Acute psychiatric inpatient care: A cross-cultural comparison between two hospitals in Germany and Japan

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 771-781

  Moriwaki, Kumi ^a   Neuner, Tanja ^b   Hübner Liebermann, Bettina ^b   Hausner, Helmut ^b   Wittmann, Markus ^b   Horiuchi, Toshihiro ^c   Watanabe, Hiromi ^c   Kato, Hideyuki ^c   Hirakawa, Junich ^c   Iwai, Kazumasa ^d  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c Hirakawa Hospital   (Japan)

^d Department of Psychiatry   (Japan)

Author keywords

acute psychiatric inpatient care; cross cultural comparison; health care quality assurance; Psychiatric emergency services; routine data

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC INPATIENT CARE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY ASSURANCE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; JAPAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY SERVICES; PSYCHOTHERAPY; ROUTINE DATA; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC INPATIENT CARE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; HEALTH CARE QUALITY ASSURANCE; PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY SERVICES; ROUTINE DATA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; JAPAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84888622299     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: 17412854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020764012456808     Document Type: Article

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