[Assessment of Long COVID in Medical Rehabilitation].

Purpose: The aim of the study was to provide an insight into the care situation of long COVID patients in inpatient medical rehabilitation facilities in Germany.

Methods: For this purpose, a standardized online survey was conducted among 1,080 inpatient medical rehabilitation facilities in Germany.

Results: A total of 338 cases were available for the analysis.

Two-Part Models and Quantile Regression for the Analysis of Survey Data With a Spike. The Example of Satisfaction With Health Care.

Results of patient satisfaction questionnaires can contain a spike at the value corresponding to a complete satisfaction. A possible interpretation is that there are two types of respondents, those who are willing to provide a negative evaluation to one or more items proposed in the questionnaire and those who will always provide a completely positive evaluation irrespective of the item. The aim of the present study is to compare various statistical approaches to the analysis of such data using data from a rehabilitation patient survey of the German Statutory Pension Insurance Scheme as an example.

Satisfaction with rehabilitative health care services among German and non-German nationals residing in Germany: a cross-sectional study.

Objectives: Rehabilitation following medical conditions is largely offered as in-patient service in Germany. Foreign-national residents use rehabilitative services less often than Germans and attain less favourable treatment outcomes. These differences are independent of demographic, socioeconomic and health characteristics.

[Paediatric Rehabilitation by the German Pension Insurance - Status Quo and Future Developments].

In Germany inpatient rehabilitation plays a major role for the treatment of children and adolescents with chronic health conditions. The German Pension Insurance carries out the rehabilitation of children and adolescents with high commitment. Paediatric rehabilitation enables children to go to kindergarten and school without interruption and participate in later professional life.

Self-rated treatment outcomes in medical rehabilitation among German and non-German nationals residing in Germany: an exploratory cross-sectional study.

Background: In many European countries, foreign nationals experience, on average, less favorable treatment outcomes in rehabilitative care than the respective majority population. In Germany, this for example is reflected in a lower occupational performance and a higher risk of disability retirement after rehabilitation as analyses of routine data show. However, little is known about the perspective of health care users.

[Outcome quality in rehabilitation of children and adolescents: results of project aiming at the development of a quality assurance programme].

Objectives: This study reports on the results of a project that was initiated by the German pension fund and the statutory health insurers and conducted in 2009 to 2010 with the goal of developing, arranging and testing instruments for quality assurance for the outcome (including patient satisfaction) in inpatient medical rehabilitation centres for children and adolescents.

Method: After a 6-month concept phase in which instruments were developed using value benefit analyses, expert consensus procedures, surveys of centres, and qualitative (cognitive interviews) and quantitative (psychometric tests) pre-studies, data were collected in 23 child and adolescent rehabilitation centres using the instruments that had been developed. The project was limited to the following 4 main diagnoses: obesity, bronchial asthma, atopic eczema, and hyperkinetic disorders as well as related disorders (ICD: F90-F94).

[Quality assurance of rehabilitation by the German pension insurance: an overview].

The German pension insurance has in recent years developed a comprehensive programme for quality assurance in rehabilitation, and has implemented the programme into routine practice. Different aspects of rehabilitation are evaluated with differentiated instruments. Issues dealt with inter alia include the quality of rehabilitative care in a narrower sense, the structure and organisation of the rehabilitation centres, as well as quality from the patients' perspective.

The German system of medical in-patient rehabilitation in children and adolescents.

The prevalence of chronic health conditions in young people is constantly increasing. A very important question is in which setting (in-patient or out-patient) these patients should ideally be treated. In Germany, in-patient rehabilitation of children and adolescents with chronic health conditions has a long history.

[Structure quality assurance in in-patient medical rehabilitation of children and adolescents].

Background: So far, the routine programmes of the statutory pension and health insurance institutes for quality assurance in medical rehabilitation have not included facilities for children and adolescents. Thus, a conjoint project of the statutory pension and health insurance institutes to assess and to describe the structure quality of in-patient medical rehabilitation clinics for children and adolescents was initiated. The aim of the project was a survey and an analysis of the currently existing clinic structures and the development of criteria for an evaluation of the structure quality.