Institut für Allgemeinmedizin

2026

• Sonntag U, Bischoff M, Kirchberger J, Roos M, Schwill S, Wild D. Development of teaching skills in general practice: What should trainees, instructors, mentors, and examiners be able to do during advanced training? Z Allg Med. 2026 Apr 15. doi: 10.1007/s44266-026-00522-1.
• Schmitt R, Schweter S. SindBERT, the Sailor: Charting the Seas of Turkish NLP. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Turkic Languages (SIGTURK 2026). March 2026;1–13. doi: 10.18653/v1/2026.sigturk-1.1.
• von der Warth R, Brühmann BA, Farin-Glattacker E, Kentischer F, Maun A, Maurer C, Minin V, Ritzi A, Salm C, Voigt-Radloff S. Effects of a modular intervention on mobility and activities of daily living in geriatric patients in an acute hospital setting—results of the stepped-wedge cluster-randomized Redurisk study. Aging Clin Exp Res. 2026 Mar 8. doi: 10.1007/s40520-026-03349-9. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41795734.
• Schramm E, Zehender N, Breuninger C, Hegerl U, Elsner A, Maun A, Schmölz M, Roick C, Sahlmann J, Grodd M, Domschke K, Elsaesser M, Graf E. Efficacy of an online self-help program with automated or individualized psychological support versus treatment as usual for caregivers of people with depression: a randomized, controlled, open-label superiority trial. Lancet Reg Health Eur. 2026 Mar;62:101560. doi:10.1016/j.lanepe.2025.101560.
• Schmitt R. From raw text to fairseq RoBERTa: A modular Snakemake-based framework enabling language-specific BPE tokenization. Softw Impacts. 2026;27:100824. doi: 10.1016/j.simpa.2026.100824.
• Schönthaler M, Hempen N, Weymann M, von Bargen MF, Glienke M, Elsässer A, Behrens M, Binder H, Binder N. Challenges and solutions in determining urolithiasis caseloads using the digital infrastructure of a clinical data warehouse. PLoS One. Jan 23, 2026;21(1):e0341068. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0341068. PMID: 41576013; PMCID: PMC12829838.
• Heiko Becher, Nadia Obi, Tilman Brand, Hermann Brenner, Laura Buschmann, Renée T. Fortner, Karin Halina Greiser, Volker Harth, Wolfgang Hoffmann, André Karch, Thomas Keil, Alexander Kluttig, Lilian Krist, Michael Leitzmann, Andy Maun, Rafael Mikolajczyk, Katharina Nimptsch, Tobias Pischon, Sabine Schipf, Börge Schmidt, Ulla T. Schultheiss, Matthias Schulze, Hajo Zeeb, Christian Wiessner, Participation behavior of different migrant groups in breast cancer screening – breast palpation and mammography. Results from the German national cohort (NAKO), Journal of Migration and Health, Volume 13, 2026, 100397, ISSN 2666-6235, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmh.2026.100397.

