Reducing wait times and avoiding unnecessary use of high-cost mental health services through a Rapid Access and Stabilization Program: protocol for a program evaluation study

• Main Authors: Medard K. Adu (Author), Raquel da Luz Dias (Author), Gloria Obuobi-Donkor (Author), Ngozi Ezeanozie (Author), Sanjana Sridharan (Author), Jason Morrison (Author), Patryk Simon (Author), Bryanne Taylor (Author), Monica MacKinnon (Author), Shiloh Gossen (Author), Mahmoud Awara (Author), Mattew White (Author), Reham Shalaby (Author), Belinda Agyapong (Author), Ejemai Eboreime (Author), JianLi Wang (Author), Cindy Feng (Author), Lori Wozney (Author), Prosper Koto (Author), Jordan Warford (Author), Gail Tomblin Murphy (Author), Vincent Israel Opoku Agyapong (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Emergency psychiatric care, unplanned hospital admissions, and inpatient health care are the costliest forms of mental health care. According to Statistics Canada (2018), almost 18% (5.3 million) of Canadians reported needing mental health support. However, just above half of thi...