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Patients hospitalized in the same general hospital psychiatric unit and treated by the same staff during two consecutive periods of time are compared as to outcome. Average duration of stay during the first period, 31.7 days, was reduced to 18.5 days for the second period. The percentage of patients transferred to a state hospital rose from 17.5% to 29.1%, an increase of 66% in the rate of transfer. There was a concomitant decrease in the percentage of discharges to the community and a sharp increase in rate of requirement for aftercare by the staff of the unit, a disposition generally reserved for patients deemed still quite symptomatic at discharge.
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Butts, H. F., & Lindo, T. Continuity of care on an intensive psychiatric treatment unit—A two-year evaluation.Journal of the National Medical Association, 1968,60, 408–414.
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An earlier version of this paper was read at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Miami, 1969.
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Davis, E.B., Butts, H.F. & Lindo, T. Some implications of time-limited general hospital psychiatric inpatient treatment for outcome of hospitalization. Community Ment Health J 8, 92–101 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01457162
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01457162