@article{ref1,
title="Assertive outreach: Policy and reality",
journal="Psychiatric bulletin",
year="2006",
author="Schneider, J. and Brandon, T. and Wooff, D. and Carpenter, J. and Paxton, R.",
volume="30",
number="3",
pages="89-94",
abstract="Aims and method: This survey set out to profile the case-loads of assertive outreach teams in North East England, to discover whether they were reaching the people for whom they were meant. A survey of case-loads of 29 assertive outreach teams was carried out using the MARC-2, HoNOS and GAS instruments. <br><br>FINDINGS were compared with earlier surveys of the case-loads of community mental health teams in parts of the same region. <br><br>RESULTS: Clients of assertive outreach teams proved to be at the more severe end of the spectrum on almost every measure: 95% were deemed 'psychotic' and 30% had three or more admissions in the previous 2 years. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Assertive outreach teams in the North East are reaching the people they are meant to target. The effects of this shift on existing teams remain to be evaluated.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0955-6036",
doi="10.1192/pb.30.3.89",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.30.3.89"
}