Acute day care less expensive than inpatient care in Germany

"So far only five randomized controlled trials on acute day hospital care have assessed direct health care costs and compared these with costs of conventional inpatient treatment," according to psychiatrists in Germany, who sought "to close this research gap for German speaking countries."

"Another trial was conducted at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Dresden University of Technology," wrote T.W. Kallert and coauthors there. "Using the Client Service Receipt Inventory, interviews with patients at three time-points (admission, discharge, 3 months after...

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