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Psychiatric Inpatients from an Urban Community, 1968-72
- Source :
- BMJ. 2:76-80
- Publication Year :
- 1973
- Publisher :
- BMJ, 1973.
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Abstract
- The psychiatric inpatient population from Salford was analysed in five successive annual censuses, from 1 January 1968 to 1 January 1972. Short-stay and medium-stay patients (under one year) remained constant. Long-stay patients reduced only slowly, and the length of stay increased. Over 200 patients (60%) had been in for 20 years or more at 1 January 1972. Analysis showed that the 1968 long-stay cohort diminished by 122 patients (29%) in four years, while 54 new long-stay patients accumulated. There seems little prospect of emptying large psychiatric hospitals of their long-stay population.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Hospitals, Psychiatric
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
Patients
Urban Population
Population
Neurocognitive Disorders
Sex Factors
Sex factors
Humans
Medicine
education
Psychiatry
Depression (differential diagnoses)
Aged
General Environmental Science
education.field_of_study
Wales
Depression
business.industry
Mental Disorders
General Engineering
Papers and Originals
General Medicine
Length of Stay
Middle Aged
Urban community
Hospitalization
England
Cohort
Schizophrenia
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Female
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14685833 and 09598138
- Volume :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMJ
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ab341565a0ac2ac483b7a3865343c1d2