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The last decade has witnessed a burgeoning interest in case management services to people with severe mental illness. While the literature on case management is proliferating, there remains a paucity of rigorously designed outcome research. This paper provides a methodological review of that outcome research on case management, which found that the term case management is used to describe a diverse array of interventions that yield differing client outcomes. Suggestions for the direction of future inquiry are described.
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Chamberlain, R., Rapp, C.A. A decade of case management: A methodological review of outcome research. Community Ment Health J 27, 171–188 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00752419
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