Are we comparing Apples with Oranges?The Pitfalls of Comparing Psychiatric Rehospitalisation Rates Derived from Routine Health Care Data.Christa Straßmayr, Heinz Katschnig, Florian Endel, IMEHPS research

1. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration
under grant agreement no 603264
FP7.HEALTH-2O13.INNOVATION- 1
Comparative Effectiveness research on Psychiatric HOSpitalisation
by record LINKage of large administrative data sets
36 month: 4/2014 – 3/2017 (now: month 18)
HEALTH F3-2014 - 603 264

2. Objectives
1. Establish psychiatric and non-psychiatric
rehospitalisation rates of patients with a main
psychiatric diagnosis after discharge from
psychiatric/non-psychiatric inpatient service
2. Identify predictors of rehospitalisation, including post-
discharge psychiatric outpatient contacts (“continuity of
care”)
3. by using routine data from
Large Existing Electronic Administrative Registries
(LEEARs), i.e. observational data, large numbers,
problematic quality of data

3. Participants
3 Mandatory Health Insurance Countries:
Austria (IMEHPS),
Romania (SNSPMPDS),
Slovenia (Acadamy of Science)
3 National Health Service Countries
Finland (THL, coordinator)
Italy (University of Verona),
Norway (SINTEF)