title: Home-visit-based approach ends 'revolving door of care' for persistent mental disorders.
abstract: Intensive outreach program fits the bill for difficult-to-manage behavioral illnesses. Every health care system struggles with patients who suffer from persistent mental disorders. While inpatient care often gets these patients stabilized, many decompensate once they are released back into the community and end up in a vicious cycle of inpatient-outpatient care. One model of care has actually proven successful at keeping such patients out of the hospital while improving their quality of life.
mesh_terms: D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006792:House Calls; D006801:Humans; D007484:Iowa; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010348:Patient Care Team; D018579:Patient Selection