Abstracts by keywords: quality assurance
The German Pension Insurance (DRV) carries out a good one million medical and around 150,000 vocational rehabilitation services per year. In medical rehabilitation, there are inpatient and outpatient services in all relevant indications as well as rehabilitation services for children and adolescents (see Figure 1). Of the large number of vocational rehabilitation services (services for participation in working life), further training services and retraining are quality assured, as these are used over a longer period of time and cause a large part of the costs. According to Section 9 SGB VI, the aim of the rehabilitation of the pension insurance is to maintain or restore the professional integration of the insured and thus to avoid or eliminate a reduction in earning capacity due to illness or disability.
23.01.2017
The medical care for patients in Germany is undisputedly one of the best in the world, and this particularly applies to the care in hospitals. However, since the introduction of the flat-rate payment system, a steady increase in the number of cases has been observed, which has now led to a critical intensification of work in hospitals. The precarious current situation is exacerbated by a reduction in personnel, partly caused by a shortage of skilled workers, partly for cost reasons, particularly in nursing, as well as by other circumstances that originated long before the introduction of the DRG system. These consist, on the one hand, in the state-side deficit in financing investment costs, which has been increasing for decades, as well as in the historically grown structural deficits in the hospital landscape - which not only means the high hospital density in Germany compared to international standards, but also, in particular, the relevant regional differences when compared within Germany (1).
31.03.2015
Outpatient Surgeries: The Patient is the Focus. A large proportion of the most frequently performed inpatient surgeries in Germany can be performed on an outpatient basis without any disadvantages for the patient. This would result in advantages for the patient, the physician, and the payers. The patient would benefit from a complete course of treatment with the same trusted physician, shorter downtimes, [...]