Who are the 'committed'?
| Autor: | Marijan Herjanic, Natarajan Lakshminarayanan, Carlos J. Tomelleri |
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| Rok vydání: | 1977 |
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Male Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Population Neurocognitive Disorders Patient Readmission Sex Factors Medicine Humans education health care economics and organizations Aged education.field_of_study business.industry Age Factors social sciences Forensic Psychiatry Length of Stay Middle Aged humanities Patient Discharge United States Black or African American Psychiatry and Mental health Socioeconomic Factors Schizophrenia Commitment of Mentally Ill Female Nursing homes business Hospital stay |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of nervous and mental disease. 165(4) |
| ISSN: | 0022-3018 |
| Popis: | A record review of patients who were committed by the court during the course of a hospitalization at an acute urban facility was carried out. Court-committed patients represented 4% of total patients admitted during a 2-year period. Black patients and patients over the age of 70 were more likely to reach the stage of a court hearing and be committed. Schizophrenia was the most frequent diagnosis, being present in well over one half of court-committed patients. Approximately one third of the patients had a hospital stay exceeding 3 months, and transfer to a long term inpatient program occurred significantly more often among court-committed patients as compared to the rest of the hospitalized population. The majority of court-committed patients were eventually returned to the community; about one fifth were placed in intermediate facilities such as boarding or nursing homes. When legal status of previous and subsequent hospitalizations of this sample of court-committed patients was examined, a clear predominance of uncomplicated voluntary hospitalization became apparent. |
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