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[Severe disability. Part 2: The difficult comparison with same age probands].

H Piechowiak
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With their texts on Schwerpflegebedürftigkeit, the legislators have set the interpreters of legal texts a difficult task. In practice, attempts by the "users" of such texts to find solutions inexorably lead to aporias. Responsible for decision-taking is the health insurance carrier, with the physician exclusively acting as a counsellor on the medical aspects. The advised comparisons with persons of identical age with the intention of establishing Schwerpflegebedürftigkeit is not required by the legislator, and it is not easy to see what sense it is supposed to make. The corresponding guidelines drawn up by the leading associations are not unequivocal and are therefore open to misunderstanding.

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H Piechowiak. 1992-07-20. [Severe disability. Part 2: The difficult comparison with same age probands].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1387864/

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