General Methods

The General Methods describe the basic work procedures of the Institute. They describe in detail, among other things, the scientific principles followed by IQWiG, the sequence of the individual steps followed in the production of the work results, the procedure of the collaboration with external experts and how IQWiG's results are published.

Commenting procedure started

The Institute has presented the draft of the next revision of its General Methods. Interested persons and institutions can submit comments on the contents of the updates and amendments in the draft of version 8.0.

Comments on the methodology presented here may be submitted by 2025-04-29 (12 pm) to the following e-mail address: methoden@iqwig.de

General Methods: Draft of Version 8.0 (German version)

General Methods Version 7.0

General Methods Version 6.1

Methods Paper 6.0

A methodological proposal for developing IQWiG patient information

proposal (2005-03-29)

Here you will find the previous drafts and versions of the IQWiGmethods on cost-benefit assessment. Pleasenote: In Version 4.2, the revised methods for health economicevaluation have been reintegrated into the General Methods as the new Chapter 4.