Determinants of inpatient psychiatric length of stay in an urban county hospital

Psychiatric Quarterly

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 173-188

  Compton, Michael T ^a,b   Craw, Jason ^a   Rudisch, Bruce E ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Hospitalization; Length of stay; Psychiatry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSISTANT; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ASPECT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNIVERSITY; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HOSPITAL UNITS; HOSPITALS, COUNTY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33746257169     PISSN: 00332720     EISSN: 15736709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11126-006-9005-z     Document Type: Article

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