Changes in patient care through flexible and integrated treatment programs in German psychiatric hospitals: meta-analyses based on a series of controlled claims-based cohort studies

Table 2 Pooled effects, inpatient care, PIA contacts and treatment continuity with, without CAP and CAP only

	Pooled estimate
Outcome	with CAP (95% CI)		without CAP(95% CI)		CAP only (95% CI)
Outcome	1st yr	2nd yr	1st yr	2nd yr	1st yr	2nd yr
Inpatient care (days)	-5.1 (-9.2, -1.1)	-1.1 (-5.2, 3.0)	-5.2 (-9.2,-1.2)	-1.1 (-5.1, 2.9)	-4.2 (-25.6, 17.1)	-1.9 (-5.0, 1.3)
PIA contacts	0.3 (-1.7, 2.3)	0.1 (-1.9, 2.1)	0.6 (-1.4, 2.6)	0.1 (-1.9, 2.2)	-1.2 (-7.9, 5.5)	-0.3 (-7.0, 6.4)
Treatment continuity (odds ratio)	1.4 (1.1, 1.8)	1.2 (0.9, 1.6)	1.3 (1.0, 1.8)	1.2 (0.9, 1.6)	-0.2 (-1.5, 1.2)	0.7 (-0.7, 2.0)

Due to the low number of cases among CAP cases for the outcome day care, the pooled estimate generally included no patients from the CAP for this outcome and did not need to be considered here
CAP Department of child and adolescent psychiatry, 1st yr. First patient year, 2nd yr. second patient year, PIA Psychiatric outpatient department at hospital

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