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Does psychopathology at admission predict the length of inpatient stay in psychiatry? Implications for financing psychiatric services

BACKGROUND: The debate on appropriate financing systems in inpatient psychiatry is ongoing. In this context, it is important to control resource use in terms of length of stay (LOS), which is the most costly factor in inpatient care and the one that can be influenced most easily. Previous studies ha...

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Autores principales: Warnke, Ingeborg, Rössler, Wulf, Herwig, Uwe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170589/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21801366
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-11-120