PRO PRICARE: Preventing Overdiagnosis in Primary Care (PRO PRICARE)

Third party funded individual grant

Acronym: PRO PRICARE

Start date : 01.02.2017

End date : 31.01.2020

Extension date: 30.04.2020

Website: https://www.allgemeinmedizin.uk-erlangen.de/forschung/forschungsprojekte/abgeschlossene-projekte/pro-pricare/

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Scientific Abstract

Elderly people mostly experience a growing amount of health problems and disabilities. Medicine
reacts to this reflexively with evermore medical procedures, leading into a situation where medicine
might do more harm than good. This requires a rational choice of the most effective interventions.
However, medical overuse affects not only old patients. The blurring of the borders between riskfactors,
pre-disease and disease in combination with the advancement of medical technology,
entrepreneurship and a cultural preoccupation with health all carries the risk of “disease inflation”.
PRO PRICARE is the acronym for PReventing Overdiagnosis in PRImary CARE. PRO PRICARE
will focus on implementing feasible tools to identify areas of overtreatment and to prevent medical
overuse. Three projects will be conducted:

• ICF: International Classification of Functioning. Development of an ICF core set to place the person as the watershed between necessary and unnecessary medicine into the center of medical thinking.
• ICE: Ideas, concerns, expectations. Can patient-centered communication reduce the number of medical interventions in self-limited illness (here: acute low back pain)?
• ACE: Adverse cascade effects. Understanding and describing the beginnings and drivers of detrimental clinical pathways ending with unnecessary medical interventions (here: for thyroid disorders).

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