Ambulante Notfallbehandlung in der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung – Eine empirische Analyse

Kopetsch Thomas () and Steffen Laura
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Kopetsch Thomas: Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung BerlinBerlinDeutschland
Steffen Laura: Technische Universität DortmundDortmundDeutschland

Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, 2020, vol. 69, issue 3, 203-231

Abstract: Reorganization of the office-based emergency care system is currently on the political agenda in Germany. Analysing the present situation, the present study makes an empirical comparison between usage of the office-based emergency service and of the competing hospital outpatient departments in different localities, also examining the possible reasons for the differences.Family doctor density was found to have a negative influence on the number of cases in hospital outpatient departments and a positive influence on the number of cases dealt with by the emergency service of the office-based physicians. Further, the number of hospitals in a county correlates positively with the cases in hospital outpatient departments.

Keywords: Emergency service usage; emergency service of the statutory health insurance doctors; hospital outpatient departments; regional analyses; Notfallinanspruchnahme; Kassenärztlicher Bereitschaftsdienst; Krankenhausambulanzen; Regionalanalysen (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 I11 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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