Maike Stolz, M. Sc.

research associate

Research focus Health Economics and Health Policy

Telephone: +49 (0)511-532-54230

Fax: +49 (0)511-532-5376

Career

Since 10/2019
Research Associate at the Institute of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Public Health Research at Hannover Medical School in the Research Unit Health Economics and Health Policy

05/2018-09/2019
Research assistant at the Institute of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Public Health Research at Hannover Medical School in the research areas of prevention and care of specific target groups as well as health economics and health policy

10/2017-09/2019
Master's degree in Public Health at the Hannover Medical School

06/2017-12/2017
Research assistant at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences

04/2015-09/2017
Physiotherapist at Medicos.sport and at the MacKenzie practice in Osnabrück

03/2013-02/2017
Dual study program in physiotherapy at the Prof. Grewe School and Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences

Projects

WACH:SAM SEIN

Effectiveness of the local prevention system Communities That Care (EFF-CTC)

Identifying Chances and Challenges in Organ Transplant Patient Education: Status Analysis and Program Development (ICOPE)

Care of patients with post-COVID: Analysis of cash register data and perspectives of patients, relatives and general practitioners (VePoKaP)

Teaching

Seminar Health Economics in Module 5 "Management in Healthcare" of the Public Health study programmes at Hannover Medical School

Seminar Health Economics and Health Economic Evaluation in Module 12 "Special Aspects of Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment" " of the Public Health study programmes at Hannover Medical School

Publications

Book contributions

Stolz M (2025). Lumbar spine. In: Ballenberger N (ed.) 2025. evidence-based assessments in musculoskeletal physiotherapy. 1st edition. Elsevier, Munich. PP. 289-310. ISBN: 9783437460036.

Stolz M (2025). Patient-Reported Outcome Measures. In: Ballenberger N (ed.) 2025. evidence-based assessments in musculoskeletal physiotherapy. 1st edition. Elsevier, Munich. PP. 419-456. ISBN: 9783437460036.

Journal articles

Kuczyk C, Nöhre M, Herrmann-Lingen C, Stolz M, Krauth C, Brähler E, Jason LA, de Zwaan M (2025). Reliability and validity of the German version of the DePaul Symptom Questionnaire Post-Exertional Malaise (DSQ-PEM). Front. Psychiatry 16:1647040. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1647040

Stolz M, Schmetsdorf J, Tomsic I, von Lengerke T, Chaberny IF, Krauth C (2025). Costs of surgical site infections in orthopaedic and trauma surgery: a systematic review. Journal of Hospital Infection, 2025, ISSN 0195-6701, doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2025.11.008.

Brinkmann M, Stolz M, Herr A, Herrmann-Lingen C, Koch I, Müller C, Müller F, Sekanina U, Stahmeyer JT, de Zwaan M, Krauth C, Schneider N (2024). Care for post-COVID-19 condition in Germany from the perspectives of patients, informal caregivers and general practitioners: Study protocol for a mixed methods study. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0316335

Nettelrodt KME, Tomsic I, Stolz M, Krauth C, Chaberny IF, von Lengerke T (2024). Psychometric Properties of Scales Assessing Psychosocial Determinants of Staff Compliance with Surgical Site Infection Prevention: The WACH-Study. Psychology Research and Behavior Management. DOI: 10.2147/PRBM.S464335

Lamping J, Tomsic I, Stolz M, Krauth C, Chaberny I.F., von Lengerke T (2022). Do task and item difficulty affect overestimation of one's hand hygiene compliance? A cross-sectional survey of physicians and nurses in surgical clinics of six hospitals in Germany. Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control (2022) 11:147 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-022-01188-7

Röding D, Reder M, Soellner R, Birgel V, Stolz M, Groeger-Roth F, Walter U (2022). Evaluation of the science-based community prevention system Communities That Care: study design and baseline equivalence of intermediate outcomes. Prev Gesundheitsf (2022) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11553-022-00972-y

Stolz M, Albus C, Beutel ME, Deter H-C, Fritzsche K, Herrmann-Lingen C, Michal M, Petrowski K, Ronel J, Schultz J-H, Söllner W, Weber C, de Zwaan M, Krauth C (2022). Assessment of health-related quality of life in individuals with depressive symptoms: validity and responsiveness of the EQ-5D-3L and the SF-6D. The European Journal of Health Economics https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-022-01543-w

Röding D, Soellner R, Reder M, Birgel V, Kleiner C, Stolz M, Groeger-Roth F, Krauth C, Walter U (2021). Study protocol: a non-randomized community trial to evaluate the effectiveness of the communities that care prevention system in Germany. BMC Public Health (2021) 21:1927 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11935-x

