I05-I09 I11 I13 I20-I25 I27 I30-I52
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Intervention group: Nursing home residents with quality-assured cross-professional care using telemedical applications over a period of 15 months. The care concept focuses on the joint diagno
Sponsors
Techniker Krankenkasse
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: The patient population comprises people with statutory health insurance in Berlin with cardiological diseases who are residents of a participating nursing home and who have given written informed consent. The control group is made up of a matched group of people insured by TK who receive standard care and are also residents of nursing homes. The control group is matched using propensity score matching on the basis of pseudonymized TK insurance data.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Residents who are not covered by statutory health insurance or who have not consented to study participation.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| First and foremost, the evaluation answers the question of the effectiveness of the BlenCon intervention as quality-assured care including telemedical applications compared to standard care based on the primary endpoint of the hospitalization rate (including emergencies and regular hospital admissions) within 15 months. This hospitalization rate is compared with the matched control group over 15 months. The primary endpoint of hospitalization rates will be mapped via the documentation in the study case file for the intervention group and via the routine data for the matched control group. In the intervention group, the specialist staff in the nursing homes record in the electronic case file when patients have been hospitalized as well as the relevant discharge diagnosis and length of stay. In the matched control group, hospital cases are recorded via the billed inpatient treatment cases. In addition, the rate of hospitalizations in the routine data is validated using the subgroup of TK patients in the intervention group, so that comparability of the data from the primary and secondary data collection is ensured and a bias in the collected data is avoided. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Length of hospital stay, mortality, patient transport, specialist care, adherence to medical guidelines, quality of life, costs | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactHannes Böbinger
Techniker Krankenkasse
Outcome results
None listed