Association of community welfare resources and outpatient occupational therapy with psychiatric length of stay: A nationwide analysis in Japan [PDF]
PCN ReportsAim Japan maintains exceptionally high psychiatric bed numbers and long hospitalization durations compared to global standards. This study examined prefecture‐level associations between psychiatric bed supply, occupational therapy (OT) provision, and ...
Junya Orui +6 more
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Access to mental health care in El Salvador: a case study of progress toward decentralization
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2018 Objective. To assess the need for decentralization of psychiatric services in El Salvador, based on country-specific evidence, and to generate baseline measures the government and researchers could use to monitor and measure future progress toward ...
Samuel V. Nickels +3 more
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Relatives experience in moroccan psychiatric emergency
European Psychiatry, 2023 Introduction In terms of care, family has a major role to play in the evolution of psychiatric illness. Our aim in this work is to determine the family experience during the hospitalization of their sibling in the emergency room of the psychiatric ...
A. Tounsi +4 more
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Violent Behavior During Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment in a German Prison Hospital [PDF]
, 2019 Violent behavior in correctional facilities is common and differs substantially in type, target, implication, and trigger. Research on frequency and characteristics of violent behavior in correctional facilities and psychiatric hospitals is limited ...
Dezsö, Dora +8 more
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A descriptive study of referral pattern in department of psychiatry in a tertiary care hospital
Telangana Journal of Psychiatry, 2015 Background: Study of referral pattern to a Psychiatry Department helps us to understand the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in in-patients of a tertiary care hospital.
K Pavan Kumar +2 more
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Psychiatric patients at general hospital emergency departments
Bangladesh Journal of Psychiatry, 2020 A cross-sectional descriptive type of study on 357 patients was carried out in the emergency departments of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) and Shahid Sohrawardy Medical College (SSMCH), Dhaka in 2011 to find out the incidence and socio-demographic characteristics of psychiatric morbidities among the patients attended there.
Abul Fazal Mohammad Riaz Rony +6 more
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Psychiatric Hospitalizations in Times of a Pandemic: A Portuguese Experience
Gazeta Médica, 2022 Studies have shown that patients with psychiatric pathology exacerbated their symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic, which, together with the decrease in programmed medical activity, could lead to a greater influx of patients to psychiatric acute care ...
Tânia Patrícia Vasques Alves +2 more
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BMC Psychiatry, 2018 Background Previous studies have identified factors associated with admission to hospital after suicide spectrum behaviors. In this study, we aim to identify specific factors associated with psychiatric hospitalization after self-poisoning. Given earlier
Juliette Salles +4 more
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Psychiatric referrals to the general hospital emergency department: are we being effective?
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 IntroductionGeneral hospital emergency departments (GHEDs) are notoriously overcrowded. This is caused, in part, by ineffective referrals, that is to say referrals that do not require medical examination or other interventions in the context of a general
Shikma Keller +8 more
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The Code White protocol: a mixed somatic-psychiatric protocol for managing psychomotor agitation in the ED [PDF]
, 2018 Objectives: Clinical management of patients presenting with acute psychomotor agitation is difficult, often because there is no predefined protocol for dealing with it.
Amirat, M. +3 more
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