ArticleCommunity mental health journal2021
Home Treatment for Acute Mental Healthcare: Who Benefits Most?
Article in Community mental health journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Who Benefits from Acute Psychiatric Home Treatment? A Systematic Review.Community mental health journal · 2024Pooled it
- From research to practice: Implementing an experimental home treatment model into routine mental health care.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2020Trial
- Factors associated with successful psychiatric intensive home treatment - a quasi-experimental study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Crisis versus extended care: bimodal distribution of length of stay in psychiatric inpatients.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Cost Utility of Intensive Home Treatment Compared With Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Admission.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Can a crisis resolution team replace an inpatient ward? Results from a French quasi-experimental study.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Cost-Effectiveness of Crisis Resolution Home Treatment for Managing Acute Psychiatric Crises in Southern Switzerland.International journal of public health · 2025Article
- Evaluation of treatment costs for direct versus stepwise admission to home treatment.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Prescriptive factors for intensive home treatment in acute psychiatry: a secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial.International journal of mental health systems · 2024Article
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- Study protocol of a randomized controlled trial evaluating home treatment with peer support for acute mental health crises (HoPe).BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- Effectiveness of crisis resolution home treatment for the management of acute psychiatric crises in Southern Switzerland: a natural experiment based on geography.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- Is Home Treatment for Everyone? Characteristics of Patients Receiving Intensive Mental Health Care at Home.Community mental health journal · 2022Article
- Referral for Intensive Home Treatment or Psychiatric Inpatient Care? A Retrospective, Observational Comparison of Patient and Process Characteristics.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Police Encounters, Agitation, Diagnosis, and Employment Predict Psychiatric Hospitalisation of Intensive Home Treatment Patients During a Psychiatric Crisis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Hospital-at-Home for Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders Compared to Inpatient Treatment in Dual Diagnosis Patients: A Retrospectively Matched Cohort Pilot Study Incorporating Service Use 12 months Pre- and Post-Treatment in Geneva.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Home treatment (HT) has been proposed as an alternative to inpatient treatment for individuals in acute mental crises. However, there is limited evidence concerning the effectiveness of HT to date. The aim of this study was to investigate which patients benefit most from HT. The concept and utilization of two HT services in Switzerland were retrospectively compared based on routine medical data of all patients who were treated in one of the two HT services between July 2016 and December 2017. We examined which patient characteristics were related to successful replacement of hospital care by HT based on a calculated success score using binary regression analyses. The whole sample included 408 individuals with an average age of 43 years and of whom 68% were female. As a result of conceptual similarities, in both HT settings, the typical patient was middle-aged, female and having an affective disorder as the main diagnosis. Half of the treatment cases met the criteria of successful replacement of hospital care (> 50% of the total treatment episodes in HT, treatment duration < 40 days and treatment terminated by mutual agreement). The results of the regression analyses indicated that patients with a lower symptom severity at admission (lower HoNOS score) and those who were employed had more likely a successful replacement of hospital care.The findings suggest that patients with acute mental disorders who have a certain level of functioning and social support might benefit most from HT in the sense of successful replacement of hospital care.
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