Decision to Admit: Criteria for Admission and Readmission to a Veterans Administration Hospital

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1977, Pages 418-421

  Rose, Sonya Orleans ^a,b   Hawkins, James ^a,b   Apodaca, Lawrence ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMISSION; AFTERCARE; DECISION; FAMILY LIFE; HOMELESSNESS; HOSPITALIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; THERAPY;

DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY SERVICES, PSYCHIATRIC; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MARRIAGE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PATIENT READMISSION; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0017328464     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1977.01770160052003     Document Type: Article

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