Abstract
Johnson et al1 provide an overview of the huge transformation occurring in acute mental health care during the last two decades. The authors enumerate and discuss an extensive array of novel alternatives, while underscoring the lack of robust evidence to support their implementation. We provide here some complementary information to further understand the context of this reform and the current challenges related to its evaluation.
The accelerated reform of acute mental health care should be framed within the broader shift from hospital to community care occurring in the health sector as a whole. The development of vanguard services include enhanced health care at home, multispecialty community providers, integrated primary and acute care systems, and blended systems encompassing real world and digital health care2. The combined effect of these innovations is inexorably displacing care from hospitals to community in general health care and not only in the mental health field.
The accelerated reform of acute mental health care should be framed within the broader shift from hospital to community care occurring in the health sector as a whole. The development of vanguard services include enhanced health care at home, multispecialty community providers, integrated primary and acute care systems, and blended systems encompassing real world and digital health care2. The combined effect of these innovations is inexorably displacing care from hospitals to community in general health care and not only in the mental health field.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 237-238 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | World Psychiatry |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jun 2022 |
