Organisation der Notfallversorgung in Dänemark: Lösungsansätze für deutsche Probleme?
In Germany, the requirements for emergency medicine change due to the geodemographic change and new medical requirements. The emergency supply system in Denmark proves to be an interesting model. In the 00s, the concept of “central emergency departments” was developed and the number of hospitals with emergency rooms decreased from 56 to 27 and high-quality emergency care was to be ensured with fewer, but larger “emergency centers”. It should be noted that the population density in Denmark is only 128 inhabitants per km², as opposed to Germany’s with 230 per km2. Consequently, there is a great potential in Germany to concentrate emergency rooms of smaller hospitals in larger units, close minor sites and make additional investments in larger sites. For Germany this means that emergency care must be adequately defined, funded and implemented in the remuneration system in order to avoid disincentives. Safeguarding high-quality emergency care is the basic prerequisite for an efficient reorganization of the German health care system. Therefore, emergency care should become a focus of quality-oriented hospital planning.
Augurzky, B., A. Beivers, M. Giebner and A. Kirstein (2015), Organisation der Notfallversorgung in Dänemark: Lösungsansätze für deutsche Probleme?. In Jürgen Klauber, Max Geraedts, Jörg Friedrich and Jürgen Wasem (Hrsg.), Krankenhaus-Report 2015 - Schwerpunkt: Strukturwandel. Stuttgart: Schattauer, 77-97.