Quality indicators for mental healthcare in the Danube region: results from a pilot feasibility study

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00406-020-01124-z" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00406-020-01124-z</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00406-020-01124-z" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00406-020-01124-z</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Quality indicators for mental healthcare in the Danube region: results from a pilot feasibility study

Original language description

Quality indicators are vital for monitoring the transformation of institution-based mental health services towards the provision of person-centered mental healthcare. While several mental healthcare quality indicators have been identified as relevant and valid, their actual usability and utility for routine monitoring healthcare quality over time is significantly determined by the availability and trustworthiness of the underlying data. In this feasibility study, quality indicators that have been systematically identified for use in the Danube region countries of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Serbia were measured on the basis of existing mental healthcare data in the four countries. Data were collected retrospectively by means of the best available, most standardized, trustworthy, and up-to-date data in each country. Out of 21 proposed quality indicators, 18 could be measured in Hungary, 17 could be measured in Bulgaria and in the Czech Republic, and 8 could be measured in Serbia. The results demonstrate that a majority of quality indicators can be measured in most of the countries by means of already existing data, thereby demonstrating the feasibility of quality measurement and regular quality monitoring. However, data availability and usability are scattered across countries and care sectors, which leads to variations in the quality of the quality indicators themselves. Making the planning and outputs of national mental healthcare reforms more transparent and evidence-based requires (trans-)national standardization of healthcare quality data, their routine availability and standardized assessment, and the regular reporting of quality indicators.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30215 - Psychiatry

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

ISSN

0940-1334

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

271

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

1017-1025

UT code for WoS article

000556950900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85083498367