German Agency for Quality in Medicine
Andreas Frank Ulrich Montgomery streets and ( Chairman ), Christian Thomeczek (Managing Director)
The Medical Centre for Quality in Medicine ( AQuMed ) is a scientific institute in joint sponsorship of the German Medical Association and National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians. The AQuMed was founded in 1995 and has its headquarters in Berlin since 2004 (previously Cologne). CEO is the president of the German Medical Association and the CEO of accredited Physicians. CEO is Christian Thomeczek. First director of the institute was Günter Ollenschläger from 1995 to March 2014.
Tasks
The AQuMed is the common center of excellence of the German Medical Association and the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians clinical guidelines, patient information, patient safety, evidence-based medicine, quality indicators and management of medical knowledge.
The AQuMed cooperates in the field of guidelines with the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies.
The Institute is co-initiator and member of the German Network for Evidence-based Medicine, the Guidelines International Network and the Action Alliance patient safety.
Selected Projects
- Doctor Library: Knowledge Portal of GMA and the KBV AQuMed
- Patient Safety: Patient safety forum at AQuMed; German Co-ordination Centre of the international project High 5 together with the Coalition for Patient Safety; Coordination center of the Reporting and Learning System of the German Medical Association for Critical events and errors in medicine CIRSmedical Germany
- Doctor review sites: Clearing procedure for physician review sites when AQuMed
- Medical guidelines: Health Care Guidelines: National Health Care Guidelines of GMA, KBV and AWMF the AQuMed
- Guidelines - information service AQuMed,
- Office of the International Guidelines Network GIN
- Guideline Clearinghouse