Program

Click on the image below to access the online program and get an overview of the sessions.

As the presentations at the German Congress on Health Services Research will be held mostly in German, we have decided not to translate the program. Two keynote lectures (Prof. Harrington and Prof. Westert) and the presentations in two sessions of the working group "International health services research" will be presented in English.

Nevertheless, interested parties are of course cordially invited to attend the congress.

Tracks and Topics

Track 1: DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF CURRENT HEALTH CARE PROVISION

Who provides health care to whom, when, and with what? How and why is health care provided?

  • Staffing and qualifications, organizational factors
  • Patients served
  • Services provided, trends over time
  • Equity of need and distribution
  • Safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, efficiency/cost, value
  • Incentives, barriers, indications
  • Regional differences, best practices

Track 2: EVALUATION OF HEALTH CARE OUTCOMES

What are the effects of current health care delivery and health care innovations?

  • Outcome quality, PRO, PRE
  • Influence of contextual conditions, economics, organization and processes on goal achievement

Track 3: IMPLEMENTATION OF INNOVATIONS IN HEALTH CARE

How does implementation in health care succeed and when does it fail?

  • Concepts of implementation of health care innovations
  • Analyses of facilitating factors and barriers of the implementation of health care models in health care practice/transfer research
  • Analyses of the effects of new health care models in routine care
  • Societal effects and side effects
  • Learning from unsuccessful implementations
  • Health policy and legal framework for implementations

Track 4: ADVANCEMENT OF METHODS AND THEORIES

Discussion of further and new development of methods and theories.

  • Methods to describe, analyze and evaluate health care.
  • Methods to use real world health care data
  • Methods to design and evaluate health care innovations, including mixed methods
  • Methods to implement health care innovations
  • Methods to perform interventional studies in health services research
  • Methods to foster participation of interest groups
  • Methods to communicate and distribute health services research studies
Congress formats
  • Plenary lecture
  • Lecture session/symposium
  • Poster
  • Data Café/Networking
  • Panel discussion
  • Science slam
  • Working and expert group meetings
Target group

Decision-makers, employees, representatives, students, doctoral candidates and trainees from

  • university and non-university research institutions
  • Patient and self-help organisations
  • Pospitals, practices, care services, rehabilitation facilities, etc.
  • Institutions in the field of quality assurance, evaluation, evidence and guideline development, health policy and economic efficiency in the health system
  • Organisations of self-administration in the health care system
  • Service companies in health care and management as well as companies in the pharmaceutical industry and in medical technology