Prof. Dr. med. Klaus Eichler

Work at ZHAW

Position

Health Services Research

Focus

Health Services Research with a focus on health economics: Relationship between quality (i.e. patient relevant outcome) and costs Over-/under-/mis-treatment and health economic aspects

Experience

• Lecturer Health Economics
  Zurich University of Applied Sciences
  03 / 2007 - today
• Research Associate: Evidence-based Health Care
  Horten Zentrum für praxisorientierte Forschung und Wissenstransfer
  01 / 2002 - 02 / 2007

Education and Continuing education

Continuing Education

• Decision Analytic Modelling for Economic Evaluation
  University of Glasgow, UK
  09 / 2015
• York Expert Workshop: Quality of Life
  University of York, UK
  05 / 2011
• York Expert Workshop: Economic Evaluation in Health Care
  University of York, UK
  04 / 2007
• Master of Public Health
  Swiss School of Public Health
  11 / 2000

Publications

• Tzogiou, Christina; Wieser, Simon; Eichler, Klaus; Carlander, Maria; Djalali, Sima; Rosemann, Thomas; Brändle, Michael,

  2023.

  Incidence and costs of hypoglycemia in insulin-treated diabetes in Switzerland : a health-economic analysis.

  Journal of Diabetes and its Complications.

  37(6), pp. 108476.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2023.108476

• Höglinger, Marc; Wirth, Brigitte; Carlander, Maria; Caviglia, Cornelia; Frei, Christian; Rhomberg, Birgitta; Rohrbasser, Adrian; Trottmann, Maria; Eichler, Klaus,

  2022.

  Impact of a diabetes disease management program on guideline-adherent care, hospitalization risk and health care costs : a propensity score matching study using real-world data.

  The European Journal of Health Economics.

  24(3), pp. 469-478.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-022-01486-2

• Grobet, Cécile; Audigé, Laurent; Eichler, Klaus; Meier, Flurina; Marks, Miriam; Herren, Daniel B.,

  2022.

  Cost-utility analysis of thumb carpometacarpal resection arthroplasty : a health economic study using real-world data.

  Journal of Hand Surgery (American Volume).

  47(5), pp. 445-453.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhsa.2022.01.013

• Carlander, Maria; Rohrbasser, Adrian; Wirth, Brigitte; Frei, Christian; Rhomberg, Brigitte; Caviglia, Cornelia; Trottmann, Maria; Eichler, Klaus; Höglinger, Marc,

  2022.

  Verbessert ein Disease-Management-Programm die Grundversorgung bei Diabetes?.

  Primary and Hospital Care.

  2022(10), pp. 295-299.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.4414/phc-d.2022.10492

• Stebler, Rosa; Carmo, Luís P.; Heim, Dagmar; Naegeli, Hanspeter; Eichler, Klaus; Muentener, Cedric R.,

  2019.

  Extrapolating antibiotic sales to number of treated animals : treatments in pigs and calves in Switzerland, 2011-2015.

  Frontiers in Veterinary Science.

  6(318).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2019.00318

• Höglinger, Marc; Huber, Andrea; Eichler, Klaus,

  2019.

  Entwicklung Medizintechnik 2019 bis 2030 : stationäre Rehabilitation & stationäre Psychiatrie.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-23035

• Eichler, Klaus; Tzogiou, Christina; Knöfler, Fabio; Slavik, Eva; Monteverde, Settimio; Wieser, Simon,

  2019.

  Health technology assessment : self-measurement of blood glucose in patients with non-insulin treated diabetes mellitus type 2.

  Bundesamt für Gesundheit.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-19405

• Carlander, Maria; Wirth, Brigitte; Trottmann, Maria; Caviglia, Cornelia; Frei, Christian; Rhomberg, Birgitta; Rohrbasser, Adrian; Eichler, Klaus; Höglinger, Marc,

  2022.

  Impact of a diabetes disease management program on guideline-adherent care, hospitalizations and health care costs : a propensity score matching study using real-world data.

  In:

  13th EuHEA Conference, Oslo, Norway, 5-8 July 2022.

• Tzogiou, Christina; Eichler, Klaus; Knöfler, Fabio; Slavik, Eva; Monteverde, Settimio; Wieser, Simon,

  2021.

  Health technology assessment : self-measurement of blood glucose in patients with non-insulin treated diabetes mellitus type 2.

  In:

  HTAi 2021 Annual Meeting, virtual, 19-23 June 2021.

• Wirth, Brigitte; Carlander, Maria; Trottmann, Maria; Caviglia, Cornelia; Frei, Christian; Rhomberg, Brigitta; Rohrbasser, Adrian; Eichler, Klaus; Höglinger, Marc,

  2021.

  Impact of a diabetes disease management program on guideline-concordant care, hospitalizations and health care costs : a propensity score matching study using real-world data.

  In:

  Swiss Public Health Conference, Bern, 25.-26. August 2021.

• Joeris, Alexander; Höglinger, Marc; Meier, Flurina; Knöfler, Fabio; Scholz, Stefan; Brügger, Urs; Denk, Eberhard; Gutzwiller, Felix; Prein, Joachim; Renner, Nikolaus; Eichler, Klaus,

  2019.

  Health economic impact of the technology “osteosynthesis” on fracture care : an economic analysis for 17 high income countries over the course of 60 years.

  In:

  ISPOR 2019 Annual Conference, New Orleans, USA, 18-22 May 2019.

  Elsevier.

  pp. S218.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2019.04.1010

• Grobet, Cécile; Audigé, Laurent; Eichler, Klaus; Meier, Flurina; Wieser, Simon; Flury, Matthias,

  2018.

  Is arthroscopic rotator cuff repair cost effective? : a prospective Swiss health-economic study.

  In:

  78. Jahreskongress Swiss Orthopaedics, Montreux, 6.-8. Juni 2018.

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