title: [Data streams and limits to the use of patient data originating in (forensic) mental health care institutions].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Patient data are not being used soley in the mental health care institutions in which the patients are being treated. Discussion about the legitimacy of using patient data for various purposes is hindered by a lack of clarity about the nature and content of the data streams.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To provide insight into the discrepancy between the purposes of collecting patient data and the purposes for which patient data are being used.
  
  
  METHODS
  We reviewed literature on the subject and consulted professionals by means of (open) interviews.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Patient data can be divided into four categories, each of which corresponds to the particular purpose for which patient data were acquired or used: clinical, quality and policy, research and 'other purposes'.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The way in which patient data are handled should depend on the nature and content of the data involved and, above all, on the purposes for which the data have been collected.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: van der Sloot
authors.forename: R R J M
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Vermeiren
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Engberts
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality; D066289:Data Curation / Q000379:methods; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands