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Methodology
In order to gain greater insights into the relevant factors and to understand how these influence the external reporting of involuntary care, the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport commissioned a project to examine the targeted reporting of involuntary care. This project involves experts from the academic world and practice investigating how important elements can be translated into the external reporting system that will be required when the Care and Coercion Act comes into force. The first phase of the project entailed organising an expert meeting, during which an inventory of the major obstacles was prepared. Efforts were made to ensure that those invited to the expert meeting included experts from different backgrounds. Experts ranged from lawyers with expertise in mental health law, ethicists, academics, and behavioural scientists to nursing specialists, doctors, and experts from the client’s perspective as well as and experts working with a variety of target groups (including people with multiple serious disabilities or mild intellectual disabilities, young people, and people with psychiatric problems). This meant that practice, academia and policymaking were all represented, while various target groups in the field of care for people with an intellectual disability were also taken into account. The expert meeting focussed on the following question: Which forms of involuntary care should be externally reported and how is this external reporting influenced by environmental and other factors?
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