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Cost-effectiveness of assertive community treatment teams
S M Essock1, L K Frisman, N J Kontos
1Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA.
The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
|May 20, 1998
Abstract:
Clients who were high service users with serious mental disorders were randomly assigned to assertive community treatment (ACT) or to standard case management (SCM) at three sites and followed for 18 months. Clients in ACT spent more days in the community than did those in SCM, at no additional cost. For clients who were hospitalized at study entry, assertive community treatment was more cost-effective than standard case management.