In our research projects, we examine a wide range of healthcare research topics in general medical and palliative care settings as well as in emergency, acute and long-term care settings. For example, we focus on GP practices, care facilities, hospices and hospitals as well as the interfaces between different Facilities or Institutions. We research medical topics (e.g. depression) as well as structural and profession-related topics (e.g. cross-sectoral care). We are interested in how care must be designed against the background of current social developments and political impulses in order to best meet the needs of different groups. These include patients, their relatives, GPs and other service providers. We develop, test and evaluate new care models and derive recommendations for further development from the results. In addition, teaching and learning research also plays an important role in our scientific work.
Our projects are carried out by researchers from various disciplines: our employees come from the fields of medicine, health sciences, sociology, social and cultural anthropology, psychology, epidemiology, nutritional sciences, speech therapy, medical didactics and education.
Methodologically, we work with all relevant qualitative and quantitative methods of health services research and analyze both primary data and secondary/routine data.
Our research projects are and have been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG), the Innovation Fund of the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA), the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony and EU programs such as Erasmus+.
We are currently working on the following projects:
Stress experience and health behavior in medical studies and continuing medical education (SoRGSAM) Health care planning for the last phase of life (according to § 132g SGB V) in nursing homes: Implementation to date, barriers and recommendations for further development (Gut-Leben) Orofaciopharyngeal and linguistic-communicative activation in old age (OrkA) Survey and analysis of regional hospice and palliative care networks using an adapted quality assessment tool (HOPAN) Implementation of the quality indicators from the S3 guideline on palliative care for patients with incurable cancer in care practice on palliative care units (Quincie) Care of patients with post-COVID: analyses of health insurance data and the perspectives of patients, relatives and GPs (VePoKaP) Transformation of the patient pathway through a cross-sector short-stay general medicine-oriented care model (STATAMED) Virtual Reality Communication Tool for Application and Evaluation with Key Stakeholders and Students (VR-TALKS) End-of-life care in the pandemic: Experiences of family members and their psychological stress with a focus on migration background (EMBRACE-ME) Adaptation of drug therapy during hot seasons (ADAPT-HEAT) Hospice and palliative care in Hanover and the region: stocktaking and recommendations for further development (HannoPall) Non-relatives caring for terminally ill people: Experiences, needs and contribution to care (NOCA) Unexpected Survivorship - Researching and improving the occurrence, experience and monitoring of unexpected survival in oncology (SURVIVOR) OutreAch MediCal Care for HousEbound Patients with Post-COVID Syndrome or ME/CFS of any cause (ACCESS) Assisted suicide in Germany - research into the practice (ASEP) Health care planning for the last phase of life (according to §132g SGB V) in integration assistance: Implementation, challenges and recommendations for further development (AGREE) Primary care for trans people in Lower Saxony: Using health care data, experiences with care, and participatory approaches to enhance medical care and medical education (Trans-Power)