Die Vereinbarung wurde unterschrieben von:
- Professor Dr. Sait Ada, President der Turkish Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (TOTBID)
- Professor Dr. Michael Nerlich, Präsident der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie e.V. (DGOU) und Präsident der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Unfallchirurgie e.V. (DGU)
- Professor Dr. Rüdiger Krauspe, stellvertretender Präsident der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädie und Orthopädische Chirurgie e.V. (DGOOC) und stellvertretender Präsident der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie e.V. (DGOU)
- Dr. Johannes Flechtenmacher, Präsident des Berufsverbandes für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie
In der Vereinbarung „The Berlin Declaration 2015“ heißt es:
Musculoskeletal conditions are the second greatest cause of disability globally according to a report by international experts, published in The Lancet dec.15, 2012. The report notes that the burden of bone and joint conditions have increased with 45 percent over the past 20 years and will continue to do so unless action is taken.
Disability due to musculoskeletal conditions and injuries can be effectively prevented by currently available interventions such as accident prevention, modern treatment of joint diseases and injuries with implementation of specialised trauma management system and rehabilitation.
To address the rapid, and never ending, technological development serving an increasing ageing population, it is imperative to develop cost effective treatments, based on quality assurance and patient safety as well as evidence based strategies and to measure clinical outcome.
The continuous education of orthopedic surgeons and general practitioners is vital to ensure that information is mutually exchanged to establish best practice for the benefit of patients with bone and joint diseases.
Turkish and German orthopedic and specialized trauma physicians are now starting a closer cooperation to increase bilateral technology and knowledge transfer. We aim to build and foster bilateral and international meetings for continuous medical education, research projects and exchange programs both for basic and specialized expert training. Focused on patients’ care and surgical techniques including rehabilitation and technical orthotic developments and prevention programs such as DDH screening programs including ultrasound we will establish structures which will allow continuous improvement of our standards of care in our countries. We will identify center based clinical and scientific projects mutually developed and performed under cooperative support by the national scientific associations TOTBID and DGOU and their divisions.
