Taking a look behind the scenes: Updating health information on Gesundheitsinformation.de

IF 1.7 Q4 HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES

Zeitschrift fur Evidenz Fortbildung und Qualitaet im Gesundheitswesen Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI:10.1016/j.zefq.2025.04.002

Milly Schröer-Günther, Klaus Koch, Inger Scheike

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Abstract

The website Gesundheitsinformation.de and its English sister website InformedHealth.org are a service of the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG). IQWiG has the legal mandate to provide all citizens with independent and scientifically proven free health information. The website currently comprises information on more than 300 diseases and health issues (“topics”). Evidence-based medicine (EBM) forms the base of Gesundheitsinformation.de. Regular updates are therefore an important quality criterion. Usually, the information is updated every three years. The paper will describe a major update process of the individual topics on Gesundheitsinformation.de. The major process includes 10 steps (e.g., evidence search, medical writing, editorial revisions, and translation). The updating process is currently being reviewed to see whether the effort required for individual tasks can be reduced. The aim is to update/produce more health information with the same resources and without any loss of quality.

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在gesundheitinformation .de上更新健康信息。

gesundheitinformation .de网站及其英文姊妹网站InformedHealth.org是卫生保健质量和效率研究所（IQWiG）的一项服务。IQWiG的法律任务是向所有公民提供独立和经科学证明的免费健康信息。该网站目前包含300多种疾病和健康问题（“专题”）的信息。循证医学（EBM）构成了gesundheitinformationde的基础。因此，定期更新是一个重要的质量标准。通常，信息每三年更新一次。本文将描述gesundheitinformation .de上单个主题的主要更新过程。主要过程包括10个步骤（例如，证据检索、医学写作、编辑修订和翻译）。然而，许多更新在原因或范围上都很小。对于那些较小的更新，可以省略某些步骤以限制资源和时间。

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1.90

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18.20%

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129