Working groups
| Workgroup | Speaker | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ageing | Gabriele Nagel | Our working group deals with biological, medical and social factors of ageing in an interdisciplinary manner. The aim of the working group is to further clarify the connection between biological ageing and the development of chronic diseases. This should create the basis for reducing the burden of disease in the ageing population. | |
| Asthma and allergic diseases | Jon Genuneit | The working group focuses on the distribution, spread and progression of asthma and allergic diseases in the population. The focus is on both environmental and genetic determinants of these diseases. | |
| Computer-based quality management in medicine | Reinhard Holl | The working group carries out scientific research into quality comparisons in medicine, especially in the areas of diabetology, obesity therapy and early intervention. Specialised software programs for standardised, prospective documentation are being developed (see http://www.d-p-v.eu). Physicians and computer scientists (Department of Applied Information Processing at the University of Ulm, headed by Prof Dr Schweiggert) work closely together. In addition to benchmarking evaluations in the medical field, scientific-epidemiological projects, health services research and biometric evaluations for clinical studies are also carried out. In teaching, we are involved in teaching exports to Ulm University of Applied Sciences (medical technology). | |
| Data management | NN | The working group focuses on the development of questionnaires (CRFs), data collection, data export and data management of study-related data. Among other things, the focus is on data consistency, data quality and the best possible utilisation of the data, as well as compliance with rules and regulations. | |
| Teaching | Gisela Büchele, Benjamin Mayer | The working group consists of colleagues responsible for teaching and exams in the various subjects. In addition to teaching duties, this working group is also concerned with measures for the continuous improvement of teaching. | |
| Methodology | NN | Cross-project, multidisciplinary co-operation for methodological exchange and the (further) development of scientific procedures (from questionnaire development to statistical analysis), for the development of an extensive repertoire of methods for more efficient study implementation and for the publication of methodologically oriented articles. | |
| Randomisation | Friederike Rohlmann | An important aspect of conducting clinical trials is the randomisation, i.e. random allocation of trial participants to the treatment groups of the clinical trial. The working group deals with the theory and philosophy of randomisation, with randomisation methodology (traditional and new methods) and with practical implementation and further developments (e.g. web-randomisation). The focus is on the randomisation programme ROM developed at the Institute and the acquired programme RITA. | |
| Registry-based studies | Gabriele Nagel | Registries are an important component in the clarification of the causes of diseases and the evaluation of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. The particular benefit of registries also arises from the systematic and standardised collection of data under everyday conditions or the conditions of clinical routine. . | |
| Statistical Software / SAS | Beate Einsiedler | Good and confident use of statistical software is a basic requirement for working on epidemiological and biometric studies and projects. Our working group deals with selected statistical software programmes for the investigation of epidemiological and research questions. The scope, costs and possible applications of this software programmes are compiled. The working group focusses on the statistical software package SAS. However, we also deal with other software programmes such as SPSS and R. The aim is to prepare software components for use in projects. Planned projects include ODS Graphics (SAS), SPSS use for students in the context of biometric-statistical counselling, SAS procedure CDISC (standardised data storage in clinical studies). In addition, the validation of programmes and the use of guidelines in programming are important topics and are dealt with in the working group. | |