Kvalitetsmåling i psykiatrien i de nordiske lande - Dansk Psykiatrisk ...

The report thus presents all the quality indicators used in the respective
Nordic countries within these areas of mental health services provided
in secondary health care: inpatient treatment and associated outpatient
treatment. The report further presents specific examples of how quality
is measured using the indicators in the respective countries to illustrate
how these indicators are used to develop the quality of mental health
services in the Nordic countries.
The report shows that data can be generated in some areas that enable
comparison between the Nordic countries, whereas few data are
available in other areas. This means that Nordic indicators still need to
be developed in several areas. The report also shows that considerable
effort is needed to improve the quality of data. This means that many
results are probably not correct because data are calculated differently
in the individual Nordic countries and because few data are available in
certain areas.
The report shows that the Nordic countries have great potential to
measure and monitor the quality of mental health services. This field
has been inadequately investigated internationally. The Nordic countries
are thus among the countries that have achieved the most in national
measurement of the quality of mental health services. The reason
is that the Nordic countries place high priority on developing quality
and that the Nordic countries have unique opportunities to measure
the quality of mental health services because of well-established
health-related registries and because data can be collected that are
linked to individual patients.
Thus, the Nordic countries can certainly contribute substantially to
inspiring and collaborating on the international measurement of the
quality of mental health services based on quality indicators.
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