What general practitioner landholders want to buy from a psychiatric service

Clinical outcomes and cost effectiveness of two aftercare models provided by general physicians and nurses to patients with severe mental illness

  Background: Implementing community-based psychiatric services is one of the priorities of the WHO/EMRO mental health programs. This study presents an aftercare service, as a community based-service, for patients with severe mental illness (SMIs).   Methods : In this randomized controlled clinical trial design, 176 patients, who attended selective hospitals with SMI, were allocated into three ...

1 . 1 . 2 The activities of acute admission unit psychiatric nurses : Insights from staff nurses and service users

1: ‘I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want’ Sue Ashby, Lecturer, Keele University, & one of the older people from the research projectBackground: This paper unites the key learning following older people involvement as active members of a research steeringgroup evaluating and developing interprofessional working among health and social care staff working inintermediat...

Course of Health Care Costs before and after Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment: Patient-Reported vs. Administrative Records

Background There is limited evidence on the course of health service costs before and after psychiatric inpatient treatment, which might also be affected by source of cost data. Thus, this study examines: i) differences in health care costs before and after psychiatric inpatient treatment, ii) whether these differences vary by source of cost-data (self-report vs. administrative), and iii) predi...

What Money Cannot Buy? Compassion in Healthcare: A Response to the Recent Commentaries

Employment status and health after privatisation in white collar civil servants: prospective cohort study.

OBJECTIVES To determine whether employment status after job loss due to privatisation influences health and use of health services and whether financial strain, psychosocial measures, or health related behaviours can explain any findings. DESIGN Data collected before and 18 months after privatisation. SETTING One department of the civil service that was sold to the private sector. PARTICI...