ArticleDeutsches Arzteblatt international2013
Use of health care services by people with mental illness: secondary data from three statutory health insurers and the German Statutory Pension Insurance Scheme.
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Abstract
backgroundA discipline- and sector-specific analysis of health-care utilization by persons with mental illness in Germany is an indispensable aid to planning for the provision of adequate basic care.
methodSecondary data from three statutory health insurers and the German Statutory Pension Insurance Scheme for the period 2005-2007 were evaluated to identify insurees with mental illness (ICD-10 diagnosis groups F0-F5).
resultsIn the period 2005-2007, 3.28 million (33%) of 9.92 million insurees had at least one contact with the health-care system in which a mental disorder was diagnosed. 50.4% (1,651,367) of these insurees had at least two mental disorders. Nearly all (98.8%) of the insurees with a psychiatric index diagnosis had at least one somatic diagnosis coded as well. 95.7% of treatments were provided in the outpatient setting. Somatic medical specialties provided the majority of treatments both in ambulatory care and in the hospital. For example, 77.5% of persons with severe depression were treated with five kinds of treatment that were provided exclusively by primary care physicians and other specialists in somatic medicine in private practice, sometimes in combination with psychiatric treatment or psychotherapy.
conclusionThere was a high degree of comorbidity of mental and somatic illness. The fact that the vast majority of treatment was provided in the outpatient setting implies that cooperation across health-care sectors and disciplines should be reinforced, and that measures should be taken to ensure the adequate delivery of basic psychiatric care by primary care physicians.
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