PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

Ninth Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry

QUALITY AND OUTCOMES IN MENTAL HEALTH POLICY AND ECONOMICS

Venice
Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista
March 27-29, 2009

FRIDAY, March 27, 2009

3.00pm- 6.00pm         Registration 

6.00pm – 7.00pm       OPENING CEREMONY
                                The Fourth Adam Smith Award in Mental Health Policy and Economics Research

 7.00pm – Cocktails

SATURDAY, March 28, 2009

Morning  (9.00am-12.30pm)

CHILD AND ADOLESCENT

• C. Bouwmans, LeonaHakkaart (NL): Societal Costs of Child Abuse in the Netherlands.
• E. Michael Foster (USA): The Effect of the Fast Track Intervention on Costly Outcomes and Behaviors.
• Vidar Halsteinli (Norway): Treatment Intensity in Outpatient Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Does Organizational Factors Matter?
• Jeanette M. Jerrell (USA): Health Care Costs of Pediatric Clients Developing Adverse Events During Treatment with Antipsychotics.

Discussant: D. Salkever (USA)                       E-mail: salkever@umbc.edu

FINANCING AND ACCESS

• Joan R. Bloom, Teh-Wei Hu, Huihui  Hwang, Soo Hyang Kang,  Jenny Hyun, and Neal Wallace (USA): Five Year Follow-up of System Level Effects of Capitation.
• Carolyn S. Dewa, Jeffrey S. Hoch, Glenn Carmen, Richard Gusscott, Chris Anderson (Canada): Cost, Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness of a Collaborative Mental Health Care Program for Individuals Receiving Short-Term Disability Benefits for Psychiatric Disorders.
• Philip Jacobs, Arto Ohinmaa, Carolyn Dewa, Ray Block (Canada): Disability Payments for the Severely Mentally Ill in Alberta.
• John Hsu, Mary Price, Vicki Fung (USA): Antipsychotic Drug Use and Adherence – Treatment for the Elderly under Medicare Part D Program.

Discussant: S. Zuvekas (USA)                        E-mail: Samuel.Zuvekas@ahrq.hhs.gov

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF PSYCHOSIS

• McCombs JS and Zolfaghari S (USA): Impact of Treatment History on Compliance and Health Care Cost in Commercially Insured Patients with Schizophrenia.
• Patryk Piotrowski, Andrzej Kiejna (Poland): 15 months Follow-Up of Readmission Rates – An Appropriate Link Between Treatment Efficacy and Service Costs?
• Yarden Nevo, Aviva Kis, Hanan Munitz, Sigal Regev, Yossi Bar-El (Israel): Non Psychiatric Medical  Costs in Schizophrenia.
• Ruth F.G. Williams, D.P. Doessel, Dan Siskind, Frances Dark (Australia): Social Capital as a Determinant of Mental Health Status in a Population with Serious Mental Illness.

Discussant: P. McCrone (UK)                         E-mail: p.mccrone@iop.kcl.ac.uk  

QUALITY AND OUTCOMES OF SERVICES

• Anke Bramesfeld, Felix Wedegärtner, Susanne Bisson (Germany): Using Mental Service Responsiveness as a Prameter for the Performance of a Mental Health Care System.
• Katarzyna Prot, Joanna Raduj, Marta Anczewska, Anna Indulska, Maciej Pałyska, Jolanta Skiba (Poland): Patients’ Views on Services in Acute In-Patient Units and Community Care.
• Rowena Jacobs and Valerie Moran (UK): The Uptake of Mandatory Outcome Measures in Mental Health Services.
• Nisha Dogra (UK): Implementing Assessment and Outcome Standards to Improve the Quality of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Provision.      

Discussant: A. D. Stant (NL)                           E-mail: a.d.stant@epi.umcg.nl

SATURDAY, March 28, 2009

Afternoon  (2.00pm-7.15pm)

METHODS

• Ganapathy V and McCombs JS (USA): Prognostic Propensity Scores:  A New Method for Determining ‘What Works Best’:  An Application in Patients Treated for Bipolar Disorder.
• Paul McCrone, Patel A, Knapp M, Schene A, Koeter M, Amaddeo F, Ruggeri M, Giessler A, Puschner B, Thornicroft G. (UK): A Comparison of SF-6D and EQ-5D Utility Scores in a Study of Patients with Schizophrenia
• Jeffrey S. Hoch, and Carolyn S. Dewa (Canada): How Net Benefit Regression can Overcome the Challenges of Conventional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.
• Catharina C.M. Jonkers, Femke Lamers, Silvia M.A.A. Evers,Hans Bosma,Jacques Th.M. van Eijk (NL): Cost-Utility Estimates in Depression: Does Valuation Method Matter?

Discussant: W. Encinosa (USA)                     E-mail: wencinos@ahrq.gov

EFFICIENCY OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

• Luis Salvador-Carulla, Carlos García-Alonso, Jose Alberto Salinas, Leonor Naranjo (Spain): Tackling Inefficiency: The Hard Question in (Mental) Health Care.
• Aagaard J (Denmark): Effects of the Enlargement of Community-based Psychiatry. A Health Service Research Project.
• Darrel P. Doessel, Ruth F.G. Williamsand Harvey Whiteford (Australia):Multiple Policy Issues in the Australian Mental Health Sector.
• Jalila Jbilou, Nabil Amara (Canada): Measuring Efficiency of Psychiatric Outpatient Services: A Systematic Review.

