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Integrating case management and psychiatric hospitalization.
1Mount Vernon Center for Community Mental Health, Alexandria, VA 22309.
Health & Social Work
|February 1, 1991
Summary
Effective collaboration between psychiatric hospital and community case management teams is crucial for long-term mental illness care. Addressing barriers can maximize inpatient benefits within community support plans.
Area of Science:
- Psychiatry
- Mental Health Services
- Healthcare Collaboration
Background:
- Community case management aims to reduce psychiatric hospitalizations for long-term mental illness.
- Despite existing liaison mechanisms, collaboration between hospital and community treatment teams is often ineffective.
- Case managers may disengage during hospitalizations, and hospital staff may delay engagement until discharge planning.