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Busse R, Blümel M (2014): Germany: Health system review. Health
Systems in Transition. 16(2): 1-296 [6]

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The European Observatory on Health Systems has just released a new
version of the report on Germany, looking at the German health system
at an interesting pint in time: Almost 25 years have elapsed since the
fall of the Berlin wall and German reunification. Since then various
governments have implemented a number of important reforms in the
health sector, including changes in self-governing structures,
financing the statutory health insurance system, paying providers and
assessing and reimbursing pharmaceuticals.
Today the German health care system has a generous benefit basket, one
of the highest levels of capacity as well as modest cost-sharing.
Expenditure per capita is high and access is good. However, the German
health care system also shows areas in need of improvement if compared
with other countries. This is demonstrated by the low satisfaction
figures with the health system in general and a lack in quality of
care, if the outcomes of individual illnesses are analyzed.
This more than 300-page health system review on Germany scrutinizes
changes and reforms that have taken place since the last report
published in 2005 and discusses challenges for the new government in
power since the end of 2013.
more to: Busse R, Blümel M
(2014): Germany: Health system review. Health Systems in Transition.
16(2): 1-296 [7]
Busse R, Geissler A, Mason A, Or Z, Scheller-Kreinsen D, Street A
(Eds.) (2012): Diagnosis-Related Groups in Europe (EuroDRG): Do they
explain variation in hospital costs and length of stay across patients
and hospitals? Health Economics, Volume 21 [8]
Since the
development of the first classification of diagnosis-related groups
(DRGs) in the 1970s, the number of DRG systems has proliferated, with
many countries developing their own versions, which are periodically
overhauled. The original intention was that DRGs would classify
patients into a manageable number of resource homogenous groups, and
this remains the fundamental basis for classification. However, herein
lies a puzzle: is variation in medical practice and resource use so
great across countries that each requires its own patient
classification system? Or are some DRG systems better than others at
categorising patients into resource homogenous groups?
more to: Busse R, Geissler A,
Mason A, Or Z, Scheller-Kreinsen D, Street A (Eds.) (2012):
Diagnosis-Related Groups in Europe (EuroDRG): Do they explain
variation in hospital costs and length of stay across patients and
hospitals? Health Economics, Volume 21 [9]
Busse R, Geissler A, Quentin W, Wiley M (Eds.) (2011):
Diagnosis-Related Groups in Europe - Moving towards transparency,
efficiency and quality in hospitals. Open University Press [10]

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Diagnosis-related group systems were introduced throughout Europe
for similar reasons: to increase transparency, and to improve
efficiency and assure quality in hospitals. After more than a decade
of experience with using diagnosis-related groups in Europe, it's time
to consider whether their extensive use has contributed towards
achieving these aims.
more to: Busse R, Geissler A,
Quentin W, Wiley M (Eds.) (2011): Diagnosis-Related Groups in Europe -
Moving towards transparency, efficiency and quality in hospitals. Open
University Press [11]
BUSSE R, SCHREYÖGG J, SMITH P (2008): Variability in healthcare
treatment costs amongst nine EU countries – results from
HealthBASKET project (Editorial). Health Economics 17(S1): 1-8
[12]

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Patient mobility gives rise to some fundamental information
requirements, such as the nature of the basket of services offered in
the different Member States, how these are defined, how often they are
used for particular patients, what their costs are, what prices are
paid for them, the quality with which they are delivered, and their
cost-effectiveness. This knowledge will enable both Member States and
the European Commission to formulate coherent policies on patient
mobility in a way that will preserve both the financial viability of
existing health systems and the treasured principles of universality,
equity and accessibility. Further, if patients are to benefit from the
opportunity offered by the European Union’s emerging healthcare
market, they too will need to know the nature, quality and costs of
services available elsewhere. Finally, international comparison based
on good quality data is an important tool for learning from best
practice within and between countries.
However, international comparisons of service, cost and quality data
are currently not routinely available for individual treatments. Up to
now, healthcare cost comparisons have been usually made at an
aggregate level and variations have been identified at the
macro-level, e.g. in purchasing power parities (PPPs) per capita, as a
percentage of GDP, distribution of expenditure per sector. Most
fundamentally, analysis of international variation in the costs of
individual services at the micro-level is diff...
more to: BUSSE R, SCHREYÖGG
J, SMITH P (2008): Variability in healthcare treatment costs amongst
nine EU countries – results from HealthBASKET project (Editorial).
Health Economics 17(S1): 1-8 [13]
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