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Quality of care and its determinants in longer term mental health facilities across Europe; a cross-sectional analysis.

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2016-02-11

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Killaspy, Helen
Cardoso, Graça
White, Sarah
Wright, Christine
Caldas de Almeida, José Miguel
Turton, Penny
Taylor, Tatiana L
Schützwohl, Matthias
Schuster, Mirjam
Cervilla, Jorge A

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The Quality Indicator for Rehabilitative Care (QuIRC) is an international, standardised quality tool for the evaluation of mental health facilities that provide longer term care. Completed by the service manager, it comprises 145 items that assess seven domains of care: living environment; treatments and interventions; therapeutic environment; self-management and autonomy; social interface; human rights; and recovery based practice. We used the QuIRC to investigate associations between characteristics of longer term mental health facilities across Europe and the quality of care they delivered to service patients. QuIRC assessments were completed for 213 longer term mental health units in ten countries that were at various stages of deinstitutionalisation of their mental health services. Associations between QuIRC domain scores and unit descriptive variables were explored using simple and multiple linear regression that took into account clustering at the unit and country level. We found wide variation in QuIRC domain scores between individual units, but across countries, fewer than a quarter scored below 50 % on any domains. The quality of care was higher in units that were smaller, of mixed sex, that had a defined expected maximum length of stay and in which not all patients were severely disabled. This is the first time longer term mental health units across a number of European countries have been compared using a standardised measure. Further use of the QuIRC will allow greater understanding of the quality of care in these units across Europe and provide an opportunity to monitor pan-European quality standards of care for this vulnerable patient group.

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Cross-Sectional Studies
Deinstitutionalization
Europe
Female
Hospitals, Psychiatric
Humans
Long-Term Care
Male
Mental Disorders
Mental Health
Mental Health Services
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Quality Indicators, Health Care
Self Care

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