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Mental health services are measured in units that do not permit comparison of inpatient and outpatient data. This article presents a unified system for quantifying services and service delivery that is administratively useful in monitoring and allocating resources.

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  1. Anthony DiSalvo
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  2. Boris Astrachan
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Anthony E. DiSalvo, Ph.D. is Associate Administrator of the Connecticut Mental Health Center, 34 Park Street, NewHaven, CT. Reprint requests should be sent to him there. Eric Plaut, M.D. is Associate Director of the Institute of Psychiatry, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 320 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL. 60611. Boris M. Astrachan, M.D. is Director of the Connecticut Mental Health Center. Requests for reprints should be addressed to the first author.

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DiSalvo, A., Astrachan, B. & Plaut, E. The Connecticut Unit of Service System. Administration in Mental Health 11, 46–56 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00843171

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