Methods	Design: Randomized control trial
	Setting: New York City, United States
	Follow up: 12 months
	Recruitment: Recruitment occurred in the emergency room of the Bellevue Hospital
	Randomization: Randomization procedures were not mentioned
	Allocation: Allocation procedures were not mentioned
	Blinding: Not mentioned
	Timing of outcome assessment: At index admission and discharge and every 4 months for a year
	Outcome assessor: Mental health professionals who were trained on all study instruments
Participants	Population: Patients presenting to the Bellevue Hospital (New York, NY) psychiatric emergency service who were homeless, chronic mentally ill, and in need of inpatient psychiatric treatment.
	Sample size: Total n = 52, Intervention n = 26, TAU n = 26
Interventions	Intervention:
	The programme provided a furnished room, and offered individualised case management, coordination of public assistance or social security benefits, medication monitoring, money management, meals, activity therapy, and, when appropriate, referrals to psychosocial and rehabilitation programmes.
	Comparator:
	Control subjects received routine discharge planning.
Outcomes	Housing stability, mental health, hospital admission
Notes