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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Intensive Case Management for Severe Mental Illness

About this resource:

Systematic Review

Source: The Cochrane Collaborative

Last Reviewed: January 2017

Workgroups: Mental Health and Mental Disorders Workgroup

In this Cochrane systematic review, the Cochrane Collaborative found some evidence that intensive case management can improve some outcomes for people with severe mental illness. However, researchers noted that it was hard to draw overall conclusions because of differences in the health care and social support systems of countries where the studies took place. They concluded that additional research tools are needed to for evaluating these types of interventions.

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Objectives related to this resource (1)

Increase the proportion of adults with serious mental illness who get treatment — MHMD‑04
Baseline only

Suggested Citation

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Dieterich M, Irving C.B., Bergman H., Khokhar M.A., Park B. & Marshall, M. (2017) Intensive case management for severe mental illness. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2017 (1). DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007906.pub3.