TY - JOUR
T1 - Community-based Mental Healthcare
T2 - A Case Study in a Cross-border Region of Germany and the Netherlands
AU - Lohmeyer, Franziska Michaela
AU - Commers, Matthew J.
AU - Leoncini, Emanuele
AU - Specchia, Maria Lucia
AU - Boccia, Stefania
AU - Ricciardi, Walter Gualtiero
AU - de Belvis, Antonio Giulio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart. New York.
PY - 2019/3
Y1 - 2019/3
N2 - Background Community-based mental healthcare (CBMH) aims at supplying psychiatric patients with rehabilitative care outside the hospital. The aim of this study was to compare the organization of CBMH in a cross-border region of Germany and the Netherlands.Method Semi-structured interviews gave insight into characteristics of CBMH approaches applied in the German region of Aachen (IHP) and the Dutch Province of Limburg (FACT). We applied a Delphi technique to select a performance indicator (PI) set for CBMH, which served as a conceptual model to allow comparison.Results Both approaches are flexible, patient-centred and include the evaluation of quality. Both provide financial and administrative support for the access.Conclusion CBMH approaches appear to be equally valid from several perspectives even if they revealed, at the same time, important differences related to scope, integration with non-CBMH care resources and geographic coverage. Secondarily, the study provides a contribution to the development of a PI set to compare and evaluate CBMH approaches.
AB - Background Community-based mental healthcare (CBMH) aims at supplying psychiatric patients with rehabilitative care outside the hospital. The aim of this study was to compare the organization of CBMH in a cross-border region of Germany and the Netherlands.Method Semi-structured interviews gave insight into characteristics of CBMH approaches applied in the German region of Aachen (IHP) and the Dutch Province of Limburg (FACT). We applied a Delphi technique to select a performance indicator (PI) set for CBMH, which served as a conceptual model to allow comparison.Results Both approaches are flexible, patient-centred and include the evaluation of quality. Both provide financial and administrative support for the access.Conclusion CBMH approaches appear to be equally valid from several perspectives even if they revealed, at the same time, important differences related to scope, integration with non-CBMH care resources and geographic coverage. Secondarily, the study provides a contribution to the development of a PI set to compare and evaluate CBMH approaches.
KW - community-based care
KW - performance indicators
KW - mental health
KW - case management
U2 - 10.1055/a-0664-0579
DO - 10.1055/a-0664-0579
M3 - Article
SN - 0941-3790
VL - 81
SP - E58-E63
JO - Das Gesundheitswesen
JF - Das Gesundheitswesen
IS - 3
ER -