Quality of care and its determinants in longer term mental health facilities across Europe; a cross-sectional analysis

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11110/16:10325159

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-0737-5" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-0737-5</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-0737-5" target="_blank" >10.1186/s12888-016-0737-5</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Quality of care and its determinants in longer term mental health facilities across Europe; a cross-sectional analysis

Original language description

Background: The Quality Indicator for Rehabilitative Care (QuIRC) is an international, standardised quality tool for the evaluation of mental health facilities that provide longer term care. Completed by the service manager, it comprises 145 items that assess seven domains of care: living environment; treatments and interventions; therapeutic environment; self-management and autonomy; social interface; human rights; and recovery based practice. We used the QuIRC to investigate associations between characteristics of longer term mental health facilities across Europe and the quality of care they delivered to service patients. Methods: QuIRC assessments were completed for 213 longer term mental health units in ten countries that were at various stages of deinstitutionalisation of their mental health services. Associations between QuIRC domain scores and unit descriptive variables were explored using simple and multiple linear regression that took into account clustering at the unit and country level. Results: We found wide variation in QuIRC domain scores between individual units, but across countries, fewer than a quarter scored below 50 % on any domains. The quality of care was higher in units that were smaller, of mixed sex, that had a defined expected maximum length of stay and in which not all patients were severely disabled. Conclusions: This is the first time longer term mental health units across a number of European countries have been compared using a standardised measure. Further use of the QuIRC will allow greater understanding of the quality of care in these units across Europe and provide an opportunity to monitor pan-European quality standards of care for this vulnerable patient group.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

FL - Psychiatry, sexology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

BMC Psychiatry

ISSN

1471-244X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

February

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000369790900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84957655227