Instrumente zur Optimierung der Qualität der Rehabilitation

Abstract

Over the last years the statutory accident insurance VBG has undertaken a great effort to optimise the quality of rehabilitation services delivered. A major point was the implementation of a rehabilitation management which aims to provide individually tailored, demand-adjusted, co-ordinated, efficient and cost-effective services to people suffering from disability due to work-related accidents. The effects of rehabilitation management could be proved in numerous trials to date. Periodically performed workshops and scientific sessions attended by service providers as well as standardisation of treatment routines should improve the quality. Implementation of regional rehabilitation networks and concentration of cases within these networks results in minimising of process-driven costs of the co-ordination of rehabilitation services and in improving of their quality. Standardised procedures of repeated measurement of generic and condition-specific health status as well as health-related quality of life in course of rehabilitation processes using self-administered instruments assures change of them to improve the reliability of achieving relevant outcome.