Buhrich N, Teesson M
Inner City Mental Health Service, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Psychiatr Serv. 1996 Jun;47(6):644-6. doi: 10.1176/ps.47.6.644.
Since 1988 a 24-hour psychiatric out reach service has been in operation in the inner city of Sydney to provide services to residents of refuges for the homeless. A total of 506 homeless persons with schizophrenia were referred to the outreach service between April 1988 and mid-1992, of whom 91 failed to attend. Hospitalization data were collected for the four years before and the four years after each individual's referral to the service. After the introduction of the service, the rate and duration of psychiatric hospital admissions for residents with schizophrenia who were treated by the outreach service decreased significantly, whereas those who failed to attend showed no such decrease.
自1988年以来，悉尼市中心城区一直在开展一项24小时精神科外展服务，为无家可归者庇护所的居民提供服务。1988年4月至1992年年中，共有506名患有精神分裂症的无家可归者被转介到该外展服务机构，其中91人未前来就诊。收集了每个人被转介到该服务机构之前四年和之后四年的住院数据。该服务推出后，接受外展服务治疗的精神分裂症居民的精神病住院率和住院时长显著下降，而未前来就诊的患者则没有出现这种下降。
