Scientific Background
Research Questions
LifeQmed aims to document and analyse the process and outcome of inpatient cardiovascular rehabilitation stays. This should happen within a variably structured and delimited examination space!
Key aspects
- Gender equality with regard to access to rehabilitation as well as transition from acute care to rehabilitation
- Individual planning of treatments according to the therapy plan
- Medical outcome and quality of the process
- Financial resources deployed vis-à-vis quantified rehabilitation outcome
Qualitative Research
- Development of a big-data-driven outcome-measurement model based on quantitative research data
- This happens along the lines of the heart surgery model which is based on the EUROSCORE
- The model is able to evaluate the process and course of individual rehabilitation treatments as well as evaluate and adapt quality and efficiency across facilities in Europe
Scoring
- Development of quantitative parameter, outcome criteria, and measurement criteria incl. relevant variables for the scoring
- Scoring of patients based on the ICF classification
Evaluation
- Evaluation according to the value-based care model based one a specifically developed score. This score is based on
- ICF data (biological, psychological, social)
- Clinical process
- Economic data (structural costs, treatment costs)
- Consequently, this score enables a comparison of value-based care across facilities in Europe and monitors the assumed gender-specific negative weighting of cardiovascular rehabilitation