This Viewpoint discusses the apparent association between a reduction of psychiatric beds and increasing suicide rates in the United States, and proposes an expansion of inpatient psychiatric treatment facilities as a component of a national suicide prevention strategy. Source: Decline in Psychiatric Beds and Increase in US Suicide Rates | Psychiatry | JAMA | The… Read More
This Kaiser Health News article from November 16, 2016 examines one of the Modesto California demonstration projects uses alternative destination for psychiatric patients Training these first responders to identify people who are suffering from mental illness and connect them with treatment other than the emergency room could be part of the solution to gaps in the… Read More
An article published in the January 31, 2016 looked at whether it was cost effective to provide comprehensive, multidisciplinary, team-based care for first-episode psychosis (FEP). This article supports the theory that early aggressive intervention in acute psychosis is cost effective and extremely beneficial to patients “This study provides rigorous evidence that the health benefits exceed the… Read More
