Achieving Continuity of Care: Facilitators and Barriers in Community Mental Health Teams

Implementation Science

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Belling, Ruth ^c   Whittock, Margaret ^c   McLaren, Susan ^c   Burns, Tom ^a,b   Catty, Jocelyn ^b   Jones, Ian Rees ^d   Rose, Diana ^e   Wykes, Til ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; SOCIAL WORK; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DECISION MAKING; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; SOCIAL WORK; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 79952697176     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17485908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-5908-6-23     Document Type: Article

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