Structural and normative problems in recording medical facts in a structured social security system
Haase, K.P.
Gesundheitswesen 60(4): 206-210
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0941-3790 PMID: 9617006 Document Number: 493324
Medical expertising in the German structured social security system suffers from the fact that uniform standards and conditions have been worked out so far only very inadequately. The on-target accuracy of medical expertises is also hampered by the fact that experts are not sufficiently aware of the targets set by the various security systems. Sociomedical knowledge is hardly incorporated in the expertises. Due to the general lack of criteria and proportions the expert becomes the personal fate of the person to be expertised. This could be remedied in several ways: by improving the concepts laid down in section 96 of the German Social Code Book 10 as well as by a greater standardisation of medical services and last but by no means least by including "expertising" in the curriculum of the study of medicine at universities.