Herr B E, Abraham H D, Anderson W
Department of Psychiatry, St. Elizabeth's Hospital of Boston, Massachusetts 02135.
Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 1991 Jan;13(1):68-70. doi: 10.1016/0163-8343(91)90011-k.
Fifty psychiatric inpatients with a prolonged length of stay were compared to 50 control admissions for factors associated with prolonged hospitalizations in a general hospital. Seven variables were found to be significantly overrepresented among the long stayers, including treatment with electroconvulsive therapy, medical consultations, underemployment, dementia, disposition to a place other than home, absence of alcohol or drug abuse, and presence of psychosis without affective symptoms. The clinical and policy implications of these finding are discussed.
将50名住院时间延长的精神科患者与50名对照入院患者进行比较，以研究综合医院中与住院时间延长相关的因素。结果发现，在住院时间长的患者中，有七个变量明显过多，包括接受电休克治疗、会诊、就业不足、痴呆、安置到非家中的其他地方、无酒精或药物滥用，以及存在无情感症状的精神病。本文讨论了这些发现的临床和政策意义。
