Health Care and Guidelines: department tasks
The department deals with issues relating to health care standards and the needs-based management of the health care system. For selected medical interventions, it examines the relationship between the volume of services and the quality of treatment outcomes. It also supports the development of clinical practice guidelines. Furthermore, the department is responsible for the “ThemenCheck Medizin“ (Topic check medicine) process.
The department's staff produce:
- Evidence reports
- Guideline synopses for disease management programmes (DMPs)
- Decision-making criteria for minimum volume thresholds
- ‘ThemenCheck Medizin’ (Topic check medicine) reports
Other tasks include:
- further development of the relevant methods applied in the various commissions
- The dissemination of the assessment methods and results, as well as other new scientific knowledge arising from the department's work, through presentations and publications.
Department staff
Corinna Schaefer
Professional profile
Degree in theatre studies, romance studies and musicology in Cologne, Vienna and Berlin. After working as an artist from 1987 to 2001, she worked at the German Agency for Quality in Medicine (ÄZQ) from 2006 to 2024, becoming Head of the Patient Information Department in 2010 and Deputy Director of the Institute and Head of the Department of Evidence-Based Medicine and Guidelines in 2015; there she was responsible, among other things, for the programme for National Care Guidelines (NVL). 2019-2024: Chair of the German Network for Health Literacy (DNGK); 2010-2020: Chair of the PUBLIC Working Group of the Guidelines International Network (GIN); 2020-2024: Member of the Guidelines Commission of the German Association of the Scientific Medical Societies (AWMF). Since October 2024: Head of the Department of Health Care and Guidelines at IQWiG.
Dr. Claudia Mischke
Professional profile
Nurse training at the Nursing School of the Bonn University Hospital; 1990 – 1997: Nurse at the München-Bogenhausen Hospital and at the Frankfurt am Main Heart Centre; 1993 – 1997: Nursing studies at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt and at the Oulu University of Applied Sciences (Finland); 1997 – 1999: Quality Assurance Unit at the Red Cross Sisterhood Baden Württemberg, with a main focus on quality development in the acute, long-term and educational area; 1999 – 2003: Nursing Science Unit at the Ingolstadt Hospital Association, with a main focus on development of care and optimization of intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary processes; 2002 – 2004: Master of Public Health studies at Bielefeld University; 2004 – 2005: Consultant at the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia; 2006 – 2011: Research Associate at the University of Applied Sciences Saarbrücken; 2011: Doctorate at Witten/Herdecke University; 2011 – 2015: Professor and Deputy Director of the joint programme Master of Science in Nursing at the Bern University of Applied Sciences; since November 2015: Division Head of the Health Care Division in the Department of Health Care and Health Economics.
Dr. rer. nat. Mona Ahmed
Dr. med. Carmen Bartel
Hanna Mireya Betzing
Dr. rer. pol. Valeria Biermann
Susanne Ein Waldt
David Endres
Corinna Ernsting
Dr. rer. medic. Julia Kristin Gowik
Lena Graf
Sabine Gruber-Hohaus
Christina Grünthal
Dr. rer. nat. Eva Höfer
Dr. sc. med. Vivien Hohberg
Nicole Holzmann
Lena Kobus
Dr. rer.nat. Alexandra Korzeczek-Opitz
Laura Krabbe
Christina Kuhl
Anna Margraf
Jessica Metzing
Dr. sportwiss. Kevin Rudolf
Dr. rer. medic. Ulrich Siering
Dr. sportwiss. Gerrit Stassen
Corinna Steiner
Dr. rer. nat. Andrea Tasar
Jessica Tauer
Dr. sportwiss. Sarah Thys
Bich Van Vilaysane-Nguyen
Natalia Wilberger
Nina Wünst