Boost the recovery

Prehabilitation is designed to boost the patients recovery after surgery. However, there is a multitude of benefits not only for patients but also for hospitals, doctors and insurance companies.

What are the benefits of prehabilitation for patients?

Patients experience a variety of positive health effects. These include the following effects in particular:

Faster recovery and return to self-determined everyday life

Avoiding or reducing the risk of complications

Promote overall health

Improve physical and mental performance

An improved and active patient involvement in the healing process and thus greater patient sovereignty

Improve the chances of success of the therapy (e.g. in cancer therapies)

What benefits does prehabilitation offer hospitals and care providers?

From the practitioner’s perspective, prehabilitation brings a number of very valuable benefits:

The success of the treatment can be improved

Greater cost-efficiency due to shorter inpatient stays and lower complication rates

Improved customer and patient loyalty

Efficient doctor and patient communication based on real-time patient data

Improved adherence through accompanying monitoring of the prehabilitation process by the attending physician

What are the benefits of prehabilitation for health insurers and cost bearers?

From the perspective of the insurer,

prehabilitation offers a reduction in

the average hospital stay (possibly

also a long-term adjustment of

hospital costs in for of lower

DRGs)1 2 5 7 and also avoids or reduces

the probability of complications4

and/or a return to the hospital8

as well the associated costs.

Direct cost savings through lower complication rates, as well-prepared patients suffer fewer postoperative complications such as wound healing disorders, infections, cardiovascular events or delirium. Every complication avoided saves considerable financial and human resources for intensive care, additional operations, expensive medication and prolonged hospital stays, and conserves scarce resources in treatment and care.

Reduction of indirect and follow-up costs due to fewer readmissions: Complications often occur only after discharge and may lead to readmissions. Prehabilitation can significantly reduce this risk rate, as patients are more robust and less susceptible to such secondary problems.

Potentially less rehabilitation effort: A physically strong patient with well-preserved muscle mass often needs a shorter or less intensive follow-up rehabilitation (AHB).

Reduced need for care: Prehabilitation helps to maintain the functional independence of patients in order to reduce the risk of permanent need for care.

Patients who practice prehabilitation take increased health literacy with them into everyday life. This improved health literacy forms a very valuable foundation for future primary prevention.

Footnote:
1 Santa Mina et al, 2014a; 2 Moyer et al, 2017; 3 Minnella et al, 2017; 4 Barberan-Garcia et al, 2018; 5 Howard et al, 2019; 6 Vasta et al, 2020; 7 Gentry et al, 2020; 8 Sánchez-Iglesias et al, 2020

Are you interested in learning more about PrehabM?

If you are a patient, doctor, clinic or insurance company interested in using the
digital PrehabM application, then please contact us for more information.

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