2025

• Schwitzkowski M, Veeranki SPK, Seidel BN, Kindle G, Rusch S, Kramer D, et al. Machine learning–assisted diagnosis classification of primary immune dysregulation using IDDA2.1 phenotype profiling. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2025 Nov 5; In Press. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2025.10.022. Accepted/In press 2025.
• Raphael Scheible-Schmitt, Henry He, and Armando B. Mendes. 2025. PortBERT: Navigating the Depths of Portuguese Language Models. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Beyond English: Natural Language Processing for all Languages in an Era of Large Language Models, pp. 59–71, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, BULGARIA.
• Albrecht F, Talpa R, Scheible-Schmitt R. Enhancing medical information retrieval: Re-engineering the tala-med search engine for improved performance and flexibility. Health Informatics Journal. 2025;31(3). doi:10.1177/14604582251381271
• Salm, C., Spiegelhalder, K., & Maun, A. 48-year-old male with difficulty falling and staying asleep. Z Allg Med (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44266-025-00412-y
• Bogaert DJA, Wolfsberger CH, Attarbaschi A, Gathmann J, Warnatz K, Mueller G, Mukhina A, Rusch S, ESID Registry Working Party, Kindle G, van Montfrans JM, Seidel MG. Epidemiology and management of malignancies in patients with inborn errors of immunity — An ESID registry study of 19,959 patients. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2025 Nov 14;S0091-6749(25)01126-1. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2025.10.033. PMID: 41242640.
• Schlett C, van der Keylen P, Schöpf-Lazzarino A, Röttele N, Körner M, Maun A, Meerpohl J, Horstmeier L, Kaier K, Farin-Glattacker E, Voigt-Radloff S. Efficacy of a physician-led web portal for back pain: A
  cluster-randomized controlled trial. Dtsch Arztebl Int 2025; 122: 203-9; DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.m2025.0015
• Gräfe W, Tinsel I, Börger M, Kloppe T, Maun A, Riemenschneider H. General practitioners' attitudes and barriers to patient activation in cardiovascular disease prevention: insights from the DECADE study. BMC Prim Care. 2025 Mar 28;26(1):86. doi: 10.1186/s12875-025-02798-x. PMID: 40155816; PMCID: PMC11951579.
• Salm C, Schlößler K et al. Catalog of learning objectives for the training of general practice teams in the implementation, planning, and evaluation of research projects involving patient recruitment in general practice. Version 1.0., 2024. Available at https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/263614 DOI: 10.6094/UNIFR/263614
• Hecht M, Blümle A, Binder H, Schumacher M, Binder N. Investigator-initiated versus industry-sponsored trials - visibility and relevance of randomized controlled trials in clinical practice guidelines (IMPACT). BMC Med Res Methodol. March 27, 2025;25(1):80. doi: 10.1186/s12874-025-02535-z. PMID: 40140983; PMCID: PMC11948659.
• Pfaffenlehner M, Behrens M, Zöller D, Ungethüm K, Günther K, Rücker V, Reese JP, Heuschmann P, Kesselmeier M, Remo F, Scherag A, Binder H, Binder N; EVA4MII project. Methodological challenges using routine clinical care data for real-world evidence: a rapid review utilizing a systematic literature search and focus group discussion. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2025 Jan 14;25(1):8. doi: 10.1186/s12874-024-02440-x. PMID: 39810151; PMCID: PMC11731536.
• Braun L, Haumann H, Polanc A, Koch R, Feil E, Klein A, Salm C, Peters-Klimm F, Hübner G, Thies C, Biergans S; FoPraNet-B. W. Study Group; Joos S. Time-restricted eating (TRE) for obesity in general practice: study protocol of a controlled, randomized implementation study (INDUCT) within the Research Practice Network Baden-Württemberg (FoPraNet-BW). Nutr J. 2025 Mar 8;24(1):36. doi: 10.1186/s12937-025-01091-y. PMID: 40057785; PMCID: PMC11889858.
• Specht L, Scheible R, Boeker M, Farin-Glattacker E, Kampel N, Schmölz M, Schöpf-Lazzarino A, Schulz S, Schlett C, Thomczyk F, Voigt-Radloff S, Wegner C, Wollmann K, Maun A. Evaluating the Acceptance and Usability of an Independent, Noncommercial Search Engine for Medical Information: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study and User Behavior Tracking Analysis. JMIR Hum Factors. 2025 Jan 23;12:e56941. doi: 10.2196/56941. PMID: 39847765.
• Quitmann C, Terres L, Maun A, Sauerborn R, Reynolds E, Bärnighausen T, Herrmann A, Franke B. Assessing greenhouse gas emissions in hospitals: The development of an open-access calculator and its application to a German case study. Cleaner Environmental Systems. Jan 16, 2025;100262. doi: 10.1016/j.cesys.2025.100262.

