Occasional and frequent repeaters in a psychiatric emergency room

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 115-121

  Ledoux, Yves ^a   Minner, Pierre ^b  

^a Belgian Institute for Pharmacoepidemiology   (Belgium)

^b BRUGMANN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Frequent repeaters; Psychiatric emergency; Revolving door; Stressor; Unspecified symptom

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATIENT REFERRAL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; BELGIUM; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY SERVICES, PSYCHIATRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; RECURRENCE;

EID: 33644609010     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-005-0010-6     Document Type: Article

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