r-connect supported the Interdisciplinary Platform on Benefit Assessment
ATMP & Orphan Diseases: Data sources beyond RCTs

  1. Die vier harmonischen Tiere: Ein Kommentar zum ersten Kapitel aus „Grundlegendes zu einer Erweiterung der Heilkunst“
    Der Merkurstab, März/April 2026

  2. Development of a Performance Measurement Framework for European Health Technology Assessment: Stakeholder-Centric Key Performance Indicators Identified in a Delphi Approach by the European Access Academy
    Journal of Market Access & Health Policy, January 2026

  3. Die Clavicula: Ein ganz besonderer "Schlüssel"
    Der Merkurstab, November/Dezember 2025

  4. The ‘Comedy of Errors’: Putting the principles of ‘false positive’ and ‘false negative’ error into context
    Der Merkurstab, May/June 2025

  5. Development and Pilot Test of the Registry Evaluation and Quality Standards Tool: An Information Technology–Based Tool to Support and Review Registries
    Value in Health, March 2022

  6. Intraindividual Comparisons to Determine Comparative Effectiveness: Their Relevance for G-BA’s Health Technology Assessments
    Value in Health, May 2021

  7. Review of Relative effectiveness assessments (REAs) of pharmaceuticals at the European network for health technology assessment (EUnetHTA): A first step towards a consolidated European perspective on comparative effectiveness & safety?
    Health Policy, June 2020

  8. Different interpretation of additional evidence for HTA by the commissioned HTA body and the commissioning decision maker in Germany: whenever IQWiG and Federal Joint Committee disagree
    Health Economics Review, December 2019

  9. Analysis of acceptance rate and rationales for rejection of indirect comparisons in IQWiGʼs benefit assessments
    Gesundheitsökonomie & Qualitätsmanagement, May 2019

  10. Effect of crossover in oncology clinical trials on evidence levels in early benefit assessment in Germany
    Value in Health, June 2018

  11. Is the EUnetHTA HTA core model fit for purpose? Evaluation from an industry perspective
    International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, October 2018

  12. Leveraging EUnetHTA’s conceptual framework to compare HTA decision drivers in France, Italy, and Germany from a manufacturer’s point of view
    Health Economics Review, September 2018

  13. “Market withdrawals” of medicines in Germany after AMNOG: a comparison of HTA ratings and clinical guideline recommendation
    Health Economics Review, September 2018

  14. Are FJC appraisals suitable to guide therapeutic decisions?
    Gesundhheitsökonomie & Qualitätsmanagement, September 2018

  15. Different approaches to evidence-based medicine in regulatory, health technology, and clinical decision making
    Pharmaceutical Medicine, July 2017

  16. Formative biology of bee swarms
    Tycho de Brahe Year Book, November 2016

  17. Aristotelian cause – Effect principles in medicine
    Der Merkurstab, April 2016

  18. Comparing EMA post authorization measures and additional evidence requirements by HTA bodies
    Health Economics Review, November 2016

  19. Patient relevance of primary endpoints across various disease areas
    BMC Health Services Research, November 2016

  20. Early benefit assessments in oncology in Germany: How can a clinically relevant endpoint not be relevant to patients?
    Drugs in R&D, August 2015

  21. Early benefit assessment (EBA) in Germany: analysing decisions 18 months after introducing the new AMNOG legislation
    European Journal of Health Economics, July 2014

  22. Questioning patient subgroups for benefit assessment: challenging the German Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss approach
    Value in Health, June 2014

  23. Content comparison of QoL instruments in COPD
    Respiratory Medicine, January 2007

  24. Direct costs in rheumatoid arthritis
    Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, March 2005

  25. ICF core sets for diabetes mellitus
    Journal of Rehabilitative Medicine, August 2004

  26. ICF core sets for obesity
    Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, August 2004