1. How to define a basic package of health services for a tax funded or social insurance based health care system?

   • F. Rutten
   • J. van Busschbach

   Editorial Pages: 45 - 46

2. The impact of teaching and research on hospital costs

   • C. Huttin
   • G. de Pouvourville

   Original Papers Pages: 47 - 53

3. A comparison of the EuroQol and the Health Utilities Index in patients treated for congenital anomalies

   • E.A. Stolk
   • J.J.V. Busschbach

   Original Papers Pages: 54 - 59

4. Costs and quality of life in multiple sclerosis

   • Gisela Kobelt
   • Peter Lindgren
   • the German Cost of MS Study Group

   Original Papers Pages: 60 - 68

5. Health-related quality of life of patients with overactive bladder receiving immediate-release tolterodine

   • A.M. Pleil
   • P.R. Reese
   • G.J. Okano

   Original Papers Pages: 69 - 75

6. The Swiss health care system

   • A. Frei
   • E. Hunsche

   Health Care Systems in Europe Pages: 76 - 78

7. Introducing the new DRG-based payment system in German hospitals: a difficult operation?

   • M.H. Wilke
   • E.F.J. Höcherl
   • L. Janke

   Health Care Systems in Europe Pages: 79 - 85

8. The reimbursable incontinence pads market for outpatients in five European countries

   • D. Cornago
   • L. Garattini

   Health Care Systems in Europe Pages: 86 - 90