title: Deinstitutionalisation does not increase imprisonment or homelessness.
abstract: Closing long-stay psychiatric beds remains contentious. The review by Winkler et al in this issue examines 23 studies of deinstitutionalisation for the outcomes of people discharged from psychiatric hospitals after an admission of 1 year or longer. The majority of these studies identified no cases of homelessness, incarceration or suicide after discharge from hospital.
authors.affiliation: Tatiana Taylor Salisbury, PhD, Centre for Global Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK; Graham Thornicroft, PhD, Health Services and Population Research, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.
authors.forename: Tatiana Taylor
authors.initials: TT
authors.lastname: Salisbury
authors.affiliation: Tatiana Taylor Salisbury, PhD, Centre for Global Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK; Graham Thornicroft, PhD, Health Services and Population Research, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK graham.thornicroft@kcl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Graham
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Thornicroft
mesh_terms: D003415:Crime / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003688:Deinstitutionalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D011330:Prisons / Q000706:statistics & numerical data