Kunigunde Pausch1, Carlos Nordt2, Eva-Maria Pichler3, Ingeborg Warnke4, Erich Seifritz2, Wolfram Kawohl3. 1. Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik/Zentrum für Soziale Psychiatrie, Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich, Militärstrasse 8, 8021, Zürich, Schweiz. kunigunde.pausch@puk.zh.ch. 2. Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik/Zentrum für Soziale Psychiatrie, Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich, Militärstrasse 8, 8021, Zürich, Schweiz. 3. Psychiatrische Dienste Aargau (PDAG), Aargau, Schweiz. 4. Forensisch-Psychiatrischer Dienst (FPD), Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Universität Bern, Bern, Schweiz.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: This is a study of the cost-benefit advantage of the model project acute day hospital (ATK) compared to inpatient care. METHODS: The study was performed retrospectively and examined the direct costs and the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) in a matched sample. RESULTS: The day clinic treatment compared to inpatient therapy showed at a cost benefit of 2.68: 1 at a slightly delayed increase in GAF-value. CONCLUSION: The treatment in ATK is more than twice as cheap compared to inpatient treatment, but at a slightly slower improvement in symptoms.
BACKGROUND: This is a study of the cost-benefit advantage of the model project acute day hospital (ATK) compared to inpatient care. METHODS: The study was performed retrospectively and examined the direct costs and the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) in a matched sample. RESULTS: The day clinic treatment compared to inpatient therapy showed at a cost benefit of 2.68: 1 at a slightly delayed increase in GAF-value. CONCLUSION: The treatment in ATK is more than twice as cheap compared to inpatient treatment, but at a slightly slower improvement in symptoms.
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Acute day hospital; Clinical outcome; Comparability; Costs; Psychiatric patients
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