Objective: This study examined the relationship between the availability of mental health
outpatient services provided by 40 publicly funded community service boards (CSBs) and …

Do comprehensive community mental health services reduce admissions to state hospitals?
A recent Nader report says no. Surprisingly few studies have documented the success of …

Community-based psychiatric services are essential to mental health. For decades,
researchers, advocates, and policy makers have presumed that expanding the supply of …

In a study to refine the methodology for evaluatitig the impact of community mental health
centers on state hospital admissions, data were gathered on hospital patients' demographic …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the cost-effectiveness of community-based mental health care.
DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: Administrative data from Medicaid and the …

Public mental health (MH) services were examined for non-elderly adults with serious
mental illness (SMI) using a database combining information from Medicaid, MH, and …

OBJECTIVE: As health care expenditures grow, it is important to understand whether mental
health services are being used appropriately. This study examined participants' reasons for …

Objective Data from a cross-sectional survey of 210 current or former inpatients at
Mississippi State Hospital and 197 informants, usually patients' family members, were used …

This study assesses the impact of catchmenting through comparing the use of an emergency
room-mental health center complex by residents of a catchmented as opposed to …

Population-based psychiatric admission rates vary across geographic areas, but reasons for
this variation are unknown. Insofar as CommunitymMental Health Centers (CMHCs) provide …