Changes in inpatient mental health treatment and related costs before and after flexible assertive community treatment: a naturalistic observational cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) is currently implemented in Norwegian mental health services, aiming to ensure comprehensive and rights-based services for persons with severe mental illness and complex needs, but also motivated by assumed cost-effectiveness. We need knowledge about the consequences of this service innovation. The aim of this study was to investigate changes in total and involuntary inpatient mental health treatment and associated changes in costs of inpatient days before and after enrolment into FACT for persons with severe mental illness and complex needs in Norway.

Methods

In this naturalistic observational cohort study of 397 patients in eight Norwegian FACT teams, we compared total and involuntary admissions, total and involuntar

SUBMITTER: Brekke E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11852869 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature