Glick I D, Fleming L, DeChillo N, Meyerkopf N, Jackson C, Muscara D, Good-Ellis M
Am J Psychiatry. 1986 Dec;143(12):1551-6. doi: 10.1176/ajp.143.12.1551.
The authors randomly assigned 79 inpatients with nonchronic schizophrenia or affective disorder to either an intensive experimental day program called "transitional treatment" or a control treatment--weekly clinically believed to require intensive posthospital treatment to make the transition to the community. Although initially there was a significantly higher dropout rate from the control condition, at the point of discharge from the two programs as well as at 6- and 12-month follow-up there was no difference in outcome. Direct costs for the transitional treatment, however, were much higher.
作者将79名非慢性精神分裂症或情感障碍的住院患者随机分为两组，一组接受名为“过渡治疗”的强化实验日间项目，另一组接受对照治疗——临床医生认为每周都需要强化的出院后治疗以过渡到社区生活。虽然最初对照组的退出率明显更高，但在两个项目出院时以及6个月和12个月随访时，结果并无差异。然而，过渡治疗的直接成本要高得多。
