Health Care Management is a global mission, i.e., neither diseases nor health care concepts can be addressed adequately with a limited focus on one particular country. For instance, multi-resistant bacteria do not respect national borders but are a challenge in Poland as well as in Germany. Any...

Einleitung -- Status quo -- Prinzipien -- Rahmenbedingungen -- Herausforderungen für kleinere Krankenhäuser im ländlichen Raum -- Lösungsansätze für kleinere Krankenhäuser im ländlichen Raum -- Fallstudie Kreiskrankenhaus Wolgast -- Fazit

Background: Despite the current undersupply of cochlear implants (CIs) with simultaneously increasing indication, CI implantation numbers in Germany still are at a relatively low level. Methods: As there are hardly any solid forecasts available in the literature, we develop a System Dynamics...