Zeitschrift für Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen
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Z Evid Fortbild Qual Gesundhwes · Jan 2011
["The right to know": are patients having mandatory health insurance in Germany entitled to receive diagnostic services that have no medical consequences?].
Patients have the right to know whether they are ill and what the nature of their disease is. Apart from general preventive health examinations introduced by the Federal Joint Committee they are not eligible to diagnostic testing when there are no symptoms. ⋯ The Social Code Book V (SGB V) does not provide for an independent right of information of medical staff, for example, to prevent their acquisition of infection. But if the insured claims a medical service associated with a specific risk for the medical personnel, e.g. in case of an infectious disease, mandatory testing for such a risk can be administered.
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Z Evid Fortbild Qual Gesundhwes · Jan 2011
[Benchmarking in health care: conclusions and recommendations].
The German Health Ministry funded 10 demonstration projects and accompanying research of benchmarking in health care. The accompanying research work aimed to infer generalisable findings and recommendations. ⋯ Most projects lack a detailed analysis of structures and processes of the best performers as a starting point for the process of learning from and adopting best practice. To tap the full potential of benchmarking in health care, participation in voluntary benchmarking projects should be promoted that have been demonstrated to follow all the typical steps of a benchmarking process.