Innovation Committee supports 18 new projects on medical guidelines

04.04.2022 11:37

The Innovation Committee at the Federal Joint Committee has once again made funding decisions in the area of health services research: 18 projects are being funded that develop or want to further develop medical guidelines.

The Innovation Committee will provide a list of projects on its website website publish when the applicants have accepted the funding conditions and the decisions thereby become binding. This is expected to happen in May 2022. The project descriptions can also be read later in the filterable overview (funding database).

The subject areas in which medical guideline projects are funded are based on suggestions from the Federal Ministry of Health. The selected projects are now distributed as follows:

• Care for rare diseases: 4
• Care for more common diseases, treatment of risk factors for non-communicable diseases, multimorbidity and improvement of drug therapy safety in care: 8
• Care for target groups with special needs, such as children, young people, older people and/or people in need of care: 5
• Surgical interventions on the skeletal system/musculoskeletal system: 1

The Innovation Committee received a total of 31 applications in response to its funding announcement dated June 7, 2021. When evaluating and selecting, he took into account the recommendations from the pool of experts and the Working Group of Scientific Medical Societies (AWMF).