Health Economics

Project: Emergency Care in Germany: Demand and Management
Project Duration
05/2017 - 10/2017 (finalized)
Commissioned by
Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung
Project Team (RWI)
Prof. Dr. Boris Augurzky (Chief), Alexander Haering , Dr. Philipp Breidenbach, Rüdiger Budde, Matthias Kaeding
Cooperation
Institut für Marktforschung, Statistik und Prognose, Institute for Health Care Business, Prof. Dr. Christoph Daudt
Summary
The project first summarizes the status quo of emergency care in Germany. It focuses on the special features of the German system, in particular current changes such as the transition to a staged system of emergency care. Subsequently the minimum number of emergency care service centers, which is necessary to ensure a nationwide comprehensive emergency care supply (target state), is identified by a simulation. This target state based on the simulation results is then compared with the actual locations (actual state). In addition, different patient control concepts are developed.
Selected project related publications
RWI Reports
2018
RWI (2018), Notfallversorgung in Deutschland. RWI Projektberichte download