@article{ref1,
title="The impact of reducing psychiatric beds on suicide rates",
journal="Frontiers in psychiatry",
year="2019",
author="Atkinson, Jo-An and Page, Andrew and Skinner, Adam and Heffernan, Mark and Prodan, Ante and Hickie, Ian B.",
volume="10",
number="",
pages="e448-e448",
abstract="There has been ongoing debate regarding the impact of reductions in psychiatric beds on suicide rates, and the potential effect of reallocation of acute hospital funding to community-based mental health programs and services. Computer simulation offers significant value in advancing such debate by providing a robust platform for exploring strategic resource allocation scenarios before they are implemented in the real world. We report an application that demonstrates a threshold effect of cuts to psychiatric beds on suicide rates and the role of context specific variations in population, behavioral, and service use dynamics in determining where that threshold lies. <br><br>FINDINGS have important implications for regional decision-making regarding resource allocation for suicide prevention.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1664-0640",
doi="10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00448",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00448"
}