Psychiatric Hospitalizations, Arrests, Emergency Room Visits, and Homelessness of Clients with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness: Findings from a Randomized Trial of Two ACT Programs vs. Usual Care
Mental Health Services ResearchPublished 1 September 2000
Gregory N. Clarke, Heidi Herinckx, Ronald F. Kinney, Robert I. Paulson, David L. Cutler, Karen Lewis
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The paucity of significant main effects may have been due to a prolonged “start-up” phase of the ACT programs, poor ACT implementation, restricted availability of psychiatric hospital beds, or changes in usual care services delivered over the study period.
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The paucity of significant main effects may have been due to a prolonged "start-up" phase of the ACT programs, poor ACT implementation, restricted availability of psychiatric hospital beds, or changes in usual care services delivered over the study period.
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