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Predictors of personal continuity of care of patients with severe mental illness : a comparison across five European countries
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Smith, Pierre, Nicaise, Pablo, Giacco, Domenico, Bird, Victoria jane, Bauer, Michael, Ruggeri, Mirella, Welbel, Marta, Pfennig, Andrea, Lasalvia, Antonio, Moskalewicz, Jacek, Priebe, Stefan and Lorant, Vincent (2019) Predictors of personal continuity of care of patients with severe mental illness : a comparison across five European countries. European Psychiatry, 56 (1). pp. 69-74. doi:10.1016/j.eurpsy.2018.12.003 ISSN 0924-9338.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2018.12.003
Abstract
Background:
In Europe, at discharge from a psychiatric hospital, patients with severe mental illness may be exposed to one of two main care approaches: personal continuity, where one clinician is responsible for in- and outpatient care, and specialisation, where various clinicians are. Such exposure is decided through patient-clinician agreement or at the organisational level, depending on the country’s health system. Since personal continuity would be more suitable for patients with complex psychosocial needs, the aim of this study was to identify predictors of patients’ exposure to care approaches in different European countries.
Methods:
Data were collected on 7302 psychiatric hospitalised patients in 2015 in Germany, Poland, and Belgium (patient-level exposure); and in the UK and Italy (organisational-level exposure). At discharge, patients were exposed to one of the care approaches according to usual practice. Putative predictors of exposure at patients’ discharge were assessed in both groups of countries.
Results:
Socially disadvantaged patients were significantly more exposed to personal continuity. In all countries, the main predictor of exposure was the admission hospital, except in Germany, where having a diagnosis of psychosis and a higher education status were predictors of exposure to personal continuity. In the UK, hospitals practising personal continuity had a more socially disadvantaged patient population.
Conclusion:
Even in countries where exposure is decided through patient-clinician agreement, it was the admission hospital, not patient characteristics, that predicted exposure to care approaches. Nevertheless, organisational decisions in hospitals tend to expose socially disadvantaged patients to personal continuity.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Mental Health and Wellbeing Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | European Psychiatry | ||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0924-9338 | ||||||
| Official Date: | February 2019 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 56 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 69-74 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2018.12.003 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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