Program

Friday, 15^th March 2002

09.00-10.30

Quality assurance in clinical practice:
Learning from examples in specific service areas

U. Koch, S. Lecher, D. Schulz (University of Hamburg, D)
Quality assurance in psychosomatic rehabilitation.

Robert Lueger (Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA), Zoran Martinovich (Northwestern University, Evanston, USA)
Using the COMPASS Treatment Assessment System for psychotherapy provision under the conditions of managed care.

Severin Haug et al. (Center for Psychotherapy Research Stuttgart, D)
Benchmarking - a method for quality assurance through systematic learning.

Urs Braun (Psychiatriezentrum Oberwallis)
PsyQOS - the software for our quality management system.

Frank Margison et al. (Manchester, GB)
Managing care provision for patients with mental disorders under NHS conditions.

11.00-12.30

Outcome monitoring for specific disorders

Martin Härter (University of Freiburg)
Quality assurance initiatives in psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care for depression: experiences from the South German QA project and the German Competence Network on Depression.

J. Pellet et al. (University St. Etienne, F)
Monitoring the quality of care for schizophrenic patients: a multi-site project in South France

P. Machado et al. (Universidade do Minho, Braga, P)
Monitoring the quality of care provision for eating disorders in Northern Portugal

14.00-15.30

Laying the base for a benchmark of quality:
Concepts and tools to detect shortcomings in psychotherapy delivery (post-treatment)

W. Wittmann et al. (University of Mannheim, D)
A multi-aspect approach to the evaluation of treatment quality in psychosomatic treatment.

Jeb Brown (Center for Clinical Informatics, Salt Lake City, USA)
Using the ALERT system for establishing quality benchmarks in a managed care setting

Mark Aveline et al. (University of Nottingham, GB)
The process of introducing CORE-OM into practice of a specialist psychotherapy service.

16.00-17.00	Outcome monitoring in ongoing treatment: Concepts and tools to detect non-responders to psychotherapy.
	Robert Percevic et al. (Center for Psychotherapy Research Stuttgart, D) Adaptive prognostic models: Learning by continuous monitoring. Gary Burlingame et al. (Brigham Young University, Provo, USA) Using deviations from expected course adjusted for initial status as indicators of non-response in children and adolescents.

18.00-19.30

Internet-Chat discussion with external participants

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