Length of Admission Into Psychiatric Hospitals According to Diagnoses
| Autor: | C. Lazzari, A. Shoka, Katherine Gower |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics business.industry Addiction media_common.quotation_subject Adjustment disorders medicine.disease Personality disorders Confidence interval 030227 psychiatry 03 medical and health sciences Psychiatry and Mental health 0302 clinical medicine Mood disorders Medicine Medical diagnosis business Psychiatry Borderline personality disorder Psychiatric ward 030217 neurology & neurosurgery media_common |
| Zdroj: | European Psychiatry. 41:S250-S250 |
| ISSN: | 1778-3585 0924-9338 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.02.036 |
| Popis: | IntroductionIn recent years, psychiatry in the United Kingdom has faced an important challenge due to the shortage of beds for patients with increased lengths of stay. Available resources have been saturated due to the reduced capability of psychiatric hospitals to provide spaces for patients needing access to psychiatric care.ObjectivesThis research provides a figure of length of stay linked to psychiatric pathology at discharge.AimTo establish the length of admission of psychiatric patients.MethodsThe sample comprised 137 discharges from a general adult psychiatric ward distributed over the first 8 months of 2016. Results were analyzed by descriptive statistics and meta-analysis.ResultsOverall, longer periods of admission were recorded for psychoses and shorter periods for adjustment disorders. Psychoses had a median length of admission of 28 days (range = 3–374); borderline personality disorders, 10 days (range = 1–249); mood disorders, 14 days (range = 2–74); drug addictions, 6 days (range = 1–222); and adjustment disorders, 5 days (range = 1–55). Meta-analysis (Fig. 1) provided a confidence interval estimate for the whole model of 24.314 days (95% CI = 13.00–35.621) with P < .001. Meta-analysis results also provided t2 = 101.061, Cochrane's Q (df = 4) = 14.327, I2 = 72.081, with P = .006.ConclusionsPsychoses are conditions that require longer admissions, whereas adjustment disorders are more transient pathologies. Borderline personality disorder is somewhat of a hybrid condition. Overall, patients remain in hospital for about a month (24 days).Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest. |
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