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Health Affairs, Vol 14, Issue 3, 197-207
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Toward managed care for persons with severe mental illness: implications from a cost-effectiveness study

Over the past two decades various models of community-based care for persons with severe mental illness have been developed. This study, which represents the first comparison of the most successful care approach (Program of Assertive Community Treatment or PACT adaptation model) with other, less intensive approaches (clinical team and intensive broker models) in a community service system, indicates that client outcomes were more positive in the PACT adaptation model in terms of enhanced psychosocial functioning and reduced acute and subacute care costs. The PACT model was not significantly more expensive in terms of the costs of providing supportive services compared with the clinical team approach and the intensive broker model of care.

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