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Integrating evaluative research and community-based mental health care in Verona, Italy
- Authors:
- TANSELLA Michele, BURTI Lorenzo
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 183(8), August 2003, pp.167-169.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The South Verona Psychiatric Case Register, covering the area served by the community-based mental health service monitors all contacts that South Verona adult residents have with in-patient services (including private psychiatric clinics and hospitals) and community mental health services. The Register and ad hoc surveys provide a basis for studies of service use and patterns of care over time. The following studies have been completed: longitudinal patterns of care; in-patient care prior and subsequent to the Italian psychiatric reform; long-stay and long-term patients; comparisons between South Verona services and other Italian and European services with a different system of care; exploring the relationship between population socio-demographic characteristics and service use; identification of the operational criteria of continuity of care; studies of mortality among psychiatric patients.