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A Qualitative Study on the Implementation of Flexible Assertive Community Treatment – an Integrated Community-based Treatment Model for Patients with Severe Mental Illness

International Journal of Integrated Care
Volume 21 (2021): Issue 2
By: Camilla Munch Nielsen,  Carsten Hjorthøj,  Merete Nordentoft and  Ulla Christensen  
Open Access
|Apr 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.5540 | Journal eISSN: 1568-4156
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Language: English
Submitted on: May 15, 2020
Accepted on: Feb 23, 2021
Published on: Apr 29, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
integrated care,
severe mental illness,
implementation,
context,
clinical experience

© 2021 Camilla Munch Nielsen, Carsten Hjorthøj, Merete Nordentoft, Ulla Christensen, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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