The document discusses a decision support system called CEPHOS-LINK DSS that was designed to aid policy makers and stakeholders in understanding factors that may impact psychiatric rehospitalization. The system generates scenarios using data from 6 European countries to model how resources could be allocated and services planned. It is intended as a proof of concept that could potentially be expanded to include additional countries and data sources. The overall goal is to facilitate discussion between sectors and provide an accessible way to explore rehospitalization issues in different contexts.

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Exploring re-hospitalisation using a
Decision Support System
The CEPHOS-LINK DSS
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework
Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under
grant agreement no 603264

2. Mental health policy making
POLICY
MAKING
Empirical
evidence
Politics/
philosophy
Economic
values
Social
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Ethical
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Personal
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3. Lifting up empirical evidence
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• Making evidence more accessible
• Facilitating discussion
• Connect different sectors
• Easy to use in different contexts

4. Decision Support Systems (DSS)
• Decision Support Systems (DSS) are computer based tools which
aid stakeholders and decision-makers to understand complex
scenarios and find the right solutions.
• The CEPHOS-LINK DSS is designed to aid policy makers and other
stakeholders understand different factors which may impact
psychiatric rehospitalisation and could aid with
resource allocation and service planning
• Generate discussion, model scenarios,
developing services
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5. CEPHOS-LINK DSS
• Not a summary of our findings but a proof of concept tool using data
from the six countries involved in the study; Austria, Finland, Italy,
Norway, Romania and Slovenia.
• An additional way of exploring re-hospitalisation.
• Based on data from, Eurostat, WHO Mental Health Atlas 2011, and
The European House – Ambrosetti.
• Potential to be developed further by including data from other
countries, resulting in more variation, combinations and scenarios.
• http://www.dwh.at/cephos/
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