Hospitals, PsychiatricEnglandConsideration of clinical problems encountered in the treatment of patients in a general-hospital psychiatric unit leads to the conclusion that services should be evaluated by clinical and social as well as administrative criteria. Readmission to hospital has many causes, which...
Hospital Variability in Emergency Department Length of Stay for Adult Patients Receiving Psychiatric Consultation: A Prospective Study Study objective We ascertain the components of emergency department (ED) length of stay for adult patients receiving psychiatric evaluation and to examine ... Grace,Chang,...
Volume 2 Issue 3590 Pages 768–769 Identifiers PMID: 20775021 Source Medline Language English License Unknown Other sources for this publication PSYCHIATRIC UNITS IN PUBLIC HOSPITALS Source PubMed Central Date Oct 26, 1929 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of ...
to determine the extent to which patients with psychiatric disorders were treated in the non-psychiatric wards of acute public general hospitals and the National Psychiatric Inpatient Reporting System employed to compare their diagnostic characteristics with those treated in psychiatric units and hospitals....
Under a separate proposal unveiled by the Office of Mental Health earlier this year, hospitals’ inpatient psychiatric units would also be subject to more comprehensive admission and discharge standards. The regulation is intended to improve patient outcomes,...
(zonal), and central raion rural hospitals. There are general hospitals—that is, hospitals with departments for treating various diseases—and specialized hospitals (gynecological, psychiatric, infectious, and so on), designated for the treatment of specific diseases. From 1917 to 1967 the scope of...
There is a current gap in the nomenclature of psychiatric in-patient services. There are few descriptions of types of in-patient care and over recent years the literature has abounded with debates concerning alternatives. However, it may be argued that these debates have been based on the creat...
The hospital closed in 1998, although a small psychiatric unit remained on site until around 2002. The grounds were designated by English Heritage as a Grade II historic park in 2001, recognizing the importance of this rare survival of a public landscape designed by William Goldring. The hospital...
METHODS: A 33-item questionnaire was sent to a nationwide random sample of hospital-based adult inpatient psychiatric units. A total of 105 surveys from all regions of the country were used in the analysis. RESULTS: Although 98 hospitals reported that they used one-to-one continuous observation...
Patients in psychiatric units were excluded. A total of 2389 patients with a median age of 62 years were included in the final analysis. Of those, 48.3% were male, and 19 patients (0.9%) had previously experienced CDI. The authors found that 185 patients (7.7%) tested positive for C ...