Pathways To (Specialized) Care: Patient Costs & Contacts En Route To A First-Episode Psychosis Clinic
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Most studies of pathways to care (PTC) in psychosis and first-episode psychosis (FEP), have focused on a primary endpoint of onset of appropriate pharmacotherapy, rather than intake to an early-episode psychosis clinic.
This study evaluated the pathways leading up to intake to the Edmonton Early Psychosis Intervention Clinic (EEPIC) in Edmonton, Canada and found that:
Inpatients were more likely than outpatients to come into initial contact with high-urgency services (Fisher’s exact test, P = 0.005), while initial contacts for outpatients were …
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