Suicide under crisis resolution home treatment – a key setting for patient safety

Recent years have seen a substantial increase in the use of crisis resolution home treatment (CRHT) teams as an alternative to psychiatric in-patient admission. We discuss the functions of these services and their effectiveness. Our research suggests high rates of suicide in patients under CRHT. Spe...

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Autores principales: Hunt, Isabelle M., Appleby, Louis, Kapur, Nav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Psychiatrists 2016
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Editorials
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4967772/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27512582
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.115.051227
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description Recent years have seen a substantial increase in the use of crisis resolution home treatment (CRHT) teams as an alternative to psychiatric in-patient admission. We discuss the functions of these services and their effectiveness. Our research suggests high rates of suicide in patients under CRHT. Specific strategies need to be developed to improve patient safety in this setting.
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spelling pubmed-49677722016-08-10 Suicide under crisis resolution home treatment – a key setting for patient safety Hunt, Isabelle M. Appleby, Louis Kapur, Nav BJPsych Bull Editorials Recent years have seen a substantial increase in the use of crisis resolution home treatment (CRHT) teams as an alternative to psychiatric in-patient admission. We discuss the functions of these services and their effectiveness. Our research suggests high rates of suicide in patients under CRHT. Specific strategies need to be developed to improve patient safety in this setting. Royal College of Psychiatrists 2016-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4967772/ /pubmed/27512582 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.115.051227 Text en © 2016 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open-access article published by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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