Abstracts by keywords: public health insurance
Influence of insurance status and income on waiting times in the outpatient sector. The length of the waiting time for an appointment in the outpatient and inpatient sectors is considered an important quality indicator and a significant parameter for access to medical care in most countries. Since waiting times are often perceived as an implicit form of rationing of healthcare services, this […]
25.09.2012
For years, numerous national and international publications have confirmed that in Germany, by international comparison, too few medically necessary operations are performed on an outpatient basis (Brökelmann 2007: 5; Toftgaard/Parmentier 2006: 42-48). Although it is known that some of these deviations can also be explained by different organizational and financial factors in the respective countries, the deviations in some operations are still too clear for these explanations to be used as the sole justification for the differences (Busse/Wörtz 2009: 52 – 54; Oberender & Partner 2010: 26 – 28).