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Aims, outcome measures, study sites and patient sample

EPSILON Study I

Department of Psychiatry, University of Leipzig, Germany

MARTIN KNAPP, PhD, Centre for the Economics of Mental Health and GRAHAM THORNICROFT, MRCPsych, Section of Community Psychiatry (PRiSM)

Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, UK

HELLE CHARLOTTE KNUDSEN, MD

Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark

AART H. SCHENE, MD

Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

MICHELE TANSELLA, MD

Department of Medicine and Public Health, University of Verona, Italy

JOSÉ LUIS VÁZQUEZ-BARQUERO, FRCPsych

Clinical and Social Psychiatry Research Unit, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

EPSILON STUDY GROUP

Correspondence: Professor Thomas Becker, Department of Psychiatry, University of Leipzig, Liebigstrasse 22b, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. Tel: +49 341 972 4401; fax: +49 341 960 4409

Study coordinating centre: Professor Graham Thornicroft, Health Services Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF

Declaration of interest No conflict of interest. Funding detailed in Acknowledgements.

Background Cross-national research into the care of people with severe mental illnesses is hampered by a lack of standardised measures. The European Psychiatric Services: Inputs Linked to Outcome Domains and Needs (EPSILON) Study is a European Union funded project within the BIOMED-2 programme. The project aims to develop standardised instruments to facilitate future crossnational research.

Aims To describe the aims, outcome measures, study sites and patient samples of the EPSILON Study.

Method, results, conclusions See companion papers in this supplement.

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