Discussant:J.Hsu (USA)                                E-mail: jth@dor.kaiser.org

POLICY

• Khachatur Gasparyan, Armen Soghoyan, Maruke Yeghiyan, Anna Mirzoyan (Armenia): Current Issues of Mental Health Policy in Armenia.
• M. Gabriel E Sotelo., H. Mirna A. Trancoso (Mexico): Mental Health Care Policy in México.
• Sato Shigeki (Japan): An Analysis of Japanese Mental Health System.
• Dov Chernichovsky (Israel): Mental Healthcare in Israel: The Political Economy of a Suspended Reform.

Discussant: J. Bloom (USA)                            E-mail: jbloom@uclink.berkeley.edu

ANXIETY

• Didem Bernard, Yusuf Sivrioglu, and William Encinosa (USA): Health Care Expenditure Burdens among People with Anxiety Disorders.
• Juan M Cabasés and Eduardo Sánchez Iriso (Spain): Health-related Quality of Life of Patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
• Hans-Helmut König, Anja Born, Dirk Heider, Herbert Matschinger, Sven Heinrich, Steffi G. Riedel-Heller, Daniel Surall, Matthias C. Angermeyer, Christiane Roick (Germany, UK): Cost-Effectiveness of an Improved Care Model for Patients with Anxiety Disorders in Primary Care.
• Sabes-Figuera R, McCrone P, Bogic M, and Priebe S (UK): Predictors of Healthcare Costs among a Population who have Experienced War in the Balkans. Results from a Large Multi-Centre Epidemiological Community-Based Survey.

Discussant: C. Dewa (Canada)                        E-mail: cs.dewa@utoronto.ca

DEPRESSION – COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERVENTIONS

• Antonio Andreoli, Y.Burnand, P. Ohlendorf (Switzerland): Long-Term Benefits from Combined Treatment Among Depressive Patients: A 6-Year Follow-Up Study.
• Catharina C.M. Jonkers, Femke Lamers, Silvia M.A.A. Evers, Hans Bosma, Job F. Metsemakers, Jacques Th. M. Van Eijk (NL): Cost-utility of a Minimal Psychological Intervention to Reduce Depressive Symptoms and Improve Quality of Life in Chronically Ill Elderly Persons.
• Sandra Hollinghurst, Surinder Kaur, Glyn Lewis, Tim Peters, Debbie Sharp, Nicola Wiles, David Kessler (UK): Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness of an Internet Based Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy for Depression: A Randomised Controlled Trial.
• Traolach (Terry) Brugha, Jane Morrell, Simon Dixon, Stephen Walters, Pauline Slade (UK): Prevention of Postnatal Depression: Cost-Effectiveness of Health Visitor Training; Results from a Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial in Primary Care.

Discussant: J. Hoch (Canada)                          E-mail: jeffrey.hoch@utoronto.ca 

MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES I

• Linda Rosenberg and Charles Ingoglia (USA): Data-Driven Decision Making to Improve Access to Community Mental Health Services.
• Bonin, JP, Lavoie-Tremblay, M, Lesage, AD, Miquelon, P, Maisy, N (Canada): Continuity of Health Services in a Reorganization Based on Patient Focused Care Programs, in the Context of Mental Health Services Reform.
• Rosa Quelhas, Tiago Rodrigues, Henrique Pereira (Portugal): Predicting Psychiatric Admissions’ Length of Stay and Readmissions.
• Laura Hans and Martin Zelder (USA): Modelling Decisions by the Mentally Ill.

Discussant: L. Salvador (Spain)                      E-mail: luis.salvador@telefonica.net 

COST-EFFECTIVESNESS ANALYSIS

• Paul McCrone P, Heslin M, Howard L, Rice C, Leese M, Jarrett M, McCrone P, Spokes T, Thornicroft G. (UK): The SWAN (Supported Work And Needs) Study: an Economic Evaluation of Supported Employment for  People with Mental Health Problems in London.
• A. Dennis Stant, Van der Gaag M, Heeg B, Wiersma D, Buskens E (NL): Cost-effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Persistent and Recurrent Psychosis.
• Aagaard J (Denmark): Cost-effectiveness of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) during a Two Years Follow-up. A Case Control Study.
• Saskia Schawo and Leona Hakkaart (NL): Modelling cost-effectiveness of Functional Family Therapy (FFT) in the Netherlands.

