breakdown of continuity in public mental healthcare in the netherlands: a longitudinal case study

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Abstract

Introduction: Continuity of care for long-term service-dependent patients in the public mental health system requires intensive collaboration between all agencies involved. Understanding the ways in which various aspects of continuity of care interact may reveal help to find out more about how care de­livered over time improves outcomes.

Case study: Based on medical records, an addicted couple was monitored for number and type of contacts with health and social services. Over the years, 81 social workers or nurses, spread over 25 health and social services, have been involved in the rehabilitation process. Breakdown of continuity of care is linked to lack of information, missing procedures and guidelines, fragile relationships with the patient, and a reluctant public health approach.

Conclusion: Prominent among relevant factors is the absence of protocols governing the transfer of patients between the various links in the continuum of mental healthcare services. High-quality follow-up after admission is partly a matter of professional principle in ensuring that problems in the chain of services are discussed. Case presen­tation in psychiatric journals should give syste­matic at­ten­tion to sources of error in continuity of mental health­care.

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Authors ;André Wierdsma;Meta van der Schee;Cornelis L. Mulder
Journal journal of proteomics
Year 2011
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continuity of care public mental healthcaremedicine (general)

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