalyse zum Risikoausgleich mit pharmazeutischen Kostengruppen (PCG) : Schlussbericht. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-30489.
• Kiener, U., Wittmann, F. and Bürgin, R. (2010) Bachelor-Studierende an der ZHAW : Laufbahnen, Selbsteinschätzungen und Pläne von Neu-Studierenden 2008. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-143.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Peter K. A., Gerlach M., Kilcher G., Bürgin R., Hahn S., Golz C. Extent and predictors of presenteeism among healthcare professionals working in Swiss hospitals, nursing homes and home care organizations. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 2023. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-39113-6.
• Peter K. A, Golz C., Bürgin R. A., Nübling M., Voirol C., Zürcher S. J., Hahn S. Assessing the psychosocial work environment in the health care setting: translation and psychometric testing of the French and Italian Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaires (COPSOQ) in a large sample of health professionals in Switzerland. BMC health services research, 22(1), 2022. doi: 10.1186/s12913-022-07924-4.
• Luginbuehl H., Lehmann C., Koenig I., Kuhn A., Buergin R., Radlinger L. Involuntary reflexive pelvic floor muscle training in addition to standard training versus standard training alone for women with stress urinary incontinence: a randomized controlled trial. Int Urogynecol J., (3):531-540, 2022. doi: 10.1007/s00192-021-04701-5.
• Schenk K., Stoffel L., Bürgin R., Stevens B., Bassler D., Schulzke S., Nelle M., Cignacco E. Acute pain measured with the modified Bernese Pain Scale for Neonates is influenced by individual contextual factors. Eur J Pain. 24(6):1107-1118, 2020. doi: 10.1002/ejp.1555.
• Schenk K., Stoffel L., Bürgin R., Stevens B., Bassler D., Schulzke S., Nelle M., Cignacco E. The influence of gestational age in the psychometric testing of the Bernese Pain Scale for Neonates. BMC Pediatr. 19(1), 2019. doi: 10.1186/s12887-018-1380-8.
• Bürgin, R., Schuhmacher, R., Ritschard G. Changes in the Order of Family Life Events in 20th-Century Europe: A Cross-Regional Perspective. Historical Life Course Studies 4:41-58, 2017. 10.51964/hlcs9338
• Reto Bürgin and Gilbert Ritschard. Coefficient-Wise Tree-Based Varying Coefficient Regression with vcrpart. Journal of Statistical Software, 80(6), 2017. doi: 10.18637/jss.v080.i06
• Reto Bürgin and Gilbert Ritschard. Tree-Based Varying-Coefficient Regression for Longitudinal Ordinal Responses. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 86:65–80, 2015. doi: 10.1016/j.csda.2015.01.003
• Jeitziner M. M., Zwakhalen S. M., Bürgin R., Hantikainen V., Hamers J.P. Changes in health-related quality of life in older patients one year after an intensive care unit stay. J. Clin. Nurs., 24(21-22):3107-17, 2015. doi: 10.1111/jocn.12904.
• Jeitziner M.M., Hamers J.P., Bürgin R., Hantikainen V., Zwakhalen S.M. Long-term consequences of pain, anxiety and agitation for critically ill older patients after an intensive care unit stay. J. Clin. Nurs., 24(17-18):2419-28, 2015. doi: 10.1111/jocn.12801.
• Reto Bürgin and Gilbert Ritschard. A Decorated Parallel Coordinate Plot for Categorical Longitudinal Data. The American Statistician, 68(2):98–103, 2014. doi: 10.1080/00031305.2014.887591
• Baumberger D., Bürgin R., Bartholomeyczik S. Variabilität des Pflegeaufwands in SwissDRG-Fallgruppen. Pflege, 27(2):105-15, 2014. German. doi: 10.1024/1012-5302/a000350.

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