title: [Do the New German OPS codes map the relevant therapeutic activities in psychiatric clinics?].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Actual codes for operations and procedures (OPS) in psychiatry and psychosomatics should map cost separating therapeutic activities so far defined in Germany by the normative specifications of the psychiatry staff enactment (PsychPV). OPS codes should also allow re-estimating underlying therapy times.
  
  
  METHODS
  Therapeutic activities of the PsychPV fulfilling the minimal criteria of the OPS definition were classified as multiples of a therapeutic 25 minute unit.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Therapeutic activities of the PsychPV are mapped to OPS complex codes in a variable degree (psychiatrists 35 %, psychologists 42 %, nurses 43 %, special therapists 59 %).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Actual OPS codes are inappropriate for identifying relevant cost-separating factors in the therapy of psychiatric in-patients. They cannot assure in their actual form the standards given by the PsychPV and need substantial revision.
authors.affiliation: LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf, Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie der Heinrich-Heine-Universität.
authors.forename: Jaroslav
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Malevani
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schillen
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Speier
authors.forename: Dyrk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zedlick
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kieser
authors.forename: Ansgar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Klimke
mesh_terms: D039702:Current Procedural Terminology; D005245:Fee Schedules / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics; D005858:Germany; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000191:economics*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics*; D011611:Psychosomatic Medicine / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics*; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics; D013997:Time Factors