Demographic, clinical, social and service variables associated with higher needs for care in community psychiatric service patients - The south Verona outcome project 8

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 60-68

  Ruggeri, Mirella ^a,c   Leese, Morven ^b   Slade, Mike ^b   Bonizzato, Paola ^a   Fontecedro, Laura ^a   Tansella, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c OSPEDALE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Community psychiatry; Needs for care; Outcome; Predictors routine assessments

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; DISABILITY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN; ITALY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NEUROSIS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; REGISTER; RESIDENTIAL CARE; STANDARD; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; REGISTRIES;

EID: 2342421145     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-004-0705-0     Document Type: Article

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