Mobile crisis team intervention to enhance linkage of discharged suicidal emergency department patients to outpatient psychiatric services: A randomized controlled trial

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 36-43

  Currier, Glenn W ^a   Fisher, Susan G ^a   Caine, Eric D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Health services research; Mobile crisis; Psychiatry; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH CENTER; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; OUTPATIENT CARE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; CRISIS INTERVENTION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY SERVICES, PSYCHIATRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE HEALTH UNITS; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SUICIDE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75449083065     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00619.x     Document Type: Article

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