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Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg ; 47(2): 453-460, 2021 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31209556

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BACKGROUND: The importance of emergency rooms (ERs) as everyday healthcare suppliers is growing. Due to increasing patient flows, hospitals are forced to raise physicians' and caregivers' headcount continuously to meet the new demand of patients seeing the ER as primary point of contact in non-emergency situations. Patients from various cultural and educational backgrounds approach the ER for different reasons. Detailed understanding of these reasons and their roots is key to be able to offer guidance for patients as well as planning and staffing of hospitals in the future. AIM: This study examines motivation for the entrance to the medical system via the ER in Germany via an anonymized patient survey. Evaluation in regard to socioeconomic and medical reasons is taken into account. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Over the course of 210 h in the ER, a total of 235 patients were interviewed in the surgical emergency room of Klinikum rechts der Isar in the year 2016. Focus was set on standard cases to allow for facilitated comparability. Heavily injured patients were excluded from the study. RESULTS: The main reasons for patients entering the ER were immediate help (45.9%) and treatment by a specialist (35.4%). Furthermore, the location/good accessibility (47.9%) and prior positive experience with the emergency room (20.7%) were decisive reasons for choosing the hospital over the outpatient sector. Analysis of demands of patients in relation to their migration background and their religious confession showed no significant difference between groups. CONCLUSION: Younger patients tend to more often access the ER instead of an outpatient clinic or doctor in private practice. As a survey suits the less urgent patients, our research describes this population in detail. The need for better information of patients regarding treatment options becomes apparent. The study's outcomes aim to teach physicians as well as operators how to influence resource management in the healthcare system by meaningful information of patients. Further research may evaluate long-term results of information measures.


Assuntos
Acessibilidade aos Serviços de Saúde , Motivação , Serviço Hospitalar de Emergência , Alemanha , Hospitais , Humanos
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Eur J Pediatr ; 180(4): 1145-1155, 2021 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33104872

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Newborn screening for cystic fibrosis (CF-NBS) was introduced in Germany in 2016. Currently, systematic follow-up of positive CF-NBS results is not implemented or reimbursed in the NBS program. We investigated results of confirmatory testing over 24 months after implementation of CF-NBS for a large German NBS center before and after introduction of an active tracking system and performed a cost calculation for tracking. Results are compared with the federal state of Bavaria, where a centralized tracking system has been in place for many years. At the NBS center, 244 of 281,907 children had a positive CF-NBS result requiring diagnostic confirmation. Before implementation of a telephone tracking system, only 43% of confirmatory results were returned despite repeated written requests. The consecutive strategy including telephone tracking led to an increase of resolved cases to 84%. However, the centralized tracking system in Bavaria, assigning children with positive CF-NBS directly to a responsible CF-center, resolved 99% of cases. The calculated additional cost for a tracking system in Germany including telephone tracking is 1.20€ per newborn screened.Conclusion: The implementation of a tracking system achieves a distinct improvement in CF-NBS with justifiable costs. The effect can be limited by absence of centralized organization of confirmatory testing. What is Known: • Newborn screening for cystic fibrosis (CF-NBS) has been performed for many years in several countries worldwide • While many studies have focused on different CF-NBS strategies, the organization of confirmatory testing and process quality concerning returned information to the NBS center has so far received less attention. What is New: • The implementation of an active tracking system achieves a distinct improvement of clarified cases after positive CF-NBS with justifiable costs. • The effect of a tracking system can be limited by the absence of a centralized organization of confirmatory testing.


Assuntos
Fibrose Cística , Triagem Neonatal , Criança , Fibrose Cística/diagnóstico , Regulador de Condutância Transmembrana em Fibrose Cística , Alemanha , Humanos , Recém-Nascido , Assistência ao Paciente
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Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr ; 88(1): 24-32, 2020 Jan.
Artigo em Alemão | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30731483

RESUMO

Modern psychiatry needs to implement novel mental health care systems in order to address recent developments in diagnostics and treatment of psychiatric patients. In this context, it is necessary to take into account recent ethical and certain legal aspects which explicitly seek to reduce coercive treatment. The so-called "track-unit" is a promising strategy in order to achieve these goals. The "track-unit" seeks to enhance and improve patients' autonomy, setting-overlapping team continuity, compliance and adherence to treatment as well as to reduce time of patients in hospital as inpatients by more flexible intervention. Although there are many interfaces between normal wards and the "track-unit", implementation into daily routine should be done gradually. The first part of this paper will focus on required changes taking as an example the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim. In the second part, we will describe corresponding helpful constructional measures. In part three, we will discuss the socio-economic aspects and benefits of "track-units". In conclusion, the implementation of "track-units" in a German psychiatric department is a personnel and economic endeavor to improve the link and coordination between diagnostics and treatment throughout all stages of mental illness.


