[Methodical requirements for quality reports of nursing facilities].

Background: Since 2009 there is a legal obligation in Germany to provide quality reports for all nursing facilities.

Objective And Methods: Criteria for measuring and presenting the quality of care defined for health services are applied to the area of nursing care. The German Nursing-Transparency-Order for nursing homes has been compared with those attributes.

[Clinical and economical outcome evaluation of dental care services received by German patients in countries outside the EU].

Purpose: During the past decade German patients developed an increasing tendency to dental health tourism in countries outside the European Union. The present investigation aimed at evaluating both clinical and economic outcome of dental care in these countries with regard to German directive standards.

Methods: Based on physical examinations performed by the Medizinische Dienst der Krankenversicherung Rheinland-Pfalz in the context of reimbursement or regress requests after dental care in countries outside the European Union, an individual treatment concept was designed and its direct costs from the patient's perspective were estimated according to German standards.