Case management and assertive community treatment. What is the difference?
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What is the future of assertive community treatment?
Although the trend towards community care for psychiatric patients has been apparent now for over fifty years, we still do not have a satisfactory model of community care that all can aim for as the target to be achieved. To an outsider this may seem curious. It seems fairly obvious that hospitals are necessary for patients when they are severely ill, that good care given outside hospital when ...
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Background Assertive community treatment (ACT) has become one of the cornerstones of care for people with serious mental illnesses. ACT is usually conceptualized as incorporating a multidisciplinary team approach, active and persistent attempts to engage clients, direct provision of comprehensive health and social care, and in-vivo and out-of-hours working. In addition, the service is ongoing, ...
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This review examines the impact of assertive community treatment (ACT) and case management models on the use of inpatient hospitalization and other community mental health services, costs, and other clinical and social outcomes. ACT programs have been found to reduce hospitalization and increase use of community mental health services at an equivalent or reduced cost. Greater fidelity to the AC...
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The usefulness of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) in European countries with well-developed community care systems has been disputed, despite considerable relevant literature. This paper aims to assess reasons for and against implementing ACT in such countries. ACT may not be useful where generic community mental health teams are not yet well-developed, where admission rates are already low...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1121-189X,2038-1816
DOI: 10.1017/s1121189x00002761