Identifying effective lower-intensity case management programs for service systems that include Assertive Community Treatment: a review of the experimental and quasi-experimental…

Background/Objectives: Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) or Assertive Outreach (AO) is becoming a standard of care in more and more service delivery systems. Our objective was to review the empirical evidence concerning the relative benefits of different types of case management that could be offered as a complement to ACT or AO, for people who require less intensive care and support. Methods: Psych-Info, Medline and EMBASE data bases, 1980–2008, were searched for abstracts containing the expressions „case management“ AND („mental illness OR „mental disorder“). Studies comparing at least two models of case man…