Case management or assertive community treatment: are they really alternative approaches?
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Assertive community treatment and case management for schizophrenia.
This review examines the impact of assertive community treatment (ACT) and case management models on the use of inpatient hospitalization and other community mental health services, costs, and other clinical and social outcomes. ACT programs have been found to reduce hospitalization and increase use of community mental health services at an equivalent or reduced cost. Greater fidelity to the AC...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1121-189X,2038-1816
DOI: 10.1017/s1121189x0000275x