General information

Rob Giel Research center (RGOc)
http://www.rgoc.nl/

The Rob Giel Research Center (RGOc) is a collaboration between the three main mental health care organizations (MHCO’s) in the north of the Netherlands and the University Center for Psychiatry, which has created an infrastructure for health care and services research in the three northern provinces (pop. 1.7 million). This infrastructure is the basis for many collaborative research projects on mental disorders (mainly schizophrenia and the severely mentally ill) in regard to pharmacological as well as psychological and psychosocial interventions, and on the evaluation of mental health services in terms of inpatient, outpatient and community care facilities, inter alia by means of the Groningen Psychiatric Case Register (PCR) covering the northern three provinces; this case register participates in a network including three other case registers in Rotterdam, Maastricht and Utrecht.

Since 2007 a major routine outcome monitoring (ROM) project started, denoted as: routine outcome and quality assessment (RoQua). The project includes the development of a web-based ROM tool which can be directly connected with electronic patient files. At present seven MHCO’s are collaborating in the project. The aim is to develop ROM protocols for a variety of diagnostic categories. This infrastructure should facilitate ongoing research on the effectiveness of interventions.

The RGOc facilitates the conducting of more than 65 local, national and international collaborative research projects varying from RCTs (18) to prospective (30) and cross-sectional (5) investigations (see www.rgoc.nl ).

Part of this research has been positioned within SHARE and is shown on this site.