Michael Rost PhD MSc MA
Michael Rost PhD MSc MA
ZHAW
School of Health Sciences
Institute of Midwifery and Reproductive Health
Katharina-Sulzer-Platz 9
8400 Winterthur
Network
ORCID digital identifier
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
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Stuerner, Z.; Rost, Michael; Arnold, L.; Eichinger, Johanna,
2025.
SSM - Qualitative Research in Health.
8(100666).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2025.100666
Publications before appointment at the ZHAW
- Sacchettini A, Zimmermann C, Janjic O, Rost M, Elger B (2025). Involving adolescents in decision-making in paediatric organ transplantation: A qualitative study in Switzerland. Pediatric Transplantation.
- Rakic M, Sandri A, Gysin O, Rost M (2025). Migrant Families’ Experiences in Pediatric Oncology: A Scoping Review. European Journal of Oncology Nursing.
- Zimmermann B, Willem B, Rost M, Matthes N, Buyx A (2025). Perceptions of stigma among hepatitis B patients in Germany: A cross-sectional survey. Journal of Medical Internet Research – Formative Research.
- Arbelaez Ossa L, Rost M, Bont N, Shaw D, Elger B (2025). Exploring Patient Participation in AI-Supported Health Care: Qualitative Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research – Artificial Intelligence.
- Arnold L, Voelkel M, Rosendahl J, Rost M (2025). A Multi-Level Meta-Analysis of the Relationship between Intrapartum Decision-Making and Postpartum Psychopathology. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine.
- Rost M, Montagnoli C, Eichinger J (2024). Causes of Moral Distress among Midwives: A Scoping Review of International Empirical Literature. Nursing Ethics.
- Willem T, Zimmermann B, Matthes N, Rost M, Buyx A (2024). Acceptance of social media recruitment for clinical studies among Hepatitis B patients in Germany: A mixed methods study. Journal of Medical Internet Research.
- Favaretto M, Rost M (2024). “A picture paints a thousand words”. A systematic review of the ethical issues of prenatal ultrasound. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry.
- Arbelaez Ossa L, Milford S, Rost M, Leist A, Shaw D, Elger B (2024). AI Through Ethical Lenses: A Discourse Analysis of Guidelines for AI in Healthcare. Science and Engineering Ethics.
- Vedam S, Stoll K, Tarasoff L, Phillips-Beck W, Lo W, MacDonald K, Metellus A, Rost M, Scott M, Hodge K, Korchinski M, van der Pijl M, Alonso C, Clark E, Tatum A, Olson R, Xie K, Decker M, Wenzel K, Roine A, Hall, W, and the RESPCCT Community Steering Council and Study Team (2024). The RESPCCT Study: Community-led development of a person-centered instrument to measure health equity in perinatal services. Journal of Participatory Research Methods.
- Eichinger J, Buechler A, Arnold L, Rost M (2024). Women’s and provider’s moral reasoning about the permissibility of coercion in birth: A descriptive ethics study. Health Care Analysis.
- Arbelaez Ossa L, Lorenzini G, Milford S, Shaw D, Elger B, Rost M. (2024). Integrating Ethics in AI Development: A Qualitative Study. BMC Medical Ethics. 25(10).
- Rost M, Stuerner Z, Niles P, Arnold L (2023). Between “a lot of room for it” and “it doesn’t exist” - Advancing and limiting factors of autonomy in birth as perceived by perinatal care providers: An interview study in Switzerland. Birth.
- Rost M, De Clercq E, Arnold L, Rakic M (2023). Interventions to enhance cross-cultural competence in oncology: A meta-analysis of effectiveness studies and a qualitative review. 64. European Journal of Oncology Nursing.
- Arbelaez Ossa L, Rost M, Lorenzini G, Shaw D, Elger B (2023). A smarter perspective: learning with and from AI-cases. 135. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.
- Rost M, Favaretto M, De Clercq E (2022). Normality in medicine: an empirical elucidation. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine. 17(15).
- Rost M, Espeli V, Ansari M, von der Weid N, Elger B, De Clercq E (2022). Covid-19 and Beyond. Broadening Horizons about Social Media Use in Oncology? A Survey Study with Healthcare Professionals Caring for Youth with Cancer. Health Policy and Technology.
- Rost M, De Clercq E, Büchler A, Elger B (2022). Encadrement éthique et juridique de l’autonomie des parturientes. Profession Sage-femme. 6:8-11.
- Rakic M, Hengartner H, Lüer S, Scheinemann K, Elger B, Rost M (2022). A National Survey of Swiss Pediatric Oncology Care Providers’ Cross-Cultural Competences. Swiss Medical Weekly.
- Rauch S, Arnold L, Stuerner Z, Rauh J, Rost M (2022). A true choice of place of birth? Swiss women’s access to birth hospitals and birth centers. PLOS ONE.
- Rost M, Stuerner Z, Niles P, Arnold L (2022). “Real Decision-Making Is Hard to Find” - Swiss Perinatal Care Providers’ Perceptions and Attitudes towards Decision-Making in Birth: A Qualitative Study. Social Science and Medicine - Qualitative Research in Health.
