TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Hoffmann, Wolfgang
A1  - Latza, Ute
A1  - Baumeister, Sebastian E.
A1  - Brünger, Martin
A1  - Buttmann-Schweiger, Nina
A1  - Hardt, Juliane
A1  - Hoffmann, Verena
A1  - Karch, André
A1  - Richter, Adrian
A1  - Schmidt, Carsten Oliver
A1  - Schmidtmann, Irene
A1  - Swart, Enno
A1  - van den Berg, Neeltje
T1  - Guidelines and recommendations for ensuring Good Epidemiological Practice (GEP): a guideline developed by the German Society for Epidemiology
JF  - European Journal of Epidemiology
N2  - Objective
To revise the German guidelines and recommendations for ensuring Good Epidemiological Practice (GEP) that were developed in 1999 by the German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi), evaluated and revised in 2004, supplemented in 2008, and updated in 2014.

Methods
The executive board of the DGEpi tasked the third revision of the GEP. The revision was arrived as a result of a consensus-building process by a working group of the DGEpi in collaboration with other working groups of the DGEpi and with the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, the German Society of Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP), the German Region of the International Biometric Society (IBS-DR), the German Technology, Methods and Infrastructure for Networked Medical Research (TMF), and the German Network for Health Services Research (DNVF). The GEP also refers to related German Good Practice documents (e.g. Health Reporting, Cartographical Practice in the Healthcare System, Secondary Data Analysis).

Results
The working group modified the 11 guidelines (after revision: 1 ethics, 2 research question, 3 study protocol and manual of operations, 4 data protection, 5 sample banks, 6 quality assurance, 7 data storage and documentation, 8 analysis of epidemiological data, 9 contractual framework, 10 interpretation and scientific publication, 11 communication and public health) and modified and supplemented the related recommendations. All participating scientific professional associations adopted the revised GEP.

Conclusions
The revised GEP are addressed to everyone involved in the planning, preparation, execution, analysis, and evaluation of epidemiological research, as well as research institutes and funding bodies.
KW  - Guideline
KW  - Recommendation
KW  - Epidemiologic methods
KW  - Professional practice
KW  - Expert consensus
KW  - Epidemiologie
KW  - Richtlinie
KW  - Research practice
Y1  - 2019
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-17083
SN  - 1573-7284
SS  - 1573-7284
U6  - https://doi.org/10.25968/opus-1708
DO  - https://doi.org/10.25968/opus-1708
VL  - 34
SP  - 301
EP  - 317
ER  -