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Symptom
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Project Network I
Early Recognition
and Early Intervention
SN 1: Diagnostics and treatment of acute schizophrenia
SN 2: Relapse prevention and long-term treatment
SN 3: Prevention and rehabilitation of residual disease courses
Project Network II
Treatment and
Rehabilitation
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Subnetworks (SN)
2 3
Acute Long-term Rehabili -
treatment treatment tation
Manifestation threshold
Figure 6: Research projects of the Competence Network on Schizophrenia (CNS) related to the course of schizophrenia
s Transfer of the results of basic research into
healthcare.
s The cost/effectiveness analysis of innovative treatment
procedures.
s Improvement in educating and informing patients,
relatives and (healthy) lay persons and experts through
the targeted transfer of knowledge.
The precondition for achieving these goals is the creation,
expansion and intensive and routine use of networked
structures between research and care.
The Structure and Themes of the Competence Network
The Competence Network is organised, in accordance with
the course of the disorder, into two essential project networks
(PN), with several sub-networks (SN), focusing on treatment
and care needs in the prodromal phase or initial episode (PN
I) and after initial admission as an inpatient (PN II) (Figure
5). Whereas PN I mainly deals with projects designed to
improve and establish early diagnosis and early intervention,
PN II is involved with projects for optimising acute and longterm
treatment (SNs I+II), as well as for rehabilitation (SN
III), in particular in residual schizophrenia. In addition, there
is a project network devoted to molecular genetics and
several cross-discipline projects (such as health economics,
educating the public, continuous medical education and
post-graduate specialty training, etc.). In the third funding
Disorder
Course
Time
period, which has been running since 2005, in addition to four
projects following up studies from the initial funding period
specific so-called transfer projects were adopted relating
to the core interests of the Competence Network, in which
network results are prepared for transfer to the care sector.
Partners involved in the
Competence Network across Germany
Across Germany, the Competence Network on
Schizophrenia involves a total of 19 university psychiatric
departments, 14 state, district and specialist hospitals, and
6 psychiatric and general medicine practice networks. The
work of the Competence Network is supported by the World
Psychiatric Association (WPA), German national specialist
associations (such as the DGPPN representing psychiatrists
and the DEGAM representing general practitioners) and
professional associations (such as the BVDN representing
German office-based neurologists and psychiatrists), as well
as the Central Association of Health Insurance Funds (GKV-
Spitzenverband in German). In addition to the approximately
16 million Euros of funding given by the FMER for the entire
network and its over thirty projects since 1999, additional
resources (around 5% of the budget) were made available by
the pharmaceutical industry for research projects (Bristol-
Meyers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Janssen-Cilag, Lundbeck, Sanofi-
Synthelabo and Wyeth) or for educating the public (including