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No. Project Participating research units
or co-workers
1 Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for the treatment of positive
symptoms in psychotic disorders
2 Effect factors of CBT and their influence on positive symptoms in
psychotic disorders
3 Economic evaluation of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in the
treatment of positive symptoms in psychotic disorders
4 Neuronal correlates of the effects of cognitive behavioural therapy in
the treatment of positive symptoms in psychotic disorders
3.1.1.7 Associated Satellite Centre (ASC) within the
Brain-Net Project Network (FMER)
Centre director: M. von Wilmsdorff
As an Associated Satellite Centre, the Brain Morphology
laboratory was part of the Brain-Net Project Network.
Brain-Net was set up in the neuropsychiatric sector on
the Competence Network’s initiative as a cross-section
project and service institution with the main goal of creating
a countrywide German brain and tissue bank. The Brain-
Net is the German centre of reference for disorders of the
central nervous system, which is coordinated by a central
network secretariat located at the Institute of Neuropathology
in Munich. In addition to creating the tissue bank, there is
the additional task of informing and educating people about
the reason and need for a brain-tissue bank. The network
operates in close collaboration with the Competence Network
on Schizophrenia, as well as the Institute for Neuropathology,
Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf.
3.1.1.8 Benchmarking in Acute Psychiatric
Treatment (BMG)
Centre director: B.Janssen
In association with nine specialist psychiatric hospitals
of the Rhineland Regional Council (Landschaftsverband
Rheinland, LVR), an internal benchmarking process (prepost
design; three years) was started, which was closely
linked to the existing quality management structures
(EFQM, KTQ©) of the hospitals. The goal was to improve
acute inpatient treatment in three selected patient groups
(alcohol dependence, older persons with depression as well
as persons with schizophrenia and a high rehospitalisation
rate). At the start, in order to ensure a valid data base,
IT-supported, quality-oriented treatment documentation
was implemented in the participating hospitals (1,856
ReseaRch
Table 6: Research network on the “Psychotherapy of the psychotic syndrome” with participation of the research units of the Department of Psychiatry and
Psychotherapy of the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf
Participation
status
RL Experimental Psychopathology CP
RL Experimental Psychopathology CP
RL Experimental Psychopathology CP
Neuropsychiatric Research Laboratory
Research Laboratory; RL Experimental
Psychopathology
5 Cognitive disorders, delusional symptoms and treatment success RL Experimental Psychopathology CP
CP=Cooperation partner
treatment documents [pre-census] for the identification and
reporting of hospital-specific and network-wide optimisation
potential).
During the course of the project, the essential elements of
a benchmarking process could be implemented (creation of
project structures with accompanying advisory board and
census instruments; definition of the individual improvement
themes, milestones and defined implementation paths).
In addition to the individual processing of the topics,
three inter-hospital, diagnosis-specific “benchmark
working circles” produced consented, guideline-oriented
recommendations for treatment optimisation. The
progress of the implementation was checked in a follow-up
assessment (n=1,696).
For the main target parameters (a 10% reduction in
the drop-out rate of persons with alcohol dependence;
improvement of the BDI score at discharge of elderly
persons with depression; a 10% reduction in the
rehospitalisation rate of persons with schizophrenia) an
improvement was achieved by most hospitals, although the
10% margin was not always achieved by all. An additional
significant improvement could also be achieved in the
completeness of patient self-report documents, which had
been selected later on as a further inter-hospital topic. The
majority of the participating hospitals could also improve
their individually selected, hospital-specific optimisation
areas. In order to ensure these achievements, measures to
implement these quality management procedures in routine
operation have been coordinated.
CP
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