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LVR-KLINIKUM DÜsseLDORF – hOsPITaL OF The heINRIch-heINe UNIVeRsITY DÜsseLDORF
3.1.7.2 Biometrics and documentation
Director: W. Wölwer
Scientific assistants: M. Jänner, M. Riesbeck
The Biometrics Unit was set up in 1994 for the methodical
support of scientific work in the Department of Psychiatry
and Psychotherapy; it has two part-time positions. The
tasks of the Biometrics Unit include giving advice on and
overseeing research projects in the hospital with regard to
questions on making applications, planning and analysing
studies and managing data. Since 2008, the Biometrics
Unit has also been associated with the newly refurbished
Study Service Centre. In addition, the Biometrics Unit also
helps in the assessment of the basic documentation data
(BADO) of the department’s patients. This is for the purpose
of periodical reports on hospital data, to support quality
assurance measures, as a database for structural projects
and for numerous individual questions.
Cooperation
s Comparative evaluation of basic documentation for the
purpose of external quality comparisons (B. Janssen)
s Relapse-predictive validity of prodromal symptoms in
patients with schizophrenia (W. Gaebel)
s Training of cognitive functions in patients with
schizophrenia (W. Wölwer)
s Benchmarking in acute psychiatric treatment (Project
of the network of Rhineland State Clinics) (W. Gaebel/B.
Janssen)
s Network project “Optimisation of the long-term
treatment of first-episode schizophrenia” (W. Gaebel/
H.-J. Möller)
s Pharmacotherapeutic strategies for relapse prevention
in first-episode schizophrenia (W. Gaebel)
s Prodrome-based relapse prevention and early
intervention in first-episode schizophrenia (W. Gaebel)
s Biological principles of relapse (W. Gaebel/W. Wölwer)
s Schizophrenia treatment guidelines (W. Gaebel)
s Transfer of scientific knowledge from the Competence
Network on Schizophrenia to treatment practice:
Optimisation of the care of first-episode schizophrenia
(W. Gaebel)
s 5-year follow-up study: “Pharmacotherapeutic
strategies for preventing relapse in first-episode
schizophrenia” to identify prognostic indicators of the
course of schizophrenia (W. Gaebel)
s NODPAM (Needs-oriented planning and monitoring of
hospital discharging of patients with high demands on
psychiatric care) (B. Janssen, C. Schmidt-Kraepelin)
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s Optimising the post-inpatient care of patients with
schizophrenia through guideline-supported, medical,
psychoeducative and sociotherapeutic measures (W.
Gaebel/B. Janssen)
s DGPPN survey on the classification of mental disorders
according to ICD-10 (W. Gaebel/J. Zielasek)
s Analysis of data from the transcranial magnetic
stimulation projects (J. Cordes)
s ENLA study (J. Cordes)
s Survey “Use of rTMS” (J. Cordes)
s Survey “Use of deep brain stimulation” (M. Arends)
s Perfusion and brain volumes in Alzheimer patients (C.
Luckhaus)
s Osteoporosis in Alzheimer patients (C. Luckhaus)
3.1.7.3 Audiovisual Centre
Director: W. Wölwer (Research),
M. Streit (until 2003, Clinical documentation), N.N.
The Audiovisual Centre was founded at the Department
of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in 1994 and is used for
both clinical documentation and quality assurance, e.g. for
therapeutic process evaluation and treatment supervision,
as well as for teaching and research purposes. Next to the
technician’s room there is a recording studio for clinical
documentation in small groups or for dyadic interactions.
A further room serves as a research measurement area for
detailed videotaping of nonverbal behaviour. In the central
technician’s room, since extensive technical modernisation
in 2008, there is a computer-assisted videotaping and
cutting area (Software: Adobe Premiere). The four digital
colour cameras on rotating heads in the two studios can be
fully controlled remotely from the technician’s room (two
cameras each for the recording studio and for the research
laboratory). Several monitors, a video mixing desk and a
12-channel sound mixer are also available. For research
purposes, it was made possible to feed PC-generated
video signals and EEG measurements into the system. All
components can be interconnected, separately for the video
and audio area, using matrix systems. An evaluation area
for detailed analyses of videos is also available, with a largeformat
monitor and a PC for picture-by-picture control and
storage of behavioural coding. A suitably equipped DVD
recorder is available for digitalising old videos using S-VHS,
VHS- or UMATIC standard.