Unmet Opportunity: Intensive Care Transition Intervention for Individuals With Serious Medical-Psychiatric Illnesses.

Abstract

Individuals with serious mental illnesses and poorly managed medical conditions known as serious medical-psychiatric illnesses (SMPIs) are vulnerable to disruptions in care, resulting in poor outcomes. Intensive integrated care management approaches are indicated when these individuals are hospitalized on medical-surgical inpatient units in order to ensure continuity of medical and psychiatric services. This column describes a manualized intervention for hospitalized individuals with SMPIs that was developed in a National Institute of Mental Health ALACRITY research center. The approach uses a critical time intervention model incorporating motivational interviewing and shared decision making to maximize engagement and continuity of care for individuals with SMPIs.

• Authors: Thomas E Smith, Leslie A Marino, Mark Olfson
• Journal: Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) (Psychiatr Serv) Vol. 72 Issue 7 Pg. 856-858 (07 01 2021) ISSN: 1557-9700 [Electronic] United States
• PMID: 33887955 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Topics

• Humans
• Inpatients
• Mental Disorders (therapy)
• Patient Transfer