The guidelines, which were first published in 2012, were fundamentally revised by a panel of experts from 9 medical and psychological societies and published on the website of the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany in December 2019 (AWMF registration number 051-029). The guidelines contribute to interdisciplinary quality assurance when assessing applicants for insurance or other compensation benefits who claim psychological or psychosomatic illnesses with resulting functional disorders. The guidelines are divided into 3 separate parts: part I describes specific aspects of the expert examination, part II describes the criteria for assessing occupational performance capacity in terms of different legal fields and part III deals with questions of causality in cases of claimed posttraumatic mental disorders.
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Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg
January 2025
Institute for Research in Operative Medicine (IFOM), Witten/Herdecke University, Cologne, Germany.
Purpose: Our aim was to update evidence-based and consensus-based recommendations for the inhospital endovascular management of haemorrhage and vascular lesions in patients with multiple and/or severe injuries based on current evidence. This guideline topic is part of the 2022 update of the German Guideline on the Treatment of Patients with Multiple and/or Severe Injuries.
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Z Rheumatol
January 2025
Radiologisches Institut, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Deutschland.
The guidelines on physiotherapy and exercise for osteoporosis from 2008 have recently been extensively revised on the basis of new scientific findings and possible applications. The S3 guidelines have not yet been approved by consensus and the planned completion date (Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, AWMF online, registry number 183-002) is autumn 2024. Based on the publication in Issue 3 Osteology (August 2023), key points of the guidelines on physical training and fracture prophylaxis are summarized in abridged form.
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January 2025
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Medicine Greifswald, Sauerbruchstr., Greifswald, 17475, Germany.
Background: The diagnosis of rare uterine leiomyosarcoma (uLMS) remains a challenge given the high incidence rates of benign uterine tumors such as leiomyoma (LM). In the last decade, several clinical scores and blood serum markers have been proposed. The aim of this study is to validate and update the pLMS clinical scoring system, evaluating the accuracy of the scoring system by Zhang et al.
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December 2024
Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology - IBE, Chair of Public Health and Health Services Research, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Background: Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, schools were a key setting for intervening with public health and social measures (PHSM) to reduce transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Consequently, there is a need to assess the varied unintended consequences associated with PHSM implemented in the school setting, for students, teachers, and school staff, as well as for families and the wider community. This is an update of a Cochrane scoping review first published in 2022.
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December 2024
Department of Dermatology, Mainz University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany.
Basal cell carcinoma is the most common malignant tumor in the fair-skinned population and its incidence continues to rise. An update of the S2k guideline with the participation of all specialist societies familiar with the clinical picture and previous literature research is of great importance for the quality of care for affected patients. In addition to epidemiology, diagnostics and histology are discussed.
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