Discussion
psychiatric
The results of the RETURN-study show that a case-management intervention for psychiatric inpatients can improve the return to existing workplaces after discharge. Intervention group patients returned to work earlier, resulting in significant superiority over TAU in terms of the percentage of patients who went back to work, days at work, and sick leave days at 6 months follow-up. For the main outcome parameter (days at work at 12 months), however, the group difference was not significant.