Outcome monitoring and outcome management in inpatient psychiatric care (Ergebnis-Monitoring und Ergebnis-Management in der stationären psychiatrischen Versorgung)

ISRCTN	ISRCTN93197945
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN93197945
Protocol serial number	01 GL 0504
Sponsor	German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Project Management by the German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Funder	German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany)

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Prof Thomas Becker
Scientific

University of Ulm
Department of Psychiatry II
Ludwig-Heilmeyer-Str. 2
Guenzburg
D-89312
Germany

Phone	+49 (0)8221 96 2001
Email	t.becker@bkh-guenzburg.de

Primary study design	Interventional
Study design	Randomised controlled trial
Secondary study design	Single-centre
Scientific title
Study acronym	EMM
Study objectives	To examine whether continuous monitoring and management of outcome (EMM) improves the quality of inpatient psychiatric care and contributes to an adaptive allocation of treatment resources. Hypotheses are that EMM: 1. Leads to a short and medium-term improvement of the clinical treatment outcome 2. Is cost effective because of a reduction of length of stay (LOS) and decrease of subsequent treatment costs 3. Is feasible i.e. can also be used with severely impaired patients 4. Causes higher clinician and patient satisfaction with treatment
Ethics approval(s)	Not provided at time of registration
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied	Severe mental disorder
Intervention	Outcome monitoring and management (intervention group) versus outcome monitoring (control group)
Intervention type	Other
Primary outcome measure(s)	Independent rating of treatment outcome (psychological impairment)
Key secondary outcome measure(s)	a. Patient and clinician rating of outcome b. Costs for utilisation of health care services (from health insurance files and patient information) c. Patient and clinician satisfaction
Completion date	01/07/2007

Participant type(s)	Patient
Age group	Adult
Lower age limit	18 Years
Upper age limit	65 Years
Sex	All
Target sample size at registration	294
Key inclusion criteria	Patients at the age of 18 to 65 years admitted to a large psychiatric hospital in rural Bavaria ('Bezirkskrankenhaus Guenzburg')
Key exclusion criteria	Primary diagnosis of substance disorder, organic brain disorder, or dementia; insufficient knowledge of the German language, limited reading and/or writing abilities.
Date of first enrolment	01/09/2005
Date of final enrolment	01/07/2007

University of Ulm

Guenzburg
D-89312
Germany

Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share	No
IPD sharing plan summary	Not provided at time of registration
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