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Introduction
The German Guideline Program in Oncology (GGPO) has published patient versions of clinical practice guidelines for more than 10 years. However, a systematic evaluation of these is lacking. The project aims to investigate the role and applicability of patient versions by considering the perspectives of experts, patients and healthcare p...
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8861732/
Abstract:
Clinical guidelines integrate latest evidence to support clinical decision-making. As new research findings are published at an increasing rate, it would be helpful to detect when such results disagree with current guideline recommendations. In this work, we describe a software...
The lack of publicly accessible text corpora is a major obstacle for progress in natural language processing. For medical applications, unfortunately, all language communities other than English are low-resourced. In this work, we present GGPONC (German Guideline Program in Oncology NLP Corpus), a freely distributable German language corpus based o...
Zusammenfassung
Versorgungsforschung in der Onkologie beschäftigt sich mit allen Situationen, in denen Menschen mit Krebs konfrontiert sind. Sie betrachtet die verschiedenen Phasen der Versorgung, also Prävention/Früherkennung, Prähabilitation, Diagnostik, Therapie, Rehabilitation und Palliativversorgung ebenso wie die verschiedenen Akteure, darunt...
Zusammenfassung
Hintergrund
2018 wurde ein Update der 2013 erstmalig publizierten S3‐Leitlinie für die „Diagnostik, Therapie und Nachsorge des Melanoms“ im Rahmen des Leitlinienprogramms Onkologie (OL) mit einer Aktualisierung der bestehenden leitlinienbasierten Qualitätsindikatoren (QI) veröffentlicht.
Patienten und Methodik
Eine multidisziplinä...
Background
In 2018, an update of the German evidence‐based (S3) guidelines “Diagnosis, Therapy and Follow‐up of Melanoma” first issued in 2013 was published under the auspices of the German Guideline Program in Oncology. The update also included a revision of existing guideline‐based quality indicators (QIs).
Patients and methods
Using a standardi...
Das onkologische Leitlinienprogramm, das im Nationalen Krebsplan gefordert und gemeinsam von der Deutschen Krebshilfe, der Deutschen Krebsgesellschaft und der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Wissenschaftlichen Medizinischen Fachgesellschaften getragen wird, wurde gerade 10 Jahre alt. Mit seiner Zielsetzung, für alle relevanten onkologischen Entitäten Leitl...
Aims Annual opportunistic screening for cervical carcinoma has been carried out in Germany since 1971. The creation of this S3 guideline meets an important need, outlined in the National Cancer Plan, with regard to screening for cervical cancer, as the guideline aims to provide important information and support for planned organized screening for c...
Aims Annual opportunistic screening for cervical carcinoma has been done in Germany since 1971. The creation of this S3 guideline meets an important need, outlined in the National Cancer Plan, with regard to screening for cervical cancer, as this guideline aims to provide important information and support for planned organized screening for cervica...
Purpose The aim of this official guideline coordinated and published by the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics (DGGG) and the German Cancer Society (DKG) was to optimize the screening, diagnosis, therapy and follow-up care of breast cancer.
Method The process of updating the S3 guideline published in 2012 was based on the adaptation of id...
The first German interdisciplinary S3-guideline on the diagnosis, therapy and follow-up of patients with endometrial cancer was published in April 2018. Funded by German Cancer Aid as part of an Oncology Guidelines Program, the lead coordinators of the guideline were the German Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics (DGGG) and the Gynecological Oncol...
The first German interdisciplinary S3-guideline on the diagnosis, therapy and follow-up of patients with endometrial cancer was published in April 2018. Funded by German Cancer Aid as part of an Oncology Guidelines Program, the lead coordinators of the guideline were the German Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics (DGGG) and the Gynecological Oncol...
Purpose The aim of this official guideline coordinated and published by the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics (DGGG) and the German Cancer Society (DKG) was to optimize the screening, diagnosis, therapy and follow-up care of breast cancer.
Methods The process of updating the S3 guideline dating from 2012 was based on the adaptation of id...
Einführung und Relevanz des Themas: In der Vergangenheit wurde immer wieder festgestellt, dass wissenschaftliche Forschung zu viel „waste“ enthalte [1]. Bei der Auswahl von Fragestellungen für wissenschaftliche Vorhaben aber auch für Sekundärdatenanalysen (HTA-Berichte etc.) ist es daher wichtig, Fragestellungen zu identifizieren, die für Patientin...
