Research projects
Funded by: Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture
Project management: Dr. Andrea Bökel
Duration: 01.05.2025 - 30.04.2028
Funding volume: 685.117€
The DiversiOn project is developing, implementing and evaluating an online-based self-learning program for students and trainees in various healthcare professions. The aim is to strengthen diversity skills for patient-centered care.
The learning program is based on the KERN cycle of curriculum development and has a multimodal structure. In terms of content, it focuses on diversity dimensions such as age, gender, sexual orientation/gender identity and ethnicity. A diverse advisory board accompanies the project; the content development is supported by a Delphi process with experts.
DiversiOn addresses a structural gap: Diversity issues have so far only been selectively anchored in health-related training and study programs. The program aims to create a low-threshold, accessible and evidence-based opportunity throughout Germany to systematically build diversity skills in the healthcare sector and thus improve the quality of treatment.
Further information on the project can be found on the DiversiOn website.
Contact: Ms. Bökel | Phone: +49 (0)511 532 4125 | Mail: boekel.andrea@mh-hannover.de
Funded by: Federal Ministry of Health | Funding volume: € 393,470
Project management: Dr. Christoph Egen
Duration: 01.06.2023 to 30.11.2024
The ViCoRek-NDS project plans to set up and commission a telemedical long-COVID rehabilitation clinic that is both interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral. This concept is intended to support primary care GPs in the treatment of long-COVID patients in a modular care concept and, if necessary, coordinate and/or supplement further care, as well as establish a competence network with GPs in Lower Saxony in the medium to long term.
The aim is to improve the rehabilitative care of patients with long-term COVID consequences in Lower Saxony and thus close the existing gaps in care.
The project is being implemented on the premises of Hannover Medical School (MHH), building on existing expertise and developing it further in an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral manner towards comprehensive primary care.
From September 2023, GPs will be able to book various services via the website www.vicorek-nds.de
Contact
Dr. phil. Christoph Egen | Tel.: +49 (0)511 532-4117 | Mail: egen.christoph@mh-hannover.de
Funded by: Federal Ministry of Health | Funding volume: € 197,092
Project management: Dr. Christoph Egen
Duration: 01.06.2023 to 30.11.2024
At the Clinical Department for Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine at Hannover Medical School (MHH), an interdisciplinary rehabilitation team will offer social space-oriented, individualized medical rehabilitation for people with mental and/or multiple disabilities (MgmB) in the form of outpatient mobile rehabilitation.
The rehabilitation measures take place both in the Clinical Department's outpatient clinic and at home, depending on the needs of the respective rehabilitants, and are provided by an interdisciplinary team consisting of a specialist in orthopaedics and trauma surgery with an additional qualification in social medicine and many years of experience in physical and rehabilitative medicine (PMR), experienced physiotherapists, occupational therapists and hydrotherapists, as well as a social worker.
Despite the need for rehabilitation, people with mental and/or multiple disabilities (MgmB) have so far hardly received any rehabilitation measures due to a lack of structures, so this project is an attempt to close this rehabilitative gap.
Contact
Dr. phil. Christoph Egen | Tel.: +49 (0)511 532-4117 | Mail: egen.christoph@mh-hannover.de
Funded by: Federal Ministry of Health | Funding volume: € 117,743
Project management: Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Gutenbrunner
Duration: 01.10.2022 to 31.08.2023
Improving high-quality professional care for people with limb amputation in multi-professional teams in Ukraine:
- Analysis of care needs
- Analysis of existing care structures
- Establishment of bilateral cooperation with stakeholders in Ukraine
- Development of a comprehensive implementation plan
- Development of treatment recommendations and patient pathways
- Preparation of teaching materials for service providers in Ukraine
Contact
Dr. phil. Christoph Egen | Phone: +49 (0)511 532-4117 | Mail: egen.christoph@mh-hannover.de
Sponsor: German Federal Pension Insurance | Funding volume: €193,435
Project management: Dr. med. Christoph Gutenbrunner
Duration: 01.10.2020 - 30.11.2022
In the socio-medical assessment in the context of application procedures for reduced earning capacity pensions (EMR), the identification of context-specific support factors and barriers can support a stronger individualization of treatment recommendations and the orientation of rehabilitative services.
The KomBi-EMR project aims to analyze the current degree to which the context factors of the International Classification of Function, Disability and Health (ICF) are taken into account in the socio-medical assessment of people with musculoskeletal disorders in the context of the EMR. Based on these analyses and the relevant ICF categories identified in an expert consensus, a manual will be developed and tested with the experts by the Clinical Department for Rehabilitation Medicine in cooperation with the DRV-Bund.
