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Costs and benefits of psychiatry

ISSUE 2016/10 themanummer Maatschappelijk Rendement van de Psychiatrie
6 oktober 2016
R.A. Schoevers, F. Smit, G. Dom, G. Meynen, K. Goethals, J. Spijker
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Towards a sustainable, cost-effective mental health care; a policy perspective

ISSUE 2016/10 themanummer Maatschappelijk Rendement van de Psychiatrie
6 oktober 2016
P.P.T. Jeurissen, B.A. Ravesteijn, R.T.J.M. Janssen, M.A.C. Tanke

background After a decade of robust growth in spending, Dutch mental healthcare is on a more stricter budgetary path since 2012. High prevalence of illness and limited spending, imply the need for efficient mental healthcare delivery.
aim To ...

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Inter-sectoral costs and benefits arising from mental health (disorders)

ISSUE 2016/10 themanummer Maatschappelijk Rendement van de Psychiatrie
6 oktober 2016
A.T.G. Paulus, R.M.W.A. Drost, D. Ruwaard, S.M.A.A. Evers

background Mental health disorders may bring costs and benefits to areas and sectors lying outside the health care system. However, little is known about these inter-sectoral costs and benefits (icbs) in spite of the increasing interest in socie...

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Prognostic modelling and proactive intervention in psychosis: efficacy and cost-effectiveness

ISSUE 2016/10 themanummer Maatschappelijk Rendement van de Psychiatrie
6 oktober 2016
M. van der Gaag, H. Ising, J. Lokkerbol, F. Smit

background Diagnoses have heterogeneous outcomes, varying from good to extremely poor. There is a need to single out an ultra-high-risk group of individuals who have illnesses that might well end unfavourably or who might later develop serious ps...

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A study of cost-effectiveness of treating serious mental illness: challenges and solutions

ISSUE 2016/10 themanummer Maatschappelijk Rendement van de Psychiatrie
6 oktober 2016
J. Lokkerbol, J. Nuijen, S. Evers, H. Knegtering, P. Delespaul, H. Kroon, R. Bruggeman

Background People with serious mental illness (SMI) often suffer high healthcare costs and enduring loss of quality of life. Increasing our understanding of the cost-effectiveness of people with SMI is important when striving for optimal health ...

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Child maltreatment: long-term economic consequences and implications

ISSUE 2016/10 themanummer Maatschappelijk Rendement van de Psychiatrie
6 oktober 2016
P. Speetjens, F. Thielen, M. ten Have, R. de Graaf, F. Smit

background Child maltreatment occurs frequently. This has detrimental effects later in life on mental health and is linked to considerable costs due to health care use and sick leave. Self-mastery, however, is a factor that may well mitigated th...

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Social return on internet interventions for alcohol use disorders

ISSUE 2016/10 themanummer Maatschappelijk Rendement van de Psychiatrie
6 oktober 2016
M. Blankers

background One of the main reasons for treating patients using internet interventions is that this modality is considered highly efficient. However, little is known about the actual cost-effectiveness of internet interventions for alcohol use dis...

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Cost-effectiveness of psychotherapy for personality disorders. A systematic review on economic evaluation studies

ISSUE 2016/10 themanummer Maatschappelijk Rendement van de Psychiatrie
6 oktober 2016
P. Wetzelaer, J. Lokkerbol, A. Arntz, A. van Asselt, S. Evers

background So far, there has not been a complete overview of the cost-effectiveness of psychotherapy for patients with a personality disorder.
aim To provide an overview of scientific literature on the cost-effectiveness of psychotherapy for ...

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Child psychiatry: limited research, evidence for cost-effectiveness of treatment

ISSUE 2016/10 themanummer Maatschappelijk Rendement van de Psychiatrie
6 oktober 2016
R.M. Vermeiren, J. van der Meer

background Research into cost-effectiveness of treatment of child psychiatric disorders is extremely limited. There are two main reasons for this: it’s a new field and the type of research required is intrinsically complicated.
aim To review ...

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The tasks and aims of hospital psychiatry today and in the future

ISSUE 2016/10 themanummer Maatschappelijk Rendement van de Psychiatrie
6 oktober 2016
A. Honig, D. Sierink, B. Verwey

background Care provided by consultation-liaison (cl) psychiatry and general hospital (gh) psychiatry varies widely. This means that certain services are almost unrecognisable and therefore less readily available to patients.
aim To describ...

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Mandatory treatment of forensic psychiatric patients in the Netherlands: costs and benefits in perspective

ISSUE 2016/10 themanummer Maatschappelijk Rendement van de Psychiatrie
6 oktober 2016
M.H. Nagtegaal, K. Goethals, G. Meynen

background So far, it is not known what costs and benefits are connected with the tbs-measure, a measure that involves a mandatory treatment programme for forensic psychiatric patients.
aim To explore the costs and benefits that the tbs-measu...

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Online self-help for persons with suicidal intentions: budget impact analysis

ISSUE 2016/10 themanummer Maatschappelijk Rendement van de Psychiatrie
6 oktober 2016
B. van Spijker, A. Kerkhof, J. Lokkerbol, R. Engels, F. Smit

achtergrond In een jaar hebben circa 462.000 Nederlanders suïcidale gedachten. Dat heeft een forse impact op de kwaliteit van hun leven, op zorgkosten en arbeidsproductiviteit. Een laagdrempelige onlinezelfhulpinterventie kan hierin verandering b...

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Comparison of efficacy of psychiatric treatment versus treatment in general medicine

ISSUE 2016/10 themanummer Maatschappelijk Rendement van de Psychiatrie
6 oktober 2016
L.M. Bijkersma-Pot, P. Cuijpers, A.T.F. Beekman, R.A. Schoevers

background There is increasing attention to the costs and efficacy of health care and in particular to psychiatry. To weigh the costs and benefits appropriately, it is important to be able to compare effects.
aim To describe the efficacy of p...

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The willingness of the Dutch to pay for mental health care

ISSUE 2016/10 themanummer Maatschappelijk Rendement van de Psychiatrie
6 oktober 2016
F.R.M. Portrait, B. van den Berg

background How much are the Dutch prepared to pay for mental health care? Nearly every year the content of the basic health insurance package alters as a results of new insights and scientific and medical progress. Up till now, the government of ...

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Cooperation and client perspective are the terms for success; reflection on the cost-effectiveness of psychiatry

ISSUE 2016/10 themanummer Maatschappelijk Rendement van de Psychiatrie
6 oktober 2016
N. Vos de Wael

background There is a growing interest in the cost-effectiveness of psychiatry in general. How do client organisations regard this growing interest?
aim To discuss the cost-effectiveness of psychiatry in general seen from the perspective of t...

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