The availability and quality across Europe of outpatient care for difficult-to-engage patients with severe mental illness: A survey among experts.

CONCLUSIONS: Outpatient mental health services for difficult-to-engage SMI patients varied widely among European countries; experts judged their overall quality to be poor. It is now important to achieve consensus on a minimum European standard for the quality of care for such patients.
PMID: 23680763 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The International Journal of Social Psychiatry - May 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Mulder CL, Ruud T, Bahler M, Kroon H, Priebe S Tags: Int J Soc Psychiatry Source Type: research