Exploratory cluster randomised controlled trial of shared care development for long-term mental illness

This is a critical abstract of an economic evaluation that meets the criteria for inclusion on NHS EED. Each abstract contains a brief summary of the methods, the results and conclusions followed by a detailed critical assessment on the reliability of the study and the conclusions drawn. No clear conclusions on the cost-effectiveness of the Mental Health Link intervention could be drawn because no statistically significant difference was observed in the main outcomes relating to the patients' health, despite an improvement in patient satisfaction. The overall costs were lower for the intervention patients than for the control patients.