Outcomes for elderly patients with mental illness following relocation from a stand-alone psychiatric hospital to community-based extended care units

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 38, Issue 11-12, 2004, Pages 948-952

  Meehan, Tom ^a   Robertson, Samantha ^b   Stedman, Terry ^a   Byrne, Gerard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Elderly patients; Evaluation; Outcomes; Relocation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUALITY OF LIFE; SENESCENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY;

AFTERCARE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT TRANSFER; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 11144323259     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1614.2004.01490.x     Document Type: Article

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