Siegal A P, Astrachan B M, Levine M S
Hosp Community Psychiatry. 1984 Nov;35(11):1129-32.
Traditional forms of data-gathering have tended to underrepresent the care that community mental health centers provide to the more chronic, or seriously ill, patients. Using an alternative data-gathering method based on accumulated direct patient contacts, the authors illustrate how traditional data sets based on discharged patients and active patients yield very different views of the types of patients served and intensity of services received. Only by examining resource utilization among patients in both data sets were the authors able to show their center's extensive commitment to more chronic patients.
传统的数据收集形式往往未能充分体现社区心理健康中心为病情更为迁延或重症患者提供的护理。作者采用一种基于累积直接患者接触量的替代数据收集方法，说明了基于出院患者和现症患者的传统数据集如何对所服务患者的类型以及所接受服务的强度产生截然不同的看法。只有通过考察这两个数据集中患者的资源利用情况，作者才能表明他们的中心对病情更为迁延的患者投入了大量精力。
