The clinical and functional outcomes of a large naturalistic cohort of young people accessing national early psychosis services.
Ellie BrownCaroline X GaoHeather StaveleyGeorgia WilliamsSimone FarrellyDebra RickwoodNic TelfordCerissa PapanastasiouPatrick D McGorryAndrew ThompsonPublished in: The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry (2021)
These findings support the use of real-time, real-world and low-cost administrative data to rigorously evaluate symptomatic and functional outcomes in early psychosis treatment settings. Findings that functional outcomes improve past the remittance of clinical outcomes also support the functional recovery focus of early psychosis services and remaining high levels of distress suggest the need for ultra-high risk services to extend beyond 6 months of care.