An evaluation of the characteristics and outcomes of users of a street triage service: retrospective case note review
<p><strong>Aims and method</strong> Street triage services are now common but the population they serve is poorly understood. We aimed to evaluate a local service to determine the characteristics of those using it and their outcomes in the 90 day period following contact.</p>...
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Cambridge University Press
2019
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| author | Molodynski, A Hollingsworth, S Penzenstadler, L Perfect, D Puntis, S |
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| description | <p><strong>Aims and method</strong>
Street triage services are now common but the population they serve is poorly understood. We aimed to evaluate a local service to determine the characteristics of those using it and their outcomes in the 90 day period following contact.</p>
<p><strong>Results</strong>
We found that there were high levels of service use and that the vast majority of contacts were via telephone rather than in person. Street triage was used by both existing secondary mental health patients and non-patients. Follow-up rates with secondary services were high in the former and low in the latter case.</p>
<p><strong>Implications</strong>
Services are very busy where they exist and may be replacing traditional crisis services. It is not apparent that they work to increase follow-up among those using them, unless they are already in contact with services. In this service, although there was a joint response model nearly all responses were provided by telephone.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:5b2079ee-ba25-4c60-9648-f48ad47c83132023-07-06T10:33:10ZAn evaluation of the characteristics and outcomes of users of a street triage service: retrospective case note reviewJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:5b2079ee-ba25-4c60-9648-f48ad47c8313EnglishSymplectic ElementsCambridge University Press2019Molodynski, AHollingsworth, SPenzenstadler, LPerfect, DPuntis, S<p><strong>Aims and method</strong> Street triage services are now common but the population they serve is poorly understood. We aimed to evaluate a local service to determine the characteristics of those using it and their outcomes in the 90 day period following contact.</p> <p><strong>Results</strong> We found that there were high levels of service use and that the vast majority of contacts were via telephone rather than in person. Street triage was used by both existing secondary mental health patients and non-patients. Follow-up rates with secondary services were high in the former and low in the latter case.</p> <p><strong>Implications</strong> Services are very busy where they exist and may be replacing traditional crisis services. It is not apparent that they work to increase follow-up among those using them, unless they are already in contact with services. In this service, although there was a joint response model nearly all responses were provided by telephone.</p> |
| spellingShingle | Molodynski, A Hollingsworth, S Penzenstadler, L Perfect, D Puntis, S An evaluation of the characteristics and outcomes of users of a street triage service: retrospective case note review |
| title | An evaluation of the characteristics and outcomes of users of a street triage service: retrospective case note review |
| title_full | An evaluation of the characteristics and outcomes of users of a street triage service: retrospective case note review |
| title_fullStr | An evaluation of the characteristics and outcomes of users of a street triage service: retrospective case note review |
| title_full_unstemmed | An evaluation of the characteristics and outcomes of users of a street triage service: retrospective case note review |
| title_short | An evaluation of the characteristics and outcomes of users of a street triage service: retrospective case note review |
| title_sort | evaluation of the characteristics and outcomes of users of a street triage service retrospective case note review |
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