Costs and Benefits of Day Treatment With Community Care for Schizophrenic Patients
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- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Schizophrenia Bulletin
- Vol. 17 (3) , 411-419
- https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/17.3.411
Abstract
The feasibility of day treatment with community care for schizophrenic patients was tested by means of a longitudinal randomized experiment with 34 experimentals and 16 controls: 38 percent could be treated satisfactorily in a day program that included a very active ambulatory service. The new approach did not improve prognosis with respect to psychiatric symptomatology, social role disabilities, or number of read-missions during the first year of followup. Total cost of treatment was less for day-treatment patients than for ordinary clinical patients.Keywords
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