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The brief admission unit in emergency psychiatry. 1997

P Clarke, and R J Hafner, and G Holme
Dibden Research Unit, Glenside Hospital, Eastwood, Australia.

The study evaluates a Brief Admission Unit for clients of an emergency service located within a comprehensive community psychiatric program. Eighty-five clients completed the Brief Symptom inventory and a structured interview. Substance abuse disorder (n = 29) and major depression (n = 24) were the most common Axis I diagnoses, of which 30 subjects had two or more. Sixty subjects had an Axis II diagnosis. Mean duration of admission was 3.9 days, compared with the average in other acute units of 11.5 days. At discharge, half the subjects were rated as moderately to greatly improved and client satisfaction was high. The unit was crucial to the psychiatric emergency service and had a key role in relieving pressure on beds elsewhere within the system.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D010343 Patient Admission The process of accepting patients. The concept includes patients accepted for medical and nursing care in a hospital or other health care institution. Voluntary Admission,Admission, Patient,Admission, Voluntary,Admissions, Patient,Admissions, Voluntary,Patient Admissions,Voluntary Admissions
D011567 Psychiatric Department, Hospital Hospital department responsible for the organization and administration of psychiatric services. Hospital Psychiatric Department,Psychiatric Departments, Hospital,Department, Hospital Psychiatric,Departments, Hospital Psychiatric,Hospital Psychiatric Departments
D003158 Community Psychiatry Branch of psychiatry concerned with the provision and delivery of a coordinated program of mental health care to a specified population. The foci included in this concept are: all social, psychological and physical factors related to etiology, prevention, and maintaining positive mental health in the community. Psychiatry, Community,Social Psychiatry,Psychiatry, Social
D003866 Depressive Disorder An affective disorder manifested by either a dysphoric mood or loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities. The mood disturbance is prominent and relatively persistent. Depression, Endogenous,Depression, Neurotic,Depression, Unipolar,Depressive Syndrome,Melancholia,Neurosis, Depressive,Unipolar Depression,Depressions, Endogenous,Depressions, Neurotic,Depressions, Unipolar,Depressive Disorders,Depressive Neuroses,Depressive Neurosis,Depressive Syndromes,Disorder, Depressive,Disorders, Depressive,Endogenous Depression,Endogenous Depressions,Melancholias,Neuroses, Depressive,Neurotic Depression,Neurotic Depressions,Syndrome, Depressive,Syndromes, Depressive,Unipolar Depressions
D004637 Emergency Services, Psychiatric Organized services to provide immediate psychiatric care to patients with acute psychological disturbances. Emergency Psychiatric Services,Psychiatric Emergency Services,Services, Emergency Psychiatric,Services, Psychiatric Emergency,Emergency Psychiatric Service,Emergency Service, Psychiatric,Psychiatric Emergency Service,Psychiatric Service, Emergency,Psychiatric Services, Emergency,Service, Emergency Psychiatric,Service, Psychiatric Emergency
D005260 Female Females
D006760 Hospitalization The confinement of a patient in a hospital. Hospitalizations
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man

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