Contact
Ms. Freihoff I Phone: +49 (0)176 1532 4112 I Mail: kombi.emr@mh-hannover.de
Sponsor: Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs | Funding volume: €524,465
Implementation in cooperation with DRV Braunschweig-Hannover and DRV Mitteldeutschland
Project management: Dr. med. Christian Sturm
Duration: 01.01.2020 - 31.10.2024
The introductory bonus is a pilot project as part of the nationwide Rehapro funding program, which aims to open up new ways of rehabilitation. The aim is to make it easier for people with more than just temporary health restrictions to (re)enter employment subject to compulsory insurance through monthly direct payments from the DRV, which often compensate for low starting wages. The Clinical Department for Rehabilitation Medicine is responsible for the accompanying research and analyzes the effect on quality of life and health as well as economic effects.
Contact
Ms. Ostermann I Phone: +49 (0)511 532-4129 I Mail: ostermann.anne@mh-hannover.de
Sponsor: Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs | Funding volume: €282,678
Realization in cooperation with the DRV Braunschweig-Hannover
Project management: Dr. med. Christian Sturm
Duration: 01.10.2019 - 30.09.2024
JobProtection is a model project as part of the nationwide Rehapro funding program, which aims to facilitate permanent reintegration into working life. The individualized, self-directed aftercare following vocational rehabilitation measures is primarily intended to support people with mental and neurological illnesses in their everyday working life and in difficult professional situations. The Clinical Department for Rehabilitation Medicine is responsible for the accompanying evaluation and analyzes the effects on the participants' employment, economic situation and resilience. At the end of the project, individual, longer-term follow-up care will be possible for all those insured by German Pension Insurance throughout Germany.
Contact
Dr. Andreeva I Phone: +49 (0)511 532-2788 I Mail: andreeva.elena@mh-hannover.de
Sponsor: GB-A Innovation Fund | Funding volume: € 385,000
Project management: Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Gutenbrunner
Duration: 01.01.2018 until 31.12.2021
The project will implement and evaluate a new multimodal and cross-agency care concept in the Hannover region. The aim is to improve the care of people with major lower limb amputations.
The new care concept is based on four modules:
- Deployment of a central, cross-sector care coordinator who coordinates all necessary measures from the start of the treatment process,
- Outpatient rehabilitative treatment with the aim of creating a wound situation in the residual limb that is suitable for a prosthesis and preparing for follow-up treatment,
- Implementation of inpatient or all-day outpatient follow-up rehabilitation in a cooperating Clinical Department and
- Supporting those affected with lifelong aftercare through a regional network that is to be set up as part of the project.
The Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Lübeck (Prof. Dr. Dr. Matthias Bethge) is conducting an accompanying study to examine the effects of the new form of care in comparison to standard care.
If successful, the care concept or the individual modules can be transferred to other regions. It is also possible to extend the concept to other indications, for example to people with upper limb amputations.
Further information:
Publications:
- Care concept for closing the rehabilitative gap after major amputation of the lower limb
- Closing the gap! Care concept for closing the rehabilitative gap after major amputation of the lower limb
- Standard care is often not enough
- Patient interview
- Feasibility study on closing the rehabilitative care gap for patients after major amputation as part of an innovation fund project: implementation, experiences and initial results. Phys Med Rehabil Kuror 2021; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1671-3595
- Project poster EFRR Congress 23.09.2021
Brochures:
Contact Dr. phil.
Dr. phil. Christoph Egen | Phone: +49 (0)511 532-4117 | Mail: egen.christoph@mh-hannover.de
Sponsor: German Pension Insurance Braunschweig-Hannover | Funding volume: € 331,876
Project management: Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Gutenbrunner, Dr. med. Norbert Geissler, Dr. Elena Andreeva
Duration: 01.07.2018 - 31.09.2022 (with a one-year interruption in 2020)
The AMA test develops and evaluates a standardized, criterion-oriented evaluation procedure for the quantitative performance of light physical activities in the general labor market. The assessment can be carried out at low risk on test subjects with severe health restrictions.
Contact: Judith Gartmann | Phone: +49 (0)511 532-4129 I Mail: gartmann.judith@mh-hannover.de
Sponsor: Manfred Sauer Foundation | Funding volume: € 185,000
Project management: Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Gutenbrunner
Duration: 01.01.2016 until 31.12.2021
The German Spinal Cord Injury Survey (GerSCI) is a cooperation project with 21 other nations. In 2017, people with spinal cord injury were surveyed by questionnaire about their life and care situation. This has resulted in the world's largest database on this topic, which is now intended to help healthcare systems learn from each other and thus improve the living and care situation in the long term.
Further information can be found on the GerSCI research project website.
Contact
Ms. Bökel | Phone: +49 (0)511 532 4125 | Mail: boekel.andrea@mh-hannover.de
Sponsor: Ministry for Social Affairs, Integration and Equality of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | Funding volume: € 95,876.00
Project management (MHH): Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Gutenbrunner
Duration: 01.06.2018 - 31.12.2021
The joint project with the University Medicine Greifswald and the University of Rostock deals with the development, implementation and evaluation of program modules for the promotion of basic skills in the areas of language, behavior and emotions, movement and mathematics in 14 day-care centers with kindergarten children at risk of development with the aim of professionalizing kindergarten teachers.
Contact: Judith Gartmann | Tel.: +49 (0)511 532-4129 I Mail: gartmann.judith@mh-hannover.de