Walter R
Hosp Community Psychiatry. 1976 Jan;27(1):33-5. doi: 10.1176/ps.27.1.33.
Motivated by concern about the fate of psychiatric hospital patients after discharge to the community, a community mental health center decided to send a psychiatrist into the community to establish liaison with private-care facilities and to determine the needs of such discharged patients. As a result of the psychiatrist's efforts, owners of the area's private-care facilities acquired a better understanding of the needs of their residents and learned where they could turn for help in caring for discharge psychiatric patients. A study of one board-and-care facility revealed a marked decrease in the use of the center's emergency service and in the number of hospital admissions after one year of this extended service.
出于对精神病院患者出院后融入社区情况的担忧，一家社区心理健康中心决定派遣一名精神科医生深入社区，与私立护理机构建立联系，并确定这些出院患者的需求。由于这位精神科医生的努力，该地区私立护理机构的业主更好地了解了其居民的需求，并知道在照顾出院精神病患者时可以向何处求助。对一家寄宿护理机构的研究表明，在这项扩展服务开展一年后，该机构对该中心急诊服务的使用以及住院人数都显著减少。
