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Die Juni-Ausgabe des „Journal of Health Monitoring“ (2023 8-2), gemeinsam getragen von RKI und Destatis, befasst sich in der Reihe der Gesundheitsberichterstattung des Bundes diesmal mit der Kinder- und Jugendgesundheit (1) und liefert Beiträge zu aktuellen epidemiologischen Themen. Unter anderem fordert Prof. Dr. Ute Thyen, APL-Professorin an der Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin der Universität […]
03.10.2023
At the opening event of World Patient Safety Day 2023, Federal Health Minister Prof. Dr. Karl Lauterbach did not address the demands of Dr. Ruth Hecker, chairwoman of the Patient Safety Action Alliance, who in her opening speech urged him to "strengthen the voice of patients" and called for the nationwide recording of "patient experiences through standardized and cross-sectoral surveys."
03.10.2023
The two Cologne professors Dr. Stephan Baldus (Director of Clinic III for Internal Medicine at the University Hospital of Cologne) and Dr. Karl Lauterbach (appointed professor of health economics and clinical epidemiology at the University of Cologne in 1997, but since 2005 he has been on leave as a member of parliament in accordance with Section 5 of the Parliamentary Act and is currently Federal Minister of Health (20th legislative period 2021-2025)) have a common, if […]
03.10.2023
The bad news: The number of people who will suffer from dementia in this country in the future will increase. Based solely on the demographic development - based on an estimate and based on the current treatment options and without any special consequences such as co-incidences with Corona, which Federal Minister of Health Prof. Dr. Karl Lauterbach warned (see p. 38) - in 2050 around 2.8 million Germans will have dementia, plus around 2 million with Alzheimer's dementia. The good news afterwards: The disease could soon lose its terror.
03.10.2023
For many years, experts have been warning that the historically created sector boundaries and the associated false incentives with breaks in care and incorrect care in the German healthcare system should be addressed and eliminated (SVR 2012; SVR 2018; Nagel et al. 2017). The care areas of the medical care centers (MVZ) implemented in the Fifth Social Code (SGB V) according to § 95, the day hospital treatment according to § 115, the pre- and post-inpatient treatment according to § 115a, outpatient surgery according to § 115b, the authorization according to § 116 , outpatient treatment at the hospital (ABK) according to § 116b old version, the university outpatient clinic according to § 117, the social psychiatric outpatient clinics according to § 120, the affiliated doctor system according to § 121, the disease management programs according to § 137f, the previously integrated and now special Care in accordance with Section 140a SGB V, to name just a few, have neither eliminated the parallel care structures nor reduced sector boundaries nor equalized the differences between urban and rural areas (Dengler et al. 2018; Jacobs 2019; Wolf 2020).
03.10.2023
Two areas must play a key role in the current discussion about efficient networked care between the inpatient and outpatient sectors. The current lowest level of care in the desired hospital reform is considered - the so-called Level Ii of integrated outpatient-inpatient care as well as the area of sector-equivalent care and remuneration in accordance with Section 115 f SGB V. Both areas have the potential to achieve a far-reaching position within the framework of high-quality medical care However, efficient patient care is not considered worthwhile in the current legislative process.
03.10.2023
The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 began in Germany in March 2020 and, according to the Robert Koch Institute's retrospective phase classification, has a course consisting of six waves and two summer plateau phases in 2020 and 2021 (1). Due to the pandemic spread and the high number of infected and deceased people, the corona pandemic is viewed by both the media and experts as a time of crisis (2).
03.10.2023
In the interview: Prof. Dr. med. Max Geraedts, M. San., Head of the Institute for Health Services Research and Clinical Epidemiology in the Department of Medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg.
02.08.2023
If you want health regions, you have to rethink
What becomes possible with the new Section 140b “Health Regions” from the Health Care Strengthening Act. Supplemented online version
02.08.2023
Kick-off event for this year's Capital Congress 2023