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Persistence problems in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: How can patient support programs (PSP) help?
The authors analyze the problem of low persistence in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and discuss the principles and potential benefits of patient support programs.
26.01.2023
Quality and benefit are also frequently used terms in the healthcare system, with which we emphasize that significant resources are used to ensure optimal “quality of care” and to create “benefits” for those affected. Examples are the proportion of medical manpower (approx. 20%) that is committed to quality assurance and the expenses that arise as part of the approval of medicines for the creation of benefit dossiers (approx. 1 million euros/dossier). Quality and benefit are are therefore used as different dimensions of added health value, whereby quality could be a necessary prerequisite for providing benefit, but benefit is not necessarily a prerequisite for quality. The increasing scarcity of resources in health systems requires not only the critical analysis of new expenditure, but also the justification of existing expenditure. The not insignificant expenditure on ensuring the quality and benefit of health services can no longer be accepted as an end in itself1. On the one hand, they must be subjected to a “clinical-economic” analysis, through which the effort and the returns achieved for patients and society are compared. In addition, the differentiated analysis of quality and benefit opens up new considerations for financing health services. In order to carry out this analysis, it is first necessary to describe what is meant by “quality” and “benefit” in the healthcare system.
31.03.2015
Health care research and health care reality are closely intertwined. A constituent part of health services research is to analyze, evaluate and contribute to optimization of the reality of care. This is particularly important in the context of statutory health insurance. The implementation and optimization of care models is one of the core tasks of a health insurance company. Scientific evidence and health care management thus form a quasi-natural unit. The implementation of the findings from health services research into everyday care provides a direct benefit for those insured by the health insurance company as well as for the statutory health insurance.