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  • Mental Health Services Research
  • Clinical Pathway Optimization

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  • Standardized clinical pathways often limit patient-centered, heterogeneous care in mental health.
  • Healthcare organizations seek methods to enhance responsiveness to unique patient treatment needs.
  • Modularity is proposed as a strategy to balance standardization and customization in care delivery.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the application of modularity in specialist mental health care clinical pathways.
  • To assess how modularity can enhance flexibility, stimulate shared decision-making (SDM), and customize care.
  • To maintain evidence-based standards while adapting care processes to patient contexts.

Main Methods:

  • Literature research on modularity in clinical pathways.
  • Theory-based case study at a Dutch specialist mental health care organization.
  • Document analysis and semi-structured interviews were conducted.

Main Results:

  • Two modularity structures identified: 'Prototype' and 'Menu-based'.
  • Prototype method suits predictable needs, available evidence, and sequential treatment.
  • Menu-based method suits unpredictable needs or lacking evidence for treatment interconnectedness.

Conclusions:

  • Both prototype and menu-based modularity effectively support shared decision-making and care customization.
  • The choice between methods depends on patient needs predictability, evidence availability, and treatment component interconnectedness.
  • Modularity offers a viable approach to reconcile standardization with personalized patient care in mental health.