Program

The program of the 22nd German Congress on Health Services Research 2023 is expected to be published here on June 30, 2023.

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