Costs and Effects of Managing Chronic Psychotic Patients

Abstract

Background Reports.- Studies on the Cost-Effectiveness of Managing Chronic Psychotic Patients. Report on a WHO Planning Meeting at Mannheim, 2-4 May, 1983.- Summary Report of the WHO Meeting 'Cost-Effectiveness of Managing Chronic Psychotic Patients', Munich, 16-18 December, 1985.- National Approaches.- Management of the Cost-Effectiveness of Managing Chronic Psychotic Persons in Ireland.- Social and Economic Policies in the Mental Health Sector in Greece.- Financing of Care for the Chronically Mentally Ill in the USA: A Patchwork of Policies.- Managing Chronic Psychotic Patients: A Clinical and a Political Point of View.- Regional Approaches.- Economic Analysis of Different Patterns of Psychiatric Treatment and Management of Chronic Psychotic Patients in the Basque Country.- Cost-Effectiveness of Health-Care Delivery to Chronic Psychotic Patients in Southern Alberta, Canada.- Schizophrenia: Results of a Cohort Study with Respect to Cost-Accounting Problems of Patterns of Mental Health Care in Relation to Course of Illness.- Cost-Effectiveness of Managing Chronic Psychotic Patients: Italian Experience Under the New Psychiatric Law.- Institutional Approaches.- The Application of Modified Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Evaluation of a Hostel Ward for Chronic Psychotic Patients.- The Cost of Long-Term Psychoses in a Scottish Psychiatric Hospital.- Management of Schizophrenia: Cost-Benefits, Time-Budget, Better Treatment? Which Time Frame Are We in?.- Methodological Approaches.- Methodological Problems of Comparing the Cost-Effectiveness of Different Mental Health Institutions.- Time-Budget Analysis for Chronic Patients. Towards a Cost-Effectiveness - Oriented Indicator System for Comparing Inpatient and Outpatient Psychiatric Care.