Alternatives to acute in-patient care: safety and efficacy

Abstract

Comments on an article, Suicide Under Crisis Resolution Home Treatment-A Key Setting for Patient Safety by Hunt et al. (2016). Hunt et al. discussed implications of recent findings regarding high rates of suicide in patients under crisis resolution home treatment. Their obvious conclusion points towards improving safety in this setting. There is, however, in the current author's opinion, another important consequence - reconsidering other evidence-based models that provide treatment as an alternative for in-patient admission at times of acute mental health crisis. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)