[Treatment goals as an instrument of quality management in psychosomatic rehabilitation].
The present article outlines the development of a system of categories of treatment goals in psychosomatic rehabilitation. As a first step a content analysis of 242 letters of discharge was carried out. In order to give a systematic describe of the thus extracted goals a system of categories was developed. Which was then in a second step used as the basis for detailed discussions by psychosomatic rehabilitation experts aimed at revising and optimizing the system of categories. This developed classification of treatment goals--owning to the possibility in principle of operationalization--will provide the conditions for further strategies within the context of evaluation and measures of quality assurance.
Dirmaier
Jörg
J
Medizinische Klinik, Abteilung für Medizinische Psychologie, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf. dirmaier@uke.uni-hamburg.de
Koch
Uwe
U
Kawski
Stephan
S
Schulz
Holger
H
D006801:Humans; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D011611:Psychosomatic Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care