Patients with mental illnesses who are not treated after they are discharged from the hospital are often readmitted, which represents a significant expense. In the clinical trial "Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness of Needs-oriented Discharge Planning and Monitoring for High Utilisers of Psychiatric Services", psychotherapists and psychiatrists from Ulm, Gnzberg, Stralsund, Dsseldorf, Regensburg and Ravensburg will attempt to discover whether individually tailored pre-treatment and after-treatment consultation therapy would help to reduce costs.
(Total funding: 518,390. Coordinator: Prof. Thomas Becker, University of Ulm / Psychiatric Ward II at the Gnzburg District Hospital)
The number of patients with psychosomatic physical disorders is high. Inability to work is frequently the outcome, an enormous strain, not only on the health care system. The clinical trial "Psychosomatic Intervention for Patients with Multisomatoform Disorder in Different Somatic Specialities (PISO)" will attempt to find out to what extent psychodynamic therapies can reduce these physical symptoms. Psychotherapists from Munich, Heidelberg, Dsseldorf, Regensburg and Mnster are working together on the planning and evaluation.
(Total funding: 502,250. Coordinator: Peter Henningsen, privatdocent, Munich University of Technology)
Paediatricians at the Charit University Hospital in Berlin are trying to find out how far the death rate from viral infections, particularly among leukemia patients after a bone marrow or stem cell transplant, can be reduced by the preventative use of cellular immu
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Contact: Dr. Eva-Maria Streier
em.streier@dfg.de
49-228-885-2250
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
13-Sep-2005