M. Venkataswamy Reddy, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore 560 029.
Indian J Psychiatry. 1995 Oct;37(4):176-8.
The psychiatric patient care facilities and services of fifty seven general hospitals attached to medical colleges in India were studied based on data pertaining to 1988. The average bed strength was 25 beds while the average length of stay was 21 days. Functional psychotics formed 62% of the discharged patients. On the average, 2914 new psychiatric outpatients were registered per hospital and follow up attendance was 3.2 times more than the number of new cases. The implications of these findings and the method of obtaining average length of stay are discussed.
对印度 57 所医学院附属医院的精神科病人护理设施和服务进行了研究，依据的数据涉及到 1988 年。平均病床数为 25 张，平均住院天数为 21 天。出院病人中功能性精神病患者占 62%。平均每家医院登记新的精神科门诊病人 2914 人次，随访就诊率比新发病例高出 3.2 倍。讨论了这些发现的意义和获得平均住院时间的方法。
