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Care Management and Evidence-Based Practice

Module name (EN):
Name of module in study programme. It should be precise and clear.
Care Management and Evidence-Based Practice
Degree programme:
Study Programme with validity of corresponding study regulations containing this module.
Applied Health Sciences, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2023
Module code: AGW23.14
SAP-Submodule-No.:
The exam administration creates a SAP-Submodule-No for every exam type in every module. The SAP-Submodule-No is equal for the same module in different study programs.
P311-0285, P311-0286
Hours per semester week / Teaching method:
The count of hours per week is a combination of lecture (V for German Vorlesung), exercise (U for Übung), practice (P) oder project (PA). For example a course of the form 2V+2U has 2 hours of lecture and 2 hours of exercise per week.
4V (4 hours per week, accumulated)
ECTS credits:
European Credit Transfer System. Points for successful completion of a course. Each ECTS point represents a workload of 30 hours.
9
Semester: 4
Duration: 2 semester
Mandatory course: yes
Language of instruction:
German
Assessment:
Examination achievement

[updated 30.10.2023]
Applicability / Curricular relevance:
All study programs (with year of the version of study regulations) containing the course.

AGW23.14 (P311-0285, P311-0286) Applied Health Sciences, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2023 , semester 4, mandatory course
Workload:
Workload of student for successfully completing the course. Each ECTS credit represents 30 working hours. These are the combined effort of face-to-face time, post-processing the subject of the lecture, exercises and preparation for the exam.

The total workload is distributed on the semester (01.04.-30.09. during the summer term, 01.10.-31.03. during the winter term).
60 class hours (= 45 clock hours) over a 15-week period.
The total student study time is 270 hours (equivalent to 9 ECTS credits).
There are therefore 225 hours available for class preparation and follow-up work and exam preparation.
Recommended prerequisites (modules):
AGW23.1 Medical and Nursing Science Principles
AGW23.10 Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods
AGW23.11 Health and Environment
AGW23.2 Fundamentals of General, Social and Health Psychology
AGW23.3 The Health System
AGW23.4 Social Inequality, Heterogeneity and Social Problems
AGW23.5 Health Sciences
AGW23.6
AGW23.7
AGW23.8 Law and Ethics in Health Care
AGW23.9


[updated 04.09.2023]
Recommended as prerequisite for:
AGW23.17
AGW23.18
AGW23.19


[updated 04.09.2023]
Module coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Anne-Kathrin Cassier-Woidasky
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Anne-Kathrin Cassier-Woidasky
Prof. Dr. Christine Dörge


[updated 04.09.2023]
Learning outcomes:
Module 23.14.1: Care management
 
Learning outcomes:
 
After successfully completing this module, students will:
 
    
 
   
• be aware of problems related to excessive, insufficient and inadequate care.
• be familiar with the subject matter, tasks, central methods and instruments involved in care management.
• be able to describe definitions and concepts relevant to integrated care.
• be familiar with innovative care models.
• be able to explain forms of care and organization in medical service provision.
 
  
• be able to apply health services research methods.
• be able to control care processes.
• be able to design transitions in the context of cross-sector care processes.
 
   
• be able to design addressee-oriented health care through close cooperation of different service providers.
 
• be able to cooperate within formal and informal networks.
 
 
    
• be open towards innovative cross-sector care models.
 
 
 
Module 23.14.2: Care and evidence-based practice
 
Learning outcomes:
 
After successfully completing this module, students will:
 
    
 
   
• be aware of the relevance of the most important diseases that affect civilization and chronic diseases and the resulting pharmaceutical care needs.
 
• have a basic understanding of the importance of good drug management (impact polypharmacy, vaccinations, drug therapy safety).
 
• be familiar with important drugs and medications.
• be able to explain the importance of science-based practice from the perspective of health professions.
• be able to define basic terms related to the concept of evidence-based decision making.
• be able to describe the concept of evidence-based decision making.
• be able to explain the importance of so-called best available evidence for decision making.
• be able to outline the opportunities and limitations of evidence-based decision making.
• be well-versed in the prerequisites and requirements of evidence-based practice in the fields of health sciences, medicine, nursing and therapy sciences.
   
 
  
• participate actively in the drug (therapy) safety process
• be able to implement processes for the safe handling of medications.
• be able to understand the steps involved in evidence-based decision-making based on exemplary examples.
• be able to explore the needs and preferences of those affected and incorporate them into evidence-based decision making
 
 
   
• be able to communicate drug-related information in an appropriate manner.
• be able to advocate on behalf of vulnerable individuals and groups as stakeholders in health care interventions and programs.
 
• be able to reflect and take into account the different perspectives of those involved/affected in joint discourses with their fellow students.
 
 
    
• have developed a responsible approach to medicines.
• be able to critically reflect on the claim of being evidence-based in relation to scientific-theoretical and professional-political discourses on EBN, EBM, EBHC or evidence-based prevention and health promotion.
 
• develop a critical attitude towards information in the health care system.


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Module content:
Module 23.14.1: Care management
 
• Challenges/problems of overuse/underuse/ and misuse of health care.        
• Subject, tasks and methods of health services research
• Care trajectories of selected patient populations; e.g., multimorbid, elderly, patients with high utilization of the care system
  
• Methods and instruments of care management and optimization (competition, economy, quality reports, transparency...)
  
• Definitions and concepts of integrated or cross-sector health care
• Innovative (cross-sectoral) care models (e.g. dementia care, palliative care and end-of-life care, case management, care services for people with disabilities, etc.)
  
• Design of person-independent care structures in the regional care structure (network level, organized care) with professional and informal forms of assistance (e.g. care management)
 
• Forms of care and organization of medical service provision (e.g. family doctor-centered care, integrated care, medical care centers, DMP)
  
 
 
Module 23.14.2: Care and evidence-based practice
 
• Regulations and principles of medication supply
• Overview of aspects of medication supply - system-related
• Overview of aspects of medication care - case-based (effect of major medications, medication schedule, interactions, polypharmacy, medications and age (Priscus list), medications and children, medications and the chronically ill
 
 
• Understanding evidence-based practice, hierarchy of evidence
• General principles and implementation factors for evidence-based decision-making in health sciences/public health
  
• Possibilities, chances and limits of evidence-based decision making
• Implementation of the concept of evidence-based decision making in health care practice
• Prerequisites and requirements of evidence-based practice in the health sciences, medicine, nursing, therapy, etc.
 


[updated 30.10.2023]
Teaching methods/Media:
Blended learning

[updated 30.10.2023]
Recommended or required reading:
Will be announced at the beginning of the module.

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