Use of intensive case management to reduce time in hospital in people with severe mental illness: systematic review and meta-regression.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explain why clinical trials of intensive case management for people with severe mental illness show such inconsistent effects on the use of hospital care.

Design

Systematic review with meta-regression techniques applied to data from randomised controlled trials.

Data sources

Cochrane central register of controlled trials, CINAHL, Embase, Medline, and PsychINFO databases from inception to January 2007. Additional anonymised data on patients were obtained for multicentre trials.

Review methods

Included trials examined intensive case management compared with standard care or low intensity case management for people with severe mental illness living in the community. We used a fidelity scale to rate adherence to the model of assertive community treatm

SUBMITTER: Burns T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1949434 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature