Quality of longer term care of mentally ill patients placed in psychiatric facilities in the Czech Republic. What possibilities do we have?
2013
Abstract
The article brings the overview of care of patients with sever mental illness in the Czech Republic. Options of hospital-based and community-based everyday care are summarized.
Results, which mirror quality of care, gathered using internationally validated questionnaire QuIRC (Quality Indicator for Rehabilitative Care) are presented. Status of care of long-term mentally ill is undoubtedly influenced by a development of psychiatric care in the Czech Republic and also by social, political and cultural context and long-standing clinical psychiatric practice.
Possibilities of psychiatric care development regarding previous experiences from deinstitutionalization process abroad are discussed.