A Survey of Patients in a Regional Geriatric Psychiatry Inpatient Unit
| Autor: | Graeme J. Kernutt, Michael V. Piperoglou, Arthur W. Harrison |
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| Rok vydání: | 1988 |
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Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Psychiatric Department Hospital Unit (housing) 03 medical and health sciences Patient Admission 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans Psychiatric hospital 030212 general & internal medicine Referral and Consultation Aged Aged 80 and over business.industry Mental Disorders Australia General Medicine Special accommodation Combined Modality Therapy Community Mental Health Services 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Cross-Sectional Studies Emergency medicine Psychiatric diagnosis Hospital admission Dementia Female Comprehensive Health Care Nursing homes business Geriatric psychiatry |
| Zdroj: | Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 22:412-417 |
| ISSN: | 1440-1614 0004-8674 |
| DOI: | 10.3109/00048678809161350 |
| Popis: | The functioning is described of a regional geriatric psychiatry unit with inpatient beds supplemented by an active community team. Data were collected on 100 consecutive patients admitted between November 1985 and July 1986. Eighty-seven per cent of patients were discharged during the course of the study, the majority (66%) to their own homes or to special accommodation houses, 9% to nursing homes, 7% to general hospitals for treatment and 5% to other psychiatric hospitals for social reasons. The patients were characterized by multiple psychiatric and physical disorders, 26% receiving multiple major psychiatric diagnoses. Fifty-two per cent suffered from significant previously recognized physical disorders and 47% had significant physical illnesses diagnosed for the first time during their admission. At the conclusion of the study 7% remained in long-term wards. |
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