A university-affiliated psychiatric inpatient unit in a private general hospital is an organization which serves many purposes. However, the primary purpose is quite evident: to provide various psychiatric therapies to patients with diverse psychopathologies. This becomes extremely complicated if the unit...
Noun1.inpatient- a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated inmate patient- a person who requires medical care; "the number of emergency patients has grown rapidly" outpatient- a patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated ...
COVID-19 represents a new challenge for the inpatient psychiatry unit. Some patients on an acute psychiatric unit may be agitated, uncooperative, or even violent, and it's not hard to imagine the distress of anyone who has a patient spit on them as we're all trying to remember not to ...
who decide freely to enter the inpatient psychiatric hospital for treatment. It’s important to note that voluntary psychiatric patients aren’t entirely free to leave the unit without the permission of the staff. Should a person who has been voluntarily committed prove to be a danger...
The Pediatric Inpatient Behavior Scale (PIBS) was evaluated for its validity as a measure of behavior of children hospitalized on a psychiatric unit. Nurses completed the PIBS for 41 children, based on behavior observed during the first week of hospitalization. DSM-IV diagnoses and major symptoms ...
Other challenges discussed are identifying appropriate inclusion and exclusion criteria; identifying the optimal programme format for this setting; promoting mindfulness within the environment of the inpatient unit and the training requirements for programme facilitators. The article concludes that due attention...
Inpatient and outpatient psychiatric treatment: The effect of matching patients to appropriate level of treatment on psychiatric and medical-surgical hospital daysInpatient and outpatient psychiatric treatment: The effect of matching patients to appropriate level of treatment on psychiatric and medical-surgical...
The ethnic/minority psychiatric inpatient units (i.e., focus units) at the University of California, San Francisco, train residents in transcultural psychiatry. This article describes the history, goals, and educational program that comprise this unique training experience. Two cases from the Asian ...
Overall about 71,000 persons were under care in the inpatient, outpatient, and partial care programs of private psychiatric hospitals in the United States on April 1, 1986, and about 300,000 persons were admitted to these programs during 1986. Inpatient programs served the largest number of peop...
Utility of routine drug screening in a psychiatric emergency setting. Survival analysis did not reveal a difference between the two groups in length of stay in inpatient psychiatric units. As for accuracy of physicians' ... MJ Schiller,M Shumway,SL Batki - 《Psychiatr Serv》 被引量: 140发表...