The G-BA Innovation Committee recommends transfer to standard care for another project in Germany

On January 19, 2024, the Innovation Committee at the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) published the decision recommending the transfer to standard care for another completed project. The project evaluated the web-based initial assessment tool SmED in outpatient emergency care.

The project “DEMAND – Implementation of a standardized initial assessment as the basis for demand management in outpatient emergency care” tested a standardized initial assessment procedure for contact points with emergency service for outpatient care, mainly using the web-based tool SmED (Structured Medical Initial Assessment in Germany). The specialist staff in these contact points were supported in allocating those seeking help to the emergency services, outpatient treatment, or telephone medical advice as needed. The analysis of health insurance data has demonstrated that when the structured initial assessment was used, fewer insured people visited inpatient emergency rooms and could receive outpatient care. The process evaluation also demonstrated that the approach tested in the DEMAND project was not applicable to all patients and that SmED assessed the urgency of medical treatment as being higher overall than the users.

The Innovation Committee will, therefore, forward the obtained results to various stakeholders for consideration.

The full details in German can be found here and here (decision and the results of the DEMAND project).

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