Assuntos
Transtornos Mentais/terapia , Psiquiatria/métodos , Coerção , Humanos , Transtornos Mentais/diagnóstico , Transtornos Mentais/economia , Saúde Mental , Psiquiatria/economia , Psiquiatria/ética , Psicoterapia
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Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr ; 88(1): 12-23, 2020 Jan.
Artigo em Alemão | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30763961

RESUMO

During the past decades, important progress was made in the treatment of patients with mental disorders. Nevertheless, the guideline-based treatment still represents a significant challenge that must take into account novel diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities as well as recent social development and the economic framework. Therefore, there is a need for further improvement of care in inpatient, day-care and outpatient hospital units. An effective and economic over-arching treatment setting may be the so called "Track-unit". This is a symptom- and syndrome-based, decentralised, and modular constructed unit adjusted to the patient's individual stage-specific needs for his / her treatment across in- and outpatient sectors. This concept allows a team of clinicians to accompany a patient from acute (even coercive) admission through to discharge and outpatient department in order to ensure the best-fitted treatment providing a maximum continuity of care without break-points in responsibilities and information flow. The Track-unit may improve the quality of mental health care while at the same time meeting economic and social interests. However, its implementation is challenging for both staff and internal processes. Here, we focus on underlying principles of the Track-concept in a German psychiatric department emphasizing ethical, therapeutic, personnel, and educational benefits of this alternative and promising setting in modern psychiatry.


Assuntos
Transtornos Mentais/classificação , Transtornos Mentais/terapia , Psiquiatria/métodos , Hospital Dia , Alemanha , Hospitalização , Humanos , Pacientes Ambulatoriais
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Thromb Haemost ; 111(2): 290-9, 2014 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24154566

RESUMO

Although some observational studies reported that the measured level of P2Y12-inhibition is predictive for thrombotic events, the clinical and economic benefit of incorporating PFT to personalize P2Y12-receptor directed antiplatelet treatment is unknown. Here, we assessed the clinical impact and cost-effectiveness of selecting P2Y12-inhibitors based on platelet function testing (PFT) in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients undergoing PCI. A decision model was developed to analyse the health economic effects of different strategies. PFT-guided treatment was compared with the three options of general clopidogrel, prasugrel or ticagrelor treatment. In the PFT arm, low responders to clopidogrel received prasugrel, while normal responders carried on with clopidogrel. The associated endpoints in the model were cardiovascular death, stent thrombosis and major bleeding. With a simulated cohort of 10,000 patients treated for one year, there were 93 less events in the PFT arm compared to general clopidogrel. In prasugrel and ticagrelor arms, 110 and 86 events were prevented compared to clopidogrel treatment, respectively. The total expected costs (including event costs, drug costs and PFT costs) for generic clopidogrel therapy were US$ 1,059/patient. In the PFT arm, total costs were US$ 1,494, while in the prasugrel and ticagrelor branches they were US$ 3,102 and US$ 3,771, respectively. The incremental-cost-effectiveness-ratio (ICER) was US$ 46,770 for PFT-guided therapy, US$ 185,783 for prasugrel and US$ 315,360 for ticagrelor. In this model-based analysis, a PFT-guided therapy may have fewer adverse outcomes than general treatment with clopidogrel and may be more cost-effective than prasugrel or ticagrelor treatment in ACS patients undergoing PCI.


Assuntos
Síndrome Coronariana Aguda/tratamento farmacológico , Síndrome Coronariana Aguda/economia , Plaquetas/efeitos dos fármacos , Custos de Medicamentos , Modelos Econômicos , Inibidores da Agregação Plaquetária/economia , Inibidores da Agregação Plaquetária/uso terapêutico , Testes de Função Plaquetária/economia , Medicina de Precisão/economia , Antagonistas do Receptor Purinérgico P2Y/economia , Antagonistas do Receptor Purinérgico P2Y/uso terapêutico , Receptores Purinérgicos P2Y12/efeitos dos fármacos , Síndrome Coronariana Aguda/sangue , Síndrome Coronariana Aguda/diagnóstico , Plaquetas/metabolismo , Análise Custo-Benefício , Técnicas de Apoio para a Decisão , Árvores de Decisões , Humanos , Seleção de Pacientes , Inibidores da Agregação Plaquetária/efeitos adversos , Valor Preditivo dos Testes , Antagonistas do Receptor Purinérgico P2Y/efeitos adversos , Receptores Purinérgicos P2Y12/sangue , Medição de Risco , Fatores de Risco , Resultado do Tratamento
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