Home treatment in preventing hospital admission for moderate and severe mentally ill people.
A Home Treatment team was compared with a Psychiatric Emergency Department (PED) on preventing hospitalization among two cohorts of 448 patients matched by diagnosis, sex, and age. The logistic regression showed that HT people were 4.6 times less likely to be admitted than those from PED.
Department of Psychiatry, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: dcorcoles@parcdesalutmar.cat.
David
D
Córcoles
Department of Psychiatry, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain.
Ángeles
Á
Malagón
Department of Psychiatry, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain.
Luis M
LM
Martín
Department of Psychiatry, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; Departament de Psiquiatria i Medicina Legal, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Antoni
A
Bulbena
Department of Psychiatry, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Barcelona, Spain.
Victor
V
Pérez
D000368:Aged; D015331:Cohort Studies; D004637:Emergency Services, Psychiatric / Q000639:trends*; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000639:trends*; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000639:trends; D012720:Severity of Illness Index
Emergency; Home treatment; Inpatient