Citation

McPartland TS, Richart RH. Community Ment. Health J. 1966; 2(1): 22-26.

Affiliation

Michigan Health and Social Security Research Institute, Detroit, Michigan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1966, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF01420318

PMID

24190718

Abstract

This paper presents and discusses data on the readmissions experience of a community-based psychiatric treatment facility. Nearly one-half of all patients experienced readmission within four years. Further, the admission, treatment, and discharge of a cohort of admissions represents roughly onehalf of the treatmenteffort which will be absorbed by that cohort within four years. The resulting finding is that the treatment of old patients consumes increasing amounts of space, money, and manpower, thus blocking access of new applicants to treatment. A differentiation of readmissions is proposed, intended to permit more effective evaluative use of readmissions experience.

Language: en