About us

About us

AQuMed was was established in 1995 in order to appraise, initiate, and organise national and regional health quality programmes on behalf of the self-governing bodies of the German healthcare system in cooperation with national and international partners.

AQuMed major focus lies on

• appraising and/or producing guidelines, quality indicators and patient information
• disseminating and implementing evidence-based guidelines
• coordinating error prevention and patient safety measures
• developing methodologies for guidelines and evidence-based healthcare
• identifying and appraising quality innovations

AQuMed projects include

• National Disease Management Guidelines Programme

• High Quality Patient Information and Patient Involvement

• Programme for Patient Safety and Error Prevention 
• German Medical eLibrary 

AQuMed publications

• Brochure: "Focus on Quality" | 330 KB
• More publications

AQuMed hosts

• The office of the German Network for Evidence Based Medicine (DNEbM)

• The office of the Guidelines International Network (G-I-N)

AQuMed holds the editorship of

• The German Journal for Evidence and Quality in Healthcare (Zeitschrift fuer Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualitaet im Gesundheitswesen - ZEFQ)

• Clinical Evidence Concise - German Edition (Kompendium Evidenzbasierte Medizin).

AQuMed address

• Information about the German Agency for Quality in Medicine (ÄZQ/AQuMed) can be obtained by sending a message using our address.

• ÄZQ/AQuMed-Office
  TiergartenTower
  Straße des 17. Juni 106-108
  10623 Berlin, Germany
  
  Phone: +49-30-4005-2501/-2504
  Fax: +49-30-4005-2555
  Email: mail@azq.de
  Internet: www.aqumed.de