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Posted by rwolf on 09 Dec 2020 at 09:09 GMT
Dear reader,
My co-authors and I have identified a miscommunication that we would like to correct in the published paper “Evaluation of a screening algorithm using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire to identify children with mental health problems: A five-year register-based follow-up on school performance and healthcare use” from October 2019 (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223314).
Our request is related to our description of the mental health care costs in the method section. On page 5 we write: “Costs of hospital care are retrieved from the National Patient Register [44]. We differentiate between somatic care and mental health care in hospitals, as well as inpatient care and outpatient care. We compute costs of somatic care using the Danish System of Diagnostic Related Groups (DRG-tariffs). DRG-tariffs are unavailable for mental health care in Denmark. Instead, we use the National Board of Health’s per diem charge and ambulatory charge for mental health care to assess the costs of mental health care in hospitals.”
It is correct that we use the National Board of Health’s ambulatory charge for outpatient mental health care. However, we were in fact able to use DRG-tariffs for the inpatient mental health care. We therefore suggested the following edit of the text:
“Costs of hospital care are retrieved from the National Patient Register [44]. We differentiate between somatic care and mental health care in hospitals, as well as inpatient care and outpatient care. We compute costs of all somatic care and inpatient mental health care using the Danish System of Diagnostic Related Groups (DRG-tariffs). For outpatient mental health care, we instead used the National Board of Health’s ambulatory charge.”
The journal deemed it too small a mistake to publish a formal notice of correction and instead encouraged us to use this commenting tool.
Yours sincerely,
Rasmus Trap Wolf