Diagnose, indicate, and treat severe mental illness (DITSMI) as appropriate care: A three-year follow-up study in long-term residential psychiatric patients on the effects of re-diagnosis on medication prescription, patient functioning, and hospital bed utilization

Diagnose, indicate, and treat severe mental illness (DITSMI) as appropriate care: A three-year follow-up study in long-term residential psychiatric patients on the effects of re-diagnosis on medication prescription, patient functioning, and hospital bed utilization

AbstractBackground.While polypharmacy is common in long-term residential psychiatric patients, prescription combinations may, from an evidence-based perspective, be irrational. Potentially, many psychiatric patients are treated on the basis of a poor diagnosis. We therefore evaluated the DITSMI mode...

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Main Authors: H. M. Veereschild, E. O. Noorthoorn, H. L. I. Nijman, C. L. Mulder, M. Dankers, J. A. Van der Veen, A. J. M. Loonen, G. J. M. Hutschemaekers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2020-01-01
Series:European Psychiatry
Subjects:
Appropriate care
medication and hospital bed utilization
re-diagnose
severe mental illness
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0924933820000462/type/journal_article

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