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In April 2007 a new research unit will start: „Prioritizing in Medicine: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis in consideration of the public health insurance system“. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG - German Research Foundation) will finance the unit with 1,58 million euros over the next three years. Speaker of the research unit is Jacobs University professor Dr. Adele Diederich.
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The DFG research unit
17 scientists from 12 universities and research institutes work within this team of researchers. They focus on the building of rankings when it comes to questions of medical provision. Does the growing offer of medical treatments lead to the abandonment of therapies due to the fact that the financing of all these possible measures is not given? Does this mean, that children should be preferred to older people? Is prevention more important than medical attendance? Should society finance luxurious therapies for a few patients?
Doctors and politicians decide these and similar questions on a daily basis. Mostly, they act according to practical and ad hoc reasoning, according to a “hidden prioritization”. Defined concepts and procedures for a systematic information management are missing. Without these it is difficult to provide transparent and comprehensive decisions.
The researchers will look for prioritizations that respect the interests and wishes of all parties involved, patients, doctors and citizens. On the one hand, decisions for medical treatments should be acceptable on theoretical and ethical grounds – especially for affected people. On the other hand they have to be conform to set rules and must be institutionally realizable.
Outstanding scientists and academics from different areas are brought together in the research unit. In eleven sub-projects they explore the problem from different perspectives. One string of research follows ethical, philosophical, legal and economical aspects while the other approach focuses on psychological, empirical and medical aspects.
Sub-project of Jacobs University
In addition to Dr. Adele Diederich, Professor of Psychology, two other Jacobs University professors support the team: Dr. Petra Lietz, Professor of Quantitative Research Methods, and Dr. Margrit Schreier, Professor of Empirical Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Their sub-project alone accounts for 589.000 euros of DFG funding. The professors seek to determine the decision rules responsible for the preference of certain medical treatments and patients or patient groups. Their empirical study will aim at discovering hidden prioritization for different parties involved. Different from any current approaches they focus systematically on needs and interest of patients, physicians, and the general public. Several methods are utilized, from qualitative interviews to a representative survey to conjoint analysis and models such as random utility models.
Members of the research unit
Prof. Dr. Marlies Ahlert, Lehrstuhl für Volkswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere Mikroökonomie
und Finanzwissenschaft, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Dannecker, Lehrstuhl für Strafrecht, Strafprozessrecht und Informationsrecht, Universität Bayreuth
Prof. Dr. Adele Diederich, Professor of Psychology, Jacobs University Bremen
Dr. Andrea Dörries, Direktorin des Zentrums für Gesundheitsethik, Hannover
Prof. Dr. Stefan Felder, Lehrstuhl für Gesundheitsökonomie, Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg
Dr. Michael Freitag, Wissenschaftlicher Assistent, Institut für Medizinmanagement und Gesundheitswissenschaften, Universität Bayreuth
Prof. Dr. Arnold Ganser, Direktor der Abteilung für Hämatologie, Hämostaseologie und Onkologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
Prof. Dr. Stefan Huster, Lehrstuhl für Öffentliches Recht, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenmeier, Professor für Bürgerliches Recht und Zivilprozessrecht, Universität zu Köln
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Kliemt, Lehrstuhl für Praktische Philosophie, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Prof. Dr. Petra Lietz, Professor of Quantitative Research Methods, Jacobs University Bremen
Prof. Dr. Weyma Lübbe, Institut für Philosophie, Universität Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Eckhard Nagel, Geschäftsführender Direktor des Instituts für Medizinmanagement und Gesundheitswissenschaften, Universität Bayreuth
Prof. Dr. Heiner Raspe, Direktor des Instituts für Sozialmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck
Prof. Dr. Bettina Schöne-Seifert, Direktorin des Instituts für Ethik, Geschichte & Theorie der Medizin, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Prof. Dr. Margrit Schreier, Professor of Empirical Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Jacobs University Bremen
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Walter Wohlgemuth, Wissenschaftlicher Assistent am Institut für Medizinmanagement, Universität Bayreuth
For detailed information please contact:
Jacobs University Bremen
Prof. Dr. Adele Diederich
Professor of Psychology
Speaker of the research unit
Fon.: 0421 – 200 3431
a.diederich@iu-bremen.de
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