Karin-Wolf-Ostermann
Prof. Karin Wolf-Ostermann

Further information:

Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research(IPP) , Health Sciences Bremen

Memberships:

  • German Society for Gerontology and Geriatrics e.V.
  • German Society for Nursing Science e.V. (Board of Directors until 2018)
  • Deputy Chairwoman of the Ethics Commission of the German Society for Nursing Science e.V.
  • German Network for Health Services Research
  • Gerontological Society of America
  • Interdem (pan-European network of researchers collaborating in research on and dissemination of early, timely and quality psychosocial interventions in dementia)
  • International Biometric Society - German Region
  • Leibniz Science Campus “Digital Public Health”
  • Scientific focus on health sciences - Spokesperson

Awards:

  • Appointed Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (2016)

Roles:

  • Deputy Chairwoman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Quality in Nursing (ZQP) e.V.
  • Jury member of the "Wilfried Lorenz Care Research Prize"
  • Scientific advisory board for the model program for the further development of long-term care insurance in accordance with § 8 (3) SGB XI
  • Journal for Evidence, Training and Quality in Healthcare (Editorial Team & Section Editor)
  • Journal Frontiers in Psychiatry (Editorial Team & Review Editor)

Ecosystem

Publications
2001 // Journal article

The Issue Isn't Over Yet: Comparing Hospitals—Strategies for Nursing Rate Negotiations in the Run-up to DRGs

Hospital Review


2001 // Journal article

An Empirical Study on Regional Structural Adjustments within the Framework of Flat-Rate Payment Based on Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG)

The healthcare system


2001 // Book

Hospital Comparison, Facility Comparison Pursuant to Section 5 of the BPflV

Schattauer Stuttgart New York


2001 // Journal article

Structural Adjustment for Regions Under the Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG) Flat-Rate Payment System—An Empirical Study

Computer Science, Biometrics, and Epidemiology in Medicine and Biology


2000 // Journal article

Internal quality management is on the rise

Leadership and Management


2000 // Journal article

Calculating DRG relative weights will be more complex than anticipated

Hospital Management and Operations


2000 // Book chapter

Displaying the Variability of Nominal Data

COMPSTAT 2000 - Proceedings of the 14th Symposium on Computational Statistics, August 21–25, 2000


2000 // Journal article

A Comparison of Adult Intensive Care Units

Hospital Management and Operations


2000 // Journal article

Status of Certification in German Hospitals

Leadership and Management


2000 // Book chapter

Testing for Differences in Location—A Comparison of Bootstrap Methods in Small Samples

COMPSTAT 2000 – Proceedings in Computational Statistics, 14th Symposium on Computational Statistics, August 21–25, 2000


1999 // Journal article

Quality Program of the Oberberg Society for Assistance to People with Mental Disabilities

ZPE University-GH Siegen


1999 // Book

Statistics for Students of Social Work and Social Pedagogy: Introduction


1998 // Book chapter

). An Approach for Adaptive Bootstrap Testing Based on Power Functions

COMPSTAT 1998, Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on Computational Statistics, August 24–28, 1998


1997 // Book

Bootstrap Testing Methods for Location Parameters of Univariate Distributions


1997 // Journal article

How much statistics does a social worker need?

SI:SO - Siegen: Social


1996 // Book chapter

The Influence of Skewness and Kurtosis on the Performance of Bootstrap Location Tests for Moderate Sample Sizes

COMPSTAT 1996, Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Computational Statistics, August 26–30, 1996


1995 // Journal article

A Cohort Study on Respiratory Diseases and Lung Function Among Schoolchildren in Southwest Germany. III: The Impact of Smoking and Secondhand Smoke

Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine


Aug. 1994 // Journal article

[Cohort Study of Respiratory Tract Diseases and Lung Function in Schoolchildren in Southwest Germany. 2. Regional Influences on Respiratory Tract Diseases in Mannheim and the Freiburg Area]

Luttmann, H.; Grömping, U.; Kreienbrock, L.; Treiber-Klötzer, C.; Wolf-Ostermann, K.; Wichmann, H.E.

1994 // Journal article

Regional Influences on Respiratory Symptoms in a Cohort of Schoolchildren from Mannheim and Freiburg (FRG)

Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine


1994 // Book

Statistics for Students of Social Work and Social Pedagogy

Oldenbourg, Munich


1992 // Book chapter

Nonparametric Correlation Coefficients in the ISP

ISP'91 --- Interactive Data Analysis with ISP


1991 // Book

Modern interactive graphics using the classic statistical analysis systems BMDP, SAS, and SPSS with the aid of ISP: This paper is a written account of a presentation given during the workshop “Methods and Tools for Exploratory Data Analysis in the Life Sciences,” which took place October 2–6, 1990, at Seggau Castle, Austria.


1991 // Book chapter

Variance Estimation in the Additive Tree Model

Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization


1989 // Doctoral dissertation

A Critical Analysis of Several Methods for Estimating Valued Trees


1989 // Book chapter

On the Properties of Additive Tree Algorithms

Conceptual and Numerical Analysis of Data