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Analysis of Chances and Harms in Emergency Replacement of Organs

What is it about?

Patient-oriented counseling to prepare for acute and intensive medical care at the end of life is essential. This counseling can take place in a structured manner and with the involvement of the social environment by general practitioners. However, it is currently not possible to develop structured counseling concepts according to the principles of evidence-based medicine, as central epidemiological data is not available: it is unknown how many patients receiving intensive care survive for one year. Similarly, the influence of the need for an organ replacement/support procedure and the admission diagnosis on this one-year survival rate has not been investigated.

How does the study work?

In order to close the evidence gap described above, an analysis of health insurance data is planned to analyze the annual survival rates of patients treated in intensive care. Data from GWQ ServicePlus AG, an association of company health insurance funds, will be used for this purpose.

Cooperation partner:

GWQ ServicePlus AG Düsseldorf