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Methodology for Establishing a Community-Wide Life Laboratory for Capturing Unobtrusive and Continuous Remote Activity and Health Data
Published on: July 27, 2018
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1Stiftung Männergesundheit, Reinhardtstraße 2, 10117 Berlin, Deutschland. weissbach@stiftung-maennergesundheit.de
Insights
Living guidelines require annual updates to stay current. Streamlining processes for prostate cancer guidelines, like those for imaging and active surveillance, is crucial for expert participation and timely revisions.
Area of Science:
- Medical guideline development
- Oncology
- Evidence-based medicine
Context:
- Guidelines require regular updates due to rapid knowledge advancement.
- The S3 guidelines for prostate cancer highlight a conflict between updating needs and available resources.
- Expert availability is limited, necessitating a reduction in bureaucratic hurdles.
Purpose:
- To address the need for regular guideline validity checks and amendments.
- To streamline the updating process for S3 guidelines on prostate cancer.
- To resolve key questions regarding guideline updates and primary points.
Summary:
- Key questions concerning 13 updates and 5 primary points for prostate cancer living guidelines have been formulated and resolved.
- Examples of updates include imaging, active surveillance, and high-intensity focused ultrasound.
- Primary points addressed include the benefits of new markers and proton therapy outcomes.
Impact:
- Facilitates timely incorporation of new medical knowledge into clinical practice.
- Aims to improve the efficiency of guideline development by reducing administrative burdens.
- Ensures that prostate cancer patient care is based on the most current evidence.
Background:
Due to rapidly developing knowledge guidelines should be regularly, i.e. annually, checked for validity and amended.
Methods:
Exemplified by the S3 guidelines on prostate cancer a contradiction between the need for updating and financial resources can be seen. Because the participating experts have only limited availability, the hurdles in the application procedure linked to bureaucracy should at least be dropped.
Results:
In the living guidelines on prostate cancer key questions on 13 updating and 5 primary points in question have been formulated and resolved. Examples of updating are imaging, active surveillance and high-intensity focused ultrasound and for primary points, the benefits of new markers and the results of proton therapy. The work, supported by other disciplines, the ÄZQ (Medical Center for Quality in Medicine) and the BPS (Federal Association of Prostate Self-help) should be finished by September 2011.
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