Ethnic differences in emergency psychiatric care and hospitalization in a program for the severely mentally ill
| Autor: | Lonnie R. Snowden, Jane Holschuh |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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Cross-Cultural Comparison
Male medicine.medical_specialty Bipolar Disorder Health (social science) Ethnic group Poison control Social Environment Patient Readmission Suicide prevention California Occupational safety and health Injury prevention medicine Humans Psychiatry Retrospective Studies Emergency Services Psychiatric Public Housing business.industry Public health Mentally ill Managed Care Programs Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Human factors and ergonomics Public Assistance Combined Modality Therapy Alcoholism Psychiatry and Mental health Psychotic Disorders Schizophrenia Female Schizophrenic Psychology business |
| Zdroj: | Community Mental Health Journal. 28:281-291 |
| ISSN: | 1573-2789 0010-3853 |
| Popis: | Ethnic differences in rehospitalization were examined in a program of intensive services for severely mentally ill hospital recidivists. The purpose was to determine whether ethnicity-related differences in psychiatric admissions observed in national data would appear among clients at great risk for hospitalization but enrolled in a program of case-managed care to promote community adjustment and tenure. After accounting for differences in prior emergency visits and hospitalizations as well as sociodemographic and clinical differences, blacks were found more likely than whites to visit the psychiatric emergency room and to be hospitalized. The marked needs of the severely mentally ill and the intention to address these needs with services did not obviate the continuing importance of racial differences in explaining reliance on inpatient sources of care. |
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