Notice on severe mental disorder disease report management methods

(chinadaily.com.cn)

Updated: 2014-06-03

7. After severe mental disorder patients are discharged, the report unit should enter the hospital discharge into the information system within 10 working days. Report units without network resources should submit relevant information on paper to the local mental health prevention and control technology management institution at the county level within 10 working days.

The mental health prevention and control technology management institution at the county level should enter the hospital discharge information from units with no network resources into the information system within five working days.

8. Mental health prevention and the control technology management institution at the county level should notify local medical and health organizations at the commuity level within 15 working days after severe mental disorder patients are discharged. The health organization at the community level should set up patient health records and conduct regular follow-up visits to patients to help them recover in accordance with Article 55 of the Mental Health Law as well as the national basic public health service standards.

9. Health and family planning administrative departments, mental health prevention and control technology management institutions, and units responsible for reporting severe mental disorder cases at all levels, as well as medical and health organizations at the community level, should strictly take care of patient information and shall not disclose it to other institutions or people, except under certain legal circumstances.

10. The health and family planning administrative departments at all levels should conduct supervision and management on severe mental disorder report management work in their jurisdiction.

11. Mental health prevention and control technology management institutions at all levels are responsible for management, personnel training and technical guidance of the severe mental disorder outbreak report. They should be in charge of reviewing and managing severe mental disease report information, conducting related data analysis and quality control, transferring information on cross-regional diagnosis and treatment, and maintaining their own information system on a daily basis.

12. The unit responsible for reporting severe mental disorder diseases shall regularly conduct internal inspections on its report work.

The local health and family planning administrative departments above the county level should carry out severe mental disorder disease reports in the performance evaluation of medical institutions, and arrange supervision and inspection on report work. Any problems should be reported once found and corrected in time.

13. If schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, persistent delusional disorder (paranoid psychosis), bipolar (emotional) disorders, mental disorders caused by epilepsy, and mental retardation with psychiatric disorders meet the description of Clause 3 of the method, mobidity reports should be implemented. If not, they should be registered and managed in accordance with the current national basic public health service standards and other related norms.

14. The mental health prevention and control technology management institution is appointed by health and family planning administrative departments at all levels. It covers specialized mental hospitals in charge of technical guidance of local mental health prevention and control technology and daily management, general hospitals with a psychiatry department, and centers for disease control and prevention.

15. The method will be in force once it’s issued.