Transitioning to a Data Driven Mental Health Practice: Collaborative Expert Sessions for Knowledge and Hypothesis Finding
Table 1
The five identified topics with the highest priority, along with the theme they are categorized to. Note that these are not questions that must be answered during the project but serve as a way to become acquainted with the psychiatry department as a case study domain.
Topic
Theme
Priority
What are relations between the different Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) scores (or between specific sections of the ROM scores), and can they predict length of treatment?
Routine Outcome Monitoring
1
Do medication prescription and change in medication influence the length of admission and the likeliness of readmission?
Medication
2
Can aggression incidents in inpatients be predicted?
Aggression
3
In what way are patients referred between, for example, general practitioners, secondary care institutions, and the UMCU?
Patient referrals
4
What are descriptive statistics of aggression incidents? That is, in what location, at what time, and with which members of staff do they occur?
