Assertive Community Treatment: Re-thinking a Tried and Tested Service Model
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Assertive Community Treatment: Re-thinking a Tried and Tested Service Model
• ACT is an expensive model of communitybased treatment, largely due to a low staffclient ratio (usually 1:8-10) • ACT is probably only cost-effective if clients would otherwise receive 50 or more days each year of inpatient treatment2 – while extended periods of inpatient treatment were not unusual when ACT was introduced, current admission and discharge practices make cost effectiveness more ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatry Information in Brief
سال: 2004
ISSN: 2162-1950
DOI: 10.7191/pib.1036