Associations between patient characteristics at referral and social worker care coordinator allocation in mental healthcare: a retrospective cohort study.

Objectives: To investigate care coordination delivered specifically by social workers and, more generally, by other professionals using electronic health records. Study design and Setting: A retrospective cohort study in a large mental healthcare provider serving a South London catchment. Sample: The study comprised care coordination episodes from 2007-2023 for adults aged 18-65 years at the time of commencement. We categorised these by the care coordinator's profession: social worker, nurse, doctor, and others, with a focus in the analysis on social worker care coordination. In addition to so

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