BACKGROUND: Due to rapidly developing knowledge guidelines should be regularly, i.e. annually, checked for validity and amended. METHODS: Exemplified by the S3 guidelines on prostate cancer a contradiction between the need for updating and financial resources can be seen. Because the participating experts have only limited availability, the hurdles in the application procedure linked to bureaucracy should at least be dropped. RESULTS: In the living guidelines on prostate cancer key questions on 13 updating and 5 primary points in question have been formulated and resolved. Examples of updating are imaging, active surveillance and high-intensity focused ultrasound and for primary points, the benefits of new markers and the results of proton therapy. The work, supported by other disciplines, the ÄZQ (Medical Center for Quality in Medicine) and the BPS (Federal Association of Prostate Self-help) should be finished by September 2011.
BACKGROUND: Due to rapidly developing knowledge guidelines should be regularly, i.e. annually, checked for validity and amended. METHODS: Exemplified by the S3 guidelines on prostate cancer a contradiction between the need for updating and financial resources can be seen. Because the participating experts have only limited availability, the hurdles in the application procedure linked to bureaucracy should at least be dropped. RESULTS: In the living guidelines on prostate cancer key questions on 13 updating and 5 primary points in question have been formulated and resolved. Examples of updating are imaging, active surveillance and high-intensity focused ultrasound and for primary points, the benefits of new markers and the results of proton therapy. The work, supported by other disciplines, the ÄZQ (Medical Center for Quality in Medicine) and the BPS (Federal Association of Prostate Self-help) should be finished by September 2011.
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