Effect of crisis plans on admissions and emergency visits: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To establish whether patients with a crisis plan had fewer voluntary or involuntary admissions, or fewer outpatient emergency visits, than patients without such a plan.

Design

Multicenter randomized controlled trial with two intervention conditions and one control condition.

Participants

Adult outpatients diagnosed with psychotic or bipolar disorder who had experienced at least one psychiatric crisis in the previous two years.

Intervention

Two types of advance statement were used: (1) a crisis plan formulated by the patient with the help of a patient advocate (Patient Advocate Crisis Plan: PACP); and (2) a crisis plan developed together with the clinician (Clinician-facilitated Crisis Plan: CCP).

Outcome

The percentages of patients admitted vol

SUBMITTER: Ruchlewska A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3960137 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature