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Outcome Measures at Discharge From a Local Early Intervention in Psychosis Team
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 July 2023
Abstract
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Aims
Review of the outcomes from a local EIP service, in terms of symptom control employment status at referral and discharge, admissions whilst under the care of the service physical health status at discharge, discharge was back to primary care or secondary care
Methods
Sample of service users discharged from EIP services over the past 2 years between March 2020 and March 2022 was collated
Results
Recovery
Good proportion -84% had good symptomatic recovery at time of discharge based on discharge letter
Discharge to primary care
Low proportion -Only 26% were discharged onwards to secondary mental health services such as recovery teams or community mental health teams and rehabilitation services.
74% discharged to primary care
Review of notes indicate that patient is still within primary care 6-12 months post discharge
Employment
A jump of 16% in employment. At start of EIT input only 40% had employment and at pint of discharge 56% of sample had employment
Inpatient admission
Admissions whilst under the service were seen in 54% patients in total; out of this number just over half (55%; )were admitted to inpatient unit only once
Smoking and Substance misuse
Only 24% were known smokers at discharge; 6%) were misusing multiple substances including smoking, alcohol, cannabis and cocaine at the time of discharge
Physical health and metabolic syndrome
Only 2% had diagnosed hyperlipidaemia at discharge
Conclusion
Early Intervention in Psychosis input lead to good symptom control and resolution of psychosis leading to higher rates of discharge to primary care alongside improved physical health substance misuse employment outcomes.
- Type
- Service Evaluation
- Information
- BJPsych Open , Volume 9 , Supplement S1: Abstracts from the RCPsych International Congress 2023, 10–13 July , July 2023 , pp. S130 - S131
- Creative Commons
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This does not need to be placed under each abstract, just each page is fine.- Copyright
- Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Footnotes
Abstracts were reviewed by the RCPsych Academic Faculty rather than by the standard BJPsych Open peer review process and should not be quoted as peer-reviewed by BJPsych Open in any subsequent publication.
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