Home treatment in preventing hospital admission for moderate and severe mentally ill people

David Córcoles; Ángeles Malagón; Luis M Martín; Antoni Bulbena; Victor Pérez

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2015.08.039

Home treatment in preventing hospital admission for moderate and severe mentally ill people

Psychiatry Res. 2015 Dec 15;230(2):709-11. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.08.039. Epub 2015 Aug 31.

Authors

David Córcoles¹, Ángeles Malagón², Luis M Martín², Antoni Bulbena³, Victor Pérez⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Psychiatry, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain.
³ Department of Psychiatry, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; Departament de Psiquiatria i Medicina Legal, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Barcelona, Spain.

PMID: 26343832
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.08.039

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Emergency; Home treatment; Inpatient.

MeSH terms

Aged
Cohort Studies
Emergency Services, Psychiatric / trends*
Female
Home Care Services / trends*
Hospitalization / trends*
Humans
Logistic Models
Male
Mental Disorders / diagnosis
Mental Disorders / psychology
Mental Disorders / therapy*
Mentally Ill Persons* / psychology
Middle Aged
Patient Admission / trends
Severity of Illness Index*