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The Systematic Collection of Patient Data in a Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Philip D. A. Treffers*
Affiliation:
University of Leyden and Medical Director of the Academic Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Curium in Oegstgeest
Arnold W. Goedhart
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Leyden
Jan W. Waltz
Affiliation:
Academic Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Curium in Oegstgeest
Els Koudijs
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Leyden, the Netherlands
*
Academisch Centrum Kinderen Jeugdpsychiatrie Curium, Endegeesterstraatweg 27, 2342 AK Oegstgeest, the Netherlands

Abstract

Computerisation of case records has been slow to take place in child psychiatry, partly because of the amount of detailed and sometimes complex information required. A program for storing case records has been developed and it has proved of great value in epidemiological work, for example, regarding patient age structures and family compositions.

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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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