[Economic efficiency of outpatient rehabilitation -- final results of a study in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern].

This article presents the final results of a project comparing the economic effects of outpatient and inpatient rehabilitation in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The data analysed have been derived from the total population of applicants for orthopaedic-traumatologic rehabilitation who are suitable for outpatient rehabilitation in all criteria. The randomized and controlled study at first verified whether the outcome parameters of the two variants of rehabilitation are approximately equal. If this condition is fulfilled the differences between amounts and periods of payments and costs incumbent on the pension insurance agency are analyzed. And in fact, the final results confirm that, in suitable patients, outpatient rehabilitation can achieve approximately the same outcomes as inpatient rehabilitation -- but at distinctly lower cost.

RCT Entities:   Population Interventions Outcomes