Background:
In 2012, a guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of oral cavity cancer based on the best available evidence was implemented at certified German cancer centres for head and neck carcinomas. The present analysis was performed to determine whether the implementation of the guideline via certification improved the level of care, leadin...
Zusammenfassung
Seit 2008 wird durch das ‚Leitlinienprogramm Onkologie‘ (OL) die Erstellung und Aktualisierung von evidenzbasierten, multidisziplinären Leitlinien für onkologische Themen gefördert. Der vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt die Organisation und die methodischen Grundlagen des Programms sowie dessen strukturelle Einbettung innerhalb einer u...
Attempts to manage competing interests deserve our support (1). They should apply not only to guidelines, but also to studies—such as the large-scale PREFERE Study comparing treatment options for prostate cancer of low or early intermediate risk. The analysis (2, 3) of this study identifies several competing interests: ● The community of interest w...
Background: Conflicts of interest can bias the recommendations of clinical guidelines. In 2010, the Association of Scientific Medical Societies in Germany (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Wissenschaftlichen Medizinischen Fachgesell - schaften, AWMF) revised its rules about how conflicts of interest in guidelines should be managed. Methods: All S2 and S3 gu...
Conflicts of interest can bias the recommendations of clinical guidelines. In 2010, the Association of Scientific Medical Societies in Germany (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Wissenschaftlichen Medizinischen Fachgesellschaften, AWMF) revised its rules about how conflicts of interest in guidelines should be managed.
All S2 and S3 guidelines in the AWMF dat...
Background
Guidelines published by supranational scientific societies are available for many diseases could help saving resources of national guideline authors.
Objectives
We sought to examine the methodological quality and independency of supranational guidelines (SG) in comparison to national guidelines (NG).
Methods
We analysed the results o...
Die chronische Herzinsuffizienz ist eine Erkrankung des höheren Lebensalters. Sie gehört in Deutschland zu den häufigsten Todesursachen und zu den häufigsten Diagnosen bei vollstationären Patienten. Durch den prognostizierten Anstieg der Lebenserwartung wird sich die Anzahl der Betroffenen in den kommenden Jahren weiter erhöhen. Vor diesem Hintergr...
Together with an expert committee a structured approach to determining quality indicators for National Disease Management Guidelines has been developed. The key steps of this approach include: introducing guideline authors to the methodology at an early stage of the process of guideline development, pre-selecting recommendations of the guideline wh...
Together with an expert committee a structured approach to determining quality indicators for National Disease Management Guidelines has been developed. The key steps of this approach include: introducing guideline authors to the methodology at an early stage of the process of guideline development, pre-selecting recommendations of the guideline wh...
Within the context of the development of evidence-based oncology guidelines, the Agency for Quality in Medicine undertook evidence reviews for diagnostic imaging procedures. Systematic searches retrieved no randomised controlled trials, but only cohort studies and case series of mostly moderate quality. The identified studies provided only a restri...
For seven years the German National Disease Management Guidelines Programme (NDMG Programme) has been supported by its funding bodies: the German Medical Association, the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, and the Association of Scientific Medical Societies. The objectives of the NDMG Programme are to develop and to impl...
For seven years the German National Disease Management Guidelines Programme (NDMG Programme) has been supported by its funding bodies: the German Medical Association, the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, and the Association of Scientific Medical Societies. The objectives of the NDMG Programme are to develop and to impl...
Within the context of the development of evidence-based oncology guidelines, the Agency for Quality in Medicine undertook evidence reviews for diagnostic imaging procedures. Systematic searches retrieved no randomised controlled trials, but only cohort studies and case series of mostly moderate quality. The identified studies provided only a restri...
EUnetHTA WP 7 (Strand B) aimed to promote sharing information on new and emerging technologies. The task was to develop a prototype of a newsletter and pilot the processes of production.
The EuroScan database served as information source on pertinent technologies. To prioritize, a set of criteria for scoring the potential impact and for selecting t...
All western healthcare systems are confronted with a rising number of new health technologies. To support decision-making processes with sound information about new health technologies, some countries have established "Horizon Scanning Systems (HSS)". This paper gives an overview of processes and practices of HSS.
The paper is based on a literature...
