作者: Brian Greenfield , Lily Hechtman , Claudine Tremblay
DOI: 10.1177/070674379504000607
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摘要: OBJECTIVE: To determine the impact of an outpatient psychiatric Emergency Room Follow-up Team (ERFUT) on hospitalization rate youth in crisis (mostly suicidal adolescents). METHOD: The admissions to a general pediatric hospital during year prior ERFUT creation was compared that same after team's creation. proportion patients returning (ER) 2 or more times also for those years. Deaths were identified at 3-year follow-up experimental group. RESULTS: A 16% reduction followed creation, without increase ER. Also, none group subjects had died follow-up. CONCLUSION: There is subpopulation previously hospitalized adolescents who can be effectively cared as outpatients when treated rapidly and intensively. Language: en