Frequent Visitors to Psychiatric Emergency Services: Staff Attitudes and Temporal Patterns

Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 490-496

  Arfken, Cynthia L ^a   Zeman, Lori Lackman ^a   Yeager, Lindsay ^a   Mischel, Edward ^a   Amirsadri, Alireza ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL PATIENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL READMISSION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEASON; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WEATHER;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY SERVICES, PSYCHIATRIC; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MICHIGAN; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT READMISSION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SEASONS; TIME; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WEATHER;

EID: 0036834732     PISSN: 10943412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02287355     Document Type: Article

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