MENTAL HEALTH DELIVERY SYSTEM IN GENERAL HOSPITALS ATTACHED TO MEDICAL COLLEGES

The psychiatric patient care facilities and services of fifty seven general hospitals attached to medical colleges in India were studied based on data pertaining to 1988. The average bed strength was 25 beds while the average length of stay was 21 days. Functional psychotics formed 62% of the discha...

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Autores principales: Reddy, M. Venkataswamy, Kaliaperumal, V.G., Channabasavanna, S.M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1995
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972432/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743745
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author Reddy, M. Venkataswamy
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Channabasavanna, S.M.
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description The psychiatric patient care facilities and services of fifty seven general hospitals attached to medical colleges in India were studied based on data pertaining to 1988. The average bed strength was 25 beds while the average length of stay was 21 days. Functional psychotics formed 62% of the discharged patients. On the average, 2914 new psychiatric outpatients were registered per hospital and follow up attendance was 3.2 times more than the number of new cases. The implications of these findings and the method of obtaining average length of stay are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-29724322011-07-08 MENTAL HEALTH DELIVERY SYSTEM IN GENERAL HOSPITALS ATTACHED TO MEDICAL COLLEGES Reddy, M. Venkataswamy Kaliaperumal, V.G. Channabasavanna, S.M. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article The psychiatric patient care facilities and services of fifty seven general hospitals attached to medical colleges in India were studied based on data pertaining to 1988. The average bed strength was 25 beds while the average length of stay was 21 days. Functional psychotics formed 62% of the discharged patients. On the average, 2914 new psychiatric outpatients were registered per hospital and follow up attendance was 3.2 times more than the number of new cases. The implications of these findings and the method of obtaining average length of stay are discussed. Medknow Publications 1995 /pmc/articles/PMC2972432/ /pubmed/21743745 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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MENTAL HEALTH DELIVERY SYSTEM IN GENERAL HOSPITALS ATTACHED TO MEDICAL COLLEGES
title MENTAL HEALTH DELIVERY SYSTEM IN GENERAL HOSPITALS ATTACHED TO MEDICAL COLLEGES
title_full MENTAL HEALTH DELIVERY SYSTEM IN GENERAL HOSPITALS ATTACHED TO MEDICAL COLLEGES
title_fullStr MENTAL HEALTH DELIVERY SYSTEM IN GENERAL HOSPITALS ATTACHED TO MEDICAL COLLEGES
title_full_unstemmed MENTAL HEALTH DELIVERY SYSTEM IN GENERAL HOSPITALS ATTACHED TO MEDICAL COLLEGES
title_short MENTAL HEALTH DELIVERY SYSTEM IN GENERAL HOSPITALS ATTACHED TO MEDICAL COLLEGES
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743745
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