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abstract: Since the 1990ies, the field of Medical Rehabilitation in Germany, which is a largely independent part of the German health care system, has undergone a modification process oriented towards various objectives. An optimized orientation towards both user related attributes and result related aspects has been the object of endeavors, manifested in the introduction of quality assurance programs and intensified rehabilitation-scientific research. The quality assurance program created by the medical rehabilitation section of the federal statutory pension insurance providers (the so-called 5-point program) forms a central component of this new orientation. The conceptualization of appropriate initiatives for the medical rehabilitation sections of the health insurance organizations, for providers of child rehabilitation, and the field of ambulatory rehabilitation will take place within the immediate future.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kawski
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Koch