2024

• Mergenthal, K.; Klein, AA.; Schlößler, K.; Salm, C.; Kuschick, D.; Wolf F. (2024): The Research Ready Concept of the Initiative of German Research Practice Networks – DESAM-ForNet. A Guide for (New) Research Practice Networks. DESAM-ForNet, Berlin. Available online: https://www.desam-fornet.de/stellungnahmen-und-ergebnisse/
• Kurnaz Ay, M., Sivri, B. B., Burggraf, L., Canbaz, M., Çelik, K., Çetiner, M. A., Çiftçi, A. M., Demirtürk, M., Eryiğit, U., Gehrmann, J., Kurt, Şule, Kunisch, R., Zehirlioğlu, L., Roos, M., & Aktürk, Z. (2024). Navigating Exodus: Understanding the Migration Dynamics of Health Care Professionals from Turkey. European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 4(1), 48–58. https://doi.org/10.24018/ejsocial.2024.4.1.519
• Ko J, Krug K, Förster C, Jähnig T, Bischoff M, Becker C, Schwill S. Lateral entry into general practice - an exploratory analysis of general practice trainees in the competence center for postgraduate medical education Baden-Württemberg. GMS J Med Educ. 2024 Nov 15;41(5):Doc51. doi: 10.3205/zma001706. PMID: 39711871; PMCID: PMC11656172.
• Möllenhoff K, Binder N, Dette H. Testing Similarity of Parametric Competing Risks Models for Identifying Potentially Similar Pathways in Healthcare. Stat Med. 2024 Dec 10;43(28):5316-5330. doi: 10.1002/sim.10243. Epub 2024 Oct 12. PMID: 39395177; PMCID: PMC11586916.
• Schmutz P, Krauss A, Dörflinger S, Becker A, Koch R, Polanc A, Feil E, Salm C, Scheeser K, Peters-Klimm F, Thies C. FoPraNet-BW: An Infrastructure for Clinical Studies in Practice-Based Research Networks in the German Health System. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2024 Aug 22;316:190-194. doi: 10.3233/SHTI240376. PMID: 39176705.
• Pfefferle A, Binder N, Sauer J, Sofroniou M, Metzner G, Farin E, Voigt-Radloff S, Maun A, Salm C. Association between continuity of care and inappropriate prescribing in outpatient care in Germany: a cross-sectional analysis conducted as part of the LoChro trial. BMJ Open. 2024 Jul 22;14(7):e082245. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-082245. PMID: 39038858.
• Kunzler AM, Voigt-Radloff S, Maun A et al. CEOsys consortium. Informing pandemic management in Germany with trustworthy, living evidence syntheses and guideline development: Lessons learned from the COVID-19 evidence ecosystem (CEOsys). J Clin Epidemiol. 2024 Jul 11:111456. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2024.111456. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39002765.
• Siegel A, Ehmann AT, Meyer I, Gröne O, Niebling W, Martus P, Rieger MA. Correction: Siegel et al. PEN-13: A New Generic 13-Item Questionnaire for Measuring Patient Enablement (German Version). Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 4867. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2024 Mar 28;21(4):411. doi: 10.3390/ijerph21040411. Erratum for: Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Dec 03;16(23):E4867. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16234867. PMID: 38673427; PMCID: PMC11050423.
• Tigges P, Greser A, Gágyor I, Kraft J, Maun A, Schmiermann G, Schwienhorst-Stich EM, Heintze C, Schuster A. Addressing AMR and Planetary Health in primary care: The potential of general practitioners as change agents. July 11, 2024. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1383423.
• Brisnik V, Vukas J, Jung-Sievers C, Lukaschek K, Alexander GC, Thiem U, Thürmann P, Schüle C, Fischer S, Baum E, Drey M, Harder S, Niebling W, Janka U, Krause O, Gensichen J, Dreischulte T; POKAL Group. Deprescribing of antidepressants: development of indicators of high-risk and overprescribing using the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method. BMC Med. 2024 May 13;22(1):193. doi: 10.1186/s12916-024-03397-w. PMID: 38735930; PMCID: PMC11089726.
• von der Warth R, Hempler I. Vulnerable groups – Aren’t we all a little vulnerable? Z Evid Advanced Training Qual Gesundhwes. 2024 Jan 13:S1865-9217(23)00212-X. German. doi: 10.1016/j.zefq.2023.11.002. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38218666.
• Helm K, Maun A, Hempler I, An App(le) a day keeps the doctor away – on digital health interventions for young people in precarious life situations. In Middendorf T, Parchow A, (eds.) “Young People in Precarious Life Situations,” 2024, ISBN 978-3-7799-7529-8, 239–251
• Waibel AM, Bischoff M. Digital competencies in medical studies: results of an interdisciplinary course. HNO. 2024 Mar;72(3):161-165. German. doi: 10.1007/s00106-023-01411-w. Epub 2024 Jan 24. PMID: 38265753; PMCID: PMC10879353.

