The cost of comprehensive care of people with schizophrenia living in the community: A cost evaluation from a German catchment area

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 42-48

  Salize, Hans Joachim ^a,b   Rössler, Wulf ^a  

^a Mental Health Services Research Unit

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029748304     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.169.1.42     Document Type: Review

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