The costs of community-based care for first-ever patients: a case register study

Francesco Amaddeo, Jennifer Beecham, Paola Bonizzato, Andrew Fenyo, Michele Tansella, Martin Knapp (1998)

Psychological Medicine 28 1 173-183

Available online: 1 January 1998

Abstract

Background

Analysing costs measures in conjunction with psychiatric case register (PCR) data can provide important epidemiologically-based information on resource utilization. Costing the service use patterns of first-ever patients can indicate