Management Strategies to Reduce Psychiatric Readmissions. Technical Brief Number 21.

摘要

The purpose of this report is to describe and compare four core management strategies to reduce psychiatric readmissions—length of stay for inpatient care, transition support services (i.e., care provided as the individual moves to outpatient care), short-term alternatives to psychiatric rehospitalization (i.e., short-term outpatient care provided in place of psychiatric rehospitalization for those not at significant risk of harm to self or others), and long-term approaches for reducing psychiatric rehospitalization—for patients at high risk of psychiatric readmission.