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Evidence-based Psychosocial Treatment Practices in Schizophrenia: Lessons from the Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT) Project

Evidence-based Psychosocial Treatment Practices in Schizophrenia: Lessons from the Patient... Abstract : The care of persons with schizophrenia, the prototypical severe mental illness, has been a barometer of mental health care policy for decades. The prevalence, severity, and costs of schizophrenia combine to make this illness a major health problem throughout the world. In 1992, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and the National Institute of Mental Health funded the Schizophrenia Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. The PORT undertook several activities, including a comprehensive review of the empirical literature on the treatment of persons with schizophrenia; development of evidence-based treatment recommendations; description of current treatment practices; and comparison of these current practices to the evidence-based treatment recommendations, using administrative claims data and a survey of persons under treatment for schizophrenia; and dissemination of the treatment recommendations to evaluate impacts on practices. The PORT found that despite considerable evidence for effective treatments for persons with schizophrenia, most patients do not receive an appropriately comprehensive treatment “package.” In particular, efficacious psychosocial treatments are highly underutilized. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis & Dynamic Psychiatry Guilford Press

Evidence-based Psychosocial Treatment Practices in Schizophrenia: Lessons from the Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT) Project

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Guilford Press
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© The American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
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1546-0371
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10.1521/jaap.31.1.141.21939
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Abstract

Abstract : The care of persons with schizophrenia, the prototypical severe mental illness, has been a barometer of mental health care policy for decades. The prevalence, severity, and costs of schizophrenia combine to make this illness a major health problem throughout the world. In 1992, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and the National Institute of Mental Health funded the Schizophrenia Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. The PORT undertook several activities, including a comprehensive review of the empirical literature on the treatment of persons with schizophrenia; development of evidence-based treatment recommendations; description of current treatment practices; and comparison of these current practices to the evidence-based treatment recommendations, using administrative claims data and a survey of persons under treatment for schizophrenia; and dissemination of the treatment recommendations to evaluate impacts on practices. The PORT found that despite considerable evidence for effective treatments for persons with schizophrenia, most patients do not receive an appropriately comprehensive treatment “package.” In particular, efficacious psychosocial treatments are highly underutilized.

Journal

Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis & Dynamic PsychiatryGuilford Press

Published: Mar 1, 2003

Keywords: Key Words : schizophrenia , treatment outcomes , psychotherapy , family therapy , vocational rehabilitation , quality of care

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