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  • Title: [Duration of inpatient treatment of various psychiatric disease categories. A follow-up study].
    Author: Vetter P, Köller O.
    Journal: Nervenarzt; 1992 May; 63(5):271-5. PubMed ID: 1603186.
    Abstract:
    The frequency and duration of in-patient treatment in psychiatric and general hospitals was observed over an average 14-year period for 328 patients with different psychiatric diseases. Schizophrenics were more frequently admitted and spent longer in psychiatric institutions than all other diagnostic groups, but were admitted less frequently and for shorter periods to general hospitals. Patients suffering from organic mental illness and those with neurotic disorders had more frequent and longer periods of general hospital care. Drug dependent and neurotic patients were hospitalised more frequently and longer for psychiatric rather than for medical reasons in general hospitals. The total frequency and duration of psychiatric in-patient treatment was distinctly less frequent and of shorter duration for neurotic disorders as compared with schizophrenic or affective psychoses.
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