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- 27.After an Intensive Home Treatment program was created in the Trieste Mental Health Department in 2017, the rate of involuntary hospitalization was reduced by 80 % in the next year
- 14. BIG NEWS ! Quebec is the first provincial government to roll out Intensive Home Treatment programs province wide
- 26. Intensive Home Treatment Programs could reduce emergency room boarding of patients experiencing a mental health crisis
- 25. A 2022 Swiss quasi-experimental study based on existing groups – a natural experiment based on geography , to allocate patients to IHT and hospital treatment according to the place of residence ent
- 24 Dutch randomised controlled trial 2022
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17.What is the place of psychiatric inpatient care in the 21st century? Lessons from research on hospital alternatives.
I wrote this article for the April 2011 issue of ” Community Psychiatrist”: the newsletter of the American Association of Community Psychiatrists. It highlights the role of intensive home treatment and how I think this model fits with the two … Continue reading
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16. Are intensive home treatment services associated with an increase in involuntary admissions and an increased suicide rate?
A controlled comparison of two crisis resolution and home treatment teams The lead author of this article is an important figure in British psychiatry: editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry and Professor of Community Psychiatry at Imperial College London. … Continue reading
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15. What was learned about the relationship between management style and organizational performance during the creation of crisis resolution & home treatment teams in England
The virtually en masse creation of many novel mental health teams in England-the roll out of dozens of crisis resolution & home treatment teams created an opportunity to assess how quality of leadership and staff attitudes and well-being affected organizational … Continue reading
14. How effective is intensive home treatment with older adults?
My experience in the Hazelglen Home Treatment Service in Kitchener Ontario is that intensive home treatment works extremely well with older adults. However, we only treated patients with functional , non-organic mental disorders; patients with dementia were excluded. The rationale … Continue reading
13. What are the characteristics of patients who are admitted to hospital despite the availability of an intensive home treatment team?
Research has shown that patient factors that are most often associated with needing hospitalization even though home treatment is available include 1. Mode of referral ( eg police, outside working hours) 2. Greater symptom severity 3. comorbid substance abuse or … Continue reading
12. How effective is hospitalization for preventing suicide?
When faced with a patient who has had suicidal ideas or shown suicidal behaviour, a clinician has to decide whether the patient needs to be admitted to the hospital for safety reasons, or whether it is safe to treat that patient … Continue reading
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11. Intensive Home Treatment for First Episode Psychosis
This study paints a gloomier picture regarding opportunities to avoid admission. The study is prospective-unlike the previous two. Consequently, all early psychosis patients were assessed for home treatment. In the previous two studies, it is clearly implied in the Australian … Continue reading
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10.Intensive home treatment for first-episode psychosis
This article describes the experience of intensive home treatment teams in Hertfordhire England in 1998/9. Successful home management was achieved in 20 cases ( 54%) during an eighteen month period. No significant difference was found in any demographic variable, diagnostic … Continue reading
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9.Intensive home treatment for first episode psychosis
Of all the psychiatric disorders , first episode psychosis is one of the most suited to intensive home treatment. It’s the treatment of choice for severe acute episodes in England and Australia. Entry into the psychiatric system is often very traumatic … Continue reading
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8. Cochrane Review of ” Crisis Intervention” ie intensive home treatment
Cochrane review of crisis intervention Joy Adams Rice edition 2 This review presents the conclusions regarding ability of intensive home to reduce admissions in an odd way–as ” treatment failures” . 45% of patients had to be admitted withing 12 months: ie … Continue reading
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