Home-based versus hospital-based care for serious mental illness: controlled cost-effectiveness study over four years

Martin Knapp, Isaac Marks, Jane Wolstenholme, Jennifer Beecham, Jack Astin, Bernard Audini, Joe Connolly, Vik Watts (1988)

British Journal of Psychiatry 172 6 506-512

https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.172.6.506

Abstract

Background

The Daily Living Programme (DLP) offered intensive home-based care with problem-centres case management for seriously mentally ill people facing crisis admission to the Maudsley Hospital, London. The cost-effectiveness of the DLP was