Project data

Project name:	Qualified withdrawal in internal medicine (multicentre study in cooperation with Diakoniekrankenhaus Elbingerode)
Running time:	01/2017 - 12/2017
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Project management:	Prof Dr Uwe Saint-Mont
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Third-party donors:	AKQEIM (Working Group for Qualified Withdrawal in Internal Medicine)

Summary of the project

As part of the cooperation with the Diakonie-Krankenhaus Elbingerode, we are in contact with the "Arbeitskreis qualifizierter Entzug in der Inneren Medizin" (AKQEIM). In co-operation with this working group, a prospective study (questionnaire on qualified withdrawal) is to be conducted at 10-15 German clinics.

The study is exploratory and quantitative. In order to gain as comprehensive a picture as possible, seven German internal medicine clinics are to complete a standardised questionnaire for each of their patients in qualified withdrawal (QE) within a predetermined period of time, which has previously been agreed in the AKQEIM of the BDI. This should provide an overview of the patient population for the first time: How many people are treated in Qualified Withdrawal in Internal Medicine and what are their characteristics. In addition, the focus is on the therapeutic measures and their success (in particular disease acceptance, evaluation of therapy success, initiation of further measures).

The survey questionnaire was finalised and approved in November 2016. The participating clinics received the corresponding data file in December 2016. The implementation of the study and analysis of the data are planned for the first to third quarter of 2017.

In addition, the ISRV was commissioned to analyse the statistical data available in Elbingerode on patients undergoing alcohol withdrawal. A bachelor's thesis on "Qualified withdrawal in Elbingerode" from 1 September 2016 to mid-2017 (completed) dealt with the evaluation of this data.