[Initiative for a shift from inpatient to outpatient treatment]

A shift from inpatient to outpatient treatment is necessary to offset the severe lack of nursing staff in Germany. A central role is played by the catalogue announced for outpatient surgical procedures, which will contain many formerly inpatient procedures. Context factors have been defined to make the decision for inpatient treatment more reproducible. In the end, the remuneration of outpatient procedures will decide whether the infrastructural changes will be successful in daily practice.