Diagnosis and admission center : Establishment and evaluation of an integrated translational infrastructure for clinical psychiatric research
We report here on the establishment of the Diagnosis and Admission Center (DAZ) at the Central Institute of Mental Health (ZI) in Mannheim. The DAZ is an outpatient unit upstream of other care structures for clinical and scientific phenotyping across diagnoses as a starting point for data-driven, individualized pathways to further treatment, diagnostics or research. We describe the functions, goals, and implementation of the newly created clinical scientific translational structure, provide an overview of the patient populations it has reached, and provide data on its acceptance. In this context, the close integration with downstream clinical processes enables a better coordinated and demand-oriented allocation. In addition, DAZ enables a faster start of disorder-specific diagnostics and treatment. Since its launch in April 2021 up to the end of 2022, 1021 patients underwent psychiatric evaluation at DAZ during a pilot phase. The patient sample corresponded to a representative sample from standard care and the newly established processes were regarded as helpful by patients. In summary, the DAZ uniquely combines the interests and needs of patient with the collection of scientifically relevant data.PMID:38381168 | DOI:10.1007/s00115-024-01609-5
Source: Der Nervenarzt - Category: Neurology Authors: Urs Braun Oliver Hennig Johanna Forstner Sarah Gerhardt Mirjam Deffaa DAZ-Team (die Mitglieder sind am Beitragsende aufgelistet) Dusan Hirjak Michael Deuschle Anne Koopmann Christian Wisch Melanie Fritz Gabriele Ende Heike Tost Peter Sch öfer Stefan Bisc Source Type: research