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Parkinson Network Eastern Saxony (PANOS): Reaching Consensus for a Regional Intersectoral Integrated Care Concept for Patients with Parkinson's Disease in the Region of Eastern Saxony, Germany.

Authors :
Loewenbrück, Kai F.
Stein, Doron B.
Amelung, Volker E.
Bitterlich, Robert
Brumme, Martin
Falkenburger, Björn
Fehre, Annekathrin
Feige, Tim
Frank, Anika
Gißke, Carola
Helmert, Claudia
Kerkemeyer, Linda
Knapp, Andreas
Lang, Caroline
Leuner, Annegret
Lummer, Carina
Minkman, Mirella M. N.
Müller, Gabriele
van Munster, Marlena
Schlieter, Hannes
Source :
Journal of Clinical Medicine; Sep2020, Vol. 9 Issue 9, p2906, 1p
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

As integrated care is recognized as crucial to meet the challenges of chronic conditions such as Parkinson's disease (PD), integrated care networks have emerged internationally and throughout Germany. One of these networks is the Parkinson Network Eastern Saxony (PANOS). PANOS aims to deliver timely and equal care to PD patients with a collaborative intersectoral structured care pathway. Additional components encompass personalized case management, an electronic health record, and communicative and educative measures. To reach an intersectoral consensus of the future collaboration in PANOS, a structured consensus process was conducted in three sequential workshops. Community-based physicians, PD specialists, therapists, scientists and representatives of regulatory authorities and statutory health insurances were asked to rate core pathway-elements and supporting technological, personal and communicative measures. For the majority of core elements/planned measures, a consensus was reached, defined as an agreement by >75% of participants. Additionally, six representatives from all partners involved in the network-design independently assessed PANOS based on the Development Model for Integrated Care (DMIC), a validated model addressing the comprehensiveness and maturity of integrated care concepts. The results show that PANOS is currently in an early maturation state but has the potential to comprehensively represent the DMIC if all planned activities are implemented successfully. Despite the favorable high level of consensus regarding the PANOS concept and despite its potential to become a balanced integrated care concept according to the DMIC, its full implementation remains a considerable challenge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20770383
Volume :
9
Issue :
9
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Journal of Clinical Medicine
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
146175332
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9092906