Abstracts by key term: Data Source
The development in health care includes the implementation of contracts between different players as one of the main regulating factors. Contracts don't run by themselves; it's not enough to agree on content and sign it. The evaluation must be taken into account and planned as early as when the contract is concluded, and not only after 3 years, but continuously and concomitantly. The appropriate source for the information, as well as the type and amount of information required, depends on the type of contract and the content of the contract. In order to consider selective contracts with doctors or groups, data and evaluations from random samples of relevant size, which also allow regionally valid considerations and extrapolations, are required. Evaluations from billing data are not sufficient here because they do not adequately reflect medical behavior.