Depression treatment in Germany – using claims data to compare a collaborative mental health care program to the general practitioner program and usual care in terms of guideline adherence and need-oriented access to psychotherapy

Table 1 Inclusion criteria

1. Age ≥ 18 years
2. Continously insured by the AOK BW
3. Place of residency in Baden-Württemberg (southwestern Germany)
4. Sick leave diagnosis in 2015 due to alcohol abuse (F10.x), schizophrenia (F20.x), bipolar disorder (F31.x), depressive episode (F32.x), recurrent depressive disorder (F33.x), dysthymia (F34.1), phobic anxiety disorder (F40.x), other anxiety disorders (F41.x), adjustment disorder (F43.2), or somatoform disorder (F45.x) and no sick leave diagnosis in the previous 12 month because of a mental disorder (Fxx.x)
5. Inpatient depression diagnosis or at least two outpatient depression diagnoses (F32 or F33) within the quarter in 2015, in which the patient received the sick leave diagnosis, or the two subsequent quarters
6. Complete cost data, plausible length of stay and cost values (e.g. aggregated cost data had to be positive)

AOK is a large statutory health insurance company in Germany, BW Baden-Württemberg (region in southwestern Germany)

ISSN: 1471-244X