Evaluation of in-hospital treatment with naturopathic methods - the 'Blankenstein model'. Part I: Patients and therapeutic concepts

Forschende Komplementärmedizin und klassische Naturheilkunde = Research in complementary and natural classical medicine
A-M BeerP F Matthiessen

Abstract

In January 1997 the department for naturopathy with 60 beds has been established at the Catholic Hospital St. Elisabeth, Blankenstein, and was taken into consideration in Northrhine-Westphalia's plan of hospital budgets. The establishment of this department was connected to a scientific evaluation, which was performed to check the diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities and limits of naturopathic methods applied within the field of inpatient treatment according to section sign 39 SGB V. Besides sociodemographic surveys, questions about the ranges of indication and results of treatments as well as the analysis of the cost-benefit relation were part of the evaluation. Additionally, a subject of the current check was the delimitation towards means of rehabilitation or towards ambulant treatments. In order to initiate or to continue an open dialog with other model projects on this field, at first the therapeutical concept of the department was presented in excerpts. The mean age of the patients treated was 57.3 years. In total, 440 of the 618 patients (71.3%) were capable of gainful employment, which means they were between 17 and 65 years old. In three fourths of all examined patients their place of residence was in the areas of ...Continue Reading

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Nov 1, 2007·Forschende Komplementärmedizin = Research in Complementary Medicine·Dieter MelchartStefanie Wunderlich
Nov 8, 2012·Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine : ECAM·Romy LaucheGustav Dobos
May 23, 2008·Forschende Komplementärmedizin = Research in Complementary Medicine·Christian SchminckeWilhelm Gaus

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