Utilization and Effectiveness of Home Treatment for People With Acute Severe Mental Illness: A Propensity-Score Matching Analysis of 19 Months of Observation

Treatment guidelines recommend home treatment (HT) as an effective alternative to inpatient treatment for individuals with severe, acute mental illness (SAMI). Nevertheless, HT is largely unfamiliar in German-speaking countries. Here we examined the utilization and effectiveness of HT services newly...

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Main Authors: Sonja Mötteli, Dominik Schori, Helen Schmidt, Erich Seifritz, Matthias Jäger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00495/full