Überlegung zur Vielfältigkeit und Wandlung bei den Auftraggebern von Hausärzten
Who Are Our Contractors?
Reflections on the Variety and Changes Concerning Our Contractors as Family DoctorsAbstract: Ten different contractors – beside the patient – are listed and the...
Early Recognition, Screening – Objectives and Concept, part I
Summary: This paper reviews the main topics of screening and shows that screening is a different issue compared to diagnosing. Especially biostatistical and ethical...
Combination Therapy with Insulin and Oral Antidiabetic Drugs in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review
Background: During the course of type 2 diabetes mellitus, treatment with insulin is often needed either as monotherapy or in combination with oral antidiabetic drugs...
Metabolic Control in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus – Everything under or out of Control?
Abstract: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses may particularly, if implemented adequately, overcome the limitations of studies with low numbers of cases and event...
Consensus Based Guidelines – Critical Questions Concerning a Concept
Abstract: A widespread demand on clinical practice guidelines is that they should be consensus based as well as evidence based. In Germany, the Association of...
Redesigning the Guideline Development Concept (“Zehnstufenplan”) of the German College of General Practitioners and Family Physicians
Abstract: Since 1999 the German project for the development of guidelines for family medicine has been guided by a systematic plan from the German College of General...
