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An inner city home treatment service for acute psychiatric patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Christine Dean  and
Elaine Gadd
Elaine Gadd
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham B15 2TH
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Over the last ten years it has been shown that it is possible to treat the majority of patients with acute psychiatric illness in their own homes. Home treatment has been shown to produce a superior outcome to hospital care on measures of symptomatology, subsequent independent living and employment status (Hoult, 1986) self-esteem (Stein & Test, 1980) and may decrease the need for re-admission. Additionally, home treatment decreases the burden felt by the relatives (Pai & Kapur, 1982) and may enable them to cope better with the patient after the acute episode.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 13 , Issue 12 , December 1989 , pp. 667 - 669
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