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Description: This project is developing a concept for the creation of medical guidelines and science-based decision aids for laypersons that take into account the various aspects of sex/gender and diversity in people. Medical guidelines are intended to support healthcare professionals in making decisions, e.g. about different treatment alternatives. At present, guideline development processes do not generally result in science-based decision aids that are understandable to laypeople and support the patients in making the relevant decisions about their health. Furthermore, sex/gender- and diversity-specific aspects are not sufficiently taken into account in existing guidelines. In the "GenDivInfo" project, the methods for developing medical guidelines with the highest methodological standard (S3) are to be further developed in order to provide sex/gender diversity-appropriate guidelines and corresponding decision aids for laypersons. The methods can be transferred to other guideline processes in the future.