title: [Preparation of the promotion of therapeutic studies as an open planning process].
abstract: During the preparation of the government program "Health Research and Development", which was started in 1978, an attempt was made to involve the scientific community directly in establishing priorities for research on rheumatic diseases. At a planning conference open to all interested research scientists the following questions were considered: 1. What are the methodological requirements for therapeutic trials? 2. What are the open questions in the field of clinical rheumatology and which of them should be given priority? 3. What are the conditions for running multicenter therapeutic trials successfully? This paper describes the methodology and the results of the analysis of research needs and priorities and discusses the special problems of clinical rheumatology research in the Federal Republic of Germany.
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D005860:Germany, West; D006285:Health Planning / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D012219:Rheumatology / Q000639:trends*
vernacular_title: Vorbereitung der Förderung von Therapiestudien als offener Planungsprozess.