Specialised teams or personal continuity across inpatient and outpatient mental healthcare? Study protocol for a natural experiment

BMJ Open

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Giacco, Domenico ^a   Bird, Victoria Jane ^a   McCrone, Paul ^b   Lorant, Vincent ^c   Nicaise, Pablo ^c   Pfennig, Andrea ^d   Bauer, Michael ^d   Ruggeri, Mirella ^e   Lasalvia, Antonio ^e   Moskalewicz, Jacek ^f   Welbel, Marta ^f   Priebe, Stefan ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^f INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; EUROPE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; SPECIALIZATION;

AMBULATORY CARE; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; EUROPE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPECIALIZATION;

EID: 85014147207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/BMJOPEN-2015-008996     Document Type: Article

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