The aim of the project is to develop and pilot measures to optimize the person-centered cooperation between nursing services, general practitioners and members of the therapeutic professions in the care of people living at home with care needs, so that hospital admissions and the use of unplanned medical and rescue services are avoided, the quality of life is improved and a deterioration in the need for long-term care can be stopped. This is done by developing an interprofessional person-centered collaboration-concept, perform an explorative mixed-methods-study: interviews, focus groups, expert workshops, survey of best practices, shadowing, questionnaires.
Description of mixed-methods-study: 1. Interviews with * 20 patients, * 20 relatives, * 5 experts of health insurance professionals, * and 3 focus groups à 8 persons with general practioniers, nurses, therapists. 2. investigation of best practice cases 3. explorative survey of 100 cases in each group: * general practitioner * nursing services * therapists * persons in need of care * family members of persons in need of care The mixed-methods-study is analysed in different ways: * structured content analysis * case-based qualitative analysis of interviews * descriptive analysis The mixed-methods-study has been approved by the ethics committee and is recruiting.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
interprofessional, person-centered care concept
cumulative number of hospitalisation
Cumulative incidence of hospitalisations within 12 months
Time frame: 40 months
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