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[Open doors of a psychiatric intensive care unit with addiction patients: A 3-year Follow up study]
Petra Schmid1, Carmen Uhlmann1
1ZfP Südwürttemberg, Versorgungsforschung.
Objective:
A psychiatric addiction admission ward was conceptually modified in 2014 into a therapeutic and an intensive care unit. The effects of this restructuring procedure were now studied in a 3-year follow up.
Methods:
Data about times of closed doors, length of stay and coercive measures were evaluated over 3 measurement phases (Prä, Post, Follow-Up), each covering a 5-months period.
Results:
After restructuring, the door was closed significantly less often. In the follow-up period the results improved once more.
Conclusions:
The conceptual restructuring on a therapeutic, organizational and constructional level resulted in a sustained change in terms of custodial measures and length of stay.
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