Home treatment in preventing hospital admission for moderate and severe mentally ill people

Psychiatry Res. 2015 Dec 15;230(2):709-11. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.08.039. Epub 2015 Aug 31.

Abstract

A Home Treatment team was compared with a Psychiatric Emergency Department (PED) on preventing hospitalization among two cohorts of 448 patients matched by diagnosis, sex, and age. The logistic regression showed that HT people were 4.6 times less likely to be admitted than those from PED.

Keywords: Emergency; Home treatment; Inpatient.

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Cohort Studies
  • Emergency Services, Psychiatric / trends*
  • Female
  • Home Care Services / trends*
  • Hospitalization / trends*
  • Humans
  • Logistic Models
  • Male
  • Mental Disorders / diagnosis
  • Mental Disorders / psychology
  • Mental Disorders / therapy*
  • Mentally Ill Persons* / psychology
  • Middle Aged
  • Patient Admission / trends
  • Severity of Illness Index*