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The authors present a descriptive analysis of the chronically mentally ill. They include such
characteristics as target population size, demographic and clinical characteristics, service …

• To determine how a cohort of patients admitted to a mental health center in a single month
used the center's clinical services over a year's time, an index of service utilization for each …

Yet, this n today these institutions continue to provide 64 percent of all inpatient s of
psychiatric care"(Goldman et al. 1983). Data from the Survey and orts Branch (SRB) …

OBJECTIVES. Shifts in care for the seriously mentally ill from inpatient to community-based
treatment have highlighted the importance of transitional care. Our objectives were to …

The authors evaluated two indices of services for 349 outpatients who requested an initial
appointment for screening and evaluation at a community mental health center over a one …

Acute psychiatric admission to three state and three community hospitals from the same
geographic areas were examined in terms of patient charateristics, services, and costs …

Overall about 71,000 persons were under care in the inpatient, outpatient, and partial care
programs of private psychiatric hospitals in the United States on April 1, 1986, and about …

Tracked 550 patients (average age 34 yrs) discharged from 2 state mental institutions
through an entire mental health aftercare system and major auxiliary agencies. Results …

The present research:(1) examines some organizational and procedural factors which may
affect mental hospital recidivism;(2) assesses the interaction of an alternatives to …