Transitions of care refers to the actions involved in coordinating care for patients as they move through the health care system. The clinical goal during a transition is to communicate the care most-recently received and the needs for aftercare and beyond. Communication across settings and practitioners is paramount, as is the patient’s and family’s understanding of the illnesses and clinical ...

The aim of this meta-analytic study, including 22 studies and 5764 participants, was to examine the effects of aftercare programs on recidivism in juvenile and young adult offenders released from correctional institutions. The studies had to be (quasi-)experimental, with the control group receiving 'care as usual' or no treatment. Recidivism was measured by re-arrests and/or reconvictions and w...

The objectives of this study are to assess the magnitude and course of suicidal ideation during outpatient treatment and aftercare for adolescents with alcohol use disorders (AUD). One hundred seventy-seven adolescents meeting eligibility criteria, including no past 30-day suicidal behavior, participated in 9 weeks of outpatient cognitive-behavioral group therapy. Treatment completers were rand...

Background—Access to cardiac services is essential for appropriate implementation of evidence-based therapies to improve outcomes. The Cardiac Accessibility and Remoteness Index for Australia (Cardiac ARIA) aimed to derive an objective, geographic measure reflecting access to cardiac services. Methods and Results—An expert panel defined an evidence-based clinical pathway. Using Geographic Infor...

in a period of less than five decades, the urban residence has dramatically increased in iran. currently more than two thirds of the population live in city dwellings. this rapid urbanization has considerable impact on people’s mental health and psychiatric care. the main strategy of iran's national program of mental health has been the integration of mental health into the primary health ...

ᅟ: We analyze one-year costs and savings of a telemedically supported case management program after kidney transplantation from the perspective of the German Healthcare System. Recipients of living donor kidney transplantation (N = 46) were randomly allocated to either (1) standard aftercare or (2) standard aftercare plus additional telemedically supported case management. A range of cost figur...

Multidisciplinary management is the standard of care for common cancer subtypes, and it is particularly important for rare cancers such as penile cancer. Often clinical expertise may have to be concentrated into defined regional or supraregional cancer centres; thus patients may have to be treated at centres distant from their home town. For comprehensive management of the needs of penile patie...

The evolution of contact lens technology and clinical practice over the past three decades has been remarkable, with dramatic improvements in material biocompatibility, better lens designs and care systems, and more flexible and convenient modalities of wear. However, our approach to the aftercare examination has remained conservative, with the general modus operandi having not fully evolved fr...

Reasons that bring suicide attempters to be in contact or not with health facilities are still insufficiently clarified. Using data from the WHO/SUPRE-MISS community survey, this study tried to shed more light on this problem, and also investigated the type and number of treatments sought by suicide attempters in two major cities of Queensland, Australia. Compared to those who did not attend se...

OBJECTIVE Patients with comorbid diagnoses of a substance use disorder and at least one other axis I mental disorder have low rates of compliance with aftercare. The purpose of the study was to identify predictors of noncompliance among dual diagnosis inpatients. METHODS Characteristics of 48 dual diagnosis inpatients were examined. Compliance was defined as visiting the aftercare site at lea...