Abstracts by keywords: ethics
The fact that it is still not known how many people die at home in Germany is chosen as the starting point for the argument in favor of establishing a place of death register. For this purpose, the fundamental importance - with quite heterogeneous objectives and functional purpose - of medical registers is made recognizable. It becomes clear that a register of places of death can be expected to be of great benefit in the short term, particularly for health care planning and health policy, but also in the medium term for the development of the quality of care and for findings for health care research and epidemiological studies in the medium to long term. This applies to all places (milieus, settings) of care. In order to design such a place of death register effectively in terms of content and function, an interdisciplinary working group with transsectoral experience extending beyond palliative care should be brought together. However, the precise - and annually reported - determination of the place of death would be a clear and practically easy to achieve progress.