[Cross-sectoral patient care in the district of Hamburg Harburg: an example of urological cooperation].

Background: Ensuring future urological care at the interface between out- and inpatient care is challenging due to demographic developments with an increasing proportion of urological diseases, the simultaneous threat of a shortage of physicians, and the increasing outpatient treatment of complex urological diseases.

Objectives: The cross-sectoral cooperation model between a university maximum care provider and the urologic joint practice with a hospital affiliation (BAG) presented below can serve as an ideal model for outpatient-inpatient care.

Materials And Methods: Since 2016, there has been close cooperation between the BAG in Winsen/Buchholz and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE).