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Does research mean
we don't know what
the results will be?

We carry out hospital research on behalf of a number of federal ministries, bodies run by state, regional or local authorities and numerous other clients.

Proven scientific methods use modern processes to gather new facts about the system of hospitals and university hospitals. The results of contract research performed by us are freely accessible to the public.

Partial list of
research work

Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Bonn
•  Effects of investments in hospitals on user costs
•  Assessment relations of dental fee scales
•  Accompanying scientific research on the promotion of tumour treatment centres and oncological centres in the Federal Republic of Germany
•  Reduction of fixed costs in hospitals
•  Analysis of the assessment relations of dental technical services
•  Cost structures and fees for lab work in ambulant medicine

Federal Ministry of Research and Technology, Bonn
•  Lay and self support of mentally ill senior citizens

Federal Ministry of Health, Bonn
•  Expert's reports on the effects of planned changes of licence to practice regulations for doctors
•  Financing of investment and maintenance costs of hospitals by means of compensation for use

Federal Ministry of Education and Science, Bonn
•  Size standards for university hospitals

Central Authority for the Assignment of University Places (Zentralstelle für die Vergabe von Studienplätzen, ZVS), Dortmund
•  Check of parameters of capacity regulation for determining admission capacities for in-patient and out-patient areas
•  Check of parameters of capacity regulation for determining staffing needs for in-patient and out-patient medical care

German Hospital Society (Deutsche Krankenhausgesellschaft (DKG)), Duesseldorf
•  Effects of understaffing on the quality of medical services in psychiatry

Health Insurance Association of the Cologne Region
Medical Facilities of the City of Cologne
•  Research on determining a bonus-malus system for changes of the length of stay, based on double flexible external and internal budgeting

Central Association of German Health Insurance Companies
•  Ergonomic time measurement for performing dental services