Costs and Effects of Managing Chronic Psychotic Patients
Schwefel, Detlef / Potthoff, Peter / Zöllner, Herbert
Since the early 1970s, delivery of care to people who are consid ered to suffer from chronic psychotic disturbances has been at a crossroads. In 1983, the European Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO), within its health economics pro gramme, encouraged international research on the economic impli cations of alternative strategies of care for those patients. Origi nally, it was intended to compare at least two or more stra...