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• <strong>Psychosocial</strong> Rehabilitation Centres, equivalent to the functions of Day Centre<br />
• Rehabilitation Hospital Units, equivalent to Medium-stay Units, Therapeutic communities,<br />
etc.<br />
Question to be answered<br />
• Which service supply system –day centres and/or psychosocial rehabilitation centres,<br />
community <strong>Mental</strong> Health centres, Assertive Community Treatment, Intensive Case<br />
Management (ICM), non-acute day hospitals or Case management (CM)- is more effective<br />
<strong>in</strong> people with SMI?<br />
In the NICE Schizophrenia <strong>CPG</strong> 8 different service level <strong>in</strong>terventions are addressed, which<br />
are <strong>in</strong>cluded <strong>in</strong> this <strong>CPG</strong>, such as:<br />
• Non-acute hospital day care, based on a review which, <strong>in</strong> turn, <strong>in</strong>cludes 8 RCTs, of which<br />
4 are selected.<br />
• Community mental health centres (CMHC) (3 RCTs, n= 334).<br />
• Assertive community treatment (ACT) (22 RCTs, n = 372). The comparer is standard<br />
treatment, hospital rehabilitation or standard Case Management (CM).<br />
• Intensive case management (ICM) (13 RCTs, n = 2546).<br />
Day centres and/or psychosocial rehabilitation centres<br />
There is another, later, systematic review than the NICE <strong>CPG</strong> 8 , that of Catty et al 206 , where, despite<br />
hav<strong>in</strong>g identified more than 300 quotes, no randomised cl<strong>in</strong>ical trials on non-medical day<br />
centres were found.<br />
Community <strong>Mental</strong> Health Centres (CMHC)<br />
Referr<strong>in</strong>g to the CMHC, there is a systematic review developed by Malone et al 204 which <strong>in</strong>cludes<br />
3 RCTs (n = 587) where these centres are compared with a standard hospital service that generally<br />
assessed patients <strong>in</strong> surgeries and outpatients, with less emphasis on multidiscipl<strong>in</strong>ary work.<br />
In the review of the CMHC studies, there is agreement <strong>in</strong> almost all the po<strong>in</strong>ts assessed:<br />
which is understandable if we bear <strong>in</strong> m<strong>in</strong>d that both the NICE Schizophrenia <strong>CPG</strong> 8 and the review<br />
by Malone et al 204 use 3 studies, 2 of which are common to both reviews 201,202 .<br />
The follow<strong>in</strong>g considerations must be made:<br />
• There is divergence <strong>in</strong> the results shown with respect to hospitalisations, favourable to<br />
CMHC <strong>in</strong> the study by Malone et al 204 and neutral <strong>in</strong> the NICE Schizophrenia <strong>CPG</strong> 8 .<br />
Both results are obta<strong>in</strong>ed from the same RCT 202 so the only explanation is that the NICE<br />
Schizophrenia <strong>CPG</strong> has handled unpublished supplementary data, as it specifies that it<br />
has done <strong>in</strong> the case of this study.<br />
• The NICE Schizophrenia <strong>CPG</strong> 8 also considers that patients orig<strong>in</strong>at<strong>in</strong>g from the study by<br />
Tyrer et al 201 were more serious and with more probabilities of readmission, so it chose<br />
not to add the data to those of the article by Merson et al 202 and present them <strong>in</strong>dependently,<br />
whilst <strong>in</strong> the review by Malone et al 204 , they were added.<br />
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