Projects

Projects and Collaborations of GermanVasc

GermanVasc was founded 2014 in Hamburg, Germany by E. S. Debus and C.-A. Behrendt. Various projects in health-care research and quality improvement have been coordinated by this growing academic working group. Over the years, GermanVasc has been served as founding member of international vascular collaborations as the International Consortium of Vascular Registries (ICVR) or the Medical Device Epidemiology Network (MDEpiNet). The group is deeply involved in the VASCUNET collaboration of the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS).

ICVR

GermanVasc is founding member of the International Consortium of Vascular Registries (ICVR). The ICVR was launched in 2014 with the goal to establish a collaborative platform across registries to share data to improve the quality of vascular health care. Manuscripts regarding abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) and carotid artery stenosis were published by this collaboration recently. GermanVasc was coordinating an international modified Delphi-study to find a consensual agreement on minimal recommendations for PAD-registries.

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Harmonization Projects
Registry Projects
Claims Data Projects

VASCUNET

Vascunet is a collaboration of vascular registries from Europe and Australasia, administered and partly funded by the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS). It was founded in 1997 and several reports and eight original articles have been published so far. GermanVasc was recently coordinating an international comparison of amputation incidences for peripheral arterial disease and diabetes.

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Founded in 1997
Quality Improvement Projects
Two Annual Meetings

IDOMENEO Consortium

In 2017, the IDOMENEO Consortium was established and funded (3,57 million Euros) by the German Federal Joint Committee (G-BA)
to implement a data privacy compliant and data safety registry plattform for peripheral vascular diseases in Germany. Central aspects of this multimethodological and multistage study is the utilization of health-insurance claims and primary registry data to perform quality improvement and vascular research.

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Quality Improvement
Health-insurance Claims Data
Validity of Claims

MDEpiNet

The Medical Device Epidemiology Network (MDEpiNet) is a global effort bringing together all parts of the medical device ecosystem to build a national medical device evaluation system. As a Public Private partnership, MDEpiNet is working to improve and integrate real-world data infrastructure, develop appropriate methodologies, and conduct studies to improve patient-centered outcomes for medical devices around the world. GermanVasc is founding member of this collaboration.

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Founded in 2016
Medical Device Evaluation
Harmonization of Data

Vascular Research and Quality Improvement

Previous Projects of GermanVasc

Various regional and national projects have been coordinated by GermanVasc during the last years. The percutaneous infrainguinal stent (PSI) registry-study aimed to collate all percutaneous endovascular procedures for infrainguinal peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAD) conducted in 74 German vascular centers between September and November 2015. The main aim of the PSI study was to obtain a realistic picture of percutaneous endovascular techniques used to treat suprapopliteal and infrapopliteal PAOD lesions and to describe the treatment procedures used by vascular specialists in Germany. The EQS study used consecutive registry data from the statutory population-based EQS-registry in Hamburg, covering all percutaneous endovascular revascularizations for PAD in the metropolitan area of Hamburg (5.3 million inhabitants). First projects cover radiation dosage and multidisciplinary team decisions. In 2015, the CORONA-study was started by GermanVasc. CORONA covers several methods and data sources to conduct quality improvement in vascular medicine. The DAK-study was initiated in 2016. GermanVasc conducts health-care research utilizing the DAK-database. Several publications have already been published or are currently under review.

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Portfolio

GermanVasc is well-experienced in health-services research and quality improvement using real-world-data. GermanVasc is aiming to implement an independent scientific infrastructure in Germany to improve the utilization of primary registry data (GermanVasc-Platform) and health insurance claims data in the field of vascular diseases.