Die Rehabilitation
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Up to now, the majority of rehabilitative measures in Germany has been performed in inpatient programmes. In the past 10 years an extension of outpatient rehabilitation can be noted. Because of new social welfare legislation the legal disadvantages for participants in outpatient rehabilitation have been eliminated on the 1st July 2001. ⋯ In some regions there is a strong cooperation between pension insurance institutes and corresponding health insurance companies in order to extend outpatient rehabilitation. A quality assurance program for outpatient rehabilitation will be developed. It can be expected, that the extension of outpatient rehabilitation goes on and that thereby the possibilities of a more flexible medical rehabilitation grow.