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Project Connect aims to improve outcomes for frequent users of hospital emergency services

Conceptualizing discharge from psychiatric emergency rooms (ER) as a “critical time” of transition, researchers at New York State Psychiatric Institute have launched Project Connect, a pilot program that adapts CTI for frequent users at New York Presbyterian Hospital, home to one of New York City’s busiest psychiatric emergency departments.  In evaluating Project Connect, the research

NODPAM: effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of needs-oriented discharge planning and monitoring for high utilisers of psychiatric services

German researchers based at Ulm University are conducting a multi-site randomized trial testing a brief intervention intended to ehance continuity of care for high utilizers of psychiatric services following discharge from inpatient treatment.  Although the research team notes that the study was partially inspired by CTI, the model they are employing differs from CTI in