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Private psychiatric hospital care in Australia: a descriptive analysis of casemix and outcomes.
- Source :
- Australasian Psychiatry; Apr2022, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p174-178, 5p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- <bold>Objective: </bold>To provide a rapid clinical update on casemix, average length of stay, and the effectiveness of Australian private psychiatric hospitals.<bold>Methods: </bold>We conducted a descriptive analysis of the publicly available patient data from the Australian Private Hospitals Association Private Psychiatric Hospitals Data Reporting and Analysis Service website, from 2015-2016 to 2019-2020. This was compared with corresponding reporting on public and private hospitals from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, and Australian Mental Health Outcomes and Classification Network.<bold>Results: </bold>In 2019-2020, there were 72 private psychiatric hospitals in Australia with 3582 acute beds. There were 42,942 inpatients with 1,286,470 days of care, and a mean length of stay 19.6 days (SD 13.9) for the financial year 2019-2020. The main diagnoses were major affective and other mood disorders (49%), and alcohol and other substance abuse disorders (21%). Clinician-rated outcome measures, that is, the HoNOS, showed an improvement effect size of 1.64, while the patient-rated MHQ-14 showed an improvement effect size of 1.18. Results are similar for previous years.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Private psychiatric hospitals provide substantial, effective psychiatric care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10398562
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Australasian Psychiatry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 156187422
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/10398562211051252