title: [Analysis of patterns of in-patient and out-patient mental health care by use of routine data].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The Centre of Psychiatry Suedwuerttemberg routinely records data on service use of in-patient units, day hospitals and out-patient services on a daily basis as well as data on the respective patients according to the German Basic Documentation (BADO). Other psychiatric services in the catchment area of the districts Ravensburg and Bodenseekreis such as services of sheltered living, residential homes and vocational services collect identical data per day of use. Aim of the study is to compare routinely recorded data of mental health service use and direct cost of service use with sample data. We compared analyses of mental health service use and direct cost of service use with routinely recorded data with analyses using sample data.
  
  
  METHODS
  Concerning the year 2008, we joined these different data sets, processing them in order to obtain pseudonymity and fulfil data protection requirements. This joint data set maps the total expenditures for psychiatric care utilisation in this region.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Using a data set of this kind, analyses of health economy are possible which are comparable or even superior to those from sample data.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Routinely recorded data are a cost-saving alternative to sample data.
authors.affiliation: Medizinisches Controlling, Zentrum für Psychiatrie Südwürttemberg, Bad Schussenried. frank.eisele@zfp-zentrum.de
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Eisele
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schmid
authors.forename: Tilman
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Steinert
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Uhlmann
authors.forename: Dieter
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Grupp
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Rieger
authors.forename: Erich
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Flammer
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D016352:Group Homes / Q000191:economics*; D006208:Halfway Houses / Q000191:economics*; D016304:Hospitals, Private / Q000191:economics*; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*