Promoting Integrated Care through a Global Treatment Budget: A Qualitative Study in German Mental Health Care using Rogers' Diffusion of Innovation Theory.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Since 2003, as a means of enabling integrated care the German mental health care system has offered the innovative option of agreeing a Global Treatment Budget (GTB, also known as a regional psychiatric budget or innovative flexible and integrative forms of treatment FIT) with health insurers and regional care providers across sectors. Despite promoting legal frameworks and positive evidence on improving quality of patient care, this model has not spread widely. The aim of this study is to identify inhibiting and facilitating factors for the innovation diffusion.

Theory and methods

We conducted expert interviews with 19 actors from nine German regions involved in GTBs, using a self-developed questionnaire based on Rogers' theory on innovation diffusion extended

SUBMITTER: Afraz FC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8663745 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature