COMPULSORY COMMUNITY TREATMENT vs usual care: Patient readmissions
COMPULSORY COMMUNITY TREATMENT showed no clear difference in health service outcomes: 1. Readmission to hospital by 11 to 12 months compared with STANDARD CARE (moderate certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
COMPULSORY COMMUNITY TREATMENT vs STANDARD CARE Health service outcomes: 1. Readmission to hospital by 11 to 12 months · people with severe mental disorders COMPULSORY COMMUNITY TREATMENT showed no clear difference in health service outcomes: 1. Readmission to hospital by 11 to 12 months compared with STANDARD CARE (moderate certainty). Compulsory community and involuntary outpatient treatment for people with severe mental disorders (2017) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.98 [0.83, 1.17] | 3 studies · 749 participants | Moderate |
COMPULSORY COMMUNITY TREATMENT vs STANDARD CARE Health service outcomes: 1. Readmission to hospital ‐ by 11‐12 months · people with severe mental disorders COMPULSORY COMMUNITY TREATMENT showed no clear difference in health service outcomes: 1. Readmission to hospital ‐ by 11‐12 months compared with STANDARD CARE (low certainty). Compulsory community and involuntary outpatient treatment for people with severe mental disorders (2014) · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyearlier version CD004408.PUB4, superseded | RR 0.98 [0.79, 1.21] | 2 studies · 416 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compulsory community and involuntary outpatient treatment for people with severe mental disorders 2017 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.