A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Evaluate a System Change in Mental Healthcare in the Netherlands for Patients with Depression or Anxiety

Over the last decade, the Dutch mental healthcare system has been subject to profound policy reforms, in order to achieve affordable, accessible, and high quality care. One of the adjustments was to substitute part of the specialized care for general mental healthcare. Using a quasi-experimental design, we compared the cost-effectiveness of patients in the new setting with comparable patients from specialized mental healthcare in the old setting. Results showed that for this group of patients the average cost of treatment was significantly reduced by, on average, a,notsign2132 (p <0.001), w... Mehr ...

Verfasser: van Mens, Kasper
Lokkerbol, Joran
Janssen, Richard
van Orden, Mirjam L.
Kloos, Margot
Tiemens, Bea
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Reihe/Periodikum: van Mens , K , Lokkerbol , J , Janssen , R , van Orden , M L , Kloos , M & Tiemens , B 2018 , ' A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Evaluate a System Change in Mental Healthcare in the Netherlands for Patients with Depression or Anxiety ' , Administration and Policy in Mental Health , vol. 45 , no. 4 , pp. 530-537 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-017-0842-x
Schlagwörter: Cost-effectiveness / Depression / Anxiety / PSYCHOTHERAPY
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : https://hdl.handle.net/11370/532257d3-6d57-4ebd-885f-d1fb2920cbe8

Over the last decade, the Dutch mental healthcare system has been subject to profound policy reforms, in order to achieve affordable, accessible, and high quality care. One of the adjustments was to substitute part of the specialized care for general mental healthcare. Using a quasi-experimental design, we compared the cost-effectiveness of patients in the new setting with comparable patients from specialized mental healthcare in the old setting. Results showed that for this group of patients the average cost of treatment was significantly reduced by, on average, a,notsign2132 (p <0.001), with similar health outcomes as in the old system.