Coyne L, Smith M J, Deering C D, Grame C, Langworthy D E, Rooks T E, Taylor M W, Spohn H E
Menninger Foundation, Topeka, KS 66601.
Hosp Community Psychiatry. 1990 Jun;41(6):657-62. doi: 10.1176/ps.41.6.657.
Methodological and practical difficulties have limited the growth of knowledge about outcome of psychiatric hospital treatment. The authors report on outcome at hospital discharge for 103 long-term and 93 short-term patients treated at the C. F. Menninger Memorial Hospital, part of an ongoing follow-up study of hospital treatment. Discharge outcome is based mainly on ratings of symptoms, global functioning, and therapeutic alliance as well as on patients' reports of satisfaction. At discharge both long- and short-term patients were found to have low levels of symptoms (based on the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale) and a relatively adequate level of functioning (in the 51-to-60 range on the Global Assessment Scale) and to have been highly satisfied with treatment.