- Rauch S, Rakic M, Hengartner H, Elger B, Rost M (2022). Access to pediatric oncology centers in Switzerland: Disparities across rural-urban and Swiss-foreigners cohorts. European Journal of Cancer Care.
- De Clercq, Starke G, Rost M (2022). “Waking up” the sleeping metaphor of normality in connection to intersex or DSD. A scoping review of medical literature. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.
- Rost M, Mihailov E (2021). In the Name of the family? Against Parents’ Refusal to Disclose Prognostic Information to Children. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. 24, 421–432.
- Rost, M (2021). “To normalize is to impose a requirement on an existence” - Why health professionals should think twice before using the term ‘normal’ with patients. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. 18, 389–394.
- Haesen S, Rauch S, Elger B, Rost M (2021). Equivalence of care? Accessibility and Availability of Dialysis Services for Older Prisoners in Switzerland. International Journal of Prisoner Health.
- Rost M, Nast R, Elger B, Shaw D (2021). Trust Trumps Comprehension, Visceral Factors Trump All: A Psychological Cascade Constraining Informed Consent to Clinical Trials. Research Ethics. 17(1):87-102.
- Rost M, De Clercq E, Rakic M, Wangmo T, Elger B (2020). Barriers to Palliative Care in Pediatric Oncology in Switzerland: A Focus Group Study. Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing. 37(1):35-45.
- Rost M (2020). Book review: Charles Manski – Patient Care under Uncertainty. In: Jahrbuch Ethik in der Klinik - Umgang mit Unsicherheit in der Medizin und klinischen Praxis. Bergemann L, Frewer A, Langmann E (Ed). Wuerzburg: Koenigshausen & Neumann.
- Rost M, Arnold L, De Clercq E (2020). “Boiling up the Problem of Violence” in Childbirth? An Ethical Viewpoint on Medical Professional Responses to Women’s Reports of Mistreatment in Childbirth. Ethik in der Medizin. 32:189-192.
- De Clercq E, Rost M, Gumy-Pause F, Diesch T, Espeli V, Elger B (2020). Moving Beyond the Friend-Foe Myth. A Scoping Literature Review of the Use of Social Media in Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology. Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology. 9(5).
- Kollbrunner L, Rost M, Koné I, Zimmermann I, Padrutt I, Elger B, Wangmo T (2020). Acute and Transitional Care or Rehabilitation? Analyzing Discharge Planning Using Data from a Municipal Hospital in Switzerland. BMC Health Services Research. 20:712.
- De Clercq E, Rost M, Ansari M, von der Weid N, Elger B (2020). To Be or not to Be in the Social Media Arena? The Perspective of Healthcare Providers Working within Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology in Switzerland. International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health
- Cheng B, Rost M, De Clercq E, Elger B, Wangmo T (2019). Palliative Care Initiation in Pediatric Oncology Patients: A Systematic Review. Cancer Medicine. 8(1):3-12.
- De Clercq E, Rost M, Rakic M, Ansari, M, Brazzola P, Wangmo T, Elger B (2019). The conceptual understanding of pediatric palliative care: a Swiss healthcare perspective. BMC Palliative Care. 18:55.
- Zimmermann B, Kone I, Rost M, Leu A, Wangmo T, Elger B (2019). Factors Influencing Post-Acute Discharge Location after Hospital Stay: a Cross-Sectional Study from a Swiss Hospital. BMC Health Services Research. 19(1):289.
- Rost M, Acheson E, Kühne T, Ansari M, Pacurari N, Brazzola P, Niggli F, Elger B, Wangmo T (2018). Palliative Care in Swiss Pediatric Oncology Settings: A Retrospective Analysis of Medical Records. Journal of Supportive Care in Cancer. 26(8):2707-2715.
- Rost M (2018). Palliative care in pediatric oncology: Ethical considerations surrounding shared decision-making. Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Medicine.
- Rost M, De Clercq E, Elger B (2018). Arno Gruen’s Understanding of Autonomy in Children: Experiencing and Integrating One’s Own Feelings and Needs. Swiss Medical Weekly.
- Rost M, Wangmo T, Rakic M, Acheson E, Rischewski J, Hengartner H, Kühne t, Elger B (2018). Burden of Treatment in the Face of Childhood Cancer: A Quantitative Study Using Medical Records of Deceased Children. European Journal of Cancer Care. 27(6).
- De Clercq E, Rost M, Pacurari N, Elger B, Wangmo T (2017). Aligning Guidelines and Medical Practice: Literature Review on Pediatric Palliative Care Guidelines. Palliative & Supportive Care. 15(4):474-489.
- Rost M, Wangmo T, Niggli F, Hartmann K, Hengartner H, Ansari M, Brazzola P, Rischewski J, Beck-Popovic M, Kühne T, Elger B (2017). Parents’ and Physicians’ Perceptions of Children's Participation in Decision-making in Pediatric Oncology: A Quantitative Study. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. 14(4):555-565.
- Rost M, De Clercq E, Wangmo T, Elger B (2017). The Need for a Shared Understanding: Domains of Care and Composition of Team in Pediatric Palliative Care Guidelines. The Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing. 19(6):556–564.
- De Clercq E, Ruhe K, Rost M, Elger B (2017). Decision-making Capacity in Pediatrics: An Essentially Contested Concept? Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. 20(3):425-433.