Does psychopathology at admission predict the length of inpatient stay in psychiatry? Implications for financing psychiatric services

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Warnke, Ingeborg ^a   Rössler, Wulf ^a   Herwig, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; APATHY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COMPULSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL FINANCE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIA; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ORGANIC BRAIN SYNDROME; ORGANIC PSYCHOSYNDROME; PARANOIA; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ECONOMICS; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 79960863769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-11-120     Document Type: Article

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