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  • Title: Acute psychiatric hospital admissions of adults and elderly adults with mental retardation.
    Author: Pary RJ.
    Journal: Am J Ment Retard; 1993 Nov; 98(3):434-6. PubMed ID: 8292320.
    Abstract:
    Records of 247 inpatients with mental retardation or autism discharged from a university hospital during 62 consecutive months were examined with regard to acute inpatient treatment. The main finding was that elderly adults with mental retardation had significantly more medical problems than did adults. There was a trend toward significantly more elderly adults being transferred to a state hospital. An unexpected finding was that the most common diagnosis in both adults and elderly adults was chronic schizophrenia, paranoid type. Limitations of the study and possible explanations of the findings were discussed.
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