Discussant: E. Foster (USA)                            E-mail: emfoster@email.unc.edu

ADDICTION AND COMORBIDITIES

• Mohammed Abou-Saleh, Paul Davis; Philip Rice; Ken Checinski; Colin Drummond; Douglas Maxwell, Christine Godfrey; Christopher John, Betsy Corrin, Christopher Tibbs, Adenekan Oyefeso,  Marian de Ruiter, Hamid Ghodse(UK) The Health Economics of Primary Preventive Behavioural Interventions for Hepatitis C in Drug Users.
• Sosa-Rubí S.G,  Galárraga O,   Infante C. (Mexico): Psychological temporal perspective and economic incentives: Willingness to Accept Conditional Cash Transfers for HIV prevention in Mexico.
• Jacek Moskalewicz, Janusz Sieroslawski, Katarzyna Dabrowska (Poland): Cost of Drug Treatment from the Systemic Perspective: Allocation of Resources, Number of Patients per Staff Member, Cost per Patient.
• Dimitri Kohler (Switzerland): Assessing the Intangible Costs of Gambling Addiction.

Discussant: J.M. Cabases (Spain)                  E-mail: jmcabases@unavarra.es

SUICIDE AND SUICIDE RISK

• Tord Forsner, Anna Åberg Wistedt, Mats Brommels, Yvonne Forsell (Sweden): Supported Local Implementation of Clinical Guidelines in Psychiatry: A Two Year Follow-Up.
• Susan H. Busch, Richard G. Frank, Colleen L. Barry (USA): Who Responds to New Safety Information? The Case of Pediatric Antidepressant Use and Suicide Risk.
• Simon Hatcher, Cyndy Sharon, Nicola Collins, Kylie Wakelin (New Zeland): Cost Effectiveness of Problem Solving Therapy in the Treatment of People who Present to Hospital After Self –Harm.
• Pilar Ohlendorf, G. Rubovszky, D. Gaudry-Maire, A.Andreoli (Switzerland): Is Crisis Intervention at the GeneralHospital An Appropriate Treatment Choice for Acutely Suicidal Borderline Patients?

Discussant: T. Brugha (UK)                             E-mail: tsb@le.ac.uk

SUNDAY, March 29, 2009

Morning  (9.00am-12.30pm)

DEPRESSION

• Laura McDonald (World Bank): Impact of Depression on Labor Market Participation in Post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• Arto Ohinmaa, Philip Jacobs (Canada):  Mental Health Economics Literature Data Base – Overview of The Literature and Details from Cost of Illness in Depression.
• Vicki Fung, John Hsu, (USA): Self-Reported Responses to Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Costs Among Beneficiaries with Antidepressant Use.
• Alexandra Constant, Tanya Ramolo (Canada): Is Depression More Common in Some Occupation Types and Among High Skill Workers?

       Discussant: S. Busch (USA)                     E-mail:  susan.busch@yale.edu

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

        Chair:

• Dada MU, Okewole AO, Ogun OC,  Bello-Mojeed M, Usoh T, Adesoji GB (Nigeria): Predictors of Caregiver Burden in a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Centre.
• Muniswamy Sundar and Vishwanatha (India): Cost-Effectiveness Modeling for Depression among ART (HIV/AIDS) Recipient in a PublicHospital Setting in India.
• Lola Kola, Oye Gureje, Oluyomi Esan (Nigeria):Mental Disorders and Earnings: Results from Nigerian National Survey of Mental Health and Well Being (NSMHW).
• PM Shyangwa, Nirmal Lamichhane, R Shakya (Nepal): Psychiatric Morbidity in Foreign Job.

Discussant: D. Chisholm (WHO)                    E-mail: ChisholmD@WHO.int

MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES II

                Chair:

• Amresh Shrivastava, Diana Handsaeme, Robbie Campbell (Canada): Need to Review Service Development Policy for the Fist Episode Psychosis Initiative: The Evidence of Comorbidity.
• Annie Lau, Victoria Sturdy, Alison Black (UK): A London survey of Early Intervention in Psychosis Teams and Links with the Further Education System, June 2008.
• Małgorzata Pawłowska (Poland): Measuring Continuity of Care in Various Forms of Out-Patient Mental Health Services in Poland.
• Codruta Alina Popescu, Ioana Miclutia, Ioana Craciun (Romania): Continuity of Care in First-episode Schizophrenia Patients.

Discussant: J. Jerrell (USA)                             E-mail: Jeanette.Jerrell@uscmed.sc.edu 

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

• Judit Harangozo, Karin Kaloczy, Ulf Malm, Katalin Ersek (Hungary, Sweden): What ‘Good Practice’ Means: Optimal Treatment Program (OTP) and Mental Health Policies: From Research Evidence to Implementation in Clinical Practice and Policy.
• Virgil-Radu Enătescu, Virgil Enătescu, Ileana Enătescu (Romania): Socio-Economic Outcomes of Recurrent Depression in a Romanian Sample.
• Grozdanko B. Grbeša (Serbia): Evolution of PTSD Symptoms and Alterations of PTSD Treatment Cost at the Clinic for Mental Health in Nis-Serbia Throughout the 1999-2007 Period.
• K Ersek, K Karpati, L Gulacsi, Judit Harangozo (Hungary): Disease Burden of Dementia in Hungary.

Discussant: H. Koenig (Germany)                  E-mail: hans-helmut.koenig@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

12.30pm – CLOSING REMARKS