How value‐based healthcare can improve the work of memory clinics
Anna R. Schönberger, Annika Steinmetz, Ann‐Katrin Schild, Lucrezia Hausner, Gloria Spielmann‐Benson, Lutz Frölich, Frank Jessen · 2025
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Schönberger and co-authors test whether a value-based approach can sharpen the work of memory clinics, in a 2025 paper. Value-based healthcare pays for outcomes patients actually feel, weighed against cost, and it runs on patient-reported outcomes and experiences. Two German memory clinics adopted the model for their dementia workups.
At each site the team interviewed twenty-five patient-relative pairs, surveyed staff about pain points, then rebuilt parts of the diagnostic path and interviewed a fresh twenty-five pairs. The cycle of ask, change, and ask again is the method's engine. Other clinics weighing the same shift get a worked example in a setting where time and trust are scarce.
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| CREATOR | Anna R. Schönberger, Annika Steinmetz, Ann‐Katrin Schild, Lucrezia Hausner, Gloria Spielmann‐Benson, Lutz Frölich, Frank Jessen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |