Along with other types of hospital inpatient care, acute psychiatric units are subject to state certificate-of-need review under Public Law 93-641. A study of 15 hospitals in Virginia suggests that prevailing techniques for determining inpatient bed needs are not appropriate for psychiatric beds, ...
There may be times when a person is admitted to the hospital for intensive treatment. Private psychiatric hospitals, general hospitals with a psychiatric floor or state psychiatric hospitals are designed to be safe settings for intensive mental health treatment. This can involve observation,...
In this study, two psychiatrists examined 47 new inpatient admissions to a short-term psychiatric treatment unit and predicted whether they would commit battery or demonstrate threatening or suicidal behavior within seven days. The psychiatrists were not accurate in predicting battery or suicidal behavior...
(Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2022). The even higher prevalence of trauma exposure in youth admitted to inpatient psychiatric units (IPUs) has been well-documented. This chapter will focus on understanding the scope and rates of trauma for youth on IPUs, screening and...
This study explored the predictive ability of the construct of psychopathy with adolescents in a state psychiatric hospital. Because of the growing problem of violence within psychiatric hospitals, there is a need to quickly and accurately identify adolescents who are most likely to act out violently...
So, this data limitation prevented us from including psychiatric hospitals in our analysis. 2.4. Description of Measures The original data were admission-level; however, we aggregated the number of behavior health inpatient admissions for each county (and independent cities in VA) for county-level ...