标题：Long-term monitoring and evaluation of a new system of community-based psychiatric care. Integrating research, teaching and practice at the University of Verona
摘要：The South-Verona community psychiatric service (CPS) was implemented in 1978, according
to Law 180, by the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Verona. Since then this
CPS provides prompt, comprehensive and coherent answers to patients’ needs, psychological and
social, as well as practical, while trying to decrease and control symptoms. Special emphasis is given
to integrating different interventions, such as medication, rehabilitation, family support, and social
work. The South-Verona experience was from the beginning associated with a long-term research
project of monitoring and evaluating the new system of care. The research team has grown and expanded
over the years and presently includes the following research units: a) environmental, clinical
and genetic determinants of the outcome of mental disorders; b) psychiatric register, economics and
geography of mental health; c) clinical psychopharmacology and drug epidemiology; d) brain imaging
and neuropsychology; e) clinical psychology and communication in medicine; and f) physical
comorbidity and health promotion in psychiatric patients. This paper summarises the main results
of the coordinated, long-term evaluative studies conducted so far.
关键词：community mental health services, health service research, outcome assessment.
