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Factors affecting length of stay in forensic hospital setting: need for therapeutic security and course of admission

BACKGROUND: Patients admitted to a secure forensic hospital are at risk of a long hospital stay. Forensic hospital beds are a scarce and expensive resource and ability to identify the factors predicting length of stay at time of admission would be beneficial. The DUNDRUM-1 triage security scale and...

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Autores principales: Davoren, Mary, Byrne, Orla, O’Connell, Paul, O’Neill, Helen, O’Reilly, Ken, Kennedy, Harry G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4657210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26597630
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-015-0686-4