Decentralization matters - Differently organized mental health services relationship to staff competence and treatment practice : the VELO study

• Main Authors: Olstad, Reidun, Bjorbekkmo, Svein, Myklebust, Lars H., Sørgaard, Knut, Molvik, Stian, Nymann, Asle
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central 2009
• Subjects: VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Clinical medical disciplines: 750::Psychiatry; child psychiatry: 757; Norway; Vesterålen; Nordland; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/2192

Background: The VELO study is a comparative study of two Community Mental Health Centres (CMHC) in Northern Norway. The CMHCs are organized differently: one has no local inpatient unit, the other has three. Both CMHCs use the Central Mental Hospital situated rather far away for compulsory and other...