title: [Mobile geriatric rehabilitation in statutory health insurance: Conceptual strategy and results of a nationwide treatment documentation (Part 1)].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Insurants have a statutory right to mobile rehabilitation in which a multidisciplinary team carries out treatment in the familiar home environment. Framework recommendations in geriatric medicine were presented by the statutory health insurance (SHI) and a standardized treatment documentation was implemented nationwide.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This article presents the conceptual design and selected results from this treatment documentation and reports on the established practice.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 1879 anonymized cases of mobile geriatric rehabilitation carried out between 2011 and 2014 from 11 participating institutions were analyzed with respect to patient and process-related features.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The patients were on average 81 years old and 61 % were female. The mobile rehabilitation was provided on average over 22 treatment days over a period of 8 weeks and in 84 % of cases following hospital treatment. Of the rehabilitation patients 27 % lived in a care home prior to treatment and 73 % were already allocated to a care level. The statistically significant gain in capacity for self-sufficiency was 18 points on the Barthel index at the end of the rehabilitation. The majority of treatment was provided by physiotherapists and occupational therapists followed by speech therapists and nursing personnel. Relevant differences were detected between the institutions regarding the indications, access route, therapy combinations, treatment frequency, scope and duration. At the same time individual requirements from the framework recommendations were sometimes not met.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Even though the treatment documentation does not replace any external mobile rehabilitation quality assurance, it provides transparency in a still very limited range of services that are sometimes differently implemented at institutions. It therefore provides the basis for further development of mobile out-patient rehabilitation in SHI.
authors.affiliation: Kompetenz-Centrum Geriatrie des GKV-Spitzenverbandes und der Gemeinschaft der Medizinischen Dienste, MDK Nord, Hammerbrookstr. 5, 20097, Hamburg, Deutschland. matthias.meinck@kcgeriatrie.de.
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meinck
authors.affiliation: Kompetenz-Centrum Geriatrie des GKV-Spitzenverbandes und der Gemeinschaft der Medizinischen Dienste, MDK Nord, Hammerbrookstr. 5, 20097, Hamburg, Deutschland.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pippel
authors.affiliation: Kompetenz-Centrum Geriatrie des GKV-Spitzenverbandes und der Gemeinschaft der Medizinischen Dienste, MDK Nord, Hammerbrookstr. 5, 20097, Hamburg, Deutschland.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lübke
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000592:standards*; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014600:Utilization Review
keywords: Geriatrics; Health services research; Multimorbidity; National health insurance services; Practical implementation