Stolz M, von Piekartz H, Hall T, Schindler A, Ballenberger N (2020). Evidence and recommendations for the use of segmental motion testing for patients with LBP - A systematic review. Musculoskeletal Science and Practice. Doi: 10.1016/j.msksp.2019.102076

Presentations, posters and abstracts

Stolz M, Burger B, Herr A, Herrmann-Lingen C, Stahmeyer JT, de Zwaan M, Krauth C (2025). The health-related quality of life of people with post-COVID syndrome compared to the general population. German Congress for Health Services Research (DKVF), Hamburg. zenodo.org/records/16995342

Stolz M, Burger B, Herrmann-Lingen C, Stahmeyer J, de Zwaan M, Krauth C (2024). Post-COVID-19: symptom persistence and subjective impairment of those affected. Health - together. Cooperation conference of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP), German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi), German Society for Medical Sociology (DGMS) and the German Society for Public Health (DGPH). Dresden, 08-13.09.2024. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2024. docAbstr. 713. doi: 10.3205/24gmds342

Stolz M, Burger B, Herrmann-Lingen C, Stahmeyer J, de Zwaan M, Krauth C (2024). Utilization and subjective effectiveness of post-COVID-19 therapies in patients with chronic fatigue. Conference of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA). Lisbon, 13-15.11.2024. European Journal of Public Health, Volume 34, Issue Supplement_3, November 2024, ckae144.1317. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae144.1317

Hartlep I, Schipper P, Menzel J, Selbmann L, Wolff H, Stolz M, Tomsic I, Krauth C, von Lengerke T, Chaberny IF (2021). Preventing surgical site infections in surgery: guideline compliance of the medical staff of a German university hospital. 73rd Annual Conference of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology DGHM, 12-14.09.2021, Berlin

Lamping T, Tomsic I, Hartlep I, Schipper P, Stolz M, Krauth C, Chaberny IF, von Lengerke T (2021). Overconfidence regarding one's own hand hygiene compliance among physicians and nurses in surgery: results of the WACH trial's baseline survey in six non university hospitals in Germany. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control 2021;10(Suppl. 1):102 (P216)

von Lengerke T, Tomsic I, Schipper P, Hartlep I, Stolz M, Krauth C, Schock B, Chaberny IF (2021). Prevention of hospital-acquired infections through tailored interventions for hygiene teams: approach and first results of the WACH project on postoperative wound infections. Joint Congress of the German Society for Medical Psychology (DGMP) & the German Society for Medical Sociology (DGMS), 15-17.09.2021,Hamburg

von Lengerke T, Tomsic I, Hartlep I, Schipper P, Stolz M, Krauth C, Chaberny IF (2021). Hand hygiene compliance during surgical ward rounds after tailored interventions targeting infection prevention and control (IPC) teams and other IPC stakeholders: bivariate crosstabular analyses from the cluster-randomized controlled WACH-trial taking into. 73rd Annual Conference of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology DGHM, 12-14.09.2021, Berlin

von Lengerke T, Tomsic I, Hartlep I, Schipper P, Stolz M, Krauth C, Chaberny IF (2021). Surgical site infection-preventive compliance with 14 pre-, intra- and postoperative measures after tailored interventions for infection prevention and control (IPC) teams and other IPC stakeholders: An overview of the cluster-randomized controlled WACH-trials. 73rd Annual Meeting of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology DGHM, 12-14.09.2021, Berlin

von Lengerke T, Hartlep I, Schipper P, Stolz M, Tomsic I, Krauth C, Chaberny IF (2021). SSI Preventive compliance after tailored interventions for infection prevention and control teams: results of the cluster randomized controlled wach trial in six non university centres (O30). Antimicrob Resist Infect Control 2021;10(Suppl.1):17

Tomsic I, Schipper P, Schock B, Hartlep I, Stolz M, Krauth C, Chaberny IF, von Lengerke T (2021). Psychological approaches in the prevention of postoperative wound infections: Approach and first results of the WACH project. Hyg Med 2021;46(Suppl. DGKH Congress):9-10

Stolz M, Schmetsdorf J, Tomsic I, Hartlep I, Schipper P, Chaberny IF, von Lengerke T, Krauth C (2021). Costs of surgical site infections in orthopedic and trauma surgery: first results of a systematic review. 73rd Annual Conference of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology DGHM, 12-14.09.2021, Berlin

Schipper P, Hartlep I, Tomsic I, Stolz M, Krauth C, von Lengerke T, Chaberny IF (2021). Perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis in surgery: Results of the cluster randomized controlled WACH-trial based on a new comprehensive compliance index in six non-university hospitals. 73rd Annual Conference of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology DGHM, 12-14.09.2021, Berlin