A mental health "thermometer" to monitor and prevent adverse treatment outcomes and self-harm among psychiatric inpatients

我们的项目旨在预防精神病患者的不良后果。据估计，每年有660 000人住进精神病院;其中99 000人在接受治疗后病情恶化（假设恶化率为15%）。 由于监测可以将恶化率减半，如果该项目可以将恶化率再次减半，那么全国24 750名住院患者在治疗后的情况不会恶化，每年节省近1920万美元，并减少陷入入院和再入院周期的患者数量。 此外，虽然自杀发生在不到百分之一的入院，如果这项研究能够预测，然后减少自杀率低至百分之十，那么每年可以挽救660人的生命。

Our project stands to prevent adverse outcomes in psychiatric patients. An estimated 660 000 people are admitted to psychiatric hospitals each year; 99 000 of these people are worse off following treatment (assuming a deterioration rate of 15 per cent). Since monitoring can halve that rate, if this project can halve the deterioration rate again, then 24 750 inpatients across the nation would not be worse off after treatment representing an annual saving of nearly $19.2 million per annum and reduce the number of patients who fall into a cycle of admission and readmission. Further, although suicide occurs in less than one per cent of admissions, if this research is able to predict and then reduce the suicide rate by as little as 10 per cent, then 660 lives can be saved each year.