2023

• Tinsel I, Schmoor C, Börger M, Kamp M, Kaier K, Hardt H, Kloppe T, Rakebrandt A, Scherer M, Bergmann A, Görbing T, Kutter S, Riemenschneider H, Maun A. Encouragement of patients' self-management in primary care for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases (DECADE): protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2023 Apr 25;13(4):e071230. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-071230. PMID: 37185187; PMCID: PMC10151245.
• Mentzel A, Maun A. Outpatient prescribing practices for antibiotics and attitudes toward prescribing feedback. Journal of General Medicine (2023): 1-7, https://doi.org/10.1007/s44266-022-00007-x
• Schuster A, Tigges P, Grune J, Kraft J, Greser A, Gágyor I, Boehme M, Eckmanns T, Klingeberg A, Maun A, et al. GPs’ Perspective on a Multimodal Intervention to Enhance Guideline-Adherence in Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections: A Qualitative Process Evaluation of the Multicenter RedAres Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. Antibiotics. 2023; 12(12):1657. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics12121657
• Maun A, Busch HJ. Treating the Cause, Not the Symptoms. Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2023 Jul;120(29-30):489–90. doi: 10.3238/arztebl.m2023.0125. Epub 2023 Jul 24. PMCID: PMC10511013.
• Schmiemann G, Greser A, Maun A, Bleidorn J, Schuster A, Miljukov O, Rücker V, Klingeberg A, Mentzel A, Minin V, Eckmanns T, Heintze C, Heuschmann P, Gágyor I. Effects of a multimodal intervention in primary care to reduce second-line antibiotic prescriptions for urinary tract infections in women: parallel, cluster-randomized, controlled trial. BMJ. 2023 Nov 2;383:e076305. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2023-076305. PMID: 37918836; PMCID: PMC10620739.
• Maun A, Björkelund C, Arvidsson E. Primary care utilization, adherence to guideline-based pharmacotherapy, and continuity of care in primary care patients with chronic diseases and multimorbidity – a cross-sectional study. BMC Prim. Care 24, 237 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-023-02191-6
• Egidi G, Niebling W, Schmiemann G, Wille H, Wilm S. "Consensus-Based" Alternative Recommendations Are Disconcerting. Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2023 Aug 7;120(31-32):542-543. doi: 10.3238/arztebl.m2023.0084. PMID: 37721145; PMCID: PMC10534136.
• Schrader H, Borgulya G, Parisi S, Joos S, Kaduszkiewicz H, Barzel A, Raus C, Sanftenberg L, Kühlein T, Maun A, Schmidt J, Linde K, Gágyor I. General Practitioners' Experiences with COVID-19: a Survey After the First Wave of the Pandemic in March/April 2020. Gesundheitswesen. 2023 May 30. German. doi: 10.1055/a-2042-9715. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37253369.
• Metzner G, Horstmeier LM, Bengel J, Bitzer EM, Dreher E, Frank F, Göhner A, Heimbach B, Himmelsbach I, Kaier K, Kiekert J, Kohler K, Laubner K, Lyssenko L, Maun A, Maurer C, Salm C, Seufert J, Voigt-Radloff S, Farin-Glattacker E. Local, collaborative, stepped, and personalized care management for older people with chronic diseases—results from the randomized controlled LoChro trial. BMC Geriatr. 2023 Feb 13;23(1):92. doi: 10.1186/s12877-023-03797-2. PMID: 36782119; PMCID: PMC9924193.
• Jørgensen CK, Olsen MH, Nielsen N, et al. Centre for Statistical and Methodological Excellence (CESAME): A Consortium Initiative for Improving Methodology in Randomized Clinical Trials. Health Services Insights. 2023;16. doi:10.1177/11786329231166519
• Tinsel I, Schmoor C, Börger M, et al. Encouragement of patients’ self-management in primary care for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases (DECADE): protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. BMJ Open 2023;13:e071230. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-071230
• Herz C, Frei L, Tran HTT, Claßen S, Spöttel J, Krell M, Hanschen FS, Arvandi M, Binder N, Schreiner M, Rohn S, Lamy E (2023) A monocentric, randomized, double-blind, controlled crossover trial of nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus) on the lipid regulator prostaglandin E2. Front. Nutr. 10:1223158. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2023.1223158
• Salm C, Mentzel A, Sofroniou M, et al. Analysis of the key themes in the healthcare of older people with multimorbidity in Germany: a framework analysis as part of the LoChro trial BMJ Open 2023;13:e069814. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069814